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by another officer while on duty. why officials say lack of training is *not the problem. and taking a look at the mount tam cam--- much-needed rain is expected to arrive soon in the bay area. when our best chances are to get some rain. and where you'll likely see the first drizzle. >>erica: looks like we could see the first bring those later on tonight james but that's coming north of the golden gate bridge. the rest of us still have to wait. don't think will see widespread showers until wednesday night at the thursday. was a pretty dicey conditions for your morning commute to the right now we are on the dry side. in fact temperatures are in the forties to low 50s. san francisco 53 degrees 349 currently in napa. clotted
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conditions of the bay area and rain still well to the bay area. average of high pressure. finally breaking apart. as we head into the after no temperatures still trending again we could see a sprinkle later on tonight for the north ave. the rain chant increasing tomorrow. time ran out in 601. >>george: not tracking in the hot spots yet this morning and even here at the bay bridge toll plaza where a little slow. the ways and the left and right hand cash lanes but down the center of the toll plaza. fasttrack users are not waiting at all. here's a look at traffic around the bay. east bay the heavy traffic, to interstate 580 and highway 4. that means a good
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commute 4680 the e shore freeway and 24. as south bay freeways as low as the peninsula are all still pretty light. >>:developing news this morning. belmont police are asking for help in locating a missing autistic teenager. 16-year-old tyler simmons was last seen yesterday at sa 7-pm. kron 4's will tran is joining us live now with more information. will? they need to find him immediately because it's so cold. so far no luck. the custodians on call the police department the police to permit came out here but that by then he was long gone. here's the picture and description of tyler's simmons. 140 lbs. light
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curly brown hair. he has green eyes alight goatee. his father was supposed to pick him up at belmont he cannot find him. the family tried to find him. but then they gave up. , belmont police department who started searching at that particular time and even around 1:00 in the morning they came to this area of ralston ave where the middle school was you search dogs and were unable to find him. the sun should be up about an hour from now and that could help their efforts to help locate the 16 year-old child. >>: >>james:a university of san francisco student is missing after his family reported they hadn't heard from him in over three
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weeks. 32-year-old bradley bennett was last seen in fresno and bear valley on january 8th and 13th. he was wearing dirty clothing.police say he may look homeless. there's a request for a mental health evaluation for bennett. he's six feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. bennett has three tattoos.a cross on his abdomen.a dragon on his left shoulder.and an anchor on his calf. a public viewing today for fallen bart officer tom smith at the chapel of chimes in hayward. meanwhile, the bart officer who shot and killed him is going to tomorrow's funeral service. bart's police chief says detective michael maes will "absolutely" attend smith's funeral.
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smith was shot last week while officers were searching an apartment in dublin. investigators aren't saying whether maes' gun fired by accident, or if he thought smith was someone else. . and we're learning more about detective maes. bart police say he has spent 26- years with law enforcement-- 14 of those years have been spent with bart. though questions have been raised about the level of training for bart officers. the agency's police chief says, a lack of training does not apply to maes. the chief says maes has extra training in criminal investigations for search and arrest warrants. we will have much more on this story coming up in this newscast. >>darya:water utility staff in santa clara county is proposing a 10% reduction in water consumption. this is based on last year's record-breaking dry period. the county is going through its third dry year in a row.accumulating less than four inches of rain last
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year.the lowest level since the 18-70's. the cut is being proposed tonight to the santa clara valley water district board of directors. the board can only make suggestions to cities.cities then enforce the restrictions. governor brown declared a drought emergency on january 17th. the chinese company under scrutiny for cracks in welds on the new bay bridge apparently has a history of mistakes when it comes to bay area bridges. a california senate report says the company supplied hundreds of thousands of bolts of the wrong size for the seismic retrofitting the carquinez bridge. 250,000 incorrectly-sized bolts were rejected and remade, but the report characterizes the problem as a near disaster. the report mainly addresses concerns with the new san francisco-oakland bay bridge. >>mark:millions of americans are waking up to dangerous sub-zero temperatures this morning. in some states, windchills are down to 40 below. the weather is causing closing schools and government offices from the midwest to the south east. the cold is creating a propane shortage across the midwest as people try to keep warm.and some states are declaring an energy emergency. the national weather service says much of the country will be experiencing
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temperatures up to thirty degrees below normal through wednesday. outside. bay bridge approach. in oakland, temperatures today i remember snow days by today's but never cold days. coming up on the kron4 morning news. a registered sex offender back behind bars this morning. accused of being at a south bay school.when he should not have been. plus of google glass being offered by prescription now. we're going to tell you how much more than a device will cost you when you are able to get your hands on it and how cool it looks now and here's a live look at the bay bridge approach. you can see here just a little bit of a way to treat in oakland right now temperatures 52 degrees and talking about how it's gotten chile after
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march just told us about the deep freeze. it will the acidic levels in some food..
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orange juice...tomato sauce... can cause acid erosi. the enamel starts to wear do. and you can't grow your enamel ba. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel because it helps to strengthen the enamel that you have and i belie it's doing a good b. 610 right now. a registered sex offender is backed behind bars this morning accused of being at a south bay school when he should have not then. investigators say theodore lorigo. who dresses as a woman. walked onto the sunnyvale hebrew day school campus. back in december.
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school employees recognized him and called police. officers arrested him monday. and this morning police want anyone who's had recent contact with lorigo.to contact them. >>james:and update now to a story we first brought you over the weekend. a deadly stabbing at a san jose birthday party. and now twin brothers are now under arrest ? 18 year old anh and duc tong - are being charged with murder, in the death of richard phan. police say, the incident happened outside a house on suncrest avenue. while phan and others were celebrating
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his girlfriend's birthday early sunday morning. phan was a college senior majoring in biological science at san jose state. police would not elaborate on what may have led to the fight. nor would they say whether the victim and suspects knew each other. we have new video of avalanches in alaska that have cut off all traffic to an alaskan town. officials are urging nearby residents to evacuate their homes. the richardson highway will offs probably remain closed for about a week. this is about 300 miles away from anchorage. the first avalanches started friday.
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everyone is all excited and asked erica rain what it is said to me about 18 in.? >>: were still dealing with a drought. we would need 18 and a half inches to play catch-up in the north bay of santa rosa. that's how much we would have normally seen by dan boyle were only talking about an inch or inch and a half if we are lucky. but it is a start. we will take what we can get to tell. as for temperatures right now we are in the upper 40's low 50s. 50 leaving the house and san jose. heading into the afternoon we are still going to be warmer than average but we are looking at any record-breaking highs for today with mountain view as 6464 also year high in sunnyvale. temperatures will remain in the san ramon valley. 63 for those of you in fairfield. well 60s for
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downtown san francisco and oakland have 64. looks like getting a healthy dose and the sarah nevada to some light rain expected for half of the bay area. to do with slick roadways waking up on thursday morning. will see rapid clearing by friday and looks like mostly sunny conditions into the weekend. we certainly have big changes to talk about perhaps over an inch of rain. i have the full details on what to expect their 7 day around the bay forecast coming up as 630. time -616. let's take a look at the roads right now with george.
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>>george: the main lights have been activated. golden gate bridge looks good and so does 92. the san mateo bridge ride. pretty steady for about the last 40 to 30 to 40 minutes. drive times are still wrong 11 to 13 minutes. so no big increase in traffic. public transit
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still dealing well as we are not yet tracking and a delay as far bart a stirring or caltran print >>:president obama today highlights his plans for a "year of action" in tonight's state of the union address. a big item on the list, raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour. the president will be doing this through executive order. and it will only
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apply to new federal contracts. the president doing this ahead of his state of the union hist address this evening, where he's expected to push congress to raise the national minumum wage to $10.10 an hour. right now it's at $7.25 and hour. here in california, our minimum wage is currently $8, but in july it goes up to $9, and is already scheduled to increase to $10 in 2016 watch the state of the union here on kron4 and tonight, you won't see any men from the republican party responding to the president's state of the union address. for the first time, the g- o-p has asked two women to deliver the official response.
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washington congresswomen cathy mc-morris rodgers is giving the rebuttal to the president's speech. and then florida congresswoman ileana ros- lehtinen will provide the response in spanish. the c-e-o of a bitcoin company has been arrested. 24 year old charlie shrem is the chief executive officer of bit instant and vice chairman of a foundation that promotes the bitcoin currency system. he was arrested sunday at kennedy airport. prosecutors say he conspired to commit money laundering by selling more than $1 million in bitcoins to silk road lawyers. they say he personally bought drugs on the website. silkroad was shut down by the feds and its founder sf ross ublrecht google glass is now adding prescription frames to its the company will also
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videos. it costs 15-hundred dollars for the base model. if you want the sunglass or prescription versions. it'll cost an additional $150 to $225. coming up on the kron four morning news. in an interview you'll only see on kron 4, a former bart police officer says bart police lack the training needed to properly conduct residential searches. that story next.
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the bart police department if they are going to start instituting probation services and residences the officers in a training. " kron 4's investigation into
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the friendly fire shooting death of bart police sergeant tommy smith. is focused on bart's training practices. on friday, kron 4 first told you the details of what happened last week, inside a dublin apartment. and how officer smith was killed by maes. now-- new developments. a former bart police officer says, this tragic incident shows, bart police are lacking the training needed to properly conduct residential searches. that's something kron- 4 specifically asked the current bart police chief about. in this exclusive interview. kron 4's haaziq madyun talks with a former bart officer who asked us to protect his identity. it's a story you will see "only on kron4." he says that is the issue that led to officer michael
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maze of fatally shooting sergeant tom smith aside as part sarah apartment and a recent surge in dublin. >>: that an untrained officer. the surgeon itself in termsresidence is considereda perishable still. since they don't practice that on a daily basis those skills st team to go to the wayside. >>: a provision search is not uncommon to law enforcement officers across the country >>: but it isn't but it is not common to bart officers. but my sources tell me that they are uncomfortable executed those types of searches and a resident now because they're afraid because they don't have the proper training are the current training. >>: at this press conference bart police chief announced changes and probation search policies but not in the amount of
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training officers received. he had this to say about previous training sessions. >>: you get basic training every police officer. and depending on what our response you also get additional training. in 2012 all of our personal and underwent what we call active shooter training which involves building searches and clearing rums. >>: of those 18 searches were for the entire department and all of its officers. however the former bart police officers as 80 residential surges in a year's time is not nearly enough in terms of being prepared for life and death decisions.
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>>: there are very familiar terms of rendering how safe. as a bart police officer you are not going into residences is a basic source of control as the bart station the bart train the bar property and a parking structures. >>: he says he believes to be and out of practice of clearing a building led to a sergeant smith's death. >>: because they did not practice this deal quite often, this tragedy occurred. >>: haazig madyun of kron 4 news street
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the name bell on wall street tried to reverse losses over the last few days. of 318 on friday. that might be the first time there's a salmon. marine harvest rankin and the opening bell this morning. they announced their quarterly earnings. a strong revenue but incredibly disappointment for wall street they only sell 51 million iphones in three months. expectation was around 57. apple's stock has been hammered overnight down over $40 a share and the overnight trading. the trend has begun. >>: a essex thirty a winter storm expected to settle and the saudis and it's already prompted the cancellation of thousands of flights including flights out of the sfo kron4's techie sizzle is
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joining us live with the latest on the situation there. >>: crazy james. it seems like i'm here every week talking about that weather but usually we are talking about places like new york, philadelphia, washington d.c. and boston. but that's not the case. today its downside to have to worry if you are traveling. here's video from early this morning. places like atlanta and georgia. the dallas taxes. even places as far as mississippi and louisiana are experiencing huge weather situations. i was on the website earlier and up to six to 800 flights are canceled. and just going into atlanta georgia. you're going to see that rebel affect go across the country. all but not close to 3000 flights have been canceled. places like chicago have delays. it's
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mostly in the midwest and down south. let's face it the place is down south don't really have to do with this on a normal basis. a little bit more difficult for them. if you're flying out today. obviously be aware of it. i was on the phone with the duty manager. it didn't have any real numbers. i can't say i had about a half a dozen of flights that were affected. now many going on right now but if your flight today be aware of it we haven't seen rainer in the weather here at sfo or around the bay area yet i'm here on a weekly basis talking about these. let's talk erica talk about the national forecast what we can expect here. >>erica: good morning james i want to talk it over to a satellite and radar. winter storms for the southwest. in
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fact with temperatures the afternoon high still below freezing. looks like atlanta georgia a high of 23 degrees. we are talking about freezing rain and snow. in fact portions of south carolina could accumulate up to 12 in.. here and the bay area we are starting off with the live look from our mount tam cam waking up to a fairly mild conditions. we will continue with overcast skies into the afternoon. 63 for san francisco 65 out in livermore valley and we do have a storm approaching. could arrive as we could see up to an answer for the hills. and half and ran inside the bay but we're still with a deficit we will not make up for. despite the unsettled weather on tap for the next few days. mild
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weather will return for the week and looks like we could see that the upper 60s as we start the next work week. >>: no major incidents 3 here's your quick commute check and will show you the areas where it's already starting to slow. believe it or not run from the antioch bridge at 160 of the way out towards the low pass. it's a slow roll their. slow traffic moving on to the livermore valley and in the south bay that little bit of slow traffic started to form here no one in the northbound direction >>darya: >>: thanks george. oakland police are still on the hunt for a 14-year-old boy. accused of killing his
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sister. investigators are looking for mario toliver. who they say shot and killed his sister.17-year- old hist justice toliver thursday. the teens lived with their grand mother in oakland's chinatown. family members tell kron 4 mario shot his sister after an argument over laundry. he's been on the run every and police consider him armed and dangerous, because used in the shooting. the oakland chief says it is time for the suspect to give himself up. police are still getting
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whereabouts and following up on those leads. there were reports over the weekend that the teen was seen on an a-c transit bus. but police now believe it was just someone who looked similar to him and not mario. the oakland police department is offering a 10-thousand dollar reward for any information leading to an arrest. a san francisco police officer now faces child pornography and molestation charges. richard hastings is accused of molesting a 15 year old boy in concord. hastings claims the sex was consensual and that the victim was not 15, but 18 years old at the time. he's pleaded not guilty to the charges. hastings bail has also been reduced from 900-thousand to 100-thousand dollars, despite objections from the prosecutor who says hastings is a danger to the puffed >>darya:an alert this morning for one bay area community that's seen a rash of mail thefts. belmont police say pieces of mail have been found in the areas of terrance drive, hillman avenue and arbor
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avenue. it appears someone is taking people's mail, keeping what they want and then throwing away the rest. police want residents to pay attention to any suspicious activity and report it immediately. they say you should either have a mail slot that goes directly inside your home or to install a locking mailbox. just a year- and- half in existence. san francisco's minor league hockey team is calling it quits. the head coach anounced monday that all operations by the san francisco bulls have been stopped and the rest of the season has been cancelled. the bulls were an affiliate of the san jose sharks with 32 games left in the season, fans who purchased tickets for future games at
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>>darya: thanks a lot rain is on the way to the bay area we are going to talk about where it's supposed to fall first and take in the live look from our mount tam cam this morning. a bit of soap shot and you could see the buildup of clouds below. we will be right back.
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645 the big stories we are following this morning. learning more about the bart police officer who accidentally killed a fellow officer sergeant smith. bart police say detective michael mates has spent 26 years with law- enforcement. 14 of those have been spent with bart the questions have been raised about the level of
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training for bart police officers. birds police chief says a lack of training does not apply to the main street belmont police maj help finding a 16 year-old autistic boy. tyler edward simons was lasting yesterday about 7:00 at ross a middle school. he's 6 ft. tall 140 lbs. with brown curly hair. in sunnyvale a registered sex offender is behind bars. looks like a woman but it's a man accused of being on school property by letting his sex offender status requirements. theodore addresses as a woman walked on to the sunnyvale hebrew day school back in december. >>james: 646 + began with weather and traffic. traffic
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for at westbound 580 south 880 starting to slow as your head down the dumbarton bridge and were picking up or slowing for a little one
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and the guadalupe parkway and 280 and the south bay. north bay traffic even hear some congestion now heading down towards lucas valley road. so we've already added about 10 minutes to the drive time up to about 33 to 35 minutes for 101 southbound. a check of the weather. here is erica. >>erica: today to be the last friday for quite some time. we are looking for unsettled weather for the rest of the workweek. mostly cloudy conditions right now with temperatures in the upper '40's low 50s. fed over cast a day ahead of us would san francisco checking and 63 degrees and 64 year high in hayward. it's cloudy and mild today. mostly cloudy conditions continue tonight with the chance of north bay sprinkles. the rain may go more widespread. for nine that's what most of the rain is expected to fall within up the slick runway conditions on thursday. the storm approaching rica and ukiah just do it with some
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light rain but the big story is the high pressure breaking down. that will make its way for some rain finally here in the bay area. when this is all said and done we could see up to an end fifth in line wednesday is probably one yield major opera was especially if you're out and that evening. saturday and sunday drive mostly mild with plenty of sunshine expected. 649. >>: dealing with the drought is going to be a major topic of discussion here at the marin county pacific center on this tuesday. supervisors are holding a form later this morning or multiple agencies will be presenting plans to reach right now
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reservoirs are extremely low. just how bad it is very or looking into getting some facts for you so that we can explain to you just how bad it is this meeting is going to be open to the public and we're going to be stepping aside. it is not just here in the north bay that's dealing with the drought but today santa clara officials are also going to be looking at drug related measures. here and ran county terisa estacio kron 4 news. >>: watch it what to do with our financial expert rob black try to get a rebound with the dow jones industrial with 60 points at last check. the self funded to c 51 million iphones sold in three months at wall street. >>: the problem is the cell phone market has brought about 7% and apple has grown about 67%. so it's just. we start focusing on at a ipad. on the positive
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apple has a ton of cash with payment to that are tied towards itouch and tied for taps. they to monetize that and get into credit card processing. now they need to start using that cash to acquire companies like ge male bay area company. they need to get to into the next leg up. that that a great job creation and ecosystem of the maps which will create an equal system of payments but nothing super positive about the growth. apple we're just waiting. but some of the worst thing in the road but it's certainly not a great company. >>: if you're looking for a
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good cash flow, and a good dividend co. but if you're hoping for a good tech company we just don't know. we really need to get that horrible computer out there. if it's just a e-mail on the rest the luck to you for it the most horrible week we had on wall street or santa morons' of some currencies as their worries here about crimes is collapsing for countries. as i watched ran scared last week or as they're concerned about overall growth. >>: turkey is ok. a show looks pretty good for it your looks pretty good. united states is rock-and- roll leverage even though it
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started the year out with a lot of crap reports. i'm not-dressed about currency deflating. i'm worried about. >>: will tell you about the new offer from a california restaurant. and taken a live look from san francisco on van ness ave. we are waiting for some rain drops of fog. we will tell you exactly when and where in just a couple of minutes.
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may have seen this on your facebook steve this morning. folk singer and activist
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pete seeger has died at the age of 94. seeger's hits include "turn, turn, turn" and "if i had a hammer" he influenced bruce springsteen, joan baez , and dave matthews. those three performed at seeger's 90th birthday party at madison square garden. that sold-out show was also a fundraiser for his favorite local cause: cleaning up new york's hudson river. a warning this morning for smokers out there. another marlboro man has died because of a condition caused by smoking. eric lawson's wife says her husband died at their home in san louis obispo earlier this month. he was 72. lawson appeared in print ads for the cigarette company in the late 70's and early 80's. in 2006, he was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.or c-o-p- d. up until then.he was a marlboro smoker.up to three packs a day. in his later years.lawson became a anti-smoking will the latest on two people arrested for killing the un command at his 21st birthday party. twins
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arrested. will have details ahead. plus the winter blast from the midwest canceling flights for with airports across the nation grid stuff sold below zero the chicago. one of the trouble spot for it to have the latest on the effects. and in various world everyone talking about the super bowl being cold and what about the latest hockey team calling it out on ice. we have more on the outdoor hockey game coming up in new york as the kron4 morning news returns in just a minute.
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can i just got off the phone with a pulled belmont police officer who just found a 16 year-old autistic boy. all have the latest coming up. >>: more information about the bart officer shot and

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