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weather. i'm darya phone some--folsom and im mark danon. >>james: is going to be cold. it may live for this right now. heading out the door. breezy and the higher elevations. after 4:00 we will see widespread upper 60s and marleau '70s that we saw yesterday. today in general will be slightly warmer than yesterday, so that's something to look forward to appear to have been extended far as coming up in just now said to the tropics and work george is keeping eye on your commute.
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right a year of one island of the right now when was locked. line #5 is of batman to act of vengeance of the metering lights. however traffic is still very slow from the main lights out to the island. so will take awhile to get through that and the backup will likely grow three initial reports indicate that there may be as many as four vehicles a lot in this crash. so it may be looking at our first hot spot this winter >>will: the first question is why didn't caltran put safeguards up to keep this from happening and to, what ever happened to common sense. people who are
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catching caltran this morning can believe what they saw in this video store to we want to show it to you. this actually happened back on february 18th. take a close look at your screen free and this is out of a movie, three people across the tracks three that made it safely trouble with a little too close for comfort for the last person gets to buy probably a half a second faster. if not he would have been crushed by the caltran agreed to show you over and over because this is amazing video. why this person was not stopped there with a guard ralph reed get those questions answered by caltrans. nonetheless there is no reason why he should not have heard. i don't know why he tempted fate to do what he did. that's amazing. i'd love to track down the person three if you're the one that video of love to talk to you. at to see with your thinking at that time.
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will have to make for sure that there are safety measures put in place of the people do not accidentally walked in front of a trend. as it is impossible to guard at every end of caltran but nonetheless, this happened at the station there. you think there would be preventive measures of people just don't wander aimlessly in front of the tracks. it appears as though these four people, psychometry they wanted to place a permanent offer from a veteran thrift fortunately they all made it across pacino than that would have been dead if it was a few milliseconds >>darya: a train as a sneak up on you. so they can stop everyone in the world from door something stupid. the event exactly three when i saw this video i said what happened to common-sense grief and this guy still steps in front of it. no way
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know how anybody with the right friend of mine would even do that. still caltran with some of we cannot guard every inch of trucks. listen to said that the alarm rothko an early-morning business fire in oakland. investigators calling its suspicious and possibly are sent. i happened on macarthur boulevard near 82nd avenue before 3 this morning the fire did not spread to other buildings and no one was hurt. in vallejo this morning.crews put out a fire in an abandoned building where several homeless people were staying. the fire was reported around 12:30.
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firefighters initially had trouble getting to the fire because the former u.s. navy building was boarded up. says once they got inside, they discovered five homeless people. crews were able to extinguish the fire by 1. about 10 percent of the building was lost. the cause is being investigated. the man accused of killing a boy in a a cambell park sunday night tells kron4 that he's sorry but he was only defending himself. todd tharp spoke to us from inside the santa clara county jail. the 24 year old transient says he got in to an argument with a group of guys who were drinking and doing drugs in john d morgan park sunday night and they attacked him.hitting him and kicking him in the head so ed he pulled out a knife that he always carries and started swinging to defend himself. 16-year-old ivan diaz amuca was stabbed and died at the hospital. a 16- year old san jose boy. is stabbed to death. in a south bay park.
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he hit a woman with his truck.but didn't stop to see if she was o-k.or even survived the crash. that's what police say the driver they've arrested in a deadly hit and run did sunday night. now tyler larson is under arrest for felony hit and run of yolanda tiscareno. police say larson veered off of willow pass road.jumped the curb.and hit tiscareno.who was pushing a shopping cart. police followed up on leads from c-h-p and located larson at his home in
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russia. russian president vladimir putin signed a document today with crimea's prime minister and parliament speaker. the agreement has to be endorsed by russia's constitutional court ratified by both houses of parliament to take effect. but those steps are considered more--a mere formalities. putin has accused the west of encouraging unrest in ukraine in order to break its historic ties with russia and dismissed western criticism of the crime and russia and dismissed western criticism of the crime and about as illegitimate. i want you to know stuff i want you to be kind. i want you to be smart. super smart. i want one thing in a doctor. to speak my language. i don't want you to look at the chart before you say hi...david.
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>>george: will come back to the kron4 morning news, where tracking an accident on interstate 80 in the westbound direction come here at central avenue and initial reports had several cars. the drive time had only been about 60 minutes and it's now 18 minutes if so it's not been a hot spot but that potential still exist.
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>>darya: thank you to our tour if successful >>mark: thank-you george. as the search expands for the missing malaysian airplane, china's news agency says background checks have found no trace that any of its citizens were involved in hijacking or terrorism aboard that flight. more than 150 chinese nationals are on board flight 370. china has started searching its own territory for the missing plane. meanwhile, a new report says the airliner was programmed to divert from its planned course. and that someone who knew how to fly a plane would have had to input that information from the cockpit. officials haven't said there's any real evidence to suggest the pilots are responsible. keeping an eye on the forecast as we take a quick look at the james lick freeway. it is clear out their although its breezy and the hills. it's awfully cold in some spots as well. will break down your the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow.
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welcome back 614 as the time right now. the see how things are calling with the traffic. >>: so far things are called. we are seeing temperatures right now and for these periods it will be very brisk to say the least as you head out the door this morning. does a quick look at how the bay is going to break out. abutted o'clock, the crucial hour after having to work and getting the kids to school. temperatures expected to still be in the mid forties to low 50s for most locations street and a little clip we warmest
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quickly warmed up. by 3 this out there know how his kids are getting off school armavir making plastics are heading off for work for the early afternoon commute to look for temperatures to the upper 60s the low seventies for a majority of the bay area. that's how to this point to be period right now as i said it is silly. 41 degrees in a bottle.46 in livermore. 44 in hayward so bundled up you're want to meet that jacket. it's going to be sunny and warm in spot especially the south bay. 72 percent first settlement if and east bay are valleys are going to be low seventies widespread with upper 60s expected along the east bay shoreline with a lot of it '70s for most of the wine country of the back santa rosa to be right around major 7 day around the bay forecast. just briefly is going to beat drink like for
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the rest of the week. don't forget spring officially arrives on thursday. now on to the traffic center were georgia's keeping an eye on your commute. >>george: with the watch in this accident on interstate 80 in the westbound direction and present, the drive time is still within which you would call the normal range but i think we're just about the to the point where this is likely to become a hot spot there were several vehicles involved in the crash and off reports that said that the second lane from the left is still blocked here in the westbound direction to the drive time is 21 minutes maybe a little heavy for this early hour and as i watched the drive time climb and i think we're about to see this turn into a hot spot for the short commute 80 westbound. 80 at the bay bridge is already valley backed up now toward the macarthur maze even though this law that caused the earlier activation of the metering lights has been cleared for about 50 minutes now but in this slow things down enough that they really
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have to crank the leader of- down because of a slow traffic on this and so the back up on 580 west already reaches into the macarthur maze for looking at it 22 to 23 minute drive if you come from downtown oakland on 584 fare coming out of the macarthur maze even the 580 approach. is now back up to the top of the referees your ride to the san mateo bridge problem free here. just to let 11 to 12 minute drive with no delays over to foster city and on the rich and san rafael bridge if light traffic still with no back up here at the toll plaza for us for the westbound 580 ride. breaking those. the castro valley husband accused of killing his wife and husband on the run since friday has turned himself over to authority's. the alameda county sheriff's office has issued an arrest warrant for facebook---areest warrant for feng mee. he is now
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surrendered to police this his life was found shot and killed in the couple's home on friday said he has been on the run ever since. if san francisco is looking to fight back against taggers. supervisor london breed's proposal would allow the city to sue repeat graffiti ofenders. under breed's proposal, the city attorney would be authorized to file civil lawsuits against repeat offenders and recover costs
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for the damage. cleaning up graffiti costs the city and property owners an estimated $20 milllion each year. this morning at 11:30. a group of oakland mcdonald's workers and others will protest what they say is the wage theft by not paying required overtime. they'll be joined by oakland congresswoman barbara lee. the protest will be held at the mcdonald's restaurant on east 12th st. in oakland vice president joe biden has arrived in poland. this trip is to show u.s. resolve against russia's intervention in neighboring ukraine.
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the meetings with the nato allies are part of a broader u.s. campaign to persuade russian president vladimir putin to back off in ukraine. the u.s. is imposing the most comprehensive sanctions against russian officials since the cold war. biden will fly later today to the baltic nation of lithuania. obamacare enrollment numbers hit another major milestone with 5 million people signed up. officials say this comes after a wave of people who enrolled over the weekend. there are just a million enrollments to go before the program hits the goal of six million set by the asked the last several days have been the busiest since december. there are only two weeks left for people to enroll before the march 31-st deadline or face a penalty
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if they don't have health insurance communication problems between agencies and lapses in technology. those are two findings in a new report on last year's shooting at l-a- x. the report says police and scene with no idea where to go or what the others were doing. that lead to a 45 minute lapse in establishing a coordinated response. the report does credit officers as heroes who shot and took suspect paul ciancia into custody. after he killed a t-s-a officer and injured three people back in november. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. so you won't miss a minute of march madness.
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what wall street stocks ended sharply higher helped by reports that factory output rebound last month. here's a look at the closing numbers from monday. the dow was up nearly 182.3 the nasdaq up about 35 points in the s&p 500 asa rose nearly 18 points. futures point to possible gains at this morning's opening. the rolling stones have canceled tomorrow's concert in perth, australia, following the death of mick
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jagger's longtime girlfriend l'wren scott. scott was found dead in her new york apartment yesterday of an apparent suicide. the celebrated fashion designer was 49 years old. a spokesman for jagger said shocked and devastated by the news. tomorrow's show would have been the first date of the band's australian tour. ticket holders were told to hold on to their tickets for the show. meanwhile, the london company owned by scott was almost 6 million in debt at the time it filed its most recent accounts.
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scott created elegant designs for celebrities like nicole kidman, penelope cruz and first lady michelle obama. some chickens at a chico egg farm are looking for a new the sancutary animal place is hoping to find new owners for 18-hundred red hens by april 4th. the sanctuary is holding adoption events in vacaville fridays. animal place will keep some of the chickens not adopted, but they have a limit on how many can stay. officers have arrested a man in the deadly hit and run in concord sunday night. a woman was killed after a truck veered off the road and hit her. you'd recognize him or his infomercials that claim he's or do america's wealthiest
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live? surprisingly it's now in new york or san francisco or beverly hills. according to the higley 1000, many of the country's richest residents live in neighborhoods of the impasse. increasingly some of these areas are more racially diverse. of next on the kron4 morning news, will have the result of a big sting aimed at cracking down on minors tried to buy alcohol from adults. plus, the excitement for tonight to the millions draws gross. --drawing grows. female narrator: for over 60,000 california female narrator: for over 60,000 california foster children
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chilly. >>james: better temperatures on tap this afternoon. a little breeze is to start with in the hills. that would be the main story for you. this laissez-faire and the north bay hills, it's a little breezy for you. if you're in the valley and it's going to be cold. that's your weather story. mid to upper forties right now throughout the bay. so bundled up as your head out the door. us take a look at how temperatures will break down. by noon time, for the lunch hour, where in the '60s mid to upper at that point. and that all '70s generally across the bay sunday at warmer this all be the scene as a big way throughout the day. now on to traffic check with the george the morning. >>george: the e shore freeway is really getting gone down now. westbound
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grid one of the vehicles involved. the 80 ride west 30 into the drive time is now up to 25 minutes. it should be this high for about another half hour 45 minutes or an hour sarah already running into a heavier than normal commute here. as well as on 101 southbound. the centers have not yet picked it up three we are badly backed up already and the bay bridge toll plaza due to early morning spots. an early- morning stall that his breathe and it's long been cleared but it is low the ride so much and you can see
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that even the 880 ramp which is usually the best approach to the bridge and while it may be the shorter one this morning, still heavier than usual. drive times are running over 20 minutes now out of the macarthur maze briefs here at the san mateo bridge problem free free and easy ride in the westbound direction. this is i believe a reflection of the lawn if i'm not mistaken of the waters there. and looking at your ride to the rich and san rafael bridge. a traffic volume building for the westbound commute to marin county. >>darya: 632. officers have arrested a man and a deadly hit-and-run and conquered sunday night. kron4's a jacki cecil as a live at the cvs morning talking about the very latest. talk about the latest with this driver. who is it? >>: it's a 29 year-old antioch command was am booked into custody and charged with felony hit and run 3 here's a picture of him. according to the copper police they say 29 year-old
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tyler larsson of antioch was the driver of a vehicle the structure and killed a pedestrian sunday night. if this all started around midnight on sunday night when they say larsen was driving a chevy silverado wahl pass road with for an unknown reason he jumped off of a road ultimately striking and killing at yolanda ciscadero of concord. at that point it said the driver of the bay have " fled the scene that left one man on the they've got lots of tips from the public and from the help of the chp all to believe that led them to 29 year-old tyler larsson of antioch. wind chest to talk with concord police detective and he talked about how the public's help lead to this arrest. >>: as soon as we clear the scene, people were calling, we follow up on every lead
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that was given to us and we just are really grateful that it was able to come to this point of the investigation. >>: larsen was taken into custody yesterday. there is a possibility is that he could be in court as early as today. and other stories we are falling. you recognize him for his infomercials. --in other strories we are following. --you would
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recognize him before his, and for march was the claim he's found a secret to fight off disease with natural cures. but those infomercials are why tv pitchmen kevin trudeau is headed to prison. a federal judge sentenced him to 10 years in federal prison for misrepresenting the contents of his weight loss cure book. and for making the
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information for that book even after a court order 10 years ago that banned him from making false claims on tv. that book sold 850 million copies. the judge let him have it from the bench as well, calling him a liar who steadfastly cheated others for his own personal gain. >>mark: new this morning, more than 500 people arrested stay alive for trying to buy alcohol for minors. it's known as shoulder tapping, please use a decoy outside liquor or convenience stores telling people they are under age and asking them to buy alcohol. if the adults agree to do it there are arrested and can face a minimum fine of $1,000 in 24 hours of community service. in the bay area, police may arrest in san rafael, watsonville, oakland and martinez for the more the five injured people were arrested in the same operation last year. richmond city council is set to approve a ballot measure that would hike the city's minimum wage. the city council will decide today
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which of three possible wage hikes to place on the november ballot. the council is considering three possible minimal wages of 111230 or $50 per hour. the big mega millions dryness to my right now the jackpot is an estimated $400 million. that's the third highest in the history of the mega millions game. it will also be the sixth largest lottery jackpot in u.s. history. the 400 million could also be taken as a 224 million lump-sum 3 ft. away, those are before tax figures three make a million tickets are sold in 42 states including here in california. attention monster taco fans!
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welcome back to the kron4 morning else tracking a couple of hot spots and the worst terror on interstate 80 in the westbound direction. an accident that occurred some time ago and central avenue. still blocking lanza and backing up all the way to highway 4 in the westbound direction. nearly 30 minutes to drive time for our delays to berkeley. >>mark: happening now. founder of the west to borrow-westboro baptist church is having serious health problems. the group is widely not protesting the military funeral's claiming the deaths are god's punishment for tolerating homosexuality and abortion. here's the interesting part all agree that the group says if reverend fred phelps sr. dies, they do not want to disclose where his funeral will take place. they're also not saying where he is being cared for only that it is and the shawnee, kan.. -shawnee
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county, kansas. the trial for oscar pistorius has resumed after an hour delay today. the court was waiting for a police photographer who took pictures of the scene of reeva steenkamp's shooting death to continue testimony. warrant officer bennie van staden was asked by the defense to produce a disc relating to photos he took inside pistorius' home in the hours after the double- amputee athlete killed his girlfriend. an oregon man is using a creative way to save his own life. kevin gray is holding up a sign at a street corner asking for a kidney. gray is a husband an father of three. he found out in may that he doesn't know have a living donor. doctors told him that he'll get a kidney in three years if he is lucky. right now, he endures nine hours of dialysis every night. his wife has also started a facebook page for potential
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this comes after los angeles' 4.4 magnitude quake yesterday morning. plus. a baby gorilla born by c-section last week at the san diego zoo, now has pneumonia. the baby is being closely watched by veterinarians. you can read more on the baby's condition on kron four dot com. >>j.r.: the bay bridge with a big back up this morning. the lack of right and to the macarthur maze and from delays and 24 you're looking at over 20 is a minute drive times are ready for the westbound train. even the age 80 approach is still backed up for the top of the ramp. for the some of the overtime win 92 problem free. and 11 minute drive no
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venture community and you will see chances are you're in the upper 60s low 7357 day around the bay forecast when quantifier increase our numbers by a couple of degrees of the los jefes down from thursday friday saturday. i springlike weather for the remainder of the extended forecast three of coming next tuesday but to those clouds rolling and. we have to look forward to greet hopefully we'll get some showers out of it. fingers crossed. >>:and. carowners in san once again to stop leaving their valuables in plain sight. thieves see those vehicles as easy targets. taking g- p-s devices, purses and c- d's. find out how quickly burglers are getting into your car on kron four dot com. the google play store is
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back online this morning after a hacker from turkey crashed the system. ibrahim balic says he is to blame for the crash. he says he found a weakness in the console, and everything collapsed after he created an app to point out the problem. the site crashed a second time, after he uploaded his app to the publishing system. balic says he is sorry for knocking everyone off-line. the hack was not the only bug google dealt with yesterday. halfgoogle sheets, hangouts and calendars all experienced disruptions. they're back online this morning but its not clear if that disruption had anything to do with the google play
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hack. and this coming sunday night at 9pm. we will preview the upcoming a's season in a kron four sports special-- hosted by sports director gary radnich. everything you need to know about the two- time defending a-l west champs, heading into the upcoming season. it's all this coming sunday at 9pm following the kron 4 news at eight.
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new this morning apple added a cheaper a gigabyte found in the u.k. and that could mean the sameould be coming to the u.s.. we just don't know let's print apple has declined about how well or not to well the five c is doing compared to the premium 5 as the most analysts suggest it's not doing so great. some suggestions mean to cut the price. on its u.k. website or unsubsidized 16 gb phones 5 siegel for almost a hundred bucks, and a gigabyte model shows up at the new price point that only 40 lbs. or $67 cheaper.
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apple has confirmed that the model 8 gb model is available in the u.k., france and germany and austria and china but it is not for the time being available here in the let's just yet. we will keep you posted. >>: heading into the 7:00 hour we have some o'clock hour we have some great video we wanted to show you. a child saved by a matress in burbank. it all happened on sunday when a couple was moving out of an apartment. they noticed the toddler and his sister throwing their toys out the window as they went in to get another load-- and on the way out, they saw the toddler had is legs over the window sill. the couple jumped into
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action and placed the mattress underneath the child to break his fall. police say it was the couples quick thinking that saved the childs life. the 3-year-old was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, but he suffer big injures. a neighbor rushed to get the little boy's parents, who were unaware of what happened but were deeply grateful for the amazing rescue. san jose police this month started a new program aimed at beefing up its presence in the downtown area. the new downtown foot patrol program places four officers and a sergeant in the area to walk the streets. "drug dealing, graffiti, prostitution, gang violence, street-level robberies, all
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things of that nature," san jose police spokesman albert morales said of what officers will be looking out for on patrol. the city council recently [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. so you won't miss a minute of march madness. call now to get a u-verse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. guaranteed. a report of a man stealing san jose sharks jerseys from the discover san jose store. police were able to locate the suspect within 30 minutes after receiving the report. officers also were able to recover the jerseys. "i was blown away," said renee palmer, store manager for discover san jose. "the
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of july redwood city. coming up all shredded his jaw dropping at a video of a man of versus a train. it will get your attention. >>: an early morning business fire in oakland. and investigators are calling it suspicious. possibly arson. kron 4 news at seven starts now. >>: good morning i'm darya folsom and im mark danon. it is a tough morning commute. let's get an update with george raft. >>george: one of t
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