tracking the rain this tuesday morning. live look at stormtracker four right now. the rain and lightning left major damages here in the bay area. this is one example. witnesses say lightning made a tree in berkeley "explode." the flying debris shattered windows and left cars with severe damage. luckily, there were no injuries. a >>anny: showers are and are forecast and storms. the ride home later tonight could be potentially tough. we're talking the potential

for some thunderstorms once again which could produce hail, gusty winds and thunder and lightning. we will talk more about that a little bit later but first here's george with your traffic. the morning. >>george: good morning. we're still looking at a pretty good ride around the bay to read the meter relay it's just that activity here in the bay bridge toll plaza store just now starting to see the planes to land here across the toll plaza until just moments ago there were a few gaps but that will lot change now. if today is like yesterday's fall, we will see it clear out pretty quickly. interstate 580 is where we see slow traffic in the east bay this morning. it's fairly typical commute through the optima past three highway 4 still light for the westbound a ride between antioch and pittsburgh. still like conditions for the south bay and peninsula and north bay ride >>: the rain and lightning left major damage is here in the bay area. this is one example in berkeley. h for

what a treat exploded when lightning hit. the flying debris shattered windows and left cars with severe damage. luckily there were no injuries. in sausalito - lightning hit a tree that was touching the deck of a home early monday afternoon. the energy from the strike transferred to the home on spencer ave. blowing out several large windows and sliding glass doors. fire officials say the deck exploded and glass and bark were scattered throughout the inside of the house new this morning >>darya:parents at an oakland elementary school are on edge after a six year old girl was sexually assaulted. this is a map showing where the assualt happened. it happened on east-28th street and 10th avenue. that's less than a block from bella vista elementary school. kron 's will tran is in front of the school this morning with details of the assault. will will darya, the school is right behind me and they still don't know how the six year-old managed to go with no one watching. schools

should have been in session on friday afternoon. someone should have known about it. according to the police department, there was a man who bore the the 60 off campus. apparently, sexually assaulting her and consulted her according to the police department. somehow, she manages to get away and comes back to the school to alert the administrators. the administrators called the police department but by then, he was long gone. the police department will talked to administrators today. they did not get a chance to yesterday because yesterday was a holiday. once the talk to the administrators they will talk to themselves and said the word out to the parents. the administrators of course are saddened and shocked. they will review their policy to see why this lack of security happened for the six year-old girl to go off campus. never mind, she was allegedly sexually assaulted, she it easily could have been killed with cars coming and going on a constant basis. the police department is still

searching for this man. this makes three sexual assaults of girls over the past three months. there try to find out if this person was responsible for all three of them. back to you darya. >>darya: thanks a lot will. >>mark: and san jose six shootings in five days have san jose police on high alert this morning. the first one happened thursday night. the latest was early saturday morning. all of the shooting victims are expected to survive. but investigators say they have *no suspects in any of the cases.which include several drive by shootings.one of them happened near san jose's city hall. leland yee's attorney is this questioning the government's case against

his client. -offssuspended state senator fad leland yee refused to speak to reporters after leaving court yesterday but his attorney raised questions as to why the investigation into his client took so long attorney paul demeester says he has concerns that the feds didn't have much confidence in their case which early on focussed on allegations yee traded political favors for cash. developing tonight. leland yee's attorney is questioning the government's case against his client. he raised concerns after yee was in court today - to talk about his half-million dollar bond. leland yee remains free on a 500-thousand dollar unsecured bond, and cause discussions are underway to determine which of yee's s properties will be put up as collateral to make sure he keeps showing up to court. yee's next court hearing is next tuesday. yee's acquaintance raymond "shrimp boy" chow, - also named in the case. was also in court yesterday.

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combat to the kron4 morning news as we take a look at your bay bridge toll plaza ride me during my tour activated now. here's a quick public transit of state. no delays for caltran

is trying to muni or the metro. no schedule changes in connection with updates. >>:grounds crews squeegy the rain off the field american league championship banner unveiled team looks on in front of a packed house of 36,067 rickey henderson is in the house shaking hands and then throwing a strike of a first pitch to josh donaldson top 6th scoreless in a pretty good game for the athletics. sonny gray - gets asdrubal cabrera to ground it back to him and gray throws home where john jaso applies the tag - out at the plate!!!! call was challenged but upheld gray: 6 ip, 5 hits, 0 runs, 7 k's bot 8th, still scoreless, 2 men on josh donaldson - thinks he's got a 3-run homer.but it goes off the top of the wall in center.nobody scores and donaldson ends up with very

long single top 9th new closer jim johnson - gives up a pair of runs including this rbi single to former a nick swisher to make it 2-0 a's lose 10th straight season opener which is a new major league record! final: 2-0 cleveland giants d'backs bot 6th, 6-3 arizona bruce bochy signaling for a pitch out with paul goldschmidt on 1stand jean machi delivers, catching goldschmidt off the bag.but the giants can't execute the pickle and goldschmidt is safe at second base.he

would score a pitch later 7- 3 az but the giants come through with their biggest opening day comeback since 1968 top 7th, 7-5 az pablo sandoval - the check swing single brings home angel pagan.they would tie the game on a bases loaded walk 7-7 tie top 9th, tied 7-all buster posey - the massive the giants score 6 unanswered runs to come all the way back and win posey: 2-5, 2 rbi final: 9-8 giants more local news and the big stories you need to know about still ahead. about still ahead. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse...

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at * *6-15 * we're tracking the rain. live look outside at san francisco right now. anny hong will have the latest on your forecast. then at * *6-18 * the head of general motors talks to lawmakers today on capitol hill. to answer. and at * *6-20 * next time you go to vegas you can see the kron four morning news continues in two minutes. the recent rainfall should be good news for today's monthly snowpack survey in the sierra. we have some new pictures to show you from heavenly mountain resort. the latest storm system is expected to deliver up to a foot of snow by tomorrow morning. unfortunately, the recent rain won't be enough to end the state's drought. today's survey is critical

because it marks the peak of the snowpack. coming up at 8-45 we'll talk to the folks at heavenly about the conditions. happening today in the bay area. cal train will open their new san bruno station today. >>anny: let's take a look at your storm tracker 4 first. i want to show it will start in the south bay where you can see in morgan hill, gilroy in santa cruz, it would give us a pretty good storm's coming through now and we are also seen some areas of light rain for a lot of locations. futurecast showing us that at 8:00 this morning, it will be scattered in nature. the mixture of some cloudy skies and it will start to see some rain and showers pick up for lunch time starting in the north ave. petaluma and north ave. 3:00 today, a lot of missing some wet weather once again so we have the potential for some thunderstorms. if the clouds break up a little bit you

will see the storm coming through. the storms are possible light rain and hail if those storms do come through. 5:00 tonight, the evening commute home is going to be wet for all of us. still have that some things down. and tomorrow morning just a slight chance for some showers, otherwise waking up to cloudy conditions and then we will see more sunshine tomorrow afternoon. temperatures to run for the generally in the forties. 44 in san jose. pleasant in the morning to you here 45. of the year 48 degrees. highs today still a pretty below average. 57 year high. up 57 in downtown san francisco. the oakland a's did get their game in yesterday and today they're hoping to do the same thing as we play the cleveland indians. the star pitch is that 7 05. i'm expecting showers once again so there is a possibility that it

could be delayed or rained out. speed away, did your rain gear ready. here's your kron 47 day around the bay forecast. again a very stormy again. once again very active and tomorrow is a slight chance of showers and then we are drying out. the next chance for showers comes thursday into friday. and look at the weekend. you have to plan to go outside to do some spring cleaning our spring gardening >>: bobby stuck in the house doing my taxes. george tower the roads looking. >>george: first let's look at the bay bridge. it metering lights were activated. about 2018 minutes and were starting to see their rebound where started to back up but it's not so bad right now. remember it's bring the break week for many and like a leaf spring breaks will continue for awhile. so we're fortunate to see lighter than usual traffic. for the san mateo bridge and highway 92 pre or problem

free so far in the westbound direction. drive time about 13 minutes and for your ride to the rich and san rafael bridge to read and which ones are no delays or problems for your trip and to marin county or to richmond for 580 westbound grid and updating your ride around the bay now, looking at the hercules to berkeley commute. just 14 minutes now as you had westbound towards university ave. 680 south no backups or galazy adds. a little slow threw her rent on your approach to the caldecott for westbound highway 243 here at the dublin interchange we are problem free but there is an accident at grant line road at westbound 583 the initial reports indicated it may be a big rig accident so we're talking about hot spot here for the westbound 580 ride. south bay freeway is definitely still lighter than usual for your trip on 85, 28087 am 101 and the marin ride for 1 01 still under 25 minutes from a bottle down to the golden gate bridge. mark?

>>mark: happening today caltran is opening their new san bruno station. the new station is located on san mateo avenue about a half mile north of the old san bruno station on sylvan avenue. the new station won't affect the train schedule in any way. cal train has posted flyers, placed notices on car windshields, and is adding alerts to its electronic messaging system and onboard announcements from conductors about the move. the california senate will consider a bill today that would make it impossible for thieves to wipe information from stolen smartphones and return the devices to factory settings. the legislation by san francisco sen. mark leno is opposed by the big four national wireless carriers and a host of other business interest groups, which argue it would hurt innovation. but supporters of the bill have suggested that the

cellphone companies and insurers are opposed to the bill because those industries profit from an underground phone trade the c-e-o of general motors will be in the hot seat

today on capitol hill. mary barra faces increased scrutiny over failing to recall millions of vehicles until the deaths of more than a dozen people. barra has only led g-m for three months. she'll answer questions about defective ignition switches to the failure of airbags deploying. and why that information wasn't shared until last month. the automaker apparently knew about the problem as early as 2001. today marks the beginning of a new quarter on wall street. u-s stocks closed out a choppy first quarter with gains yesterday. here's a look at the closing numbers. the dow gained nearly 135 points. the nasdaq rose 43 points. and the s and p 500 was up about 15 points. futures point to more gains this morning. opening bell at 6-30. this morning. opening bell between you and me, they're, they're strange creatures. they are. they don't think like you and i. you know it. they just, they ignore us. totally. it's like we're only here to serve them. yeah, that's what i been saying. but then they turn around and fill you up with chevron with techron. i guess we're doing something right. yeah but, come on, humans? humans are weird.

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time for the kron4 tech reporter with gabe slate. good morning. twitters in a photo of a feature is up and running. as a lot of folks concerned. other twitter users can post pitchers and attach your name to it. if you're in that picture or they say your name is in that picture. that has some people concerned because your name could be attached to it pitcher that's not even you. a lot of twitter users are now going into their settings and turning off this fall attacking feature. when you posted pitcher threw twitter this little box will show under the image saying who's in this picture. it does grow through the people you follow or type search for a name to attack someone to read its quick and easy and that when people see that picture on twitter they will see the person's name along with it. 99 percent of the time when someone attacks you you won't care and it's not a big deal but it's not one picture that could really backfire court may be

a play hooky from work for a new college picture of you passed out suddenly surfaces on twitter right when your job hunting. here's how you can control photo attacking. you can choose between allowing anyone to tackle and falls or mono the people you follow to tag you. or you can play it safe and choose to not let anyone tag you in pictures. gabe slate kron4 news. >>: still ahead on the kron4 morning news of the snacks to sign up for health insurance is benefiting people who waited the last minute. we will explain ahead. plus and a report on the age gian a flight that crashed at sfo last year while the airline is putting part of the blame on the boeing three and a live look at the bay bridge approach for we packed his early morning especially for the cast - 3 will have been a day of the area weather and traffic h,z/

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police department will talk to administrators and fellow vesta to get more information regarding this little six year-old girl who was sexually assaulted off- campus. but this will the minister does will review their policy. students and parents should arise. we will get reactions in about a half-hour from now. i'm sure many are asking why it wasn't any part child supervised during this period still allow this to happen. they're reviewing all policies and everything right now is on the table. back to you.

>>: a heads up. a lot of stories trending out there right now.including this: a new ferris wheel in vegas. it's huge. and it's being called the largest one like it in the world. developers have named it "the high roller". it cost 555-million dollars.and it towers high over the strip. "we were up there just now and you can see the snow on

cause mount charleston, you see mccarran and then at night off obviously the incredible landscape of the strip, it's a marvel." the first riders said it's a smooth ride, like your floating. the high roller has 28 cabins that can hold up to

over every 30 minutes. it took four years to build.and already has bookings for parties and weddings.for people who want to go 550 feet over the vegas strip. tickets run from 25-to-60 bucks. a single ride is 25 during the day.but you have to pay ten dollars more if you want to ride it at night. ten dollars more if you want to ride it at night. [ grunting ] i'm taking off, but, uh, don't worry. i'm gonna leave the tv on for you. and if anything happens, don't forget about the new xfinity my account app.

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a texas woman is on trial for murder. accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death with her stiletto heel. investigators say ana trujillo struck 59-year-old alf stefan andersson at with her shoe during an argument at his condo last june. witnesses said the 45-year- old trujillo had a temper and was out of control the night of andersson's death. they described andersson as quiet and mild-mannered. but trujillo's defense attorney told jurors andersson had repeatedly abused trujillo, and that on the night of the slaying she used the shoe to defend herself from one of his attacks. online home rental service air b-n-b has agreed pay san francisco's 14 percent hotel tax. under the plan, air b-n-b would collect taxes directly from guests as an extra charge on their bill - the same way hotels do. the rental service connects travelers with people renting out their homes, says it will begin remitting taxes to the city by the summer. out of the 32,000 cities worldwide where air b-n-b operates, san francisco and

portland would be the first ones where it collects hotel taxes. activists upset with tech companies using muni bus stops for their corporate shuttles say they will try and blockade some stops today. the april fool's day protest will take the guise of a fake google product lauch called g-muni. ticket the corporate shuttles and use the money to bolster the transit agencie's budget. the protest will be this morning around 8:30 a-m in the mission district. in san francisco today. a man who was shot and killed nearly two weeks ago will be laid to rest. alejandro nieto who was fatally shot at san francisco's bernal heights park on march 21st.

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a funeral mass will be held today at 11-30 at st. kevin francisco. a burial ceremony will be then be held at the holy cross cemetery in colma. a big story you'll be hearing about all day today.obamacare enrollment is on track to hit its goal of seven million americans signed up for health insurance by today. the final numbers are *not in yet. because we're just a few hours past the midnight deadline. and because some people who started the sign up process could not finish by midnight. officials say there was a mad rush to sign up for health insurance leading up to that deadline. california's health exchange to get people signed up for health insurance is extending it's deadline.because of snags with the final push yesterday.

so many people tried to sign up at the last minute the covered california website and so many californians called the help line that some were put on hold for more than an hour. so.certified delegates will work with all of those people who started their applications yesterday.and they have until april 15th. those now famous last words of malaysian airlines flight 370. "all right, good night." turns out that's not what was actually said. the transcript of the conversation between the pilots and air traffic control shows the last words from the flight were actually, "good night malaysian three seven zero." the change in wording weeks into the search for the missing plane raises questions about how malaysian officials have handled the investigation. malaysian authorities gave no explanation for the discrepancy between the two quotes. will have beenand authorities are still trying to determine whether it was the plane's pilot or copilot who said them. asiana airlines is pointing

the finger at boeing, after last july's deadly crash at s-f-o. it filed paperwork with the national transportation safety board today, saying the boeing triple-7 had inadequate warning systems to alert the pilots that they were traveling too slowly. the filing says there was no indication the plane's auto-pilot had stopped maintaining the set air speed. asiana does admit the pilots failed to monitor the plane's speed, but say the planes deficiencies contributed to the break- down. the n-t-s-b has said the crew seemed confused by the plane's computer system. drivers in ukraine are getting squeezed at the gas pump. russia has increased the price of natural gas in the country. by more than 100 dollars for every one thousand cubic meters. that's a 40 percent jump in the price of gas. meanwhile, ukrainian police are working to disarm members of a radical nationalist group after a

shooting rampage outside a restaurant in the capital yesterday. the top stories on kron 4 dot com right now: oakland police are investigating what lead to a 6 year old girl being sexually assaulted near her school. the assault happened friday afternoon near bella vista elementary school. a man lured the girl away. you can read more on this story on our web site. its april fool's day and as you head into work. you may want to think twice before you prank your co workers. a-o-l jobs reports april fool's jokes are frowned upon in some workplaces. and could affect your office negatively. plus. a residence in the north bay was damaged after a lighting struck a tree near the deck on monday afternoon. firefighters responded to the residence at 12:41 p.m. and found several windows blown out at the home at 134 spencer ave. sliding glass doors in the dining room and bowing an outside wall were also damaged, southern marin fire protection district chief jim irving said. "the deck exploded and glass and bark were strewn throughout the interior of

the house," irving said. no one was home at the time and nothing caught fire, irving said. an online dating service is encouraging its user to stop using the firefox web browser because the new c- e-o of the company supported the state's former gay marriage ban. okcupid.com updated its home page so people who access the site with firefox see a message describing mozilla co-founder brendan eich as an opponent of equal rights. the message encourages users to switch to a different browser. in 2008, eich gave $1,000 to the campaign to pass california's proposition 8. the ballot measure outlawed same-sex marriages in california until the u.s. supreme court left in place a lower-court ruling that struck it down. nimitz freeway southbound in hayward had a street in there is a simple stall

abutted to managing to back of that corridor commute in the two and two in the south bay just a little slowing for 101 in the guadalupe parkway otherwise freeways here are definitely lighter than usual in for the ride through marin county 101 southbound the trip is still less than 30 minutes from 37 down to the golden gate bridge. heading into the seven o'clock hour we have some new video we wanted to show you. a rare sighting this time of year in minnesota. this funnel cloud was spotted yesterday near the small town of st. leo. as that's in the southwest part of the state.

three farms and a few homes were damaged but no one was injured. tornadoes are rare in minnesota in march. some counties were under blizzard warnings and tornado warnings at the same time. and look at this new surveillance video of saturday's earthquake in orange county. rattling a restaurant. everything looks normal until the ground started shaking. people and workers in the restaurant looked like they didn't know what just happened. the four-point-one tremor was one of as many as 100 aftershocks following friday's 5 point one magnitude earthquake in southern california. and it may be spring on the calendar. but tell that to this cattle suffering through a blizzard in north dakota! a spring snowstorm is pounding parts aroudn grand forks. the region is still under a blizzard warning this morning. and expected to get between

10 and 20 inches of snow.with winds gusting up to 50-miles an hour in some places. cattle ranchers have been working around the clock to make sure their herds keep out of the wind.especially new, spring calves. we will be back with more in a couple of minutes. some great weather video from across the country to show you. a real mixed bag including how some cows got stuck in the snow. if it's taken a live look at rain that you'll be stuck with a nearly three hour delay if you're waiting for someone to our ride on the flight

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tracking the rain this tuesday morning. live look at stormtracker four right now. the rain and lightning left major damages here in the bay area. we are still seen up storms up around the bay area. was a woman to some of these storms we are seeing some of the areas of light rain. it generally scattered in nature. you can see the yellow where we're seeing some pretty good downpour's this morning which will impact some folks. you can see benicia martinez out towards birds landing and antioch. all this stuff is generally heading to the east so we're definitely going to need to use our windshield wipers. the north bay scattered in nature and generally like for santa rosa. south bay also getting