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to a truck to get there in cleared the left-hand lane. the traffic backed up to third avenue. >>: in san jose firefighters are keeping a close eye on a brush fire that broke out near kelly park yesterday it was about 50 firefighters battling this blaze yesterday morning. no homes were threatened but crews kept a close watch on hot spots with sparks blowing down wind and area full of dry grass so crews worked to get that grass out of nearby coyote creek making sure every last ember was out. the helicopters on the scene as well. several acres of grass were scorched the five rivers in what the conditions of the month. this park is a large park. so it's significant but it could have been a lot worse than what it was three which should allow that to the weather. the weather was in our favor today investigators a the fire was sparked by a contractor who was off loading a trailer of wood chips. coming at a 617
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the city of san francisco cooking of pride month this month. we would to you where you will join in on the festivities. at 622 was cited for neglecting dogs and now she's back out walking them what people social media are saying about the case. and a 625 a new campaign that's giving about the case. and a 625 a nheat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. watch tv virtually anywhere with the u-verse tv app. with at&t, the u-verse revolves around you.
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station north of baghdad. nearly 300 armed u-s forces are being positioned in and around iraq to help secure u-s assets. while the white house says president obama is close to a decision on u-s involvement. some of his options include airstrikes.or a contingent of special forces soldiers. the white house says, even with the threat of an islamist terrorist attack on the iraqi capital, most embassy workers will stay where they are. there's new video showing some of the militants taunting captured iraqi soldiers. one of them was even executed on camera. which we
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won't show you. the group "isis" claims it's captured, shot and killed 17-hundred soldiers. the president and his advisers are reviewing all options for a u-s response. but they say with or without military action, a political compromise between sunnis and shi-ites must be part of the plan. some good news for commuters who take the vallejo ferry into the city.
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they were stranded yesterday. or forced to take the bus from the north bay. kron four's jackie sissel joins us live from the ferry terminal in vallejo. jackie? police are investigating the murder of a man in san francisco's mission district. authorities say the incident while our 10:00. police say they found an unresponsive man on 16th street between guerrero and valencia streets. that man was pronounced dead at the scene. we'll update you when we find out more.
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new video in this morning of deadly tornadoes that touched down in northeastern nebraska. authorities say up to 75 percent of the town of pilger , was destroyed yesterday. the severe weather to blame for at least two deaths, including a 5 year old. and more than a dozen serious injuries. i've been telling people for many years that i've never seen a tornado in my life and i grew up in northeast nebraska. well, i got to see something today i wish i never would have seen.
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whole blocks of houses are destroyed. all of the business district, our co-op is gone. all of the grain bins are gone. we can't farm the rest of the year you know, because we got our planter, our combine, our bailer, every thing's in there. can't feed the cattle now. so it'll just be rebuilt. nebraska's governor issued a state of emergency, putting the national guard on standby to help if needed. today. and take a look at all the damage left behind in this video. this is madison, wisconsin. home were ripped apart and
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power lines and trees knocked down because of powerful storms. more than a dozen homes were severely damaged in madison. residents left with almost nothing. still ahead. the dry weather causing a grass fire near a park in the south bay. we'll have an update on the fire coming up. and the o-j simpson chase. 20 years later. where the former n-f-l star
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is now and here's a live look outside. san mateo bridge in hayward, temperatures today in san jose, firefighters are keeping a close eye on a brush fire that broke out near near kelley park yesterday. about 50 firefighters battled the blaze monday morning. female announcer: when you see this truck, female announcer: it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. choose from a huge selection of tempur-pedic models, including the new tempur-choice with head-to-toe customization.
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(door creaks) he's fast. tillamook ice cream, tastes better because it's made better. time for the kron4 tech report with gabe slate. >>: good morning. this website your health insurance company soaks the wind got borg has the long this url website at think we've ever seen and it sounds funny but it's a series on my campaign that is gaining traction. if this funny looking if you haven't already seen this in your facebook or to defeat it most likely will soon permit your health insurance company sucks a wind got bored website and social media account is all put on by consumer watchdog.
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a heavy hitter in consumer advocacy. the cost of it went under their belts and now they're taking on health insurance companies the website asks people to finish the sentence and share with others like it have a problem with their health insurance. i caught up with the president of consumer watchdog. one of my colleagues was looking at one of the facebook pages of of companies and all you find is complex. so we said what if you can take all the complaints and are on got on the web site pages but the met one place of that we can aggregate that anchor and try to do something with it. we could get a lot of complaints from people who are really infuriated that their doctors and hospitals are to the network of their health insurance company. and their health insurance companies are denying the benefits that they promised them so we want to find a place where people could sound off 3 it's not just the sound board that will come for all the complaints
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and look through similarities and then approached the company for changes. when enough people get angry health insurance companies get scared and they change their ways. and we believe that your health insurance company sucks when camby that land of course people coming up stories and this kind of on- line complaining will be hard to turn into any real action or reports but i do think it's telling at this point in time and our country that enough people are unhappy with their assurance that an on-line campaign like this could even exist but it does and it's taken off. gabe slate kron4 news. >>: in new possible masterpiece found underneath one of picasso's early as paintings. our experts and use infrared technology and picasso's blue room and found a mystery pitcher beneath the surface. the portrait of a man. the man's face is resting on his hand.
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a lot of fuel here. a few acres is significant but fortunately it's fairly cool so that helped, the weather was in out favor today.' investigators think the fire was sparked by a contractor who was off- loading a truckload of woodchips. still ahead on the kron four morning news. at * *6-17 * the city of
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which is a huge thing for us. and there's seven to choose from. like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. i tell them "you guys are gonna turn into chocolate chex!" i like cinnamon, greg is a honey nut nut. when you find something this good, you want to spread the word. [ all ] we're the pearsons, and we love chex!
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>>: here is the live look outside our golden gate bridge camera. a lot of sunshine. nothing much to worry about as a net out the door this morning. temperatures on a mild side. you can do the rest of the live shows temperatures in the low 50s aware of off to a decent start the winds not have that. the clouds patchy at best. a lot of sunshine out there. even after filled with sustained winds and a 20 mi. an hour range. with gusts up to 36 per it fairly nice out there does breezy in spots. temperatures this afternoon are going to be wonderful. it look in the south bay upper seventies to low 80s. 77 expected in san jose. these to their warm spot will be the delta 38385 maybe 86 degrees with the victors and the upper 80s. east bay shoreline that will be an upper 60s. 74 for san
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guilty in the murder of his wife nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. but he's serving up to 33 years in prison for a kidnapping and armed robbery in 2008. there's a new investigation into why sgt. bowe bergdahl left his post in afghanistan nearly five years ago. and now, a two star general is looking into the matter.
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major general kenneth dahl will lead the investigation into bergdahl's capture. an army investigation in the months after he disappeared did find that bergdahl deliberately left his base san in afghanistan. but it did *not find bergdahl deserted. that would depend on his intent. some of his fellow soldiers
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clinton has not said whether or not she'll run. but according to a new c-n- n/o-r-c poll, two-thirds of americans think clinton would be the next president if she's the democratic nominee. clinton has been traveling around the country to promote her new memoir. in an interview last week, clinton said she would announce her decision regarding a second white house run sometime early next year
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in a follow up to a story we broke last friday ----- the dog walker cited on animal endangerment charges is back again walking dogs. witnesses and animal control tell us, that pamela uberti left eight dogs inside a van s on friday in the hot sun. and then went shopping at stonestown galleria. the windows were up and she was cited by authorities eight- times for inadequate ventilation.
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