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but that time frame has been pushed back multiple times. now we will have to wait and see would take a live look out there now the westbound traffic is backed up this is the richmond site near san quentin december felsite this new the toll plaza is see the traffic is moving and pretty night with the commuters and not doing well at all. this is courtesy of our partnership piquancy that there is a new fresh slab of asphalt that they've had to put it and where the big rig used to being near the center divide kron 4 terisa estacio has been on the scene for hours during the nearly 12 hour closure. >> reporter: if you're expecting a package from ups this friday it may not reach you. they say that it was about 800 items on the ups truck and they all went up in flames. a spokesperson
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says that it appears that the driver lost control of his truck slid across the guardrail and then burst into flames. >>: there were so many items in that trailer and they would have to dig out every single item in holds everything down because of and about two long hours after the collision occurred they were still pulling items out and finding of fire underneath >> reporter: and look the other truck landed on top of the guard rail. a close the eastbound and westbound lanes. for commuters this section is always slow an accident made the conditions go from bad to worse. this debt was waiting for his children coming from the east bay finally they showed up. that's right she said three hours and 45 minutes.
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kron 4 news was there when the trek silent the truck filing came off the freeway take a look for yourself. ups representative was at the crash site grass site we tried to talk to them they said no comment and center felt terisa estacio kron 4 news >> catherine heenan: crews and oakland are trying to clean up the half mile of cement that spilled into creek worst learning now about the extent of the damage and how long it will take to clean it up dan kerman is live from oakland >> reporter: will this bill had happened on wednesday morning. on thursday pushed it back because is that initially three days for the cleanup. now they don't know when it would come finish the cleanup because the the the damage is more extensive than they originally thought. on thursday evening
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a neighbor told them that a creek in his backyard had concrete and when they went to inspect it they saw one of an 52 to water foot section of the creek with cellular cement. so they're going in there now to clean up a lot of that in this box three days and some of the estimate has hardened. this could take them along than they originally believed. they're not sure when the cleanup will be completed. >> reporter: missing the the has been no additional problems as far as wild life being harmed and their reiterating to the public the cellular sit up cement is not dangerous. >>: is not necessarily a threat to wildlife but but it can't help so acting people to stay away from it keep your pet out of it keeping children out of it. you're not gonna be hurt by
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this even the residents of their we're obviously gonna take major precautions in the cleanup >> reporter: we also asked the but east bay mud an estimate on how much this would cost they could give an expert there giving an estimate of in the neighborhood of 10 thousands thousands of dollars per day >> catherine heenan: former san francisco 40 niner's kwame harris was sentenced today he was sentenced to five days in jail 36 months of probation and 104 hours of domestic violence counseling. the former offensive lineman has been credited for today's third and still has to serve another three days by late june kwame harris was originally sentenced in 2013 appealed and lost no word yet on the charges he could face related to is the arrests last sunday in san francisco in connection with to hit in runs.
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>> catherine heenan: happening now as if caught driving around san francisco was not already complicated enough now construction crews have shut down a section of one of the city's busiest streets. dan kerman is live along van ness avenue did tell us why >> jr stone: >> dan kerman: me take a look docilely conceal look at the traffic traffic is curly black up and find street others and being diverted downtimes straight is backed up as well as all due to a construction project tied into the hospital. bad as avenue between ellison post will be closed until 11:59 p.m. sunday night so construction is crews the starts and building a pedestrian tunnel. and what will be a new medical office building with the blue with
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is blue building currently stands >>: it will allow patients staff and visitors to move freely underneath the traffic out of the way of traffic >> dan kerman: this is animation of what will go on and this weekend work rules will put in a temporary wall than on the 24th the put in a temporary roof this will allow them to dig the tunnel out all summer long as traffic goes by overhead. >>: the bulk will happen after we and stall the temporary structure of the bulk of the work . >> dan kerman: batch problems and there will be road closures and congested traffic. those heading southbound will be diverted to a golf street and hind street this of course is making for some hefty delays. and win back live here looking at van ness ave
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these cards are heading south on van ness toward pine street in the be diverted off pretty quickly. the bottom line is you do not want to get on van ness avenue. washing pots posted gear you're gonna be diverted to the west or the east. it was he going north or south you gonna be most one-sided the other. soak the next you should expect to take it all little a little extra time >> catherine heenan: police a searching for a sacramento man that was accused of killing his infant daughter and mother of his infant daughter and wrote and drew drew butler is one in the homicide of candor gonzales and a car on highway 17 in san jose police said the butler should be considered armed and dangerous both butler and gonzalez are from sacramento by butler has also has ties to salinas and other cities in monterey
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county police are urging the public not to come in contact with him and to call police if they see him. >> catherine heenan: are why california deepens drought deepens why some farmers are forced to defend themselves will explain the 515 also a deadly whether ribs apart an illinois town the latest on the damage at 530 and next a recall on all parents need to know about.
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>> catherine heenan: two more major product recalls
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this week home depot is recalling about 25,000 patio chairs because they are prone to breaking. the company is asking people to return certain patio's that's because the rocking chairs include up can break during normal use. >> catherine heenan: deep all i have been begging you to war and information on both recalls you can check out our bit more informational and kron4.com. >> catherine heenan: this rent this week's rain russ much so much rain is no and the sierra a check on the conditions is next and lighter hillary clinton is apparently ready to make an official the announcement expected this weekend. >> reporter: stanley roberts will be sitting down with
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police chief greg sir. this is the kron 4 exclusive on monday night at 8.
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. >> catherine heenan: california's shroud is continuing to deepen. the latest mac from the federal
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government shows 44 percent of the state is now experiencing exceptional drought. the most serious category expanded into lassen and modoc's counties. california's top water officials as global warming makes it likely that we have entered in an era of permanent shortage felicia marcus allen told a drought for rob and sacramental the californians will have to get in her words pop more pop per drop by reusing would shower water and no longer using water lawns. >> grant lodes: and as the drought continues california almonds farmers are dependent defending their crops from people criticizing the amount of water they use some people are all men shaming point fingers at home in growers for using up too much of california's water. according to one of the allman farmers is plants
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during the season were getting 35 to 40 in. of water and are now being restricted to less than 24 in. the season a local agricultural " group says altman's growers are being unfairly blamed for their you water users and have made adjustments to reduce their use. one local farmer does not necessarily agree with the water usage saying that allman bros are depleting the underground water report says it takes about 1 gal. of water to produce a single almond and 82 percent of the world's armaments are produced in california. >> catherine heenan: it may be laid but the sierra got a much needed snow this week in lee turner has more on on the conditions. >> reporter: at just about 5,000 ft. of sod look first little bit of snow. you can see is plenty of snow laugh
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from this week's storms i've been talking to some of the ski resorts on the mountain and they said that these storms has been debate blown it and let them even to their closing weekend without putting up too much artificial snow. they've had a really good closing again and is also poor sales for next year hoping that they'll make of some of the money that they didn't make this year. emily turner kron 4 news >> reporter: and for this weekend in the syrup things of on a warm up the snub of the like snow the temperatures will be up in the low to mid 60s by monday the sunshine will increase the wealth the weekend and into next week in the same will be true for the bay area will have more sunshine on the way and a warm-up to the weekend will see temperatures approaching 80 degrees as we head into sunday's here's a live look at the golden gate bridge.
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you see a few high thin clouds from a weather system that is to the north is gonna pass to the north of the bay area for tamara and bring some clouds. high temperatures today '60s by the bay was the low '70's the sea breeze has been fairly light. >> reporter: highs of around 74 the south bay. here's what to expect for tonight and for the weekend mostly clear skies tonight a few clouds from the system is coming through the pacific northwest bell also part to some high clouds for tomorrow also. so look for a mixture of sunshine and i clouds but mostly sunny day. and also the sea breeze to build a strong of small afternoon. could reject the 30 mi. an hour. the offer sunday with and see the when
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stern offshore that'll help the warmus shot look for sunny day on sunday. unquote with inland valley the temperatures will be approaching 80 degrees. all of the seven day forecast coming up >> catherine heenan: millions of people get concussions while playing competitive sports each year a lot of those injuries go unreported and untraded. now on millbrae family has started that one hit away foundation and the hopes of helping people learn a bit more about concussions. it is the response into the fact that their son was badly injured while playing college football and even had to be pulled out of school and that is when they learned there is a lot more that can be done for people dealing with brain trauma and they're trying to spread the word. >>: we set of full plan in
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place with diet hyperbaric oxygen therapy supplementation neurological chiropractors and every day with their peace and he began to get better and better and better and pretty soon people were saying what are you doing? how are you making him better and that's not what we usually hear about a brain injury. >> catherine heenan: gills son was able to return to school after the treatment. >> catherine heenan: next the chp chased ins in a crash knocking out power to some east bay residents but that's not all what police found at the scene is next also the day has arrived the apple watch is now on sale details of the first day of sales coming up.
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>> catherine heenan: in the hayward the chp chased injury ended with a crash and a pen child of the officers are looking for the drive and ran away mike pelton as more information >> reporter: the crash did
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significant damage on a tear to the polls on tennyson wrote pg and e you work to replace those. the chp says the officers pulled over power on the 880 tennis and off ramps the driver took off and crashed into the power poles and ran away from the severely damaged car leaving a woman and child behind officers help those two who suffered minor injuries. as a result the crews shut down tennyson avenue eastbound this and did not doubt power to about a minor and 20 people. >>: i have kids in no and this is really tough because we have the food the baby food and is really especially my wife my
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refrigerator is not working to try to get some ice to put in the refrigerator >> reporter: will also talk to the owner of a nearby bakery lost power as well is not only was it a major loss of revenue today but he had to up throw away a lot of of food they did have the proper refrigeration mike pelton kron 4 news >> catherine heenan: 18 men and one woman making up the class of 2015 and graduation day >> catherine heenan: the police academy not come as the ceremonies today with mayor sam mcardle praising the recruits for choosing san jose over other better paying opportunities elsewhere he promise to honor their commitment to san jose the graduates will that the streets for on-the- job training starting
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sunday. >> catherine heenan: a small town in illinois bows to rebuild after being hit by several tornadoes the latest on the damage next that by 30 p.m. also after months of speculation could kill reclined finally be ready to announce she is running for the president? what had a big rig accident this morning that led to traffic the long delays will give you the latest drop in next 90 minutes.
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>>: it is blinded at those cars >>: all my guide this is island guys is right there >>: call 911 column 911 >> catherine heenan: storage centers storm chasers watched a tractor-trailer top or oval over as a tournai award over and eleanor's interstate the giant wedge said funnel cloud left a trail of damage
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due to farming communities west of chicago. two people were confirmed dead 11 others were hospitalized one in serious condition grant lodes is here with more pictures of the tornadoes in the aftermath. >>: emergency your own town destroyed like off the face of the errors. >> grant lodes: her family's second full are exposed with the war wall torn away the tornado blew out windows and ripped away parts of the rules and mangle their art. 30 ohms were smashed in nearby rochelle. the county sheriff says one of them was his own. rescuers worked to pull 12 people from the inside the wreckage of the restaurant. from the air it seemed incredible that the human toll was not higher. this woman said she had a narrow escape. >>: i turned around and go
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downstairs and the windows blew out behind me and restarted coming in a couple of boards fell and they hit we hit the wall i got to the bottom of the stairs and realize there was no place to go >> grant lodes: through the night cmo workers went through the devastated neighborhood checking for any more fatalities and fortunately finding none. >> grant lodes: tomorrow morning fairfield residents will be allowed to return to their homes with law enforcement as courts to see if any belongings can be salvaged the people are promising to rebuild their town. >> reporter: lots of sunshine and mild temperatures right now 68 for san jose still and allow low to mid '70's for the inland valleys. one of the
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little bit warmer for tomorrow and even warmer for sunday. his live sfo airport the breezes coming in about 70 mi. per hour. the wins will be a little bit stronger for tomorrow afternoon there currently at 17 mi. per hour. the clouds served passing from a weather system that is passing to the north. it's not close to the bay area this a couple of clouds. one gun a little lot of sunshine. look for temperatures to go into the upper 60s by the bay and mid-70s for the inland valley. and again nice beach day. with the exception of the sea breeze 73 in santa cruz. >> reporter: closing in on 70 degrees and since the breach. beach..
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temperatures and when will be approaching 80 degrees. >> catherine heenan: after months of speculation hillary clinton is ready to make it official she is expected to make her another campaign for president on sunday cnn reporter steve nannes has the details. >> reporter: hillary clinton is running for president a much anticipated announcement is expected to come this sunday in the form of video posted to social media according to sources close to her campaign she will then hit the road visiting the early voting states of new hampshire and iowa. in 2000 and 8 clan suffered a surprising third place finish in iowa caucuses opening the door for then senator riegle,.
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this time around eight say she is not taking anything for granted. >> reporter: also leading up to the announcement of new apologue in her book hard choices offer some insight into our decision. becoming a grandmother she writes as may be thinking deeply about the responsibility we all share is the word of the world we inherit and will one day pass on. competition on the democratic side it is clinton then everyone else. the latest cnn or zero r c poll as for an 62% by its president joe biden a distant second at 15% but she does have per-share of obstacles overcome. most recently the uproar over her use of private e-mail server while secretary of state the republican national committee wasted no time releasing a new online ad part of its stock
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elecampane a sign off on them on the road ahead for clemens as she embarked on her second presidential run in washington on steve nannes reported >> catherine heenan: a 20 your kansas man has was accused of plotting and ices inspired bombing or riley in kansas. john barker jr. was arrested while apparently in the final stage of connecting what he thought was a thousand pound car bomb near the base device actually is a fake and not capable of exploding prosecutors say the mr. booker told an fbi informant that he wanted to kill americans engaged in violent she died on the behalf of isis. >> catherine heenan: now serving the video has been released in the 20 set march
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27th shooting of boston police officer john moynihan. you see him here block highlighted approaching all white s u v opening the driver's side door and then after a second to there's a flash of gunfire moynihan was shot in the face of the shoot-out followed in which the gun was killed by the other of officers officer morning and has been medically induced coma but is recovering the suffolk county massachusetts district attorney has really surveillance video related to the shooting of officer john moynihan. >> catherine heenan: and an off-duty secret service officer was arrested today in washington d.c. he is being charged with one misdemeanor count of property destruction the washington post says the man tried to kick in the front door of his ex-girlfriend apartment he's been put on administrative leave and his security clearance has been suspended this arrests as a
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>> catherine heenan: signals for grateful dead fans to san francisco connoisseurs are set for june. the surviving original members will play levi stadium june 27th and june 28th as part of their farewell tour of celebrating 50 years of grateful dead. in july there will be three more shows as a cargo shoulder feel at soldier field marking last ever performances together 65,000 tickets for each show at levi stadium will be released on the band's website you to request tickets now until midnight tuesday april 14th. >> catherine heenan: the richmond sam moore fell bridge has a eastbound lanes open due to archibald and of the explosion of the ups truck because of hours and
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hours of traffic problems. that information coming up next
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>> catherine heenan: for apple's fastest love try something new you can now up for your that apple watch. three models have been released to watch those what sport and watch edition. apple is encouraging people to skedaddle the appointment to get it said it and then buy the watch online. the first customers are scheduled to get their watches april 24th. what to start at $349 and gold to $17,000 for the 18 carried gold rose model. >> gabe slate: there're 300 new a melodies. apple maps has been improved. but
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before we get to that some users have ran the update and are having problems with their touch id center. on credit apple support pages different i phone forms and message boards people have complained about their touch id sensor having problems after running the 8.3 update. it works to unlock the phone but it does not work to authorize purchases in the eye to an apple store. users who are having this problem can still enter their four digit password then to make purchases so it is more of an inconvenience and then a major issue i tested this problem on the i phone after running the 8.3 update any did not happen for me i was all so i was able to use the attached id just fine. no word from apple yet on this in my experience there is always a few bugs to work
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out. i it all as 8.3 brings 300 new etymologies to creatively communicate with the multi keyboard is now redesigning way bigger to make room for all the new homologies most notably de have added and racially diverse in the kinds. >> gabe slate: their dozens of improvements and fixes and new features that this update will bring to your i phone or by pat there are some great new stuff from apple mass act looks for all closer look at everything this of day brings a log on to the kron4.com and look for and mike at page gabe slate kron 4 >> reporter: we have not only the sunshine and mild temperatures in the '60s and '70s right now 60s by the bay the sea breeze is now 10
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to 20 mi. an hour. campbell was checking in at 70 cougar by the bay is a low 60s. pacific the is in the '60s. will see clouds from this storm well this will to the north but will be mostly sunny for saturday and sunday. as we go into next week is turning cooler monday and tuesday with the big time warm-up late in the week. we could actually see air temperatures reach into the 90 degree range. this storm is off to the north and will produce zero lot of ride over the pacific northwest will where god is great by the tail of this still in of this just a clouds the close as reagan will get will be north of ukiah. mainly clear >> reporter: here's 6:00
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a.m. this-cloudiness in the be sunny all day with an occasional with the clout to rob the day this is noon to still looking at high clouds of grey skies of to the north and the rain around your rica. your wrinkled urieureka.. was the temperature soared by late in the week. >> catherine heenan: madman star jon ham was accused of being part of a violent fraternity hazing. all of the lacrosse coach forced to resign in the fall subdue great scandals talking about it publicly for the first time insiders' louis aguirre has more from hollywood >> reporter: 25 year-old
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lawsuit linking ham to brutal fraternity hazing surfaced yesterday mark allen sanderson pledge said one new at the university of texas in 1990 claimed he was severely beaten bragg by hammer and headed pants leg on fire. he said frat brother jonathan have participated so very and hat and four others were charged with hazing. that received probation but were never criminally convicted are illegal insider daren't provoke a on the ramifications of hazing in today's climate. hal also recently completed rehab has now responded to requests for comment. also on sunday cbs 60 minutes is the ninth year since the ducal cross rates scandal grip the nation. that case was
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dismissed and accused players exonerating. but it was their coach who lost his job and reputation in the rush to judgment. >> reporter: would have a lot more of this story tonight at 7 and the insider for kron 4 news of louis aguirre back to catherine >> catherine heenan: entertainment tonight air this 730 you watch all the celebrity news here on kron 4 followed by tom and david tonight and then that will be followed by kron 4 news 8. >> stanley roberts: coming up i defensing and texting san mateo county's answer input distracted drivers awareness month also you get caught in the next edition of people behaving badly
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this south san francisco police corporal banal is a man texting away you cannot make this stuff up even if you tried the interesting part the driver in the first car was the one about to get pulled over. >> stanley roberts: with grant money from the office of public safety this is the fourth deployment of san mateo county saturated traffic enforcement program also known as a step and sets their is a and statewide campaign to bring awareness to distracted drivers officers from various agencies converge on daly city and surrounding cities looking for distracted drivers. we never had to leave the intersection of dealers and
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the degree to fine violators like this driver and a white bmw played phone twister. that's when the right hand on and holding the cell phone on the left ear now was about that happen next shows that could fall twister can make navigating and autos safely. >> stanley roberts: but the driver now normally that that's a rather easy task of both hands were free but instead the cargoes in reverse but the driver says stays in reverse and then starts rolling back or even more. then finally the corporal gatt gets to have a chat with the driver. but next driver is hard to see but she also has a phone form is attached to her ear.
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will she was talking to created a double whammy in cost that is of the base fine for the first violation is only $20 however once you tack on all the other fees it just water $62 in total 89 cited for what were cited for distracted driving worths seedbeds violations and he went from the here all the way over to their almost causing an accident in general a highway mopery in daly city stanley roberts kron 4 news >> catherine heenan:
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>> grant lodes: is bound lanes reopen earlier today with a bid westbound lanes are remain closed this alive looked from the toll plaza of on the richmond site of the situation so
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that was near san quentin peres on the iran side. because the westbound traffic is still very slow to the toll plaza at eastbound traffic is doing better crews and hoped to reopen at 6:00 because see that that is not the case. at least traffic is getting by slowly on the shoulder we will continue to follow the traffic impact after a big rig crashed on the shutdown 580 all morning. >> catherine heenan: a section of one sam francisco's busiest streets this shutdown. van ness between alice and post will be closed this weekend it is all for a construction project to build a pedestrian journal. dan kerman is live along van ness avenue where drivers are expressing their frustration with the project. >> dan kerman: the street is
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closed and forcing them over to larkin and north. goth going south are more crowded. drivers and having a tough time look closed. road closed the 2 or it is becoming a common occurrence for san francisco drivers and is making it more difficult to get from point a to point b. >> dan kerman: none of this kind is van ness avenue clothes for 72 hours until 11:59 p.m. sunday night so construction crews can began building a pedestrian tunnel between what will be the new california pacific medical
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center campus and a new medical office which will be located across the street on the side of this blue buildingblue >> dan kerman: this project is one of dozens in the city that is forcing people to divert to other lands or in this case of the streets. larkin and franklin for northbound travels and height and golf for southbound travelers. the increase in jackson congested is no surprise to san francisco's mca but they say they are working to improve traffic flow for everyone. >>: more bike lanes will organize street easier way for people to get around or try to find parking in the city >> dan kerman: back live on van ness avenue in this closure between alice
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impulse was to 11:59 p.m. sunday. n ellis and post.. >> catherine heenan: 2 people have been charged in san jose with pretended to be injured by cars that were being backed up by elderly people in parking lot. anthony thomas and stocks just signal off were arraigned on charges of making false claims to insurance companies after faking injuries injuries. there creek accused of targeting elderly people in 2013 by watching what to cars in drug stores restaurants and shops shopping center parking lot that is where they allegedly staged for such accidents. >> catherine heenan: down to a six the san francisco
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share says he is making changes in the wake of two major investigations involving his deputies alleged allegations of debt is forcing inmates to fight coming on the heels of the escape of a federally indicted drug trafficker maureen kelly has one of the changes involved in bringing in the fbi. >> reporter: share of ross mercker becker ramie says he called for outside help immediately after learning of the disturbing allegations the two inmates here at the county jail no. 4 were coerced to fight for the entertainment of four deputies as bats were made. and last week at the i agree to be the ones to conduct the independent that investigation. the allegations of glad your style fighting in the jail came just a few days after this man alex santiago gonzales was able to escape.
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from the jail he was allowed to take out the trash of duty usually given to low risk offenders where as cows alice was facing the possibility of a lengthy prison term this incident is how it is being investigated internally and will not face federal scrutiny but changes are already being implemented now know in may will be allowed to go outside areas. the president of the sheriff's deputies association believes this news conference as about keeping his job and he is up for reelection this november but the union does not oppose the idea of the fed's coming in the rank-and-file has voted to endorse his opponent something that mccurry says is not surprise concern or concern by. >> catherine heenan: coming up and said he might be contributing to the drought with a trip to the supermarket how much water it takes to get frozen
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>> catherine heenan: vice- president joe biden and his wife are staying in san
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francisco tonight. they are on a two day visit to the bay area show biden is here for some political fund- raisers. but this morning was about business. he visited a pg and e service center at oakland to talk about jobs biden praise the utility's power pathway program that helps workers develop skills for entry- level jobs in the utility industry. pg&e says more than 300 people have graduated from the program. >> catherine heenan: an aging year-old man was stabbed and seriously injured your crocker amazon playground today he was walking down the street near the park when he was attacked by four men he says he realized he had been stabbed as he ran away nor arrests have been made is the third violent incident near crocker amazon in recent months late last month amid it was shot and killed near the playground and early last month to other people were up also
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shot and killed there. >> catherine heenan: now selling at a special graduation and the south bay area as a new police officers are sworn in we're from san jose's mayor about the department's newest members and believe it or not it takes 120 gal. of water to produce just one day coming up next the water needed to produce the food on your table.
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>> grant lodes: the latest california drought map shows worsening conditions as we head into up high dry summer. 44 percent of the state is in a condition of extreme drought the most serious category that is up from 41% a week ago and as you can see from this map the area is centered on california's agricultural farm lands in the central valley. >> grant lodes: if you want to save water stay away from the supermarket. it takes a lot of water to grow crops. just home how much may surprise you let's start in the produce to barman. a single tomato consumed about 3 gal. of water. before it makes it to me and your part ahead abruptly nearly five
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and half gallons i head of lettuce 15 gal. and another title takes 88 gal. of water will be on to the meat department i half a pound of meat takes 900 gal. have a comment check-in is to run and 60 gal. a single egg is one hour and 20 gal. a loaf of bread is one of and 50 gal. and check this out producing a single pint of olive oil slurps up 1,700 gal. of water and finally in the drinks department of beer has a smaller water footprint than one but both of them are better than coffee. >> catherine heenan: after a very trying couple of weeks the san jose police department
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>> reporter: the week of snowstorms what exactly did the storm do for you guys. it put a nice white blanket on top of everything. this new storm came through drops lots of fresh powder and brought a lot of new skiers up here. >> reporter: that's been challenging and of hot hot you come batted the ball low turnout. >>: we made is much new snow as possible to help with the beginners. >> reporter: as someone who has spent time on the mountains when you see this storm coming in with this great new lot layers know what goes to your head >>: first thing is i want to call in sick sick so i could get out there on the hill naturally. but this fresh
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new stops no one top of it i think the combination of the fresh snow and this little burst of wind that we that this got a lot of people excited >> reporter: with that excitement are you expecting a lot more people this weekend? >>: sunday are closing date will operate tender for and i expect to see all of this smiling faces. >> reporter: is $19 for past the this ski resort. >> reporter: will also let cool temperatures in the sierras down below 3,000 ft. but that is changing were going back into the low sixties for sunday and monday sunshine is what we have lots of it in the bay
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area here's the golden gate bridge with a few high clouds drifting and for tonight. will have clouds for tomorrow morning and not the grey calls these-whiskey cirrus clouds of will on the very friends of the system. but look for temperatures in the mid to upper 60s a lower seven is for san francisco oakland and redwood city. it should deny stay at the beaches and does look legacy the low cloud and a season- high 10 clouds upper 60s a low seventies for monterey bay 60 in ocean beach not a warm day we will see sunshine at the coast line. and getting away from the close of temperature was will warm up and to the '70s by the bay. >> reporter: mid to upper
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'70's and closed at 80 degrees for antioch. a few degrees warmer does highs will go into the low seventies by the bed some eighties and lynette i'm gonna talk about a big warmup coming up in the 74 guest >> catherine heenan: after very trying couple of weeks for san jose police after the shooting death last month of officer michael johnson the department has something to celebrate tonight kron 4 rob fladeboe takes you to the commencement ceremony for san jose's newest officers >> reporter: san jose's newest police officers class no. 22 as they are now enthusiastically congratulated upon their graduation from the police academy amid appointment reminder from their chief about the realities of
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police work. >>: officer michael johnson will forever be remembered as the hero and never forgotten. >> reporter: on monday 18 men and one woman to complete the five month log academy is steven a ponte who is confident that training will serve him well. among the smallest ever classed 22 was praise for choosing san jose over other better pang opportunities elsewhere and will be rewarded says mayor sam mcardle. liccardo... the long journey from robbery crew to a sworn police peace
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officer capped off by the ceremonial penny of the badge by family members and mentors. that the edge to be pressed into service when the new cops hit the streets of for on-the-job training this weekend. and sons jose sent rob fladeboe kron 4 news >> catherine heenan: coming up the tax deadline is coming up in just five days today the white house released the president's tax returns how much he paid and a woman walks out in the middle of a busy southern california highway why she said she got out of her car that coming up.
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>> catherine heenan: is suspected drunk driver you gotta give see this in san diego this woman and are very high yields decide to walk across several highway lanes after she abandoned her car. should this got out and started walking apparently she was looking for jumper cables after the car stalled in the middle of interstate i fifties people
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pulled over to help some yelling at her to get to a safe place but that only made things messier. the man in a white sedan talks about how he avoided another car and the people. >>: i see a legitimate flagging me and i just avoided colliding with the car and heading the gentleman i do not know how he escaped an ad on know how i escaped i don't know how she is gay but i am blessed to be alive and go on. >> catherine heenan: the weather returned your car and lock the doors and data over phone until police arrived she was arrested on drunk driving charges amazingly nobody was hurt. >> catherine heenan: was story that substances severances or are about to get even messier more construction as drivers having to take a different route will tell you where and a delay in the case of the boston bomb marked y
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>> grant lodes: public story tonight the issue on westbound 580 is now one of 13 hours using the back up from the toll plaza this is on the richmond side in december fell area near san quentin where ups truck smashed into the center divide this morning you could see the back up is still ongoing all westbound lanes are closed right now in that direction so in a westbound traffic is getting by except for some parts squeaking through on the shoulder there and sing through but is nothing but reasonably fast. that is the fire the ups truck careening into the center divide a golfing in flames. the packages were burned it to see the live tape in images from this morning up with our partnership with abc
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seven. the debris on the road are packages that were destroyed in the fire. crews are taking a big part of the day to get this cleaned up. >> grant lodes: this is from earlier this morning and the traffic is backed up and that is still the case with a lot of frustrated drivers. >>: this is to long and too much traffic >> grant lodes: both directions the 580 were clothes on our earlier today. but again now just the westbound lanes are closed on interstate 580 near san when it was supposed to be open by 6:00 p.m. tonight but obviously that deadline tonight is not been met. this is the five interstate 580 near san quentin. grant lodes kron 4 news >> reporter: here in oakland
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east bay mud is try to clean up some cement the win into the creek. so far they've made progress cleaning it up but on thursday evening they found a 152 under foot section of the creek that they mess. 150 tyo 200 >> reporter: in san francisco sherpa's calling in the fbi to do an independent as the investigation of and involving and deputies that force inmates to engage in a hazing. and then made allowed to take up the trash and of $5 million what reward is being offered. changes are being implemented now know in may
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will be allowed into unsecured areas regardless of their status. >> reporter: 790 new police officers are about to hit the street out of this new was graduates of the san jose police academy. praise for choosing san jose of better paying opportunities elsewhere class 22 will be rewarded says mayor sam look cargo. bill because and on- the-job training this sunday. some 19 new officers. here's >> reporter: and van ness ave traffic is backed up because the road is closed up ahead between alice and upholstery. ellis and post steets
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>> reporter: that pedestrian tunnels should be complete be completed by fall back hospital will not open until 2019. >> reporter: there's a weather system will be on shore and is gonna affect our weather here in the bay area. your live at the san mateo bridge is completely sunny. the breeze is between 10 and 20 mi. an hour. were mixed in with some high think clouds up well to our north when the rental discloses upper levels by the bed. the temperatures will be going up into the mid to upper 70's. and on sunday lots of sun shines throughout the day and of much warmer. for
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next week starting out with a little bit of cooling trend morning clouds and a strong sea breeze in the afternoon brigs the temperature is down about changes late in the wan in the week with offshore wins. mid to upper 80s and inland >> catherine heenan: hillary clinton is expected to make the announcement sunday that she will run for president and 2016. the first official word will come and an online video posted on social media. she will then be visiting iowa and new hampshire and other early voting states apparently stopping at people's homes. this is the former secretary of state's second presidential bid we will size up the presidential race on sunday morning with kron 4 political analyst. the kron 4 morning news starts at 7:00 a.m.. >> catherine heenan: the man
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accused of shooting and killing a census bureau guard this week that now has been charged the incident involved a police chase in and around washington dc. the 48 year-old ronald anderson killed a security at the census bureau and was later wounded in a gunbattle with police he is also being charged with armed kidnapping and assault the fbi says the shooting was not terror related anderson was previously convicted of manslaughter and recently charged in an assault case involving his girlfriend. >> catherine heenan: the second phase of the boston marathon bombing trial would begin at april 21st a judge granted as a request today from johar tsarnayev lawyer to have more time to make arrangements with potential witnesses. during this phase also known as penalty phase of the jury that convicted johar tsarnayev will be asked to decide on the death
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penalty or is sentenced to life in prison. april 15th will mark the second anniversary of the bombing and the april 20th is this year's running of the marathon the bombings killed three people and wounded more than 260 people of taco, made with jennie-o ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. (mom) i'd feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. (woman) i think that they're light and they're just fresh tasting. (vo) it's time for a better taco. (kid) the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. (vo) make the switch. look for jennie-o ground turkey at a store near you.
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>> grant lodes: the world is familiar with royalty leading large countries like the queen of england. but did you know much smaller so-called nations have leaders to and they are congregating this weekend loss angeles. the event is called micro kind 2015 basically all you have to do participate is to proclaim yourself as a country come up with a catchy name and make flag. like travis mchenry ak his royal highness the grand duke of west antarctica. he will be
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here tomorrow so will president kevin bob who presides over the republic of malo style. molossia >> grant lodes: founded in 1977 at existed mainly in his bedroom until he bought an acre of land in northern nevada building of bill road and private phone company. in albuquerque his majesty the grand duke jacobs felt is in charge of ross bros libya there are five sentences they claim to have a voluntary military soldiers armed with cardboard copies of ak-47s that rubber tire rubber bands. there are many other one from sweden organizers the meant most so-called countries consists of only their leader.
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>> catherine heenan: sports system highlights of sports is coming up next.
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>> gary radnich: >> reporter: 21 year-old jordan's state is still in the show at the masters. the big crowds rushing in for today's second round up no running allowed. spays started eight under he drains the birdie putt 10 under. 17th hole tiger woods 3 under par for tiger these two under par overall. three under par for the day were mcelroy the for the favored for today slow start getting eagle and three birdies on the back nine is
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tied for 19th with eiger just and johnson had three eagles for the day. this a bit tapped in for eagle on the 15th hole this is a record three eagles for johnson 67 he is still seven strokes back because jordan is just on fire. >> reporter: is 14 under par overall is a 36 whole record for major he leads by five strokes. >>: in this is only the halfway point i am aware of this are not going to get ahead of myself. and what it tries stay in the moment and very patient these last two days. >>: very proud of what i've done as a pretty low moment of my career but basically to trade entire pattern like that and put it together and
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put it into a position where i could compete in a major championship this i'm very proud >> reporter: that's been crenshaw this is his 44th and final at the masters perry shot 85 today 91 yesterdays scores don't matter. this is is 44th and final masters he hugged his caddie of 38 years who has not been able to caddie for him lately. but it's been six and the call them as best friend he was there in 1984 and 1995 for crenshaw of two titles at the masters. >> reporter: the 40 niner's called an informal about their off-season work are not the practice facility right there in the shadows of levi stadium notepads for these workouts just a chance
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for the team to get together once and drills. capper nick davis a world in attendance. jim * so luck is fired up about the workshops >>: the guise of some everybody is working. a lot of guys who are tried to gaudier foe is been terrific. >> reporter: cabinet put in some work in the weight room today. capernick.. dennis giles all tried to help them become a beggar signal caller this is capped a day. >>: a selective been quite a bit of change obviously it
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noticeable someone says something to me right away and this would do everything that i can to make sure that i'm getting better and doing my part to help this team win. >>: rason yesterday i did know the that was collin seriously you guys are in for a treat >> reporter: will have to wait five months to see would country that is as when the season starts. but apparently few believe the players and capper nikita s. turn something around >> reporter: of the nfl safeties' as calling it quits troy paul malo with the steelers will be retiring after 12 seasons he's known for his long hair and he was at a time pro bowl with the steelers es two super bowl brings these 34 years ago to here's
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rick manning and his contract. he just does not think he can make the commitment on the field physically to our net matt money so he is calling it quits after 12 year nfl career. >> reporter: kaminski but frank the tank defeated kentucky. losing in the finals to duke is one of the awards now pretty much as college basketball's best player is a lottery play in the draft. lottery pick will recall this kind of kentucky was third. >> reporter: a's welcome the mariners then and we talked about outfielder mark canada. canaa tsongas.. that
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i had a chance to sit down with them a few weeks ago and asked him what his role with the team would be. >>: i'm gonna be the best of weather is less filled third base are gonna do what they want me to do a prepared for anything. and just wing it >> reporter: the anyone ever tell you the 2 at twilight >>: is a the first time that i've heard it of her the look like johnny bravo because of the sideburns a look like dexter from because of my red hair >> reporter: was selected to going for what is the look that you are going for >>: i like my red hair and
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i'm letting it float. i think my red hair always comes up and i'm letting it float flow.. >> reporter: he went to cal as we said he isn't a party that big use movement he did not know that he was gonna make the team at spring training. >> catherine heenan: still ahead what happens to that little bar of soap to to leave behind your hotel room and how is a bit angry purpose and a clean way will be right back.
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forms. president obama missed filing jointly with his wife paid more than $93,000 in federal taxes last year their adjusted gross income was more than four hours $77,000 the up president obama is reported donating just under $71,000 to charity for comparison with the vice president and his wife paid more than $90,000 in federal taxes on an income of nearly $389,000. >> catherine heenan: a tobacco company is asking of las vegas man is literally cleaning up the world. and answers the question what happens with all of that bar of soap you used to you you use and left behind your hotel room and call clean the world recycles you so.
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he get shredded then run through machines to kill any bacteria then pressed back into new bars and repackaged working with a similar organization called global so the vegas company collects you sold for more than 4000 hotels and distributes the new bars to nearly 99 countries and to homeless shelters in the united states.
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"the insider" with perspective on today's top trending stories. >> watch out, world, are the kardashians acting as political ambassadors to armenia? those who cannot remember pasts are condemned to repeat. is kim taking a page from amal's playbook and attempting to rebrand herself as an activist? >> would you stop taking pictures of yourself? your sister's going to jail. >> then did scott eastwood just blow up ashton's spot by spilling secrets of his divorce from demi? >> he did sleep with one of my ex-girlfriends. >> that's trending now. as madge proves she's still the material girl. then, miley was a small town into being a drug mule. it's orange is the new black meets beverly hills. >> i was afraid i'd be arrested.
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>> then, i'm cracking up with comedy's it girl amy schumer. >> whoo, honk honk. >> from her new gig hosting the mtv movie awards to stripping down to her revealing ew cover. >> some days, i'll have insecurities, like, when did that get here. >> let's go inside. >> oh, just more of my ass. >> now, the latest celebrity and pop culture news delivered to you 24/7, "the insider" together with yahoo!. >> we begin with the top story making headlines today. keeping up with the kardashians in their motherland. their new mission, to transform from reality stars to dash world diplomats. taking a break from the selfies to count her blessings. today, took in the sights of armenia. kim was joined by kanye and their adorable daughter in a church. kim captured the image. her social media diary started

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