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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >>diane: >> grant: several outbuildings have burned. multiple vehicles have and as well. this is not a densely populated area could just east of park ridge golf course a little bit north. as you can see from the aerial spray tear this is a live parrot with a lot of dry brown vegetation and that just spoke with the dianne where there's 101 degrees. gusts of 20 certainly any wind on is that hot and dry will be problematic. this is the structure that is being destroyed. uc what it appears to be a trailer to the left of that. the word
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on livestock or animals have been in danger because of the spider. we are not even one hour and then cruised dickensian they are attacking this from the ground. attacking from the airport we have multiple crews had it from the same print as the panel with a wider view creek with the widespread nature of the spider with multiple fires. as the fire has made its way. to the left side of the screen the see the structures continuing to monitor. was breaking off base tonight. >> pam: as we continue to look at the temperatures hot weather is a concern as it was yesterday with a wild fire that broke out in antioch. munching the latest conditions. diane, it is pretty hot.
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>>diane: livermore 101 and to get 100 a brentwood 103, upper 90s and general. the wind speed already strop to begin with with 14 mi. per hour in livermore but because of the lack of rain that we have been having certainly adds fuel to the flame already committed 14 mi. per hour wind speed and livermore 13 and concord in up to 20 mi. periodically it will not die down anytime soon drift into the evening hours with temperatures up to the city's white or brown and o'clock and 9:00. >> pam: kron 4's justin waldman is live in concord tonight with more. the east bay is feeling the
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heat during this summer sizzle. kron 4's justine waldman is >> reporter:splashing around at waterworld. a sure way to stay cool. is is just boiling the only time it has been hotter is when it was 104 at my school. >> reporter:class today. inside the lazy river. families put on a coat of sunscreen and soaked up the sun >> i like it because i like a little color on my skin in downtown pleasant hill, the umbrellas are out. but not because of the rain. >>sot oh gosh it is extremely hot >> reporter: ice cream is def going to keep me on the cooler side and when you are dressed for work in a suit and tie you have to stay hydrated to stay cool. have a nice frosty drink later >> reporter:during the drought, when families can't turn on their sprinklers they forlick here. >> reporter:waterworld remains water conscience. >> reporter: >> all of our water is 100 recycled and recirculated throughout the day and on a hot day like this.
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i would melt like a popsicle. >> grant:hot weather is helping fuel wildfires. >> grant:one of the scariest situations we've seen in a while.this fire in santa clarita.just north of la.that started yesterday afternoon. >> grant:it threatened hundreds of homes. >> grant:more than one thousand people were forced to leave their houses.as fire raged within feet of neighbrohoods. >> grant:evacuations have been lifted.but the fire's just 60 percent contained. >> grant:it's burned 400 acres.and damaged one home's garage. the santa clarita fire is right along highway five. >> grant:it's one of four major fires right now in the state. tonight a wildfire about 30 miles south of lake tahoe. >> grant:is still presenting problems for firefighters. the mountian town of markleeville is on stand-by. >> grant:ready to evacuate
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at a moments notice. >> grant:this fire has torched more than 17- thousand acres.and is only 10 percent contained. >> pam: with the ground so dry. and temperatures rising so quickly. a fire can erupt at any time of day. >> pam: a vegetation fire in los gatos started early this morning around five- o'clock. it burned three - acres. on hicks road near reynolds road. along the guadalupe trail. >> pam: by eight o'clock. fire crews were able to get most of the fire contained. >> pam: one firefighter suffered minor injuries, after a he was hit by a falling rock. >> pam: in antioch. crews are spending the day dousing hot spots. from a fire that roared through the hillside yesterday. >> pam: fire officials say the grass fire is 100% contained. but not completely out. >> pam: it started yesterday afternoon just after four. and scorched 533- acres. with flames burning close to homes. >> pam: some one- hundred homes were temporarily evacuated.
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>> pam: crews say, they will continue to work through today and tonight. to make sure the fire does not flare up. >> pam: a vaccination bill closer to becoming law. and it means, if children want to go to public school. they may need to have their vaccinations. >> pam: today, the california assembly approved a bill that will require school children to be vaccinated. >> pam: the bill was put in motion. after a measles outbreak last december. >> pam: more than one - hundred people caught the virus. >> pam: the vote was close. forty- six in favor. to thirty in opposition. thousands of parents >> pam: protested at the state capitol today saying. the bill violates their rights. >> pam: the bill now goes back to the senate for concurrance. and then on to the governor's desk. >> pam: approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated. >> pam: it's one of the last major obstacles before one of the nation's strictest vaccine bills heads to gov. jerry brown's desk. >> pam: immunization rates after a measles outbreak linked to disneyland in december sickened over 100 people in the u.s. and mexico.
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>> reporter:convinced her son jackson's autism is related to the vaccinations he got as a baby, >> reporter:san jose resident elaine shtein says she is not about to give up her crusade against sb277. >> reporter:shtein and and other opponents of the hotly contested bill, which would require that nearly all public school children be vaccinated, have staged protests >> reporter:and organized a petition drive in an effort to stop what they say would take away their rights and responsibilties as parents. >> we believe in some of the vaccines but we do not like or appreciate if the government telling parents what to do in getting in the wake of the doctors and the children and parents fighting for what is right. >> reporter:an amendment for special ed kids means jackson would be exempt under sb 277 but shtein says many other opponents, whose
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personal belief exemption would go away under the new law, have vowed to home school their children if the bill passes and will pursue legal action. >> california constitution states that every child should have a right to education but i do not see that this will be over because i see lawsuits and lawyers getting involved. >> reporter:a final farewell today for the last victim of the berkeley balcony collapse. >> pam: catherine heenan is here the emotional funeral for lorcan miller.. catherine? >> catherine: that funeral was in south dublin, ireland.and it was packed with lorcan's family and friends. >> catherine: and showing their support today -- the parents of the other five young people who were killed. >> catherine: people who
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knew lorcan miller say the sunflowers on sunny >> catherine: and happy personality. see thehis father ken spoke at the service.saying that everyone who knew >> catherine: the 21-year- old -- him, idolized him. >> catherine: lorcan's father told how the family received a touching postcard from him. >> catherine: it arrived in the mail only hours after he was killed. lorcan wrote in part about his waiter job - at bubba gumps. >> catherine: saying "as part of my job i have to talk to customers and i always tell them how >> catherine: great my amazing brothers and sisters are and how much i miss them. i hope you're having lots of fun like me and are being good. i'll see you soon.
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>> catherine: lots and lots and lots of love as always. lorcan." >> pam: the alameda county district attorney says. her office is going to take over the criminal investigation into the fatal balcony collapse. >> pam: and kron 4's maureen kelly talked to an expert who says. a number of people could end up in scrutiny. >> it is what every victim deserved and what our community deserves. >> reporter: earlier in the week berkeley investigations released documents of dry rot. the d.a. would not say who will be the target of the criminal probe. >> there is hundreds of
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people involved. >> reporter: at independent investigation or inspection the morning that the balcony collapsed. he expects a number of them cut and up under scrutiny bridge >> the architect of record the key designer of the entire project creek the developer who hired the builders the general contractors and subcontractors particularly responsible for either of the construction of the balcony or de flashing or waterproofing details. for the balcony. >> reporter: >> >> reporter: de they did not give a time line of when the investigation will be complete. the statute of limitations is three years. maureen kelly kron 4 news.
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>> pam: two young children forced to jump out of a window. as their home burned. >> pam: next, we'll hear from the neighbors who tried to rescue them. >> pam: plus. another sideshow in oakland. >> pam: tonight o-p-d talks about slamming the breaks on the illegal street shows. >> pam: and. a petaluma man's change of heart. when it comes to flying the confederate flag above his home. >> pam: burning in a hillside area of livermore. fire crews are on the scene and will have more details ahead.
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>> grant: appears the crews are starting to get the upper hand here creek you are looking at like ariel images from our helicopter partnership with 87 we have multiple hotspots flames and smoke in hot spots all throughout this region. several acres have burned it is just east of public bridge golf course near grainfield bring bill road.
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this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. >> grant: have seen stables and trailers. we do not know of any injuries or issues with animals or horses. in particular. this is just south of the livermore southeast portion is not on the city property. there are the helicopters trying to spray water to keep this thing from spreading creek >> grant: uc the dry brush
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and tan grass that is just burning so quickly and so easily creek and district print 101 degrees. the livermore as dying and tells me. which appear to be maybe one or two stories about 20 minutes ago. it has leveled. burnt to the ground. you do not know the nature of this structure. what appears to be a home just left of that. in addition to this we have seen a least one al builder or structure of some kind multiple structures destroyed and this fire putting everything together to stop this brett packard we do not see flames ticking down vegetation as we did appearing to give up or did
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the upper hand is not quite over if you are joining us. >> grant: this is a couple of grass fires that have ballooned into more. in the south eastern portion of livermore occurred we will continue to follow this story and have more of days in to tonight. pam. >> pam: two children were burned in a house fire that broke out early this morning in san jose. >> pam: the children jumped out of the window trying to escape. >> pam: as kron four's terisa estacio reports several residents tried to help the family. and now are being called heros. >> reporter:these marks on the outside of the window are the handprints of the two children who were forced to climb out of the second story building to escape their burning home.
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>>sot/tc: 10 captain mike van elgork/sanjose fire it must have been horrible for them. >> reporter:fire officials say the two of 10 and 12 were treated quickly but still have critical burns. >> reporter: >>we ice packed them but their skin was burned badly. >> reporter:i know the family, i wanted to help them. >> reporter:two neighbors showed me their injured hands - both men broke windows trying to >>juan carlos gonzalez/neighbor: 47 yeah, i did what i could. i grabbed the extinguisher and hit the window. >> julio lopez/neighbor :56 i punched the window. q. does your hand hurt? yeah. : they are heros, for sure. >> reporter:neighbor say the mom suffereed smoke inhalation - as she tried to get to her kids. fire officials say the cause of the fire is under investigation in the meantime, their hearts go
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out to the two children so badly hurt. >>it is sad. >> reporter:te >> pam: >> pam: happening all around 1030 on octavius street. the sfpd system or resisted arrest and he punched another officer in the face he was charged with two counts of battery. he was treated for concussion at a nearby hospital. flag controversy of his own.
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>> grant: cracking down on side shows here is a video to rick. >> grant: this is sunday on a 57 ave. or could be fixed at 7 am. the chief says his team will be ready for side shows this weekend accurate and they may have some help. >> it is likely that we will see side shows occurred and will step band and we have also worked at a longtime strategy. looking at environmental issues helped curve to the side show. represent a danger from gunfire with a reckless driving that presents a real
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threat to other people. >> grant: and officer suffered injuries. one of several over the weekend. police say, they are considering leaving installing roundabouts at intersections that are popular for side shows to deter people from gathering in having side shows which is dangerous for people there but police responding and bystanders. >>diane: we have hot conditions out there. 97 fairfield and 101 antioch 96 plaza 10 and 86 for san jose. mount conditions out there is wealth it went speed will not die down anytime soon. still 70 mi.
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per hour for livermore and 20 mount discussed at some times and concord creek 18 in fairfield. >>diane: here is what we would talk about for the rest of the evening, with a cool down by 9:00 p.m. when we dropped down to 778 degrees. the wind speed when i die down and not until midnight creek you can always have the updates by mobile application spirit. and always provide the update is regards to temperature. >> pam: we will be back!
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>> pam: it petaluma man is going concern creek the home owner would not speak to us on camera. he says he is not a racist and that society cannot whitewash our past. now you can see the confederate flag is replaced with an american flag creek after seeing the reaction of his neighbors and our report last night. the homeowner had a change of heart. >> pam: coming up a big victory for president obama known as obama care. and why the spanish television and
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univision has told the donald trump you are fired. also denies breaking story live picture of the two are looking at is burning in livermore, 44 a. so far and a number of structures creek we do know at this point if any homes or involved or injuries reported. we will have been a bit ahead. -- update
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>> grant: we do not know this series of those injuries. right now california is with six engines and for bulldozers with two choppers and veracruz to stop this place. this fire started just over 4:00 in the six southeastern
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portion of the livermore were popping ridge golf course is 4 mi. east that intersection is closed. we do not know if any homes have burned. or spread quickly went you know that that appears to the livestock in the area. we did see a horse in the area and the charred ground. with the dried brown grass creek we do not know of any injuries. evacuations not
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sure about that they did not know about any evacuation * still not aware of how it started. we did see a fairly large structure burned to the ground >> grant: just on tesla road in livermore. even if what the hell lot different creek will let the crews have stop the rampant progress. they are working on high spots and we do see smoke coming from what appears to be a structure that has been involved. we
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do now half a percentage of containment. we have spoken with a fire official 20 minutes ago. but again south asian portion of livermore of tesla road. would you have multiple approves on the way. we will be talking more to people on the ground. if you can't over here deceit another hot spot. some think is burning right there. it appears to be a widespread just above that it is the smoke. it has down to the ground. still
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burning. the majority of this area is no longer out of control. 101 degrees and livermore. >> grant: crews have had their hands up field with a lot of stock against them from mother nature. not see the water drops as frequently current seemly the news here of livermore the we will keep track of the progress here. obama's afforable care act.
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>> pam: the supreme court voted in a split decision to uphold a provision within obama's affordable care act.which provides federal health care subsidies to millions of americans. >> catherine: from our partners at c-n-n.karin caifa has the latest on this significant win for the president. return toa major victory for the president's signature law. >>"the affordable care act is here to stay." >> reporter:the supreme court ruled 6 to 3 to support federally-funded subsidies that help 6.4 million americans afford monthly premiums for health insurance. >>"if the partisan challenge to this law had succeeded millions of americans would have had thousands of dollars' worth of tax credit taken from them. for many, insurance would have become unaffordable again." >> reporter:challengers to the subsidies argued four words -- "established by the state" -- clearly barred the federal assistance to americans in the 34 states that hadn't created their own exchange >> reporter:chief justice john roberts wrote the opinion for the majority he acknowledged the a-c-a - quote - "contained more than a few examples of inartful drafting," -- but said the law was created to improve the nation's healthcare system not destroy it. >> reporter:writing for the dissent, justice antonin
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scalia expressed his frustration. saying "we should start calling this law scotuscare." >> reporter:the ruling sparked immediate reaction outside the court. >> reporter:and from the expanding field candidates -- who were swift to respond. >>presidential candidate "i disagree with their decision. i believe obamacare is bad for americans, bad for the country." >>presidential candidate "as a physician i think the supreme court missed an opportunity here. i think we made a mistake." >> reporter:democratic frontrunner-- hillary clinton -- shared her support in a tweet. >> reporter:the ruling staved off a scramble in some states to set up their own health care >> reporter:in washington, i'm karin caifa >>diane: santa rosa got up to 90 degrees today. tomorrow, we will be hot inland but we will not seek triple digits will be between meant '90s. it looks
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like a handful of '90s for the east bay and inland cities. the east bay shoreline are and that 70's. some of the location is a lot of sunshine but flirting with the nineties and up for a lease for the most part accurate overall temperatures and the upper 80s as well. 90 in fairfield. but we will not see the temperature is we saw today for tomorrow creek slightly clipper it would talk more about that coming up in just a few minutes. you can always pitcher hour by hour and a weather forecast on the freak mobile application for your mobile devices. >> pam: a funeral was held today for one of the women killed in >> pam: last week's attack on a south carolina church.
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catherine heenan is here >> pam: with details - and the story of a service >> catherine:for 'another' of the 9 victims. >> some of the people here are still numb just numb to it all. >> pam:friends and family were remembering sharonda coleman-singleton. >> catherine:at her funeral - the speech track coach was described as "loving everybody with all her heart." >> catherine:also today - a special service for reverend clementa pinckney - at his home church. return to index >> have to show your respect. we are all human beings. it is not a question if you are white or black.
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is this about the and human being. >> had a genuine smile that lit up a room. >> catherine: he cystic been fought hard for the people of south carolina and he hoped that his work will go after it >> hope that his death is not be in vain and that is sparks more strict--work to be done >> catherine:pastor pinckney's funeral is tomorrow. >> catherine:meantime today - the family of gunman dylan roof released a statement.saying they're 'truly sorry' for the family of the victims. >> catherine:they also say
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they understand that people have many questions about what happened, and that they'll do their best to answer - as more information becomes available. return to index >> pam: univision is dumping trump. and his miss america pageant. >> pam: the nation's biggest spanish-language broadcaster is canceling its telecast of the miss u-s-a pageant. >> pam: trump is part owner of the miss universe organization that puts on the contest. >> pam: univision not happy with the presidential candidate's depiction of mexican immigrants as rapists who bring crime and drugs into the u-s. the comments were made >> pam: during trump's presidential bid launch speech last week. >> pam: univision says the decision only involves its entertainment programming not news. return to index
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>> we are keeping a close eye on that wildfire burning in livermore up to 40 a. or more burning structures on the way. these are pictures from our this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. >> pam: kron4 news is heading to the area and hope to have a live report from the scene on kron4 and is at
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6:00 tonight >> pam: catherine heenan is back on rocker courtney is love wild ride. >> catherine: refight when they started to attack her over taxi threading her driver. she posted a loss like this run from inside the window showing a smashing windows. in paris they are approaching high priced lebraun rates. across france. an application called will were pop was ruled illegal. private drivers are still picking up customers prefer to see how intense this is. the regular taxi drivers have been in running battles with riot police. ambushing private drivers threat according love said she was rescue by
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motorcycle riders. >> pam: >> gary: >> reporter: racks along when story is hitting the big screen quickly transforming into music most sought after designer patrick >> reporter: design tebet at the biggest fashion weeks and red carpet? what is it to you to design? >> >> reporter: checkout cady immaterial grow madonna at
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the met gala in his own couture. >> clothes have their own story. they have a narrative print >> reporter: a lot of the famous people in it are cindy his praises to read it >> his clothes represent floating in been freed. filling very expressive. >> reporter: maile cyrus and read the aura and leon on make camels and a family is out in september 18th. we will have so much more on this story tonight at 7 on the insider. >> pam: is a much older celebrity news here on kron4 after the insider and attempt to knight errs as
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730 followed by kron 4 news at 8. >>diane: east bay shoreline in the upper 60s. and the san francisco and its a lot mid-60s to 7 degree range. --70 >>diane: we have led speed picking up just a little bit that would die down in the evening hours with the low pressure system. that is the source of cooling down. we will talk more about my local things down and the forecast all for raw '60s for the inland cities. >>diane: afternoon highs will be hot and electric will flirt with the upper 90s. 90 in fairfield and 85
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in fremont. but in more like the '70s or mid 70's for oakland. and the no. 84 current it looks like this tomorrow in inland cities but we will not seek triple digit spirit 79 average for the east bay shoreline and cooling trend will kick in saturday and sunday occurred dropping down to the 80s but taking back up on monday. >>diane: always remember you in detroit hour by hour forecast one kron 43 mobile application. >> pam: wardrobe malfunction. the company is recalling more than 300,000 women tops the reason? hard
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tips on the drawstrings have what some people in the face causing injuries per it happens when the strings get pulled are caught on something and then released, according to the consumer product safety commission creek the agency said seven people have reported injuries and lou linden spokeswoman said the company is committed to making the product right for its customers.
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>>vicki: here in the bay area you are not far from an ice cream and addiction. to the famous it it bars the cannabis and used ice cream and garlic ice cream in gilroy. for the purist making the ice cream on the spot. some attend will make your skin on the spot with their patent be our our our machine and and all organic
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ingredients. >> cemented is all about the love of ice cream. --smitten >> that is strawberry balls make--strawberry balsmic >> yes bosnia as in vinegar and it is good. >> all if it is good. >>vicki: a span on the neighborhood ice cream truck is the frozen custard truck. >> pam: an update on the situation and livermore at kron4 at 6 percent plus nascar comes to sonoma. coming to some reflection of the thousand of south and the confederate flag.
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>> pam: we have a lot on new still had next on kron 4 news at 6.
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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: breaking news.a fast moving grass fire has now spread to some 40 acres in livermore. >> pam: these images from our helicopter partnership with abc 7. good evening, i'm pam moore. >> pam: at least one structure is >> pam: destroyed and at least one fire fighter was hurt while battling the flames. >> pam: grant lodes has been tracking the developments.grant? >> grant: about 4 mi. east of park ridge golf course on greenfield road. south asian portion of livermore just south east of livermore if you are familiar with that area. the slide areas showing the smoke that is still emanating from the high spots right there. in getting up to 53 a. per if
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we tell the locals have burned. --we do know that the locals have burned. -- vehicles >> grant: you had multiple little fires burning all over the place at one point. you can tell is that a dense a populated area. we did see some horses out and about poor it will be some farms in this area. on tesla road in south east livermore. temperatures over 100 degrees when this thing started. hindering firefighters. the wind seemed to have died down so
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that is good news. making sure that the hot spots do not advance anywhere. induce the a lot of smoke and the weather is very friendly to the fire. it was tough for firefighters to get a handle on it. they threw everything at the spirit because after floods lutfisk slid quickly. as japan to buy the to see what i'm talking about with the different areas that have brought current suns get at least one structure has done. it could be more. and we want to get a check on the weather. i know that this heat and wind played a role in this prior to that. --role in this fire today.
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>>diane: we did break record in concord with 100 creek 99 was the record and we broke that with 100 degrees livermore not quite one all along was the high today patrick santa rosa debt to 90 degrees. brad mentioned as well that it is still pretty hot out there. 97 in livermore and 764 oakland and hayward cooler on the coast. when the speed die down just a tad bit glowing with a breezy conditions. averaging about 20 mi. gust to rid will see a die down around midnight to about 5 mi. per hour. it shifted from for midnight creek afternoon highs and will be cut tomorrow. but we will not seek triple digits but we did today after it >> grant: close the '80s for
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hayward and fremont san francisco bus 76 and daly city. it will have the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes! >> pam: a big scare for los gatos residents after a brush fire quickly spread this morning. >> pam: it started around five- o'clock. it burned three -acres. on hicks road near reynolds road. along the guadalupe trail. >> pam: by eight o'clock. fire crews were able to get most of the fire contained. >> pam: one firefighter suffered minor injuries, after a he was hit by a falling rock. >> pam: after the hills of contra loma regional park in antioch were left scorched yesterday.investigators are still trying to determine how it started. >> pam: the fire burned through an estimated 533 acres and as many as 100 nearby homes were evacuated. >> pam: fire crews contained the fire last night and are working in the area today.putting out any stubborn embers. >> pam: calfire is taking steps to reduce the risk of wildfires.
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>> pam: starting monday permits for all outdoor residential burning will be suspended in santa clara, alameda and contra costa counties >> pam: calfire says the suspension includes the burning of branches and leaves. >> pam: cal fire officials are allowing campfires on private property or in organized campgrounds if campers maintain the fire so it doesn't spark a wildfire >> pam: hot weather is helping fuel wildfires. one of the scariest situations we've seen in a while.this fire in santa clarita.just north of la.that started yesterday afternoon. >> pam: it threatened hundreds of homes. >> grant:more than one thousand people were forced to leave their houses.as fire raged within feet of neighbrohoods. >> grant:evacuations have been lifted.but the fire's just 60 percent contained. >> grant:it's burned 400 acres.and damaged one home's garage. >> grant:the santa clarita
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fire is right along highway five. it's one of four major fires right now in the state. >> grant:tonight a wildfire about 30 miles south of lake tahoe. is still presenting problems for firefighters. >> grant:the mountian town of markleeville is on stand- by. >> grant: the drop had interfered with the plane's engine and propeller or chopper? burning about 23,000 a. with a 21 per cent content and burning for more than one week with a lot of homes being threatened creek. >> grant:ready to evacuate at a moments notice. >> grant: than 17-thousand acres.and is only 10
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percent >> pam: the other big story tonight. >> pam: california's controversial vaccine bill is one step closer to becoming reality. >> pam: today the state assembly approved the bill requiring vaccinations for nearly all children entering school or daycare in the state. >> pam: catherine is here with more on the hot-button issue.catherine? >> pam: it looks like this is going to happen. >> pam: >> catherine: it's one of the most emotional and hotly legislation california has seen in a long time. >> catherine: the state assembly today approved one of the strictest vaccine bills in the entire country - >> catherine: it's aimed at increasing immunization rates after a measles outbreak linked to disneyland in december made more than a hundred people sick - in the u.s. and mexico. >> catherine: despite months of protest -- california seems on the brink of making vaccines mandatory for nearly all children. >> catherine: the bill would end exemptions for personal or religious reasons. >> catherine: and schoolchildren would 'have' to get their shots unless there's a medical reason not to do so. >> catherine: a now familiar
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face in the debate- this 7- year-old from corte madera. >> catherine: he's survived leukemia - but his doctors say he faces a huge risk if not enough of his classmates are vaccinated. "i also had more than 50 lumbar punctures.and i'm vaccinated." >> catherine: critics argue the bill would infringe on a parents' rights. but one of the co-authors says there are bigger concerns. >> catherine: >>"how many outbreaks does it take?we've had enough." >> catherine: as for what's next - the bill returns to the senate - where they'll
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review some amendments. >> catherine: then it's on to the governor. >> catherine: pam? >> pam: brown has said that he'll "strongly consider" signing it. >> pam: opponents of the vaccination bill are not about to give up and say they will pursue legal action if sb-277 becomes law. >> pam: among the bill's critics is shtein who suspects her son jackson's autism is related to the vaccinations he got when he was a baby. >> pam: many of the bill's opponents say they will home school their kids rather than submit to mandatory vaccinations. shtein says it comes down to a question of parental rights. >> we have x and that senate needed our children and believed in certain vaccines but what we do not like or appreciate is the government telling parents what to do in getting in the wake of the doctor in the parent in
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deciding what is right for their children >> pam: shtein expects there will be more demonstrations like this one outside state senator jim beall's campbell office in may. she and other opponents are calling on governor brown to veto the bill >> pam: criminal negligence and involuntary manslaughter are two charges that could stem from the fatal balcony collapse that happened last week in berkeley. nascar fans converge on sonoma trick their take on the confederate flag debate street ahead.
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>> pam: the alameda county district attorney promised the families of the six people who died and the seven injured that her office will complete an exhaustive investigation to see if anyone could be held criminally responsible. >> pam: the d-a says they will make sure the families of those who died and the surviving victims are kept informed as they investigation moves forward. >> information help victims
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il not just mentally but physically with the expense. "information helps victims heal.oc they experienced" >> pam: a few days ago berkeley inspectors say they found dry rot in the balcony that failed, and the one below. >> pam: both are now in the custody of law enforcement and will be considered possible evident spirit will be back.
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passengers were injured >> reporter: you are looking
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at cellphone video of an ac transit bus set upon by vandals and illegal side show even earlier sunday morning in the east oakland area alameda county sheriff's office spokesman j d nelson >> that what initially became man as gunfire and then we had people who came on and stormed the bus brought the windows and basically destroyed it. >> reporter: a.c. transit officials confirmed that a bus on the zero linebackers stalled by a five car accident resulting from an illegal sideshow at 53rd avenue at international boulevard where a crowd of nearly 200 people had gathered and got of control. neither of the bus driver nor the 12 passengers were injured. >> this is the kind of thing
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that the bus driver's face all too frequently. >> reporter: and the sideshow even as are becoming more violent, in fact an oakland police officer was wounded responding to a different side show over the same weekend. >> one of the officers was struck in the face of a bottle and we've had people killed. >> reporter: 0 pd has formulated a new sideshow suppression strategy to try to get a handle on the situation. however there east bay law-enforcement partners at the sheriff's office express some doubts on whether or not the new plan will have any impact. you got to have enough police to do the job. >> a new program or a side show entertainment will not solve it if you do not have been silly program you have to have enough police to the juppe. --job
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>> reporter: oakland and with public money and kron4 news >> pam: when south carolina's governor announced his down the confederate flag from the statehouse following the charleston church massacre many jumped on the bangwagon >> pam: among them, nascar. while the organization has a long standing policy of not allowing the confederate flag in any official nascar capacity, it's common to find fans flying them at races. >> pam: nascar is in the northbay this weekend for the toyota savemart 350. >> pam: kron 4's dan kerman has reaction to nascar's statement nascar is in the northbay this weekend for the toyota savemart 350.
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>> reporter:kron 4's dan kerman is live at sonoma raceway and dan what's the reaction to nascar's statement >> reporter:in response to recent controversy over the confederate flag.apple is removing all mobile games featuring the flag from its app store. >> >> reporter: which you did not see is the confederate flag. >> have not seen a lot of it and the lasting years. >> reporter: just this week nascar itself says it will continue its longstanding policy to disallow the use of the flag in any official nascar capacity. >> i do think it is jumping on the bandwagon. >> i think it is a part of history. >> i think the need to stay out of politics >> people get offended by it out will not fly it. that is
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just how i feel. >> grant: apple is making changes but removing all mobile games featuring the flak from its application stores. >> grant:apple says the they removed the games that use the flag in offensive or mean-spirited ways.because they were in violation of their guidelines. >> grant:some game creators said they understand apple's decision over the sensitive issue at hand. >> grant:while others are questioning apple. they argue that they used the flag in a purely historical context in their games. >> grant:following the likes of walmart and amazon.apple is stop selling or displaying >> pam: a clue needed for an 18 year old girl with the case happening over 17 years ago. charles clifford is on
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the phone to explain who they are looking for and why this particular location. trulls? >> pam: charles? >> reporter: lee today, a protective that is working with a family of a young lady that was missing and has not been seen since. working with the family, had a dull trained to smell cadavers and adopt picked up the cadaver cent down from where she lived. to the home and took soil samples and contacted the oakland police department creek they came over and heard the story and is working some street there's anything that they can do to move this case along. he will not say that
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they have found kristen barrett-- >> reporter: that remains unsolved. the soil samples will go to central web analysis 3 they will be able to see if there is a body in the area. at this point possible developments from the '90s. no evidence that kristin has been found pam. >> pam: coming up. >> pam: a big meeting happening right now. >> pam: that could lead to bart reopening the bathrooms at its underground stations. >> pam: catherine is back with the new proposal.next.
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>> catherine: happening now bart is meeting to talk
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about rest rooms occurred collected after the 911 at tech with some opening overtime at the and the kron facilities were not hurt getting them back into shape reportedly will cost $1 million a year creek park has considered testing new designs. in san francisco and the 19th street station in oakland kron4 will keep you updated on the latest the development of that deal. >> pam: how to children were able to escape a raging house fire in san jose. plus the new bill preventing you from being fired because of your brown want to read and california's controversy no vaccine bill is one step closer to becoming reality the big hurdle past in the state assembly today.
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>> this just in to the kron 4 newsroom. >> grant: obviously a major issue for the evening commute part we are not sure what the specific problems are on the tracks accurate bart his head a series of issues when we had extreme weather and the pastorate was about three months three weeks or a month ago. with temperatures close to hundred we had major bart issues were not sure if the weather is connected to this but a problem on the track no service between pleasant hill and walnut creek on the kids burke they point line creek and san francisco directions because of that issue on the track. alternate forms of transit. no word on when it could be corrected we will keep you updated accurate no word on how long this may last.
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>> catherine: california's assembly has approved a hotly contested bill that would mean nearly all school children would 'have' to get vaccinated. >> catherine: this was a rally outside the statehouse today. >> catherine: there have been months of protests. >> catherine: if it's passed -- this would be one of the strictest vaccine laws in the country. >> catherine: it would end exemptions for personal and religious reasons.which has angered many families. >> catherine: the next move - the bill goes back to the senate so some amendments can be reviewed. >> catherine: then it's on to governor brown - who has indicated he's likely to sign it. >> catherine: catherine heenan - kron four
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>> reporter: san jose to children are in serious condition with burns. these are the fingerprint of the children. they jumped out of the window. in order to escape. another person was also injured in this fire. she suffered from smoke ventilation say that two people were heroes as they smashed the windows to help to get the family out occurred fire crews are looking into the cost of the fighter. --cause of fire >>diane: 10:00 p.m. we will be in the '60s for most of us in the east bay shoreline. 7:00 a.m., a few clouds in place for it with
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plenty of sun shot at it will not be as high brick with a triple to with a triple digit east bayshore line should be much cooler. 83 up in hayward, and san francisco at the peninsula should be and the mid to upper 60s. the we have one day with heat. tomorrow we are dropping down just a little bit with the temperatures in the '90s. and will be of the '80s but we get it right or wrong monday and tuesday the '90s will return with overall plan is sunshine -- a up the to midweek for it even with temperatures of the '70s in the east bay shoreline toward you check your line by line forecast with the mobile at for free. mobile application. drought-brown lawns,1st ld
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>> grant:california bill to ban dry lawn fines heads to governor california legislature has sent the governor a bill to the drought. >> grant:the assembly on thursday advanced ab1 unanimously with 70 votes. it will prohibit local governments from penalizing residents who conserve water by not watering their lawns. >> grant:democratic assemblywoman cheryl brown introduced the bill after hearing about residents in her san bernardino district getting fined for parched landscaping. gov. jerry brown's administration called such moves short- sighted last year. >> grant:now the governor's office is ordering communities to slash water use as much as 36 percent compared to 2013 levels. regulators have pleaded with residents to put their lawns on a water diet to protect supplies. >> grant:the governor has already prohibited homeowner associations from punishing landscaping. >> grant:our drought
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coverage continues online. on kron 4 dot com.some tips on how conserve water at home. also.how you can calculate your water usage. and which bay area cities the drought. that's all at kron 4 dot com. return to index of >> pam: still ahead.obamacare survives after a big ruling by the supreme court. >> pam: the ruling that prevents millions from losing health care coverage. return to ------------------------
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>> pam: the affordable care act is constitutional. in a significant win for the president -- the supreme court voted in a split decision to uphold provision within the law which provides federal health care subsidies tomillions of americans.
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>>.made a mistake >> as a physician i believe the supreme court must an opportunity and made a mistake hill >> pam: reclined to and made her support and a tweet. -- hillary clinton made her support in a tweet. >> pam: one major topic same-sex marriage is still left expected to rule that limits marriage for saying
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sex couples. it means the states that bandit will have to allow record the decision could come tomorrow or monday the last two days and that term. coming up and sportsthe a's are rolling. >> pam: gary has highlights and all of the sports coming out!
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(male announcer): it's now time for gary radnich from the jack in the box sports desk. >> gary:good evebing! -- evening! >> gary:beautiful day!
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>> pam:it was a beautiful day >> gary:a's going for the sweep in arlington, texas bottom 4th/ scoreless >> gary:mitch moreland solo home run off sonny gray 1-0 rangers >> gary: but look at the kid who caught the home run after snagging it on a bounce at first he is stunned he actually caught it then is overwhelmingly overjoyed >> gary:top 7th after the a's took a walk >> gary:john reddick lines one into right field for a single eric sogard scores stephen vogt beats the throw home 6-3 a's >> gary:final: 6-3 a's >> gary:a's season-best 5th straight win 9 of last 11 sweep rangers in 3 games brett burns extends hit streak to 15 ganesmes!
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--games! >> gary:according to some reports. kings owner vivek ranadive is considering firing head coach george karl in order to keep star center demarcus cousins. who karl wants to trade >> gary: to the still waiting on the warrior
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spirit for the lousy teamsters the overall no. 1 pick. >> gary: 611 minnesota kentucky becomes the first goal with three no. 1 overall pick spirit the angelo russell index sued when no. 2 to the lakers. and thus an interesting one. it was a big man on the board but they wanted to get what some feel a gap of the breakout star. even magic johnson has conned graduated the lakers. and you go down the list to sacramento kings patrick the sixth overall pick. we are biggest fans of magic. he is
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like mr. twitter. >> pam: you are catching up! >> gary: magic, anytime there's a big event and the country he waistband. -- weighs in >> gary: he has been at odds with the lakers ed lee lee. so we will wait for the warriors pick. and yours probably were hand what currie did today. wondering- >> gary: at the pebble beach overnight camp. he shows up and stays the entire time for it and that is what is cool. (cheers & applause)
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>> gary: this guy stays the entire time. over 150 kids aged 9 to 16 at the camp. part of the warriors deal. 30,000 kids in california. so this is not one of those deals. . magic michael jordan used to have one. guess how much they paid $15,000 to state to go to the michael jordan fantasy camp. telling the truth we are on vacation there and all the sudden i will see a bunch of good white guys with their shoes. coming from capp it --coming from camp >> pam: well, he was worth
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hanging out. >> gary: if he was there pricking and he used to go play golf. >> pam: (laughter) >> gary: you are looking at people media people and sonoma about to have lunch. here we go, 2014 spot rookie of the year. five tough finishes this season for it he wants to pretend that you are having free berger and selig and about to listen to kyle larsen. if >> it's nice to be home derrick came out earlier this with family. it's just fun to come here and relax and get away. you have to produce something totally different in turn right to it compared the we are used to each week.
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>> gary: sports shows this sunday and grant will host a few print i will be in church. but here is a sneak peek of which you will see sunday night for it >> the hardest thing about this track is the blind quarters. >> gary: you saw that just enjoying soccer enjoy yourself with jeff fort worth of the highlights patrick you will see just bush jeff pierce excuse me jeff pierce was one of our better kamen man doing his thing. >> pam: all right gary think you print scorching temperatures and diane will be back to tell us when things law " off.
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>> reporter: the next edition of people behaving badly tonight at 8! focus on problem traffic this time it was in the city of alameda i'll show you more in the next edition of people behaving badly tonight at 8 >> pam: you need to check on all other forms of transportation tonight for it and you might want to get a fan like you are doing is it accurate because there is no service with bart and that's part of the station in pleasanton creek
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>> pam: thank you everyone for joining us we will see you at 8
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