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days and temperatures in the upper 80s come down two to 4 and fog will still be near the coast and fairfield 81 and 76 antioch, 76 san jose, here is sal. if you are driving on highway 4, it is a nice drive from pittsburgh to concord and also if you are driving on interstate 880 perhaps you are taking a flight at the oakland airport, the traffic looks pretty good. if you are driving on interstate 80 from vallejo it looks good, let's go back to the desk. they are talking about the outage in the north bay, let's go to tara with what triggered
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that outage. good morning tara. >>reporter: if you take a look behind me you can see they are still perched on top of their cherry picker trying to fix the problem and it has been a little over 6 hours since the electricity was turned off and it should be restored somewhere in the next hour. customers have been in the dark since 10:00 last night and our various businesses were also in the dark. exactly one year ago, pg&e had an outage at this exact location but in that case a lot more people were affected. 14,000 people were without power but luckily this morning it is only creating an inconvenience for a few
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hundred. we will let you know is re-- when power is restored. a wild car chase on the streets of oakland. it started on foot hill boulevard and ended on 11th and webster. it is not clear how the chase started but involved the chp even the oakland housing authorities. the chase created a dangerous situation on city streets but nobody was hurt. protesters may try to disrupt the transit system as early as today. the fatal police shooting happened at the civic station and triggered a protest in san francisco last month. they could be forced temporarily to make other
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changes on short notice. european markets all open up with germany getting more than 2. 5% in little trading. shanghai was the big winner but hong kong was down almost 1%. here is a look at the closing numbers, the dow jones industrial average falling just about 520 points nasdaq 101, s&p 500 down 51 and the question is will some bargain hunters be on the hunt today. so far futures are up. and staying up through the end of the trading day, apple was the most valuable when the closing bell rang. they were worth $337 billion but exxon mobile fell even
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further to $331. exxon held the top spot. they plan to hold a few firefighters in the coming weeks. vallejo hired nine people in the fire department and reopened one of the fire stations that closed in 2009 but they will be able to hire seven workers and they will hire several dispatchers -- dispatchers. that deadly boat collision last week appears to be an accident and not a crime. a father and son were thrown into the water when a crash went into them. his father died. the larger boat did not see their vessel and they have not been able to get statements from either parties and both sides hired lawyers and have refused to talk to police.
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hasaan campbell disappeared. they lit candles and said prayers. the father said he went into a shoe store and when he returned the boy was gone. they arrested the foster parents but the two were released for lack of evidence. >> if you go with what he shows than lewis ross will always be the prime suspect. he was the last person to see him. >> they say it is an open homicide investigation and they believe hasaan campbell was a victim of foul play at the hands of ross. they are offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of his foster parents. a tragic killing of a three-
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year-old boy. a tragic rival gang and they have an oakland man currently being held on an unrelated charge. >> they are working diligently to connect him and find out what his role was in the killing of this little boy. he was sitting on his toy car and he as his mother just left a pizza parlor a few blocks from their home. in connection with a hit- and-run accident it severally injured a phillies and if. andrew varges was drunk when he hit ryan white in the market area one week ago. he drove off but police arrested him an hour later. he is charged with felony hit-
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and-run. they held a fundraiser and the wife's condition has improved and family members say he is now able to speak. today another bay area business, the student was last seen at the keizer hospital. today's fundraiser is being held at the galleria. all sales will be donated if guests bring a missing flier with them. they are treating her disappearance as a homicide and they are saying they may have the case solved soon. they are marking one year since the deadly pipeline explosion. they will gather at the skyline college to pay tribute to the eight people killed in the
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blast. the events come on the heels of a -- will come on the heels of a report from the ntsb expected to identify the cause of the explosion which injured dozens of people. they will try to figure out how to accurately detect gas leaks by air. three different techniques studying helicopters and they will determine which gives the most reliable results. your time is 4:38 we want to turn to sal, you might have mentioned people heading to the airport, good time to travel. >> yes, people coming in on the east shore freeway and if you are going to be one of those drivers soon you should have a
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decent drive soon. >> this is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza and school starts end of september for a lot of people so we'll see what happens when it comes down to the commute. northbound 280 looking good and northbound 101 still looks good where it includes road work and road work on 680 between san ramon and walnut creek traffic looks good as well. looks good, yesterday got squashed, fog is lifted a little bit but it is cooler inland and one of the keys will be running cooler and the delta breeze has decided to kick it into gear. it looks like the start of what
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could be a significant cooling trends. i don't want to take it too far too fast. it looks about the same but we might get to the weekend where it looks significantly cooler. one guy talking and i have been talking a long time. it woman take much, i am not saying it's going to happen but we are not getting to that time of year where systems are getting stronger. it is a pronounced cooling trends which is on the horizon. nothing has changed in about a month, it really has not. gusting at 32 at travis. that is a rip roaring sea breeze so it has doubled. yesterday san jose was clear at this time and clouds have
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lifted up to 1800 fee feet so it starts to -- 1800 feet so it starts to make a push which will play in our weather. out to the delta and the straight it will be a windy day and we will have mid-80s but a lot of 70s in between. 76 napa, 75 and 60s and 50s up and down the coast. fog sun breezy and as we get to the weekend temperatures come down especially sunday into monday. taking babylon done after -- back london after days of rioting. the country is looking to the u.s. for help. new claims made by the woman accused of stealing from alex rebecca -- true beck.
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parliament at this hour for the emergency hearing about the london riots. he talked about restricting social media which he says was used to organize looting. >> we are working with police intelligent services and industry to see how we can stop people from commute kateing when they -- communicating when we know they are plotting violence and criminality. >> earlier they began raiding homes looking for looters and vandals. so far 1,200 arrests have been made across the country they are looking at identifying suspected looters. it has pictures of alleged looters and urges people to call police if they recognize anybody. a facebook page has been set up called let's catch looters and
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rioters. in afghanistan we are learning five nato service members have been killed in the southern part of the country roadside bombing. the deaths raise the number of service members to 51 so far this month and the taliban is now disputing the claim that the fighters responsible for shooting the helicopter has been killed. they say the fighters have been located and killed in an airstrike and the taliban said four fighters were killed but they were not those who shot down the helicopter. 30 americans died in that helicopter crash. this morning president barack obama shows cases the hybrid plan for the stimulus funds. the plant expects to ploy 500 people when fully operational. last year the president
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attended another groundbreaking that also received stimulus funds. president barack obama wants to highlight the key role interactive technologies will play in high qualities jobs in the u.s. the debate tonight with the aims straw poll on saturday, eight candidates will take part, two big names not officially in the race will also be in iowa. sarah palin is restarting her bus tour and rick perry arrives in iowa on sunday and expects to announce he is joining the race in south carolina on sunday. the los angeles district attorney's office said they will not charge the woman arrested along with the two men accused of beating bryan stow. they have solid evidence the men drove the men away from the stadium but they don't have enough evidence to charger.
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sanchez is now cooperating in the case against the two suspects. they were in court yesterday for their arrangement and they pled not guilty to charges of mayhem, assault and other charges. the two men remain behind bars on a half million dollars bail. she is a prostitute, not a burglar. she is accused of sneaking into the hotel room as he slept last month. she snuck in, in the middle of the night to meet a man. she is in jail accused ever stealing $650 worth of cash -- worth of cash and prosecutors stand behind those burglary charges. apple employee lost the
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iphone prototype last year. they give them information and the people who sold the prototype now face misdemeanor charges. ahead of this weekend's outside music land's festival, crews set up the stages and perfecting the sound system. it is expected to sellout which equates 60,000 attendees each day. the city will also reap the benefits. >> after this year's festival they will offer us four years. >> people are apprehensive about the noise and the traffic it will bring but they are circulating flyers to let people know which roads will be closed and give them a hotline for feedback. we will have more details on
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>> when the sibellings car crashed he tried to run but one was held down until police caught up with him. all three face charges in colorado and georgia and charges in colorado are also expected. the police chief is now on medical leave and six officers are being investigated for their roll in the -- role in the death of a homeless man. witnesses say thomas ran from police who then chased him tasered him and beat him. he was removed from life support and died. they are now calling for the police chief to resign. they are serving for high levels of chemicals in the bodies of pregnant women. a study of 25 mothers to be found higher levels of the chemicals used in fire
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retardants more than ever before. they are now banning two of the chemicals and they are phasing out two of the others. they are talking about holding the america's cop in san francisco and the 30 different groups have concerns over the impact in the air and walter quality. -- water quality. the people drawn to the event could devastate the area. they will address concerns during a public hearing in city hall. it is set to close for a year beginning in late october. lady liberty will undergo a restoration. liberty island will remain open and use of the statue will remain largely unobstructed. they will have it open during the statue's dedication but it
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will close the following day. action how are -- sal, how are people doing? traffic looks good around the bay area and in novato there is a power outage and this is a look at one of the pg&e facilities and it looks like there is a truck going by there and it may affect people in novato and you may be driving around to a stop line. they may be flashing they may not be flashing or they may just be dead so just be aware of that if you are driving in novato. as you head out to the high- rise it looks pretty good and it is surprising how many people are on the road and it is not even 5:00 yet and people are out there but it is certainly not stop and go. this is a look at 280 northbound up towards highway 17 and that traffic looks good
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>> >> it is a lot cooler as we head through the next couple of days, then sun and wind has picked up and yesterday it dropped a couple of degrees and if you are anywhere delta the wind machine has decided to get its acting to. very strong system as we head into the weekend tomorrow is gradual and by the time we get to the weekend it will take a tumble. they were down lower and now they are lifting up a little bit. they will move into areas where it has been fog free but now there are still some. the lows are again in the 50s and it has been a cool pattern for a month on the overnight lows. nights cool down rapidly and this year it doesn't happen.
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southwest 22. gusts to 30 and it is double what they had yesterday, it is assure shine inland areas will -- a sure sign inland areas will be enhanced with the system and what will happen it will enhance the system cooling us down where high pressure really builds up and it is the teater to ther affect -- teater totter affect. clouds will be out there all day long and 60s 70s and 80s for most, a lot of us will be in 80s that were near 90 on tuesday. i don't think much changed on friday, maybe a slight bump up in advance of that system. but by the weekend as we look to your weekend it will be cooler especially sunday and monday. >> time is 4:57, people in the north bay are without power
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