the athletes wrote in an opinion column in truckee's sierra sun that the plans keep with the spirit of squaw valley. but environmentalists say the plans to build 750 hotel-condominium units and about 1,500 new hotel bedrooms would adversely affect mountain views, traffic and water supplies. the name of the skier who died at northstar is marc l. coleman, from van nuys. working on getting a picture. a car led concord police on a high speed chase a car through three east bay cities last night. they were pursuing a white cadillac believed to be responsible for ramming a patrol car friday night. the driver got away from police on friday. but officers spotted the cadillac-deville around 11 last night.and a chase ensued. this video was captured in concord.as the driver ran a red light. at one point.the driver got out of the car and escaped on foot. officials searched for over an hour.but could not find the driver. in santa rosa--- a man is dead after being stopped for a traffic violation and struggling with police. kron-4's john fenoglio is at the scene.and explains how the man died while in

still some snowflakes in the sierra nevada it was just snowing at truckee this last hour those winds likely to continue as you make your way into the afternoon hours some of those winds over 30, maybe some gusts to 40-plus miles per hour. looks like they will subside overnight tonight. with that in mind, today going to see lots of sunshine this afternoon about 64 in san jose. 57 and cool in pacifica. east bay temperatures generally in the 60s. then you head inside the bay the winds will be whipping into san francisco and about 60 degrees. as we look out over the next few days, we'll see the winds calm down, temperatures warming up on wednesday and thursday. a chance of more significant rain as we head in toward friday. and then a slight chance of showers i think on sunday. >> you might have to work on the weekend, lawrence. >> i know. you know, yesterday it looked like -- >> it looked better yesterday. >> let's plan it. >> thank you. >>> all right. he saved his pennies to buy a new playstation. and you won't believe that he decided to do with all that money. it's a good story coming

snowing in blue canyon, truckee, tahoe. we will keep the theme going. off-and-on rain. some of it will be heavy. it's very chilly. possibility of more thunderstorms today. they don't last very long. but they are fast movers. highs in the 50s. right about at 60. if you touch 60 you probably won't last very long. we have a lot going on. the evening will be very busy as that next part of the system swings in. one more round of possible thunderstorms. sun, clouds on thursday. we'll get light rain and then it is out of here. the weekend, by sunday, mid- 70s. all of this will be gone but today and tomorrow cold. >> not as cold as it has been all winter. i know it's spring now -- >> the last day of march was 56 in san francisco. every day in january except one was warmer. >> wow. >> things have flipped a little bit. >> yes. >>> heartbroken families are demanding answers from general motors about a deadly default related to the car's tion initial. we'll hear from the -- car's ignition. we're hear from the ceo of gm about why it took so long to acknowledge the problem. >>> stock

snowing in truckee. the comment from charles was winter trying to redeem itself.advisory out. pretty good rain around hercules, san ramon and danville. we had good rain in mill valley. there's the cell stretching back to 880, hercules and orinda as well. doesn't look too heavy. i have reports it's starting to pick up. the rain has led up. we're still getting some rain. not as heavy as it was earlier. on the peninsula things are coming down. san mateo, you can see over towards near redwood city, back to half moon bay. highway 92, el el granada. lake county, all the way down to the santa clara valley. the rain line is finally moving north a little bit. but it doesn't look like too much has made it into mendocino county. 50s on the temperatures. there's a secondary ban starting to intensify. that may give us the possibility of thundershowers. i had one report of thunder over la fayette. cloudy, rain, cooler for all. here's sal. >> steve, good morning. we're looking at traffic that's going to be busy because of the wet weather. i want to go briefly to one of the traff

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i got off the phone with a guy, there is no snow in truckee but a foot on the mountains. over night lows tonight chilly. that is because the cool air is going to be in our area. 39 napa tomorrow morning. it is going to be cold on your day tomorrow. showers are moving up tonight. saturday, right, clouds increase on saturday. good day. saturday night a chance for a sprinkle and by sunday, gets close to us. here we are tonight. tonight at 9:00 p.m. showers moving out. saturday saturday morning, cold. that is of 30s 30s and then through the afternoon hours, saturday 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., clouds coming in from the next system that impacts us on sunday. a chance of sprinkles. when i come back i will show you the computer modern for sunday. right now saturday is the best day on the bay area weekend. morning showers possible on sunday and next week, check it out. 87, 89 degrees. temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. interesting five-day forecast. low snow levels. thunderstorms. and talking about cold over night lows. in a few days temperatures in 87, 90 degrees range. >> coo

i think i saw 28 in truckee. 46 ukiah.ressure right there, nose into the west coast. and temperatures will bump up a little bit. not a lot but a little bit. get the spring pattern here. not much of a change one way or another. we'll see a cooldown next week. mostly clear, sunshine and warmer temperatures. alameda, 68. livermore, 81. 83 also for gilroy, 76 san jose. santa clara, sunnyvale will be close. 76 redwood city, san bruno 70 and daly city. antonio said it's clear. it looks like it's going to be a nice day. 63. fog, a little bit on the warm side as well. cooler, much cooler day on friday. easter sunday does look better. >>> nine minutes before 8:00. it's video that will terrify any parent. a couple in houston, texas had a surveillance camera inside their baby's room. when they looked at the video, they saw a man had broken into the house and ended up literally standing over that child who was sleeping in a crowd. the intruder made off with $60 in cash and did not harm the baby. however, it is still unnerving people i

i doubt tahoe or truckee. san jose starting cloudy to mostly cloudy. 73 for a high today.ing off now 55. they went 55 to 56. napa 51. holding on to 50 for half-moon bay. 49 still at santa rosa. the leo will cool -- the low will cool us down a little bit today. the low will keep that fog bank going. but by after saturday we will cool it down and sunday looks like a pretty quick little warmup. 47 up in ukiah. there is no doubt about it dry air is coming in. that will be here later on. the clouds are already beginning to move out. a little cooler today if you are in that fog. the fog is getting a little thicker here each day. 50s and 60s coast and bay. lots of clouds it's the combination of the low and high clouds. it will be cooler for most today. still you can get low 80s. brentwood, oakley, antioch right there at 80. drop it ten for oakland. alameda 65. 75 mor ran -- morgan hill. fremont at 71. 65 san bruno. 59 pacifica. we will go 70 in palo alto. it looks like a cool down into saturday and sunday we rebound. probably monday as well and clouds increase on tuesday. >>> we

. >>> blue canyon reporting snow, snow in truckee and lake tahoe. so bring your chains.high country 5 to 10" of snow. here in the bay area we are seeing showers this morning. most of it light but look what's coming onshore right now. hi-def doppler radar picking up these cell. another band headed toward pacifica and south san francisco probably within the next 10 minutes or so. so downpours in your direction. be careful on the roads. throughout the day today could be a very interesting day weather-wise. the possibility of some thunderstorms maybe some hail some rainbows. this is going to be a day where we could see a couple of funnel clouds into california maybe into th valerio central valley. the low the focus of the system is going to push through later on. that will make these very unstable atmosphere. expect thunderstorms into the central valley. lots of snow into the high country. winter weather advisories there up to 10" snow above 7,000 feet several inches down to lake level. the low bringing downpours outside and maybe some thunderstorms and then things begin to

baxter into truckee this morning you're going to be driving through crane control for a long time. normally 5,000, 6,000 feet. and then you just go to 7200 feet which is donor summit. then it starts to go back down the hill and the elevation drops. so you're going to be in it for some time we just talked with the gentleman from petaluma who put his chains away on monday. he thought it would be okay last night. turns out he was wrong. he is stuck here hat the rest stop just waiting for chain control to be lifted and it's not going to be lifted anytime soon. if you are going to the bay area this morning, carry those chains for cal transit and chp will turn you around. guys back to you in the studio. >>> the great day for america everybody. we get to play the "price is right." >> that host is not just right. today the "price is right" on kpix 5 will be hosted by craig ferguson. it's a big -- it's a big april fools joke and it started lases night. they switched executive producers of both shows thought it'd be a good joke to play since the two hosts are such great buddies, check out th

some snow flurries at lake tahoe, truckee. we are seeing snow there.uld see up to 10" of snow at the higher peaks. hi-def doppler radar showing you the rainfall moving onshore right now. you can see some bands kind of lining up off the coastline, as well. so the focus has been further to the south but this next band will move onshore taking it further to the north and then pockets of some moderate amounts of rainfall. so throughout the day today, it is going to be on and off i think maybe picking up into the afternoon the possibility of isolated thunderstorms. temperatures will be cool though highs only in the 50s and 60s. all right. let's check on the slick roads now with elizabeth. >> it's been busy this morning. we have seen a number of different spinouts one wrong- way driver a little earlier. fortunately everything has been clearing pretty quickly so we haven't seen any hot spots developing because of it but it is a reminder to slow down. southbound 880 at montague. i think that accident may still be blocking lanes. again it's so early and it's ki

aziz on the way to drop off the pickup the truckee drops off his car and the baby to a nearby babysitterorgot to drop off the baby at the babysitters and then forgets the car with the baby still strapped in the abc and goes off to work comes back nine hours later to find the baby and the car he called the police and investigated. they not name the man or that they charge him at this time. << was cooler out there today and such as we expected it temperatures and rain in the 67 days in the bay area know if he's out there today as we did come close. down the south bay will or the low '70's thinking for portions of the north bay 70¢ and rose us such as the coastline and we were up in the upper 50s lower 60s. here's a look of a change in the past 24 hours wear down to 11 degrees cooler and san mateo. nine degrees cooler and hayward six degrees cooler in stamford san jose. live from our camera on the top roof downtown surfaces will you concede the mainly clear skies that remain over stanford cisco right now the clouds are approaching from the north. it looks kind of repressive with the rain bu

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so temperatures rebounding, slightly. 20s up in tahoe and truckee. 44 ukiah.re down to i think 41. had some 30s in mendocino county and lake county. mostly sunny. we'll wait for the system. it's showing every sign of being colder and wetter. today we get a bump up in the temperatures. not a lot. tomorrow we'll focus our attention on increasing clouds and look what deals -- and deal with what looks to be rain on friday. right now the projections look good. a couple of 1/100ths to .5 for santa rosa. that's probably overdone for san jose. we'll see. we have a couple of more days to see. it looks much stronger than the one on monday. mostly sunny, breezy at times. 60s and 70s. some of these will be very, very low 60s. around the day, mid-60s. walnut creek, 60. livermore, 70. san leandro, hayward, only 64. 70 san jose, los gatos, sara toe guy, warmest -- saratoga. san mateo, millbrae, 60s. palo alto menlo park at 70. increasing clouds, rain late thursday night maybe. friday. clearing slowly on sunday. >>> hey, drive careful. drive smart today in san francisco. a ma