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multigrain cheerios in multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. >> welcome back, everyone. parking spot in downtown san mateo could now be a little easier if you download a new free smartphone app. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom has more on how some bay area cities are teaming up with tech companies to make life easier for drivers. >> it's lunchtime in downtown san mateo. drivers inch along bumper to bumper searching for parking. >> ucla did a study and estimated that people spend about 15 to 20 minutes on average looking for a place to park. >> that's why kelly's company streetline spent years developing this senser. it detectives if a parking space is empty. san francisco started installing them two years ago and now san mateo has partnered with cisco to roll them out along with a free mobile map called parker. >> it's not they can't find parking, it's simply they don't know where it is. >> parking acts like radar, guiding you to the most open spots. >> parking ahead. >> it's makers say it could reduce traffic. >> when you can take people's parking time from 20 minutes

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multigrain cheerios in multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. it is 9:14.his is our live look at golden gate bridge where traffic is making its way slowly we hope. there is a high wind advisory for this bridge and all the other spans in the bay area. as we cope with a wet, windy, miserable sunday morning. viewers continue to send us their storm pictures in sara saratoga. the soft soil and strong winds ripped out the roots of this massive tree yesterday. it was not the only tree pulled from the ground. a viewer sent us a picture from san francisco's knob hill neighborhood. not only did the tree pull free, but the stake came out of the ground as well. you can e-mail us your weather photos to you kgo-tv.com. >>> other news this morning, police have released a suspect sketch in the city's first homicide in 40 years. they are searching for this man. he is described as white or hispanic in his early 20s with dark hair and dark highs. the victim was the former owner of the mountain winery. his wife called police early friday morning saying an intruder had ild kill

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multigrain cheerios in multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. breaking news. local neighborhood locked down. the swat team called out. forcing people out of their homes. the latest from the scene in a moment. >>> welcome back to news4 today. i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> i'm eun yang. another breaking story we're following. nbc's richard engel and his crew are free after being kidnapped for five days in syria. just into our newsroom, here's what engel had to say as he crossed the border into turkey. >> the last five days are days that we would rather forget. if you can understand, we just came out now. we haven't even left yet. we're very tired. so we probably will be talking more in the coming days. thank you for being here and thanks for everyone and we're really happy we're out. >> engel and his crew had been missing since thursday. nbc news reported they were ab tukted shortly after crossing the border into syria. during their captivity, engel and the crew were blindfolded and tied up, but not physically injured. it came to an end early overnight when kidnapper

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multigrain cheerios >>> in the costliest presidential election in u.s.istory, the 2012 race saw not $1 billion, but $2 billion spent. president obama and mitt romney each raised over a billion dollars a piece, and that's just the campaigns and party committees. the obama camp raised $1.123 billion while the romney camp spent $1.019 billion just behind them. when you add in the spending by the super pacs, those numbers go way up. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." here is one of the easiest predictions after any election, especially this one. the republican party would split in two. on one side you have the establishment republicans, the john boehner, mitch mcconnell wing of the party. to them the election was lost because the conservative ideologues pulled mitt romney so far to the right in the primaries he could never find his way back to the middle in november. on the other side is the right wing, jim demint, rick santorum, the talk radio conservative media industrial complex. they make the same argument ideologues always make when th

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