dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> turn to kron 4 for election night information.will broadcast the results live from 8:00 p.m. to midnight. head to www.kron.com for live election blog and political poll. >>> it took its time getting here but the rain has arrived. through the north bay right now. heavier cells off shore. as this continues to push down to the south, it will make its way into san francisco. most of the heavy rain filtering in through the north bay. the 101 getting pounded right now. facadeo, the current conditions. quite a bit. let's look. you can see -- we are watching the progression down to the south. what is important is for the storm to push down to the southeast. since it's moving so slow, we are getting moisture into the north bay and that continues. it's not moving. needs to move to the southeast for us to get rid of the rain and thal won't happen till tomorrow. heavy rain through the night. heavy rain to the north bay in the 1:00 hour. continuing to see the rain, it shows it lightening up. we could see lighter bouts of rain. a nice break out

dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> a decent amount of rain in the past 24 hours.y half an inch in san bruno, san francisco. less in mill valley. finally starting to see the rain pick back up again. we are picking up measurable amounts of rain. oakland, san jose still not picking anything up. we are seeing stuff right now. a look at storm tracker through san francisco, north bay and into the east bay. zoom on in. there was heavy rainfall over san francisco. down into san jose, rain, mill peat os, light rain. east bay, heavier rain picked up. that actually pushed through. past 10 minutes or so seeing a 10th of an inch of rain. the storm pushing to the southeast. waves of rain through san francisco, through san jose and we will continue to see them this evening. this is the storm, you can see it spinning to the southeast. the rain tapers off into tomorrow and drying conditions behind it. temperatures tomorrow 60s. coast line 58 degrees. 64 oakland. 65 concord, 66 san jose. the dry weather continues into halloween. 6:00 sunday, 60s. 8:00, few clouds, cooler conditions

on treasure island, dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> a live look at the traffic on the golden gate bridgehe right side = northbound. and it is moving at a pretty good clip. it is better coming into san francisco on the left side which is southbound. we will be right back. our real national pastime -- saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work. 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one -- state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i save because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save, including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm. then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm, or go online. >> it is time to take a look at the e-mail. this is from walter. and how do you a dollar cost average? >> please explain. >> it is the best strategies on wall street that your going to invest in the next 40 years. two-week senior 4 01 k, high market, low market and if you are wealthy? with $1,000 per month. perhaps 3000 every t

dan kerman. fed >> at 6:00 a.m., they began tilting the first of of 17 t a section of the board to put into place this week. it is a slow process. that little movement that you see it took more than 30 minutes. >> the entire operation to take it out, tilted, takes somewhere between 16-20 hours. by 12:00 p.m., it was up right and the process began with lifting the two ordered 72 ft. in the air. and just that moment-272, took 90 minutes. when completed, that bottom will said at the level of the new deck. >> the tower is like a stroll with four legs cut. the second part is to be putting right now so for pleases me to be put into place. >> unlike other tower, this is that the existing upper deck traffic which as caltran concerned that drivers could take their eyes off the road. >> we're going to be almost 30 0 ft. for the next left. these pieces are going to be going right by traffic but not the positioning or workmen at bridge level. we will be much further high gear. we wanted to be commuters the w

at sfo dan kerman kron 4 news. >> the swift but substantial investigation of a suspicious package in san francisco today. officials shut down market street between davis and battery. the bank was spotted near battery st. after 8:00 a.m. this morning trade it was about to determine not to be a threat and the streets were reopened just before noon. >> we continue to see rain streamed into the bay area at. the north bay getting light showers by the time of his hits its dying down " or seeing right al is lighter rainfall. in novato not attend the an inch of rain. coursing light rainfall that just passed over the golden gate to and falling over sauce the lead up as well. as we look at the pattern we've been seeing the rig is in staying virtually stationary. it continues to stream into the northeast and the storm not really moving that much. it will finally start to move tonight into tomorrow so continue chair this evening turned scattered by tomorrow morning and afternoon. will take a look to we can forecast including a church rain forecast coming up in just a bit. >> new details this eve

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with 40 stories and then attached to the first dan kerman.lting the first of of 17 t a section of the board to put into place this week. it is a slow process. that little movement that you see it took more than 30 minutes. >> >> the entire operation to take it out, tilted, takes somewhere between 16- 20 hours. by 12:00 p.m., it was up right and the process began with lifting the two ordered 72 ft. in the air. and just that moment-272, completed, that bottom will said at the level of the new deck. >> the tower is like a stoll with four legs cut. the second part is to be putting right now so four places need to be put into place. >> unlike other tower, this is that the existing upper deck traffic which as caltran concerned that drivers could take their eyes off the road. >> we're going to be almost 30 0 ft. for the next left. these pieces are going to be going right by traffic but not the positioning or workmen at bridge level. we will be much further high gear. we wanted to be commuters the we they are aware. >> caltran would like to have this

dan kerman kron 4 news. >> turned to kron 4 for comprehensive election night information will broadcast the latest election results until midnight. be sure to had to kron 4 for blogging and political polls. >> were monitoring the rain that's pushing into the bay area so far the giants game has been unaffected. shall orrisroot industry back in the north bay we did see a few that pushed through in the last couple of hours. will see even more as we make a way into tomorrow. at&t park will continue to stay dry strip the game tonight. tomorrow is a difference storm and i struck sure all the way down the coastline extending offshore the rate is nearly stationary. it will ship moister mainly into the north bay. let's take a look on future cast for. the see the showers filter into the north bay into the 11:00 at were. this will be well after the game is over. the heavy stuff coming for thursday very heavy rain continued to stream into the north bay. basically stationary where the line ends up and looks like to be just north of santa rosa. that area will see a lot of rain fallout there tomorrow.

dan kerman shows us what is in the bill. >> reporter: increase current employee contributions towards pension benefits. includes one day of unpaid leave per month. as far as schools, delays $1.7 billion in payments till the next year. also includes several assumptions, the state would receive $5.3 billion from the federal government, this is 2 billion more than originally projected. assumes california's recovery will be big enough to generate $1.4 billion in additional tax revenue. an initiative to be placed to create a rainy day fund so in good time money is saved for leaner times like now. >> harsh words regarding california's proposition 19 and coming from the president of mexico. tonight he said the ballot measure that would legalize marijuana in california reflects a terrible inconsistency in california drug policy. prop 19 would legalize pot position and allow taxation. >>> muni's cribber card fiasco, first problems with the gates and now our investigation uncovered issues with the cards themselves and on the my mercury moment happened when i parked near the castle at "medieval

kron 4's dan kerman has details. >> reporter: sheds some light on the circumstances leading up to the explosion. but it still doesn't pinpoint a cause. it indicates a power supply malfunction caused a val to fully open and that caused a spike in pressure. it also says the safety volve kicked in which prevented the pressure from exceeding the maximum allowable operating pressure of 400 pounds per square inch. >> the safety device took over. that's a good thing. the pipeline appears to have failed below maop. what caused that failure? that's the issue. >>> the pipe showed uniform wall thickness. safety experts say there may be a problem with pg&e's pipeline safety maintenance program. >> either they are not addressing all the possible risks, poor welding, problems with manufactured pipe, or selective corrosion. until they said what that gap may be, they would be foolish in trying to raise the pressure on this pipeline segment. >>> well, it was warm out there again today but tomorrow we will see cooling. early in the morning fog along the coast. by noon, sunny. 3:00, 5-10 degrees cooler.

at sfo dan kerman kron 4 news. >> let's get a checkup on the rain we've seen it mean in the north bay over night to a little below but will check it out because we of light showers over the north bay. many of rain sitting off shore but edged da lin look in that same location and for the past couple of days. in the north bay with lighter rainfall less than a tent of an inch an hour in novato and we do have temperatures above 59 degrees right now. it's a little cooler as the rain continues to threaten the bay area but notice how what kind of skirting the north bay? staying stationary the center of the storm that's driving and and sitting off shore not really moving but after the storm starts to move to the southeast tonight this will push and towards the bay area. it san francisco already seeing half an inch of rain probably another tens of an inch or so but most of the rig will push down through the santa cruz mountains and into the south bay over night tonight. continue jars out there at the o'clock hour, scattered showers tomorrow morning but once that's of short that's going to be i

. >> and meg whitman, as and dan kerman reports tonight, the latest poll shows her democratic opponentjerry brown pollack, significantly, ahead. >> the new field poll that jerry brown has a 10 point lead over meg whitman. 49 percent choosing brown comparing to only 39% of meg whitman. if the late october polls shows that jerry brown is pulling away a special with previous. with september, there were tied at 41%. in march, meg whitman was ahead at 46-43%. >> and with los angeles, let the voters, she is not as competitive as she needs to be in that area. that is really the housekeeper issue, spite, she is spending. she may not be successful because of that. >> and how the voters view the candidates, and favorably, her rating has gone from 40 to 42%, and upon favorably? it is doubled since the month of march 27th%,-now, 51 percent. on favorably. >> and as soon as she was unfavorably non favorably. despite how she spent money. and presented herself, favorably, still, people are questioning her character occurred >> this was released by the meg whitman team, that that other polls that has m

dan kerman joins us. >> and not only did she talk about the 2003 she showed it, that letter, and on itfrom husband of meg whitman. >> her husband denied receiving the letter. please look at the bottom of this letter. on it, dr. marsh has written " vickini please check this. thank you. ". >> and he recognizes this as the riding of dr. harsh. since his return are several notes. the handwriting--and then he gave this to nikki that is what shy - why has it. after that, e never asked her to return this to meg whitman or to him. we conclude that they did not return a 2003 letter because they wanted to continue to employ an undocumented worker. she was easier to exploit and a documented one. today, we have clearly proven with the release of this letter that mag whitman lied to the press and the public. when she said " we never received that letter and notification. >> and is there any authentication? identification ". >> after all of that one of the document it is that signature authentic? >> with that question, she is not had the signature authenticated however, the housekeeper confirms it.

in san francisco dan kerman kron 4 news >> story and at least a few dozen shots were fired in a shooting near of berkeley barbershop this morning that left one man dead and another seriously injured the shooting happened at about 8:45 a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.o on russel's street. it two victims were taken to the trauma center so far known that most of and please do not believe this is a random attack. but no arrests have been made. for cars destroyed after a fire spread in the carport. it happened near his brand boulevard and park avenue. at least 20 residents were evacuated from the building and one always damage no reported. firefighters are calling the fire suspicious during >> are extended forecast of one more day of dry conditions before the pushshshshshshshshshshshshshsh y d hallo but that continues into saturday to read all have a full in just a few read all have a full in just a few minutes. class sizes are too big, and all the standardized testing just isn't working. so classroom teachers looked closely at the plans of both candidates for governor. and we're supporting jerry brown.

among those attending the shore man's union as kron 4 dan kerman tells us will virtually halted activity>> all ports in the bay area are going to be shut down this saturday to protest the atrocity that was committed by office serge johannes mehserle the killing of oscar grant. >> calling it the largest labor protest in years the international longshore and warehousing and announced its 1500 union members will not work saturday from 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to attend a rally for oscar grant. >> we want this rallied to be militant, we wanted to be unified but we also wanted to be peaceful. >> when it is the on our man shot and killed at the fruit filberts station by former bart officer johannes mehserle. he's been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is scheduled to be sentenced early next month. although is attorney is seeking to trial. >> today mentally need to be held accountable and this message as to the world what we stand together. this issue need to be addressed and we expect it to johannes mehserle to go to prison. >> you and it is entitled to one shift a month to take part in mee

as dan kerman tells us residents are still concerned at her incarceration will only be temporary.

dan kerman tells us the woman who was in court, today. >> sheila flowers, with a tattoo on her face on his home video has pleaded not guilty to six counts of assault, battery. in connection with several attacks that occurred on the seventh avenue area and san francisco's inner sunset. the d.a.'s office sought bail at $50,000, the judge reduced it to $25,000. neighborhood residents, police were hoping that the court would issue a stay away orders and she would stay away from the victims' and also from this seventh avenue area. the court, however, only offered a three month stay away for one of the victims but it is possible that the additional states waters would be coming in the weeks to come. >> in san francisco, >> and making news around the bay area, tonight. >> in berkeley, they are investigating a string of burglaries, robberies of three different locations and the same part of town. these all took place at the northern part of the city. the first to seem to be connected because the suspect description was similar and the same late '80s 19 coroll wi dark paint. and the subset in n

dan kerman joins us. >> and not only did she talk about the 2003 she showed it, that letter, and on itote from husband of meg whitman. >> her husband denied receiving the letter. please look at the bottom of this letter. on it, dr. marsh has written " vicki, please check this. thank you. ". >> and he recognizes this as the handwriting of dr. harsh. since his return are several notes. the handwriting--and then he gave this to nikki that is whay she has it. after that, he never asked her to return this to meg whitman or to him. we conclude that they did not return a 2003 letter because they wanted to continue to employ an undocumented worker. she was easier to exploit and a documented one. today, we have clearly proven with the release of this letter that meg whitman lied to the press and lied to the public. when she said " we never received that letter and notification ". >> after all of that one of the document it is that signature authentic? >> with that question, she is not had the signature authenticated however, the housekeeper confirms it. and additional documentation that to and

dan kerman reports on how the cleanup is actually not turned into an archaeological investigation.>it's here behind this fort mason building where a large list have been hard at work sifting through soiled said she discovered monday. >>apart from a cemetery that we discovered that the public health service site we haven't found this cluster of human remains before. >>the bones were uncovered when crews were removing soil contaminated by lead paint. while investigators say it's too early to say how old the bones are, anecdotal evidence suggests they date back to the 1860's when the site was an active army post. >>there remains appeared to be connected to a hostile that operated during the civil war. were still trying to determine the nature of the burial that took place here whether this was due to amputations or surgery. this suggests that it was not a place for formal burials. >>archaeologists will be here for several days than the real detective work begins when they figure out why these bones were here and where they came from. they should have some answers in the next two to th

as dan kerman tells us residents are still concerned that her incarceration will only be temporary. >> >> this is home video captured by resident of the inner sunset offer sept. encounters with a homeless woman residents say has been terrorizing the neighborhood. but the woman has now been detained by police but residents who say they've been attacked by her fear in just a few days she will be back on the street causing problems. >> should this be put right back out on the streets after 72 hours of what ever it i'm fearful she is going to be read back out there terrorizing the neighborhood again. >> please say that one happen this time visit this time asking for a high bail court order keeping route of the neighborhood and they're hoping to put her in the behavior of court so or mental health issues can be taken care of. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> 7 as the police have released a sketch of one of the suspects in an attack and happened back on august 21, 2002 victims were approached about 2:00 a.m.. the first suspect is described as a black male, 6 ft. tall, weighing 200 lbs., tat

conferences today from either meg whitman or her former undocumented housekeeper, but as kron 4's dan kerman tells us tonight, the allegations remain front and center. >> reporter: meg whitman's campaign spent the day sending out press releases touting her support a among latino business leaders and downplaying the allegations made against her by her former housekeeper nicky diaz and her attorney gloria allred. at issue, what whitman knew about her housekeeper's undocumented status and when. >> the timing is really unfortunate for whitman given it's coming right before this debate. >> reporter: saturday whitman and her opponent jerry brown will face off in the first e spanish language debate -- ever spanish language debate which will be broadcast throughout california. >> spanish speakers, for some of that population they may look at this and see the sort of cartoon imagery of the wealthy anglo woman who employed a spanish speaking mexican immigrant from mexico without documentation and to see this big power imbalance and make a decision based on that. >> reporter: a politics professor patri

dan kerman. s f o. >> and to arrive to get home on halloween night about a free ride? details coming up in your full forecast as we take a live look outside with a beautiful view of the bay bridge. , welcome back to kron 4 news this weekend, a live look outside at the south bay. hi 101, we are expecting clear skies today and we should be having a good weather for halloween lead us check-in with jacqueline bennett. >> and a decent amount of rainfall in the past 24 hours and we even saw more on top of this, before that. santa rosa, three-quarters of an engine of last 36 hours. petaluma, not quite is that much, and samper know, quite as much, and downtown, the same thing-san bruno. and through napa valley, we saw a secondary wave of rainfall, overnight part with measurable totals two oakland, the east bay, the south bay anything until about 10:00 p.m. last night. oakland is about one-tenth of an inch. and also at s f o, traces in concord, livermore, not quite measurable. and here is what move to route overnight with a very strong wave pushing through overnight to the coas

in san francisco, dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> outside the oakland police headquarters, a press conferenced save the oakland police jobs without taxing. >> there is more than enough money in this budget to rehire all 80 police officers. and you add those money up, i would already in the pledge, promise that i will return all 80 positions. and in oakland, haaziq madyun >> and in san jose, sarah palin appearance. with a warmer reception, and at the senate as a performing arts, the struggle of california when it faces and it takes to fix the situation. and also, blplanning current leaders, like nancy pelosi, barbara boxer of liberal views will not be able to turn around the state of california. the daniel villareal >> and officially, the chevy volt and i took one for a test drive it was smoot! fast pick up and this is comparable twiggy-6. it is $41 k! it is comparable to 86 and it is qualifies for a $750 surtax break. >> keep sleet. -7500 and our mental gabriel slate's tech report >> and up the at&t exclusivity of the mobile devices, verizon will now have a the ipad on october 28th. this coul

among those attending the longshoremen union which has kron 4 dan kerman tells us will virtually halt. >> all courts in the bay area art or to shut down this saturday to protest the atrocity that was committed by officer messily killing of oscar grant to read >> one of the largest labor protest at the new year's the international longshoremen were house union announced 1500 members will not work saturday from 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to attend a rally for oscar >> what does rally to be militant, we wanted to be unified but we also wanted to be peaceful. >> grant as the doorman at shot killed the effort fell apart station by police officer johannes mehserle to read his been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is scheduled to be sentenced early next month. though his attorney is seeking a new trial. today's jobless messily needs to be held accountable and this message as to the world that we stand together and this issue needs to be a drastic and we expect johannes mehserle to go to prison. the longshoremen's union is and to take one shift a months to take part mean meetings. what impa

dan kerman tells us that woman was in court, today. >> she loves flowers with this tattoo on her face entered imac guilty plea, and these incidences along seventh avenue where sterile familiar with she love flowers. >> i was hit in the back with a board. >> she grabbed me, shocked me. >> and very bizarre, she started to hit me, and flailing her arms. >> she is ounder bill, of $25,000, and is behind bars. she will go to trial next month but we also return to court on two different other assault cases this month. neighborhood police were hoping that the court would issue a stay away orders so she love flowers would stay away from the victim and also from his seventh avenue area. the court only issued a three-month stay away for one of the victims but it is possible the the eighth zero issue more of those stay away orders in the more days to come. >> new details, the man was shot in the back in oakland's rockridge shopping irrawaddy is in an atm. haaziq madyun what police uncovered. >> not a random act that is what oakland police investigators say about a man shot and the we need to use

at sfo, dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> and our people traveling with the reactions? we went to sfo.nce. >> a little bit concerned. but the main thing is my time. in if it is my time? it is my time. i'm going to enjoy this opportunity to go. >> and when we are at the high- profile locations will keep an extra i open. >> if coast with the territory these days, to be extra vigilant and keep aware. and the people to not look right, we will be out of their way. >> i think we will avoid boss/trained terminals and we're definitely going to rent a car and avoid bus terminals,-train terminals. >> european capitals london, paris, berlin are thought to be the most likely targets. ♪ mostly sunny but cool afternoon. today, with clouds and temperatures hovering in the 60s. 75 in santa rosa that is the most mild location. temperatures barely getting into the 70's, inland. maintaining a chance of showers this evening and into the next couple of days. the cloud coverage to the south, and the chance of isolated storms is still through this evening. north bay, will see clear conditions, and into this

as kron 4 dan kerman tells us the residents are concerned for incarceration will only be temporary tariff> this is home video captures by residents of the inner sense that showing her september encounter with a homeless woman who residents say have been terrorizing the neighborhood. >> it was scary because you don't know what is she going to do? it should not be down, punched me. it had to save the tree >> the woman she'll of flowers has been detained by police but those say flowers to his attack them if your attention is only temporary. >> i'm fearful she's going to be back out there terrorizing the neighborhood again. ideally i'd like to be taking care of. >> are resting her is appeasing the community but not solving the problem to read >> jonathan said flowers and with the board last summer also wants more flowers than just jail time. i'd like to see her get treated well >>. please say this time will be different among other things they're asking for hate mail. we will be asking the judge that handles the arraignment to also ordered ms. flowers to stop frequenting certain neighborhoods

around 5:00, jan sphery is proving to be good for business as well especially those near the park as dan kermanegisters were ringing. >> the outdoors or indoors at peace tavern you would think it was the weekend from the size of the crowds who knew people were treating >> that way. i left work early. >> i would normally be in a meeting. >> giants' few of our people here from across the country. i came from colorado i am here for a meeting but had to come to see the game. >> from the looks of things it was a great day for a >> business. great probably true: normal. i felt like barry would impact on the economy like this that this light. in between the ages of fans chose their real reason they were here but it was also about stimulating said of this economy even if it was one you're at a time. >> food bureau, stimulating the economy. >> i paid in the same amount for parking. >> all in all not a bad cut for tuesday at all afternoon. it is expected to continue wednesday and thursday. >> we'll take a break, a keyboard to and here we will have continuing coverage as they make their way through the pl