reporting kate thompson. >> and now from kate thompson to reggie kumar his love and san francisco. the danville? >> , many of these seven waiting for over one hour. you can see it is still waiting but it is backed up and not as bad as one hour ago. it caused streets to the entrance to the bay bridge backed up with frustrated ccommuters. and they just want to get home. one of these drivers was a loss of johnson. she said it is going to be a late night. melissa? >> crazy! 30 minutes, for only 2 and it is going to probably take a 1.5 hours to get home. >> and people are going to say that it is going to take a long time and they're hoping the clues for soon. live, reggie kumar, kron 4 news. >> and how traffic is being impacted with jacqueline? >> you can see from reggie the bay bridge is pretty bad just getting on the bridge. however, once you get on the bridge, it is not quite as bad. the yellow is indicating that speeds are a bit better than about 20 minutes ago. this backup is intense! it goes all the way past to the 1 0 1/80 split. from city streets, and at 4:50 is one this started

and his backup is happening kron 4 reporter, kate thompson? >> yes, i'm on fulton street.bout one, two blocks from the on ramp of the bay bridge and it is really at a standstill. i have not been moving for 20 minutes. all of my same cars are around me. it is very, very slow getting to the on ramp of the bridge. when it goes down to two lanes, and then eventually one lane. if i looked behind me? i cannot even tell you how many blocks fulton street is backed up. and also all of the cross streets. and with third street, they're all trying to make a right hand turn to get closer to the bridge. and the backup just keeps building and building. really, nobody is moving in. perhaps i have gone on leave one a block in 30-40 minutes. >> and how would you compare it does back up to a normal commute today? >> off a normal day getting to the bay bridge it is always some traffic. this is not normal traffic. this is your car is in the cla your car in park--and people are turning. and try to make a left onto third ave. and try to get as far away from here as possible. >> kate thompson, th

>>catherine: gasoline prices have been going up and kate thompson?eporter: gas prices are only going up! according to experts. you can see that california and new york of the highest prices. and in the bay area, that color red. nowhere in the bay area where people are less than $3.40. on average all indicators are pointing at $$3. >> at $3.55 at one san francisco station. $3.67 just down the street. experts say all it is only going to get more expensive. and predictions will hit and even up of over $4 by memorial day. >> reaching at $4 mark? we're not that far off. certainly, one knows winter blend goes away. that is when we will see those increases will going to bob up bump. >> with the recent egyptian uprising and is also investors. >> investors are driving up gas prices. and there were also anticipating a huge turnaround in the economy at the beginning of this year. they were purchasing more oil. >> reporting and san francisco, kate thompson. >>catherine: rising gas prices that is not the only thing to different cities to different cities there we

kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> reporter: here at sfo bad weather is having an impact. flight cancellations to chicago and new york and boston. just to name a few. the airport is not filled with stranded people. many cancellations were made early so people just didn't show up. dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> temperatures cooler right now than 24 hours ago. 40s. only someplace in the 50s, san francisco, 52. 41 half moon bay. sant arosa 52. 42 napa. 42 fairfield. it will get cold overnight tonight with temperatures in the 30s because the winds last night just not out there right now. temperatures again, very cold. not any fog tomorrow morning, too dry for that. afternoon, quick warming. we will see a warm afternoon and we have a warming trend if the weekend. details in a few minutes. >>> beefing up security on bart. they are putting officers in action on certain parts of the bart line, all in the name of fighting terrorism and crime. a look at where they will be and what they will be doing just ahead on kron 4 news. . >>> in bay area news, a new emergency, the fire departmen

. >> as kron 4 kate thompson explains, the couple was reported missing several days ago. >> on monday calling in billy's daughter reported the couple missing. thursday around 1:00 in the afternoon and employee found the body inside a room here. at to a 30 p.m., san mateo county officials filed the car in 98 chevy blazer, abandon on highway 1 south to pacifica thursday evening police search for more than five hours. rappelling down the side of the cliff, searching 50 yds north and south from where they found the car to find billy's body and turned up nothing friday morning if the medical examiner positively identifies the body as calling. they called their debt suspicious and say her husband is a person of interest. kate thompson kron 4 news. >> 18 days after protests guarded and just one week after what anti-government protesters called the day of departure, egyptian president, has stepped down. the announcement came from vice president, some at the case reports from washington. >> our revolutionary day and egypt as thousands of demonstrators chanted egypt is free. after hearing the n

reporting in oakland, kate thompson kron 4 news. >>parents in the mount diablo school district today, after learning to schools were shut down in august. last night, the school board voted to close holbrook elementary and glenbrook at the end of the school year. they're considering closing the third school. the board asked the superintendent to study the advantages of clothing either west would elementary or so for what elementary in concord. westwood had never been on the potential closure list, this news came as a shock to those parents. parents, teachers and school say they will fight to keep them open. >> it's very sad, we never thought the west would would be on the chopping block. were distinguishable in the district. it affects me most for the kids. >> silver what, if the kids would go to three different schools, the school would remain vacant. -- silverwood -- >> the west would students held an impromptu rally after school today making signs that say save our schools. christine walks us through. >> it this option was chosen,

kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> and from kate in the north bay, jonathan blum. >>pam: jonathan? are >> >>reporter: i'm south of palo alto. near university. this has been on/off reactivity. to a university. rain activity--del is a steady drizzle. now, it is a steady drizzle and drivers are maintaining good speeds. it is not a bumper-to-bumper but you can still see the speeds on the freeways are much lower than normal. about 30 m.p.h. really, it is a very slow plodding commute. at times it is a justified because cars in the last couple of minutes are going to with pretty decent size bottles. if you look on the horizon-pulse-- those are clouds. puddles-- >>reporter: towards the south bay, the rain is concentrated their and the backups. that is plaguing the commute. is originating. >>pam: that signal was intermittent. with at least that he is in an area that is not plagued with a lot of rain. and we read in martinez. are >> in contra costa county, the city of martinez is a we struggle with heavy winter rainfall. >>re

. >> twitter is also considering a move but as kron 4 kate thompson reports the plan is of the work tothe company in san francisco. >> this city is hoping that this location amid market street area will be the new location of twitter head cattlheadquarters. they spoke about the incentive that they plan to offer to twitter it in order to keep them in the city. it is a twitter is a growing company with 350 employees and they are hiring. if they say it's important for the city to keep those jobs and this company here. coming up at 6:00 p.m. we will explain how the city is weakening the pot for twitter in order to make sure they will leave. reporting in san francisco, a kate thompson kron 4 news. >> the it market area san francisco stretches from that street and area of abandoned theater's in crime. we sensed in the roberts to the area to show us what life is like there. >> what is life like in the market street corridor? pay close attention and i will show you what goes on. yes i'm recording the sounds of life on market street. that's a cop chasing after someone. a few other officers, for

of reporting in concord, kate thompson kron 4 news. >> what there is gorgeous on this friday evening. temperatures right now out in the '60s around the bay area. warmus in santa rosa at 69 degrees were related into the '70s. the redwood city in the '70s save for livermore. fantastic weather on the way for this coming weekend. if i think was the '70s in most places by henr . to morning clear and temperatures in the coolest place is in the upper 30's may be a few patches of fog around santa rosa. sunny skies to the day and the winds started to gusts for the afternoon possibly 20 to 30 mi. an hour. temperatures in locations into the '70s a little more about a coming up. pam. >> tonight at 5:10 p.m. the day of departure closing in on a change of government in egypt. at 5:15 p.m. we could wet or across the u.s., how the bitter cold could affect this sunday's super bowl. at 5:45 p.m. the hot superbowl at sea will want to miss during the big game. coming up. ♪ ♪ cadillac cts sports sedan. top-tier status edmunds.com. right now get this attractive lease offer on a cadillac cts sport sedan. ♪

kron 4 kate thompson has been on the scene since it happened earlier today and she joins us now with ry latest. >>kate: that barge began to take on water around 730 this morning in a tussle pushed it on to the san or that you can see right behind me what we have learned is there is about a one square foot hole that was in the side of the barge. that has been patched. if that is what caused it to take on water. if there's a number of crews that are out here at this point. we can show you video from earlier in the day of all of the cleanup crews that of been out here. now a huge response to what is turning out to be quite a small bit of fuel. the coast guard telling us this afternoon that they believe it was just about 1 gal. of fuel that was spilled into the water. they have booms out here not just one but two surrounding the entire tugboat and this barge. they also ran about a mile of boom around the marina green. this was as a precaution to make sure that the fuel did not spread. the coast guard said they had seen about a 100 yds sheen in the water they say even a small amount of oil

>>pam: kate thompson. >>reporter: the rainfall has finally let up.it is been pouring almost all day. and difficult for commuters however, now highway 1 0 1. it is a dry. a bit of a break for commuters. and with lights, or when chilled wipers and not on the buy vehicles. windshield wipers. >> this high wind advisory and flooding on the side streets also on highway 1 0 1. year large standing puddles after all of this rainfall.

as kate thompson reports it took 20 minutes for an ambulance to get to the scene. >> the fire department got 5210 hundred

kate thompson is live from novado. kate. of rebecca weigh. >>reporter: still digging, you can see plywood in the front yard. search and rescue appeared on one the scene, need to shore up this area in the back. it is ben dog by 4 ft. and one to be able to exhume the body out. and it is been dashed up by 4 ft. and crew safety is also a concern. they are about to go underneath the police tape there is a lot of activity. these children not know weather there will be able to take that body off of the property. the- still not to know when. earlier, this was video, office investigators digging. this started about two weeks ago. the neighbor finally snapped! she had not seen her neighbor to was no good explanation of where he was chief finally decided to call police. and that set all this into motion. the police came. interviewed neighbors. and the wife of deals with that she did not know where he was. and the cadaver doctor sent in last night into the backyard and that is when they noted that there was something going a newly patio lead in the backy

reporting live, kate thompson, kron 4 news. >>pam: team coverage continues now, christine connolly. the crumbling cliff in pacifica? >> >>reporter: this is what they're focusing on this red attacked and 2009. and there were-red tagged. the surf is coming against these cliffs and they're concerned about this area. in between those two buildings. there is an erosion. it is also extremely wendy. and it is compromising the foundation of these buildings it is been extremely windy. -- >>reporter: the every between these two and the work that was done but not completed. and another picture that you can see between these two buildings. the erosion, rd 320. and the building inspector is keeping a close eye on this. believe it or not he says that these buildings are protecting the lives and helping keeping it intact. reporting from pacifica, kron 4 news. >>reporter: p s f o, with big delays. during the noon hour, arrivals had to dodge raindrops to get to the terminal. once inside, ticket counters were long. and the delays were averaging about two hours. >> i think 105 was our departure. and t

kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> reporter: there are concerns about the rise in gang activity here. the increase may be the result of injunctions imposed on neighborhoods in san francisco, declaring them safety zones. as a result those gangs are looking for new turf. in response to that police formed a neighborhood response team. in san francisco, rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >> reporter: a citizen's group is calling for the recall of two counsel members. at issue, the city councilmens when it came to redevelopment projects. this one right here, the city never should have gotten involved in the first place because they didn't have the money needed to build it. now this project is palingsy completed and it might come to a stop. dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> winds are howling in parts of the bay area. fairfield wind speeds 36 miles per hour with gusts in the 50s. this continues in fairfield, also napa, 35 miles per hour right now with 23 miles per hour sustained winds. again wind advisory is in effect. just where the winds are the strongest, fairfield 52 miles per hour now. a look at our

first, we began our team coverage with kate thompson. she is here to tell us about the weather. >> it is tough. if you're going to the east coast or the midwest this is the second time they have gotten slam to with the huge storm. it is a time of flights that been canceled. they are saying that there's is looking like a first time people get out. >> chicago international airport. the second biggest busiest airport is a ghost town. every single flight on the board is cancelled. united, delta, at all suspending airlines. american it is canceling 920 flights. leaving terminals empty and travelers stock. officials are aware of the long wait before things get back on track. >> even though we are open, at the airport is open, normal operations will return slowly. >> at boston, new york and jersey and thousands of flights cancelled as crews clear the runways of snow and ice. >> a lot of travelers who have tried to get it days ago really have all of their hopes and on tomorrow. hopefully it will not get too cold tonight. not to ic. people will h

reporting live in nevada, kate thompson. >>pam: it is already training. and the winter weather advisory? >>jacqueline: yes. in the north bay and later in the south bay. we are going to be seeing is the rain spread through. some light shower activity into the golden gate. temperatures are going to be cooling off, dramatically into overnight. and an winter weather advisory. for the north bay. through mt. tam, santa rosa, the east hills. and the all diablo range. this will last until friday. temperatures will get progressively colder towards tomorrow. and with 1,000 ft. the snowfall totals. right now, 2,500 ft.. and the temperatures are going to be cooling and snow levels will continue to drop. with 1 in.-6 in. accumulations' even more at higher elevations. one- inches near 1,000 ft.. and take a look a what is going on right now. rain and light shower activity south of the golden gate but heavier activity is north. the writer is a leasing highway 1 0 1-precipitation. and that radar is picking it up. near richmond. temperatures not that cold but as this progr

and kate thompson issue was had faulted and third streets now? >> well, i am pulled over, earlier i was on--fulton. and it is just a nightmare! i am nearly 1.5 blocks from one of the on ramp to the bay bridge. things are barely moving. a truck next to me when i pulled over 30- 45 minutes ago. and it is maybe 15-20 ft. away. you see that it is barely moving at all in the amount of of 45 minutes. when i vote down towards fulton street towards downtown and away from the bay bridge when i- look. as far as my eyes can see, all traffic. everything is moving in one direction. every single lane is packed with cars and they're not moving. it is an incredibly terrible situation. i was walking up and down the sidewalks speaking with the commuters. i spoke to one- woman when heard about the accident. she had heard that it was going to be cleared by 4:00 p.m. she waited, sandwich, the other road and now with this accident still not clear. she is still waiting. the rest nothing she can do about it. she is eating her sandwich and waiting. she thought that she w

reporting in san francisco, kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> a walnut creek restaurant this wtonight at the buckhorn on the kitchen stove. it quickly entered the ventilation system in the attic. storage items in the attic caught on fire. it took 30 minutes to put out that fire. >> no injuries. >> and a water utility on gary rd after 7:00 a.m. that was shot down. you can see that fire crews tackled this please. firefighters say equipment failure is because. after the plant was switching over from a generator power this morning. after an weekend power outage. no injuries. f. nabors that were awoken that it was reminiscent of the san bruno gas explosion. >> with that a loud explosion it sounded like an airplane. >> it was an odd, weird sound like a rushing sound. immediately, the thing that i thought was that san bruno. >> about the gas line. i looked out the window and i saw a large pot of smoke that covered one block. there was an odd smell in the year for a while. >> these pictures will show you the damage. spokesman's from the utility says that since 2008, it was offline but no disrupt

. >> today, kate thompson spoke with newly ejecthe appointed ahead-- ms. kim. >> the redevelopment would be funding the substation for the police department on the sixth. this sub-station is dedicated only four patrol. police walking the beat. >> and can you arrester way out of this problem with only foot patrol? to arrest the problems away? >> i'm hoping that the foot patrol presence will decrease general crime. if people are drunk? bringing them to a sobrieties center where they have health services. in " sleep it off ". and the homeless advocate team. and if there has to be a combination of services and the police. >> details about how many officers will be put on foot patrol on the sixth. and one that a sub-station will open this year. >> ominous develops in the chips. 2.5 weeks that hosni mubarak will define the demand to step down. despite widespread reports that he would do so. thousands of disappointed protesters in the liberation square marching to the presidential palace. u.s. officials are equally frustrated. hosni mubarak is not respected, and

kate thompson jane kim who represents this area on how to turn this area are round. >> beer bottles, syringes and people passed out. this is a snapshot that kron 4 cameras captured on sixth. supervisor, jane cam and wanted to get police presence. >> if so, this year redevelopment will be funding a sub-station for the police department on the sixth street. and this is exclusively dedicated to foot patrol. >> the highest vacancy rate in the city with 30%. and with twitter and other companies to move to mid market. enticing them with peril tax breaks. >> it is a tax break. and is it enough to bring an that is been so distressed! the sidewalks are scary! >> twitter is an example that yes, this will help bring new jobs to a mid market. we are hoping that this will encourage that, and grow and a san francisco that is trencha-rich. but commercial property. >> and with those companies have already expressed concern about that area? >> you know, we're talking to c companies that are committed to change for san francisco. what attracting them as if the want to make a difference in the communit

. >>> kate thompson kro no 4 news.e were looking over san francisco and it's a beautiful evening tonight. there's the camera shaking a bit. light winds around the bay area can tonight. temperatures not -- around the bay area tonight. temperatures not as cool. here are the clouds going up into the pacific northwest. that will keep us dry for the weekend. on the tail end of the system there's development and it's headed our way for the coming seven days. tomorrow, nice and sunshine all around the bay area for everyone and the whole weekend should be spared any kind of rain because it's well off shore, at midnight saturday night, sunday morning, low clouds at the coast but that is it. through the day sunday, the high clouds begin to increase in advance of the weather system that is slowly getting closer. >>> so, clouds on the increase, and 6:00 monday morning, there's rain, off shore and it arrives around noon monday so it looks like, at this point, it would be evening commute mormon is looking soggy, the rain is coming t

kate thompson, kron 4 news. >>> it was a showery day today, tomorrow heavy rain.he storm is up to the north. up and down the west coast. bringing cold air to the west coast and we will get that too once the tail end pushes through into the bay area. let's look on future cast for tomorrow morning. 5:00, scattered showers. as we move into the later morning hours, notice the rain to the north, the heavier band of rain pushing in to the north bay. we will see heavy rain for several hours. in the north bay. notice how it's moving slowly down to the south. 4:00, pushing south. but at 6:00 heavy rain over the north bay. 10:00 hour, once it makes that push, it moves quickly. quite a bit of rain, especially in the north bay, 2 inches there. inch in the central and east bays and less in the south bay. we are also going see gusty winds with the storm. let's look on future cast. 3:00, 20s. 31 miles per hour in oakland, fairfield and santa rosa. this will continue through the afternoon and into the evening. 36 in oakland at 7:00. and continuing through the evening. and it dies

as kate thompson reports firefighters said the water supply of the bridge would cut down on response time. >>kate: was no fire hydrants on the bridge, they had to call-in water trucks to help about the fire caused by a tractor-trailer. >> its archaic. >>kate: the fire chief said it took 40 minutes to extinguish the flames which could of been done much faster if there is a water supply and the bridge. >> just like the old days when they had to have a bucket brigade. it was essentially with engine companies trying to keep moving water back out to resupply so we could fight the fire. the >>kate: at 5:00 p.m. is the chiefs morning falling on deaf years? as the bridge goes under multimillion- dollar retrofit and more hydrants are not in the plans. >>caller: 5:00 with a developing story. >>live, from the bay area's news station, this is kron4 news at 5:00. this little boy missing and napa, seven year-old christian was last seen at no. what elementary school at 12:45 p.m. he has not been cents sincseen since. e paulo with

kate thompson spok to a uc-berkeley student. and after she was finally able to reach her father and her mother, actress sisters. >> and it is just been done justice, to say the least. and i wanted to actually get on a plane to go to egypt but then i of understood and realized that it was not smart. at first, their cellphones were not working and i could not get in touch with them. >> and you said that you are crying to your father? why? we had no idea what was going on. and the media was blowing things out of proportion. where they blowing everything out? was this true. now, to be able to hear them and to reassure us that they are fine. that is definitely something that i was glad for. and my neighbors, partlhad to protect themselves from the potential luting. even if you are in an era where events are not taking place. if the danger is everywhere, to fend for yourself and protect yourself. >> coming of the kron 4 news at 5:00 p.m. we speak with the associate prof. of the was just in each of days before the demonstration took of

kate thompson has been at the scene all day and she joins us with the latest on the situation. >>kate: the coast guard said they now believe that maybe just a gallon of oil or fuel spilled out of oubarge. there's a lot of equipment here taking a lot of precautions setting up not one, but to booms. you could see the yellow blooms in the water surrounding this barge and all of the tug boats making sure that nothing seeps into the water. we could show you video from earlier in the day. there were clean up crews here all day, the video is missing so we will go back to the live picture. the crews were laying out the bones, and extending them around the field. they're still here at this point. they brought in this large crane here. they going to start off loading the sand. this barge that started to take on water and sank this morning, was stretching sand from the bay. what they're trying to do is have this crane lifted some of the sand off the barge. hopefully that barge will then get later, float and then when high tide comes the have an easier time removing it from the waterway. th

we have a team coverage on the crash beginning with kron 4 kate thompson. he joins us live from these poll also. >>kate: is taking several hours for them to clear the crash which meant the dumbarton bridge was closed in both directions for several hours. the eastbound side close for three and half hours for drivers. you could see during the rush hour things moving very well now. just over this bridge where the bridge charts to curve that is where the crash happened. we can roll video and show you all of the smoke from one this tractor-trailer hit a car that stalled in the right lane. the risk thick black smoke, plums going up into the air. they had to send fire crews out onto the bridge to put out the fire. both the car and tractor trailer are erupting into flames. you could see nothing left of the cab of the truck is just a twisted mass of metal. it a completely burned out. it took the quite a few hours to get this cleaned up and pulled off the bridge. these funds that of the bridge not opening until about 230 this afternoon. i spoke to a woman from powell

kron4's kate thompson is here. and the city said that it was resolved.the mayor and the police chief? >>reporter: this is the second time in one month with real problems and they say they have fixed the last months problem. overall, this system has been plagued with problems. yet another incident this past weekend. two people were shot this past weekend and there were left scrambling on able to read the dispatch and with the static and the transmission problems. there were not able to-communicate with dispatch. there were trying to trace it back to a specific and tell that was replaced on saturday. the specific-antenna. with age causing problems. this occurrence was only two weeks away from the previous problem when it did not work for the radios. the high-speed chase ended up with san leandro/86 where the suspect was shot. a few days later, jean quan and chief anthony bats said that problem was fixed with the sulfur reset. however, system-wide, it still was problematic. the earlier problem has been temporarily reset with the software. >> with the proble

reporting live in san francisco, kate thompson kron 4 news. >>pam: high winds a factor all around the bay area today. video shot from earlier today and oakland hills, you could see the tree limbs going back and forth. that's always a concern for pg&e crews. jacqueline is here to tell us. we've already seen rain starting. >>jacqueline: think pg&e will be busy tonight. once that name rain passes through the wind will kick up. >>pam: what can we expect? >>jacqueline: heavy rain into the overnight hours. it will push south about 10:00 p.m. possible date. let's zoom in to the heavier rainfall and see our current conditions. it's been when he today, rainfall in novato not too bad right now. wind gusts at 38 mi. an hour. very windy. santa rosa weeks been seeing a light rain, wind gusts 26 mi. an hour and rain and return to an inch at this point. in napa, where same rain fall not quite to tense right now. tracking out to the northeast right now, making that southward push you could see this storm wishing to the south a little bit. this will continue o

as kate thompson reports without that money, and new projects in the bay area will come to a halt to plans to revitalize neighborhoods would be devastated. >> there is from the east bay from big cities to small towns without state redevelopment money projects just won't happen. from transit villages to affordable housing. cities will be able to build the projects anymore. the state is putting forward that these projects would happen without to economic aid. it's absolutely your road yes. >> this city wants to put in housing units, retail and a new hotel. all that is in jeopardy if the state redevelopment money goes away. the city is pointing what to one of the success stories the uptown district, where they turn the area around. coming up at 5:00 p.m. all have a tour of that area. reporting in oakland, kron 4 news. >> live look at stockton street in san francisco, the area between market street insider is down to one lane. crews have begun work on the central subway system there. we will be right back. @ stocks closed mixed the dow rose seven points. it had one down day in the last 1

kate thompson on cover the concerns and she joins us live near the dumbarton bridge with the latest details. >>kate: some first responders are saying this bridge inspector prime for disaster. just the base of the bridge behind the white chalk is the one and only fire hydrant for this bridge. as you could see its of a service road not even located on top of the bridge. behind a chain-link fence and barbed wire this is the only fire hydrant located on the service road underneath the 1.6 mi. dumbarton bridge. having no water supply and the bridge as been a serious safety concern for more than 20 years. >> it's been a concern for over two decades of the bridge, it's been noted before and we've requested of the state that they put a water supply system. >>kate: during the tractor- trailer fire multiple tanks had been called in to extinguish the fire which burned for about 40 minutes. the fire chief said the amount of time and resources needed to put out what he calls a small fire, she illustrates exactly why there needs to be a water supply on the bridge. >> it wasn't that significant of a fire.

kron 4 kate thompson was at the scene of the crash in joins us from the end of the bridge at the eastside. kate. >>kate: it took crews several hours to clear the crash. three and half hours all lands in the east bound side of the dumbarton bridge were completely closed down. you can see right here over this curved that is where the accident happened. all the lanes of these funds side were shut down for three and a half hours and the west of a shutdown for about two hours. the into the video that was taken by a bike rider who was riding over the bridge just when the crash happened around 11:00 this morning. the black smoke the tractor- trailer hit a car that install the in the right- hand lane. both of those vehicles completely going off in flames. fire crews had to bring water trucks onto the bridge to put out that fire and then bring in flat bed trucks to tow the whole mess away. this is why it took so long. the three and a half hours for them to open the bridge. we also caught up with the woman whose woman's car stalled on the bridge for badlher battery completely shut down. luckily

reporting in san jose, a kate thompson kron 4 news.ig weather story tonight is the rain in the snow. take a look at sierra, snow still flying pretty heavily over the passes and likely to tahoe. if you're making that we can get away, i would suggest waiting until the morning until the winter storm warning has been lifted. right now it's a mess trying to get up there. very low snow levels as well. forcing snow locally here. here's a look at rain, throughout the bay area. heavy down the south bay, a moderate through the rest of the bay area. pretty steady over the past several hours. have your right up to the north, there is that snow i was talking about over mount tam. heavier rain continuing into san jose at this hour, cupertino, san jose and milpitas all seem rainfall in excess of a quarter of an inch of our. if coming down right now with the south bay. zero months and inch of rain in the past 24 hours in san jose. the storm will push up to the north into the overnight hours in the rain will taper off to bed after midnight. the rain mo

speakes reported in san francisco, a kate thompson kron 4 news. >> efforts have been made to try andalize that stretch along market street but no plan seems to stick. kron 4 we'll show you the problems that are plaguing the mid market area a little later in this newscast. facebook held a news conference in the menlo park city council chambers to officially announce that its new world headquarters will move from palo alto to menlo park. if the company is outgrowing its current campus and will be selling into the giant old sun microsystems campus. kron 4 tech reporter tells us why facebook chose this location and have some local residents are wary about facebook moving and. >> there's any doubt about how big facebook is and how big it will become look at what they're moving into. if the old campus is 1 million square feet, occupies 57 a.. it can accommodate 3600 employees in its nine buildings. facebook currently has 2000 employes but said its hiring more this year. >> we were looking for a place that would enable us to put current employees and give us the opportunity to continue grow

kate thompson reports. >> reporter: criticism is all over the half marathon finish back page. it was the most negligent think i've ever witnessed. it took more than 20 minutes for an ambulance to reach the 36 year-old. seeing here in the right, he collapsed near the finish line. the race which was sponsored by congress or permanent to release the statement " we were not involved in the events operations or the staffing the medical response race organizers as a private ambulance was fired. there was tending to another runner. medical personnel was dispatched. the first 911 called gave the wrong location. getting through a crowd of 10,000 people is why it took so long. the city's deputy director called the emergency resources insufficient. private events are required to hire their own emergency resources. san and sister, kate thompson, kron4 news. >> james: the head of the company that produces the marathon says there were no delays. no delays that their words in getting aid to the runner. san francisco is facing a multi million dollar deficit yet, the city is shelling out huge

kate thompson reports that it took 20 minutes for ambulance to get to the scene. >> criticism of these is all over the kaiser facebook page. and it is the most negligent things i've ever witnessed. over 20 minutes to reach 36 year-old from orinda collapsed near the finish line. it was sponsored by kaiser permanente in the released this statement. as a sponsor only of the 1/2. on kaiser permanente was not involved in the operations or staffing the hresponse. >> and a private ambulance was on a another runner. medical personnel was dispatched. the fire department says the first 911 call provided the wrong location. getting through a crowd of 10,000 people is why it took so long. the depth review of emergency management calls this " insufficient. private events are calling their own--they are responsible for providing their own emergency health service. >> gang activity should be forced to be forcing gangs south. towards a peninsula and south san francisco are beefing up patrol in the old italian neighborhood. the recent drug by shooting could be gang-related in the old town-neighborhoo

. >> kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> and video of and eight year-old saudi girl giving advice has goneviral. a clip. >> kimberly? >> cam, this i100,000 these are tips fourth hosni mubarak >> i would tell him to remove... and let them vote, and let the pegypt of a vote. and also if he does not? it is going to be more difficult for him, later. and by the way? some of your police officers are removing their jackets and joining the people. >> this has brought a lot of people, and amazing child who she becomes a something great. and >> our coverage of the uprising will continue online. www.kron4.com >> off a school evacuated in oakland after officials received a gunman. la escuelita elementary school at 1100 3rd avenue in oakland right before 1:00 p.m. there received a phone call that a man was on the school grounds with a portablwith a rifle, and he was reported seen at a portable classroom. and they were escorted by police, once all of these children are out the swat team was sent inside the school to check room by room. to see if anybody was hiding out. parents were called. as you can im

in oakland, kate thompson kron 4 news. >> in concord budget problems have led to his school cuts. shut down glenbrook middle school at the end of this year. they're considering closing a third school, they ask the superintendent to look at the advantages of closing the door was what elementary or so for what elementary. the next and the board will meet is in february 15th. >> in san jose, the preliminary hearing is under way in the high-profile case of william lynch. the 43 year-old lynch is accused of assaulting a los gatos priest who allegedly molested lynch 35 years ago. fathered gerald also known as fair of father jerry is a member of the sacred heart jesuits center. prosecutors say lynch attacked and beat him in may of 2010. outside the courthouse lynch supporters carried signs that read, free willy. sang the wrong man is on trial here. in san jose kron 4 news. >> in oakland, opd investigators looking into the case of an asian- american woman sexually assaulted in the lobby of her apartment complex here on a street in jackson. they say there's been a break in the case now tha

kate thompson spoke to us student to left her family in egypt two weeks ago. >> desperate for contact, 20 year-old arena has been glued to her cell phone for five days. >> myself: is my life rain now. this is my gave way.the wa. y. studying at uc-berkeley they have been sleeping in shifts trying to step on the latest from friends and family tackling the time difference. >> we tax, we are keeping each other's eyes. like a support system. >> able to reach her family she turned to twitter to keep everyone informed from conversations with her father to the calling cards. >> the most i've slept was three hours. even then i don't turn my phone off. in case anyone had news or updates on my family. i have been treating with lots of other people. we have all been treated and network. there are lots of facebook groups keeping people informed. >> again for continuing coverage and egypt hour by hour, keeping it to into www.kron4.com. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. welcome back, a school in oakland is expected to be opened as normal a

as kate thompson talked to the fire chief involved in putting yesterday's blaze. ins us live to explain the dangers leading up to this. >>kate: the fire chief has a lot of concern about the danger with the dumbarton bridge. no. 1 there is only one fire hydrant for the bridge and it's not even on the bridge. it's located at the base of the bridge. the way the bridge is designed it there is this large slope that goes up towards. we can show you video from chopper for that will illustrate the rise in this bridge. the fire chief said those two things combined, and not have been water available for first responders like with what happened yesterday, plus the fact that any sort of gasoline or a truck carrying anything flammable if it flipped over and was involved in a fire all of the flammable liquid would roll down the hill. with a water source of the bridge, firefighters would be really hard pressed to put that fire out. >> it's been one of our war scenarios on this bridge is to have the vehicle with gasoline or tanker truck and the gas sexual still the overpass and ca

reporting in concord kate thompson kron 4 news. >> karen oakland our recent incident where officers lostto vacation with each other in the field. it promised chief in the best have officers double up to the radio communication problem is prepared. >> if any system is not working properly i want to make sure officers can back each other up. we in fact in many areas got a two-person units. >> and other big story in oakland police chief anthony batts sustained. he had been up for the job as chief in san jose when he didn't get the job he expressed frustration. putting into question whether he would remain on the jobs of those contracts. since then he is received overwhelming support from the committee thus he is met with council members in the mayor to work out some problems. in the and he says he wants to stay. in oakland to reset kron 4 news. >> wren san jose congestion relief is on the way for one of the south bay worst traffic bottlenecks. it it's the $45 million federally funded highway 1 01 construction is now under way on the new overpass as well as new southbound lane between capito

kate thompson talked to the fire chief in charge of putting out this fire. >> reporter: at the dumbarton bridge some first responders voicing concern over the fact that there's only one fire hydrant at the base of this bridge. for more than two decades the fire chief has been asking for mark russell supply on the bridge or a fire hydrant to be moved on top. he says this isn't a concern after tuesday's tractor-trailer a fire that shut down the bridge for several hours. caltrans says it has agreed to move the 100 up on top of the bridge. when that will happen? they are unsure. >> will: two weeks after the majority of births board of director said there will be no vote today on the status of general manager. according to the examiner she is negotiating at the bridge from her own terms. they voted 5-4 in a closed- door session to oppose term. post her. --a ppust. a former bay area officer was responsible for driving while intoxicated bridge to crush an injured a teenage girl in 2008, working as a criminal investigator for the da at the time. sentences could district attorney george custer an

northern california passenger rights advocate kate hahny and congressman mike thompson, want these tarmac rules written into law and they want more protections for international flights. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> some amazing video out of iran today. it shows members of iran's parliament chanting calling for the execution of opposition leaders. [chanting] >> this protest happened on the streets of tehran yesterday. tens of thousands of people defied a warning from the government not to demonstrate. >>> and a major policy address today, secretary of state hillary clinton will warn repressive governments around the world that restricting the internet will not hold back demands for democratic reform. secretary clinton will restrict those trying to use the internet for democracy. hillary clinton says regimes that restrict internet usage may be able to withhold calls for change in the short-term but not ferever. >>> the new republican-led house of representatives has passed an extension of the patriots act. the bill was designed to promote ter