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

. >> 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

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

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

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

. >> 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

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

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

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,

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

reporting live and services go, kate thompson kron 4 news.: are continuing team coverage on the approaching storm would now join jonathan blum. >>jonathan: were right off the richmond sambar felt bridge about to go through the toll gate. the bridge there is a high wind advisory in effect going across the bridge. a little earlier we went across the bridge in the other direction and the wind was blowing in the south to the west. as we go across the bridge right now, you could see the trees that are blowing and around some of the flex that the toll plaza those are also blowing around pretty rapidly. we've been experiencing here on the richmond san rafael is sort of gusty wind. wind that died down for a few seconds that it will start blowing your car around. if it sneaks up on you can be very frightening. you can see hazy skies right now. a lot of drivers talk in the briefs. where are signs that tell drivers about the high wind advisory in effect. even see the drivers here going significantly slower than the 55 mi. an hour. there is wind blowing

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. ♪

speakes reported in san francisco, a kate thompson kron 4 news. >> efforts have been made to try and lize 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 growi

kron 4 news. at 5:30 >> at 5:30 another revitalization of market street. a crime ridden section a woman was being assaulted the/raw on a sixth. 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

reporting live from the dumbarton bridge kate thompson kron 4 news.: the incident caused a major backup. he concealed a right traffic heading east side was backed up for hours. if the lanes were fossils from she lanes to one. if treasurers were detoured on university avenue. many waiting in the back of didn't quite know what was going on until they got to the detour. if please direct them to take that there highway 237 or the san mateo bridge in order to get to the state. >> i'm headed into a word. i'm going to take a bite to 37 are back for the san mateo bridge. >> i headed to fremont for jury duty. >> i'm going to hayward. why should i do? (laughter) i'm sorry this happened life happens we have to adjust. >>pam: the eastbound lanes of traffic or reopened about 2:30 p.m. one of new zealand's largest cities is in ruins tonight after a deadly earthquake hit in the middle of the lunch hour. a magnitude 6.3 quake was centered on christ church on the southern island. it toppled the spire of the city's landmark a couldn't cathedral. the official death toll

as these had to be rescued through lon- rhode island--kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> and temperatures are cooling. along the 40's on half moon bay. 50s along the rest of the bay powerhous look for another cold night with clear skies overnight. and again this fog could be formulating. however, just patchy. temperatures will be in the 30's and the morning. and then a nice warm-up by five, 10 degrees. 60s, 70's and a chilly day on tap. chilly nights and mild after indians. this storm track- mild-afternoons. this storm is hovering. the same is tomorrow but it will not impact us that much. again, to grab your jacket with 30's in the morning. a 36 degrees in napa, 30's in fairfield, livermore, and upper 30s call low forties for the bayshore. 36 degrees and the san francisco. organize the, 70 degrees and the santa rosa. and 56 in vallejo, well above average for this time of year. and 67 degrees expected in redwood city. mountain view. and los gatos. and for your and sierra forecast the mountains. sunny skies and high clouds. temperatures are going to be rather warm. and with upper 40's on th

. >> 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

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

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

we have a team coverage on the crash beginning with kron 4 kate thompson.she 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

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

kron 4 news. >> 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

kron 4 news. >> of the deadly raiman. peter hanh was running at the kaiser permanente one half marathon. as kate thompson reports it took 20 minutes for an ambulance to get to the scene. >> the fire department got 5210 hundred

kron 4 learn there's a big concern about the bridge among men of urgency responders. 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 exactl