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looking great >> the big story in weathers the fog look at the bay bridge you can see there is an advisory for fog to the bay bridge no advisories' in other places but plenty of fog >> we are starting off in fog in a lot of camera shots out there visibility is down a quarter mile in some spots this morning. shot from the golden gate bridge if you're heading down 1 01 from the north bay be prepared to hit some dense packages of fog out there. also dealing with wet weather this morning to scattered showers but it should be dry by the weekend. we are looking at an improvement there and the wet weather today not expected to be persisted as widespread as yesterday your visibility's out there will show you the same quarter miles through fairfield half a mile through napa and san rosa a bit of an improvement in visibility through novato over a mile.

here is storm tracker for all lit up this morning in the north bay now moving south as well we are picking up rain drops as we head downtown san francisco san rafael right now seeing a cell freeing heavier downpours removing through sir francis drake boulevard. also wet weather stretching down to these bay as well. as you had further south than looks like half moon bay watching a cell move through bringing the heavier downpours is what richmond san rafael bridge and down park bridge picking up rain this morning. i we 37 through vallejo as well. you're temperatures right now on the one side there in the '50s pretty much everywhere you go 59 in through mountain view this morning. you're 7 day around the bay we will bring this afternoon highs up into the low 60s is some of the

warmer spots tomorrow maybe see left over sprinkle or two mainly in the north bay for the most part we should be dry saturday, sunday and an abundance of sunshine warming it up into the '70s come sunday and monday. >> all about the fog this morning i say hot spots because we don't have any. in terms of big problems are back ups but an advisory here for highway 13 pacific gas visibility reduced 100 ft. or less that could likely mean problems for highway 135 interchange as well. that is one area we are often time fog distance chp will close down that interchange. interstate 80 the camera through albany this is the short freeway 580 and 80 come together you can see just how dense the fog is by golden gate fields that is why a fog advisory has been issued by chp and caltrans for the bay bridge. take a look at the

toll plaza shot pretty good back up west grand now good size back up is what i should say you can see there's hardly any movement here likely because of the fog they clamp down on the meter and light this morning. strikes me as counter into order of if you let more traffic through you have to go slower but with fewer cars on the road you are tempted to buy fast dry faster. a good backup for the west bound ride. take a look at the ride on golden gate bridge highway 1 01 where we no longer sorry we don't have the fog advisory we do as you can see here have plenty of fog in the north bay you will see really see visibility restricted. darya. >> tim coverage of the foggy weather continues let's go to jackie sizzle was live in and rebuild jackie is it

bigger? >> it has eased up a little in emery felt at that cal street exit. in the background you can see there's not much visibility i made my way kind of around the bay area this morning especially in the north bay and the spade from novato to the golden gate bridge i can say waldo grade was socked in you couldn't even see the bridge might i made my way back across the bridge i can say that span was also heavy fog. the other thing you'll notice it will hit the cells where it's raining so the wet road blake plus the fog so it really slows down the commute this morning. >> you heard him leave early if you can anyone be there on time. >> at tourist after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project,

finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. it also means a complicated series of maneuvers - and traffic changes - to reconfigure the eastern end of the existing bay bridge in both directions so that a portion of the incline section can be cut away to make way for construction of the eastbound landing of the new bridge. those reconfigurations will bring changes in the alignments of the westbound approach to the existing bridge as well as the eastbound landing, both of which will take a turn to the south. the new eastbound alignment will probably premiere in may or june. the westbound change, which will include a temporary span, is likely to come at the end of 2011. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> an accident on 880 near washington shut down three lanes for a couple of hours this morning look at the wreckage from the crash. 315 this morning a black super ruth slammed into the divider that separates the freeway from an on ramp. it then headed toyota corolla the driver of the subaru was killed the second driver on in the toyota was not hurt there's no cause on the accident yet but everything

has been cleaned >> up. 18 month old boy is in hospital after falling into found at the hyatt hotel they responded yesterday afternoon after mick getting their call about a missing child the boy was found in a decade or decorative fountains in the lobby officers tried to revive the child he was taken to hospital where are waiting for an update on the condition. >> >> police in san jose say they will stop the san jose police department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead, officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. the new policy would give officers the option of allowing the driver to park the vehicle and have a licensed driver pick it up that day. if the car is towed, a licensed driver can pick it up almost immediately and pay applicable fees and fines, but without having to wait 30 days. it could begin as early as next week. >> in developing story out

of u.k. students are marching through london right now headed towards parliament they are voting on a plan here to triple university tuition fees in britain. here is a video out of the area of thousands of protesters taking part. this is weeks of protests across great britain thousands of students held demonstrations drive the country some of those have turned violent that's why please direct air force this afternoon in england. the tuition hike is the plan to reduce the budget deficit we have to see if it works. all we know right now it's not popular. >> 7 08 a.m. back with more couple of minutes and george has an update in traffic. >> highway 1 01 in san francisco 1 01 to 81 lane is blocked and is backing up

their ride on to the skyway and inbound central freeway. lots of fog out there as well complete traffic updates when the kron 4 morning news returns.

a reminder to really foggy out there almost hour delays on average assets of fog advisory at the bay bridge visibility is close to zero in parts of the north bay more on the fog and whether as the news continues. ♪electronic santa song

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some of 3:00 p.m. hot spot in san francisco and accident happened 1 01 at 280 interchange blocking one lane of traffic you can see how it is slowing things down in mountain freeway and here on the skyway. it meets up with a central freeway that's where the james lick

freeway begins and last pass a 280 interchange that's where the slow traffic will last once pass that easier ride out of the city. it is evident traffic is not completely stopped that is good news is getting by it is possible they move the accident to the shoulder but it is still there garnering attention that's why we still have backups if rows heading towards an appointment i would use to 80 and get on at sixth or can and avoid this delay towards sfo or even to get back to 280 i was still take to 80 from downtown san francisco and avoid these delays. from here to san mateo bridge a stock has been reported in the west bound direction earlier this morning there was no fog problems but that has changed traffic is disappearing into the fog

here westbound direction it is possible we could see a back up with the stall reported out a around the trestle section before the high rise this bridges along even blocking lanes it could take awhile to see things get backed up. finishing with the ride on one away 13 san jose traffic is slow and now just north of the guadalupe parkway leading up towards trouble occurs we have been incidents free this morning on south bay freeways. 7:17 a.m. warm weather and this fog here's lisa >> all the residual moisture is making for this really dense fog we may want to give yourself extra time because of the fog out there in fact you can see really socked in the golden gate bridge this morning san rosa down to about ninth of an inch story back down to less than a mile in 3 san rosa in terms of visibility for now about eight the mile

and fair fairfield and oakland down less than a quarter mile of visibility those are some problems spots this morning sfo currently to miles. here's a visual of were the fog is all the orange the densest fog is an up tercet rosa napa valley in through fairfield also pockets of oakland as well. along the peninsula of dense fog along the coast happen bay also dealing with quite a bit of wet weather out there the radar is still lit up this morning we will take you plows into the peninsula showing you a few light showers this morning some showers over the bay bridge also taking it through p.m. redwood city dealing with showers as well. up bin pinole a cell move to through 80 there is coming down at about happen in per hour saw a little heavier there. as we widen it out that rain through the central valley also snowfall

in the sierra as well at this hour. current temperatures are on one side '50s right across the board for san jose, fremont 56 for san francisco. you're afternoon highs not budging much we could get into the low 60s is some warmer spots but that's that friday left over rain drops and the north bay the weekend shaping up to be a nice one temperatures getting into the '70s. >> 7:19 a.m. today authorities will burn down this home in southern california authorities have called a bomb factory yesterday a judge cleared the way for them to set this fire to this house they will do it at 9:00 a.m. the home near san diego was the nation's largest home and homemade explosives. neighbors will be evacuated and a high we will be closed during the burn. the house is too dangerous for bomb squads to re-enter some have

to burn it down. >> report showed there was no corrosion in december and a pipeline exploded experts say inspection minds met the are inadequate. engineers say the method could leave a host of problems like cracks and external pressure on the pipes to go on notice engineers recommended pg&e adopt better inspection processes >>. studies show they went on napa hunt for the drug to for the execution in december the intensive search files failed when the plant's september persecution had to be called off because they did not have a drug. >> a deadly cal train accident a man in his 40's was on the tracks at the san mateo station around 315

yesterday afternoon passengers were getting off when the accident happened it was a system wide delayed during the evening commute it was the 11th fatality this year 19 people died on the track's last year caltrans says they're looking at trying to >>. over their refusal to process donations to the wikileaks web site pay possible return of funds frozen in wikileaks account id is not clear where or when this lawsuit would be heard. >> sara palance web site came under attack paler last week called him an operative with blood on his hands he questioned why he was then pursued with the same urgency as i dead and television. one of the aide said they acted quickly to

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welcome back 7:25 a.m. trouble live shots to show you conditions as you head out the door around the bay. on the left james lick in san francisco all great foggy and very wet you can see sluggish traffic traffic headed towards us 1 01 south the two shots on the right are the golden gate and that one blow visibility there indefinitely what probably slow commute through marin county to get to that point and even worse at is the bay bridge the right hand corner can hardly see the cars stretching pass the parking lot. geological surveys show

is too small earthquakes this morning near castle rock and santa cruz county the first one about 345 v m 2.0 the epicenter 6 mi. north of boulder creek a second smaller quake happened a few seconds later 1.8 it was centered in this san region. >> the police department and manioc understaffed with the recent spike in homicide investigators are having to work overtime to try and solve crimes. this year police department has investigated 10 homicides more than double the last year the city's budget woes 50 police officer positions have remained unfilled. >> i am so happy with how they are able in spite of that to interview people, get leads, and to solve crimes. they have gone leads and the rest of people that you would think that the result of loss of manpower would mean we wouldn't be

able to do that they're still doing that. >> they hope they can strike a deal to read more cuts if it isn't reached the force is stretched thinner. we will be back as a news continues to live look from the bay bridge toll plaza right now we have fog and a big back up of fog the advisory in effect in the bay bridge visibility to near zero in parts of the state this morning.

welcome back to kron 4 morning news we've been tracking a hot spot in san francisco 101 the accident block some lanes the chp move the vehicles out of the traffic lanes and they were trying to get them off the road but it doesn't appear they have succeeded yet. based on how slow things are here moving through the city. you can definitely see the pace is picking up for the next 5-10 minutes that i had to leave the house and head toward a set of i would

probably want a get on too weighty a thereat king street rather than jump on the skyway or the central freeway if i needed to get to the airport in a hurry. this will likely clear road in the next 10-15 minutes. from here will take you to delay on highway 4 yesterday we had accident out here at port chicago that backed up traffic through the will pass near the same location the crash has been reported again this morning accounting for once again today delays coming out of pittsburgh for the west part ride and 242. southbound out of concord into pleasant hill and down towards what craig says bound ride into san ramon valley looks better this morning than it did yesterday is slowing here but it is not run down to a stock for the ride down to all mall fog contending with in contra cost curve valley. from here to the bay

bridge from a dry tree has been enough at this morning the back up reaching toward west grand avenue may start to improve slightly it appears they have sped up the cycle of the meter and light slightly for the west bound ride. 7:31 a.m. saga has been locked the watchword also in the what the department so let's get to liza >> fog a good contender we are dealing with quite a bit of it everywhere you go at this hour. it has started to become more dense visibility less than a quarter mile in many areas downtown san francisco james left low ceiling heights out there this morning also still seeing wet weather nice isolated showers a bit of a different story than yesterday not expecting it to persist or be as widespread. continuing to seashores paper off toward the weekend. the weekend will be nice out there. your father in fact really nice

visibility to argue an idea of how thick the fog is visibility is a mile less quarter mile of visibility in the north bay this hour. the delta and napa valley in oakland. if you're headed over the bay bridge as mine make sure to keep that in mind. visibility for you down to eight the mile in 3 san rosa napa quarter mile for fairfield and oakland as well. we are improving in a bottle of miles through concord this morning. storm tracker for lit up a lot of activity seeing showers and a net bay much of the morning and sells for martinez. it brings rainfall rates half an inch per hour heavier downpours erelong the peninsula very light showers almost missed the out there. really not seeing much in the amount of rain every year rain little bit of salt 3 to 80 towards red with city and over the san

mateo bridge as well. storm tracker for bringing all that wet weather right on through the central valley up and the sierra seeing snowfall the sierra current temperatures are in the warm side were in the 50's most locations 53 antioch 55 through ever more 57 in mountain view hayward and san jose 553 san francisco. in the afternoon not expected to warm up much might get up to 64 richmond, concord upper 50s and san rosa as san francisco's '60s for oakland and hayward down and assess a temperature 62 san jose tomorrow when they see left over rain mainly through the north bay and looks like we will remain dry more saturday and sunday dry and clear blue skies and sunshine by the end of the weekend low 70's same for monday as well. will be nice for doubleday's

then rain comes back into the picture. >> but we can get there to will get through this fog which is all reporter jacki cecil who has been staked out at emeryville. >> did she just said blue skies and sunshine? >> you have to get through the fog to get their traffic on the shore free white headed towards a maze fading often to the fog. the fog has let up here travel around the bay area this morning in the north bay really sought on the wall the grade as a maid was a way towards richmond san rafael bridge mid span very heavy fog. combine that with the cells and continue to roll through light sprinkle here and there. roadway is wet surprisingly enough no trials on traffic here we are headed into the heart of the commute at 730 so we may start to see the weather

affected traffic. >> thing to do jackie. >> after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. it also means a complicated series of maneuvers - and traffic changes - to reconfigure the eastern end of the existing bay bridge in both directions so that a portion of the incline section can be cut away to make way for construction of the eastbound landing of the new bridge. those reconfigurations will bring changes in the alignments of the westbound approach to the existing bridge as well as the eastbound landing, both of which will take a turn to the south. the new eastbound alignment will probably premiere in may or june. the westbound change, which will include a temporary span, is likely to come at the end of 2011. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> the san jose police department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead, officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't involve allegations of drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. will tran has details.

>> it gives the police an option of pulling over the car parking the car and have licensed drivers stop by later and pick up the car. immigrant advocates has said the tollway policy unfairly targets illegal immigrants herds their ability to work and often times they are forced to pay penalties than what the cars worth. police can tell when the car but the license driver to stop by the towing company pick up the car after paying a fee they don't have to wait 30 days. reporting from san jose kron 4 news. >> back with more in just a couple of minutes on this fog the thursday morning the fog is descended on walnut creek as you can see here 680 traffic is moving ok. we celebration ! come celebrate exciting cars that are stunning to look at, exhilarating to drive and worry free to own.

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a live look at the golden gate that fog year of visibility near zero coming through the wall low-grade and the walled road tunnel we have votes very low visibility around the bay the north bay expression this morning >> in the newsroom stocks are mixed the dow has turned negative down seven points the other industries positive s&p up to now have nasdaq up 5.3 right now something across the lines moments ago rates on fixed mortgages rose for the fourth straight week this week hitting 4.61 percent that could slow financing. >> new claims for unemployment claims coming out an hour-and-a-half ago we saw the biggest drop from the week before the second lowest level this year from a weekly jobless claims. the labor department saying first-time claims fell

17,000 421,000 filed for the first time last week that's a bigger drop than analysts expected it to look at the four week unemployment averaged it fallen to the lowest level since 2008. >> aig is taking a step towards paying off the bail out. the largest of the financial crisis the company is going to pay off a loan from the federal reserve clearing the way for the treasury to sell off the government's stake treasury stake will temper rise from 80 to 92% as part of the deal. >> mastercard said it bought travel lacks the prepaid card manages consumer and corporate prepaid travel cards. mastercard says it doesn't plan to issue cards directly through this operation is expected to close the deal and the first

six months of the end of the year. >> we have team coverage of the weather and traffic this morning look at how the james lick is jammed up and look at the fog. we will be right back. lightning fast. lightning strong.

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a store we are following a live look from london angry students marching through london right now headed to parliament. the reporter right now on the background uc students and police controversial plant to triple tuition fees in britain protests for weeks and right now thousands of students are gathering making their way towards parliament worse than it is expected some protests have term prog by land that's why pleaser wrote in fours. it is part of their plan to reduce the deficit will fall the latest. police and protesters on the streets of london. >> 745 v m big story the fog take a look at fog at the

approach to the bay bridge you can see there is an advisory about the fog here traffic stretching pass the parking lot george has an update on this and hot spots. >> the father of advisory still on the fact we are still looking at delays in san francisco but no longer for the same reason it was a sudden crash at 280 that started to back up the traffic that was quickly cleared but we wondered why this back up had not cleared out as soon as we should have. we discovered there is a northbound accident. so you say no southbound lanes are blocked. wiser delay? because as people drive south they see lights on the other side of the freeway and say i think at a look. keep your eyes straight ahead and mind your own business. otherwise you end up with a back up like this can down which now reaches beyond mission then ask the right on central freeway and the skyway slow headed out

of san francisco. from here to highway 4 we continue to redo view for slow traffic again today as yesterday for the same reason an accident at port chicago highway slot following the ride that will pass heavy traffic on 242680 southbound down to walnut creek and a slow ride here westbound as you tried to turn towards the top caldecott tunnel. the fog on 80 you can see things have improved dead jackies assault as both reported and observed. west bound ride slows asphalt street towards of berkeley kerf they're writing to the bay bridge toll plaza west bound back up reaches west grand ave. how long will the fog be with us u.s. i know who has the answer appears lose that. >> you can look at any camera to see how much father is visibility in may

1st and give yourself extra time free morning commute downtown san francisco stockton's that rosa and eight the mile visibility down to a mile in concord. fairfield and oakland we are seeing visibility is less than one-quarter of a mile at this hour. los ceiling height at s f o. here's a look right now also to give you an idea basically a color chart showing you dense fog it can see the larger san rosa napa valley the dalton and oakland that's were given the dense fog along the coast as well like half the bay in terms of wet whether we saw the ball in the north bay early morning hours now we are seeing light showers in a lot of locations. the peninsula of very light rain along the peninsula as we take it down in places like redwood city along to 80 also san mateo as well we are seeing a bit heavier

showers over through concord, martinez showers along highway 4 there but for the most part no. thank really starting see downpour's early this morning starting to let up three santa rosa, petaluma, left over ranger napa valley of for the most part we are starting to see taper off. all the moisture pushing through the central valley into the sierra. snowfall at there's lots of current temperatures on the warm side we are in the '50s we have been in the '50s for flowers 53 san rosa 55 san francisco 57 amount view is san jose your afternoon highs today up into the '60s and some of the warmer spots 64 richmond, fairfield, concord and 3 novato 56 for san rafael read around the bay keeping it at 60 and 62 for an afternoon high in san jose. 7 day around the bay shows a chance of leftover rain on friday saturday and sunday will clear up rain sunshine

into the picture warmer temperatures for sunday, monday getting into the low '70's. >> world news check out this video and arctic cruise ship with 160 passengers lost an engine the high seas are crashing over the battle. it is lumpen in it headed back to argentina right now passengers are safe the navy is courting the ship it has declared an emergency tuesday when it was northeast of shetland islands the ships send out for antarctic on november 30th was scheduled to return yesterday. >> snowfall and ice has forced people the camp out at the airports in paris and frankfurt meantime in scotland they called in the army to clear this note today. in paris the air traffic was returning to normal last check but in

germany frankfurt they expected more interruption in disruptions today many commuters also suffering through traffic jams on slushy streets. >> 100 homes and businesses have been evaluated and australia. this is video the river rose 40 in. in three hours. stores and businesses are closed today. >> 7:51 a.m. the federal asian aviation says it recorded a steady increase in reports from across the country of people pointing lasers at aircraft cockpits. the light can distract and temporary blind the pilots of lasers have also been directed at control towers there's not been an air crash so far from these incidents. there has been more than 200 incidents up from 300 and through 2005.

the house almost passed the budget deal. the bill will cap the annual operating budgets of the federal agencies at 1.2 trillion it was approved for the budget deal. it would freeze the cabinet and cabinet departments and fund the war in afghanistan as it faces uncertain prospects as the senate takes up the measure. >> we have been watching james like summer hotspots somewhat slow traffic on 1 01 south.

kron 4 morning news will continue to track the latest an earlier curring southbound accident started the back up now is northbound crush blocking northbound lanes but still manages to slow the ride out of the city to 81 01 interchange closer to silver and that is why the delay on inbound central.

>> let's go live to london and rest under way as to its protest a plan to triple tuition for universities throughout the country and you see clashes taken place right now is police are moving in to arrest these protesters they planned to march over to parliament to conduct a sedan. we have seen protests in the recent weeks. we have a large police force here today to try and stop the sedan. we will keep checking and life. >> the founder facebook is pledging to donate the majority of his fortune to charity zucker burke is 26 years old he is worth $6 billion he says he's doing this because there's a big opportunity for your and

your folks to give back earlier in their lifetimes because they are does zillionaires earlier. he joins a growing list of people who have agreed to giving more than half of their wealth to charities that it includes larry ellison and george lucas. >> will nard fraudulent business there soon banks an effort to get a billion dollars it accuses them of receiving transfers through numerous fear funds when they knew or should have known of made of such fraud. he is serving a prison sentence . >> we will be back with more the couple of minutes. now we can hardly see 683 the fog will be right back.

morning, a clock, we're talking about the fog, fifth that's a big story in weather, which should to on the cake, stockton, the bay bridge approach, it is thick. they have the fog advisor here. you had to leave little exit order early we talk about fog. >> be no surprise, we have left or moisture of the rain from yesterday house chars this morning looking in that moisture crating not fog. shot from not tamper shows as the conditions are starting to improve just a bit. a few clouds left over for the most part it is some high clouds out there. we are expecting that dense fog to continue for the next couple of hours. whether continuing, expected to be tried by the weekend. wet weather is a bit different

than we saw yesterday, visibility, in need of a mile into santa rosa, napa. quarter mile to delta, oakland, concord and mild, satellite, radar just giving us an idea of where that arenas this morning, you can she hit as we had antisemitism picking up a few raindrops also along the dumbarton bridge. up into the north bay, it looks like some moisture is pushing reed onto highway 37, you can see that cells sitting over vallejo i 84 into fairfield. as we did get to the north bay where we saw plenty of showers election looks to be drying out from santa rosa down to novato gutsy as many raindrops' the sporting. all of that moisture is pushing through the central valley. snow levels are kind of high, a fairly warm system bringing some warmer temperatures

this morning mid-50s san francisco 53 standards, hayward also fremont and san jose, at your high 60s and some of the warmer spots. 60 degrees richmond, concord. 59 the hon afternoon hike in san francisco not much variety. it doesn't look like will see much movement. 62 for oakland and san s.a., a continued dry out, slight chance of showers, design, not some sunshine your debt and to the '70s a chance of showers back to the pitcher tuesday and wednesday. george. two accidents, once worth one north, near the 280 interchanges a bandage for nearly an hour but the northbound is still gaining, creating problems here is still gathering

attention from south bound motorists. to continue to look to the accident across through rate for creating backups. >> its that all the way back to octavius street traffic is slow from ninth street on the sky way westward where you draw in the james lick it southdowns. still backed up into walnut creek, in the southbound direction, a stall around here is helping to slow the traffic on 242 and highway 4. will we have for was seen better conditions into the san ramon valley no longer, backed up to alamo and slow beyond towards danville. westbound highway 24 quite heavy to lafayette. it will be into lofty price pleasanton hill before you see speeds pick up only to slow down again when you get to run there. bay bridge toll plaza, westbound i still heavy towards less revenue and beyond. very slow morning, incidents free

this is a meeting like to lay with the fog advisor on the bay bridge. darya. >> team coverage of the foggy weather continues solo reporter jackie sissel is live in an revell it seems to be clearing up fog rise. the traffic lights heavier jackie. >> is looks like its peeling off towards the coastline on the shore freeway, you can see traffic is backed up as i made my way from the north bay the fog was heavy in pockets. especially over the richmond san rafael bridge. heavy heavy fog. combine that with the wet roadways we're still experiencing the showers you get those wet road race if you're traveling, be aware of it. traffic so far, not too bad, hitting the macarthur maze, so far we haven't seen any major backups. >> thank you, mark. >> after years of delays,

cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> if a fella accident this morning shut down three lanes for about two hours, you can see the mess that they had to clear from this fatal accident that happened 3:15 a.m. a black super forster slammed into divider separating the free with help from an on ramp, or roll was slammed into that car. the driver of the subaru was killed, the second driver was not hurt,

investigating the cause. >> 18 months old is in the house bart falling in the fact that the hyatt hotel. police responded yesterday afternoon to call about a missing child, officers found the boy in a decorative fountains pole in the hotel officers tried to revive the child will waiting for the paramedics tried to get addicted to check out hospital waiting for that date. >> police in san jose city will stop a 30 gate vehicle impound. these lead to an unlicensed drivers that does not mean there of the hut in stead officers will look for alternatives like having someone else has licensed it to be a gulf if it is to out, a licensed driver will be able to pick it up by playing fees and fines of the the average to wait 30 days there are exceptions such as driving conditions, or us. the new policy could begin as early as next week. >> still falling this latest

developments at of the u.k., angry students marching through london they have been convening in front of parliament or in 20 minutes from now they will hold a vote on the controversial plan to triple tuition freeze, like pictures on the grounds cnn reporter is getting ready to do our report, let's rows of video from earlier orders tuesday bird's eye view of the situation look at that, all of those students in that line the police this is a combination of weeks of protest all across great britain. thousands of students and supporters have been doing demonstration since altered the country in the past some have turned violent that's why you see the presence out there, with about happening in the some 30 minutes tensions are running high, tuition the hiking of its all part of the plans to really rain in the budget deficit, it is drawing i not only students but teachers and a large portion of the population in

general we will keep an eye on the story. >> thank you, we will your data is kron4 morning news continues here's a live look over mt. tam with the cool view as we shift towards the tower you will see above the fog, thick fog on the ground.

welcome back, what to the thick fog rain now moving in visibility is down. this ban is pressed to monday's bucket buyers are a varied diet. the latest of unemployment, new claims for benefits dropped last week to the second lowest level this year. companies are cutting fewer jobs. the first-time claims for unemployment fell by 17,000, 421,000 filed for the first time last week. bigger drop than analysts expected the four week unemployment average has fallen to below those

levels since august 2008. >> built out a i g is taking a step towards paying off the bailout. it was at one point or the hunters into $80 billion, the company will pay off a loan from the federal reserve clearing the way for the treasury to sell off the state. it will temporarily rise from 80% to 92%. speech mastercard is saying it bought the prepaid card for 40 million. it manages consumer replayed trouble cars for financial institutions retailers and travel agents it does not plan to issue them directly. although it is expected to close the deal on the first six months. >> we will be back with more, looking at the walnut creek shot, it doesn't change too much, it is

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the automatic kron4 news, here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. expects showers today, where these seeing some of them took the morning. dense fog. visibility is low, not quite as widespread as today,

continues raindrops rob, nice talking to get ahead because coming up. >> hotspot the right to san francisco, in bound central, james lick, early morning northbound accident. lanes blocked for an hour a bandage to back up the traffic. the crash's don't know or ways, traffic is slowly recovering. >> thank you, authorities will be burning down a home in seven california, a 30's called it a bomb factory. a judge cleared the way for officials to set fire to this has between 10-11 this morning. the home near san diego was assigned the nation's air route largest discovery of homemade explosives. they're being evacuated and highway will be shut down during the burn. too dangerous for

bombs brought to air entering clear. >> we will be back with more and a couple of moments. here's a look of some from as go, clearing up, trying out will be your back. right back

welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, we're looking at quite a bit of fun, and that thought has just been staying put and the golden gate bridge, stubborn to lift this morning. impact visibility is low, less than about a quarter mile. seeing some wet weather this morning, light scattered showers not quite as widespread as this debate. we are checking dry weather, sunshine in fact, visibility of his orange shows is. visibility of less than a mile. through the napa, delta, east bay, even

along the coastline. here's a look at some of the problem spots, napa and less than a quarter of a mile. oakland seeing some very dense pockets of fog less than an eighth of a mile. hayward to miles. storm tracker 4, showing a lot of that moisture lifting. fleecy much better in the way that wet weather just a few leftover raindrops, the cells are moving through pretty quickly. in the driver ran onto highway 37, a little bit of a sell reruns to novato. for the most part the north bay is trying out, weather dry out to the central valley. when an act of looking radar. snow up into the sierra as well. currently in the '50s. 53 santa rosa, south bay temperatures into the upper fifties. afternoon highs as

to 60 degrees. fairfield, richmond gang concord. we will keep it in 60 rate around the bay, 62 for san jose. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. chang yet today, bring in a chance of isolated showers tomorrow, north bay, looking i said there. those clouds expected to part, lots of sunshine. reed chance of rain back into the area on tuesday and wednesday. george. >> thank you, , hot spots and san francisco those have cleared up. heavy just before 37, as to come through novato, very heavy as you head south past hamilton field. but lucas valley road on down to central san rafael, clearing

up before lincoln. hoping to see things quite get just a little. the aids era approaches has eased a little bit. i don't think the fog is a much a factor. do the antitrust the span in there may still be some far from the deck, the backed up so reaches at least u.s. grant, probably closer to the macarthur maze. south bay, a quiet, no major problems are hot spots there. we do have heavy traffic on 101 northbound. take a look here, the rise slows rid of the guadalupe parkway future of towards 237. >> turning to one of our solute reporters jackie sissel. not so thick fog

here, starting to break up, along the shore freeway, you can see traffic heading westbound the maze. visibility has improved quite aa bid. the sun is breaking through, i can tell you as i traveled around along the richmond san rafael bridge have become a heavy fog. you combine that with the cells are blowing through and the wet road conditions in may for hazardous driving. starting to see the beginning of the end as far as the fog. mark. s >> let's go over to the bay bridge, talk about that after years of delays. after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier

plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> san jose tickets will still be issued but the cards will be impounded. the san jose police department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead, officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't involve allegations of drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. kron4 system will trent and tells us why. >> it could begin as early as next week is an option of having the driver pulled over parked the car beside the road and have a licensed driver stopped by a little bit later and pick up the car. immigrant advocates have complained that the tollway policy unfairly targets illegal immigrants

here is their ability to work and oftentimes they're forced to pay penalties that are more than the car is worth. police officers can still to go with the car but a licensed driver can stop by the towing company to get the car after paying a fee and then not to wait 30 days. san jose, will trent, kron4 news. >> following a developing story of the u.k. where there's a heavy police presence in london keeping angry student protesters in check while lawmakers vote on a plan to triple tuition fees. we have seen news reports, that front line between those students and riot police trying to make sure everything is peaceful. this is a reporter from the location. >> of a lot of things are being drawn as you just saw there's construction being

thrown. police have come under a hail this as ours just run a battery. the camera pass our heads. we have all sorts of things being thrown at them. the police are getting out and the resting it seems to be the trouble makers. the crowd is contained inside parliament square at this or moment. the vote is only half an hour away inside that building over there, the politicians will be voting in almost in fear. it's an angry scene, in the center of london. >> that was report a little while ago rate their that point where lawmakers are supposed to be voting as we >> will wait for the results of that. there's there's dozens of protesters clash with police. you can see the target or contrast paris

that is the scene developing minute by minute. we'll give you more updates as this continues to evolve. >> we'll be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues after the break a live look that's i from about the fog, mt. tam, on the top rate you can see where the stars of the golden gate bridges while. >

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four. telecast continues across france, icy roads causing people to fight off the roadways, close to rate major highway. shaky wrecking get of the country that the council for concert in germany. speakpad snowfall, eyes, freezing temperatures coursing people to canada and france. and in scotland they have bad weather in fact they call the army to clear up this note. will they had the air traffic returning to normal in paris, things are getting better, but in germany they think they will be more disruptions because of the weather and then of course in addition to the streets have been difficult, jamming many commuters. we'll be back with more in a couple of minutes, i promise of, what road race, trying to dry out and some of the fog is listing.lifting. it's and a

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san mateo bridge, we've had an accident reported in the westbound direction pass

toll plaza not in evidence here, as you can see conditions look good no real promise from a little fog, san francisco which was a hot spot for the better part of this morning is still sluggish than the inbound central, slowing north bound in the james lick freeway, heavy coming up of hospital curve and the slow traffic reaches back to army sees are jobless. if it appears as though the fog is clearing, let's find out. louisa. >> still some very dense pockets of thought george, it is the low clouds hanging over san francisco visibility is a bit better over san francisco does turn our, elsewhere not the same story. santa rosa, an aide of a mile, napa a quarter mile, a quarter mile in fairfield and oakland. concord just over a mile. visibility chart, you can

see where all of the dense fog is all of this one shows us visibility less than a mile. rent-a-center rosa, petaluma, delta, ran onto oakland we're action getting some pretty dense fog. wet weather, much different picture than earlier, really starting to see the showers taper off most locations on the dry periods of state, seeing a few showers at this point along 101, up and to san jose, downtown san as a getting a few sprinkles. central expressway, also lawrence, into cupertino getting some raindrops. elsewhere, drying out, a lot of that wet weather has mooch. current temperatures in the fifties love french

these and vallejo, downtown san francisco, high-end san jose's 62, but tomorrow dread out nicely to the north bay. saturday, sunday mostly sunny conditions. those '70s on sunday and monday. mark. >> a lot of snow in the sarah, trebizond the phone is from snowballing. hi. >> high. >> what's going on? >> really high cloud system, and now it is,. calm. >> vlasic we had to storms, last week it was beautiful.

another 3 1/2 feet of snow, it's great if you're coming up here. >> anything exciting any deals? >> there's a lot going on, in this scheme and dried weekend. you can go and kirkwood, sugar bowl, you can get a beginner lift ticket, it's left the about two hours longhead they will teach us he and ride. snowball you can buy the car, you can save up to 35% at all lives. >> that is a huge thing having kids and knowing how expensive it is that some the this weekend right? speaking yes. it here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. resorts, $25 this weekend only. >> great weekend up their

warm and sunny. craig conditions a lot of fresh powder. >> we action have some breaking news as we keep an eye on wall street house democrats just passed a resolution saying they will not vote on that package that president barack obama struck with the republicans their right to take up the issue in january. that pushes back the time line for that tax bracket the markets are acting real it negatively, the dow is down 39 points. s&p, nasdaq have turned negative. down 1.2 points nasdaq two points. other news, for just announced that it will hire 1800 workers to build the state as tvs u b.v.. mark >> new details as the house

narrowly passed a budget deal to 12-2 06. it will cap the enemy of budgets at 1.2 trillion dollars. 46 billion less than the president requested. the fate of house legislation to freeze the budgets of most cabinet departments and fund the war in afghanistan for another year is now in the hands of the senate, where it faces uncertain prospects. the house passed the bill wednesday evening by a 212- 206 vote. it would cap the annual operating budgets of trillion approved for the recently finished budget year a $46 billion cut of more than 3 percent from president barack obama's request. the trusty recovering assets for investigators in made house business is suing seven international banks in an effort to recover more than $1 billion they accuse the banks are receiving transfers of money from made dow's businesses through numerous feeder funds when they should've known about the fraud. 72 year-old is serving 150 year sentence. >> supervisor say they won up to its financial projections before deciding on mere nuisance latest proposal to host the next america's cup. the mayor is pushing a plan to have the

main public facilities for the race on the city's waterfront. between 19 and 29. the new site would cost less, give a better view of the race. have to be determined before the committee can vote on it. san francisco appears to be the front-runner in 2013. we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes, a live look get sad, this is a cool shot, cut up by the low fog and clouds. we will be right back.

welcome back the founder of the spec is pledging to donate the majority of his fortune to charity. he is 26 years old worth $6 billion, he says he's doing this because there's a big opportunity for younger folks to get ahead earlier mayor lifetimes. he joins a growing less hood donated

that includes oracle, wander and ceo, and george lucas. >> the that this video from alberta canada what a sweet little pet. i don't think this guy realizes, this is the buffalo. 1,600 lbs. and he travels around with it. the buffalo's name is daly jr.. the owner is jim walker, they travel around alberta in his cadillac he customized it so it could take his head with him to the club. >> i wonder if he gets used a car foolingtulane. (laughter) >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.

top stories, california's

high-speed rail project is about to get a lot more money things to president barack obama. >> after years of delays, cost increases and applications finally we have some good news to tell you about. >> another wet morning, live like a storm tracker 4 rain in the south bay, fog advisor in place, the fog around the bay, let's get the latest on the forecast families that. >> good morning, a look from our golden gate, it has been soft in all morning long if you're planning on taking 101 towards the city be prepared to hit dense pockets of of visibility is low. in fact we're continuing to see wet weather it started off in the north bay, seeing some showers in the south bay, drive by the weekend we will take elected that a few minutes. first visibility, all of this oranges is visibility of 1 mi. or less. you're having problems along 101 from sandra's set

to san rafael. portions of the peninsula as well. to half moon bay. in looks like visibility is less than a quarter of a mile. napa, fairfield, oakland. very dense fog just sitting over oakland at this turn our. showing showers across the board . current temperatures in the '50s. upper 50s then to the set bay, flirting with the 60 degree mark, 65

fairfield, upper 50s for sandra's set in concrete. here 7 day around the bay. clubs clear of, becomes the main factor, reno's temperatures into the '70s. george. >> despite improving conditions at the bay bridge we still have a pretty good size back up at the toll plaza flaps. we see the back up is reaching beyond 800. coming in from the nimitz freeway. the fray or to starting to open up, a little bit better movement at the heart of the toll plaza still a bigger back up them would like. walnut creek, not there but there, improving a bit but still backed out of concord to present health. not so much

and too 42 but still on 680. the right to walnut creek inn in to san ramon big, big improvements in slowing to danville. but the south bound by it is much better. pick up our camera, still have some sluggish conditions of the top of the screen and this of one direction, no more attractive to walnut creek. darya. >> thank you, we want to continue on our team coverage of the weather, will trend down to the south bay, he could not find any sunshine either. >> we are well into the morning, it almost feels like the sun will action set soon. many people have their headlights on, the rain is coming down, the storm drain, is loud enough to be heard from a short distance away. look how low the clubs are, it doesn't take revlon for planes taking off from an airport to disappear into it. from a wet and jury san

jose will chant, kron4 news. >> to the bay bridge to after years of delays after causing freezing populations in the project is finally some good news the new the span will open to drivers traveling in both directions in both directions, when the of the earlier plan east bound want to wait a minute 2014. after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> police in san as they say they plan to stop the 30 day vehicle in town the san jose police. department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead, officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't involve allegations of drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. the new policy would give officers the option of allowing the driver to park the vehicle and have a licensed driver pick it up that day. if the car is towed, a licensed driver can pick it up almost immediately and pay applicable fees and fines, but without having to wait 30 days.

>> the new policy could begin as early as next week. >> fatal accident on southbound 880 shut down to lanes are around 3:15 a.m. a female driver and a black super forster slammed into the divider separating the freeway from the on ramp the car spun back of the freeway, the driver of the toyota slanted to back are killing the driver of the subaru. the second driver was an injured, no word on what caused it to slam into the bad >>. the boy is in hospital after falling into a fountain in the lobby of the hyatt hotel in san francisco. police that the call about a missing child, yesterday. the employees had been looking for the chess for about 10 minutes when one of them spotted him in a decorative fountains cool. you can see video their, they try to revive the chattel waiting for the pparamedics. no word on

his condition. >> more developments in the high-speed rail project your hang out of washington that the obama administration is taking $1.2 billion away from ohio and wisconsin and giving it to project and other states including california. republican governors wanted to kill the project sell their money will go to states that will use it no word on how much extra money california will get. >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. one of the developing stories that we're falling less than one hour authorities as said san diego will burn this has, to the ground. a bomb factory was discovered inside, you can see the fire wall they built around that, details coming up.

welcome back, storm tracker 4, rain around san jose a

little break of scattered showers. look offshore, another miner showers coming on tour in the next hour more rain expected a lot of what it did this morning, with the fog delays of up to an hour for arriving flights from sfo. new this morning, today authorities are going to burn down this home. 9:10 a.m., they call that a bomb factory yesterday an investigator delayed them setting this fire. it is going to happen between 10 and 11:00 a.m. the home near san diego was the site of the nation's largest ever catch of an expose as neighbors are being evacuated because of this, and nearby highway will be closed down while they do it, the house is just so dangerous the bomb squad's cannot enter the city have to burn it down.

>> misinformation on the gas line boss reports are showing there was no general provision in the pipeline. experts say expansion mentioned are inaccurate. speaking before a meeting the piccinni's current met did could leave a host of problems like small cracks, external pressure on the pipes on notice. they recommend pg in each adopts new inspection practices. >> considering making drastic cuts in the 2011 school year including slashing adult education in order to do with the budget crunch. an effort to insure academic standards they're considering creating a new school academy and institute in summer school, adding back five days of instruction there were taken away through furloughs. all of that would require cutting adult education by two-thirds. they're

discussing the plan tonight they say adopting an next month it would close two of the three schools. >> we will be right back as the kron4 news continues at full look from mt. tam up above the flood. you can see looking ever to san francisco in the background.

" the mass the kron farm morning news, 9:15 a.m. pretty dense fog get there, in fact, look at the shark from montana, it gives you an idea stockton and low cloud cover rate across the bay, visibility especially in the north bay and to the doubt that down to less than a quarter of a mile. into napa, fairfield, oakland seeing some very dense fog this morning at the santa rosa less than an aid of a mile. a visual for you as you can see were the fog is all of this orangery and to the north bay, delta shares

as of this city's of about a mile. looks like for the most part the peninsula is be seen between one and 2 mi.. wet weather, a big difference from earlier this morning, that rate are all lit up rain now adjusting showers contained mainly to the seventh day, looks like were seeing a fairly heavy sell rate here do mountain view, morgan hill, when 01 plenty of rain at this turn our, up into the peninsula a little bit of a cell pushing to san francisco it looks like a very light raindrop or to elsewhere, lot of bad activity pushed into the foothills and the sierra, for the most part drying out seeing some isolated showers to the remainder of the day, temperatures in the '50s, 55 sentences there, oakland 53, upper 50s the bay, afternoon highs into the 60s in places like fairfield, concord. 59 downtown san

francisco. keeping it in the '60s. for the most around the bay, 62 san jose, 51 and you. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay., if we see in iran and all we might see a few raindrops into the north bay but for the most part continue see a lot of fat covered. sunshine on saturday and sunday warming and up on sunday and monday. chance of rain tuesday and wednesday. >> slow track securities of bay, especially on 17 in the northbound direction leading actress interstate 800out of ini toured the guadalupe parkway, 101 is still heavy between the 280680 interchange. our camera here

is showing you the ride on 101 northbound, still quite crowded. continuing delays in san francisco, and new problem reported says that high 101, in this vicinity of army cesar chavez that's why we have slowed traffic once again here the way. for the better part of the morning it seems that traffic has been backed up to octavius' street, still slow there now. barely morning palms on the inbound line no additional funds have been reported for the light rail service. speakin. >> that dances down 31 points, nasdaq is up to now have, s&p 500 up by action of acquiring now calling the latest with the weekly jobless claims as unemployment benefits from last week to the lowest level, the companies are cutting fewer jobs at the labor department reported first-time claims fell by 17

doesn't still for a 21,000 americans of our unemployment for the first and last week. a bigger drop than analysts expected, it has now fallen to the lowest level since august of 08. >> rates on fixed mortgages are lowest for the forestry we kidding 4.61%, freddie mac says the average rate will increase sharply from last year's rate, it is also well above the rate a month ago which is the lowest level on record. analysts say the rise in rates is are discouraging homeowners interested in week financing. >> chalaza 4, when announcing it will hire 1800 workers, to build the for this date, it is exhausting $600 million, it will come from a pool of employees laid off the other plants although ford does not plan to hire i mean they are and hire some new employees. it will be shut down for year to retool it in late 2011.

>> a i g is taking a key step towards paying off a bail of that was that one when were hundred and $82 billion the largest in the financial crisis they will pay off a loan from the federal reserve that will clear the way for the treasury to cell of their state. it will temporarily rise from 80% to 92%. >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. a live look kid the bay bridge toll plaza, the fog is starting to lift, back up continues a big back up right now as you try to make your way through the toll plaza, 57 oakland scattered showers up near 59 this afternoon.

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will see these pop up scattered showers hanger- on's they may be a little bit smaller. >> in the newsroom following the latest developments coming out of great britain. world headlines where police with the right issues and batons pushed a lot of avery student protesters away from parliament it happened today, there inside voting on a controversial plan to triple university fees in great britain. protesters met with police here's what one reporter saw? >> you can see these clashes are still going on here as a lot of mess of being drowned. a lot of these a metal consumption various police say they come under a bechtel, this is was drawn up battery. it won re pastor head they have been having things thrown at them.

really angry things police are gradually setting up an arresting them who seems to be the lawbreakers. the crowd is contained inside parliament square as is about on raising tuition freeze is now 30 minutes away inside that building over there the politicians will be voting on this you can see up placement hobbling out is an angry seeing it continues. back to you. >> lawmakers are taking that both inside parliament we have seen videos posted online of the today from new zealots' out there as well as people participating in the protests. here you see some of the ground shot of angry students smashing windows, police are doing their best to keep that to a minimum but it is tough challenge when there are thousands of people in the streets all of this is part of the plan by great britain

to rein in some of the debt that they say has gone negative control. souter's students are not happy with the idea of traveling tuition fees. speaking thank you, , and other world news the nearly zero hundred homes and businesses that been exaggerated in australia after their seeing some of the worst flooding in decades take a look at this video from canberra. there rose nearly 40 in. and about three hours schools are closed, businesses close, the town's main shopping center was just renovated and now it is just for show. >> winter weather continues to grip the year, france, another snowstorm the avatar is closed again today as they look to reopen the first floor when it clear we some of this now traveling in a continuing france, roadway's causing cars to slide around snowfall has close major highways that prompted another closure in northern france.

>> cold and snow causing trouble in germany commuter suffering to of by the traffic jams, accidents, shelters have opened in that area to take in motors that are stranded a lot of people reported spending the night in offices because they could not get home. icy runways at other officials close that down overnight several hundred passengers had no interest but to sleep in the terminals. >> the cruise ship nightmare as in the arctic freeze as a hundred and 60 pounders lost it engine in the high seas it is limping back towards the argentine navy. the have escorted the ship as it headed back to argentina. passengers say, being cared for by the navy. declared a emergency and tuesday about 500 mi. from port. it was scheduled to return yesterday. >> we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes, a peek at the james

lick, those three sides are much nicer than earlier cauvery's are drying up traffic is lightening up, especially 101 southbound. we will be right back..

welcome back, show you still grace guys, dry that traffic is trying to loosen up. on the right weather cool shot it's like san francisco is floating in the clubs. you can see water or land, that is what happens still slack in. >> something at of a fairy tale, we saw some left over rain drops, yesterday rain god they elect a lot of moisture and place and that's contributed to some fog, dense fog at that. wet weather does continue this morning started off in the

north bay, now or season showers in the south bay. pretty nice looking weekend, visibility all of this or in shares as for the dense fog is, less than a mile visibility for napa come up fairfield, vallejo sandra's all the way down one no one the had the golden gate bridge socked in with fog. same for the bay bridge, getting some really dense fog over the coast as well. visibility less than a quarter of a mild, fairfield, napa, oakland very dusty. right now, the radar, very different that was our earlier where was really just all fog over now we're just seeing rain in this of the bay. when no one, morgan hill, getting some heavy rain drops, spreading to the south, east san martine avenue getting some rain in the long 101. watching a cell just kind of pushing to san

mateo, picking up a sprinkle or to not amounting to much. all of that wet weather pushing on to the for those in this year. >> in the '50s, hayward, fremont, 59 close to 60 degrees to mountain view, 58 san as a. afternoon highs, getting up into the low 60s, fairfield, concord also meant to richmond. 59 in san francisco. 60 degrees around the bay, 62 san jose, here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. if we see in the middle tomorrow will likely be contained to the north bay. doesn't surprise of this is kind of cloudy over cross conditions. sonny, lots of sunshine and storming into the '70s on sunday and monday, chance of rain in the area tuesday and wednesday. george. >> finally see some relief at the bay bridge toll plaza westbound, and an earlier back up of the fog advisor

reached mostly to the macarthur maze. stayed there for the better part of the morning. you can see in the toll plaza, a nice opening up on the right hand side, and here the eighth year approach, pretty nicely as well. your ride in the south bay, looks pretty slow on 101 northbound but the slowing begins here rated the 87 interchange and last up power spar's great america parkway later than usual into santa clara went to pastorate america. walnut creek, a big improvement here for the right edge of walnut creek past 24 on 68 0¢ bound. you'll still find slow traffic in both directions to danville. mark. >> thank you, , san jose tickets will still be issued to car but they will be impounded. the san jose police department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead, officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't involve allegations of

drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. the new policy would give officers the option of allowing the driver to park the vehicle and have a >> the new policy could begin as early as next week it gives them the option of calling the driver pulled over, parked the car and have a licensed driver stop by and pick up the car. immigrant advocates complained for years that the tollway policy unfairly targets illegal immigrants hurt their ability to work and oftentimes they're forced to pay penalties that are more than the car's worth. police officers they can still tollway the car, but a licensed driver can stop by the towing company pick up the car after pay a fee and they are not to wait 30 days san jose, will trent, kron4 news. >> after years of delays and cost increases and complications. after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china.

>> new details on a deadly catch an accident. a caltrain vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian on the tracks at the san mateo station wednesday evening, leading to system-wide delays during the evening commute. northbound train no. 155 hit a man in his 40s on the tracks near first avenue at about 3:15 p.m. passengers on board the train were able to get off at the station. delays of up to 30 minutes were reported as trains single-tracked around the collision site until about 5 p.m. the man was the 11th fatality on the caltrain tracks this year, she said. nineteen people died on the tracks last year. caltrain is in the process of improving rail- crossing safety in several ways, according to the agency. 11th fatality this year. 19 that last year. >> i'm on fast track users, but today's examiner and drivers are registered

response are transponders' must provide a credit-card number, e-mail address and phone number the data is collected by the end he see. the npc will destroy personal information after a person has been inactive for four years for a half years. >> california prison officials run a frantic search for a lethal drug. officials began a desperate worldwide search over two months for the drug, according to nearly 1,000 pages of documents. kernan needed chaus to send "one of your so cal guys" to the arizona state prison complex to pick up 12 grams of sodium thiopental. the intensive search felt when the planned september execution was called off because of a shortage of the drug. james. >> thank you, keeping an eye on developing news as we watch the markets, house democrats have passed a resolution saying they will not vote on that tax bracket that president barack obama struck earlier this week they will take the issue up when they reconvene in the next session in january. the

markets in the meantime however iraq did mix to the news the dow is down 29 points nasdaq is almost three. s&p up by a fraction. >> be reported this morning that first-time claims for unemployment benefits cachalot to the second lowest level this year beating analysts' expectations. >> thank you, james, we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes, a live look here at san mateo bridge, trying to get sunny. to read those clubs. the debt is dry traffic is cleared up.

rain and fog, delays are growing, an average of an hour, no delays and oakland are san jose. wikileaks payment process are using

credit card companies these and mastercard over their refusal to process the donations to the web site. he passes it will return the funds frozen to the foundation was fund-raising it is unclear where or when the lawsuit will be heard. >> and diplomatic cables are available for sale on amazon. the uk web site it's a twist, after the companies refuses to house to the web site at all. the cables results published as a candle the book and people in the u.k. can buy it for just under $12. last week amazon .com ousted wikileaks from the service. sarah appellants clinical action campaign web site came under attack from supporters of wikileaks. paling: " and its american operative gluttonous hands " she questioned why he was not preserved for the same urgency that al-qaeda and taliban were pursued. when a parent aide says their staff acted quickly and predicted

the web site. >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. these are trying to clear up, bay bridge, really socked in earlier you can see the approach is free and clear of what. still a little bit of away.

welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, you can see, all of that fog, look at 9 3:05 a.m. just socked in. continued no visibility, then spot where across the big, wet weather continues this morning not quite as much as we start earlier, a few hours ago but dry weather is expected by the weekend weekend is looking nice, visibility, right to this orangery we are seeing visibilities of about a mile, visibility from sandra said down to 101 from san rafael. golden gate, a dense, right to napa, delta as well. here's a look at

some of the visibility, less than a quarter mile from napa, fairfield, oakland. wet weather, much of the north bay has let up, in fact in the duct as well we're seeing a little bit of shares down to the south bay, mainly due morgan hill, closer in, martine avenue getting some rain. a cell passing through san mateo bridge. most of that weather contained to the foothills and a little bit of snow at this turn our along highway 50. current temperatures in the '50s, the device and a sister, same for livermore, upper 50s that this out bay 53 degrees for fairfield. afternoon highs bringing us up and the '60s and places like fairfield, concord. stay in the upper 50s for san francisco and santa rosa. '60s ditties been done in a separate coming in greater of 62. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. slight chance of

maybe elector raindrop toman the north bay, for the most charges and clouds hanging around saturday, sunday clearing up, bring sunshine into iran turned on tuesday and wednesday. credit this year, a lot of folks are, a snowball ski report showing you conditions, sugar bowl based at 70-80, no news no but zero lifts open. 93 in. in sklar, 14 lives are open, norstar, 40-69 in., 4 in. of news now and nine lifts open. overall great conditions in this era. >> favorite trent, a continuing improvement year for the commute getting to the upper deck of the bay bridge, still sluggish coming in from the toll plaza, 580 still slow from

the a.d. zero approach and a bit beyond in some lanes. here's the aids your part is your best friend to the bridge. south bay, ride high 101 as you head north still quite heavy year from just before the guadalupe parkway, closer to the interchange that will last up to ours great america parkway and to just about the money to expressway pass that better speeds up towards 237. san francisco, ride across town, center for you might embarrass not that a backup leading only to the ninth street off ramp this signal their at the end of the ramp often backs up the traffic almost to the freeway that is the case this morning we will watch that from time to time. your ride that 1013 marin county backed up a bit earlier this morning now no major delays. mark. >> thank you, , watching wall street the dow jones average is up 29 points

nasdaq 123, s&p 500 1/4 of a point. new details as the house of representatives narrowly pass a budget deal late last night to 12-26 about as it stands the bill were caught and operating budgets, the budget for next year of $22 million. $46 billion from less than but requests. it will freeze the budgets of both cabinets, doors and iraq and afghanistan. the bill faces uncertain prospects of passing the senate. trusty recovering assets for investors in jilt bernard made us business is suing seven international banks in an effort to recover more than a billion dollars. they confuse the clans are receiving transfers from a boss business through numerous feeder funds when they knew or should know that it was fraud. bernie made that is serving 150 year prison sentence. >> of first provide

citizenship to undocumented young people democrats and washington have delayed a vote on the dream act. they're short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. it would provide a tax citizenship for hundreds of thousands of foreign born children brought to this country illegally by their parents. those children would have to attend college or serve in the military. >> aretha franklin is doing better than doctors expected and is expected to be released in hospital this weekend, the legendary singer had undergone surgery, no word on what's ailing the 68 year-old rumors that she has cancer. she canceled all concert dates in personal appearances after may. >> a judge in florida has denied wesley snipes is request for a new trial, the film star has are restarted his three-year prison sentence for failing to pay taxes. the prison camp is where the 48 year-old will

be serving time is a minimum security camp, it doesn't even have fences. he was convicted in 2008. >> we will be right back as a kron4 morning news continues until 8:00 a.m., golden gate bridge, the fog starting to break up. honey...? [ mom ] yes.

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coming up on 10:00 a.m. kron 4 morning news a developing story within the last four democrats in the post refusing to vote on the president's tax plan leaving all americans close to a major tax increase in three weeks. >> tens of thousands of students marching on parliament as the vote nears on hiking tuition fees by 300 percent. >> after years of delays and complications some good news to tell you about regarding the opening of the bay bridge. >> we have gone through the wet morning but we may still have a track traffic trouble. >> a problem from pacifica and a double sled which has been closed in both directions highway 1 in fact chp reporting traffic is backing up in both directions northbound and

southbound assyria's overturn accident a pickup truck overturned injury crash. it occurred in this out on lanes of highway one and devil's slide but it is blocking both directions of highway one in pacific up. your best alternative to use to 80 over here and take highway 92 in and out of pacifica of course you could use sharp park boulevard and had that way if you know the area. devil's slide is a shutdown now both directions high weight one with an injury overturn accident and no estimate on how soon they will be able to reopen the lanes here. the bay bridge toll plaza west bound commuters still fairly heavy but continuing to bet out the 880 approach your best one to the bridge likely we could see a second wave of traffic here as the tools have just dropped from six down to $4. in san

francisco and had been a hot spot for the better part of the morning we are still looking at delays into the central freeway because of traffic backing up and down headed towards the ninth street off rep. time for a check of weather. >> a live look outside san jose pretty to look great out there still seeing fog in fact we saw moisture still making for the dense fog this morning the wet weather is going to continue but we will dry it up and warming it up into the weekend. taking a look of visibility all the warrants indicating places that are seen visibility about less than 1 mi.. concord and down the peninsula art down to 2 mi. of visibility. san rosa one eighth of a mile visibility fairfield napa and oakland less than 1/4 of a mile of visibility. storm tracker for we saw

widespread showers but we are starting to dry out a lot of moisture moved its way out into the south bay a lot of it going through morgan hill, as well scale were we are seeing isolated cells in oakland and san leandro so we are starting to dry out pushing its way north and east showers through the foothills and we see blue indicating snow showers in the sierra. temperatures are at 57 for san francisco and half monday 55 through kit cart concord and antioch getting into the upper 50s in san rosa as well as nevada napa at 5864 your warmer spots fairfield, court in richmond we will see more 60s further south '60s had it hugging the bay here 61 antioch 634 los gatos and morgan hill. finally the 7 day around bay shows the showers today might be lasting till tomorrow a few sprinkles in the north bay

driving it up bin warm and gap as we head into the weekend. >> we saw the rain moves from north to south will tran in the south bay. >> despite the low cloud cover of foggy conditions no flight delays in or out of san jose airport this morning it doesn't take very long for the planes to disappear into the clouds. i didn't see this plane but i heard it. there rain never truly stop this morning it's either slow like this other times it came down harder the wet roads at the very least causing many drivers on 80 to go slower than usual. in san jose will tran kron 4 news. >> on the it bay bridge after cost overruns and delays the eastern span finally delivering good news in new eastern's ban will open to drivers traveling in both directions now by the end of 2013. the

original plan was opening it to westbound drivers that 2013 and eastbound or lord that would have to wait until 2014 as a make the way to the newsstand. that is four-six months earlier for the bridge to open the accelerated time line comes after officials offered incentives last year to speed up fabrication of the segments which are being made in china. >> police in san jose will stop the 30 day in pounds they usually do when all licensed drivers are caught for minor traffic violations. instead they will look for alternatives to toe in a car like having somebody else who does have an aunt license take the vehicle or fit is towed a licensed driver can pick up by paying fees and fines rather than having to wait 30 days. there are exceptions such as drunk driving or other dangerous driving arrest it could begin as early as next week. >> southbound 88 be fit the fatal accident near

washington shut down three lines for two hours this is the wreckage chp same 315 this morning the driver of a black subaru's slammed into a dividing wall that separated the freeway from the on ramp at car spun out of control back onto the freeway and then was hit by the driver by at toyota corolla his limited to the vehicle killing the driver of this route the sybaritic the driver of the toyota was not injured. >> 18 month-old boy's hospital after falling into a fountain at the hyatt hotel in san francisco. it happened yesterday afternoon the mother was there with her twins she was holding 118 months old and the other one the boy got separated from her. there was a search for 10 minutes and one of the employees at the hotel spotted the boy he had fallen into the fountain pool when officers got there they try to revive him there waiting for the aromatics the paramedics to come to

hospital we don't know his condition at this hour a >>. a lot of washington they have rejected president barack obama as a tax deal with republicans by voice void the democrats passed a resolution that said the tax package should not come to the floor for consideration. >> this message today is very simple. that in the form it was negotiated it is not acceptable to the house democratic caucus. it's as simple as that we will continue to try and work with the white house and our republican colleagues to try to make sure we do something that is responsible for the american people right for the economy and right for jobs and fair and balanced package as we go for a >> appeared if nothing is done in the bush era tax cuts will expire the first of the year meaning taxes will go up for all americans the president mean lasting this package besides

keeping taxes, lower could create millions of jobs. >> out of london lawmakers have passed a measure to triple the tuition of universities throughout england students clashed with police all day about this. they were rallying in the street this is the latest video shown you the latest they are coming face- to-face with police lot of property damage items being left it on fire this is obviously with the sun was still up it is now dark in london police obviously on high alert for what may come in those overnight hours. as the lawmakers they say they had no choice the country's budget deficit is at the point where they can to they could no longer keep the 40 before continued to afford substance that subsidizes tuition that is the situation in england. we will be back with more moment.

a comeback shores some moving into the san jose area right now as we zoom out take a look at what's going on right now around the bay area you can see rain showers still hanging around. a wider view here look at what is coming onshore heavier rain through santa cruz mountains letting through the bay area more rain back in the forecast shortly. >> foggy conditions causing airport route delays 1 hour 18 minutes for writing flights to sfo oakland and san jose not reporting any delays. >> the latest live out of san diego this home authorities are getting ready to burn down this house where bomb factory was discovered federal judge cleared the way for officials to set fire to this home they say it is too dangerous for bomb squad to enter because of the explosives inside neighbors are concerned they put a fire wall around this house

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10:15 a.m. morning news thursday december the ninth as we continue to attract a hot spot pacific at highway one that highway is shut down about directions. chp with an overturn injury accident the crash occurred 45 minutes ago they do however have an estimated time of opening epo is 1030 so in as few as 15 minutes they could let traffic move again there are backups both north and south as both directions closed for a half-hour. your best bet would be to use high weight to 80 interstate 280 rather and use highway 92 or short boulevard 92 in is not had any problems but it will be heavier than usual. with

folks turning around the northbound traffic turning around from pacifica headed back toward highway 92. the bay bridge in has been backed up most of the morning back up still reaching almost 880 but not quite. coming in from 880 that is still your best bet and shortest approach san jose's south bay traffic cleared out nice to finally as we would have expected with no delays between 880 on 1 01 all the way to highway 85. 10:17 a.m. a check gone mother. >> good morning bay bridge toll plaza the dense fog out there pretty slow to left as fact san jose is 2 mi. of visibility, scored 3 mi., napa listen quarter of a mile, fairfield at 5, oakland half a mile, the sfo

is at 2 mi. earlier but now it is down to 1.5 mi. take a look at the pitcher you can see the orange indicating places that are less than a mile of visibility in the yellow indicating 1-2 mi.. storm tracker for shows us we are starting to dry out we saw a lot of green on the screen earlier indicating widespread showers a lot of the moisture is passed of the south bay we are seeing some of it through the santa cruz mountains and aren't isolated rain cell through oakland as well as piedmont. a lot of the moisture pushed north and east. earlier we saw sierra indicating snow even that has dried out. current conditions a '50s we have upper 50s along the coast mid-50s through concord and antioch 50 degrees for less goddess. upper 50s north bay 593 san

rosa 57 novato 64 richmond, cored and fairfield we will see more 60s south 63 oakland, hayward and redwood city as 7 day around the bay shows us the showers will last into tomorrow then we will dry it out and warming up over the weekend. >> new affirmation on december i'll gas line explosion it shows there were no corrosion that showed up in the pipeline that experts say the inspection methods that determined there was no corrosion is inadequate speaking before meeting engineer said pg&e this method of checking pipes could lead the host of problems like cracks in pressure leaks to go unnoticed the jitneys racket men they make more thorough looks inspections. >> san jose is thinking about making that drastic cuts in the school year including slashing adult education to deal with the

budget crisis and efforts to ensure they reached academic standards they want to create a middle school in academy reinstituting summer school and adding back five days of instruction were taken away through furloughs all of that however would require cutting adult education by two-thirds of san jose you never school will talk about that tonight. >> dow jones was down 32 now just down 18 the reason for the small climb 30 year bonds get a surprising demand the down dow down 80 now new claims for unemployment for last week those numbers coming out this morning they dropped to the second lowest level of the year prove they are cutting fewer jobs as a labor department reported that first-time claims fell by 17,000 ford under 21,000 americans filed for employment last week that

was a bigger drop than expected when you look at the four week average is now fallen to the lowest level since august of 2008. >> rates on fixed mortgages rose for four weeks this week hitting 4.61%. freddie mac's is the average rate increase sharply from last week's rate it's all well above the rate a month ago which was the lowest on record dating back to 1971. analysts say rising rate discourages homeowners interested in refinancing. >> ford says they are rehiring workers 1800 workers it will build the ford escape it says is investing six thunder million dollars in the plant many of the new workers will come from a pool of employees laid off at the plants all 04 plans to hire new employes the louisville plant will be shut down for your wallet is retooled. >> bill bond bill the insurance company is taking a key step to pay off the

bailout which is worth $182 billion the companies could pay off a loan from the federal reserve that will clear the way for the treasury to sell off the government's stake the treasury stake in in a a i g will raise from 80 percent all the way to 92% as part of the deals >>. we're following this story as we are waiting for authorities to set this house on fire it is filled authorities to set this house on fire it is filled with explosives. you know what research looks like?

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watching the weather forecast have to get through today and tomorrow then whether payback nice weather for the weekend showers around today and tomorrow saturday and sunday upper 60s near 70 warm weather monday as well chances of rain return tuesday, wednesday. >> 100 homes and businesses have been evacuated after some of the worst flooding in decades. this is the

capital city the river has risen 40 in. it only took three hours schools are closed businesses are closed and fact that town just had the main shopping center renovated it is the this is a parking lot under water. >> major snow storm the effort to chart is closed they hope to reopen the first floor when they can open some snow. i see roadways are making travel difficult in the snowfall has closed major highway there prompting closing of the northern border of france. >> the bitter cold is causing trouble in germany traffic jams is slushy streets a lot of them were stranded so they open shelters so the stranded motorists could stay places a lot of people had to spend the night in the office this they could get home. icy runways at the frankfurt

airport closed that down several hundred passengers had to sleep in terminals. >> another cruise ship nightmare 160 passengers lost an engine in the high seas crashing over the bulk of the ship is limping right now to a port scheduled to arrive later this morning the navy has been following the ships escorting a back the passengers are reportedly save the ship declared emergency tuesday when it was north east of the shetland islands to the ship set out for antarctic at november 30th it was going to return yesterday. >> we will be back with more of a couple of minutes taking a live look from our mountain camp now those clouds and fog have actually gotten thicker and have not moved from ground level. we will be right back.

welcome back to kron 4 10:29 a.m. we continue to track this alert devil's slide

still closed in both directions chp estimated time of opening was 1030 but no confirmation they have been able to do so so many people still not getting the word about the closure the back of continues to grow bored north and south 92 your best pat as an alternate traffic continues to get heavy on 92 as folks used to aid the and the 92 connection to get in and out of half moon bay. san francisco look at what had been aunt's but it has cleared out nicely the only real slowing is on the ramp to the ninth street off ramp and the bay bridge toll plaza westbound we can see the end of the back up finally for the west bound ride no longer fog advisory issued for the upper deck of the bridge. let's find out if we will see rain today as we check weather. >> we will see some rain earlier later today. lets take a look at some

francisco of overcast conditions there is dense fog the wet weather is quite to continue but we will be dry by this weekend. storm tracker 4 shown the summer in cells starting to push its way back into the bay area is see rain seltzer happened bay in the santa cruz mountains pushing its way into los gatos to 80 is well san mateo said san francisco might be getting sprinkles right about now and then we have sprinkles to the north bay places like hills bird as well as callous dog that we're not clear yet rain cell sitting off the coast trying to make its way back into our bay area weather system. current conditions as at 54 san rosa and san rafael 664 oakland 58 in los gatos we will topping out in the '60s for the warmer spots in the bay area fairfield in concord is a college freshman 59 san rosa as well as differences " 60s heading the bay and los '60s through the south bay. 7 day around

the bay shows a showers today we might start to see sprinkles mostly in the north bay if any and we will warm up as we head into the weekend take a look at your sunday, monday getting into the '70s and then was headed to tuesday, wednesday chance back into the forecast of rain. >> >> we are standing by in san diego focused on this home they will burn down they refer to it as a bomb factory and they felt it so dangerous i figure this out it so dangerous to remove this stuff is safer to burn it down so that's what they're trying to do. >> neighbors are upset about this they constructed a fire wall around the home they declared a safe till help so many neighbors have to evacuate its near i 15 they shut down part of the freeway is well. the freeway has been shut down it will set fire to this home any minute now. >> the big question is what

will happen if there's explosions in there they will want to see if anything flies. debris, the actual explosives they don't know what it is or how many. >> there and do 1800 degrees temperature wise and with that they hope things will burn quickly and no collateral damage is what they're hoping to the neighborhood. we have been following this for months now several weeks now was there was an expectation to clean the house out the bomb squad thought it was too dangerous to remove everything and after a fight from the community judge's order finally get the go- ahead for authorities to bring this come down along with all the explosives the bomb making equipment inside of the somme. we'll follow the latest will go live when they said house on fire. san jose the tickets will probably still be issued by the cars will not be impounded. the san jose police department is expected as early as next week to stop impounding cars for a month when unlicensed drivers are nabbed for minor traffic violations. instead,

officers will look for alternatives to towing a car, such as letting someone else pick up the car on the spot, when the stops don't involve allegations of drunken driving or other dangerous driving crimes. the new policy would give officers the option of allowing the driver to park the vehicle and have a licensed driver pick it up that day. if the car is towed, a licensed driver can pick it up almost immediately and pay applicable fees and fines, but without having to wait 30 days. immigrant of again said the tollway policy unfairly targets in illegal immigrants hurts our ability to work and oftentimes they're forced to pay penalties that are worth more than the car. the police officers they desoto when the car but a listen start and stop by the towing company pickup the car after paying a fee they don't have to wait 30 days. san jose will tran kron 4 news. >> after years of delays after years of delays, cost increases and complications on the $6.3 billion bay bridge project, finally there's some good news. the new east span will open to drivers traveling in both directions by the end of 2013 instead of the earlier plan to make eastbound motorists wait until 2014. the accelerated timeline comes after bridge

officials offered a package of incentives last december to speed fabrication of the bridge's steel deck and tower segments in china. >> caltrans says the man on the 40's were on the track near first avenue around 315 yesterday afternoon passengers were getting ready as again off when the accident happened that led to systemwide delays during the evening commute the man was the 11th fatality on the tracks this year 19 people died on the track foster caltrans says it's in the process of improving real per crossing safety. >> new safeguards will protect the privacy of fast track users this is according to reports in the examiner drivers to register fast-track have to provide

credit card numbers e-mail addresses and phone numbers that data is collected well starting next year it mtc will destroy personal information after persons fast-track account has been inactive for 4 1/2 years >>. california prison went on to much search for illegal drug needed to carry out the first execution in five years. this hour the globe for the drug that was in short supply in tens of short search failed when the plan september 30th execution was called off in part because of shortage of the drug. >> to police officers in london have been hurt while trying to hold back student protesters outside of parliament still shots of the commotion and clashes that happened today the students of sunset over the planned to travel to wish him which did pass today they did decide because of the budget deficit that that is what is happening. the

students to give you an idea that they were paying 5000 u.s. dollars to go to school now they will triple to 14,000 for their tuition. >> we will be back as the news continues watching and waiting for the house as soon as authorities said that on fire we will bring it to live. alive look inside right now on the bay area san jose fog beginning to break up bin traffic breaking up as well. [ male announcer ] enjoy an amazing usda choice steak

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welcome back storm tracker for more showers showing up more rain offshore still were looking for scattered showers on and off throughout the day. >> and new development citizenship democrats in washington have delayed a vote on the dream act because they are short 60 votes it would provide a path to citizenship for

hundreds of thousands of foreign born children brought to the country illegally by their parents they would have to be in college >> or serving the military> a quick break as the mud as the news continues.

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10:46 a.m. on the kron 4 morning news we track hot spot highway one pacific dead double sorry devil's slide reopen only to one-way traffic that will help ease some of the congestion but not a lot. heavily backed up both directions of highway one. it was at 930 this morning low for an hour ago and accident occurred it was one of our boats chp shut down the road way in both directions. reopening the few moments ago but only to one-way traffic control. from time to time a few cars each direction will be allowed passes seen at this injury accident on highway one. best bet used to 80

over here and take all the way down to the highway 92 and you will have a much easier time from highway one been using double sorry devil's slide. reopened to one-way traffic control of pacific up. severances go traffic looks good bay bridge traffic very light no longer any delays at the toll plaza for the west bound ride the metering lights may still be on the south bay truck conditions much improved no longer any delays out of downtown san jose or the coyote valley. >> thank you george a live look art camp camp low cloud cover up their dense fog this morning the wet weather is continuing but we will dry it out and warming up as we head into the weekend. storm tracker for showing us a showers pushing its way back into the bay area palo

alto getting showers as well as to 80 even the south bay morgan hill getting showers and you can see all these rain cells coming in from the coast bringing a scattered showers through the day today. current temperatures aside in the '50s 54 san rosa 53 napa 56 oakland we have 57 redwood city and hayward 58 for los gatos we will warming it into the '60s and are more marius' six eastern fairfield in concord 59 san rosa in san francisco 58 vallejo further south more 60s across the board 60 oakland, hayward, redwood city, 63 morgan hill today. 7 day around the bay showing us the showers today may be lasting until tomorrow but if anything a few sprinkles in the north bay and then we will dry up as we head into the weekend appeared sunday and monday may get it here '70s but as we headed to tuesday and wednesday chance of showers

back into the forecast for those of you headed to the sierra stall snowballed report. kirkwood 48 in. of snow six lifts are open and we head over to squaw valley 93 in. 2 in. of new snow and 40 lifts are open, and again with heavenly 45- 54 in. base 1 in. of new snow and have 20 lifts open. >> we have more developments in high-speed rail the obama administration is taking $1.2 billion in real money away from wisconsin and ohio and giving it to projects in other states including california. republican governors have promised to kill their high-speed rail projects their money will now go to go out tuesday's bill you said no word on how much extra california will get. crossing the wires

california population has grown less than 1 percent over last year that's up slightly from the year before states said today california added 350,000 new residents from july of 09 to july 2010 that puts the total at 38.8 million most of the growth is due to birth. >> mark zuckerberg is going to donate his future truth shared the fees it worth about $6 billion he's doing this because there's a big opportunity for younger folks to give back earlier in their lifetimes. joins a growing lest of people who have committed to given their money to charity. >> wikileaks payment process there is suing mastercard and visa over their real views old to process payments to the web site. people will return the money

from to the foundation and fund-raising for its not sure when or where this lawsuit would be heard. diplomatic cables are available on amazons uk web site this is the west following amazons refusal to host the web site the cables were self published people in u.k. can buy them for $12. just last week amazon posted wikileaks from its servers. >> sara era palance site was attacked by wikileaks supporters. she questioned why the founder was not pursued with the same urgency the u.s. pursuits the caliban leaders appeared an aide said the staff acted quickly to protect >> the web site> are aretha franklin is suffering from pancreatic cancer this

coming in on various news services including the times' on-line reporting she had had pancreatic cancer. she had announced last week she had undergone surgery at the time would not say what the surgery was for. she is 68 years old. >> a judge in florida has denied a new trial for wesley snipes he started his three-year prison sentence. the prison camp is for the 48 year-old will serve his time its minimum security in does not have fences he was convicted of a crime back in 2008. >> 10:52 a.m. no fire yet we're standing by of a demolition of all home that was a bomb factory in sight. a live look as we look for the fire to be set. we will be right back. wxoo

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looking at the delays at sfo is the arrival delays or an hour and 18 minutes and oakland and san jose are just fine. >> rain and snow mixed coming down today snow scattered snow showers at myers. daly city's woman has turned in $8 million when the lottery ticket rosemary came for tuesday with the winning ticket she bought on thanksgiving eve in daly city. she took her winning single lump-sum. she will take all 4 million after taxes. it was sold at the market began 40,000 for selling the ticket. >> there's the smoke in san diego. they've started that. this let's listen there are a lot of explosives in this house. they said it was safer to do it this way. i think that's a fire wall

behind the house appeared >> is the largest amount of explosives found one house in united states they thought it was too dangerous. the neighborhood has been evacuated and they have started to burn. i think we will stay with this until the end of the newscast. >> we have video rolling on it you want me what the state to enter or later shows to see what happens they believe they can do this safely they've evacuated the neighborhood and shut down the freeway. >> will send a by now we have 30 seconds left will leave you with a live look here.