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>> darya: tennessee bracing for the floodinworst flooding in 70. >> mark: and new report says relief at the pump could be coming. >> darya: taking a look at the whether it's we start off the work week with sunshine. >> louisa: temperatures on the rise, warming trend into tomorrow details on that plus a chance of rain by the weekend. san francisco 48, your afternoon high into the '60s we will let you know the tempters straight ahead. >> george: good commute no hot spots this morning at the bay bridge toll plaza on ouonly a mr back up. >> mark: trouble on the flight from chicago to sfo. they
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subdued passenger approaching san francisco the passenger bank on the cockpit door and shouted when he was wrestled down and put in plastic handcuffs. will tran is a live right now he has monitored the latest. >> will: 4 people wrestle this man down to the ground, and right now he's at the jail being talked to by investigators, they don't know his nationality but he was carrying a yemen pastor at the time as well as the california identification card. it happened at 9:00 p.m. last night it was a around modesto at the time when the incident happened. pilots call the head, authorities were waiting for him once they landed. before they landed to flight attendant's jump into action as well as to other people. here is the police department picking up the story. >> to other passengers on board
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happened to be a 700 police department retired officers well as a secret service agent who is retired. the four of them subdued the passenger week using plastic handcuffs and placed him in a first class seat. >> will: it sounded like the flight attendant didn't know he was trying to bring again he was just too close and that forced him or her to say what you doing? >> that is speculation, when i heard was the passenger did go directly toward the cockpit door. >> will: the reason it did not draw attention initially is because he was headed towards
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the front, they thought he was going to the bathroom but then he hovered around that area. he banged on the cockpit door he never brought into the place, perhaps even if he didn't get wrestled to the ground it would be impossible to get in there. the flight was never damage, the four people were not injured, as well as the two retired authorities we heard from they are not part of the air marshal program they just happen to be passengers on the plane. >> mark: here is a yemeni passport we had the christmas bombing attempt was from yemen. in october those packages came from yemen. are there any thoughts this could been a potential attack? >> will: they will investigate that, you have to take that into
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consideration of course. as far as what they are talking about now 10 hours from the incident they believe it is an isolated incident hert. he is bg talked to by local and federal investigators. perhaps will get more informational letter. >> mark: thank you for your reformation. >> darya: south west tennessee is bracing for what could turn into flooding disaster, we learned this will miss it be river could crest late tonight, look at all of the water they 40 dealing with. hundreds have been evacuated, heavy rains and melting snow caused flooding along the mississippi. it will crest at 48 ft.. that has not been reached in 70 years. people
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have been forced from their homes. >> justine: following these live pictures in the newsroom of the flood gates being open along the mississippi river this is outside of new orleans. what they are doing is trying to take the pressure off all lebanese in the most populated areas. engineers are out there right now, they are monitoring the situation. it is flowing through the levees and eventually into the gulf of mexico. we will follow how they are trying to prevent epic floating along the mississippi river. >> louisa: we are starting to see a war mock into the afternoon today, lots of sunshine out there, it is chilly this morning. temperatures in
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the 30's even at this hour period this afternoon mostly sunny, warming trend in to tomorrow. 39 in san rosa, 48 san francisco, 45 redwood city. by the afternoon we will see a slight warming, a few degrees warmer than yesterday, could get up to 70 in vallejo and fairfield. east bay low 60s, san jose 64, 63 mountainview. keeping our eye on the weekend, a lot of things going on here is what future cast 4 looks like, early morning saturday looks dry, showers kick in later in the day, throughout the evening we have a chance of showers and a widespread chance of showers early morning sunday through the afternoon into portions of the evening as well. 7 day around
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the bay shows a warm up by tomorrow, lots of sunshine for you, then we continue with the pattern of morning fog, afternoon sunshine, run the bay 60s and lund, the weekends bring a guest wet weather. >> george: we are still looking at a good ride, no delays or hot spots yet this morning, the bay bridge as we start our bridge check here, traffic is fast enough to vdt over frost, but the approach looks good. --880 and over across--at 707 day and we will take a break and be right back. i am a sneeze whisperer.
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>> mark: members of united educators are rallying. >> craig: it began a few moments ago they will march about a block away from here over to the city hall. you see them here governor brown have been going around about extending tax hikes to pay for education and close a budget gap. teachers say they want to send a message to extend those hikes before too
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much damage is done to schools. >> we hope when we get up there they will see and hear our message, see the more portents of the spirit if we are going to educate children than we have to have the funding. >> craig: teachers are complaining about the republicans for blocking the efforts to put it to a vote. at this point these teacher unions want a legislative decision now. they want to send a message to vote to extend taxes. 20,000 tanks looks " may 15th, they want something done before those jobs are lost. >> mark: we will be right back.
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>> darya: passengers and flight attendant subdued and unruly passenger at happened last night as the passenger bang on the cockpit door shouting. the man was caring and yemen passport no word to him being led to a terrorist organization. in albuquerque a suspicious note with the word bomb was found in
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the bathroom delta flight headed from detroit to san diego. minos was suspicious devices were found then another plane was diverted to st. louis after a passenger tried to simply open the door during the flight. fbi are questioning that passenger what we know so far is he said he had a bad mother state. >> mark: bay and othebay area w >> louisa: cool with temperatures in the '40's and the 30's. this afternoon mostly sunny, breezy and it looks like we will be cool and clear into the evening. current tempters right now 30's in the north bay, san francisco writer and 48, a chilly start. 46 in oakland, temperatures upper 40's in
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fremont san jose. this afternoon we will climb up to 68 san rosa, 61 in san francisco, we could get into the '70s inland through the delta and up into antioch. 64 san jose, by the weekend we have got winkle in your forecast bring in at chance of rain later part of saturday. those chances continue right on into your sunday, that is widespread chances. 30 percent at this time. sunday some left over raindrops' toward sunday evening. 7 day around bay shows a warm-up by tomorrow, then morning fog, afternoon sunshine through the rest of the work week. temperatures '70s, '60s around the bay chance for wet weather kicking and on your weekend. let's check in with george. >> george: no hot spots this
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morning, as we check the bridges starting with the bridge check at the bay bridge toll plaza, the backup continuing to grow beyond the a d d over cross. adt is to live a good approach to the fridge. san mateo bridge ride moving well here there is a minor back up, it is problem free coming in from marin county. >> mark: president barack obama: last week's raid those august 40 minutes of his life with the exception of when his daughter was sick with meningitis as an infant. the president said he knew sending special forces to get at the bottom was risky. it was the best way to make sure they had their man. the president said with months of intelligence work the odds of him being in that compound were 55%. he had such confidence and
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special forces he decided the rest was outweighed by the benefits. washington d.c. lobbying firm tried to the men's congress that pakistan's government did not know bin laden had been hiding out. pakistan is paying a lobbying firm because it does allow lose billions of dollars in u.s. aid that they get each year. >> darya: city councilman is apologizing he was arrested early saturday morning up four dui. he was drinking but he thought he was ok to drive. on his way home he was pulled over and he was over the legal limit. after his release he told other officials of his arrest. >> one of the reasons i wanted to come out and let the community know and let my camp so colleagues know about this and apologize to them, i realize
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we have serious decisions to make over the past few weeks and i don't want this to be a distraction, that's why i wanted to come out and admit my responsibility. >> darya: he will appear in court next month and he intends to plead guilty. >> mark: a man suspected of a a shooting last halloween night has killed himself. in san francisco the day after is shooting in petro hill. three people were shot that night included a toddler and her grandfather. this saturday some despotic the man jesse brown he had a gun on him. it led to a chase and shootout, two officers were hit and treated. brown was hit several times, he then turned the gun on himself. we will be right back
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after the break a live look from the roof cam prinroof camera.
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>> mark: bay bridge, another shutdown is scheduled for over memorial day weekend. they will create an alignment change on the east side. it starts marmoreal weekend. >> reporter: it using the s curve is bad, this alignment change doesn't compare. spokesman says this will be an improvement to eastbound side compared to what they have been experiencing. they show us what the new configurations will look like. keep in mind this is the view from the toll plaza, the
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green part is how far the eastbound lanes will curve to the south. he spoke exclusively to kron 4 about this project. he says it has to be done to build the eastbound section of the bridge >> this is where the toll plazas, here is our new alignment, westbound will take you this way, we cannot build the eastbound because the existing bridge is in the way. it's in an effort to get everybody over to the side. the alignment is smoother, the speed limit will be the same. this drive to root issue an idea of what it will be like. this graphic shows you exactly what we are doing. this is the alignment right now, it is a tight alignment. in that second we shift you off of that peace and swinging wide. westbound
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nothing is going on. >> reporter: it will delay travelers going to oakland from san francisco. they are calling it a partial closure they will all be affected and possible closed. traffic will be allowed to pass through the cone zone. he doesn't know the schedule yet, the good thing is it will be done overnight when traffic is lighter. is start saturday night continuing sunday night may 29th. they hope to finish by memorial day before tuesday's morning commute. >> the middle of the night traffic is less but there's always traffic on the bridge. >> reporter: westbound lanes
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will not be impacted at all the configuration and will not be released to the public until may 17th. >> mark: caltrans will move lanes on the west bound side next year. they are saying they will debut as a of construction web site coming up may 17th. the bridge is scheduled to open ahead of schedule late 2013. this informational will be on our web site at www.kron4.com. >> darya: less than two weeks away, wait a minute it's this weekend. the 100 running of the is these old bay to breakers. >> henry: i have got the plum assignment for bay to breakers on going to be on he's a hell which is the best place. you can
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her haze hill. you get to watch all the people having a great time. they're happy, they want to stay for a while. >> darya: we are excited to show it to stay to and for that. we are covering what's going on with flood gates open at this spill way on the mississippi river. you can see here all of the water as the corps of engineers are doing this to take pressure off of levees. the [ male announcer ] hi lauren and greg, what's up? we're getting the day started with athenos greek yogurt. later we're gonna ride bikes and go to the -- [ male announcer ] wonderful! let's see what yiayia thinks. are you two married? um, no.
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>> mark: beautiful looking morning from mt. tam. let's get a check on the forecast. >> louisa: of cordial shot of the golden gate bridge, free of fog. --a gorgeous shot--.
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>> george: slower traffic backed up is building on the severs cisco side it blocks the right hand lane complete check coming up. and >> darya: scary flight for american airlines plane headed to san francisco last night. a passenger tried to get into the cockpit. will tran is live with the latest. >> will: this happen around 9:00 p.m. last night it was 30 minutes from touching down at sfo. this passenger went from the back of the plane to a front of the plane. at first he didn't draw attention chillum cells, they thought he was headed there to use the bathroom, then he hovered in that area, flight attendants jumped all right. he was caring and yemen passport as
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well as the california identification. they believe it was an isolated incident not part of a bigger conspiracy, several and local investigators are talking to him now at the jail. that information could change as the morning progresses. i got a chance to talk to michael rodriquez here's what he had to say. >> at that point, the passenger continued forward to the cockpit door where he was struck the door, the flight attendant, moves towards that passenger to get him away from the door. when the passenger refused to move back the attendant didn't bear hug on him trying to take him away from the door. >> will: not just one flight attendant but another one jumped
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in, those two could not bring this man down who was a burly man, to retired authorities one be a deputy and a secret service agent that is not part of a program they just happen to be on a passenger. they brought this man down apparently plastic handcuffs on the plane, they subdued him and put him in a first-class seat call ahead they were waiting for him when the plane touched down on the ground none of the four people were injured and they believe at this point is this an isolated incident hopefully we will get confirmation throughout the morning. a lot of passengers are quite shaken about this, got a chance to talk to airport security he says this is beyond his jurisdiction, it will be handled by the police department.
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>> justine: continuing to follow the latest information out of tennessee. this could be a large scale flooding disaster. the river could crest in memphis sooner than expected. the mayor says they are ready. we have pictures of people tried to clean up the area, a lot of the area is still under water, a couple of more pictures to tell you but the damage, they have evacuated 1300 homes, 340 people staying in shelters. all lot of people abandoning areas as they are trying to find someone else to live. it looks like it has damaged cars, flipping over pictures. here you can see roads
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have tire tracks left behind with the mud on it as well. this one you can see water is flowing over the sidewalks. it looks like it could crest tonight we will follow the swollen river that has swamped houses amounts this for you. >> mark: bay area weather let's go check on the forecast. >> louisa: the weather is pouring in comparison. we have some fair weather clouds but blue skies. a clear shot for you it's a bit cool this morning temperatures are down in to the 30's in some spots, mostly sunny by the afternoon, that's when we see the temperatures climbed that warming trend continues right into tomorrow as well. starting off with the current temperatures to 39 san rosa, warm and the men in separate cisco 48, 48 livermore valley..
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--san francisco 48--. we will stay in the '60s the low 60s around the bay even down the peninsula in places like mountainview in redwood city. half moon bay 60, 65 more did help. keeping our eye on the weekend. the latter part of your day on saturday as we head into your 5:00 p.m. hour notice a few sprinkles in the next year by sunday and widespread rain chances from early morning right through the afternoon. because the pop-up showers during the evening. you 7 day around the bay showing a warm-up tomorrow, that in the nicest day of the work week. 60s run bay, '50s for the coast. >> george: our first hot spot
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may be a bay bridge. there is a stall on the upper deck. the back up continuing to grow here in the toll plaza and also here on the 880 over cross which has backed up from here, all the way back to here. continuing with the bridge check the san mateo bridge ride still smooth commute no problems here, golden gate bridge commute still good ride heavier now right from the south in courage. >> mark: may be good news as analysts say they expect relief that the gas pump this summer, prices could jumto drop 505. hee in the bay area $4.32 is the average in san francisco, $4.27 in san jose. we saw a $10 drop
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last thursday and friday in a barrel of crude. >> darya: the dow is down by four, 5.3 now. we will be right back.
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>> darya: over head of a fire were firefighters are battling the blaze in huntington park. the fire is that the frozen food plant. here are some of the responders. it appears the fire was caused by an explosion. the explosion this is video from earlier when it was raging through the roof. thick black smoke you could see it from lax and several freeways. we are
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monitoring what is happening. it conceded difference between this video and a live shot. dozens of passengers became injured when a commuter train over ran its stop in new jersey. passengers being taken to hospital. it was an underground train coming from new york city when it collided with a bumper block. so many people were injured, 38 people had minor injuries. >> mark: doctors treating the canadian woman who was stranded for seven weeks near the novato border. she was it within days of dying. she is on a liquid diet and is very weak but making progress. they got lost on their drive to los vegas. he is still missing after leaving his wife behind to get help. rains and high winds made them stop the
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search yesterday they plan to begin again this morning. the case of a florida woman accused of killing her toddler daughter. this is casey anthony last week, she is charged with killing her two year-old daughter. 20 people will be picked 12 juries in youjurors will be pac.
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>> mark: up stories flat attendance and passengers and often unruly passenger the passenger ending and shouting on the cockpit door. he is caring a yemeni passport.
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>> darya: incase you misted over the weekend new videos of osama bin laden are out there. this is him watching himself on tv. if this was among the evidence after the raid. >> mark: memphis tennessee lookit how flooded the mississippi river a in a spiriiy the mississippi half mile wide right now is 3 ft. wide. 1303 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. >> louisa: up in the sierra all of that fresh new snow. you can see in bill wet roads and this snow is tapering off at this hour dry and cool around the bay, warming trend in store for today. starting off with your
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temperatures, storm tracker for showing you dry right around the bay, seeing snowfall their continuing ride along highway 50 in fact. tapering off along i- 80. we are sitting in the '40's a cool start for the day, low '40's in san rosa, 49 in mountain view. grafton and high in the '60s, a slight warming from yesterday, you might not notice it but still lots of bricks of sunshine out there, 74 fairfield, india, low 60s right through the east bay, down in to the south bay temperatures bringing us up into the '60s. future cast 4 shown as a chance of rain over the weekend, as of now we will see showers through the later part of your saturday, continuing through sunday widespread rain continued for a good portion of your day on sunday. the rest of your work week looks dry, an
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abundance of sunshine tomorrow mid to upper '70s inland, upper 60s around the bay, low 60s around coast. morning fog and lots of sunshine and the afternoon. >> george: looking little better at the bay bridge westbound. the backup is no longer growing but still a good one as you can see a good-sized one. looking poorly for the west bound approach from 8-80. the san mateo bridges problem free with no delays here on the approach. the golden gate bridge 1 01 from marin county also still a very good ride. not much in the way of traffic for 1 01 southbound. 7:48 a.m. let's go to the newsroom. >> justine: i'm right next to actually george. hi how are you doing math. a spokesperson says
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the former house speaker will run for president. how he's making the announcement is different is not a big press conference, he will do it by facebook and twitter. check those accounts on wednesday. he has made no secret of his white house ambitions. >> mark: the operator of a nuclear power plant in central japan are agreeing to close the facility. it is known as the most dangerous plant because it sits in an area where mirth a major earthquake is expected within 30 years. they evaluated the 54 reactors for quake and tsunami, or ability the evacueee
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finally moving to some temporary housing. these are the first people to use the temporary housing since the disaster. people finding difficulty finding places to build homes due to lack of high ground in the area. this town needs 1800 temporary home spirit right now they have ground for about 1000. >> darya: we will be broughrigh.
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ipad apple has overtaken google as the most valuable brand in the world. apple's top ranking and did kugels four year reign at the top. apple's branibm came third most valuable brand. facebook making the list for the first time ever at no. 35. facebook is being used for another tool as a news source. in plays a role in drafting users to big new sites director sharing future. they funneled 3% of traffic to 21 major new sites. it is an analysis on data confirmed by nielsen. the single biggest source remains to
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be google. >> darya: the class of 2011 will graduate with more debt than any class before them. when you head up loans the parents take out and then the student loans as well, the average senior the shearing college will owe $22,900. a person more than a year ago. some 50 5:00 a.m. six days away from the bay to breakers race. there are more rules in place cracking down on bad behavior. maureen tells us there are websites encouraging people to break rules. >> reporter: this mock training video it shows somebody getting ready for the big run doing things like downing of year, pushing a keg, dodging people warm police uniforms. there's a
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tip about how to forget their rates without being caught. this is think camelback, think porta- potti instead of bush. >> did you choose to drink you have to be discreet, those checkpoints will go after the low hanging fruit. if you turn the wheel a shopping cart with decayed that will stand out. but if you are discreet there's no way they can enforce that. >> reporter: they posted this article entitled why you should still crash the bay to breakers even though it sold out despise the organizers say they will crack down on unregistered runners this year. i spoke with the spokesman by phone. he says the reason behind the tough rules is because some riders pass bad behavior has put the future of the race in jeopardy. >> caller: once we can stop
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people from drinking and his behavior, hurting themselves or others there may not be 101 bay to breakers. that's why it is sad this summit would publicize on how to break rules. it is important to and for some this year >> darya: get ready it is this sunday at 8:00 a.m., if you don't wake up bright and early if someone should later when we replay are great coverage at 7:00 p.m. sunday night.
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>> mark: welcome back to the kron 4 news. s. carey slate to use passengers on an sfo plate. >> darya: communities along
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the river are bracing for the worst flooding in more than 70 years as director compressed as early as tonight. >> mark: new report indicates some relief at the pain at the pump to becoming just in time for summer. >> darya: it will feel like summer for the next few days. we'll worry about a week and later. >> louisa: says looking forecast, look at the shot the beach. chance of rain for the weekend. details coming up. >> george: improving conditions at the bay bridge toll plaza after stahl was clear from the upper deck. the main back up still reaches the macarthur maze. >> mark: topping our news is our trouble on the flight from chicago to sfo. flight attendants, passengers subdued and unruly passenger put him in here and doves. --handcuffs. the
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passenger was singing on that, pandora. --a passenger was banging on the will tran has been there the morning. will? >> will: he has california identification the plan was over modesto. 30 minutes from landing here at s.f. of when the incident but the cockpit happens. he never got into the cockpit according to the lease program. concord is these days are just like bulls. bozeman 11. the plan was never in jeopardy. for some four people jumped into action. two flight attendants, two retired authorities. one is a secret service agent. at this point they do not believe he's part of a bigger unit the news working by himself.
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>> louisa: designed to ensure the traveling public the san francisco international airport remained safe. there are patrolling, we believe this was an isolated incident. the the airport operations are normal this morning. >> and of the people involved in this were injured every year the head with a razor waiting for this gentleman once the plane landed they also said the two retired authorities or not part of an air marshal program, is that we passengers on the train. coming up more reaction from the sergeant on why this passenger made all the way into the front in their first race. >> darya: of the developing stories of the west tennessee is bracing for what could turn into a full- scale flood disaster. you
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can see all the water that they're ready dealing with. fish snow a stre is als thethe river should crest at more than 40 haiti that hasn't been seen in more than 70 years. people of marty been forced from their homes. --already been forced from their homes. >> justine: louisiana has stepped up preparations by opening a floodgate northwest of norman's the point is to take the pressure of some of the levees in the most populated areas. we made a map to show you, it is 30 mi. northwest of new orleans it is allowing for the missing bay to flood into a lake and from there into the gulf of mexico. just think of were
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talking about the map, how much farther north month this is and how their record is going all the way down to that whole area with severe flooding. some areas are supposed to be half mile, were hearing 3 mi.. we'll continue to monitor this for you. >> mark: backed here in the bay area. we're watching it weather. >> louisa: today is a nice day, lots of sunshine. if you like yesterday to they will be similar. a pretty nice shot here, downtown san francisco, it will start to the morning temperatures got down into the thirties. same
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goes for mount you in san jose. by the afternoon your time should work their way to the upper 60s and to santa rosa, napa. 61 in downtown san francisco. around the bay, low 60s. 70 degrees in we do is some potential for wet weather on the weekend saturday at chance of showers moving from the north bay sells word. 7 a clock, a bit more widespread. widespread share chances for everyone involved this will last through a good portion of your day even picking up
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raindrops into evening. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. lott's ascension to market looks a price will peak cooling it back down slightly as we head towards friday. morning fog afternoon sunshine until friday. >> george: a minor hotspot on the peninsula 101 it was an accident here at ralston that is of backing up the traffic of redwood city it would otherwise been a disaster commute. southbound-101 sluggish this morning. bridge check, bay bridge toll plaza, improving conditions once the stall is cleared. 800 is your best bet. this is still backed up beyond west grand avenue, almost to the mes. san mateo has been a good one on morning -- even though heavy it's not backed up for delayed. golden gate still looks good with intermittent heavy traffic during county
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grace's debt problems again. we are seeing a wavering and the dow is now up 12 points to the positive. members >> mark: of the united educators of san francisco rallying before leaving for sacramento to participate incidents at the capitol. teachers upset about cuts to education. craig sklar is live with the latest. >> reporter: they will be there and noon and sacramento later today. the started here in san francisco. we'll straight pictures of them marching. two blocks from here over to the school district. governor brown and the legislator republicans have been going around to round on whether to extend tax types to extend the education. teachers want to send a message for further cuts across the state. >> that's where our occupied the capital, that is our will not quit intel these
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republican legislators get the idea this is not a winning strategy. >> we're looking at an all cut its budget, we need a change there. >> reporter: republicans are blocking the governor's efforts to put a question on the ballot to extend talks cuts. teachers say they want a legislative solution now. so far has that happened, they are worried because may 15th less than a week from now there will be pink slips going out and teachers will find out if they lose their jobs. >> darya: 8:11 a.m. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. i talked to gary about some big sports news. here's a live look at truckee skills. in tahoe. we
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will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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(music) >> darya: i've talked to london and i think to say to worry, the sharks have two more games to worry. >> gary: to worry about hockey look inside your soul. worry about yourself first. >> darya: i hear you saying get real. >> gary: yesterday was a perfect example of how to
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heavy and three air act. use of the lakers, then you sort destroy every act. --use of the lakers react. >> darya: we're gonna wait for tomorrow night's game 6. did anyone have to win that one, they can bring a drawback for grade 7. >> gary: when you're joking at the beginning i would tell you what it had one game left okay fine. but they were attacked early as tuesday and then again on their home and was--all ice on thursday. i think it happened three times and hockey were someone has lost the first three and then win the next four. the odds are still in their favor. to really play like champions. >> darya: although, something happened to the sharks before where they
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won, detroit was up 3 and december at tree. anything can happen. >> gary: and everyone has a different philosophy especially when you're sitting on your couch. my theory is something happened before, maybe i'm wrong, but when you're in the key of the battle you're not saying two days ago i did this, i did that. again, people tell you sometimes get into a player's head. but a real good player in my mind, where you're in the middle of that game, you're going for the pot it's hard to say, zero, two days ago i did this. we will see. when you're behind three-one, to not get to the city the- series is a little time remaining and you come back like they did, that's our report protein. >> darya: honey i'm on the couch of being philosophizing is our you do
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instead of sitting and watching tv? >> gary: i need something witty to say. as much as we joe, i'm lucky to have a job where you can actually watch a game and you are working. if you don't watch any of the start of what you talk about? >> darya: let's move on to the lakers. yet the best kept ever, ready to retire and embarrassing how to go out. >> gary: everyone spends mother's day and their different ways. i was out with my mom, my sister and her family my mother just booing the lakers. we had the tv on. they've got those guys, they're a doctor assured walked out. you can lose with dignity, you can lose with no class. they lost low class. >> darya: let's go to phil jackson. >> i was unhappy with the
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way our players exited the game. it was unnecessary. and it's frustrating. other than that, the lakers wanted to buy and put back together again. >> darya: the lakers referring to someone else's problem. >> gary: now is the time to go. you've won 11 championships. he is the greatest coach in any sport. if you just look it championships. i know, maybe a total about this before. i've had a couple times are had him on. someone says you an interview this guy come and jackson was in between chicago and the lakers he was working that year. he
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was just standing around there. off on the side, nobody was paying attention to him. he couldn't be nicer guy. i think he's one guy that can live out of the spotlight. without hanging on and having to do it. he certainly got enough money. vertical, nice guy. just from my brief couple times. i just think he's one guy who interest themselves with other things. instead of hoping and 20 road makes a jump shot. >> darya: he's got five kids. >> gary: he can wander the words, the owner of the lakers daughter is his girlfriend. he's doing great. when you win 11 championships in the sport where the players dictate what's going on most of these coaches are ignored but he was able to hold their attention. he did look
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good guest labor for the most part, what a guy. >> darya: you're a big movie guide, i don't typically like that comic-book action show that i had to go to thor, because my kid's name is thor. >> gary: why the to name it thor? >> darya: because is that always loved the god of thunder. but now we have all kinds of accessories for mcdonald's, everything falls. i highly recommend it. >> gary: how would your kids feel about it? >> darya: he's so proud of it. this movie was really good. the guy who plays him was like but it but only better. >> gary: is that your son? >> darya: yes.
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>> gary: i'm fascinated with the name. so now the good thing. >> darya: i have to tell you, you have to see this movie it was fun, exciting. watch for this actor. he was great. he looks somewhat like brad pitt it's odd. >> gary: the blond hair that your son? >> darya: yes. and someday you'll look like that. >> gary: is he gonna be embarrassed when he knows that mommy did this? >> darya: note to be mortified. on never tried this. he said school right now. he has no idea. >> gary: this is a nickname? >> darya: note is to remember is that. >> gary: anyways, good for you. how old is he? >> darya: nine years ago. it took him nine years but now he's in. what did it at the
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hammer was really great. >> darya: when should i go? >> gary: this weekend. i have to listen to darya i'm a professional. >> darya: i will see you later gary. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.
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>> mark: welcome back to the kron 4 news. a chilly morning rain now but it should be an ice after noon. mid-60's, a bit warmer for tuesday, wednesday, thursday will cool them a lot of clouds next weekend even the possibility of some rainshowers saturday evening and sunday. >> george: looking at a continuing improvement at the bay bridge, westbound of the stalled it back things up pretty badly earlier this morning but the eager perch or the top of your screen is almost completely clear debt and let lanes. and the flats are looking better
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another check coming up. >> mark: president barack obama is calling last week's raid on an lavin the longest 40 minutes of his life. with the possible exception of his daughter's illness with meningitis when she was an infant. in a new tv interview he said sending special forces in helicopters was risky but he said it was the best way to make sure they had their man. it took months of in programs or but the odds for only 55 percent the was there. yet such confidence in the special forces that he decided the risks outweighed the benefits. the lush the benefits were a great pakistan is paying a lobbying firm because it does not want to risk losing billions.
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>> gary: 8100 bay to breakers pam moore and i will be playing around. >> reporter: are so happy to be here were hoping you all come and join us that morning at 8:00 a.m. when things get started. last year pam would not get upset for the 99th but we're bringing you back for this historic event. what out event. sunday-may 15th. we hop'.
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i agree >> mark: traffic is little slow. watching weather on this chilly morning. >> louisa: the good news is the temperatures are action going to rise slightly today we will continue with the warming trend in tomorrow. >> george: as we watch the bay bridge it continues to improve the rear westbound
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ride, still sluggish in the toll plaza. >> darya: thank you, it was a scary flight from passengers on board an american airlines plane was headed to san francisco last may when an unruly passenger went for the cockpit. kron4 is will tran is live with the details. >> will: we know now that he was carrying a yemeni passport as well as california identification these a 200 man at this point they believe it was an isolated incident that is not working with a bigger group. he's being investigated by the joint task force on terrorism as well as the san francisco police department. good news to pass along of the plane was never in jeopardy of crushing it was 30 minutes from landing at sfo. fortunately for people jumped into action taking
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them into the ground, handcuffing him even before it touched down here red sfo we got a chance to talk to the sergeant with the police department he did tell me, this passenger managed to get all the way to the front of the plane he was in coach he made it to the front of the plane that right here at the flight attendant thought he was heading to the front of the plane to get to the bathroom. we started banging he did not listen when they took them to sit down another flight attendant jumped into action. when those two could do it, to other people retired authorities, one a cemetery trying chirrs deputy and a retired secret service agent took this and in whose agreement as early done as a grunt. authorities were waiting plane when it landed. of what people involved and they were not injured, hopefully we will
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get more information on this man, all we know at this point is it's an isolated incident. hopefully will hear from the federal and local authorities. >> darya: thank you, well. >> mark: now, here is a look at the weather. >> louisa: starting off with a shrug of the sierra highly-50, you see all of that snow that is fresh new dusting it is dry and cool around the bay. warming trend that will kick in today. radar, tapering off not seeing anything in the way of snowfall as the snow has shifted southward. our temperatures are slowly climbing out seeing a few 50 degree readings places like a word, 48 in san francisco right now 7: santa rosa of 42. by the afternoon highs will warm up, just a slight warm-up you may not even notice it. 68 in santa rosa.
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low 60s to the east bay. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. but to be the warmest day of the week, for the rest of the week it will stay dry. by the weekend research and a chance of some showers the later part of your saturday rate of two sunday. >> george: slow traffic we were tracking has cleared out is no longer hotspot we will start your bridge jet westbound continued improvement here the toll plaza slots are still backed up. but, let it is easier approach is an easy one to get to the bridge is not a problem. san mateo bridge looks good. heavier traffic yes, no backups no delays. golden gate problem free. even now with the heavier traffic southbound there are no backups getting to the toll plaza. >> mark: >> darya: we have good news
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this morning they say, if you believe the analysts there is going to be some relief at the gas pumps. the gas prices they think will drop by 505 a gallon. i am not holding my breath, you know you have seen. the latest numbers survey shows the average of $4 a gallon. aaa says it's back to $3.96. either way we pay more here at the bay area. as you look at the average price as a member we always say, some are bland, plant, it's coming up, driving season. gas prices go up, not down. i'm not putting any money on it. we will see. >> mark: a live look at the back up, and other schedules shut down memorial day weekend this time only a partial closure caltrans will create what they call an alignment trees and on the east side of the bay bridge. reggie kumar has
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more. >> reporter: if you think the s curve is brian don't worry this bridge on linemen change does not even compare to that. this will be an improvement to the east bound side compared to what travelers have been experiencing. keep in mind this is a view of the bridge from the toll plaza the green highlighted part is how far the east bound lanes will curve to the south. he says the work has to be done in order to build the east bound section of the new bridge. >> we have to move traffic to the southern part here is our new bridge alignment we cannot build the east bound because the bridges in the way. restore moving things to the south. is an effort to get all the traffic move to decide because of the
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improvements the alignment is smoother, speed limit will remain the same this will drive gives you an idea of what it will be like this traffic that's in the commercial shows you a exactly what we're doing. c.r. comes off the bridge it's been that way for 50 years. in a quick second we shift to offer of that peace and swing your ride. is he see westbound nothing is really going on. >> reporter: it will delay drivers even though caltrans is calling this project a partial closure of all five lanes on the lower deck will be affected and possibly closed. he says he does not know the exact schedule yet, he says that good thing is all the work will be done at night over the weekend or and traffic is usually
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later. it starts saturday night continuing sunday night. they hope to finish by monday may 30th before tuesday's morning commute. >> were going to maintain access it's the middle of the night traffic is less but there's always traffic on the bay bridge. you need to expect all late the fear and trying to over the bay bridge. >> reporter: westbound lanes will not be impacted at all. the exact schedule will not be released to the public until may 17th. >> mark: that was reggie kumar reporting. it is expected to open a bit ahead of schedule in late 2013. a lot more on this on memorial day weekend on our website. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. let's get a live look outside of san jose, traffic is busy.
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and see for yourself. >> darya: and so passengers were injured when a commuter train overran it stop. the passengers are being taken away by ambulance. this was an underground train coming from new york city when eight collided with a bumper block which absorbs the impact. there was no derailment but 38 people suffered minor injuries. doctors are treating a canadian woman, she was stranded for seven weeks, in a remote area near the nevada idaho border. these issues within days ever dying from lack of nutrition but she made it. she is now on a liquid diet, she's a very weak but they say she's making progress but they cannot find a husband. her husband albert went out looking for help. so she
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stayed, she was found, he still missing they couldn't do the search for him they had suspended because rain, snow, wind was making it difficult but there are hoping to date of the weather's better to get out and look for him again. >> mark: jury selection is underway today in the case of florida woman killing her toddler. this is her crying near orlando last week. church in the death of her two year-old daughter who was last seen in june of 2008. 20 people will be picked for this jury. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. a live look over san francisco light winds, shine on a tilt to the morning. chilly morning.
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>> louisa: welcome back to the kron 4 news. the 40 5:00 a.m., here's a shot of the ocean. it will be a pretty
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pleasant day. if you like yester day to day is similar temperatures to climb a few degrees from yesterday right now temperatures slowly starting to warm up. we're in the '30's to the north bay of an hour of 50 degrees and santa rosa oscar, redwood city 51 degrees in mind you, san jose. 54 and the act. afternoon highs upper 60s in places like santa rosa, napa. 70 degrees in vallejo. around the bay keeping those temperatures into low 60s about 64 degrees in san as a 60 along the coast. keeping our eye on the weekend. this is what the models are showing as future cast shows as a few showers starting to creep in and the after noon on saturday chance of rain to the latter part of your day in the early morning sunday watch sunday at the rain chances increase we're talking about more
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widespread chances as well bay area wide expecting showers on sunday this could continue into the evening hours. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. a warm up tomorrow, all of that sunshine expected to stick around wednesday a few more clouds roll in and then the pattern will be morning fog, afternoon sunshine by the weekend that is when there's a chance of rain. >> george: no hotspot little slow traffic for the mid peninsula but not now. as we start our bridge jet we monitor better and better conditions even though stol was reported near the base of the incline is only having a minor impact on this 800 approach not really affecting the improvement at the heart of the plaza. san mateo bridge has been problem free and so it continues. golden gate bridge ride has been
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without problem in the southbound direction there's just enough traffic that things are slowing a bit from the south and rich in the left him lanes. >> mark: a man suspected in a shooting last halloween has called him killed himself. this is the scene in san francisco the day after the shooting last fall. police say three people were shot that night including a toddler with her grandfather. authorities say this saturday's someone spotted the man jesse brown with a gun at a bus stop in houston it led to the chase and shootout at three locations to officers were hit. brown was shot several times police say finally turned the gun on himself. they believe he was headed to georgia. >> darya: 82 breakers is coming up this weekend break your arm kron4. you can watch it sunday morning or participate. 50,000 registrations sold-out weeks ago this morning kron4 takes
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a look back at the history. >> reporter: that was 5:12 a.m. april 11th 1906. the earthquake and fire left a quarter san francisco and runs or ashes. more than half the population homeless. it took five years for the city to get back on its feet. >> once they did they get this big race in new year's day, 1912 runners-the starting line they passed lotus fountain. along this still visible fire line to the quake seven and a half miles 44 minutes later say mary's college student across the finish line. the first winner of what was then known as the cross of the race. and there they go. 90 years later bobby and his to under companions would be amazed at the changes. crazy
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costumes, centerfolds. and women. for this for 60 years the main role of women was to wait at the finish line to give the winner his reward. one woman did complete in 1940. but recite yourself in as bobby she was up fiancee of the winner. women were first allowed to register in 1971. by 98 they outnumbered men. like the rest of the city the race went through some big changes in the 1960's three years before the summer of love their race attracted 25 runners. the turnaround began next year when it was renamed the bay to breakers. in 68 ls welcome change to accommodate our construction runners were deterred of the
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pastry shell. the two under for the climb has tortured runners ever since. >> i think people come out to sea as suffering there's always a crowd out there. the '70s brought more changes in 78 a uc-davis renard convinced a dozen under to poke their heads through it. today it is the world's end of the day. in the '80s the bay to breakers goes into the record books as the largest foot race of the world. more than 110,000 people take part in 1986. it is also the last time american wins. since then every winner has been a canyon. the '90s are wearing costumes came into their own as this picture shows there
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are pretty rare as recently as 87. television coverage encourage them to put on costumes although sometimes not all the way. costume judging began in '92 and the runners have not looked back since. >> darya: don't forget kron4 has exclusive coverage of the 100 zazzle, bay to breakers on kron4 that will be sunday, may 15th, beginning at 8:00 a.m. we have cameras all along the course and we will replay the event sunday night at 7:00 p.m. with pam and gary housing. -- hosting. ?ñc
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>> darya: welcome back to the kron 4 news. ysabel is being used as another tool, and news source, the site plays a big role in directing and users to new sites. they found an average
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of 3 percent of traffic to 21 major new sites the report is based and analysis of internet traffic data. the information was gathered during the first nine months of last year the single biggest source remained cool. which accounted for 30 percent of the town traffic used to find topics and stories. >> mark: apple has overtaken google as the most valuable brand in the world. apple's top ranking and did do those four year reign. the brand value was hundred and $53,000,000,000.83% increase than the year before good will drop 2% to 111. ibm coming in as the third world's most valuable macdonald's fourth, microsoft is, facebook appears on the list for the first time ever at no. 35.
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>> darya: the class of 2011 will carry tree with more debt than any class before them. when you add up the loans and then the student loans, the average senior this year is get out $22,900.80% more than a year ago. >> mark: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. conditions along the bay, a beautiful looking view from mount tam. and nice morning looking for some nice weather over the next few days latest on the forecast coming up. back
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>> darya: s gary slate from passengers on a plane headed sfo a, what we're learning that the passenger her try to break into
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cockpit. affect communities breezing through the worst flooding in more than 70 years has the flood waters are about to crest. >> mark: another closure coming to the bay bridge only on kron4 this morning we have exclusive details. >> mark: all i some bay area weather and traffic. >> louisa: not bad looking forecast you can see all of that sunshine. james lick clear conditions we're dry for today as we head into to mar a bit of a warm-up we will talk about that and the chance for wet weather coming up. >> george: bay bridge, still looking at a back up at the toll plaza but it continues to improve westbound is good from the easier approach even now at the slides we're no longer backed up near the macarthur maze. >> mark: trouble on a flight
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from chicago to sfo, they said to a passenger putting him in cuffs as the american airlines flight was approaching san francisco international last night. it was a scary slate for those passengers kron4 is live and sfo would details about the man who was arrested. >> will: this plan was never in jeopardy of crashing. according to research and i spoke to this morning these days cockpit's i like vaults. however this man was singing on the door, it took four people to try and bring him down he's described as a burly caring a yemeni passport as well as california identification card. to add a for people who brought him down were retired authorities one from the county's share to permit the other a retired secret service agent no one was injured. here's sergeant
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michael lai spoke to this morning he believes this man acted alone. we went to ensure the public that san francisco international airport remained safe. members are patrolling, we believe this was an isolated incident that the airport operations are normal this morning. >> will: that could change as they continue to interview this man. this to people, the retired people on the plane were not part of air marshal's the size of their lives these days they just happen to be passengers on the plane. >> darya: we wanna take a look at some of the west tennessee they're preparing for what could turn into large-scale flooding as we have learned that the swollen river could crest late tonight you can see all of the water that they have already high from heavy rains and melting snow they
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been causing flooding along most of the river. the river is expected to crest at more than 48 ft. as early as tonight. people have been forced from their homes. take a look at the water from the river as it headed into louisiana. the army corps of engineers opened the body carries spillway to keep their river from threatening your lens. the main concern is keeping residents safe. >> public safety is our number one priority. the s.a.t. is something we need to maintain. again the system is such that we can pass 1.5 million cubic feet per second. if we exceed that it put an unbelievable amount of stress on the levee system causing boyles, slipping, all sorts of
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concerns with this stage, the flow. >> darya: the army corps are hoping to 28 days today there will open more if needed. >> mark: another bay bridge schedule this time only a partial closure their crating and linemen change on the side its doors late saturday night, more of a weekend to cut train spokesperson outlines the construction plan. >> we have to move traffic to the southern part this is for the touchdown is in oakland. here's our new bridge alignment, westbound route take you this way. we cannot build the east bound because the existing bridge area it's an effort to get the traffic over to the side. because of the improvements the alignment is smoother. we're not reducing the speed this time. this about drive-
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through gives you an idea of what it will be like. this graphic there will be in the commercials shows you exactly where were doing. this is all my memory now. it is been that way for say 50 years. in that quickset that we shift to off of that peace and swing your ride. as you can see westbound nothing is really going on. the exact schedule and link configuration will not be released until may 17th. >> darya: let's get a look at the weather and looks like it's nice, sending up there today just won't be the hottest week. >> louisa: this is the kind of data you want to get a look at the weather. starting to warm up as we head into the afternoon and a similar date to yesterday. temperatures will climb up just slightly. by the afternoon mostly sunny. women trend continues in to tomorrow. right now we have
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climbed at of the thirties out of the '40's currently up to about 50 degrees in san francisco. santa rosa is warming up nicely. 53 degrees in mind you. as we head towards the afternoon an abundance of '60s. 62 in san rafael. 70 for fairfield and the layout. temperatures red around the bay state into the low 60s and about 64 for san house aide. everyone wants to know about the weekend. there's a slight chance of rain. the best chance is the latter part of your saturday. we're still five days out yourself so this could change a bit. rain now looks like they will move in overnight. widespread chances early morning into the evening hours. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. a bit of warmth to mall lots of sunshine dry throughout
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the workweek a pattern of morning fog, afternoon sunshine. george? >> george: first the bay bridge rob plaza despite earlier recurring problems conditions are pretty good rate now especially here at the eighth tier approach the toll plaza backed up just beyond 80 for the westbound ride. san mateo is still a good commute as the volume starts to diminish. especially in the east bound direction holding gate was a little sluggish when last we checked now has cleared out no delays. >> mark: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. a live look here from our roof camera and san francisco light winds on this monday morning.
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>> mark: the dow is set to
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call us and 69 nasdaq at 17, s&p added six. modest gains today. bank stocks are slipping. the latest from pakistan, the prime ministers announcing that the army will investigate how osama bin laden had for years on his country's oil without being detected. they're telling the killing was proper to justice. he rejected claims that authorities were either incompetent and searching for ms or compass and hiding them. >> darya: no one wins in america and china don't grow their economies. this meeting is a discussion about the issues facing both companies countries. as china tries to rely less on exports. >> seven or country see china's progress as a
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threat to the united states. -- some in china worried that america seeks to constrain china's growth. we reject both of those views. we both have that much more to gain from cooperation bank conflict. the fact is a thriving america is good for china and depriving china is good for america. >> darya: the meeting last through tomorrow the state department says it's important venue to manage the complex relationship between the united states and china. >> mark: beyond
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>> darya: welcome back to the kron 4 news. san francisco rally before leaving for sacramento to participate incidents at the capitol the teachers are upset over cuts to education funding. craig sklar has more. >> reporter: teachers are
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going to rally at the capitol first they make their point in san francisco. marching several blacks to san francisco school district office as governor brown is going around and around on whether to extend tax hikes to close the budget gap. these teachers say they face larger class sizes and staff cuts. extend this taxes before too much damage is done. >> we're looking at an all cut its budget. we needed change to bring revenue. >> roping that all we get there by the hundreds they will see and hear our message. >> reporter: they're blocking the government's effort is to put it on the ballot. at this point the teachers' union wants a resolution now. 20,000 tanks lipsky what teachers may 15th they want something done before that occurs.
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>> darya: now the uc system is considering different tuition costs at its 10 campuses that means a berkeley student could pay more for an education and the nsc and didn't at riverside. demand should set the pricing but those against it say it's elitist. officials are studded struggling with the budget which is already led to a tuition increases. >> louisa: already lots of sunshine around the bay. a pretty name shot here from mount tam. shot. santa rosa 55, as we head towards noon we would jump up 10 degrees from that. high-temperature a few degrees warmer than yesterday climbing to about 60 degrees. here's your numbers, down into the '30's. now were added that in the '50s. 553 antioch, 51
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degrees in livermore by the afternoon are highs should warm to the upper 60s santa rosa, napa 70 in vallejo, fairfield. around the bay we will keep those temperatures into low 60s, 70 degrees in antioch. south bay mid-low 60s topping out around 62 degrees. we have some changes as we head towards the weekend the workweek looks to be nice. we stayed dry. warming up slightly in to tomorrow. that we have this pattern going on of morning fog, afternoon sunshine '70s inland '60s at the bay. it is the weekend at this point that brings a chance of rain. the latter part of your saturday could free some sprinkles. now, here is a look at the traffic. >> george: thank you, as we continue to track the conditions at the bay
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bridge, let's take a look cameron. i was concerned that it would be late hotspot, will get to that in a moment. bridge check, westbound, was we looked at the toll plaza, no longer any backed it. you can see where the slowdown begins so the commute is really winding down nicely. san mateo has been problem free all morning. a light ride in both directions. golden gate-101, light conditions, no delays. i was looking at the censors, there was quite a bit of slowing in marin county. it is clearing and nicely. yellow mean speeds below 50. not too long ago there were still some sections below 25. that is no longer the case. better speeds here ended easier drive time through marin. no worries. >> mark: safety regulators
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are investigating a fuel tank problem in effect more than 2.7 million ford f one 50s. the ntsb is saying the steel traps that hold up the gas tanks can rustin break causing a fuel spill or a fire. they're looking into the sharks from 97-2001. the f-150 is the top-selling vehicle in the united states. >> darya: firefighters battled this fire in huntington park. it shooting from the roof, this is a big warehouse. a broker around 5:30 a.m. a looks like there was an explosion of furs. here you see the flames, then leased the black columns of smoke which you can see for miles. they were visible. nobody was injured. the operator of an nuclear- power plant in japan is saying they agree with the government's request to close the facility is one to
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5 mi. west of tokyo is the most dangerous nuclear-power plant because it sits in an area where a major earthquake is expected. the government reached the conclusion after evaluating the 54 reactors. the heavily damaged in fukushima plant in northeastern japan. evacuees are finally moving into some territory housing. this after the march 11th disaster. people who are having difficulty finding places to build homes need housing for about 1800 people in this area. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. traffic is nice, light, plenty of sunshine we'll be right back. >> 100 surrounding, kron4 has exclusive coverage pam will be hosting with gary,
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>> george: late hotspot each year northbound, first reports indicate that it may be an accident involving a big break and and as you read some reports have the s u b on fire. we may have a number of crews responding. >> darya: a spokesperson says the former white s speaker will officially announce on wednesday that he's running for president.
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i am announcing that he will announce on wednesday. he will make a formal real announcement by facebook and wetter and then give an interview later that night. he will offer his or her speech as the canada at their republican party convention on friday. he's announcing today that he will announce wednesday his run. >> mark: a scary rides for some children this video just came in out of ohio, there on this bus when they're hit by a pickup truck. at least three adults were hurt. the children in the bus, all four of them were ok. doctors are treating canadian woman. this one was stranded for seven weeks in a remote area. they say she was within days of dry and from lack of nutrition. she's on
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a liquid diet, she seems to be making progress. here's the last time she was seen leaving a store he is still missing he left his wife behind to get out. rain, snow, high winds will force them to cancel the search. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. let's take a peek at the traffic in san francisco the james lick looks good we will be righ. you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity. turning your life upside down in a matter of seconds. hi. hi. you know i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. you just read my mind. [ male announcer ] just one little piece of information and they can open bogus accounts, stealing your credit, your money, and ruining your reputation. that's why you need lifelock. lifelock is the leader in identity theft protection. relentlessly protecting your personal information to help stop the crooks in their tracks before your identity is attacked. protecting your social security number, your bank accounts, even the equity in your home.
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>> darya: as scary for for a flight for passengers headed to san francisco last night when a passenger tried to get into the cockpit. will trent has been following this story house the latest. >> will: this passenger was banging on the cockpit. the meter from the back to the french. the flight attendant didn't think anything of it, that he was heading to the restroom. when they saw he was trying to break into their car it ought not one not to comment but to other and passengers also helped out. he's a 28 year-old man, he had a passport at the time as well as a california identification card at this point they believe this is an isolated incident that he was not working with some
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bigger group. but you never know. he's been taught to by the authorities. i talked about the two passengers that helped out. >> reporter: to the passengers were on board. a retired service officer for them together some doomed that passenger using some plastic handcuffs. they placed him in a first-class seat. >> will: it's and light the five attended did not know he was trying to break into the cockpit he was just too close which forced him or her to say whether you doing? >> that speculation on my part. what i heard from the officer during the
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investigation was the passenger didn't care directed towards the cockpit door. >> reporter: the plan was never in jeopardy of going down these days cockpits are like fault it would take a lot to get in there the four people involved, no interest to them they radioed ahead to the sfo. authorities are waiting for him once the plane landed. he's being held and san mateo county jail. >> darya: last days incident was the third disturbance on sunday. we have that one that will give us the details. then there was a plane forced to make an emergency landing after and no was found in the bathroom saying bomb on it. there were no suspicious device is found on that plane same thing yesterday but it was earlier on sunday a continental flight from houston to chicago at toys road to st. louis after
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a passenger tried to open a door mid flight. police are questioning that passenger. >> mark: san as a city councilman is apologizing for his actions he was arrested early saturday morning for d why he says he was drinking with friends and thought it was ok to drive. on his way home the highway patrol pulled him over test showed he had a valid alcohol level of 0.12 with the legal limit of california 0.08. after his release he told other city officials of his arrest. >> one of the reasons why i wanted to come out and let the community and that my colleagues know about this, i apologize to them is because we realize we have a lot of serious decisions to make i don't want this to be a distraction. that's why i wanted to come out and fully aware that my responsibility. >> mark: he will appear in court next month he says he intends to plead guilty.
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>> darya: pacific gas and electric company is conducting pressure tests on some of its pipelines today. those pipelines located in antioch in mount you. people may sell gas well these tests are conducted. brian is turning is today? sounds like we can hear him but he came here as bright new era? we were promised a phone line. i think people smelled gas after the blast and they tend to get noticed nervous. pacific gas and electric company likes to publicize these tests and can you hear us? no. be aware that that is going on today. pacific gas and electric company never mind if you call. oakland northbound and live, a big break and then s u b have collided we continue to get reports that the s u b
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caught fire. not only do we have three units responding to the scene but also have a fire crews responding. as we do a little close appear on the location on the maps, you can see that in this up and direction we're starting to pick up some slowing for the nimitz freeway. the northbound side remains backed up. almost into san leandro. it's likely would lanes blocked this hotspot will be with us through 10:00 a.m.. we will be with you so what your problem you'll be apprised of it. bridge checks, bay bridge westbound, lingering back up. but it doesn't even reached the ec over cross. san mateo bridge, commute is over. -- 880. golden gate bridge is problem free southbound. now, here is a look at the weather. >> louisa: good morning george, lots of sunshine,
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all of those shots the were showing us a downtown san francisco, james lick, here but also cool. temperatures did dip down into the thirties at one point the afternoon, mostly sunny a little breezy. cool, clear conditions into the evening. finally starting to warm up for a 53 in sentences there, 51 degrees for livermore, up into fairfield closing in about 60 degrees. by the afternoon lots of '60s, 60 degrees and santa rosa. creeping into the 50s and some of the inland spots. antioch reaching 70. south bay '60s. low-mid-60's as expected. watching that weekend, storm has potential to bring us showers saturday-sunday. sprinkles on the latter part of your day sunday. it is sunday that brings us a better chance of rain. little more
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widespread. this could last a good portion of your day on sunday. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. temperatures could spike up to the mid-upper '70's inland upper 60s around the bay. that will probably be the warmest day of the week. back to you? >> mark: may be good news for drivers analysts are saying they expect some relief for gas prices for the summer. they say gas prices could drop nearly 505 a gallon. the latest survey does but the average up to $4 a gallon. here in the bay area were looking at $4.32. 426 and oakland, 427 in san jose we saw a sharp drop on friday. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. [ woman ] everybody's looking for deals these days,
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>> george: welcome back to the kron 4 news. and it's
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free way northbound, to vehicle accident and a vehicle fire. california highway patrol, the sheriff's office and fire crews all on seeing rain now. for while all of the northbound lanes were closed. -- right now. it is even affecting southbound- 880. >> mark: >> darya: i will take. with the strength of the ipad apple has overtaken google as the most valuable land in the world. -- france. they looked at the brands and which ones are the most valuable, recognizable, apple is on top. that ends cool four year reign. apple is taking the no. 1 spot from google. their brand value is more than $153 billion. that's 84 percent
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increase. los value dropped by 2% to 111, the eight companies that the most recognizable and valuable, ibm, mcdonald's, microsoft. >> darya: >> mark: facebook is being used as another tool, and news source, the state bank plays a role in directing users to new states. facebook filed an average of 3%. it is based and analysis of intimate traffic data compiled a by nelson. the signal bigness' source remains google, google accounted for 30 percent of traffic being funneled to new sites. concert promoter live nation, and group on are forming a venture to develop an online ticketing site called group-on light. it's expected to be traffic
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season. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. will at the time for mount tam, you can see all of the sunshine at great day today.
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>> mark: welcome back to the kron 4 news. this was the third flight this service incident alone just yesterday. in case you miss it over the weekend, new videos of osama bin laden being released this shows him watching himself on tv. there were among the evidence seized by navy seals after the raid that killed osama bin laden in pakistan. forecasters are
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saying the swollen mississippi river could crest sooner than expected. 12 ft. above flood stage. 48 ft. high that is the highest level has been since 1937 for their revenue in memphis. it's expected to be 3 mi. ride on a section of the river is normally a half mile wide. >> george: tracking a hot spot on the nimitz, a 2-3 lanes remain blocked at fifth avenue the california highway patrol is a string eight s i g alert, motorists should avoid it if possible. you will be delayed heading down towards oakland airport. you should give yourself an extra 15-20 minutes. at a > s u b
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collided the big green caught fire. it is the fire department that has lanes shutdown. they should be opening ups the second change soon. the into right lanes will remain closed until after 10:00 a.m. bacchus' continue to build about directions. let's get to bridge check, -- backups. nothing to say here, easy trip for the upper deck assam a tear bridge, the commute has been over for a while here. the golden gate bridge has been problem free for a while it's the end of an easy ride. now, here is a look at the weather. >> louisa: we're starting off with a shot up in the sierra. this is 80, you can see the snow, it is a fresh little dusting of snow.
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getting some spotty snow showers up around tahoe but we are actually trying out. dry, cool around the bay. storm tracker 4, what is left over along 80 we're still seeing some snowfall there but we're dry here in the day, temperatures slowly starting to warm up. 55 in santa rosa 51 in livermore. the afternoon, temperatures warm up, maybe a few degrees warmer than yesterday up to 68 in santa rosa. 70 emplace is like fairfield, vallejo, antioch. to the livermore, 64. we're keeping air about 66 degrees for los gatos. chance of rain in though picture for this weekend. showers moving from the north-south this will continue overnight we could still see some showers by sunday. in the afternoon sunday even into the evening we could see some
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left over spot showers here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. warming up tomorrow, lots of sunshine bringing those ties in to the mid-70s inland upper 60s around the bay. we will continue with fairly calm, dry weather. then it all changes by the weekend. mark? >> mark: let's go live to norland, the governor is giving an update on with the rising level of the mississippi river. it will let folks know when it is safe to go back into these areas. we're dry of these teams are brought here. to call on them and a potential flooding events let's give these men at a round of applause. (cheering & applause) >> now the update, the inundation levels are
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expected in no. 3 san at those the reflected in 2008 can expect to be flooded again mainly due to backed water flooding resulting from the rising river levels. one of the things that we ask and you saw late friday they did release. will lead to the backsliding natalie for the spillway but also of the north louisiana flooding that would occur independent of this bill, it will take along your that is more directly related to the crust. the length as of this morning there were some technical issues, to make sure those maps are available to the public that have made them available. and the local officials. we want those maps to be available to the public, we strongly encourage anyone that's concerned about their
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property, homes, businesses to go to these websites and look at the mouth to get a better sense of where there might be flooding. it will not just the 22 river flood but also back water flooding. folks that may not think there endanger could be impacted by backwater flooding as well. the coast guard togas their clothes traffic around they establish a traffic control point they're instituting the sole control restrictions on speech, wait, proximity. they also i ask law-enforcement to notify them of any basil's are troubling to close to pull them away. this is a word of warning to our people i would encourage you to follow the directions. there warning folks to stay away from the levees, stay away from the operations to fortified those levees. i know there's a lot of curiosity. i would strongly,
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strongly encourage our residents to follow the law enforcement there permitting people not to end to stay away from active operations. it is very important for safety have been folks over the weekend of people swimming and some of these waterways. it's very important that people understand as the water levels are as a deterrent could be very, very dangerous fall your guidance. >> mark: you're listening to the governor of louisiana explaining the potential evacuations as they let the water spilled into the lake to try and avoid flooding. we will follow the latest and t.
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>> george: tracking a hot spot in the kron 4 morning news. no. and, it's affecting traffic in both directions. it is the
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northbound lanes that are shut down. to possibly three to accommodate cruz cleaning up but the scene of an accident. the back up reaching into san leandro. avoid the nimitz in both directions if you can. especially if you're heading to the oakland airport in the southbound direction. use 14 or interstate-580. >> mark: thank you, we're watching wall street and gain for the dow originally the dow sank into negative territory in a word that the increases debt rating was born to be downgraded by the dow is now up to 60. >> darya: there will be a game six for the sharks. that cannot be about to close out the red wings scored three times in the span of just about 10 minutes. to get san jose 4-3 that cuts the sharks lead to 3-2. so game 6 in detroit
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tomorrow night. >> mark: that is becoming torture to. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. we'll leave you with a live look here from the golden gate, pretty looking view as temperatures start to warm up. an update on our hotspots coming up.
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>> justine: top stories include a mid-air scare for plane headed to sfo. the latest on those developments. another closure on the bay bridge to tell you about, exclusive shucoverage. communities around the mississippi river is bracing for the worst flooding in 70 years. kron 4 at 10:00 a.m.
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starts now. >> live from the bay area new station this is the kron 4 morning news. >> justine: first attack on weather and traffic which are always together on kron 4. >> erica: i will start in the traffic center. we have all hot spot on the nimitz freeway all the red on your screen i will have details on this hot spot in just a bit. >> louisa: not a bad looking forecast, clear shot just unfair weather odds for you. >> justine: topping our newest trouble from chicago on a plane headed toward a cell. they had to send to an unruly passenger and put him in handcuffs as the flight was approaching san francisco last night. the question is could this be terrorism? >> will: at this point they
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believed it was an isolated incident, the suspect we are talking about is a 28 year-old man in jail been taught to buy local and federal investigators, he had yemenis passport and a california identification card, it took for people to bring him down. to flight attendants and to law-enforcement retirees there were on the plane. >> we want to insure travelling public this san francisco international airport remains safe, the police department is patrolling, we believe it was an isolated incident, that the airport operations are normal this morning. >> will: the plane was 30 minutes from landing at sfo, it was over modesto at the time, the reason why it became an issue, when this passenger went
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to the front of the plane he did not touch anybody's attention the flight attendant thought he was going to the bathroom, when he started banging on the cockpit that's when they jumped into action and handcuffed him before the plane touched down they call the head and authorities were waiting when the plane landed. >> justine: let's move on to what's happening in tennessee as they are preparing for what could turn into a flooding disaster. the mississippi could crest late tonight, hundreds have been evacuated. heavy rains and snow has covereadded to the. it will crest at eight 48 ft.. they have not c-net level in nearly 70 years. waters it is
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from the mississippi is headed into river instead of through northlands. they opened this the way to keep the river from threatening more lands and communities down the street. the main concern is keeping people safe. >> the safety of all of the citizens of louisiana and folks impacted by this is something we need to maintain and keep for front in our mind. the system is such that we could dump water, if we exceed that it puts stress on the levee system. that causes slipping, all sorts of concerns with not only the state of the river but also the flow. >> justine: the army corps of engineers are opening 28 days today, it will decide if they need to open more if needed. and it's moving to of hot spot in our traffic center. and i'm not
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just talking about erica. >> erica: the northbound direction raid at fifth, three of lanes are shut down for 34 more minutes out there, a big rig vs the suv, the suv did catch fire. there is a sig alert, red and bits of yellow on the screen here speeds down to 4 mi. an hour in some slow spots. this is our only hot spot a bridge check no way whatsoever on the bridge to the toll plaza, metering lights and and cycled off. san mateo bridge nice easy ride, no incidents for you, and no problems getting to the bridge, you're drive time was 14 minutes across the span. someone 01 you get to drive in the sunshine the problems in san francisco's top speeds out of
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the north bay. the time right now is 10 05 a.m. let's have a look at your forecast. >> louisa: right now here's a clear shot of the golden gate bridge temperatures turned off school this morning but warming up towards the afternoon. we will warm up more tomorrow, let's start off with the current temperatures outside up into the '60s places like napa, that is one of the few spots we might get some rain later on today. 62 for fairfield, 53 in san francisco today. 56 degrees in mountain view appeared towards the afternoon will bring the highs and into the upper 60s in san rosa and napa, about 61 degrees and sein san francisco.
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changes by the weekend through their rest of the work week we will stay in the '70s inland '50s for the coast, by the weekend chance of rain saturday, sunday. >> justine: another brave bridge shutdownbay bridge shutdown forl day weekend. the work will begin late saturday night of memorial day weekend. a spokesman out lines that construction plan. you only hear it on kron 4. >> we have to move it over to the southern part, this is where the touchdown as. this is the new bridge alignment, we cannot build these because the existing bridges and the like. so we have to start moving south. because of the improvements the alignment is actually smoother, the speed limit will remain the
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same we're not reducing the speed this time. this gives you an idea of what it will be like. this graphic shows you exactly what we are doing. this is the alignment right now, it is very tight off the bridge. after that we should do off of that and swing you wide. westbound nothing is going on. >> justine: we will fall that for you,--follow it--. may 17th the final detours will be brought to and we will show you that as soon as we get them. the latest act or the death of osama bin laden. we @
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>> erica: good news four said alert and hot spot that has been
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cancelled. --sig alert--. >> justine: pakistan's prime minister says the army will investigate how al-qaida chief osama bin laden hid for years on his country's soil without being detected. yousuf raza gilani made the comments during an address to parliament on monday, a week after a raid by u.s. navy seals in the pakistani garrison city of abbottabad killed the terrorist mastermind. gilani said bin laden's killing was proper justice. he rejected claims that pakistani authorities were either incompetent in searching for bin laden or complicit in hiding him, and expressed full confidence in the country's armed forces and intelligence establishment t. much more straight ahead right after the break. a live look from our mount tam camp, it is a sparkling day. cooler but we will warm up mid-week.
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>> justine: educators of san
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francisco rallied before leaving for san francisco today, it will participate incidents at the capitol. kron fours has more from san francisco. >> craig: teachers will rally at the capitol but first they made their point in san francisco. merging several blocks to san francisco school district office governor brown going round and round about whether not to extend tax-most teachers face larger tax cuts. her if you're looking at a change in revenue. >> we hope they will see and hear our message. >> they're putting the tax question on the ballot. union
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wants a legislative decision now. 20,000 pink slips go to teachers may 15th, they want something done before that occurs. >> justine: more education news, you see is the game about different tuition costs appeared in means uc-berkeley student could pay more then uc riverside. the demand should set flex pricing but those against it say it is elitist. they're struggling with the budget reductions that have led to layoffs, cuts in class offerings. a live look for our roof cameron san francisco right now, not a cloud in the sky out there. >> louisa: if you like yesterday you like today it will be warmer today heading into the afternoon, sunny and breezy,
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clear and cool conditions. temperatures are slowly warming up we are in the '60s turn napa and fairfield, 60 in san rosa, south bay temperatures right around 56 in mountain view, 54 in san jose. by the afternoon are highs will creep up bin to the upper 60s but we could squeeze out '70s today, 70 in vallejo, fairfield, temperatures sting into the low sixties in the east bay. 60 and half monday, 66 los gatos. we have a lot of things going on on the weekend, bay to breakers sunday at this point it looks like we will see a chance of rain the later part of your saturday. .com 1:00 p.m. sprinkles in the north bay, spreading south toward the could is sprinkled along the peninsula. widespread rain early morning sunday, keep those chances around through the afternoon, we could keep showers
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through the evening as well. if 7 day around the bay, lots of sunshine for tomorrow could be the warmest day of the work week, continuing with morning fog and afternoon sunshine are rankled by the weekend bring us a chance for rain. 10:19 a.m. let's check in with erica. >> erica: the accident gone from the traffic lanes. is is this alert has been canceled but it is still a hot spot. -- similaig alert. --. this was a e morning hot spot the only one we have had all morning. the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza nothing to tell you about here, traffic flows freely from the shore freeway when the meter lights have been cycled off. smooth ride at the san mateo
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bridge westbound and eastbound 92. golden gate bridge southbound 1 01 traffic heavy approaching san francisco but still moving well. no delays out there, clean and green on the traffic maps indicating 60 mi. an hour speeds. public transit things have run smoothly. >> justine: problems for the ford f 150. top-selling vehicle united states, they are investigating a fuel tank problem that could affect more than 2.7 million of those trucks. they say the steel straps that hold up the gas tank can rest and break, possibly causing a fuel spill end of fire. it is looking into the trucks that are from 1997 through 2001 model year. another
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assault at napa state hospital, a patient attacking to staffers. they suffered minor injuries, he was at the hospital for a court order assessment. napa state hospital has been plagued by recent attacks by staff members and patients including the murder of a staff member last october. san jose's city councilman have apologizing to do. he was arrested saturday morning for at dui he said he was drinking and thought he was ok to drive. chp pulled him over his blood alcohol malt was 0.12, legal limit is. 08, after his release him explaining to do. >> i wanted to let my council colleagues in the community to
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know and frankly apologize is the realize we have a lot of serious decisions to make over the next few weeks, i don't want this to be a distraction, i wanted to come out and it meant my responsibility. >> justine: he will appear in court next month, he says he will plead guilty to one count of driving under the influence. still ahead flames gone now and then taking dowthon out and thet a frozen food facility. a live look from our bay bridge, we will check gone are hot spots will become back.
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>> justine: we have been following this blaze at a food plant in southern california. you can see how high it got. it
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was and huntington park. it is a frozen food plant. it was caused by an explosion. no word on any injuries at this moment. scary ride for school children in ohio, a pickup truck hit their school bus, three adults were hurt, only four children were on the bus, they were not hurt. dozens of passengers injured when a commuter train over ran a stop at a whole balkan new jersey, it was coming from new york city when it collided with a bumper block which absorbs the impact appeared there was no new . there was no derailment.
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still ahead top stories in a check of wet weather and traffic. a live look at the james lick freeway, everything seems to be ok for the most part. we will be right back.
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>> justine: double live look outside one is from san francisco, the other one is meant tam tam showing as crystal blue waters. --mt. tam cam-- >> erica: sunny and mild outside right now, as we dig into the afternoon we will see a mixed
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bag of '60s and '70s but more on this and a second. i want to update you on the hot spot this an alert has been cancellethe sn cancelled. >> justine: trouble in the skies, the plane approaching san francisco and unruly passenger had to be taken down. >> will: they believe it was in an isolated incident, for people helped capture him. the plane was over modesto at the time, they call the head that authorities were waiting for him on the ground once the plane landed at 9:30 p.m. last night
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when they took him into custody they found yemenis passport. and a california and if identification card on him. >> justine: disinformation just coming and, we are learning the suspect lives in vallejo, was taken out of the salmon talsan l and brought to a federal jail. we will have more on this to come. another problem on a plane yesterday a plane forced to make a landing after suspicious note with the word bomb was found in the bathroom. the delta flight was headed from detroit to san diego. no devices were found on the plane. sunday a plane from houston to chicago diverted to st. louis after official say a
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passenger tried to open a plane door during the middle of the flight. they are questioning the passenger. >> erica: live look in san jose where it is pretty sunnier out there feel like yesterday's whether you will like today's. temperatures mild, we are expecting widespread sunshine around the bay area, peeking at your weather had lines, it was a cool start this morning, anticipating sunny conditions in to the afternoon. on tap for warming trend stretching into tomorrow more on that in a second. temperatures mostly in the '50s and '60s. 55 san rafael, warm over a fragile 62, 54 livermore, as we taken into the afternoon we are not going to warm up significantly a mixed bag of 60s out there. warmer in
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the and 65 concord, mid-60's around the bay, 74 antioch, 64 livermore mid-60's making your way in the south bay. we have a slight chance of rain on top this weekend, 30 percent chance, future cast 4 shows by saturday's blaze the bay area and half. by 3:00 p.m. and is widespread, but as we take into the late evening by 11:00 p.m. on sunday it is lifting them we will be drying out significantly. keep that in mind for your weekend plans expansion in the bay to breakers. 7 day forecast 75 round othe inland. mix of morning fog and afternoon sunshine for certain, friday, 30
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percent chance of rain for your saturday, sunday. turning over to your traffic was still of a hot spot the nimitz freeway that alert has been canceled but still seeing stretches of red and yellow on your screen. speeds dipping down to 70 mi. an hour.17 miles an hour. the salmo bridge moving nicely, finally a look at the golden gate bridge 1 01 it has been problem free throughout the morning. >> justine: we do have some good news that might ease your future commutes, they expected to be some relief at the guest of been time for summer vacation, they say prices could drop nearly 505 a gallon, that is the latest the national average of $4 a gallon
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which aaa says the national average has gone down $3.96. this is what we are looking at, oakland $4.26,. bay bridge shutdown for moral big day weekend, it will start late saturday night of memorial day weekend, the latest from reggie who will explain what the shutdown means. >> reporter: if you think the as curve is bad don't worry this doesn't compare to that. caltrans spokesman says this will be an improvement to eastbound side compared to what drivers have been experiencing. he shows us with the new lane configuration will look like. keep in mind this is the view of the bridge from the toll plaza,
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the green highlighted part is how far the eastbound lanes will curve to the south. he spoke exclusively to kron 4 about the project, the word has to be done to build these bounds section of the new bridge. >> we have to move traffic to the southern part, the toll plaza is back towards the bay bridge, at this is the new alignment, we cannot build these down because the existing bridges in the way. it is in an effort to get the traffic over to the size silicon to work here. because of the improvements the linemen is smoother, speed limit remains the same we are not reducing speed this time. this drive to reduce to an idea of what it will be light, this graphic also shows you what we are doing. this is the line and right now it is very tight. in that quick second we shift you off of that and swing you rock
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wide. westbound nothing really is going on. >> reporter: it will delay travels headed to oakland from san francisco. they're calling in a partial closure all lanes of the lord of the bay bridge will be affected and possibly close. traffic will be allowed to pass through the column zone. he doesn't know the schedule yet, the good thing is it will all be done at night over memorial day weekend when traffic is lighter it starts saturday night, continuing sunday night, they hope to finish by monday morning before tuesday morning commute. >> we will maintain access. traffic is less but there's always traffic on the bay bridge, you will need to expect a delay if you're trying to come over the bridge. >> reporter: westbound lanes
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will not be impacted at all, the exact schedule will not be released to the public until may 17th. >> justine: the new bay bridges still ahead of schedule finishing by late 2013. we have more affirmation about this on our web sites including what you need to know about closures. the address is www.kron4.com. will be right back. ♪
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do. evacuees moved into temporary housing. the first people lot the town needs about eight him hundred temporary houses, the ground which was cordoned off is only set for 1000 people. hillary clinton says nobody wins if they don't grow economy. >> some in our country see china's progress as a threat to the united states. some in china, worried that america seeks to constrain china's growth. we reject both though those views. we both have much more to gain from cooperation them from conflict the fact is, a thriving america is good for
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china, and the thriving china is good for america. >> justine: the meeting is expected to last through to tomorrow, it is an important venue to manage the complex pitch and all
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>> justine: equivalent at some of the top stories, an unruly passenger is taken down and putting anput in handcuffs. the passenger is accused of evading banging on the cockpit door, he is in federal custody. in case
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you missed it on the weekend new videos of osama bin laden was released, one video watches him watching himself on television these were taken by navy seals. forecasters say this will mississippi river could crest sooner than expected. it could do it tonight. it is starting to level out and could crest at or near 48 ft.. they are going back repeatedly telling people they need to leave their homes. the other big story is our weather forecast, i know we are looking ahead to the bay to breakers race on saturday, i don't like the chance of rain. something tells me it won't dampen the race. >> erica: it is only 30 percent chance of rain mostly over night, much more on that in a second. in the meantime sunnier
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out here the james lick freeway, you will certainly need rejected out thera jacket out ty although it will be a bit breezy pushing into the afternoon. going to enjoy cool clear conditions for this evening temperatures in the 40's. taking a look now at your afternoon sir your current temperatures outside mixed bag of 505 '60s out there, 55 half monday, same with oakland, 56 in redwood city, mid-50s in the south bay in as we take it to the afternoon we really won't warm up much, temperatures in the '60s, bay area wide the '70s inland 65 degrees in concord, anticipating mid-60's around the immediate area, 70 up bin
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manioc, 64 livermore, 65 down in morgan hill. as we said little while ago we are anticipating rain headed into the weekend, future cast 4 set for saturday at 1:00 p.m., this green is making its way into the bay area, 5:00 p.m. saturday you concede cutting the bay area in half. by sunday afternoon you will see lifting down in the south bay, as we make it into the late evening 11:00 p.m. sunday most of the area is completely dry making and into early monday morning. 7 day forecast shows today mostly in the '70s for your inland spots, '60s around the bay, '50s for the coast. warming trend over the next couple of days tuesday will be the warmest day of the week, morning fog mixed with afternoon sunshine anticipated
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for thursday, friday, slight chance of rain from saturday stretching into sunday. i want to show you that hotspot will more time northbound 880 this sig alert has been cancelled lanes are clear, you can see a break up in the back up here. tax on 30 minutes to your drive time or avoid the area altogether. bay bridge toll plaza nothing to report, and traffic is moving well towards most of the approaches, traffic moving well up the incline and across the upper deck. san mateo bridge has been a decent ride throughout the morning, heavier on the east downside. no problems to report for your ride out of the north bay 25 minutes out of novato into san francisco. >> justine: bay to breakers race is this sunday. it you could
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watch it on kron 4, sunday at 8:00 a.m.. what do know about the race before they dress up? kron 4 will look back at the history of bay to breakers. >> reporter: that our was 5:12 a.m. april 11th 1906. the earthquake and fire left a quarter of san francisco in ruins. it took five years for the city to get back on its feet. >> then they had the grace period >> reporter: 1912 new year's day they went to the starting line. along the still of billable fire lane 7 1/2 marcmiles. the first winner of what was known as across the duke race.the cross y
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would be amazed at the changes. crazy cautioned, and women. for 60 years the main role of women was to wait at the finish line to give the winner his reward. 1940 barbara brooke centers often as if bobby. women were allowed to register in 1971, and 1998 they outnumbered men. like the rest of the city, the race when through big changes in the '60s, three years before the summer of love, there was 25 runners. the turning background
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began next year when it was renamed bay to breakers. in 1968 to less likely change. if they changed it so the people lining up hayes held. the '70s brought more changes 1978 are runner convinced people to run with their heads through tariff. this is the largest foot race in the world. more than 110,000 people take part in 1986, it is the last time an american wins. since then everyone there has been a canyon.canyon. then cos's
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came into their own. they were rare in 1987, then tv encourage people to wear costumes, and sometimes not all the way. costume judging began in 1992, the runners have not looked back since. (music)
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>> justine: a quick look at you're 7 day around bay, mid- 60's this week, what we are watching closely is the chance of rain saturday, sunday, we will let that dampen the 100th running of the zazzle to bay to
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