The two left lanes are shutdown and the corner is on the scene. This will be a very lengthy investigation and likely a long cleanup operation. The traffic is backed up through the Macarthur Mayes back beyond interstate 580. Highway 4 is also backing up beyond childrens hospital. This is opposite the bart station. This is a tough thing to avoid. The best bet is if youre commuting when interstate 580 is to get off in use 880. This will affect commuters not only going to the bay bridge but also to the east shore freeway. At least have the traffic through the maze. This rapid is backing up before the flyover. Delays are going to be here for a while and we have an alert that has been issued. This means a lengthy clearing time. Better nils for the south bay colors have been cancelled on 1 01 ed muskie. However, the traffic is still backed up. This is want to 80, 87 and then of course highway 11. You can see that the traffic is backed up all the way to highway 85 and alternate your best bet is to sit through this. The bay bridge toll plaza is not bad and because the traffic is light this is one of reasons why we do not see bigger backups leading to this motorcycle trash. Crash. We have seen a temperature drop. Low 40s along the shore line. Richmond. Low for this if you are leaving your house. Approaching the 8 00 a. M. Hour we will have bottled out and the temperatures will be a few more degrees but by lunch time most of us will be in the 60s. We will continue with this warmup. Overall, very mild conditions. I will look address 7 day forecast coming up. Also developing now. Firefighters in san jose are calling for fires overnight suspicious. The Fire Department is saying that it looks like someone intentionally set those fires. They were clustered around East San Jose street, west of 1 01. That makes seven fires for firefighters in san jose in the past 24 hours. One of the last my left as many as eight people without home. It was a condominium fire on trevino terrorists. Fire officials said that a starter with a driver shortly before 6 00 p. M. In a story that we brought to you live yesterday morning of a warehouse fire in san jose. The warehouse was vacant and once had several businesses in mostly a industrial area. 2 schools in nearby were canceled and clothes for the day because of the fire. The other big story this morning, the flu. The h1n1 virus is now reported in all 50 states. The cdc says the california has a regional outbreak of the flu. This is not as widespread as an epidemic. Here in the bay area, hospitals are filling up with sloflu patients. Thats right. Health officials confirmed that 10 flu deaths in seven bay area counties for those were just reported yesterday. Two deaths in alameda county, to iran, to end at santa clara county, one in San Francisco and one in contra costa and sonoma county. Many people are going out and getting their flu shots. Pharmacies are gearing up for a high demand. Kron4 will tran it is live in burlingame. As you look around you could find a place to get a flu shot. But the one common denominator according to Health Officials is that some people did not have a flu shot and joining me now is patty. What is your thought . I believe it is important because i used to take care of my parents. I received a full shot every year and i never got the flu. I work with the public and i cannot afford to get sick. Do you felt bettel better by getting at slingshot . Yes. I take it is important. Slingshot . Yes. I feel better flu shot . Yes. I feel better. There wasthats that was good advice will. We do have Additional Resources like what you need to know about the flu and the vaccine. You can go to our website ed kron4. Com the time is 7 07 a. M. The appearance of a teenage girl who was a run over and killed by to emergency vehicles responding to the asiana plane crash has filed a claim against the city of San Francisco. Attorneys for the parents of a 16 yearold said that firefighters who first saw the group after the july 6th crass should have examined her and moved her somewhere else. An autopsy revealed that she was alive before the vehicle hit her. Three people were killed when the plane slammed into a sea wall at the end of the runway. The 49ers will be taking their next emptors a championship in North Carolina. 49er fans are going to join the team. History is not on the 49ers side. When it comes to plan the carolina panthers. The 49ers have lost four in a row to the panthers, and for the last five in charlotte. Any fan will tell you that this team is different and that they are red hot. This kid thinks that we will get them. You have been sending us a very terrific pictures. 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[ female announcer ] now get two bonus box tops for your school. Welcome back. Ed the big story is this a crash. The Macarthur Mayes is bad. This will take a while. The only saving grace is at the traffic has been light this is so close to the holiday. This back a bit we are looking at is fractional compared to a normal commute day. We would have seen the pact the backups of the caldecott tunnel. It is slow on 24 from before childrens hospital. It is backed up into downtown oakland because the two left lanes are still blocked. If people can raise because of this is not as bad as it would have been. It is still bad enough. Here is the problem. The length of time is going to take to clear this. It is still early so i think we are likely going to see this through arrest of the broadcast. This accident will not be cleared until we get off the air. This motorcycle went down, caught fire. I heard several reports from viewers the drove past the scene and the details that they shared were horrific. I think whenever the corner is called to is saying, this is when someone has died. I am not even sure that he is there so again, this is going to be a problem for a while. We continue to monitor major delays in the south, we now have three separate accidents on 1 01 northbound. They have cleared the lights here at mckee, we still have two other accidents on 1 01 in the northbound direction. This is jim mcbrid you will really jamming up the ride. This has put pressure on a 85 in the Guadalupe Parkway. Delays persist in the south and even as we managed to clear one house spot, the problem still continues. The ride to the bay bridge, westbound you can see is light traffic and even coming in from the nimitz freeway. The only other reason we do not see severe back up is because the traffic is light. It is a little colder and a lot of people are waking up to 30s and 40s. We have high clouds in San Francisco. Here is a close look at the numbers. Were seeing low 40s along the east bay shoreline. The temperatures have dropped in the low 30s. Fairfield has a high of 38 degrees. Very mild weather for samprass go. Later on tonight we will be in the same boats were the temperatures will be in the low 60s. We will see minor fluctuations with cooler conditions along the coastline. Oakland will have a high of 64, low 60s for livermore and 63 for redwood city. It is a fried, you probably have plans. By 8 00 p. M. The temperatures will be in the upper 40s. Overall, we have a very mild pattern for the next 24 hours. Tomorrow, was say what weather. We finally have rain in the forecast. Take a look at the rain that will come to Northern California by 8 00 a. M. Once the system cross us it is simply going to fall apart. Nothing to organized. I do not think we will see more than a 10th of an inch for places like napa the rest of us will probably encounter few stray it sprinkle spread we may look at the possibility of wet road and very slick conditions the chance for showers will diminish. Here is the 7 day around the bay. Plenty of sunshine and High Pressure will return in fact we will have seven days and there is no rain to talk about into the end of next week. New this morning of a plane that crashed on takeoff at a news even beach. Take a look at this. The pilot made an Emergency Landing because the plane was having engine problems. He avoided five and two people were gathered for a sandcastle competition. When he tried to take off again, not so much. The plane hit the water. The propeller and the winged brokerage no one was hurt, the plane is much worse off than it was before. In south florida they are dealing with constant rain that seems to be not stopping. The heavy rain flooded much of the region in fort pierce, florida. The rain caused erosion of to a river bank along the roadway. This created a 80 ft. Hole in the road. The heavy rain that sparked the flooding is expected east rock today. Two alleged serial bank robbers have been arrested in a joint operation between San Jose Police and the u. S. Marshals service. Police said that the two robbed four banks in san jose, milpitas and campbell between september 20th and december 4th of last year. Police arrested the two suspects without incident on december 20th. The judge in the colorado the theater shooting says that most of the kings a defended james holmes told investigators about explosives found in his apartment can be used against him. The ruling says that he was not coerced and spoke voluntarily. The judge says that investigators were justified in questioning him. He hasas he has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring seven dates in the 2012 attack. A defense hearing this morning for richard thomas, the 16 yearold charged for setting a another team on fire on an ac transit bus last year. You are looking at pictures of the victim, sasha fleischman. The team suffered second and third degree burns while asleep on the bus. East bay residents are being warned about a scam involving a person impersonating a Contra Costa County sheriffs lt. The Sheriffs Department is saying that this person demands money from people to clear up fabricated traffic tickets. Over the past week, residents for martinez in san leandro have reported receiving calls from this person. Threetime Olympic Ski Jump champion Thomas Morgenstern of austria up was hospitalized today after crashing during a training for a ski flying world cup. He lost his balance in the air, turned over to the left and landed on his back and head. He briefly lost consciousness but was able to speak shortly afterwards. This is the second heavy crash for him in the olympic season. We are less than a month away from soci olympics. New this morning, russia already is expecting demonstrators. Police are setting up a protest zone far away from more than athletes will be. Appellees will compete in a sochi. The protest song, will be at a park the town of khosta, about 7 mi. Away from the nearest a ring of. Russia is expecting protests from critics of is antigay laws or other rights abuses. No telling what will happen to protesters to leave the park to get their message closer to that action. We will be right back. ;e continue to monitor manger problems. Our first hot spot a motorcycle killed in the macarthur maze where the two left at lanes are still blocked it will be for some time. The chp just telling me that the, and as i get a ride on scene at this crash. Expect lanes to be blocked for some time and continuing delays and the south bay with multiple accidents on 101 north bound. Its backed up already to highway 85 and the alternate routes there are already jammed. The the alternate routes there are already jammed. The kron4 morning news will at jennieo we heard of a place in the alternate routes there are already jammed. The kron4 morning news will where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. All come back to the kron4 morning news tracking to hot spots right now. The first and the macarthur maze so youre commute coming up on interstate 580 from downtown oakland from Castro Valley to san leandro. For your commute from 24 current or lafayette are walnut creek are concord for affected by the right now. With the two left lanes blocked. Were still waiting for the coroner to arrive on scene. Lanes will be blocked here for quite a while. As we pointed out traffic through the area will be unusually light this morning. You can see that hear from you look at the bay bridge toll plaza. The westbound right even coming from 880 see how like this traffic is thats why we dont have a bigger and more severe back up that we are ready to although it is backed up to the Macarthur Bart station and its low through downtown oakland of 580 backing up towards park. And heres a look at our other hot spot in the south bay. 11 north bound finally starting to see a little relief for downtown san jose. Three separate accidents first was a similar to block the two left lanes at mckee road. Two more accidents occurred in the back up out of south san jose and the Coyote Valley. Thats for the traffic is the worst but it looks as though things might get a chance to improve here as the commute wears on. Erica . Erica a clear start to your friday. Good morning george. It is called in yesterday morning. By lunch time we will see upper 50s low 60s 3 this afternoon. Looks like a lot of sixties around the bay area of the cooler conditions along the coast line. If you have anything to the lopsided in today because we have showers and the forecast tomorrow. Outbreak of your 7 day around the bay coming up and 15 minutes. Mark 731. In new this morning 70 Million People. That is how many target customers turns out were affected by the Stores Security breach. You heard 40 million before but now 70 million. Kron4s Terisa Estacio and east bay with more on what this means for you. im out here in front of this targets store in emeryville and we are learning new information this morning about the Security Breach. Initially reported by target back in the early december. Now we are finding out that there were at least 70 Million People affected by the Security Breach and it wasnt just the information with people who have credit cards or red cards through target but actually and the Security Breach if their sales personal affirmation like a mouse phone numbers as well as names were obtained by those people who did they hacking into their Security System. Target says that they are apologizing and theyre going to be taking steps to help those individuals affected. One of those steps will have that a little bit later on. We would like to know if you were affected by the Security Breach. Let us know tweet just for you can go to the kron4 Facebook Page and let us now. Here in emeryville, Terisa Estacio kron 4 news. James another delay in the sierra ;a,ar murder trial. The lawyer for Antolin Garcia torres asked for and was granted yet another continuance thing he still needs to review the evidence presented by the district attorneys office. The prosecutor voiced concern that the suspect is not entered a plea since he was arrested 19 months ago. The 15 yearold morgan hill girl went missing back in march 2012 she was last seen walking toward the bus stop on her way to school. Her body was never found. The judge says she hopes the suspect will enter a plea at his next Court Appearance on march 3rd. Darya governor jerry brown is meeting with his recently formed a Drought Task Force as the state faces a serious water shortage. Brown says he will work with farmers to take whatever steps he can to get more water to parched fields. Reservoirs have dipped to historic lows after one of the tries calendar years on record. The first sierra snow survey of the recorded just 20 of average water content. Several communities and the state have already imposed mandatory water reductions. Mandel seen nomendocino county was the first request a drought assistance. James governor jerry brown has unveiled his 10 7 billion spending plan for the nest107 billion dollars spending plan for the next fiscal year and hes calling for continuing fiscal restraint from lawmakers. The governor plan comes as the state is expecting a multibillion dollar tax surplus. Brown has called for increasing spending by more than 8 billion this year. Among other things funding for education is up 10 . But the governor says the state also needs to pay off its debt and shore up its rainy day fund. by no means are we out of the wilderness. We have serious issues before us and team of longtermand terms of longterm liabilities. James some democratic lawmakers had hoped to see funding for universal preschool and the plan. That budget is expected to play a key role in governor browns campaign, if he runs, as expected for a fourth term as governor. Darya the 49ers are when away from a Third Straight trip to the nfc championship standing in their way of the calcarolina panthers, the niners are a slight favorite to beat despite losing them back in week 10 at the state. Both teams are red hot. Niners have won seven straight. Carolina has won 11 of their last 12. Kron4 scott rates will bring the summit of dates when he wakes up. Hes an charlottes right now. We will talk to him and just about 5 minutes we will talk to gary radnich about the big game. Well take a quick break here at 736. Back with more news in a moment. Were following that big hot spot in the macarthur maze. We have some other hot spots but it is the maze which is the big problem right now as to make your way toward not only the bay bridge but also the e shore freeway. Back with more in a moment. Safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to get great deals the easy way. You do enough flying around. Thats why we give you real big club card deals. This week, honey nut cheerios are just 1. 88. Thats a sweet deal. Brew up a great cup for less. Starbucks is just 6. 99. And lean cuisine entrees are just 2 dollars each. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. Bulldog well, pup, bulldog its out with the old and in with the new during mattress discounters year end Clearance Sale puppy look, i found a red tag bulldog that means folks can save up to 40 on clearance mattresses. Puppy oh, heres another. 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Yelp repeatedly refused to release the names of the reviewer is leading a trial court to hold yelp in contempt. The judge ruled that even though the reviewers have freespeech rights, they do not cover deliberately false statements. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Welcome back to the kron4 morning news. Westbound interstate 80 in the macarthur maze is still blocked due to an accident. The worst backups is on highway 24. Coming slow from rock ridge. At the back up there not nearly as bad as it otherwise would be on a regular commute day if the really jamming up the ron intere 98 ave to cut over to 880 the nimitz freeway and thats your best bet to get around this problem through the east bay this morning as the nimitz freeway north bound is experiencing much lighter than usual traffic. Big improvement for our other south bay hot spot 101 and the northbound direction. But still have the throughout south san jose 11 north bound coming up from 85 because there were accidents here from the key again at 280. Although all of those accidents are clear now this is still the slowest stretch of that when one ride. And the picture commute on highway 80 at the bay bridge you can see the westbound, it looks good. No problems at all because the traffic is light thats one of the reasons why we dont have a thicker backups for the motorcycle accident. And youre 92 right to the san mateo bridge free of any stop and go conditions. In fact it looks a little heavier and the non commute direction and then it does on the westbound side. Whatever to the Weather Center and find out whats in store not only for today before the weekend. Here is erica. Erica we are waking up to temperatures in the 40s and 50s. San francisco very mild at 52 degrees. A mild day ahead of us with plenty of sunshine and temperatures in a little bit warmer than yesterday. Oakland a high of 64 as well less pleasant 10. If pleasant in check in and and 63. Only 64 in santa rosa. A fairly nice day with comfortable conditions by later on this evening and by eight to nine all of us will be in the upper forties to low 50s. Looking ahead and charlotte california and very important niners came temperatures in the mid fifties to low 60s. Charlock carolina. Your 7 day around the bay forecast highlights warmer weather as we head into next week. A string of sunshine through thursday. But what we could see 70s through the forecast of very warm conditions for the middle of january. Darya any environment we will step up and play defensively offensive way. Doesnt really matter and all of the guys know that you only get one shot. If you miss one of the opportunities were going home. they play hard. They know what theyre doing and they know how they want to play it and thats something we have to get ready for. this is as much fun as you possibly have and football and as much fun that you have in life. Darya its fun to lets oversaw hopefully its not going to end badly for the niners. Gary i said this with all due respect. Theyre tired of talking and im tired of listening. Last week we had the same thing the week before that the same thing and thats just the way sports of football is when you have a full week to prepare the chicken tell the look, guys faces. They want to play and not talk. Darya darya we are going to talk to scott. A lot of fans are going to the game. Gary im curious how many . we dont have the ticket numbers or anything but at least the game is more affordable and its not just a minute. Its a lot of women. 5 you heard about these ladies of the empire group. Theres this one fan capp tape. We visited her and dublin. Look at all the stuff she has. Fog a signs bottles. Shes a diehard fan. She has every ticket friend that she went to from last season. Shes going to the game. Many stadiums. Shes a huge fan 3 theres a lot of it causes problems between husbands and wives and fathers and daughters and bosses and workers. arnold enter mgm. Our new interim general manager. Your boss is written for the panthers. Routine he was rooting for of all burn in his own daughter was rooting for florida state. Theres a family strike for that. Pam you did not go to the meeting. Gary heres another think what about rate cuts later. People take it very seriously. Hes had Death Threats. Rick slayer. Gary just the idea that the game will cause you to issue a Death Threats. But anyway. Just from his standpoint heres a guy who enjoys something and he cant even go to the game. Darya like he said Death Threats are stupid. Kapernick has all his weapons for sunday. His optimistic for crimes. Banking go niners. See you gary. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing good for me around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around, barbara forever ive been praying for a snack in my life and now i have a brownie ending all of my strife i finally found the right snack anncr at jennieo we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. The flu season off to a fast and at least part in the bay area which 10 people already killed. Coming up out to you what the victims and flu shots have been common. And a deadly accident on 5 80 is snarling the morning commute. George has an update on the hotspot. Are your ready for some 49ers football were looking ahead to the big game against carolina. As the niners continue their quest for six. Kron 4 news at eight starts now. Darya here we are at 8 00 liven the traffic center. George the talking about a hot spot in the macarthur maze because the back up is growing. George i said it was likely this accident was still be in place through the rest of our broadcast and im even more convinced of that now. As we take a live look. We have live pictures from the scene. You know this year. This is the traffic thats going to make the turn to interstate 80 so all these people perhaps not knowing about the crash are moving to the left because they want to head to the bay bridge. Now theyve moved to the left and they have to go round move to the right. You see there is a look at whats happening and thats why it is this 580 stretch of freeway that is so much more backed up that high with 24. twice as big as it was when we last looked together. Now its back up all the way to highway 13. And of course a recommended alternate for you is to get off of interstate 580 in the westbound direction and use 880 but 80 is now completely jammed up on the northbound side. Thats really not much of an alternate. Youre really stuck here no matter whether you use 580 or 880 this morning. Lets go back to our live picture and check in with kron4s jackie says so. Whos live on the scene. jackie have you been able to lose anything about the details of the scratcher when we might expect to see land it open . i have not. Im actually below the traffic with mimas camera pointing over the freeway. And havent around 6 00 this morning. One name most motorcyclist was hit. Chp says they believe this was a hit and run accident and they are looking for a suspect. The vehicle they described as a dark 2000 model Chevy Silverado. Thats what theyre looking for right now but as far as how long before this accident seen as open you know and i know whenever there is a fatality on a freeway like this chp crosses the teas they got the eyes and make sure they are gathering all the hacks evidence necessary. They take their time in an accident like this. You have all these confluence of traffic issues right at the same point here. All these people coming in from 24 and 580 on a good morning. Its a bad traffic spot and given the circumstances this morning it will probably be this way quite a while if youre traveling and from walnut creek. I would try to find another way to get to and. George sadly there are no great alternate routes coming in from highway 24. One option might take highway 4 out to interstate 80 but you have to make that decision very early on by coming out here. If you my head north for example and, through the franklin current canyon creek thats a long way to go in order to avoid the back of the might save you some time. To our other hot spot we were tracking. When all one and san jose still backed up here especially through south san jose as it looks as though it may be yet another incident for the north bound right leading up toward the capitol expressway. Still backed up to highway 85. One bright spot for your morning ride is the bay bridge and not even sure that the main lights have been activated. Lets get an update from the Weather Center heres erica erica we are like an end to a few high clouds streaming over at us. As we head into the afternoon by lunchtime expect upper 50s along the coast in los 60s for the rest of the bay. We will see temperatures climb through out about todays forecast and the possibility for some showers tomorrow in just a couple of minutes. The h1n1 virus is now reported in all 50 states. The cdc says california is has a regional outbreak of the flu, which isnt as widespread as an epidemic. But here in the bay area, hospitals are filling up with flu patients. And its even killed at least ten people. Thats right. Health officials confirm ten flu deaths in seven bay area counties. Four of those were just reported yesterday. Two deaths in alameda county. Two in marin. And two in santa clara county. One death in San Francisco. One each in contra costa and sonoma counties. And one flu related death in san mateo county. And many people are going out and getting their flu shots. And pharmacies are gearing up for the high demand. Joining us live now in burlingame is kron 4s will tran. Will . Its moving pretty fast. The pharmacist says they are running out of supplies and they dont know when they will read apply. If you come down here to burlingame you can see the flu shot a banner of they say theres a good chance because people are waking up listening to what were telling them about the epidemic thats going on right now. Fare rushing down here getting their flu shots. Why are flu shots so important . According to Health Experts they believe those 10 people who died in the common denominator is that they did not get the flu shot. Although nothing is guaranteed they say once you get your flu shots your body starts to build some community. The first couple of weeks you might get sick but over time you develop an immunity to the flu. Thats why youre better off to it. Some people were talking to say they are afraid of needles. They are afraid of getting sick will come down here they will take care of you if youre not afraid of needles or of getting sick. They said they would take care of their Health Insurance needs. Ive also learned that if youre coming to a pharmacists chances are your children better be older than 7 years old. One family came and she brought her two kids she was looking for a flu shot in this place at walgreens here did not take children under 7 years old. You have to go to your doctor and what ever you dont call to the emergency room. They did not take care of that. It to your doctor or the pharmacy. Stay with kron4 as we continue to follow this story. We have Additional Resources and what you need to know about the flu. And vaccinations. On our website. Kron4dotcom. 87 as the time right now another big story our hot spot this morning. And motorcycle went down at killing the motorcycle rider at 580 westbound just before the 80 turnoff where the accident at emeryville pretty fancy them squeezing the lansdowne which is causing a big backup and to the macarthur maze prison will be right back with more. Well i drove grandpa to his speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll. Yeah but i practiced my bassoon. [ mom ] and i listened. [ brother ] i can do this. [ imitates robot ] everyone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Make the weekend pop. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel [ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heatngo mini pancakes. The 49ers are heading to carolina 3 taking on no. 2 seed the carolina panthers. History down if you look at its not on the 49ers signed when they play panthers. Theyve lost four of their last five and charlotte any fan will tell you this team is different. Colin kapernick is on fire the defense is red hot and we are going to let Something Like history stand in our way. Thank you for sending in your fan photos. Keep them coming in. And a slide show on kron4 dot com. I loved that one. Broca tv when i was young doing just that. Keep on coming at kron4 dot, thats the in the address you want to send them to. Go niners. We will take a quick break. Before you go pictures from the hot spot live pictures of westbound 580 traffic leading to the bridge. We evidently motorcycle accident blocking the two left lanes. George will be back with complete details coming up in just a moment. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Female announcer he needs a firmer he needs a firmer tempurpedic. She wants a softer tempurpedic. 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Whats happening now is caltran the department of transportation has a ride on scene and they have set up a lane closure with theyre trying to do now is the ease the congestion getting past the scene of the accident reached a little less pressure at the scene of the motorcycle accident in which a motorcyclist was killed earlier this morning. That is why were still in n and investigation franklin of operations for this crash and as long as we will be on the air. Im confident we wont see the lanes reopened before the end of the broadcast. Once again returning to the maps now. It look at the impact. Its taken a while but it is not jamming up the ride on 24 through the caldecott tunnel. Thats backed up into our roundup. Back of beyond to 13 of interstate 580. And adding to a backup this accidentally tying up traffic throughout the east bay. Had it been a regular commute day we would have seen backups like this about an hourandahalf ago but its taken this long for traffic to back up because were still lighter unusual. The only real option if youre coming out of the law not creek area is to go north on highway 4 and head out for the franklin canyon. Its a long way to go but its like me and pay been stuck at stop trafficking might be a better option. Were still jammed up in the south bay especially on 101 north bound heading up to the Coyote Valley the Guadalupe Park live numerous earlier car problems on 101 north bound and in other recent crash knocked down on the capitol expressway go, like the traffic is an down 90 to the san mateo bridge weve avoided stop and go conditions all morning long. Erica like enough to make clear skies. A few high clouds of ross we all have the fog that call cover to deal with. It is colder this morning. 65 their high pleasanton at low 60s sprinkled throughout the south bay. You see partly cloudy conditions and increasing cloud cover and looks like most of us mild creek prepare yourselves for saturday morning and to midday. Were looking at the possibility for some showers. This system is going to cross the california border by a in the morning. Take a look at what happens as it passes mandel single county. It simply starts to fall parts. Early life in nature after early scattered if we do receive some rain tomorrow. And east bay anterior spot some drizzle and resolve sprinkled. Slick conditions if youre driving. I think the bigger story tomorrow is the drop in temperatures and the very quiet conditions. Here is your 7 day around the bay forecast. We could see 70s about next tuesday. Offs east bay residents are being warned about a scam involving a person impersonating a Contra Costa County sheriffs lt. The Sheriffs Department says the person demands money for people to clear up fabricated traffic tickets or other violations. Over the past week residents from martinez and san leandro have reported receiving calls from this person. Some of the victims have sent him hundreds of dollars prepaid credit cards and National Disaster declaration has been signed by the president for nine counties in West Virginia counties. Not for a storm but because the Chemical Spill may have contaminated their drinking water. People are even being told not to shower, brush their teeth or do even laundry. This even includes the States Capital of charleston were people said that air smells like cough syrup. This bill from Freedom Industries went right into the old river. In the nearby Water Treatment elk river. And a nearby Water Treatment plant three crush restorers have run out of bottled water. And officials dont know how long you will take to clean up the chemicals to make the water safe. Nearly 1000 pages of documents surrounding new jersey gov. Chris christie and the George Washington bridge scandal will be released today. Just yestuit was filed claiming the grid lock affected many commuters making them wait for work. The lawsuit seeks punitive damages from governor Chris Christie a former Port Authority official and two others Bridget Ann Kelly , governors former deputy chief of staff whose name appears on this email time for some traffic problems in fort lee, and the man who responds got it called former Port Authority official David Wildstein people will likely wont have christie support in a lawsuit or the unfolding scandal. Two alleged serial bank robbers have been have been arrested in a joint operation between San Jose Police and the u. S. Marshals service. Police say Oscar Radillo and Alvaro Hernandez santillan route for banks and san jose, milpitas and campbell between september 28th and december 4th of last year. Police arrested the two suspects without incident on december 20th it. Santillan was arrested in san jose while radillo was arrested in new york. Of the victim, sasha did you see that. Watch again. A woman is caught on video jumping off a bridge to escape police after a chase. This happened in troutdale, oregon, near portland. Police say they were chasing a driver after they took off during a traffic stop. You can see the woman gets out of the car, walks toward the edge of the bridge and jumps into the freezing water below. Police immediately called for river rescue. The woman was taken out of the water and was cited for a number of crimes. The state has released a report about the elderly people abandoned last year at an assisted living last october, more than a dozen residents of Valley Springs manor remained at the facility after most staff had left. State officials apparently visited Valley Springs manor, noted residents were still there. And then left. The state department of social services investigated. And says Community Care licensing staff should have stayed behind and consulted senior staff. The state has announced a list of corrective actions, including more training for staff. George we are still attracting a hot spot here and the macarthur maze worry motorcyclist was killed earlier this morning. The two left lanes are shut down. This is kind of traffic all over the east bay about the only freeway that isnt affected is interstate 580 in the westbound direction fast and not only backs of the right of 580 on 24 but also on the nimitz freeway north bound which is backed up all the way to 238 and san leandro. We will have more when the kron4 morning news returns. We will[ female announcer ] shop at safeway now through january 14th for a smart return to school box tops offer buy ten participating box tops items in a single visit and earn sixty bonus box tops thats six dollars for your school plus, shop at safeway to collect double box tops on speciallymarked packages. Learn more at twowaystoearn. Com. 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Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. It is a 30 we will began the halfhour and the traffic center. George we mentioned in our last report to the lanes are merging. In some respects its better that it does ease the congestion at the scene of the crash however by moving traffic over here at the point where 24 merges with interstate 580, what theyve done is backed up traffic even farther on highway 24 and the connecting ramp leading and from rock ridge and from the caldecott tunnel. As we switch over to the traffic maps youll see that not only is 24 backed up here wait to the caldecott tunnel. Its backed up beyond and it of course all of this is because of the accident that occurred and the macarthur maze when motorcyclist was killed this morning. Thats why the two left lanes are called off and will be through the commute. I dont expect that these lines will be up a much before the lab and oclock. Heres the extent of the ripple facts of this backup. 580 westbound is backed up into a san leandro as is a 80 in the northbound direction with a slow traffic and an immense further exasperated since there was a stall no. 1 at 23rd. Backed up all the way to to 38. Highway 24. You see we are backed up almost a lafayettes but certainly throat or rent for the westbound 24 right. Take note of interstate 680 have in both directions between danville in walnut creek. For your ride through the san ramon valley. South bay freeway still recovering from much earlier current problems on 101 north bound thats why 87 is so heavy. It was a good alternate 3 if the bay bridge novak of no delays and no major in lights erica happy friday. If you have clouds out there but no weatherrelated problems. Waking up to Clear Conditions temperatures mainland the 30s and 40s so there is a colder start this morning we still will see sunshine as we head out to the afternoon. We will advance a few degrees approaching three this afternoon. Of the waking you up through the weekend forecast highlighting the possibility for some we can showers and just 15 minutes darya new this morning at 70 millionnew this morning. 70 million. Thats how many target customers were affected by the Stores Security breach. Kron fours Terisa Estacio is in the east bay with more on what it may mean for you this morning. Initially reported by target back and early december and now we are finding out that there were at least 70 Million People affected by the Security Breach and it wasnt just an affirmation spots with people who had credit cards or red cards through target but actually it target is now st personal affirmation like e mails phone number is as well as names were obtained by those people who did the hockey the hacking into their Security System targets as their apologizing and theyre going to be taking steps to help those individuals affected. What are those steps. Well have that little bit later on. We like to know if you were affected by the Security Breach. Let us know tweet us or you can go to the kron4 Facebook Page and let us now to read here and emeryville Terisa Estacio kron4 news brief kron4 scott rates reports charlotte is a little cold for the 49ers who are set to rise. it is cold or rainy here this morning. We will have to see if testing is true all the way through the weekend and could impact the game if its like this. Field conditions could be rough and but i can tell you i came into town of late last night and talked to a couple of fans and the area. Most of them were sleeping my god and but i did meet one 49ers fan on the airplane coming in for redwood city. He came here to see the game i talked with him and the terminal in chicago and we made a connection i got a good buddy and will be hanged in his house for the weekend going to the game on sunday. It should be a blast. i didnt go any games at the stick this year. This is only game im going to the share. Hopefully defense shows up on capp shows up. We will be all right. We are expecting more and more of them to come and later on tonight. You can see the rain and cold weather conditions at bank of America Stadium i will be here all weekend long as those fans start to our ride in the city here in charlotte i will catch up with them and talk to them. I look at the 49ers as they head into their hotel. I will also be on the field for the big game on sunday reporting in Charlotte Scott rates kron 4 news street water shortage. Brown says he will work with farmers to take whatever steps he can to get more water to parched fields. Reservoirs have dipped to historic lows after one of the driest calendar years on record. The first sierra snow survey of the year recorded just 20 percent of average water content. Several communities in the state have already imposed mandatory water reductions. Mendocino county was the first to request state drought assistance. Governor jerry brown has unveiled his 107 billion dollar spending plan for the next fiscal year. And hes calling for continuing fiscal restraint from lawmakers. The governors plan comes as the state is expecting a multi billion dollar tax surplus. Brown has called for increasing spending by more than eight billion dollars this year. Among other things. Funding for education is up ten percent. But the governor says, the state also needs to pay off rainy day fund. By no means are we out of the wilderness. We have serious issues before us in term of long term liabilities. Oh progressoh oh oh oh oh what do you know . Oh bacon . Oh oh oh [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying progressoh share your story for a chance to win a progressoh makeover in hollywood. Go to progresso. Com to enter. This just into the kron4 news room. 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They have most of the traffic on 580 over to the to write headlines. This is the head of interstate 580. Here is where they have put this in place. I will show you this again. They put the closure of right here. The traffic is now emerging from 24 to the right hand lane and you can see that this has backed up the traffic even farther on highway 24 which at one time was on the slope from rock ridge. It is now back up through the tunnel of a whistle or when the. Northbound 13 is jammed and so is the ride on 580 west. The ride on 880 northbound is also backed up. A quick check for your ride to the bay bridge there are no traffic because most of it is on the Macarthur Mayes. 880 in the 80 approach is light and so was the trip going across the san mateo bridge. The drive time is 11 minutes. Maligned we have made it to friday and were waking it up to clear skies. We do not have the fog to deal with what we have been seeing for the past couple days. The temperatures are climbing. 44 degrees for oakland we are still in the mid 30s for santa rosa. Later this afternoon we will see plenty of sunshine will see warmer weather. Very mild weather for sunnyvale as 64 degrees. We will see low 60s the san ramon an vallejo have a high of 61. 62 degrees for hayward that we would even see low 60s along the delta. As San Francisco will have a high of 61. It is really nothing to extreme 4 arrest of this friday but big changes are coming for tomorrow morning. Future cast 4 is tracking a system that will bring rain. This system is organized as it approaches but once it slides then it will break apart. We will only see scattered showers and very light rain. The chance for greater. Keep your umbrellas handy and we maybe it deal with slick conditions. It looks like into afternoon the rain chance this will back off and we will have mostly cloudy skies. This weekend, sunday if you are headed to charlotte, n. C. Low 50s to low 60s for the 49ers game. The possibility of showers and they are dealing with this storm but it should back off by the time the game starts. Similar weather here for saturday and sunday we are born to see sunny skies. The time is 8 50 a. M. If you consider yourself a liberal, if you do, you are not alone. A new gallup poll found that 23 percent of americans surveyed identified themselves as liberals. That is up a percentage point from 2012. This is the highest close since 1992. It is still far below the 30 of people who identified themselves as conservatives in 2013. It is a decision that could change the rules for online reviews. A Virginia Court has ruled that to yelp must identify seven anonymous reviewers who love the negative comments for a Carpet Cleaning business. Doing so is a lawn that business to sue the yelpers for death operatdefamation. Ther says the the reviewers are not actual customers. Yelop repeatedly refused to release the names of these people. The judge ruled that even though the reviewers have free speech, they do not cover deliberately making false statements. How is google workers commuting from San Francisco to the companys Silicon Valley campus economic part of the truck on a 83 ft. , w ifi equipped catamaran. Google launch of the free Ferry Service from San Franciscos jerry terminal to the port of redwood city about 26 mi. Away. The chartered ferry can carry a to 150 passengers and onwill run twice each morning and evening. New video and this morning of a plane crash from new zealand. The pilot made an Emergency Landing at a beach because the plane was having engine problems. He avoided 500 people gathered there for a sandcastle competition. The plane hit the water and soft land. No one was injured. We will be right back. [ female announcer ] shop at safeway now through january 14th for a smart return to school box tops offer buy ten participating box tops items in a single visit and earn sixty bonus box tops thats six dollars for your school plus, shop at safeway to collect double box tops on speciallymarked packages. Learn more at twowaystoearn. Com. Heres whats new at safeway from General Mills start the day off right with these delicious big g cereals or try yoplait greek yogurt power up with Nature Valley and fiber one snacks and enjoy tasty progresso heart healthy soups. Find these and other great General Mills products at safeway today check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. 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It is so good when youre on the hunt for something delicious. Find yoplait original and light yogurt cups on sale now at your local safeway store. The rush is on for flu shots. We have people that have already died in the bay area. And experts are trying to offer a faster solution. A deadly accident on 580 is getting better. Get ready for the 49ers game this sunday. We continue our coverage. And a deadly accident on 5 80 is snarling the morning commute. George has an update on the hotspot. Maligned i have i am surprised of this accident has been cleared. I thought this accident would have been out here for the rest of the morning. Not unusual in the case of an accident or someone dies. Theyve managed to keep the lanes closed for an extended period of time. Kron4 Jackie Sissel is live on the scene. They just opened up about 5 minutes ago. The morning commute from the east is a total mess. This accident has been cleared and here is a chevrolet and silveadoer ado. Maligned as with switchover pass the scene of this accident were taking a look at the back up. You can see that it extends into san leandro on interstate 580 through san leandro on 880 pripet hundred four into lafayette for westbound ride. I do not expect to see this clear. I think we was the slow traffic dropped east bay. Restrictions we woke up to cooler temperatures. Oakland is at 49 degrees. The temperatures climbed. Mount weather and plenty of sunshine and we still have the possibility of showers. I will highlight the weekend forecast coming up. The big story that were following is the flowu. The h1n1 madras is nois now reportl 50 states. The cdc says california is has a regional outbreak of the flu, which isnt as widespread as an epidemic. But here in the bay area, hospitals are filling up with flu patients. And its even killed at least ten people. No impact thats right. Health officials confirm ten flu deaths in seven bay area counties. Four of those were just reported yesterday. Two deaths in alameda county. Two in marin. And two in santa clara county. One death in San Francisco. One each in contra costa and sonoma counties. And one flu related death in san mateo county. And many people are going out and getting their flu shots. And pharmacies are gearing up for the high demand. Joining us live now in burlingame is kron 4s will tran. Will . Align i go home and amro rican dont think about this. So farba i made a phone costa but theyre so close that one clinic stated that if you have a child under 7 years old and need to get a shot, some places have to to three schedules will. Make your call and get in line. You still have time. You should be safe during this period stay with kron4 as we continue to follow this story. We have Additional Resources and what you need to know about the flu. And vaccinations. On our website. Kron4dotcom. Developing news firefighters in san jose are calling four fires overnight suspicious. The Fire Department says it looks like someone intentionally set those fires. They were clustered around East San Antonio street, west of 101. They only caused minor damage. That makes 7 fires for firefighters in san jose in the past 24 hours. One of them last night left as many as 8 people without a home. It was a condominium fire on trevino terrace. Fire Officials Say it started with a dryer shortly before 6 oclock last night, and burned three condos. No one was hurt in this fire. Align and in a story we brought at a warehouse in san jose. It happened near highway 101 and julian street. The warehouse was vacant and once had several businesses in a mostly industrial area. Two schools nearby cancelled classes and were closed for the day because of the fire. Coming up on the kron four morning news. How online coupons from Grocery Stores are making a big impact on your buying habits. Plus, were gearing up for sundays big niners game in North Carolina. Were sharing some of your and were watching this hotspot. Hotspot. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Im on the hunt, im after you smell like i sound im lost in a crowd and im hungry like the wolf straddle the line in discord and rhyme im on the hunt, im after you [ female announcer ] only yoplait light and yoplait greek 100 are endorsed by weight watchers. It is so good when youre on the hunt for something delicious. Welcome back. Were less than a month away from the sochi olympics. And new this morning. Russias already expecting police are setting up a protest zone. Far away from where the athletes will be. The protest zone. Will be in a park the town of khosta. About seven miles away from the nearest arena. Russia is expecting protests from critics of its antigay laws and other human rights abuses. Linethe 49ers take their next championship this weekend in North Carolina. 49er faithfuls are joining the team in the Cross Country trek to take of the number 2 seed carolina panthers. History is not on the niners side when it comes to playing the panthers. The 49ers have lost 4 in a of their last 5 in charlotte. But any fan will tell you this team is different. Maligned the quarterback is looking good. Fans are looking for to this. This team wont let a little thing like history stand in their way. Niners fans have playoff fever. As the team heads to North Carolina for the nfc divisional playoffs on sunday. Weve been asking our viewers to send us pictures. Sporting your red and gold. If you have some pictures to share. Send them to us at breaking news at kron4dot com. Well be sharing them on air all morning. Cees put vo together. P drive web, niners playoffs folder the dam is on sunday at 10 00 a. M. The gang is on sunda 10 0 three big amazon 10 00 a. M. The gang is on sunda 10 0 th[ female announcer ] shop at safeway now through january 14th for a smart return to school box tops offer buy ten participating box tops items in a single visit and earn sixty bonus box tops thats six dollars for your school plus, shop at safeway to collect double box tops on speciallymarked packages. Learn more at twowaystoearn. Com. Heres whats new at safeway from General Mills start the day off right with these delicious big g cereals or try yoplait greek yogurt power up with Nature Valley and fiber one snacks and enjoy tasty progresso heart healthy soups. Find these and other great General Mills products at safeway today welcome back. We continue to see big delays on and state 580 and highway 24. And there has only been improvements for either of these rods. Rides. The caldecott tunnel is no longer backed up and all the lanes have cleared. The ride to the bay bridge has seen a rush hour traffic because the traffic was coming from the Macarthur Mayes. It is mostly sold to the center line but all it costs to 2 to 3 minutes. The san mateo bridge is an easy ride of both east and west bound. The eastbound traffic was a little heavy but it is no longer the case. We have some sunny spots. We are waking up to an laxalts mainly in samprass go. The temperatures on the climb as San Francisco was a 52 degrees bread we are officially out of thwe will ses the san ramon and 62 for hayward. Downtown San Francisco was a high of 61 degrees. If you have any thing to do outdoors you should get it done today because tomorrow will have rain this system will bring water, heavy rain like eureka. Take a look as what it approaches. This system was some with full part in any thing that we see will be very scattered and we will not see no more than a 10th of an inch. The rest of us may be a few sprinkles and perhaps address so and it may be right but rose a you should drive with extra caution 4 arrest of the a day we want the conditions. In the weekend, we have the 49ers game and if your headed there you should expect the temperatures to be in the low 60s. The possibility of showers. The seven day and around the bay islands warm weather in fact, take a look at next week, a string of sunshine and the temperatures will be in the low 70s. High pressure will rebuild. Past saturday when not looking at any wind drops inside. Are Grocery Stores and the coupons they offer obesity epidemic . A new survey from the cdc suggests so. Researchers looked at online store coupons from six National Grocery chains. Of the more than one thousand coupons available during the four week study period. 25 percent of them were for processed food snacks, candy and desserts. About 12 percent of coupons were for beverages, like sugary drinks. Only a few coupons, less than three percent, were available for fruits or vegetables. Researchers say Grocery Stores need to do a better job of providing coupons for healthy food items which may influence peoples diet patterns. Anda defense hearing this morning for richard thomas. The 16 year old boy charged for setting another teen on fire on an ac transit bus last year. Youre looking at pictures of the victim, sasha fleischman. The teen suffered second and third degree burns while asleep on the bus. Thomas is charged as an adult in this case. But his attorney is expected to ask the case be sent to Juvenile Court instead. Two alleged serial bank robbers have been arrested in a joint operation between San Jose Police and the us marshal service. Police say Oscar Radillo and Alvaro Hernandez santillan robbed four banks in san jose, milpitas and campbell between september 20 and Police Arrested the two december 20th. More internal documents are expected to be released today in the traffic scandal thats rocked new jersey gov. Chris christies administration. The traffic was a jam when he collapsed. The dollar does not blame it on the scandal by steak, i believthe lawsuia damages from governor chris chris state and to others. Bridges and at kelly whose name is on this email. The man who responded from the port aboard a. There also saved two people will not have the support. Clearly he played a major role. I terminate her employment immediately. I reserve my right to remain silent. The police have released the information connected to the investigation. Andrew spencer reporting. You are responsible. That look great on display but once theyre done is a different story. I will explain in my next edition of people behaving badly. 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Your required to center tree next to your trash. You should also remove your decorations. If the tree measures more than 6 ft. Tall you need to cut in half. Nowhere does it tell you to just take your trip out and tossed it on the nearest corner. I went looking for the stepchildren of christmas past. Here near this corner there is nothing but trees on the corner like theyre looking for work. These trees have been abandoned because lets face it, dont they go. Most of the trees are recyclable except for the walls with the woman is attached. Ones with ornaments at. By the way it is illegal to burn your jury and it is that federal part. The funny part is that i know that i was the old trees from now to next christmas. If they give you an idea of how big this problem is. If you want to know what to do with your old tree checked with the city and follow those rules. Stanley roberts, kron4 nosnew spread s. The question is on for the 49ers. When we return well talk with scott rates. The 49ers. When we return well talk with scott rates. In touch with the ground im on the hunt, im after you smell like i sound, im lost in a crowd and im hungry like the wolf straddle the line, in discord and rhyme [ female announcer ] only yoplait light and yoplait greek 100 are endorsed by weight watchers. It is so good when youre on the hunt for something delicious. Find yoplait original and light yogurt cups on sale now at your local safeway store. Welcome back. This is a picture of the truck that police are looking for that is linked to a deadly hit and run accident on 580 this morning. They are asking you to be on the lookout for an early to tell them blue Chevy Silverado. The chp had a alert out and it is been still felt throughout the east. The backup is undermining considering that this580 is still backed up 880 is also still backed up. This is for two reasons, one so many people are trying to get away from this and to because we have had separate incidents. This is why things are still so bad. Looking at your south they write things the finally cleared up and this was a hot spot in the bay bridge is still a good ride. A lot of the traffic has most of the toll plaza. This is why you will find this in the east part in a. We have sunshine at the bay bridge toll plaza temperatures are starting to 50 degrees currently in redwood city. We will continue to see these temperatures climb and expect plenty of sunshine. It will be a mild day most of us will be in the low to mid 60s. We have a chance for showers for tomorrow and i will walk you through the forecast coming up. The time is 9 31 a. M. Fans gearing up for sundays big matchup against the carolina panthers. Kron fours scott rates joins us live from charlotte, North Carolina. The team is not here yet. They are born to get in late tonight. I can tell you that in charlotte it is cold and rainy here. It is pouring rain right now. It has been like this since i landed. I have not seen a lot of 40 niners fans and tom but i did say to someone on the plane. This is the only one that i have seen the whole time i been here. You mentioned the players will be getting in late tonight. Your microphone connection was lost for a few minutes. Scott rate will have our continuing coverage. Maligned be sure to stay with kron four for complete coverage of the big game. Kickoff is at 10 05 am. The winner advances to nfc new this morning. 70 million. Thats how many target customers were affected by the Stores Security breach. Kron fours Terisa Estacio is in the east bay with more on what it may mean for you this morning. I am in front of this target store and we are learning an affirmation of just how bad this Security Breach was. Target officials are stating that 70 Million People were affected. That has and double that was first released back in november. Target officials are stating that it was not just people with credit cards. But now, they are stating that personal information such as your name has been exposed there are planning to contact those who have been affected. In addition, target is stating that you will not be held liable and that they plan to offer monitoring free for one year. If you are one of those people affected by this breach will love to hear from you. You can tweet us your story or go to our Facebook Page and to let us know. Its a decision that could change the rules for online reviews. A Virginia Court has ruled that yelp must identify seven anonymous reviewers who left negative comments for a Carpet Cleaning doing so is allowing that business to sue the yelpers for defamation. The owner says the reviewers are not actual customers. And that their comments were false and derogatory. Yelp repeatedly refused to release the names of the reviewers. Leading a trial court to hold yelp in contempt. The judge ruled that even though the reviewers have free speech rights, they do not cover deliberately false statements. Hows this for an employee perk . Google workers commuting from San Francisco to the companys Silicon Valley campus can now make part of the trek on an 83foot, wi google launched the free Ferry Service from San Franciscos Ferry Terminal to the port of redwood city about 26 miles away, where employees can then hop a private bus to work. The charter ferry can carry up to 150 passengers and runs twice each morning and evening, with voyages lasting about 47 minutes each way. And trending this morning fidel castro makes a rare public appearance. This is a video of a former cuban leader from wednesday night. He attended the opening of an art studio in havana. This is the first appearance in nine months. Castro is 87 years old. He appeared frail, spending most of his time sitting down. Coming up on the kron4 news. We are going to tell you what stories are catching your attention on line. Being good at video games to help you land at your next job. The companies are using certain games to test job applicants. Watching your weekend forecast. Heres a live look outside at mount tam. Trending this morning. For the First Time Ever, more than half of the current members of congress are millionaires. Among the 534 current members of congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of 1 million or more for 2012. If you want to see Hip Hop Group outkast reunite for coachella 2014 tickets will go on sale in just a few minutes at 10 00 a. M. The Southern California music and Arts Festival is spreading out over two weekends. April 11th thru april 13th. Ticket prices start at 375 sprea this is molly schuyler. She weighs 120 lbs. The mother of four from nebraska was able to down a 72 oz steak and under three minutes. The previous record was seven minutes according to the guinness book of world records. When asked how she was able to do it, she said it is an unexplained phenomenon. Coming up on kron4 nose. We continue to track the weather. We will be right back. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents on their own are fantastic. But add some sauce, pepperoni and cheese and fold up the crescent dough and presto, tuesday night just became crescent pizza pockettastic pillsbury crescents. Make dinner pop. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me thats right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands [ girl ] make dinner pop welcome back. We have seen big improvements connecting with a hot spot of a motorcycle crash at the Macarthur Mayes. Once this traffic was released there was a rush. For the first time the metering lights were activated at 9 07 a. M. And that is why were still seeing that the way. This is the first time where the traffic was backed up. You concede 880 approach is sluggish and that is not because of the volume of traffic but the metering lights have not been activated. It was in the Macarthur Mayes to that this motorcyclist was killed in the westbound traffic. The farther away that you go the heavier the traffic. This is the way that this class goes. There are no good alternatives. Youre going to be slow am time. Temperatures are on the climb in San Francisco is down 52 degrees we are headed in the direction of mild weather check out this afternoon everyone is born to see 60s to that. It is going to be warmer than yesterday and we will see more in the way of sunshine. 62 degrees for santa clara. Fremont was a high of 61. 64 degrees from a creek. San francisco will reach the low 60s. A little warmer for papilloma. Looking ahead we have rain on the horizon. We have a cold front of that will drop down it will bring moderate to heavy rain for places like your break up. As it approaches it was start to break apart. We only see light rain the rest of us will see a stray sprinkel. We have not seen any brain in the past 30 days. 4 arrest of us past the early afternoon we will deal with a mostly sunny skies but we have a warmer and weather for early next week. You may want to beef up your gaming skills. New Computer Games are being designed to help employers spot recruits. Zain asher shows us how the software works. It measures how quick i am. More companies are using these to detect job applicants and out a tentative there to detail. You can just go on and play games to find out and then have those map out. This test, i have to judge of the emotional state. Job matching besides can match front runners. What kind of video game can know you better than you know yourself. It also stated that i was a emotional. You were really good at putting effort. It stated that i was a hard worker. Thi type of test can be more all formative experts state that some of these can lead to discrimination that stated that is the question of social background. People will ever been exposed to puzzles and a problem solving can be better than people will were not part of this experience with that one of. This is unfair. They are asking their best sales person to take the test. I want to hire people who are similar. These tests were wrong people and come up with a profile. You run everyone else for the profile. There tried to figure out what is different between people who are best and others. Should it company want to hire a employee who shares the same if you are exhibiting strong sales we want to make sure earlier this morning to talk to gary radnich about the big game this weekend. He was the son about letting us know how he feels about the 49ers. I say this with all due respect but they are tired of talking and i am tired of listening last week we had the same thing and this week it is the same thing. This is just what sports is. It you can tell the look of people face the panthers have had two weeks and here they are. We have a live shot have you had an appearance. Not yet. We will talk to him. There are a lot of fans who are going to the gang. I do not have the numbers but the game is affordable. There are a lot of women. There is a one san and we visited her in dublin. Lets get everything that she has. She is going to the game. An. It calls us the problems between husbands and wives. What problems have you found. He loves can make. He my. He calls cam ne wton camy. Here was a routine for all brown and his own daughter was rooting for floridruling for all bran as daughter was rooting for florida state. Stateowned on monday. I will be right backwill have to k on monday. We will be right back. Here is a quick look at our top story. It this morning, police are looking for a truck similar to this one. The driver is linked to a deadly hit and run accident on 580. Police are looking for a early 2000 and blue Chevy Silverado with front end damage. Health officials are confirming that 10 flu deaths in the bay area are linked to h1n1. The quest for championship is summarized for the 49ers will face off against the carolina panthers. We will have a spot rates in charlotte, North Carolina to bring this live coverage. [ man ] yo buzz drop that beat remix hey must be the honey you got that medley crunch go go buzz go go go buzz hey must be the honey clusters, flakes that medley crunch, crunch clusters, flakes that medley crunch, crunch go hey must be the honey hey you got that medley crunch hey must be the honey announcer today on an allnew dr. Phil. This organization wants to terrorize me. Dr. Phil you said 1015 stalkers follow you. Announcer being monitored. 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