Livermore valley. It is kinda like a groundhog day out here. Every day is pretty much the same. With the exception of the coastline we may encounter drizzle. By noon you can expect mainlyyou can expect an increase in cloud cover. We do have minor changes to talk about as we head into the weekend all have a look at your extended forecast coming up. Pretty good ride for traffic around the bay. We are not tracking any hot spots for your commute. The bridge is looking good a metering lights have not been activated. Here a the san mateo bridge, we are building up the volume. A quick transit check, all of the rail service are on time without any problems. Kron 4 was the first to bring you this breaking news this morning. A brushfire burning along a marin county freeway. Firefighters are still on the scene. Kron 4s Jackie Sissel is live now at the scene. Jackie what can you tell us . This fire was only just a couple of acres of but given the Current Conditions a cut have been worse. Actually, i was driving down fire rated doors oakland when i notice this huge ago. When i spotted this hue blow. Witnesses said that it may have been a homeless camp. Firefighters fought hard to make sure that this fire did not spread. There is a red flag warning in effect here in the north bay and that is the big nose. There was no win which helped firefighters contain the sprea the fire. The fuel out here is brittle. It is like setting halon fire. That is given the Current Conditions around the state. We have not had any significant rain. There is a red flag warning in effect. Days like today, fires like this can spread extremely fast. Firemen stated that they were lucky to get this under control to keep from spreading any farther. We may find these conditions in these kind of incidents happening more if we do not get any rain. Maligne a homicide suspect found Walking Around naked after a deadly shooting at a vallejo Mobile Home Park is scheduled to appear in court today. In addition to murder charges, 30yearold angela rose black is expected to be arraigned for the attempted murder of another person. This all happened on wednesday, at the vallejo Mobile Estates on san miguel road. Court records show black was previously found mentally incompetent and committed to a Treatment Center back in 2012. Now to oakland where a 17yearold girl is dead. Her 14yearold brother. Is accused of firing the shot that kiled her. And on the run. 17year old Justice Toliver was shot and killed in the laundry room of her familys oakland apartment building. Tolivers cousin says justice and her younger brother got in a fight. Because she got bleach on some of his clothes. Before he shot her. The teens family is still in shock this morning. It is that what happens. Sad what happened. She will be going on to see her father in heaven. One day, if i keep looking right i will see her. Justice toliver has a 3 year old daughter. And her family says she was going back to school while rasing the little girl. Police have not released the name of tolivers younger brother. The one believed to be the one who killed her. Right now his family is begging him to turn himself into police. New details about the death of the bart officer killed in the line of duty this week. Sergeant tom smith was shot by a fellow officer during a probation search on tuesday. Smith was a 23year veteran of the bart police department. Officials say despite wearing a bulletproof vest smiths autopsy shows he was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. Police officials acknowledge, the vest is generally effective. But bullets can still sometimes get by them. Fans happening now. Two dozen surfers from around the world are converging near Half Moon Bay. They are getting ready for todays mavericks surf competition. The contest is set to kick off at eight oclock this morning. Kron 4s mike pelton is in Half Moon Bay with more. Good morning mike. Line there is a high surf adviser rate spreads says there all stressing safety due to the weather conditions. Most of this is dueyou can see some of the way its courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Forecasters are predicting that we may see waves go 40 ft. High. It will be exciting but dangerous. Organizers made the call on wednesday after it went back and forth of whether not to cancel the us competition. The competition was given the green light. Fans for already here this morningas the competition was incredible. One of the surfers were trapped. His board snapped in half. Hopefully that does not happen. Anything can happen. We always on this the best. But not one groups. You literally have to watch out. Back in 2010, there were spectators watching. There is a billing festival and 15 will get you time to watch on the screen. A very good. I am sure things will start to get up. The time is 6 08 a. M. Pria husband out of texas wants his pregnant wife off of life support. She was declared brain dead and today, a judge is deciding her fate. Plus, Justin Bieber out of jail this morning after posting bail. Well tell you how fast he was driving in that rented laborghini in miami beach. And were watching bay area weather and traffic. Live look outside at mt. Tam Justin Bieber is facing jail time following his du i arrest yesterday morning. He was released after posting bail. The teen popstar paused to wave to fans before leaving the south florida jail. A judge set his bond at 25 hundred dollars. One thousand for the dui charge, another thousand for resisting arrest, and 500 for an expired drivers license. Police say they saw bieber driving a yellow lamborghini in a race against a red ferrari in a residential area of miami beach. According to police, the cars were speeding at about 60 milesperhour in a 30 mileperhour zone. We are tracking a red flag warning and a high surf advisories. I will have details on your weekend coming up. Okay. Lets train like its race day. Whats up ted . I think i forgot to pay a bill. Yep, paid that one. What about your mortgage . Yep, paid that too. Alright were good then. Man i feel like im forgetting something. Eh, its probably nothing. You worry too much ted. Alright, hammer down bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. Citi, with you every step of the way. Welcome back. Cleanup continues this morning in Northern Indiana where a massive wreckage killed at least three people in a big pileup on the highway. Dozens of vehicles were involved in the crash on interstate 94. A main highway between chicago and detroit. More than 20 other people were injured. The eastbound lanes are still closed this morning while Police Investigate and clear the scene. They say snow and whiteout driving conditions likely contributed to the pileup. We are dealing with the opposite. Red flag warnings are in effect. Good morning. It is really weird to be talking about a red flag morning in the middle of january but right now, i should talk about freeze warnings and Winter Weather advisories. Instead i am talking about sunshine and 70s. 40 degrees out the door for concord. As we head into afternoon it will be another mild day. Santa clara will have a high of 68. We are looking at plenty of sunshine in the winds will start to diminish. Fairfield is above average. 67 degrees for vallejo. Mid 60s for downtown San Francisco. Oakland return a high of 70. We are talking about pretty strong winds at times approaching from the north. In fact, we have seen gust at 30 m. P. H. We are still dealing with very low committee and dry conditions. Good news is that we are looking for, conditions letter on today and i will have a look at your forecast coming up. The good nils is that we are not tracking any hot spots. At the bay bridge toll plaza while looks like this are backing up the may realize have not been activated. The that is why the center lane as i started to fill in. 192, the san mateo bridge the volume is still building and the drive time has not increased. How about your ride to the golden gate bridge. 1 01 southbound. Lets go to the traffic maps. Heres a look at to ride on a 80, the westbound direction. You concede that the traffic is moving smoothly. We are still led 13 to 14 minutes for hercules to berkeley. The drive time is 16 minister the san ramon valley. We have been talking about the slowing in the westbound direction of 5 a. It is worse with a bumper there was reportedly dropped. There is some debris there. There is still slowing and julienne mckee. The moran ride is still looking good about 25 minutes heading south from the 37 interchange down to the golden gate bridge. Disturbing video from hercules. An suv runs into a 70 yearold man, knocking him down, and sending him to the hospital with serious the whole thing was caught on a camera mounted on the front of a city bus. It happened last friday a little after six a. M. You can clearly see the elderly man was in the crosswalk when the driver of a dark suv hit himsending him to the ground with a serious head injury. The driver then got out of his car and walked over to the victim. A passing witness asked if the victim was ok and his comment was he is aliveor he is breathing. And, then he got back in his car, backed up and then drove around the victim and left the scene. If you hit someone, that is not what you are supposed to do. Police say the Video Capabilities of the mounted camera are usually pretty good but in the Early Morning hours, the image was too dark to make out the license plate number. Line governor jerry brown is asking federal judges for two more years to reduce population. If the state fails to meet its goals. Inmates could be released early. The proposal calls for the court to appoint a Compliance Officer to choose which inmates would be freed. The state faces a spring deadline to reduce the inmates. Brown wants the deadline extended to february of 20 16. Californias Health Insurance exchange is coming its lackluster efforts to sign up latinos and for continued paperwork problems that have left some consumers in limbo. Californias board of directors also questioned whether spending millions of dollars to ramp up a Marketing Campaign was the right approach when there were systemic problems that still needed to be fixed. Two political groups linked to Chris ChristiesReelection Campaign have been subpoenaed in the new jersery bridge controversy. Attorneys for governor christies Reelection Campaign and for the new Jersey Republican state committee have confirmed receiving subpoenas from both federal and state prosecutors. The controversy stems from accusations that top aides in Christies Office ordered lane closures on the George Washington bridge. To get revenge on the mayor of fort lee for not endorsing christie during the last election. Christie says he didnt know about the lane closings on the bridge. In texas today, a judge is considering a husbands request to take his pregnant wife off life support. Marlise munoz has been declared brain dead. Eight weeks ago, she was found unconscious on her kitchen floor. She was 14 weeks pregnant at the time. And texas law recommends the hospital to keep munoz on life support to protect the life of the fetus. But her husband argues the law doesnt apply here because his wife is brain dead, so that no longer makes her a patient. Good morning. I will have a live web chat featuring nsa whistleblower edward [ mom ] hi, were the pearsons, and we love chex cereal. So we made our own commercial to tell you why. First, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. Which is a huge thing for us. And theres seven to choose from. Like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. 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We will feature the top 20 new, high tech gadgets from this years Consumer Electronics show. Our Vicki Liviakis will host the show. It airs tonight at nine oclock. Right after the kron4 news at eight. Coming up on the kron4 news. A man is beaten with a guitar in the east bay. That storys coming up. Do you remember when this happened . It was 2010. A wave washed out a whole crowd of spectators at the mavericks competition. Coming up, we will tell you what officials are doing to make sure this does not happen again. Line welcome back. The time is 6 29 a. M. We are just a minute away from the opening bell on wall street. Dow futures right now are negative. We will see what will happen. The time is 6 29 a. M. Pripet kron4 was the first to bring you the breaking news this morning about a brush fire that was burning pripet kron4 Jackie Sissel is live at the scene. Maligned you can see fire crews are still out there. Theyre putting out what is left from this fire. This fire was only a couple of acres. It could have been much worse. We may see more of these fires occur if we do not receive any brain. I was actually driving down five a when i spotted this huge blow. I saw the flames picking up. Most times the door this time of year, the end of january this would be full war but because we have not had any rain for a while this is just absolute perfect fuel for a fire. That is exactly what it did. When i arrived here it was problematic about 35 ft. Of the air. This was a homeless encampment but really the problem is that these conditions are ripe for these fires to kick up. There is a red flag warning that is an affect row today. The good news is that there was no wind in the area and embers were going up pripet a bmw dealership is also in the area. Firefighters remained out here but as i stated earlier if we do not receive rain we may start to see these spot fires kick up more often. There is so much fuel out here and it is absolutely broke. Brittle. The firefighters may have their hands full of we do not receive rain. Conditions are like this in the north and east bay. We have red flag 1 is still in effect brought ross sea level. Were saying goes up to 35 m. P. H. Temperatures are in the 30s in the 40s as we head into afternoon. It will be a another unseasonably mild today. 70 degrees row oakland and temperatures will mainly be in the 60s. The temperatures are born to be allowed one of them where they should be. For those of you going to watch the mavericks surf competition the temperatures will be mainly in the 50s. High surf and advisory is an affect on to my p. M. I will have a look at your weekend forecast coming up. The seven day of around the bay shows record highs today as we start the next work week and we may be dry for the rest of january. The time of 6 32 a. M. We are looking at light traffic all in one debate. Even at the bay bridge toll plaza where things have backed up a bit. This is right around the 6 00 a. M. Hour. The backup is actually diminish from the last time. Meter relies are still waiting to be activated. The our approaches are looking good and so does your trip across the upper deck. You will find similar conditions are on the Richmond Center fell prey some of the worlds biggest surfers are preparing for the mavericks big wave surf competition that begins at 8 00 a. M. A look at the height of these waves. Todays waves are expected to reach 40 ft. High. This is pretty amazing. There will be a lot of people expected to be there. If you are headed there kron4 stated that you should leave soon. Over the past 30 minutes the traffic has picked up. This is a bonafide how well this time morning. As you concede there are people out here to make sure the there are certain places that you cannot go into. If youre coming down here from San Francisco that will have designated parking spots. Do not park on the side of the freeway. The best place to park is right next to the airport. They stated that there should be plenty of parking. Do not even think about going to those restaurant areas. They will have patrol officers there to make sure that is for coastal roads only. I am getting a reaction from people who are driving. Keeping mind, but there are people who are parking a great distance in certain neighborhoods pripet do not do that. That is very dangerous especially at t