Good morning, top stories were following this tuesday july 30th. Bart negotiators head back to the table today after yet another unsuccessful day of talks. Whats next for workers and riders as we are now just five days away from a second possible strike. And a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect this morning even as Tropical Storm flossie weakens. Well take a look at how the storm is affecting travelers across the bay area. Watching what is now tropical depression flossie off the coast of hawaii. Mark categorized as a tropical hawaiis big island and maui. The storm is not only affecting residents in hawaii, but also travelers around they bay area. There were several cancellations yesterday, and more are expected today. Kron 4s solo reporter Jackie Sissel is live at San FranciscoInternational Airport with an update. Jackie . Firefighters in san darya at about 9 00 tomorrow began yesterday morning officers found at a collapse during the night and that tower supports Radio Communication systems across the east bay. Police are continuing to investigate what happened. Mark copper firefighters in San Francisco discover a pot grow while battling a house fire this morning. The fire broke out overnight in the 100 block of tucker avenue. Park. Investigators say they found at least 60 Marijuana Plants inside the house. No one was inside at the time. Darya little the fog but traffic is still moving good out there. We will be right back. But mark debt darya the federal Energy Regulatory commission is charging j. P. Morgan chase with manipulating the Energy Market by charging california and the lowest midwests electricity grids 80 times prevailing power prices. According to regulators j. P. Morgan subsidiary j. P. Morgan pinchers energy corp. Engaged in a manipulative techniques, which took advantage of power market rules, to obtain payments above the market rate between september of 2010 and june of 2011. And just crossing the wires at j. P. Morgan chases are resettling with the government and pain and 410 million fine 120 million of that will go to ratepayers. Although the Company Disputes the charges. Mark Time Warner Cable has quickly stopped plans to remove cbs from its lineup in three major markets after initially announcing it would drop the network allowing a fee dispute. Not long after timewarner released a statement yesterday saying customers will lose the network at midnight, it said it halted its plans and broadcasters request. About 3 million customers in new york, los angeles and dallas could potentially be affected by this that, which centers made on how much Time Warner Cable pays for the right to retransmit signals from the cbs owned stations. Darya twitter may be moving closer to going public. The company has posted a job opening for Financial Reporting manager. The person would be responsible for following itsoutlining its ipo plans. Twitter executives have remained dismisses the wrong questions regarding its ipo offering a few hints. The cofounder jack dorsey has told bloomberg in recent months that the company is not even thinking of an ipo. Twitters ipo is expected to be the biggest Consumer Internet ipo since facebook. When you smoke, addictive ingredients like nicotine pull you in. Every day, over 1200 people die from smokingrelated diseases. Dont sink deeper into addiction. Pull yourself out erica good morning and welcome to the kron4 morning news. The timeout is 712. Very great start to the day with morning fog. Satellite and radar impacting upon the coastline and working its way inland. He concedes that the current our we have caught cover of livermore up toward napa as well. Although the clouds are fairly thick theyre not that close to the ground. Were not talking about issues of visibility. You can see by 12 00 looks like many sunny skies for most of us. Inland at least. Certain chronic conditions inside the bay. Stubborn clouds along the immediate coast line. As we break down the numbers you notice plenty of 70s so very comfortable conditions in the south bay. Some develop high of 74 degrees. 79 expected and cupertino. To the east a week ago, 80s on the big board. Upper 60s for vallejo. Below 60 slated for richmond. Downtowns San Francisco checkin and at a height of 61 degrees with the mid70s for napa and a bottle. Your kron 47 day around the bay forecast highlights a clear pattern through thursday and amateur the corner. Expect a brief morning fog, one or conditions into the afternoon. In fact, it will be upper a diesel inland, up 07 is around the bay and the 60s it on the coast. Capp his torch. George you can look forward to a fairly typical ride it. Maybe a little lighter than usual. Certainly for the easter for what it will not check any has bought on the bridges. We are looking at a pretty good commit to the bay bridge toll plaza coming from the nimitz freeway. Even coming from the macarthur made 16 of 70 minute drive time. Your trip to the san mateo bridge highway 92 off directing is good. No problems and back toward us. Thats the trip back to hayward. Looking at your ride to the Golden Gate Bridge. An easy trip with a northbound or southbound. As a week check the traffic maps Still Holding at about 90 minutes for the shore freeway ride from hercules to berkeley. The San Ramon Valley commute hasnt changed much. Only increased by a minute or so. West 580 still have this for all to not pass. South bay freeway is picking up a little more slowing for south san jose on or no one north bound and out of the Coyote Valley 85 a little heavy approaching guadalupe parkway. The north bay ride still a good one. We talked a little bit earlier about an accident westbound on highway 37 at 121 and traffic is a little sluggish past the scene of all land there are blocked. Mark San Diego County court is in hot water this morning for allegedly trying to prevent samesex couples from getting married. In court papers, state attorney general kama pitla harris says, a clerk Ernest Dronenburg jr. Petitioned the California Supreme Court for a temporary stay on issuing same six marriages. The harris says the state court does not have that power. Last month, the u. S. Supreme court ruled out the states ban on samesex marriages unconstitutional, clearing the way for a marriage to resume in california. The county clerk swears have until august 9th to respond. Thank dual efforts are under way to recall san diego mayor bob a filter over allegations of sexual harassment. The City Attorneys Office is deciding whether to recall campaigns can run concurrently. But thats not all. The leader of what recall efforts is accusing the other of secretly supporting marathoner. Mayor filner. Mark following a developing story out of florida, where Officials Say there are at least three critical injuries but so far no deaths after a series of explosions rocked a gas plant. Take a look at this video. It happened near orlando and Central Florida last night. This is video of the flames from the explosion. Authoritys first feared that as many as 15 workers at the blue rhino propane plans could have been killed and several blasted off the buildings roof three witnesses in the area described the scene as the explosion happened. Mark darya all the workers are counting for this morning. Seven people were taken to the local hospitals. The extent of their injuries is not known at this time. Mark eight people, including three children, were injured after an explosion shook the south philadelphia neighborhood over the weekend. Take a look at the video. One home was destroyed and two others were heavily damaged. Neighbors pitched in to help rescue those inside the homes. Fire officials confirming it was a natural gas explosion. They say it appears the contractor may have been attempting to reach like the water here when the explosion happened. i saw the whole house was down. I saw the house next to it was falling over. I saw firemen. This dude was burned up. They were holding him down with a fire hose. he was running out of the house would burn marks from head to toe. He was bleeding from his side and he was just asking for help. Mark after more than an hour of searching, restores determined no one else was trapped under the rubble. Fire officials confirmed it was a natural gas explosion. And their search for a cause now centers on work being done by a contractor on a water heater. They say it appears the contract may have been attempting to rely to the water heater when the explosion took place. Darya its day two of the preliminary hearing in your sparked pennsylvania. That will determine whether theres enough evidence to bring the trial of three former and state officials and the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case. Former penn state president graeme spaniard, a retired Vice President jerry schulz and ex Athletic Director tim curly are accused of failing to tell police about an allegation and sandusky and then tried to hide but the new breed sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child molestation last june and is serving 30 to 60 years in prison. Fifth mark en the European Union says its former policy chief has visited egypt ousted president at the place of his detention and held a twohour indepth discussion with him. This is the first reported meeting by anyone outside egypt military Security Services with mohammed more seat since his overthrow in a july 3rd military coup. Since the group, which followed days of mass protests by millions of egyptians calling for more seats ouster, this lot is president has been detained by the military and an undisclosed location. Mark a new round of talks between israeli and palestinian negotiators begins today in washington. The discussions follow six months of shuttle diplomacy by secretary of state john kerry to restart negotiations that broke down in 2008. Since 2000, israeli settlements have doubled in the west bank. The palestinians are claiming that arabs will outnumber jews and the holy land by 2020. Pat unborn the senate has confirmed james call me as a new fbi director. Comey. Comey was a former Deputy Attorney general who worked in the george w. Bush administration. The 93 it was one of the vote came after republican senator frank paul of kentucky dropped his filibuster of komi over concerns about domestic front. Darya private first class Bradley Manning will learn whether he will be convicted of aiding the enemy for sending more than 700,000 government documents to the anti secrecy website with the leaks. This afternoon a military judge at four to meet in maryland will announce the verdict aiding the enemy is the most serious of 21 counts manning is contesting. If convicted, he could get life in prison without parole. Mark fastfood workers across new york city are striking for better pay and the right to unionize. What pops and demonstrations were held at restaurants including mcdonalds, burger king, and when the street [ female announcer ]r are you sensitive to dairy . Then youll love lactosefree lactaidai® ® [ female announcer ]r are you sensitive to dairy . Its 100 real milk thats easy to digest so you can fully enjoyjo the dairy you love. Lactaidta®. For 25 years,ar easy to digest. Easy to love. But do you really . 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So the driver gets to have a chat with officer schwarz of the Castro Valley office of the california highway patrol. It turns out the place was sprayed with for all nine and scrub with these below pass this, colored in the numbers with a sharpie. This pickup truck driver is unpick and cooperated san leandro has a similar problem. The reason why im pulling over is because the three perfect tries portion of your license plate looks like its been sanded off to do that yourself . however upon closer inspection in appears that some kind of clothing was applied which damage the reflective code and when asked to apply the coating. i dont know your no less kids walk around and sprayed the problem now is people are spreading their plates with something that makes soap is not respected. while officer schwarz is dealing with this driver let me show you something else, this is a stand it license plate. people are now standing off the respect of coding to defeat but enforcement cameras and yes you can be stopped for that. another thing you can be stopped and ticketed for and have that clear cover over your rear license plate is there any reason why you have that there . Now i thought it looked rather cool. but the worst offender was the driver with paper plates not only was she missing her plate, no idea at all, do you have any kind of registration paper work. In fact the vehicle was listed as an operative so that up so i am going to tell your car. Writing with the Castro Valley office in the california highway patrol, Stanley Roberts, kron 4 news. Darya the government says more cancer deaths could be prevented if certain current and former heavy smokers get annual ct scans. Its the first time the government has got behind lung Cancer Screening for heavy smokers. A panel with you as a Preventative ServicesTask Force Recommends the scans for people age 55 to 79 whose mother pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or the equivalent. Mark with the researchers are working to create virtual speech therapist for patients who have lost their Language Skills to to a stroke or other head trauma. The avatar is designed to help people practice their speaking skills after insurance has stopped covering visits to him and clinicians. The team at Temple University in philadelphia says it is approaching challenges patience to spontaneously generate speech in conversations with the avatar. We will be right back. Darya kumar and what the kron4 morning news. Weve always got our eye on weather and traffic. Heres erica with an update. Darya erica you are right about that fog. It will be pretty stubborn and a lingering into the early afternoon. Temperatures predominantly in the 50s. Sampras is currently 5856 out the door and concord. We do have widespread clouds right now, fortunately no ground fog so no obstruction of their visibility. George we are watching the south bay and keeping an eye on interstate 280 and the northbound direction. Weve noticed the traffic is definitely slower than usual. Backing up approaching the 880 interchange. There is nothing reported their and the weight of a chp incident. There might be some way construction. Keeping a close eye otherwise. The rest of the south bay still looks pretty good. Mark recycling workers and the east bay are walking off the job to protest what they say are dangerous working conditions and abuse from management. Kron4s jackie sizzle is live in san leandro with details. And jackie. J as, you can see about 50 workers standing out front right now set about 20 minutes ago the morning shift walked out as you said on strike for the day. They say is to protect their views and dangerous conditions. They also say expert that are the lowest paid workers and the bay area. They say theyve made about half of what similar workers and San Francisco and the bay area out received. Their blood to leave this location endeavor to city hall around and and this morning for reference we also know this is the third time in a year that these workers have walked out. At this point if this is going to be more that one day strike of they say it will be for one day and this one location. Right now, about 50 workers are out. 200 total work shares of three ships will be affected. Mark be not want to thank the jacket. We will follow the latest. Darya and one of the bay area up is now just five days away from another possible barge strike now, we are hearing a different tone from one of the unions. The 80 represent station agents, train operators and Clerical Workers continue to express frustration of what they say is a lack of progress in negotiations. Kron4s will tran is live in oakland. Will what matters is bottomline both unions have to sign off on this or there will be another strike otherwise. I have to tell you the reason why they are not on the same page is because our negotiators are meeting with them individually. The good news. Negotiations will resume in 90 minutes from now if they dont get it done today, which they plan to defer hours, if they dont get it done today, at least a promise to meet every day until the sunday midnight deadline to get something worked out. Or else thousands of people instead of hopping on bart will be hopping on ac transit, various, casual car pools and we saw what h