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This shelter pooch hoping to turn a minus into a plus. This is a full hour of your choice for prime time news. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam good evening, im pam moore. Pam tonight, president barack obama laid out his vision for his last two years in office. It is an ambitious agenda. Ranging from Free Community college. Pam to the war on terror. To tax breaks for the middle class. Pam reporter Sunlen Serfaty begins our state of the union coverage. Reporter to break down the president s state of the union address. I am joined by kron 4 political analyst micahel yaki. Reporter raising the minimum wage and City College Tuition creek some of which he wants to pay for by closing tax breaks for the wealthy. Middleclass economics works expanded opportunity works. Reporter though they believe this is nice they all come with a price that they feel that the government cannot afford. That i call on this conference to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution. Reporter his Approval Rating is back up it is unlikely that most or if any will succeed with the gop congress. Pam the newly empowered gop cant return to the voters message in november and will work to change the direction in washington. She delivered the gop congress response. Americans have been hurting but one we demand solution, too often washington responded with the same field of mines that mindset. It is the mindset that gave us political talking point and not a serious solution spirit pam michael your overall impression of the state of the union . Is it very confident president obama more so than the last few years. This is the kind of speech that he wanted to give for his first four years as president not the last two creek where this economy was stable enough to talk about in the 2008 campaign. Pam this one, dealing with the middleclass economics. Class economics works. Expanded opportunities for corporate this policy will continue to work as long as politics do not get in the way. Pam was a bit deceiving and the state of the union. That was a big thing in the state of the union. But a class economics is the term that he is using to drive a turn or policy closer to narrowing the gap corporate pam he has not made any progress in the first six years in office. For far too long, lobbyist has rick the tax rolls with loopholes with operations to pay zero. For others piffle printothers pay the complete. Pam people are ready for something to be done with the tax code. Did you think that there is a chance . Supplication for the democrats and republicans can be the same thing. Where is satisfies both. Entitlement reform, the core of the government shut down discussion in the past two years with the graeme bargaining in terms of reform. The top tier tax code. The deal or the idea has already been all around but this could push it over the edge. Pam 1 last sound bite. My only agenda, i have no more campaigns to run because i have won both of them. Applause pam he gave a little wink theyre a little dig. There are a lot of big spirit he talks about the single oil pipeline. The one think from the state of the union that you can count on, he will veto legislation he has made a promise that he would carry out that promise. And the next 16 months. Pam thank you michael. Pam and if youd like to connect with michael. You can do so on twitter atyakiblog. The present grant that living about having one too past elections. Democrats loved it. The republicans probably wanted to vomit when they heard this. And educated in and know that he is not making good decisions. Mark my words he will go down in history as the top three or one of the three top president s. Pam we are staying on top of a developing story in san jose. Where crews have been dealing with a dangerous situation for the last couple of hours. Pam a gas leak near a strip mall. Kron 4s Daniel Villareal is on the scene right now. Pam and joins us live with the latest. Daniel . Reporter the lanes eastbound are totally blocked off and if you see that from the camera angle just right here near the east ridge mall, the gas leak or rupture. Evacuations and pouring water on the week you could see where it was bubbling up. Right now, they have kept the gas leak and things are better but they still have rolled blocked off and it will be displayed for a while. Reporter a lot of the businesses are still closed, not all of them but many of them. Because many of them are not allowed in the area. Until, about seven and the morning which is pg and keep telling us creek reporter that are not allowing any traffic eastbound on tully. That may be for a while so if you are headed here please avoid the area. Pam new at eight. Pam police in santa rosa are investigating a horrific accident where a suv rolled over a pedestrian. It happened near the Santa Rosa Plaza shopping center. Pam kron 4s jeff bush is live in santa rosa tonight with the latest. Jeff . Reporter this intersection on third street and the street was shut down for the majority of the afternoon while police investigated a horrible crash. This was a terrible accident involving and as you d, a white Ford Explorer and a bowl baldricvolvo reporter slippy over and landed on top of a woman that was standing on the sidewalk might be her own business. She died instantly, on the same. The scene. They had to find out what the situation was with the woman but also the drivers of both vehicles were injured and had to be taken to the hospital with one woman did after a Ford Explorer landed on top of her while she was standing at the sidewalk. It is unclear as to who is at fault of this accident. Pam ahead at eight. Pam tourists stumped and stranded after a cable car breakdown. Well show you what happened. Pam later in the broadcast facebook rolling out a new tool to separate fact from fiction. Pam and next pam more birds dying. Due to a mysterious goo. See what scientists are saying about it tonight. Reporter we have f o g coming into the bay area and we will talk about what that will do to the temperatures. Grant mysterious and deadly. The bird goo problem is getting worse. What started along the east bay shoreline last week. Is grant today four dead birds with the unidentified gunk were found between foster city and coyote point. Grant but the problem is originating near the east bay. Grant birds found as far north as alameda. Also at the san leandro marina. The hayward regional shoreline. And as far south as Coyote Hills Park in fremont. Grant kron 4s jr stone has been following this story for us. And is live with the latest developments. Jr,. Reporter these birds are hyper karmic trick they are dying. Reporter worked into the night to help these birds that were covered with a clear and like substance that he ordered freezing to death. As the volunteers here feeding the birds. Tuesday, for carcasses were found covered and the unknown substance. The first case is outside of the east bay. Assumption, that there were called to hear in Alameda County and flew, or swim there make their way across the water in foster city in perished there. Most reporter of the birds found with the substance on the tuesday were already dead. More than 300 birds have their rescued and volunteers here continue to help. Scientists are also try to do the best that they cant to identify the substance. Until we find out what this stuff is it is a major concern. We are doing work ed is our highest priority creek reporter and tears would expand the search area tomorrow from the bay bridge all the way down to the fremont area. They are looking for volunteers if you are interested in helping the action to contact the International Bird rescue which is out of Fairfield Creek live kron 4 news j. R. Stone. Pam the highest tides of the yearcalled king tides are hitting the bay area and causing flooding in low lying areas. Pam this is what it looked like on highway one in mill valley at around 11 am this morning. Pam many drivers having to slow down as they navigated the flooded roadway. Pam the king tides also caused flooding at the Manzanita Park and ride. The waters mostly receded by 1 pm this afternoon. Pam signs have been posted warning those who use that lot that more flooding is expected tomorrow. Reporter pam we do have more flooding anticipating tomorrow. It is nothing really to kid about flooding in areas to watch out for. Temperatures outside right now what the four degrees in San Francisco. Temperatures are going to drop off in a little bit farther than that but not too much f o g as we have seen for the last couple of days. Reporter thursday, will be more of the same but not more of the same after that. We will see significant morning. Reporter not as much cloud coverage as we have seen in the last couple of days. 46 degrees for this city 42 for san mateo and 44 for concord in 43 in fremont. 61 in San Francisco, 63 richmond and 62 with the afternoon high in pleasanton. If you think that that is nice look at the wrong away round of the forecast. Lefkowitz saying all sunshine. Left with sunshine. Grant scary moments at a south bay 711 store. After a strong arm robbery the entire incident caught on camera. Pam now police hope the video will help them catch the suspect. Surveillance video shows a masked gunmen entering the North Fair Oaks avenue pam 7eleven store just after 8 30 monday night. He threatened the clerk with a gun and had him hand over the money from the register. Pam because he wore a mask police do not have a description of the theif. Pam a Popular Store that sells coats and outdoor gear is back in business here in San Francisco. It is in reference to a break in at the store early monday morning. Pam police say at least 2 suspects backed a uhaul into the store and crashed through the glass entrance. They then went on a spree grabbing what they could. Pam the store is not revealing what was taken but coats can run as high as 700 dollars. Police say they recovered the uhaul in san franicso. Pam but they are still looking for the suspects. Pam the Highway Patrol says they arrested nearly 70 people in that protest yesterday on the san mateo bridge. Pam this is video of that protest from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 pam though the protesters were cleared off quickly, frustrated travelers were backed up for a lot longer pam the chp prepared and were able to clear protesters in 15 minutes. But traffic lasted more than an hour. Those arrested were charged with creating a public nuisance and obstructing the right of people to travel. Pam still to come. Bringing down Candlestick Park. Why residents who live nearby are concerned with the plans to tear down the old stadium. Reporter i hear this all the time. When you crack the screen but is still completely functional but the glass is cracked. Still coming up with my tech report a quick and convenient way to get your smart phone fixed. Foreign Language reporter a quick and convenient way to get your screen fixed on your smart phone. When you have a crack. Reporter icracked is a bay area based business that offers on demand, on location smartphone repair. They specialize in iphones with cracked displays but they fix other stuff too. Reporter the service is easy to use reporter you hop their website and request a repair you can see the picture of the certified and vetted technician that will be calling you to set up an apt. Reporter they call or text you back pretty quick and you choose to where and when to meet reporter it can be your home your office, your car a parking lot a nearby cafe. Wherever you want. Reporter most repairs take less than 30 minutes i used an iphone 6 with a cracked screen to test their Service Reporter they came to my office and i filmed the process. Reporter the tech did a thorough test on all the main phone functions make sure there was not any internal damage before replacing the screen. Reporter then he opened it up and got to work reporter this is what the inside of an iphone looks like in case youre wondering. Reporter and this is what the home button looks like when its removed from the phone reporter 10 minutes later he was attaching the new display screen and then running the post op tests to make sure its fully functional reporter the whole thing took about 25 minutes very convenient reporter the price for screen repair varies on the device you have but i compared it to what apple radio shack, or the carriers charge and its about the same in some cases you might pay about 20 extra for the convenience of coming to you. Reporter ed here has been with icracked since the begginng and fixed thousands of broken smartphone screens so i had to ask him whats the main cause of broken screens getting out of the car. Pam are you tired of seeing fake stories on your facebook feed . Coming up. How the social networking site is now cracking down on those stories. Pam plus the latest report card is out for hospitals. Find out if yours is making the grade. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam some of San Francisco bay and its cable cars came to a standstill. The rates will explain what happened accurate reporter iconic cable cars but at 12 00 all the cars on these tracks came to a screeching halt. Crews spent a good portion of the day towing cars off the track so that they could be worked on an alert system detected a cable problem along the line accurate people had to be shuttled in down the street as the work to fix the cable creek most of the people did not seem to mind the inconvenience. Although some said they werent properly notified creek no one came and said a word to us. Reporter how frustrating is that . Very. Reporter would not tell us the exact nature of the problem. But they did say that the bay are anticipating things will turn to normal on wednesday morning. Reporting in San Francisco scott rates kron 4 news. Pam the like are back in berkeley tonight. But for a little more than an hour this afternoon. More than 35,000 pg and key customers were without electricity due to a failed a substation. At city hall, a city employe found themselves trapped in an elevator. Reporter the Fire Department and building minutes came to his rescue creek the power outage also affected bart station and berkeley for a short time pam neighbors to live near the old Candlestick Park are making noise again. Kron4 vicki lynn b. Hawkins caught up with them as that franciscos city hall to see what plans to take down the abandoned structure are still a source of worry creek. Reporter the dramatic implosion of San Francisco geneva towers fun to watch but look at the cloud of concrete brick that is why it plans to blow up the stick or being scrapped for the wrecking ball. Reporter but neighbors who live nearby are still not happy with a kinder gentler plans to demolish it. Raymond and retired in vermont Environmental Science professor at its personal he has family near candlestick. Do not kill us. Is the invisible dust print and there should be no invisible dust going down the street. Reporter the candlestick the mall project is expected to take about two months. Neighbors say they are not opposed to a beautiful and development they just want to clear the air creek and San Francisco the key kron 4 news. Vivki liviakis pam tomorrow, california lawmakers will introduce a bill to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives. The bill is inspired by britain may guard kurt she was the east bay, who had terminal brain cancer and moved to oregon to character to end her life creek she was an advocate who argue terminally ill patients should not write the to die in california. Pam mainers family would join three democratic lawmakers to marleau to propose the new legislation. The proposal would require patients to take the fatal medication themselves. Pam today there is final approval to resend pay raises. For the contra costa board of supervisors the agreed on an ordinance that would take back a 33 percent raise back in october the poet for the race that would have been their first since 2006. Going from 97,000 to 129 yen thousand per year president started a petition petition against the raises. Compensation for the board will be a topic of next months meeting. Pam scary stuff for patients several Bay Area Hospitals given a passing grades but just barely. Grant several Bay Hospitals giving passing grades the healthcare Watchdog Organization Leap Frog Group released its results the following Bay Area Hospitals received a b grade. Seton Medical Center cosi in moss beach and seton Medical Center in daly city Chinese Hospital is that francisco. And doctors Medical Center of them possible. Doctors Medical Center has been fighting to stay open. Grant 2 month ago contra costa supervisors approved two measures that are part of it by your plan to keep the hospital open and will try to eliminate a 15 million deficit. For a complete list of Bay Area Hospital and how they fare here to our web site kron4 that come to rid i went over the handlebars of 230 lbs. Over handlebars, head first. Reporter analyst stitches. Nynorsk stitches. Needing numerous stiches. 8 2 in. Gap where a tire can fall into eight creek and go down the street you can see that there is actually three great that way. Reporter was not immediately responsible to who will replace the grace but they need to be fixed before someone else get her for it. I like to see the great be repaired. I am sure that there are more great somewhere from the city that are also messed up. Pam next. How facebook is cracking down on the fake stories on your new speed. Plus creek and a little more than a year the super bowl hits to the bay area. Coming up, how santa clara leaders are preparing. And later. Close encounters on the will kind. Whale kind for over 60,000 california foster children nights can feel long and lonely. I miss my sister. I miss my old school. I miss my room. I dont want special treatment. I just wanna feel normal. To help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train and help make a Foster Childs night a little cozier. Not everyone can be a Foster Parent but anyone can help a foster child. Grant its launching a new feature that lets anyone report a post as being false. Grant these include things like reports of celebrity deaths, conspiracy theories and promises of Free Products if you share the link. Grant Facebook Says the offending items wont be removed just gradually hidden more from view. Grant but if a story gets a high number of flags, it will be marked with a message warning that it may contain false information. Grant youll be able to flag an item by clicking the arrow in the top right corner of a post. Pam its a win for the ufo believers secret government files on the possible existence of unidentified flying objects are no longer secret. Pam 1hundred30 thousand pages documenting air force investigations have been declassified and are now available online. A ufo enthusiast has been asking for the files for years. Pam the socalled project blue book collection is now posted on his online database called the black vault, for anyone to see for free. Pam the collection contains some of the most famous alleged sightings from three official government investigations into ufos. Reporter we had pretty much walmart ufos and we have been dealing with f o g. We have delays for about an hour at best a half ago. This coming morning i do not think that we will see that much of the problem for it. Checking reporter dan at 54 in concord 46 in livermore accurate. Reporter friday through monday it will be warm. We are talking 70s possibly getting close to 80 separate. Reporter 63 and 67 71 by the weekend for livermore and should be like this all round the bay area. Reporter you to see the highpressure already getting ready to build over california. We are looking at 624 palo alto, 62 for the afternoon high in milpitas and the east bay low 60s with 62 and san leandro and 63 for union city. And 69 for daly city. Reporter a quick look at the kron4 bay area forecast. Pam in a little more than a year the biggest sporting event in the world comes to the bay area. Pam next. The trip local leaders are planning to take in order to get ready to host super bowl 50. Pam the newest members of the giants at the ballpark today gary has those stories and the rest of sports coming out pam in 382 days santa clara will host super bowl 50 at levis stadium. Pam a team of local leaders will be heading to this years superbowl in arizona to get a crash course on putting on one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Pam alicia reid is live in santa clara tonight with more. Alecia . Reporter to learn the best practices to see what works and what needs work. Reporter the money for the last year and a half to get ready for 2016 s that the car and working on logistics. Public safety, logics thisand logistics plus the ban experience in the visitors experience. Fan want people to have fun and be safe. To move all round and inefficient state matter. Reporter coming up at 11 we will hear from city officials. Is the city ready to host the next super bowl . male announcer now, the Orchard Supply sports report with gary radnich. Gary making a little noise today. He will be dame new left fielder the japanese left fielder plant in kansas city last and the royals and going at it. He was at the first thing he would say to Madison Bumgarner after watching him dominate in the world series . Ive heard that madison likes to wrestle so i think that i am going to initiate wrestling match. Gary bumgarner goes about 235 that is the bank. People are saying that they have not done enough. The giants have not done enough to rid they are getting guys that deserve the benefit of the doubt patrick corrected there ting and fit their clubhouse corporatethat fit their clubhouse corporate reporter talking to Major League Networks say that he wants to get out and try new things. Gary he may make more than what was expected creek saying to stay with the giants. He says he did not sleep for three days to get across to be part of a new change parrot. Gary i do not want to be run here was some. With tomsula. So he is the new defensive coordinator with chicago bears. Ready to go gary 2 time coach in the an f l. National Football League career it. He has very well or could very well become a replacement pitcher gary mike smith may be the defensive coordinator with the raiders. Gary know that it is tedious but that is what happens when the head coach is blown out and the majority of the staff is going with him. That is the story to talk about creek and brad seely special teams coach for the fortyniners could drive up 880 and be the next special teams coach for the raiders. He has worked on those teams is 1989. Curry, and that action tomorrow night with houston. Every game, he has more than three turnovers record he will pay his mom 100 for turnover. Gary is mong kasten 600 last year creek rather than collect the cash she gives him a list of fashion demands. Still, upholds his mom 600. Gary serena williams, at no sweat. Maybe one of the greatest women tennis players of all time creek she got it done in straight sets over alices current allison vanderveck gary what about Christie Everett . But when you put into power i dont know. Pam, are we voting for selena . Gary serena gary you want to get in on disparate you think we have a good time . We until tomorrow and interact with people at 6 00 our time. I am a little scary. Gary chasing can do everything will probably be many patrols since many went home sick today. Pam live tweet with gary oh my goodness. Pam next. A local kennels hair raising campaign to get a pup a new home. Plus. Well get another look at the forecast. Pam take a look at this amazing video a paddle boarders Close Encounter with some killer whales. Rich german was paddling off the coast of laguna beach when a pod of five orcas interacted with him. Pam one of the whales went directly under him twice. He said he was too excited to be scared. Pam he also said hes sharing the video to raise awareness for what he calls these incredible, magical creatures. Pam i cant even and i imagine that, all my goodness. Pam sometimes its not easy for a dog to find a home. Says neeners the dog is a staff favorite. Pam hes been up for adoption since september. So, they thought of a way to help him stand out. Pam neeners has a tiny bald spot on his head. But the staff found a way to get him covered. Music pam as you can see neeners is quite a trooper. Letting his caretakers do a pam a hat fashion show. Pam even trying on a tiny toupee. Neeners is up for adoption through San Franciscos animal control. Pam thats it for the kron 4 news at 8. Reporter a little bit on the cooler side occurreda little bit on the cooler side. Widespread but the weekend with warmer temperatures. Pam have a nice evening everyone will see you at 11 00. In new york citys war on crime the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the major case squad. These are their stories. All right, theresa. Your turn. Tell everybody to duck. [laughs] wow. Nicely done. Thanks. The priest sent me an apology note. As though im supposed to absolve him. For years i carried the shame of that abuse without telling a soul. And i cant do it anymore. Itsits time to come clean. Guess what i found out today