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 this hour because it is still dark. Do not go there thinking you will stand by and watch. Back in 2010 there was a big way is that broke up the whole party. A lot of people passed what off their feet. If this is why they shut down the beach area because they do not want anyone near the water. They do have signs to direct you. They do not want anyone heard especially with these ways expected to be as huge as they are. Police are looking for a man who beat another man with a guitar. On wednesday night, the victim was bashed and had several times. He has faced and head injuries. He was released from hospital but the person is still on the loose. Walnut creek Police Stated that theyre searching for three suspects who robbed a kaiser worker on wednesday. Two are described as white males in their 20s. No description of the third. One man had a knife and the other had a bad. More than likely, a 14 yearold girl who was hit and killed, that will have a Memorial Service for her. She was riding her bike when she was hit last friday. She was a singer, she was on her way to school to perform. France are hoping to raise 10,000 to help cover the cost of perfume roher fumarole expense expenses. Here is a live look outside from the san mateo bridge. We will be right back. Bulldog oh boy bulldog mattress discounters president s day sale get a queensize sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497. 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The river they require an amount of water there require an appropriate amount to basically carry away wastes. You can end of drive the x completely up. People are walking in crushing the eggs when they got to fish. Birds will have more easy access eating the eggs. There is a petition on before the state fish and Game Commission right now off to close down the american river. The Russian River and many other coastal strings will make it illegal to fish. The time is 6 41 a. M. Pri we will have an update this morning on another Security Breach involving a major retailer. 1 million customers and pass it. Welcome back. The time is 6 45 a. M. The dow is down 129 points. Yesterday, we lost almost 176 points. Today we may very well in the week with a loss to we will keep our eyes on this. Neimanmarcus is reporting that more than a million customers impacted by the Security Breach that lasted more than three months. The high end retailer says that melissa is software scooped up customers credit and debit card information between july 16th and october 30th it pripeh. Visa, mastercard and discover reported 2400 cards were used to buy peace. The time is 6 46 a. M. We have no right unfortunately the temperatures will only warm as we head into next week. Were talking about the possibility of record breaking highs once again. Satellite and we will wake up to 30s and 40s but in afternoon will see upper 60s low 70s. That is definitely the case for today. Livermore will have a high of 71 degrees. Mid 60s for downtown San Francisco. Heres a look at satellite and radar. We are completely dry on the west and their rich and High Pressure is keeping the storms out of here. Once they do come that will shift to the north. It is when the answer spots. Partly cloudy conditions later on tonight and waking up tomorrow with coastal fog but one the temperatures. We do have minor changes to highlight and i will bring down your 7 day around the bay coming up. The time is 6 47 a. M. Pripet we are enjoying a nice conditions so far at least this morning with the traffic on the east shore freeway moving, quickly that it is really easily. The ride to the lower east shore freeway could start to slow a bed with an accident on university avenue. This is a potential hot spot. The rest of the east of the ride is looking good. It is lighter than usual. To the south bay on 1 01, 85 and 280 and the north bay freeway is looking good. Tracking your bay bridge ride, the me realize are active but it is still light that theres hardly any back up. Theres no problems on the golden gate bridge. The san mateo bridge, highway 92 is looking good even though the speeds are high enough that the drive time has not climb to about 11 minutes. Trending now, comets from former republican president ial candidate might hope will be about Birth Control, and the socalled war on women. You may see links to this on facebook this morning. He is saying that democrats who at the meademean women by bringing their sex lives and to debate. Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women. That is not a war on them is a war for them. At if the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in am providing for them a prescription each month for Birth Control off because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Colby was talking to the Republican National committee. The gop tries market itself as a better choice for women. Democrats are already calling out for his comments as being offensive. Toy car race track cents have come a long way in the digital age. Now, you can use your phone to control your car. Off the competition you are racing against. Vicki liviakis takes a look of the new technology. You are plane three cars that are driving themselves. That is my speed. You cant control your steering the best part, i when i get a speeding ticket. Stay with kron4 for the best technology. Were going to feature the top 20 gadgets tonight at 9 00 p. M. Right after the news. There could be snow in new jersey when the super bowl happens. On february 3rd if officials are planning ahead to make sure that the fans are comfortable. With 80,000 people expected to flood the met life stadium for the super bowl, remove the snow is a top priority. Every super bowl attendee will receive a pack, including live bomb, ear muffs, a hat, mid 10s, six hand warmers, and a neck warmer. Do you know how much those tickets are . This should give us something free anyone. For the first time in his career Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is a nba allstar. He is the first warrior to start an allstar game since 1995. Curry led all western conference guards and boating with a little more than 1 million. He finished second in the western conference against kevin durant. Still ahead on the kron 4 news. There is plenty of people who do it. Coming up next, more evidence about why it is so dangerous to text and walk on the road. Heres a live look outside at San Francisco. Omg, jack. Have you ever checked out these new product ideas people post on your page . Theyre kind of amaze. Ing. Yeah thats where i got the ideas for my new fajita ranch melt. Seasoned chicken with a gooey blend of pepper jack cheese, roasted peppers and onions, on toasted sourdough for just 3. 99. Is that where you also got the idea for that clock bracelet you always wear . My watch . No. These were invented a long time ago. Like in the 80s . 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Researchers say that one out of three people they are observed were so distracted by their cell phones, they did not even looked across the street. That might be why the number of people whove gotten into the hospital were hurt. They have people just going also grabbing your phone because you are distracted. Still ahead of the kron 4 news at 7 00 a. M. A hit and run and disturbing video out of hercules. Justin is out of jail but his troubles are not over. Maligned and why he is al justin is also setting Football Players right and left. We will tell you why. [dad] [laughs] [boy] mom [mom] yes . [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom and dad] [laughing] [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom] youve got two left feet,boo. New overnight. And happening now. A brush fire in the north bay. Firefighters are on the scene. Well have a live report coming up. A 17 year old oakland girl is dead this morning. Her 14 year old brother believed to be the shooter. In an apparent argument over laundry. Well have more on what happened. Lineand the mavericks surf contest kicks off this morning. And the surf is up way up. We have a live report standing by from Half Moon Bay. The time is 7 00 a. M. We will begin in the traffic center. We are tracking our first hot spot. Interstate 80. We spoke about this accident in the last report that it might