Of employees to just a home. The calls were out in force in raleigh, North Carolina. It did not do much good. Officials stated that this is stay home if they could because the Road Conditions were getting worse. First responders even had a hard time to get all around. They were slipping and sliding. As if eyes on the road was not enough, the wait also brought trees and downed power lines. Some places even had trees fall on their homes. It was very traumatic. Georgia power reported more than 700,000 homes and businesses have lost electricity. I have been in the company 15 years, i have never seen anything to the scale. This is the biggest that we have ever seen. While so many people are staying indoors, we have care unless all sides the monitor the conditions. She lives in washington, and travis sprea shannon travis. Good morning. I quickly want to bring you up to satellite and radar. Were talking about the deep south. It was pretty bad in North Carolina because this system is continuing to come up the eastern seaboard. New york city may see up to a foot of snow. Winter weather advisories and warnings are still in place. This will move out within the next day. In the bay, we have the bill would fall. The visibilita little bit of fog. The visibility shchart shows to what is going on. Yesterday, the fog was mainly north of the golden gate bridge. The temperatures right now, are in the upper 40s, low 50s. More sunshine by 3 00 p. M. Today especially for the east bay. Mid to upper 60s are definitely a possibility. More on your afternoon highs coming up. We are tracking some delays on the upper deck of the bay bridge. The westbound direction. An accident was reported that the west in near fremont. We are following breaking news out of oakland right now. A car has flipped over after hitting a hole, hitting other cars, right across the street from highland hospital. Kron4 will tran is live at the scene. Before this car hits this power pole, he hit these cars. He basically took the back end out of them. Here is the pickup truck, this to you all truck. There are looking into speeding whether not drugs played a factor. You can see the bottom of this power pole just dangling. Unfortunately, it is still all but it did not wipe out the electricity. I is still see lights are on but as far as injuries, the only injury that we are told is to the driver he was rushed to hospital and at this time he is still alive. Where is how hospital . It is a problem a quarter of a mile away. He did not have to go far, and force with the cars that were part, no one was inside of them. He took out their back and just caved in. This is proud of the reason why this power pole still love. You can see it leading. An Apartment Fire near San FranciscoState University injures two people. The fire is under control now. Joining us live with the latest details is kron 4s mike pelton. Mike . As you can see, fire crews have cleared this thing. This forced hundreds of people to evacuate. Some of these residents are catching this on camera. You concede cell phone video is showing you this red ball of flames. Some of these claims appear to shoot up out the window. When this fire sparked about 12 20 p. M. This blaze was content to just this one apartment but however, there is smoke and other damage. The fire crews evacuate about two people from the building just to be on the setaside we have taken precautionary measures. To evacuate the building. We have cleared all the floors. The two people were injured were transported to the hospital. But at this point they have not received a condition or the extent of the injuries but as for the people who spend their night been evacuate, they have been let back inside. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. So far, we have seen people come out of the surrounding buildings. New details to is story that we first told about yesterday morning on the kron4 morning news. An amber alert is now canceled, and the person of interest in the case has been found. 54 yearold rory mccamey was picked up and questioned last night. You see this picture here. The cancellation comes on the heels of tuesdays Police Report that an elderly man and a 13 yearold girl were carjacked a kidnapped by a man with a nice outside of an oakland safeway store. This is Surveillance Video of the safeway store. It turns out that the 13 year old was over 18 years old. Everyone involved in purely knew each other. Police are still searching for the woman this morning. Coming up on kron 4 news. In just minutes away we will have new video of the winter storm that is hitting the south and east. Some of it is incredible. Plus, the man suspected of killing sierra lamar [ male announcer ] fact the 100 electric nissan leaf. Is more fun than ever. Sees better than ever. Charges faster. 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In the bay area right now. There have been at least 43 flu related deaths reported. And if you want to get more info on the flu, including where to get flu shots, go to our website, kron4dot com. There is a whole section dedicated to the flu. Take a look at the fog of that is rolling toward the san mateo bridge. I will talk about where the visibility is poor and what talk about where the visibility is poor and what to expect for a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of the u. S. Ski team. On beautyrest and posturepedic. Financing and save up to 500 get a sealy queen set for just 399. Even get 3 years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. But only through president s day at sleep train. 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. Welcome back. New video coming in nearly ever into krons how the east coast in the mid south are dealing with the latest winter storm. Take a look. Snowplows out in force and ron mocanoak, virginia this morning. Cars are buried on the roadways, at least 17 mo homes were damaged. Were also told the adult trees and power lines. We would try to get more video. As we take a look at the conditions that are in some parts of the country, in the bay arethe bay areas got nothig on Southern California when it comes to freeway congestions. Thats the word from right now, delays are averages 68 minutes. Call ahead to check to see. We have noticed a lot more fog in front of the camera shots. Today we are saying Poor Visibility there sfo, oakland and the visibility is down in hayward. It is very foggy along the san mattel county coastline especially for highway one. As we head into the afternoon, a lot of the bay area will hold or to cloud cover in the south they will see more sunshine. San jose will have a high of 68 degrees in upper 60s along the delta. Walnut creek will have a high of 66 but cooler conditions along the coast. Thanks to cloud cover the temperatures will only make the upper 60s. The extended forecast shows a will be dry for valentines day and a cold front will bring rain saturday and sunday. Monday, we will catch a break but the chance of showers will return for tuesday and wednesday. We are modern trend pretty good conditions and there was a couple accidents at the west and of the bay bridge both of which have been cleared. Now the media relies are activated and theyre starting to slow the ride and that is where were seeing a back up for all across all lanes for the westbound bay bridge. Again, all lanes are clear. It is a 11 to 13 minute drive time. The Richmond San Rafael bridge to marin, no backups on the westbound approach to the toll plaza. The east sh, drive time is 18 minutes from hercules to berkeley. We have slowing to a san pavel and berkeley. The first a bit of slow traffic through concord 1 to 42. Traffic through the dublin interchange is starting to a backup coming out of livermore. The south bay freeway, a gang is slow and julienne mckee. Near julienne m the father of a trans and gender woman who died in a struggle with Police Officer last year is when the city of berkeley. This is a federal civilrights lawsuit, accusing officers of causing kayla moores death by using excessive force. More lost consciousness after a struggle with police and an apartment complex last february. In the suit, her father says that she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia and there please restraint her to the point where she could no longer breathe. The coroner determine that she died from an acute combined a drug intoxication and that obesity an enlarged heart contributed to her death. The city has now responded to the suit. The bay areas got nothing on Southern California when it comes to freeway congestion spirit that is the word from caltran this morning. I5 in Los Angeles County is the worst when it comes to congestion. Caltrans figured that, in 2012 alone, vehicles spent a cumulative 6. 6 million extra hours in heavy congestion on la countys stretch of the 5, as locals call it. Thats 753 years. Los angeles is home to numbers 2 and 3 on the list as well interstate 405 and highway 101 take those honors. The only bay are roads to crack the top 10 are interstate 580 in alameda county. And interstate 80. Also in alameda county. Watching wall street and today, investors apparently want to see further evidence the economy is improving for the stock market to advance from here. Weak earnings yesterday from lorillard and Procter Gamble helped end the markets longest winning streak of the year four days. Lets take a look at the closing numbers. The dow dropped nearly 31 points. The nasdaq was up 10 points. And the s and p 500 fell half a point. Futures point to losses at this mornings opening. Comcast. The largest cable providing in amerca. Announces a deal to buy the company. Time warner. For more than 45 billion dollars. The deal would give comcast new york and los angeles. The two biggest tv markets, which are dominated by time warner. The deal is set to be formally announced later this morning. Comcast has 22 million subscribers. Time warner has 11 million 158. 82 a share for time warner. The big question. Will this deal pass muster with the fcc and the justice dept. The debate over what to do with a large shipment of chobani yogurt and that is been sitting in a new jersey warehouse that has come to the in and this morning. The company says that it is now going to donate the yogurt that was meant for the u. S. Olympians and sochi. Mr. Emmett has been sitting in a warehouse at Newark International airport after russian Officials Say that the u. S. Failed to provide necessary paperwork and customs. Chobani is a teen usa sponsor. The head of the company says of the yogurt will go to food bags in new jersey and new york. An american olympian is teaming up with their russian billionaire to save stray dogs that were set to be killed in a sochi. These are pictures are posted by olympians here Gus Kenworthy what the adorable puppies. Kenworthy says that he made a vaccination appointment for adults and lined up kennels for them. Stray dogs have been roaming around the olympics and Officials Say they plan to catch and dispose of them. Meantime, a russian billionaire has decided to take action by building shelters for the strays. Coming up on the the kron 4 news. Will have the tech report with gabe slate. [ female announcer ] any moment can be made better with the latest amazing creation from mccafe the new chocolate covered strawberry frappe. With real chocolate bits in every sip, it tastes like youre biting into a luscious chocolate covered strawberry. Let someone at mcdonalds make your day, with a chocolate covered strawberry frappe. Enjoy. [ female announcer ] another way to love mccafe. [ fem le announcer ] another way to love mccafe. Told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. 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It uses pictures that you love. But unlike some one here is not try to plan the wedding but it is off photos with messages about love and power. It is anti bully in design and it does not allow comments below the picture. Gabe slate, kron 4 news. Rekindles out of oakland right now. A car has flipped over after hitting a hole, hitting other cars. Kron4 will tran is live on the scene with details and will have more and we return. Welcome to the farm of jack. Theres a curly fry tree. And a chopper out back. Theres a barn full of buns. And a thing you gotta try. A critter that makes burgers with bacon inside. Boooorrrk its beef and pork get bacon in your burger. Jacks new bacon insider has a juicy beef patty with bacon mixed right into it, plus bacon strips and bacon mayo on a new gourmet brioche bun. Boooorrrk its beef and pork get bacon in your burger. Moooiiink. Line welcome back. The opening bell on wall street. After a slight uptake of employees filing for unemployment. There is a slight drop in retail sales. The dow futures are down almost 100 points. We are also keeping our eyes on comcast and time warner on their merger. Back here in the bay, we are following a breaking news story out oakland. A car flipped over after it hit a pole. This is right near highland hospital. Will tran is live. It happened just down road. Over the last couple of minutes that have been able to open a westbound 14th street. As far ss18, this happened after 5 00 a. M. You concede the uhaul truck that is lodged against a pole. According to investigators, the driver lost control and slammed into three cars, then went into this pole. However, the driver of the stolen uhaul truck was injured and was taken to the hospital. Lets go over to the weather. Heres a look at the forecast. We have winter like whether to enjoy. We have a couple of opportunities for rain and by the middle of next week. It is foggy outside and although we did start off with fairly Clear Conditions over the past 30 minutes we have seen the fog roll and the visibility is down to about 2 mi. Per hour. Less than a mile for redwood city. By 7 00 a. M. , the temperatures will be the upper 40s, low 50s. You could expect more sunshine for the a lesbos by 3 00 p. M. In fact, some locations may climb to the upper 60s. We do have wet weather will need arise and i will talk about how this will affect valentines day coming up. As we track a backup that the bay bridge toll plaza, 14 minutes it reaches all the way to the east parking lot. Earlier problem at the bridge was cleared and there is slow traffic for interstate 580 and highway 4. A little slowing for 1 01 and the northbound direction. The peninsula it is looking good in the north, traffic conditions to read our great but it is slow through what one and petaluma. Gas prices could spike in the week. Kron4 jackie sis sel has more. In San Francisco, theyre sitting at 3. 70 in San Francisco. The bad news is that it may not stay there according to most experts they expect the prices to start to go up in the next couple weeks. In the state of california we have 3. 66 on average. The good news is that last year, we were plane abopaid about 4. Here are gas prices right now, according to aaa 3. 72 and samprass go a little above the california average, oakland is said 3. 63. I had a chance to speak to someone early about the fact that gas prices could be of arise this is what they had to say. Maybe we should drill for more oil here instead of there. Are you frustrated . Not really, theyre not as bad. If you do not like the price that you pay, you should get a smaller car. Why are prices going up . , first off, we will start getting into the summer blades which is next best of and they have to start doing this. The refinery said that will have to start doling the spring maintenance which means that there supplied his score to go down and the prices want to go also called the cost of oil is still rising. All these factors play a role. Most experts believe that we may see prices are right around the 4 a gallon as early as a few weeks from now. This is not great news if you are filling up your tank anytime soon. We have have the number of refineries that we did have 30 years ago. We want to know what you think, you can send usher pictures. Send us your pictures help us find the cheapest prices by sending in pictures. Also, General Motors is recalling nearly 780,000 compact cars in north america because they engines can shut down unexpectedly and cause a crash. The company says the six people have been killed in crashes related to this problem. The recall affects chevrolet cobalts and pontiac g5s from 2005 through 2007 model years. U. S. Safety regulators say that the weight of the key ring and rough roads can move the ignition switch out of the run a position. This will cut the engine and the electricity. If that happens, air bags may not work. General motors says that they have had 22 crashes from this problem. All were offered road and happened at high speeds. New this morning. The man chosen to oversee the troubled Oakland Police department is now out of the job. A federal judges ruling Thomas Frazier from his post as compliance direct he was just elected last year. Frazier was in charge of implementing reforms to the apartment after a 2003 misconduct lawsuit involving four Police Officers. The judge says that he made the decision to remove frazier because the job was proving to be too expensive and inefficient. This morning, a group that works to make San Francisco streets safer plan to draw attention to the citys pedestrian deaths. What s. F. Would join victims families, several samprass go supervisors and city officials and 8 30 a. M. At a band as and growth. This comes a day after the for the daily pedestrian accident in San Francisco this year. Police arrested mageb hussain near the scene at van ness and pacific avenue early yesterday morning. He allegedly tried to walk away before he was caught. Coming up on kron 4 news we will take a look at the bay bridge approach. In fremont, also of next will have a controversy of video that has surfaced that may point to excessive use of force for bart. [ male announcer ] this one goes out to all the allergy muddler you know who you are. You can part a crowd, without saying a word. If you have yet to master the quiet sneeze. You stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts. Well muddlers, muddle no mor try zyrte®. It gives you powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin® because zyrte® starts working at hour one on the first day you take it. 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Bart stated that they are investigating the matter and we are waiting to speak with them this morning. In san bruno, Terisa Estacio kron 4 news. We are tracking a winter storm that brought pretty heavy downpours to the atlanta area. Right now it is impacting the eastern seaboard and we may see a 18 in. Of snow. I will have more national and local forecast coming up. Welcome back. There are no problems for your drive to work this morning. There is no need for you to leave earlier. At the bay bridge, we are looking at a stable ride in the drive time is still 16 minutes from the macarthur mayes. The san mateo bridge is also looking good, 92 but there are no delays it is a 30 minute commute. The ride to the Richmond San Rafael bridge is starting to slow down. This is traffic in the fasttrack line. On the east shore freeway the drive time is about 21 minutes and the commute is starting to get into swing. At the will pass, highway 4 is a concord 1 to 42 and interstate 680, the san ramon traffic is starting to slow through danville. Slow traffic once again, leading through pleasanton won 680 southbound. This is now backing up the west bound 5 a ride. More slowing on the south bay but no slowing. The north bay ride is still looking good but in sonoma, it is heavy. Lets get over to the weather center. Lets talk about the fall within the past hour we have seen more fog from the heart of the bay. We started off the fog was not too bed but we are seeing increases. We are seen delays on arriving flights. This is a live look from our roof cam. Lets take a look picture visibility. Were only saying to 1 2 miles. Fall is pretty bed along the peninsula as we head into afternoon, although the fog cleared we will see overcast conditions. I think we will see more sunshine in the south and that is why the temperatures will be warmer. 69 yds high for cupertino and the temperatures will be above average. Fairfield will have 65 degrees and cloudy conditions, and upper 50s along the coast. Oakland will have a high of 65 degrees. The seven day around the bay shows all should be dry for valentines day and you can expect cloudy conditions, highs in the sixth period saturday night will have rain and when this cold front runs through we may see threequarters of an inch. Monday is expected to be dry. Tuesday and wednesday we may have rain. Were watching wall street with our financial expert rob black. Everyone is talking about the big deal with comcast and time warner. There are a lot of questions being raised about this. It may take a year for it to settle. The obama administration, will they allow this merger. What competition does love with cable . It is interesting to watch. Three years ago now net flex is dominant and people are leaving cable and they are saying that this is cutting the cord. Google cut by either of these companies for john change. Google always has cable put into two major cities. They could go far is that what to. This bill should go through but if you look at the future, the past, theres no way that we have, all of this cable subscribers and one company. This is a nightmare for nbc, cbs. That may have to shut down times. This is a fun a much larger for me you get the comcast adding new york and this will give a lot more with transmission fees, what they paid to other channels. 2 billion and retransmit fees. It is want to hurt those other Networks Like cbs. Keep in mind, comcast test this is a big loss for disney. They have been raising rates. This is a game changer. This is something that came out. People under 35 years so do not watch too much Cable Television because there are watching their television on hulu and netflix. Is a they fear that the rates are want to rise . I think over time the rates should go down, people are tired of these higher cable bills. You will see a doubling of internet connected television in the next three years. More and more people are born to watch apps s. F. Channels. The Business Model will change thank you rob. Would check back with rob at 9 15 a. M. Off for the winners and losers. Now is the time for College Students to apply for their summer internships. According to a glass door. Com more than 4700 Companies Across the United States are hiring interns right now. They have released their in your report of the 25 highest rated companies that are hiring interns. Seven Bay Area Companies make the list. This includes the top two companies in the country facebook and google. The rest of the Bay Area Companies make the list. No. 6, intel. No. 9, apple. No. 14, gobble. No. 16, hp. No. 18, cisco. The bay area is the no. 3 metro in terms of the number of employees currently hiring interns, and after new york city and los angeles. We are getting new details in this morning on the new levi stadium that is under construction in santa clara. These are new pictures or posted on twitter of the stadium. Officials hope to hold a Ribbon Cutting ceremony this summer. The stadium will feature a 49 as a museum, more than 60,000 seats for fans, and to video scoreboards that are 200 ft. Long. The first of 3000 tv monitors are being installed. If all goes as planned, the first scheduled event at the stadium will be a soccer match between the San Jose Earthquakes and the seattle sounders. Turns out sky, the five year roll why your terrier who won best in show at the 138 Westminster Kennel Club show, is from the bay area. Her owners live in san rafael, and are still gushing over the big win. 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We will begin with the forecast. We are starting the morning off with fog, here is a live look from sfo. We have the latest on arriving flights now averaging 68