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At Jackie Sissel is live and san rafael. How cold as it were your at . 28 degrees. You talked about those north bay valleys and i am and one of them right now. It has been well below freezing all morning long. The freeze warning is in effect until 9 00 a. M. And does not look like it is warming up any time sre is no wind to speak of with this is the cold as morning by far. If youre going to work you are definitely going to have to get that ice scraper out. With the at the climatology reports the average low for this time of year is mid 30s. Were looking at very cold conditions. Our Team Coverage of the weather continues now with erica kato. She will let us know how cold it is where you are, good morning. Good morning it is unseasonably cold. In fact, these are some of the cold as members of the season so far. Fairfield a vallejo recently agreed dry dropped San Francisco is at 41 degrees and we do have some bay area Winter Weather advisories and of fact. The eye color and creed indicate that freezing in the north bay valleys in the mountains. I see when shields and you will need to use your scraper. I was so your numbers are expected to go and my next report. Continuing coverage with the weather will tran is watching the icy conditions in the east bay valleys. Just as i predicted it is getting colder as the morning goes along. You can see the thermometer and went from 33 degrees before 5 00 in the morning and right now it is at 32 degrees at the freezing mark. I will get out of my car as a you just how cold it is by showing you the cars. Look at best, a couple of cars parked overnight and you can see just how cold it has been. Look at the frost on the windshield on this car. The car next to this one as well and this one is worse. You concede crystals on the windshield. I got a chance of the man before he got to the bus station and said he had to scrape his windshield. Its a little of time and you can see all the water that ran off his car. Just a reminder if you need to warm up your card and not let it run in the driveway why youre in the house. That is the teams greatest gift for them. Make sure you sit in your car, i know it is coldly you have to sit out there with it. Taking a look at our traffic this morning, a lot of folks are headed back to work. It is so much lighter than usual. Even at the bay bridge toll plaza there is no backup. Because of that with the baltics are crash on the nimitz freeway southbound it is still only a moderate delay here. Not really a true hot spot but it could become one of the united these lines cleared quickly. Were following the latest developments in hayward with a water main breakin water in the middle of the street right now. It is at the intersection of jackson and santa clara. Mike belts and is on the scene. You can see the water continuances bill and to the intersection. It is pulling in the crosswalk and creating a mess for crews out here this morning. They continue to try to close the valve here and turn the water off at the intersection. This began just after 330 this morning and crews are still trying to turn the water off. That should happen any minute now and theyre doing that using a special tool. Theyre bringing it and how to use it to help force close the valve on the water main. That will determine help them determine whether and not the pipe burst or there is a problem with the valves. From there crews will come in and repair whatever problem it is. They hope that the water turned off the next couple of minutes when there is no telling when this intersection will reopen. It looks like traffic is flowing ok . They are worried as the morning progresses there will be a residual back up but there is a partial closure in all four directions. You can get through but it is down to one lane. Congress has nearly avoided a fiscal cliff. The republicanled house of representatives agreed to a compromise late last night less than 24 hours after the deal pass the senate. The final house vote was 257 to 167, with 85 republicans joining democrats. The vote capped off weeks of back and forth between chambers. President obama praised the compromise saying he does not want a repeat of the bickering in future negotiations. The one thing that i think we will focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little less drama. Not scare the heck out of folks quite as much. We can come together as democrats and republicans. We can cut spending and reduced revenand increase revenue for everyone who was willing to work hard. The bill keeps income tax is just about the same for everyone except for people making 400,000 a year or more. It also delays automatic spending cuts in defense and Government Programs for two months and extends longterm unemployment than the benefits that were set to expire. The measure had to present obama who has promised to sign it. He left immediately after commenting house white vote to rejoin his family in hawaii. Up a quick break as the kron4 morning news continues. A live look outside at at conditions around the bay area and traffic moving smoothly on the james lick. Wanting the rise on wall street in the dow is up 2 . Percentage wise were seeing bigger for the nasdaq. It is up 2. 1 percent, almost 30 points. Rinceau car company at avis is buying was a car for more than 490 million expanding its business to include cars sharing services. Avis will pay 12. 25 per share which is 49 premium to the companys Closing Price from friday. The Companies Put the total value of the deal at approximately 500 million. The close of the spring. The bay area air Quality Management district has called another spare the air day today. Bad weather predictions are to blame. It is illegal to burn wood inside or outside, manufactured fire logs, and any other solid fuel. Yesterday marked the first there the year day of the new year. The winter is spare the terrace season runs from november 1st until february 28th. We will be right back as the kron4 morning news continues. A great looking morning from the mt. Tam cam, very cold. Well have more on the temperatures here. We it is 715 and good morning, thanks for spending your time with the kron4 news. It is freezing out there, all of locations in the upper 20s. 29 out the door and napa and we have a freeze warning of an a fight for the north valley and the mountains. Also freezing temperatures in the east bay as well. Concord is at 29 degrees, 28 and pleasanton. The east bays shoreline and the san mateo at freezing. Weather advisories expire at 9 this morning. Plenty of sunshine to go round in the afternoon but temperatures will be a little bit warmer. We will climb into the upper 50s for the south bay, similar conditions as we head into tomorrow. Overall general lead dry weather. It looks like the next weektwo weeks should be relatively dry. January is off to a pretty good start. Future cast four highlights the hours for you and 8 00 a. M. 30s and land and forties around the heart of the bay. By lunchtime, check out all the light blue that indicates 50s. Still holding on to some upper 40s along the delta of. Actor known highs looks like everyone is in the 50s and a little bit warmer than yesterdays. The breakdown for use san jose coming in at 57, 55 for oakland and hayward, 54 for San Francisco. Satellite and radar show High Pressure and control reaching as over the west coast. We will not see any rain like we originally thought on thursday, saturday as well looks to be a dry one. The first opportunity for some rain as saturday morning but there is a good chance the moisture will stay off shore. 7 day around the bay extended forecast, tranquil weather for the next string of days. Temperatures on the up. Were climbing to the upper 50s and unfortunately it will not be as cold for the next couple of days. And lows are only dropping to the upper 30s. 7 17 a. M. And on to traffic. We have been monitoring a multi card traffic crash and it hasnt cleared from the lanes of the nimitz freeway. It is completely gone. I just checked with chp and theyd tell me that all of the vehicles and towed trucks have left the scene. It did create a delay on 880 southbound but it is likely that this will clear fairly quickly as traffic is so light. Light enough in fact that even with the metering lights active at the bay bridge toll plaza there is no back up. We did not see quite a return to normalcy that i expected this morning. It will have to wait until everyone gets back to work and school. For most, that will be next week. The san mateo bridge is still pretty light traffic at a time when on a normal day we may see a 15 to 20 minutes drive time is still only an 11 minute drive across the bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is a little more traffic than over the last week and a half but is still an easy and delay free ride. Not only for the bridge but the ride through marin county on the 1 01 southbound. The time is 78 seemed a am and your tax rates may not be changing under the fiscal cliff an agreement but your paychecks will be smaller, starting with your next paycheck. As the 2 so security tax break that everyone enjoyed last year is going away. Heres how it affects your bottom line. If you are making 30,000 a year you will pay about 50 more a month in taxes. If you are earning 50,000 a year, you will contribute about 83 more dollars a month. If you make 113,700 a year you will pay an extra 189 a month in taxes. The payroll tax funds Social Security. The tax was cut to last year but the rate is going from 4. 2 back up to 6. 2 . In sacramento new details on to beat was shot and killed at an Old Sacramento area bar on new years eve. Police identified car lecarlito montoya and connected to the deadly shooting and Old Sacramento. Is in Police Custody at a hospital where he is being treated for gunshot wounds. Police say it all started as an argument inside the barges after 9 30 p. M. Monday that became a physical confrontation. When employees tried to break up the fight he was shot as were the woman and another man. The man 35 and the employee was in his 20s died at the scene after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. The arms as they ran out of the bart toward a street crowded with holiday revelers but was caught quickly by officers chasing them. Please cancel the midnight Fireworks Show the conduct the investigation. Sam Francisco Police are searching for two minutes away from a store employs a 75 year old woman in the head after she confronted them. It happened on polk street and the woman refused medical treatment. The suspects are described as between 25 and 30 years old. New Court Documents show that murdered venture capitalists Raveesh Kumra have been accused of making bad business deals and thats only the beginning. You are looking at video from the sky seven h the abc news. This was a scene of invasion and the monte carlo monte sereno back on november 30th of where he was killed in the incident and his wife was injured. That does show that congress has been accused by former associates for tried to hide millions of dollars from creditors and creek feeding creating a fake divorce. A man and woman were walking their dog on the beach when he what the man was swept out to in the water. The women and all were able to get back to shore but the man did not. He described as a 59 yearold man in his identity has not been released. Looking at gas prices across the bay area of the average for a gallon of regular gas intemperances go is 3. 64. Across the bay in san jose and oakland the average is 3. 55 and 3. 54. These prices compared to the morning state average of 3. 57. The federal Aviation Administration is ordering 5 million in new inspections of its boeing 737. In its response of publicized all that was on the roof of an aging and Southwest Airlines plane during a flight in july 2009. The pilots and of making an emergency landing. The aft at 88 is now calling for repetitive inspections for cracking in the top of the fuselage for more than 100 planes. Most of them are flown by Southwest Airlines. A reminder to catch dr. Phil after the kron4 morning news at 10 00. Stick around. [ woman ] ring. Ring. Progresso. Your new light creamy potato with bacon cheese soup says its 100 calories a serving. Thats right. In what world do potatoes, bacon and cheese add up to 100 calories . Your world. My world. [ whispers ] real bacon. Creamy cheese. [ whispers ] 100 calories. Say it again. [ whispers ] 100 calories. Maam, hello . Maam . 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The mayor of palo alto now has bragging rights at the stanford cardinals won the rose bowl. At the cardinals lost a major yiaway yeh would have been forced to down eight batters cap at a city council meeting, flied the teams flight for a day and plants a tree and the winners honor. This is part of a friendly wager he may with the mayor of Madison Wisconsin paul soglin. Soglin will have to do those things now. Good morning welcome back here is a live look at the san mateo bridge on is very chilly morning. Temperatures and the 20s and 30s and we have continuing coverage of the weather. Will tran is an concord right now where there is still relief from the c street temperatures freezing it feels even colder than the 32 degrees. I was so you sold the cars from the parking lot. All morning ive been showing you this and even though the sun is up it is not selling at this time. Over here, this car parked a while ago and as you can see when the owner drove year had to use the defroster to clear off the back window. It is starting to freeze again. Same thing with the cars over here. The cars that did not use the defroster came out and realize there was frost all over their window. They probably had to without a credit card to start scraping the windows. It is very cold at this hour with people walking to bart this morning with their hands in their pockets. Lets get you caught up on how cold it is in your neighborhood before you step out the door. We are getting straight to the numbers, this cold definitely below freezing and several spots. 28 seems to be the theme for vallejo and that of 29 out the door and concord. Low 20s for San Francisco. Considerably low more mild there. We have a freeze warning in frost advisory in effect. It looks like the advisory expires at 9 00 a. M. This morning. Headed into the afternoon we will see temperatures starting to rise a little warmer than what we had yesterday. As we continue to monitor really light traffic around the bay area, take a look at the bay bridge. The quick commute check shows even highway 4 and interstate 580 where we started the morning looking at some slowing through the all to my through antioch is no longer the case. It is like conditions once again all around the bay area. Also my train the problem getting into hayward on 880 here. This is northbound 880 leading to eastbound 92 or jackson street. On jackson there has been some flooding in various lanes closed from time to time. Going to this water main break that is flooding the way here mike pelton is on the same. It looks like they almost have the water shut off . They are trying to. You could see right here on live tv there trying to turn the water off. Because of this water main break they have had to partially shut off the road and all four directions. This was just after 330 this morning. They brought in a special tool. They have used to that special tool to close off the valves to these intersection. They said just because the water is boiled in the middle of the intersection that is not where the break is. Now they have the water turned off theyre going to attempt to find what the problem is. Theyre trying to determine whether a pipe burst or if theres something wrong with the valves. Theyre going to try and repair the problem. Although they have the water turned off there is no timetable as to when this said intersection will be fully reopened. And the delays for the freeway . The traffic going to the freeway is pretty easy. That delay is coming here along santa clara and you could see a long row of cars waiting to go through here. Thank you for the update we will check back with you later. And other bay area and is in san jose a tense Police Standoff with a naked man armed with an Assault Rifle and Samurai Sword ended after three hours. Video from skies seven abc news shows the man trying to make a run for as police moved in. He tried to jump the fence but fell down and finally dropped the sword before being arrested. The man was identified as cocoa bennett. The subject entered the vehicle without any clothes. He was naked with just a Samurai Sword. His statement as he got out of the vehicle was you are going to have to kill me. The officers for safety reasons and stood back and called in reinforcements. Police later showed reporters this sort of assault weapons taken from the mans truck. San jose Police Officers are looking into what prompted the suspect at the way he did including his state of Mental Health and whether drugs or alcohol were factors. He is being booked on charges of brandishing a sword and possession of an Assault Rifle. We and a video of the deadly crash in the Mission District. His videos show what happens after the grass. Two people were killed yesterday morning after a driver crashed into a liquor store. This all happen after police pulled over the driver of this black car. Shots were fired near the Valencia Gardens Public Housing complex and the car fit the description. As officers walked over, he sped off. Also new this Morning Police say how or out the was killed by a car after taking photos of justin f. Bieber is White Ferrari on the los angeles street. Here is video of the scene Authorities Say bieber was not in the ferrari at the time of the accident but a friend of the singers who was driving the car was pulled over for a traffic stop. The photographer was struck as across the street nearly a year at getty center drive. L. A. Police said the photographer grabbed at a hospital shortly after the crash. His identity has not been released. Police say no charges are likely to be filed against the motors to hit the man. Doctors at new york presbyterian hospitals the secretary of state and Hillary Clinton is making excellent progress. There cough and a blood clot located in a vain between the brain and skull will dissolve. She did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage. Mrs. Clinton is being treated with blood thinners and is expected to be released from hospital where peridots of the blood thinners is maintained. The new judges have been sworn in as members of the San Francisco superior court. Brandon conroy and right hbraden woods are now part of the 52 judges at superior court bench. Conroy is served as a criminal law specialism of state and federal courts and woods is an assistant District Attorney at the standards as the d. A. s office. All four. By Governor Brown last month. This is the four Year Anniversary of the shooting of oscar grant. He was the on arm our passengers shot and killed by police. It happened at the for bill bart station in 2009. This is video from a cellphone taken just before the shooting. Grants family and about zero hundred supporters held a vigil at the station. They say they want to keep grants name and memory alive. The family has turned the at anniversary branstad into a crusade protest the officer involved shootings. A live look outside and a very chilly start starts to be day. We will be right back. Hey, look a shooting star make a wish i wish we could lie here forever. I wish this test drive was over, so we could head back to the dealership. [ male announcer ] its practically yours. Test drive but we still need your signature. Volkswagen sign then drive is back. And its never been easier to get a jetta. Thats the power of german engineering. Get 0 down, 0 due at signing, 0 deposit, and 0 first months payment on any new volkswagen. Visit vwdealer. Com today. And National News new fallout in the case against convicted child molester the very sandusky. 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Irving penske accuse the state of failing to provide a safe setting. He wanted 100 million in damages on behalf of his six yearold girl who survived. The lawsuit claimed the child suffered emotional trauma. It is not clear why he pulled his request the says hes reserving the right to bring it up again. We will have more details on your weather including your seven day with erica on your weather including your [ male announcer ]ca subway has so many hearthealthy and delicious meals certified by the american heart association. Look for the heart check on your favorite subway fresh fit meals, from the tempting turkey breast black forest ham with spinach to the proteinrich roast beef, and more. All five grams of fat or less. Try em with juicy, ripe tomatoes, cool cucumbers or crisp green peppers. Start your new year right with a hearthealthy meal at your neighborhood subway today. Subway. Eat fresh. Good morning is 7 45 a. M. In your watching kron4 morning news. It is the coldest morning we have seen all season. We have a freeze warning in effect across advisory until 9 00 this morning. 42 and San Francisco 44 out the door and san jose. Concord, upper 20s and 36 and san carlos. In the afternoon we will start to warm things up and were looking at warning conditions and what we saw yesterday. Upper 50s in the south bay and 57 and san jose. I think will be in the low 50s today for pittsburg, antioch and 52 and pleasanton. Sunny skies, dry conditions in the north bay and drive downtown San Francisco at 54 degrees. 7 day around the bay shows mild, dry weather for the next several days. The storm track has been added to our north. A little bit of a chance of rain as we head into sunday. Temperatures will start to climb and as we take a look at your snow bomb not come ski report you will not have any problems getting to leave the resorts. Ing a base of 81 to 107 in. If you are heading to squaw valley their reporting a base of 63 to 121 in. And no fresno reported. We have a few problems as morning but it is in the midst of a much much wider commute. Lighter no delays at the bay bridge toll plaza even though the metering lights were activated. At the san mateo bridge we not seen any spikes in drive time that would normally occur in the 7 00 hour. The Golden Gate Bridge 1 01 southbound is a beautiful ride and a light one as well. We have been tracking one incident in the east bay and that is on eastbound jackson and santa clara. It also affected the connecting ramp from northbound 880 on two eastbound jackson. Not a real problem that you need to concern yourself with. Southbound traffic looks great, no delays for 1 01 to eight year 85. In the north bay still under 25 minutes drive from novato headed south to the Golden Gate Bridge. 7 47 a. M. And checking in with gary residents of the world according to gary. Welcome back, happy new year same to you marked looking good on the new years show with your family it was cheaper put my kids on so i did that. They look good thank you stamford looked pretty good against wisconsin that is the one game that i watched. As far as all of the bowl games, that was the good one. Wisconsin was going to get blown out and then they came back and you are a sports fan and everyone is waiting for noted game in alabama. Did you watch any other bowl games . I watched a lot. San jose state game, the military ball the seminoles and the warrantable. I love College Football, even more than the nfl. I cannot watch all day saturday and sunday so i have to pick one and i picked saturday. Like i said, stamford as you watch them all year long it was fun to watch. Even the Florida State team last night, it did not fit for me. It panned out pretty well. Even though id vote for the underdog it was nice to see them hold their own. They put up some pretty good numbers this season. I better back off my line of to many ballgames than im excited for the playoffs, not this season but this season after. That for the sake of argument stanford wins and where did they go next . As opposed to stamford one and then what . Its a great win, it is great to win the rose bowl but you have to keep going on in keep playing. That was a great way the and the season. Everyone thought that at least for years and years that stamford everyone so i would be good. It is just too hard because the academics it looks like are bought and david sun know what to do. They did a great job with great recruiting. If you put all the deviates of their they will be tough. San jose state and the on small their coach is gone. The wisconsin game and Barry Alvarez is gone. What is the deal with these College Football coaches who leave to go to other schools before the bowl games . It is absolutely ridiculous they have to do it now so much of it is recruiting and so much as a fullblown if you do not start now you will behind. Wind out of some of time. There has to be loopholes and stuff in there if you get a job for instance where theyd double your salary or a job with a major conference, every coach does it. If you dont think its fair look at the pro coaches. It is a different feel from college but look at the pro coaches that got fired. But they got it in the post season laughter that is true. It does not seem fair. I and the starting my 12 year really . Good for you. The business has changed so much now that how about the station, about that station every place is the same the grass is greener anywhere else. If you are smart use they were you were and that is okay. Exactly. The coaches that you mention were out of a job chicago kansas city villi Cleveland San Diego carolina buffalo phoenix all head coaches fired. Incredible. You and said it, it is almost a point where if you dont make the playoffs in you been there for a couple of years, forget it. And the reason the second box there from the top and he is going to end up in arizona. That is the talk. With alex smith. Are you guessing . I am guessing. Lets talk about the raiders as a fencer they hired their offensive coordinator. And what i heard he has a four year deal i am stealing this so i cant remember but the rule of thumb is a team will eat two years of your contract, they will not eat 3. Unless it is as complete or you have no other choice. He had a four year deal and he has only completed one. That is about right. Listen, if you thought enough about him to hire him give him another year. And highlights from last years season . Am i know. He is coming back. The niners got a bye week and whod you want to play or route 4 . Seattle . Who is your choice . Washington. Only because i think a lot of average and he might have a chip on your shoulder. 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[ male announcer ] now uverse high Speed Internet has more speed options, reliability and ways to connect. Rethink possible. Among the quick update on wall street with the dow industrials up to 30,326. The nasdaq up 28. This is all the news of the fiscal cliff deal in washington. Well be right back with top stories, weather and traffic wendys kron4 news returns in just two minutes. male announcer live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news thanks for joining us on this cold wednesday morning. President obama just arriving back in hawaii this morning after the house and Senate Approved a measure that keeps the country from going further down the fiscal cliff. We will have the latest details coming up. The bay area is waking up to some very cold temperatures this morning with Team Coverage all around the bay area. Wall street, another big story with the doubt soaring because of the fiscal cliff deal in washington. The Dow Jones Industrial average up 245 points right now to 13,349. We were up over 260. The dow in nasdaq all soaring after the news in washington. If youre stepping out of the door headed to your destination this morning is cold out there. A freeze warning is in place for the north bay valleys until 9 00. Jackie sissel is live on the scene from san rafael and i can see you are well below freezing. Good morning jackie good morning any. We the freeze on level has to be 28 for two hours or more and that is the case. It has been at the level of friesefreezing. We not only hava freezing warning but is parity error day. They are encouraging people to car pool that they can or take mass transit and no wood burning today. It is not good as because it is called out. I do want to mention it would birding as okay and your fireplace. If that is their only source of heat that is your one exception. Weather continues with erica and i was looking at concord and napa up early had wind chill and their mid20s. Were still seeing a lot of 20s and we have quite a ways to go and what terms of warming up and temperature. When joe is certainly a factor we have light breezes and the forecast. Not too bad youre in the heart of the bay 40 in oakland and 49 for those of you in daly city. For the next hour we have the freezing warning in the frost advisory in effect. Temperatures below freezing for the past several hours. Icy wind chills, we showed you that already and black eyes is certainly a possibility. I will show you where temperatures will go coming up and my next report. Will tran is in the inland valleys around the bay area. I think i may have spotted the bravest man in the bay area this morning. Lot of people driving up at the bart station driving or being dropped off by a taxicab. Here is just i cant talk gets so cold. There is a moped driven by jonathan pryce. Down and then how far did you ride your bike here . About 3 mi. Did you think today i better take the car and not the moped . No this is how i get around weather is warm or cold. 3 mi. , where they belong is 3 mi. Of your life . Yes. Yet a bundle up your face. Was there at any point where you said you could not do it . Yes, but next time i will wear a sweater. I got this for christmas and i will keep going. Thank you, try to stay warm. Not only did he not only did s hands on the handles but and he is the bravest man in the bay area. Ddi on traffic this morning is george, good morning good morning and we have nothing much anyway of slow traffic. The southbound crash anand has cleared. It is still pretty light all around the bay area. Were valley a developing story out of hayward workers are on the scene of a water main break in the intersection of jackson in santa clara. We just lost our sole reporter mike pelton. Traffic is backed up on jackson this morning. The turn lanes are closed because of the water main break but the water is shut off. We will try to check back with mike pelton shortly. Coming up on the kron4 morning is well have details of the fiscal cliff agreement. Also a live look outside of san jose. Clear skies, lots of sunshine and temperatures of a little milder. It will top out lower amid 50s were a lot of locations after a very cold start. We have temperatures in the 20s and 30s so dressed in layers as erica has been saying all morning. We will be right back. On our newly expanded advanced Digital Network, a connection you can count on. At t uverse high Speed Internet offers more speed options, reliability and wifi hotspots than ever. Call at t now to get uverse high Speed Internet for as little as 14. 95 a month for 12 months with a oneyear price guarantee. Its the Fastest Internet for the price. Our newly expanded advanced Digital Network gives you more of what you enjoy online. And with at t, our wireless gateway turns your home into a private wifi hotspot that connects your wifi devices and can even save on your smart phone data usage at home. 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It also delays automatic spending cuts in defense and Government Programs for two months. It extends longterm Unemployment Benefits that were set to expire. The measure heads to the president obama, who has promised to sign it. He left immediately after commending on the house was bold, to rejoin his family in hawaii. New this morning, rental Car Companies avis is buying it is a car for more than 490 million expanding its business to include cars sharing services. Avis will pay 1225 per share. This will be a 49 premium to the companys Closing Price on friday. The Companies Put the total value of the deal at approximately 500 million. If as a car Shareholders Approve the deal, it is expected to close in the spring. An improving economy and a host of new models should push u. S. All sales about 15 million this year. This will be the strongest production in five years. That is according to the poll also industry research. The 14. 5 million production is up nearly 7. 2 from 2012. 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Welcome back. Here is a live look from san rafael. If their current temperature is 28 degrees. We have warnings and advisories in the area. The warnings and advisories should expire within the next 45 minutes. Here is a live look outside the roof cam. It is a clear start for the morning. And you look out the window you will see nothing but sunshine but you will want to bundle up because we are still in the upper 20s for napa and santa rosa. Temperatures are really low and some of our valleys. It is not too bed at oakland coming in at 42 degrees. 8 00 a. M. It will be 33 degrees for the inland valley. It will be 40 degrees for a heart of the bay. By lunch time all the blow will start to fill in and it will be in the low 50s. We will still hold on to the 40s along the delta. Temperatures will be warmer compared to yesterday. 54 degrees for redwood city and downtown San Francisco will be coming in at 54 degrees. Your kron 47 day around the bay shows that it is not too much in the way of chains. The Weather Service advisory is still a determine whether not that will have another winter storm advisory. Will stathe next chance for rain will be sunday morning. As we start the next work week we will have a pleasant conditions with a loss of sunshine. We have been looking at slow traffic on the mimic freeway. This is a hot spot. An accident in the lefthand lane is backing up the ride down toward the coliseum. This is 1880 in the northbound direction. This has had an impact on the northbound 880 ride. You may want to use and as a 580 to avoid this. This is sale is slow freeway traffic that is found this morning. Take a look at the bay bridge ride it will be heavy and the metering lights have been activated. This is a very light and easy trip. The same as for the san mateo bridge where there drive time has not reached above the 11 minutes. The Golden Gate Bridge 1 01 southbound is still an easy trip across the span. They have no delays for 101 through marin county. The drive time is way under 25 minutes. Taking a look at gas prices across the bay area. That average price for gasoline in San Francisco is 3. 64 this morning. Across the bay and san jose and oakland, their average is 3. 55 and 3. 54. If these prices compare to this morning state average of 3. 57. Fairfield police say that they wrapped up a crackdown on prostitution over the new year is the weekend. If they used to several teams including the gay and narcotics unit. If they target prostitutes there were using ads on the internet. The website were used to contact prostitutes and clients. 36 people were arrested. San Francisco Police are searching for two men who stole weeks from a store and punched a 75 yearold woman in the head after she confronted them. It happen on polk street. The woman refuse medical treatment. The suspects are described as being between 25 and 30 years old. New Court Documents show that murdered a venture capitalist, and rqaveesaveesh kumra have been accused of making bad business deals, and that is not only the beginning. You are looking at video from skyes 78 d, abc news. This was the singing of the Home Invasion and monte sereno back to november 30th it. Documents show that he has been accused by his former associate for trying to hide millions of dollars from creditors by create a fake divorce. The documents go on to say that he was known to buy condos for his mistresses and hire prostitutes. The motive is still being determined. Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the colorado parachuting case are heading back to court today for a crucial hearing. The judge wants to make sure that everything is ready for next weeks preliminary hearing for the alleged gunmen james holmes. Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 70 in an aurora, colorado theater in july. The judge will decide if there is enough evidence to put bombs on trial while he has not yet entered a plea. His lawyers have said that he suffers from mental illness. The federal Aviation Administration is ordering 5 million in new inspection of its boeing 737. It is in response to a football sized hole that was found in the roof of an aging Southwest Airlines plane on a flight in july of 2009. The pilots in the making an emergency landing. The faa is now calling for repetitive inspections for cracking into the top of the fusillade of more than 100 planes. Most of them are flom by Southwest Airlines. We will be right back. New for this year. This is a ritual of a lot of people who are heading back to the gym in hopes of a fresh start. And this morning sponsored segment. Tech die rich demuro in the 80 Antioch University studio has the gadgets and adds that can help you meet your goals. music i think the new year is a perfect time to work out. 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It will run and i know as 7 operating system. There have been reports that apple will release the new iphone in the middle of 2013. Apple released the iphone 5 just in september. Usa today has unveiled the top five troubled trans to look out for in 2013. Number one, off and expect to pay more for your plane tickets. Or at the very best you will not have to plan on getting any great deals. Two, you are going to pay more money and fees light checked bags, hotel stays and rental car extras. Third, more airlines are joining forces so there will be less competition. 4, look for gas prices to drop. And number five, you are going to see more protection from the Transportation Department in terms of transparency in Airline Tickets pricing and contracts. Coming up on kron4 morning news, a standoff with a man with a sword and a Assault Rifle in the south bay. We will have the details coming up. We will be right back. Welcome back. The bay area is feeling the chill this morning. Here is a live look outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Kron 4 urs will tran is in concord where there is little relief from the freezing temperatures. People wept as bart platform are still freezing. It feels even colder than 32 degrees. All morning i have been showing you cars and even though the sun is out there still not falling at the time. This car was parked a while ago and the owner drove here and just use the defrosted try to clear off the back window. The same thing with these drivers. They realized that they had frost all over their windows and they probably had to what about their scraper to scrap their windows. People are still walking to bart this morning with their hands in their pockets. It is still freezing and we do have this freeze and frost advisory for the next 30 minutes. Temperatures may not form by that short amount of time. It is still below freezing and a lot of areas. Were also hearing reports of black ice. It is a another cold start to the morning. This is the coldest morning of the season thus far. Here is a look at the numbers. It is 42 currently in San Francisco. The temperatures are just above the freezing mark. Theres low 40s for oakland. We are still looking at slow traffic on the mimic freeway. It is improving after a northbound accident. It is completely cleared from the freeway. We still have problems eastbound on jackson at 92. Various lanes are closed because of flooding. A water main break has been turned off and the leaking pipe has been shut down. They are still having to do work and this will continue past the morning commute. To developing this morning, crews are still on the scene of the water main break in hayward. Kron4 mike pelton is the thinnest section of jackson in santa clara. They did manage to turn off the water but they do not know yet what the problem is. They stated that theyre not sure this is a different problem. They stated that once they locate the problem that will work to repair it. It is a very timeconsuming process and all of this have the traffic in all four directions blocked. There are traffic backups along santa clara. They did bring out more Construction Equipment and additional crews are on the scene. Water is still spilling into the roadway and there is a lot of mud. They stated that will be out here all morning long. In other bay area news. In san jose 8¢ police a standoff with a naked man armed with an Assault Rifle and a sword ended after three hours. Here is video from skyes 7 abc news. It shows the man trying to make their run for as police mold them. He tried to jump a fence, but he fell down and finally dropped the sword before being arrested. The man has been identified desks coco bennett. His statement was that they wouldwe would have to kill him. It we have a call and reinforcement. Police later showed reporters the sword and low salt weapon that was taken from a mans truck. San jose Police Officers are looking into what prompted the suspect to act the way that he did, including the state of his Mental Health and whether drugs or alcohol were factors. Hes been booked on charges of are brandishing a sword and possession of Assault Rifle. We have a new video this morning of the deadly crash in the Mission District. This is video that show what happened seconds after the crash. If two people were killed yesterday morning after a driver crashed into a liquor store. This all happen after police pulled over the driver of this black car, shots were fired near the alicea gardens Public Housing complex and the car fit the description. But as officers walked over, he said a wet. New this morning, police say that a paparazzo was killed by a car after he took photos of Justin Biebers White Ferrari on a loss angeles street. Here is video from the scene. Authorities say that bieber was not in the car at the time of accident. But a friend of the sinkers, who was driving a car was pulled over for a traffic stop. The photographer was struck as he crossed a street near gerry center drive. L. A. Police say that the photographer by the hospital shortly after the crash. His identity has might yet been released. Police said no charges are likely to be filed against the motorist who hit the man. Your tax rate may not be changing under the fiscal cliff agreement. But your paychecks will be smaller, starting with your next paycheck. As the 2 Social Security tax break everyone enjoy lacher is going away. Here is how it will affect new bottom line. If you are making 30,000 a year, you will pay about 50 more a month in taxes. If you are earning 50,000 a year, you will contribute about 83 more a month. And if you are making 113,000 a year you will pay an extra 189. 50 a month in taxes. The payroll tax funds Social Security, the tax was cut 2 leisure, but the rate going from 4. 2 back up to 6. 2 . Coming up on kron 4 news morning. A big win for the stanford cardinals. Will have the highlights coming up. Good morning. The time is now a 30 9 00 a. M. 8 039 a. M. M. Here is a live look at lake tahoe. They have had 5 feet of fresh snow. They do have dry conditions. Heres a look at the temperatures up there. It is at 41. They are at 6 below zero. This is for the temperature at the top zero valley airport. Bay area sports, the stanford cardinals are rose bowl champions for the first time in 40 years. Everything was coming up roses for the cardinals in forthepasadena. Stepfan taylor rushed for 89 yds and an early touchdown, kevins hogan passed for 123 yds, and no. 8 stanford is dominated defense shut out wisconsin. For the second year coach david shaw, the teams performance was just what he had expected. For the pact Will Champion carnots its their first rose bowl since 1972. The mayor of palo alto now has bragging rights after the stanford cardinals won the rose bowl. Had the cardinals lost, mayor yiaway yeh would have been forced to don a badgers cap at a city council meeting, fly the teams flag for a day and plant a tree in the winners honor. This was part of a friendly wager he met with the mayor of madison, wisconsin paul soglin. Soglin will have to do all those things now. Coming up on kron4 morning news, we would check with our political analyst michael yap about the deal struck on the fiscal cliff. Will be right back. Welcome back. Congress reaches an agreement on the fiscal cliff. This delays the billions in acrossthe board spending cuts for two months. Our political analyst michael yaki joins us now. Are we just going to delay some major decisions . The cliff has two parts. We did have tax increases which we did a boy. Avoid. What s not avoid it is the spending cuts because they basically comment mandatory two months down the road. It is almost a game of hot potato. They only took care of the tax increases and then two months we have trouble coming. This was wrapped up quite quickly. This was a deal that was done in 2011 and republicans basically forced it down the president s throat. They put him in a position and these decisions was just after the november elections. Hear, we have a very triple cliff. This is what i like to call it. You have the debt ceiling expires in late february and you have this expiring. The government will run out of money in february. In the next 60 days you will probably see the first 59 starts yelling at each other. The last one will try to get something done. If you saw the this was bad then like a lord of greens moby theres this big huge battle. This is born to bay even worse. But in the case and to the, may is far greater than what the fiscal cliff could have ever done to the u. S. Economy. The World Economy is on world of the debt ceiling. We do have and newcomers that will be sworn in and there is a smaller to the republicans and the house. Republicans still have a majority but did you see any changes . No. Boehner was still be the speaker. His power was broken up a little bit. He did not show a lot of leadership in these last few weeks. The fact is is that they still control the house representatives. The senate, the 40 can still block anything that goes out. Will there be any major surprises . The only major surprise is how much the president received from the deal. He did receive a stimulus tax credit for manufacturing and especially for the bay area periods this is for biofuel and everything like that. This was an interesting win for the president s and the question is, drew a line through the senate was why do we need to pay these obligations and no reason why this should of been a part of the deal. The second issue was set the republicans are not sign that they dealt with revenue in that they do not want to do more revenue. This is their way of how they had their george bush moment. George bush made them vote on these credits. Theyre trying to renew this again this will be a problem because if you try to balance said theyre not going to give it to him. Mainly, we may see another showdown like we did on new years eve . Yes. Everyone in the Financial Market will start to scream. And we did solve the milk issue. They will stay at their same prices. If you like to connect with michael you can follow him on twitter. On to bay area weather will talk more with erica. It is still cold outside. At santa rosa is just holding on to the upper 20s. We have seen some improvement in fairfield and theyre not sitting in the low 30s. It is still freezing and san mateo. If we do have a freeze and frost advisory in effect for the next 15 minutes. We have heard reports of black ice and it has been a very frigid morning. S once you head into afternoon the numbers will start to climb. They will be in the upper 50s brea. Yesterday we saw this bird at 52 degrees. For the north bayour kron 47 their roune bay shows that the temperature will be pretty much out for the next several beds. The temperatures will start to climb. If youre a lowes will not be as frigid. This is your bay area forecast nowlook at the conditid tahoe. The snow bomb shows the there are no chain restrictions. 59203. There is no new snow reported at squaw valley prepare perry and there is another accident on the mimic freeway. This is the third one this morning. This is not at 23rd instead of at this. t5th. Even with the metering lights activated at 620 there has been no backups for the westbound ride. The san mateo bridge has been light enough that we have not seen any spike in the drive time. It stayed under 11 minutes. The Golden Gate Bridge has been free and easy from marin county all morning long. Work will resume today on San Francisco central subway project on stockton street. Construction between ellis and geary streets have been halted since thanks giving. This portion of the street Near Union Square will be closed today to all vehicles except emergency vehicles. The 1. 6 billion project would extend third the 83rd lane with four new stations. The central subway is expected to open in 2019. A connecticut lawyer has withdrawn his request to sue the state over the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The shooting left 26 people dead including 20 children. Irving pinsky accused the state of fell into provide a safe setting. He wanted 100 million in damages on behalf of a six yearold girl who survived. The lawsuit claimed the charles suffered emotional trauma. It is not clear why he pulled his request, but he says that he is reserving the right to bring it up again. 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They are being phased out in favor of more energy efficient, help ease, halogens or compact fluorescent bulb spirit retailers can still sell their existing stock until they run out. Coming up on kron4 morning news, we will get an update on that water main break in hayward. We will be right back. And good morning. The top stories we are following this hour. The bay area is we keep up to cold temperatures this morning. We have team covers all around the bay area this morning. President obama back in hawaii this morning. T hous approves a mthe house apa measure passed by the senate techies the country from falling further down the fiscal cliff. It is a very cold start outside. We had a freeze warnings in effect for the north bay ballet and to get you more new is we will go to the jackie sizzled who is live in san rafael. The we are up to the freezing mark and a freeze morning was just in effect until 9 00 a. M. It just expired. Where were well within the window. When i first got out here for oclock this morning was just 26 degrees. Other than that it has been a spectacular day outside. There is no hint of wind. It it is cold and not only do we have a freeze warnings and we do hav parted to degrees are warmer temperatures. Continuing our tame coverage we do have mike pelton live at the end section of jackson and santa clara. Offers to go with erica. We have climbed a few degrees. It is officially no longer in the 20s. It is still below freezing in santa rosa. Oakland has rise to the mid 40s. Is still pretty chilly outside. We are seeing nothing but blue skies until the afternoon. They really just depends on where you are located. We will continue to see low fifties for the delta around the Livermore Valley area. We do have some changes in the extended forecast. I will walk you through it in my next report. Will tran has been keeping track of people deal with frost. I think i might have spotted the bravest man in the bay area. At a lot of people are showing about the bart station driving greater been dropped off by taxi. There is just this one gentleman and he is on a moped. His name is jonathan pryce. How far did you drive here . About 3 mi. Did you even think that today i better take my car instead of my moped . No. This is how i get a round. It does not matter whether it is warmer cold. It was the longest 3 mi. In your life . Tell us about a ride. The it was pretty frigid and next, we just have to wear a sweater. Other than that, i received this for christmas. Not only did he have his hands, wil on the handlebars. He also had other things he was caring. If the bridges of the mall was this man right here. Kick in a high on our traffic. We have george. It is a pretty like ride and we did have problems on the mimic freeway. This was 880 in the northbound direction very we are recovering from an early occurring accident. This had backed up traffic to the coliseum. This was the third accident of the morning. Hit it has been cleared. If we are keeping tabs on what happens all the freeway on jackson street. This is nap92 eastbound where they had a water main break. We will get an update from mark. Mike pelton has been on the scene with the water main break. You concede this huge hole that is in the intersection. If they have dug into the dground and that will go inside to see what the problem is. They do not know if the wav12 in. Pipe burst or is this is a different problem. They stated that will repair the word but they do not have a timing yet. There is a lot of water and mud still on the roadway. All of this has traffic and all four directions partially blocked. This has called traffic backups this morning. The time now is 9 05 a. M. Coming up, we will have a live look at the 10 pitchers in oakland. Traffic is still light at this hour and in oakland is currently at 45 degrees. It will be a pretty nice day with a loss of sunshine. The to bichirs should rise of the mid 50s. The 7 day forecast also calls for a lot of sunshine. Erica will have more on that in just a moment. We will be right back. Welcome back. Congress has an airily avoided a fiscal cliff. The republicanled house of representatives agreed on a compromise last night. Less than 24 hours after the deal passed the senate. If the final house vote was 257 to 167, with 85 republicans joined democrats. The vote cab of weeks of back and forth between chambers. President obama praise to the compromise, that he does not want a repeat of the bickering in future negotiations. We can come together as democrats and republicans to cut spending and to reduce revenue. It will protect the middle class. The bill keeps and come taxes the same for everyone except individuals making for a a thousand dollars a year or more. It also delays automatic spending cuts in defense and Government Programs for two months. It extends a long time Unemployment Benefits that were to expire. The measure least a president obama, who has promised to sign it. He left after commending on the houseboat, to rejoin his family in hawaii. New reports out this morning that apple has started testing a new iphone and the next version of the i o s software. Apple Application Developers have reportedly found references to a new iphone identifier. Iphone 6. 1 that will run and i o s seven operating system. There have been reports that apple will release the new iphone in the middle part of 2013. Apple released iphone 5 in september. A heads up if you are in oakland this afternoon, the Fire Department will be due in its monthly siren test. Thats at noon. The alarm will sound for 30 seconds, then stop and sun again. The oakland Fire Departments stress as the siren is only a test. We will be right back. Welcome back. Joining us now to talk winners and losers, a financial expert rob black. Lowes are six days you will not believe that are in the fiscal cliff bill. Next we have as a car shares soaring on avis acquisitions. Losers we have bieber joins the chase in Prepaid Debit Card markets. They have added a tax credit for electric vehicles and this makes no sense. Biodiesel is also in the pitcher. Theyre too many for me to get into. We do have special rules for some industries. This is good for california. This is a gift to the car racing world. Asperities farmers will get a good long. Oan. I think the best thing is for investors care. People will know what their tax rate will be. They know that it would not be adjusted every year. Holding you think one of republicans or democrats . I think that we all lost. And i think the republicans won. These tbase taxes that are born into effect are ands the next up the Social Security and medicare reform. They also did not get in because. This was the big thing. They did not deal with the government cuts. Were still running a deficit for this year alone. This will become the next 60 days. Zip car is so popular are around here. You can see them all over the San Francisco area. Is a loser because avis is buying them. Yeit is just your players. When we have fewer players and there are fewer options. Enterprise already have such good offerings. More and more americans are going in this direction. You and i are losers because of the corporate side is consolidating. Lets talk about a Justin Bieber with his prepaid card. He is now doing prepaid cards for chase. This is a big market. I am not the biggest fan of his and i cannot name you one song that he sings. A lot of teenagers are going to be going bad for this prepaid card because of him. We do know how much our kids are spending and this can be tied toward an email address so let us know where they shot. This is a 1. 7 billion deal. I do not like it and im calling in a loser because prepay it has a lot of fees. This generally is good for consumers who want to avoid fees on their checking accounts but again i get but a Monthly Service fee is bad. Thyou should just say away from prepaid card spirit of in my opinion if you are a person with poor credit and it is a wonderful day. But if you bounce a lot of checks and is a wonderful thing but you should go with a Bigger Company like j. P. Morgan chase o carry we are talking cold conditions and we are improving. Here is a live look outside. Here is the latest on the temperatures. The good news is that we are no longer sing the 20s that were out here. Even in the 8 00 hour santa rosa was just at 27 degrees. We do still have a few locations to are just hovering just above the freezing mark. If there is widespread woman around the bay area. Here is a look at the numbers. 35 degrees in concord, 39 in san jose, 42 degrees in San Francisco area to rob the dao. At lunchtime will not be too bad. We will continue to gain a few degrees as we pushed into the afternoon high periods speaking of your afternoon high i will break down the numbers for you. 57 degrees for san jose and temperatures will be a little bit warmer than yesterday. Sunny skies and the weather will be dry. 51 degrees for walnut creek and 53 degrees for walnut creek. High pressure is in control and this will guide us through to the storm that is to our north. The driver of the worst a run for the next several days. If we do have sunday with the exception of rain. Check out your to end land roles where they are no longer read freezing. It is 9 20 a. M. We did have slow down some a minute for way for a while. It was no is no longer a factor for you. There are a lot of people who are not back to school or back to work. Here at the san mateo bridge it is still an 11 minute drive time. The Golden Gate Bridge is still a light ride but in the northbound direction they are experiencing some slowing. We would check this out for you. Less of picture writing the east bay where conditions have been great on the shore freeway. 24 westbound as 680 south bound. The south bay freeway is showing mostly green of the roadway sensors. The speeds are ok. Theyre still under 25 minutes from novato to the Golden Gate Bridge. Take a look at gas prices across the bay area. If the average price for a gallon of regular gas and San Francisco is at 3. 64 this morning. Across the bay and san jose and oakland that averages 3. 55 and 3. 54. These prices compare to the morning state average of 3. 57. The we will be right back. Welcome back. We are looking at milder conditions for the afternoon. Thursday and friday will be in the upper 50s. Saturday will be one of our warmer days. It will be about 60 degrees. The only chance of rain right now is on sunday. We will keep you posted and the next few days it will bapril plenty of sunshine. In bay area sports. The stanford cardinals are rose bowl champions for the first time in 40 years. Everything was coming up roses for the cardinals and pasadena. At tiger rules was there on the sideline. Stepfan taylor rushed for 89 yds and an early touchdown, staffers and dominated defense shut out wisconsin in the second half for the 2013 victory in the 99 rose bowl as that. For second year coach david shaw, the teams performance was just what he expected. The pact 12 champion cardinals is their first rose bowl since 1972. There is a big rally on wall street. Are a rally in about washington reaching a deal. The dow jones as up way over 220 points. We will be right back. [ male announcer ] the career landscape of america is changing. New jobs are here, and by 2025, we could have millions more that demand qualified college graduates. Many in the bay area. At devry university, our marketresponsive bachelors and masters degree programs can give you what you need to succeed in todays careers and the ones on the horizon. Get the know how you need for a new tomorrow at our 4 bay area locations, online or both. Learn more at devry. Edu. And let nothing stand in your way. Walked back the bay area and live look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge. Traffic was easy this morning. Kron fours well tran is in concord where there is little relief from the freezing temperatures. As you can see the sun is up and i can guarantee you the people of the bart platform are still freezing. It feels colder than the 32 degrees. The show you some of the cars in the parking lot. All morning i have been showing you this car. Although the sun is up is still not falling at this time. Over here this car parked a while ago you can see the owner when they drove here used something to clear out the back window. Those that did not use a default or defroster came out and realize that there was frost all over their windows. They probably have to use a credit card to start scrapping the windows. Still very cold at this hour. People walking to bart with their hands in their pockets. I will try to get reaction from them throughout the morning. For now reporting from the bart station and concord willtdran kron 4 news. Let us get more on the forecast erica. Does get straight to a market there is no longer freezing temperatures. It looks like santa rosa is just below the freezing mark. Check out vallejo we were in the twenties. Now at 41 degrees. 45 and oakland. 41 in redwood city. We did have a brief frost adviser earlier this morning into the afternoon there will be sunny skies and clear skies. Integers will be warmer than yesterdays. High pressure in control is reaching over the west coast. We will remain dry for the next several days. A look at your 7 day around the bay forecast coming up a bit. George. Thank you erica were monitoring and light ride today. Even still is lighter than usual conditions. For a quick commute check shows all the bay area, quadrants look good. East bay freeways are extremely light. The nimitz, interstate 80 is light. Thank you george quite a day on wall street with the Dow Jones Industrial average continued to climb. We are opposed to 70. The dow is up 2 . There is very solid gains. The dow to 27 13,000 to 31 with congress reaching that agreement mousing back from the fiscal cliff. We technically went over on midnight. The senate is passing their version of the bill. The house of representatives approved the bill. Martha j. Has more. The days are 167 the motion is adopted. The house approved a measure earlier today by the senate. Berets of taxes on individuals earning more that than 400,000 per year and couples earning more than 260,000 per year. It also extends Unemployment Benefits. Spending cuts will not be addressed for two months which is a disappointment for many republicans. The senate, the president , and the Vice President felt to meet the obligation which was to bring us a balanced bill one that had tax adjustments. It also should have as spending cuts. This one failed at that and failed badly. President obama praised lawmakers for reaching an agreement that protected the middleclass. Thanks to the votes of democrats and republicans in congress i will sign a law that raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of americans while defending middleclass tax that could have caused the economy to go back in a recession. The middle class americans will still take a financial hit in 2013. They will not pay higher income taxes but they will have to pay at least 2 more in payroll taxes. That means, both of the country the 160 million workers will see smaller paychecks this year. I am martha shade reporting. President obama is calling on the house of representatives to vote on Hurricane Sandy aid without delay. Many people affected by the storm need committed support. Mr. Obamas of the house should vote today. The president s statement comes after many new york law makers have expressed anger at the decision by the house gop leader not to vote on the aid and the current congress. A naked man armed with Assault Rifle and a Samurai Sword were in a standoff with police. He tried to make a run for as police moved in on him. He tried to jump the fence and fell down and finally dropped the sword before being arrested. The man has been identified coc bennett. He was basically naked with a Samurai Sword. Again his statement when he got out of the vehicle were that you have to kill me. He said that several times. The officers stood back and called in reinforcements. Here is a look at the assault weapon taken from the man. San jose Police Officers are looking to do what kron did. Please a looking is what prompted the suspect at the way he did, including his state of Mental Health and whether drugs are all were factors. Hes been booked on charges of brandishing a sword and possession of an Assault Rifle. Here in the bay area we [ female announcer ] this is a special message from at t. [ male announcer ] its no secret that the price of things just keeps going up. [ female announcer ] but we have some good news. Its our bundle price promise. [ male announcer ] a price you can definitely count on, for two whole years. From at t. [ female announcer ] a great price for a great tripleplay bundle. [ male announcer ] call now. Bundles with uverse tv, internet and home phone start at 89 a month. Now get the same great price for two years. [ female announcer ] switch today and get a total home dvr included, free for life. [ male announcer ] you get reliable, high Speed Internet on our advanced Digital Network. Choose from speeds up to 24 megs. 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But as office walked over he sped off, the car then slammed into a white car outside this store killing a woman in her 20s and saw the car. The car this land of ham killing him. Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the call brought the issue in cases are heading back to court today ahead of a crucial hearing. The judge wants to decide if theres enough evidence of homes on trial why is not yet entered a plea. His lawyers have said he suffers from mental illness. Starting this morning, on a Police Officer will be stationed at all schools in the marlboro township, new jersey district the. Township high school already has uniformed officers stationed there during the day. Another officer visit the middle school and elementary schools. But as of today therell be officers at every school. The added Police Presence will stay in place until there is an upgraded security plan for the district. Off the idea is similar to the one proposed by the nra after the new town shooting. But the local mayor says he came up with the idea even before the nra suggestion. A portion of the street near your news for will be cold once again. Except for to the emergency vehicles. We will work to date on severs is of central subway project in stockton street. The 1. 6 been out project will extend to a third line with four new stations. The centers of wet expected to open in 2019. The current temperature in South Lake Tahoe is one degree. We will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. Phils right at the the kron 4 morning news at 10 00 a. M. ngng welcome back to the kron 4 morning news with erica we are watching temperatures. It is better than it was. We are still below freezing and santa rosa. It is a crisp morning. 45 and oakland. 41 in hayward. A freeze warning in frost advisory has expired. We are seeing plenty of sunshine. You can see that from our shot. This is downtown san jose. Clear skies all round. As we head into the afternoon upper 50s for san jose and sunnyvale. 53 in concord. Antioch is coming in at 51 degrees and 54 in San Francisco. Satellite and radar shows clear conditions. The storm track will be pushed to our north because of the bridging. It diridging. As we head into sunday morning could be some light showers. Looking at a 10 percent chance. If youre heading to tahoe you have the rest of the week of no chain control. I did check with caltran. We had instances of freezing fog this morning. It looks like nothing but sunshine for the next couple of days. Temperatures will be climbing into the upper 30s is not the low 40s. Again temperatures will be on the very chilly site for the overnight hours. Bundle up as you can see conditions and to the cheers and the single digits. Your kron 4 7 day around the bay forecast shows mild dry weather for the next string of days. Could be rain as we head into sunday. Temperatures on the warmer side were talking upper 50s for your afternoon highs. No rain chance to talk about as the start the next work weeks. George. Still looking at a light ride around the bay area erica. We had a few incidents for the nimitz. Right now the freeways look great. Heres a quick bridge check. Interstate 80 in San Francisco heading into foster city san mateo 92 has been a troublefree ride all morning long. If you are heading to or from marin county you will find no delays here across the Golden Gate Bridge. Faldo, they have not changed over the configuration there has not been much traffic in the southbound direction. We will get the third lane northbound coming up in the 10 00 hourinanny. Thank you george. If 2013 is already shaping up to be a big year in the tech scene. Kron fours tech report gabe slate gives us a look at the new technology expecting to be you. It is a make or break room for the blackberry. Research in motion is holding their press conference to debut blackberry 10. Their news smart phone running a new copper ring system. This is a hail myry if blackberry 10 is not the best thing everhail mary. Apple is expected to unveil the ipad mini 2. It has a faster processor and will lure the price of the ipad mini 1 to better compete with the other of lowerpriced 7 in. Tablets. It is very likely apple will unveil their Apple Television said this year. And apple tv would connect your home wi fi and sync with items to let you play your music and videos are living room tv. Of course written by movies and tv shows. Speaking of tvs this is the year of the 4 k tv. All truck high def tv. For pay tv get used to hearing that title. It will be the big thing to come out of this years Consumer Electronics show next week and lost a disparate here is what a for katie he is. Is all about us pixels. The current High Resolution tv can display about 2 million total pixels. As for katie can display just over 8 million total pixels. Basically for can give you four times the resolution of tin at adp. Net flicks will have a major challenger in 2013. Red box and verizon have partnered to enter the streaming business and take on net flicks. Launching soon the service will be offered for 6 per month that is 2 cheaper the net flicks. Speaking of net flicks, they will make history on february 1, 2013 when they died in to original programming. They went around hollywood and produced their own tv show that will only air on net flicks streaming. It is a Political Drama called house of cards starring kevin spacey who plays a congressman who will stop at nothing to gain more power. I am excited about gogfle hightech glasses project name google glass. It may be a flop or the next huge thing. Maybe it will replace smart phones. What ever happens google is still developing a workable computer. What we know is the device lets you take pictures in messages and surgical. The display above the eye does not block natural vision and other contacteye contact with others. Usa today has unveiled a top five travel trends to look for in 2003 2013. Number one expect to pay more for airplane tickets. Or at the very least not plan on getting any great deals. No. 2, youre going to pay more money in fees like checked bags, hotel stays and rental car extras. No. 3, more airlines in joining forces so therell be less competition. Number 4 look for gas prices to drop. And no. 5 you are going to see more protection from the Transportation Department terms of transparency in Airline Ticket pricing and contracts. Coming up we will have more on the weather and news on kron 4 morning news. [ woman ] ring. Ring. Progresso. Your new light creamy potato with bacon cheese soup says its 100 calories a serving. Thats right. In what world do potatoes, bacon and cheese add up to 100 calories . Your world. My world. [ whispers ] real bacon. Creamy cheese. [ whispers ] 100 calories. Say it again. [ whispers ] 100 calories. Maam, hello . Maam . [ female announcer ] find progresso light for a great price today at your local safeway store. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news video captured by onlookers shows the chaos on a partially frozen California Lake after man fell through the ice on Christmas Day. The sledder of control and slid right into the part of the lake that was not frozen. Several people tried to help and many of them also fell through the ice. Rachel kim talked to some of the witnesses. We felt to ourself the eyes and very deep. Two people watched with concern as to people slid down to and i suggest lick on Christmas Day. One man walked his dog on it. In moments the people were frozen with fear. One mans life ended when he fell through the ice. We saw his arms flailing. Someone said he could not swim. It went from there and it turned into a panic. It was hard to watch it really was. We saw the guy go on the three times in the third time we did not think he would come back up. One after another people came on to the ice to help only to find themselves falling in to the frigid waters. And Chain Reaction of slip and fall. I ran back up to the car and i got the rope in the car i went back down to the edge of the water i threw the rope it was a 25 ft. Piece of rope and coming up 7 ft. Short. By this time ofhermans said it was chaos because of a language barrier. People began ropes into the people in the water. They also tried inner tubes. This man jumped in to help to get the other men out. He was a good swimmer. He grabbed the original guy and helped him over to the inner tube. Everyone in the water was wrote in and the man who fell in first got one from the crowd. They were thankful when they get out. Christmas day we were thinking of this man being in the cold water. He may die here on Christmas Day so we were just very happy that they all that out ok. An improving economy and a host of new models to push up u. S. Auto sales about 15 million this year. The that is according to a poll all industry research. The 14. 5 million out prediction is up nearly seven points from 2012. Poke research expects 43 new models to be introduced this year. That is up 50 from last year. The federal aviation ministrations ordering 5 million in new inspections of its boeing 737 spirit is in response to a football size hole that was found in the roof of an aging Southwest Airlines plane during a flight in july 2009. The pilot ended up making an emergency landing. The faa is now calling for repetitive inspections for cracking in the top of the few slot of more than 100 planes. Most of them are flown by south with th west airlines. That is it for us. Thank you for joining the kron 4 morning