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Good morning, top stories were following this tuesday july 30th. Bart negotiators head back to the table today after yet another unsuccessful day of talks. Whats next for workers and riders as we are now just five days away from a second possible strike. And a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect this morning even as Tropical Storm flossie weakens. Well take a look at how the storm is affecting travelers across the bay area. Watching what is now tropical depression flossie off the coast of hawaii. Mark categorized as a tropical hawaiis big island and maui. The storm is not only affecting residents in hawaii, but also travelers around they bay area. There were several cancellations yesterday, and more are expected today. Kron 4s solo reporter Jackie Sissel is live at San Francisco International Airport with an update. Jackie . Firefighters in san darya at about 9 00 tomorrow began yesterday morning officers found at a collapse during the night and that tower supports Radio Communication systems across the east bay. Police are continuing to investigate what happened. Mark copper firefighters in San Francisco discover a pot grow while battling a house fire this morning. The fire broke out overnight in the 100 block of tucker avenue. Park. Investigators say they found at least 60 Marijuana Plants inside the house. No one was inside at the time. Darya little the fog but traffic is still moving good out there. We will be right back. But mark debt darya the federal Energy Regulatory commission is charging j. P. Morgan chase with manipulating the Energy Market by charging california and the lowest midwests electricity grids 80 times prevailing power prices. According to regulators j. P. Morgan subsidiary j. P. Morgan pinchers energy corp. Engaged in a manipulative techniques, which took advantage of power market rules, to obtain payments above the market rate between september of 2010 and june of 2011. And just crossing the wires at j. P. Morgan chases are resettling with the government and pain and 410 million fine 120 million of that will go to ratepayers. Although the Company Disputes the charges. Mark Time Warner Cable has quickly stopped plans to remove cbs from its lineup in three major markets after initially announcing it would drop the network allowing a fee dispute. Not long after timewarner released a statement yesterday saying customers will lose the network at midnight, it said it halted its plans and broadcasters request. About 3 million customers in new york, los angeles and dallas could potentially be affected by this that, which centers made on how much Time Warner Cable pays for the right to retransmit signals from the cbs owned stations. Darya twitter may be moving closer to going public. The company has posted a job opening for Financial Reporting manager. The person would be responsible for following itsoutlining its ipo plans. Twitter executives have remained dismisses the wrong questions regarding its ipo offering a few hints. The cofounder jack dorsey has told bloomberg in recent months that the company is not even thinking of an ipo. Twitters ipo is expected to be the biggest Consumer Internet ipo since facebook. When you smoke, addictive ingredients like nicotine pull you in. Every day, over 1200 people die from smokingrelated diseases. Dont sink deeper into addiction. Pull yourself out erica good morning and welcome to the kron4 morning news. The timeout is 712. Very great start to the day with morning fog. Satellite and radar impacting upon the coastline and working its way inland. He concedes that the current our we have caught cover of livermore up toward napa as well. Although the clouds are fairly thick theyre not that close to the ground. Were not talking about issues of visibility. You can see by 12 00 looks like many sunny skies for most of us. Inland at least. Certain chronic conditions inside the bay. Stubborn clouds along the immediate coast line. As we break down the numbers you notice plenty of 70s so very comfortable conditions in the south bay. Some develop high of 74 degrees. 79 expected and cupertino. To the east a week ago, 80s on the big board. Upper 60s for vallejo. Below 60 slated for richmond. Downtowns San Francisco checkin and at a height of 61 degrees with the mid70s for napa and a bottle. Your kron 47 day around the bay forecast highlights a clear pattern through thursday and amateur the corner. Expect a brief morning fog, one or conditions into the afternoon. In fact, it will be upper a diesel inland, up 07 is around the bay and the 60s it on the coast. Capp his torch. George you can look forward to a fairly typical ride it. Maybe a little lighter than usual. Certainly for the easter for what it will not check any has bought on the bridges. We are looking at a pretty good commit to the bay bridge toll plaza coming from the nimitz freeway. Even coming from the macarthur made 16 of 70 minute drive time. Your trip to the san mateo bridge highway 92 off directing is good. No problems and back toward us. Thats the trip back to hayward. Looking at your ride to the Golden Gate Bridge. An easy trip with a northbound or southbound. As a week check the traffic maps Still Holding at about 90 minutes for the shore freeway ride from hercules to berkeley. The San Ramon Valley commute hasnt changed much. Only increased by a minute or so. West 580 still have this for all to not pass. South bay freeway is picking up a little more slowing for south san jose on or no one north bound and out of the Coyote Valley 85 a little heavy approaching guadalupe parkway. The north bay ride still a good one. We talked a little bit earlier about an accident westbound on highway 37 at 121 and traffic is a little sluggish past the scene of all land there are blocked. Mark San Diego County court is in hot water this morning for allegedly trying to prevent samesex couples from getting married. In court papers, state attorney general kama pitla harris says, a clerk Ernest Dronenburg jr. Petitioned the California Supreme Court for a temporary stay on issuing same six marriages. The harris says the state court does not have that power. Last month, the u. S. Supreme court ruled out the states ban on samesex marriages unconstitutional, clearing the way for a marriage to resume in california. The county clerk swears have until august 9th to respond. Thank dual efforts are under way to recall san diego mayor bob a filter over allegations of sexual harassment. The City Attorneys Office is deciding whether to recall campaigns can run concurrently. But thats not all. The leader of what recall efforts is accusing the other of secretly supporting marathoner. Mayor filner. Mark following a developing story out of florida, where Officials Say there are at least three critical injuries but so far no deaths after a series of explosions rocked a gas plant. Take a look at this video. It happened near orlando and Central Florida last night. This is video of the flames from the explosion. Authoritys first feared that as many as 15 workers at the blue rhino propane plans could have been killed and several blasted off the buildings roof three witnesses in the area described the scene as the explosion happened. Mark darya all the workers are counting for this morning. Seven people were taken to the local hospitals. The extent of their injuries is not known at this time. Mark eight people, including three children, were injured after an explosion shook the south philadelphia neighborhood over the weekend. Take a look at the video. One home was destroyed and two others were heavily damaged. Neighbors pitched in to help rescue those inside the homes. Fire officials confirming it was a natural gas explosion. They say it appears the contractor may have been attempting to reach like the water here when the explosion happened. i saw the whole house was down. I saw the house next to it was falling over. I saw firemen. This dude was burned up. They were holding him down with a fire hose. he was running out of the house would burn marks from head to toe. He was bleeding from his side and he was just asking for help. Mark after more than an hour of searching, restores determined no one else was trapped under the rubble. Fire officials confirmed it was a natural gas explosion. And their search for a cause now centers on work being done by a contractor on a water heater. They say it appears the contract may have been attempting to rely to the water heater when the explosion took place. Darya its day two of the preliminary hearing in your sparked pennsylvania. That will determine whether theres enough evidence to bring the trial of three former and state officials and the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case. Former penn state president graeme spaniard, a retired Vice President jerry schulz and ex Athletic Director tim curly are accused of failing to tell police about an allegation and sandusky and then tried to hide but the new breed sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child molestation last june and is serving 30 to 60 years in prison. Fifth mark en the European Union says its former policy chief has visited egypt ousted president at the place of his detention and held a twohour indepth discussion with him. This is the first reported meeting by anyone outside egypt military Security Services with mohammed more seat since his overthrow in a july 3rd military coup. Since the group, which followed days of mass protests by millions of egyptians calling for more seats ouster, this lot is president has been detained by the military and an undisclosed location. Mark a new round of talks between israeli and palestinian negotiators begins today in washington. The discussions follow six months of shuttle diplomacy by secretary of state john kerry to restart negotiations that broke down in 2008. Since 2000, israeli settlements have doubled in the west bank. The palestinians are claiming that arabs will outnumber jews and the holy land by 2020. Pat unborn the senate has confirmed james call me as a new fbi director. Comey. Comey was a former Deputy Attorney general who worked in the george w. Bush administration. The 93 it was one of the vote came after republican senator frank paul of kentucky dropped his filibuster of komi over concerns about domestic front. Darya private first class Bradley Manning will learn whether he will be convicted of aiding the enemy for sending more than 700,000 government documents to the anti secrecy website with the leaks. This afternoon a military judge at four to meet in maryland will announce the verdict aiding the enemy is the most serious of 21 counts manning is contesting. If convicted, he could get life in prison without parole. Mark fastfood workers across new york city are striking for better pay and the right to unionize. What pops and demonstrations were held at restaurants including mcdonalds, burger king, and when the street [ female announcer ]r are you sensitive to dairy . Then youll love lactosefree lactaidai® ® [ female announcer ]r are you sensitive to dairy . Its 100 real milk thats easy to digest so you can fully enjoyjo the dairy you love. Lactaidta®. For 25 years,ar easy to digest. Easy to love. But do you really . 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So the driver gets to have a chat with officer schwarz of the Castro Valley office of the california highway patrol. It turns out the place was sprayed with for all nine and scrub with these below pass this, colored in the numbers with a sharpie. This pickup truck driver is unpick and cooperated san leandro has a similar problem. The reason why im pulling over is because the three perfect tries portion of your license plate looks like its been sanded off to do that yourself . however upon closer inspection in appears that some kind of clothing was applied which damage the reflective code and when asked to apply the coating. i dont know your no less kids walk around and sprayed the problem now is people are spreading their plates with something that makes soap is not respected. while officer schwarz is dealing with this driver let me show you something else, this is a stand it license plate. people are now standing off the respect of coding to defeat but enforcement cameras and yes you can be stopped for that. another thing you can be stopped and ticketed for and have that clear cover over your rear license plate is there any reason why you have that there . Now i thought it looked rather cool. but the worst offender was the driver with paper plates not only was she missing her plate, no idea at all, do you have any kind of registration paper work. In fact the vehicle was listed as an operative so that up so i am going to tell your car. Writing with the Castro Valley office in the california highway patrol, Stanley Roberts, kron 4 news. Darya the government says more cancer deaths could be prevented if certain current and former heavy smokers get annual ct scans. Its the first time the government has got behind lung Cancer Screening for heavy smokers. A panel with you as a Preventative Services Task Force Recommends the scans for people age 55 to 79 whose mother pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or the equivalent. Mark with the researchers are working to create virtual speech therapist for patients who have lost their Language Skills to to a stroke or other head trauma. The avatar is designed to help people practice their speaking skills after insurance has stopped covering visits to him and clinicians. The team at Temple University in philadelphia says it is approaching challenges patience to spontaneously generate speech in conversations with the avatar. We will be right back. Darya kumar and what the kron4 morning news. Weve always got our eye on weather and traffic. Heres erica with an update. Darya erica you are right about that fog. It will be pretty stubborn and a lingering into the early afternoon. Temperatures predominantly in the 50s. Sampras is currently 5856 out the door and concord. We do have widespread clouds right now, fortunately no ground fog so no obstruction of their visibility. George we are watching the south bay and keeping an eye on interstate 280 and the northbound direction. Weve noticed the traffic is definitely slower than usual. Backing up approaching the 880 interchange. There is nothing reported their and the weight of a chp incident. There might be some way construction. Keeping a close eye otherwise. The rest of the south bay still looks pretty good. Mark recycling workers and the east bay are walking off the job to protest what they say are dangerous working conditions and abuse from management. Kron4s jackie sizzle is live in san leandro with details. And jackie. J as, you can see about 50 workers standing out front right now set about 20 minutes ago the morning shift walked out as you said on strike for the day. They say is to protect their views and dangerous conditions. They also say expert that are the lowest paid workers and the bay area. They say theyve made about half of what similar workers and San Francisco and the bay area out received. Their blood to leave this location endeavor to city hall around and and this morning for reference we also know this is the third time in a year that these workers have walked out. At this point if this is going to be more that one day strike of they say it will be for one day and this one location. Right now, about 50 workers are out. 200 total work shares of three ships will be affected. Mark be not want to thank the jacket. We will follow the latest. Darya and one of the bay area up is now just five days away from another possible barge strike now, we are hearing a different tone from one of the unions. The 80 represent station agents, train operators and Clerical Workers continue to express frustration of what they say is a lack of progress in negotiations. Kron4s will tran is live in oakland. Will what matters is bottomline both unions have to sign off on this or there will be another strike otherwise. I have to tell you the reason why they are not on the same page is because our negotiators are meeting with them individually. The good news. Negotiations will resume in 90 minutes from now if they dont get it done today, which they plan to defer hours, if they dont get it done today, at least a promise to meet every day until the sunday midnight deadline to get something worked out. Or else thousands of people instead of hopping on bart will be hopping on ac transit, various, casual car pools and we saw what happened in earlier july. It was bad enough but the good part about that it was a holiday week. We got a chance to talk to both unions. His with they have to say about progress or lack thereof in regard to up the stations. we are optimistic. It is certainly possible to achieve a deal in six days. There is no question that a deal can be achieved. If the parties are willing to negotiate. So far the district has not demonstrated that but we hope that theyve had a change of heart. there are issues of great importance and have yet to be discussed and perhaps as all but come to the table with investor interest in part in the riders and in the workers all we could get something significant done. Will you heard what that woman said in a vested interest. They are hoping she will go to the bargaining table instead of the chief negotiator do that. They said the chief negotiator thomas hawk has a history of a basically not working things out. Theyve been plenty of walk out whenever hes been negotiating on what ever issues hes been hired to do so. They are hoping that the gm will get to the bargaining table. She said she would but it did not say exactly when that would happen. She is vaguely set when they get closer to the settlement she will be there. Plenty of issues to work out separate pay health benefits, safety. Ive got to tell you what the unions is very upset with that because of bart promised when it came back to the bargaining table after the of port a strike, to not release details of but apparently bart went ahead and do that. It is set for them to pay the new workers with are looking for they would have to raise fares 80 over three years. Back to you. Mark but denied the Oakland City Council will consider a proposal to accept up to 2 million in federal funding for an expanded Surveillance Center to monitor the port of oakland area. The City Council President supports the program, called the domestic Awareness Center because it would help police and fire officials up work Better Together to respond to emergencies. But an aclu attorney sent a letter urging the council to withhold approval for now because of significantly privacy concerns. If the funding is approved, oakland would be diversity in the country that would have a center like this that the combined city port project. Darya and about 30 residents in east oakland came together last night to hear from city officials about safety. The meeting comes almost a week after the murder of longtime residents 66 yearold judy solomon. Investigators said they have some promising leads, however they still need to helpand need the help of the community to catch the solomons killer. Oakland City Council Woman of libby shaaf talks about the recent crime problem facing oakland residents. Chaff added that the city of oakland and a complete the form and are committed to making the community sector. Mark the new eastern span of the bay bridge was supposed to open Labor Day Weekend. But the opening was delayed until december 10th because of broken both now there is a chance the road we could be ready before then. Engineers are currently working to replace 32 broken ready before thenjust 32 broken bolt with a network of cables. And croats also plan to install metal plates for more support and they say the work is moving swiftly. Caltrans has now passed the federal Highway Administration to review the new plan that could possibly lead to an earlier opening of the new span. We will be lead to an earlier opening of the new span. We will be right could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Yep, Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know some owls arent that wise . Dont forget im having brunch with meghan tomorrow. Who . Meghan, my coworker. Who . Seriously . Youve met her like three times. Who . sighs geico. Fifteen minutes could save you. Well, you know. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Darya welcome. One anny m morning man is said to get even bigger. The u. S. Bureau of Land Management granted organizers and for your permit to stay to the art focused event in the Black Rock Desert north of reno, with a population cap of 68,000 this year. Thats up from a cap of 60,900 in 2012. In the permits final three years, the maximum could go as high as 70,000. The approval70,000 bridge the approval was based on a review last year that took into account factors included the disposal of trash, so it and oil and the prevention of crime scars from fires. Officials noted that they may not reach the population cap, which includes not only guess but also staff and government workers like police and firefighters. Last years peak population was 56,149. Anyone who wants to oppose the permit has 30 days to do so. The weeklong festival of Self Expression and Community Building in the nevada desert kicks off august 26th. Erica the morning and thanks for waking up or staying up with kron4 morning news. Take a look at these numbers. Livermore at 57 degrees. 59 in oakland. As we follow the numbers into the afternoon you will notice very similar to what we saw. Pleasant and a 580 degrees. 56 per oakland and hayward. Temperatures will really start to cool. Keep a jacket armonk oakland will get to 57 degrees, 56 for downtown San Francisco. Still fairly mild. Kron4s 7 day around the bay forecast highlights cooler weather through thursday and then and looked like a little bit of a week and one up with and when the highs and the upper 80s. 745. Here is george. George ive got to start with a look at the san mateo bridge because an accident has been reported out near the span of that could back up the ride. Even though reported to be on a shoulder and no plans are blocked. There are other reports that indicated there may be some debris on the land and thus san mateo bridge ride westbound of the bay bridge toll plaza, its a very small commuters. We are starting to see the beginning of the end of back up before 8 00 here and the westbound direction of the Golden Gate Bridge, we are doubling freak not only here. Darya good morning. Gary good morning darya. Darya so note that are tied for the most wins in baseball at 63 and 43. Its incredible. Gary they keep doing it. Toronto is not one of the better teams but thats what they are doing pretty good teams be who they are supposed to and thats what the as did last night. Theyre just warming up. Mark this is the second game with three hits. That was great. Can i like how he said its not about the homers. Its about winning. Darya up some nights you feel like im bragging about yourself prepare it and darya i didnt know what obama was going to say with the giant not doing well. Kafka set up gary i now want to sound cynical but i got a call yesterday from a woman on the radio. The ceremony was around a lot of our time and got around 1130 so i go just for fun if anybody caught im sticking to my stance and bochy i think it would have rather gone home. This is for nancy pelosi and an lee and larry baer to further their political connections. Thats just my opinion. Mcorp willie mays. Let me say again of how i would haves an honor but let me rest here when im in last place threepoint and so that i guess im all for talking because i felt funny about say this but if a woman goes, but this meant to me is that a bunch of millionaire athletes got to go and im waiting for my 450 refund for my eighth grade class was scheduled to go in because of the sequestered but, the trip has been cancelled. They were scheduled for about a yearandahalf. Issues like im a giants fan but isnt it funny were eight great kids can go to the what housecoat maybe change their lives and give them something to really enrich themselves and these guys darya if you put it that way then i think the players would have even underwrote thejust said we could have done without. Oat darya the more i think about it may be a high school, a team of with a special treatment. But the professional guys i think thats played out. And indeed that it could professionals battle is now redondo street that is it what is what is doing with Anthony Wiener teo. Its not make sure its the double a richmond scores that are the elite of the staffers as go giants, but it vallejo dollar hot dogs and day and contest that you can tweet a pitcher of the youth with the three it. There tried to have fun with it because they can never gets old. Kopp but darya he has a 90 approval rate and the person against the only has a 25 percent approval rate. Mark in the giftedyou could live through anything i guess. Gary if he was just a complete 100 percent as a politician he would be gone by now ahead but is something about tampa. Im not saying you have to like it but he makes an interesting. Mark and here you have a baseball scandal and when the brewers are handling the absence of ryan parana. They figure they are saving themselves 3 1 2 million of basically right. Not they are giving away all of that money corp and 10 pops. Every fan who comes to every home game and august to get a 10 falter soap fans eat. Freak on or car and abroad. Darya what a great idea copperryan braun. Fans eat for free at the games on ryan braun. But note caught him mine not. It is bent on drugs because theres no prior conviction he can appeal it. Crash i was also looking at the buzzer about 49ers. I guess they got vernon davis at wide receiver. Not like its foreign but it would give them another option. Hon gary error was saying hes doing is hes doing that and simply hes playing catch with them. Thats all. Gary met hm but look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. [ telephone rings ] hows the camping trip . Well, the kids had fun, but i think i slept on a rock. The best part of wakin up what are you doing . Having coffee. Ohh. Is folgers in your cup having Necessary School supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. The day i start, im already behind. I never know what im gonna need. New school, new classes, new kids. Its hard starting over. To help, sleep train is collecting School Supplies for local foster children. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help a foster child start the school year right. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. Erica looks like stubborn clouds et 01 be amended coastline. By friday, we start to turn the corner where we will see a normal weather into the weekend. Full details on what to expect coming up at 815. George no hot spots but that could change with an accident report on the nimitz freeway southbound 88 at riffle road. Ford is there might be as many as fiber six cars involved but its clear to the shoulder it will have some slowing but not as catastrophic. Otherwise a pretty smooth commute for the southbound right. Darya in south San Francisco where allies are going and the area of third and harrison and oakland. Crews are working to restore that right now. Kron4s jack is a will give us an update shortly. Mark the bay area is only five days away of a possible barge strike but a deal is given a different tone. They continue to express frustration of what they say is a back up progress in negotiations. Kron4s will tran is live and oakland with more of those negotiations. Mark the reason why one union is not happy and one is a little happier is because bart is negotiating with them individually but all three sides will be back at the bargaining table at 9 00 this morning. Were also waiting for the negotiators to come in and we will try to bring you a live interview once they arrive here pretty shortly. I can tell you that both sides are still fighting over pay said the health benefits. While one yet is not very happy. The reason why is what they declared to go back to work after the first week of july then they went on strike for four days of they said that bart agreed not to release the details of the negotiations and sure enough bart did and are said it agreed if they are agreed to give them bottomline riders will be paying more. Lets listen into what person talking about negotiations. we have been here every day prepared to bargain. They are not prepared to bargain. The indicated to you guys last week the summit would be available to conduct negotiations to some extent a very small point that was true. However with mr. Hawke been away from the table there was nothing that could significantly be accomplished prepare will you are talking about mr. Hoch. Shes talking about parts chief negotiator mr. Thomas hawk who was out of town last week on vacation. The state knew about and it was approved but he will be back here and hour from now and a promise to negotiate for it they promise to negotiate every day until the sunday midnight deadline. Back to Margaret Mark thanks for the update. Darya 200 workers are involved in a job action making it one of the largest protest by recycling workers in recent history. This is what one union worker has to say about the protests for it we are hopefully they will tran is right and pay us right. These people are very low pay. A Strong Company a billion Dollar Company and not paying wages not pay the correct way does permit it is not recycle and it is basically ignore us and pushing us to the side. Darya the workers will soon make their way over to the Oakland City Hall for a rally later today. Darya at 06 end of this morning at. A fire and San Francisco revealed a pot growing all operation pripet the fire broke out overnight and a 100 block of tucker abbott. Thats near john mclaren park. The fire has been put out three and investigator said it found at least 60 Marijuana Plants inside the house. No one was inside at the time. Mark Radio Communication tower that collapsed in the east bay yesterday may be the work of vandals. At about 9 00 a. M. Officers responded to a tower on a rocky ridge near san ramon and danville. It had failed that collapsed during the night. The tower supports Radio Communications systems across the east bay. However the systems remain intact this morning. Police are continuing to investigate the cause despite the towers collapse. They think it maybe that was on. Darya 807 right now. Well be back in a couple minutes on the kron4 morning news. But the live look at the san mateo bridge and you can see its still great there. Starting to be a little nice but it will take awhile. Redwood city today with a high of 75. Darya following a developing story of florida where Officials Say there are at least three critical injuries but so far no deaths after a series of explosions rocked a gas plant. Taking a look at this video. It happened near orlando and Central Florida last night. This is video of the plants from the explosion. Authorities fear that as many as 50 workers at the blue rhino propane plans could have been killed when several blast blew off the buildings roof. Witnesses and the area described the scene as the explosion happened. there was a humongous fire you could see and everytime a large fireball would shoot out of the explosion which we were testing were all these small propane cans exploding one at a time. Darya all the workers are account for this morning. Seven people were taken to the local hospital. The extent of their injuries is not known as this time. Mark a little chilly here. A book from the Golden Gate Bridge. Another cool day with a high of at least look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious . Youre a talking bee. Honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. And it tastes good . Sure does right. Wow. Delicious, right . Yeah. Its the honey, it makes it taste so. Well, would you look at the time. Whats the rush . Be happy. Be healthy. Mark get more on the forecast with erica. Erica isnt that a gorgeous shot especially compared to what we are seen as the Golden Gate Bridge. We havent seen much warming because we havent seen much sunshine. As we follow these numbers into the after note to you on notice by lunchtime say it 2 00 mild weather and 60s inside the bay. As we had an closer to your afternoon highs as a breakdown afternoon highs for today starting in the south bay you notice san jose with a high of 74 and 78 degrees and campeau. Turning our attention to the east bay, pittsburgh 83, 81 in livermore. Upper 70s and walnut creek, will 70s for Castro Valley. Downtowns San Francisco collect an average coming in as 61 degrees. Were talking mid60s far east bay shoreline. Nappy and about as 75 degrees and upper 50s if youre heading to ocean beach. A quick mention of national highs for today. Taking a look down the eastern seaboard. Washington d. C. 86, 82 in new york city. Chicago 76 degrees fled with triple digits over and dallas. I care and the bay area we are talking a clear pattern through thursday but we will turn the corner into the warmer temperatures back in the upper 80s for the warmest inland areas as we approach the latter half of the weekend. A 16 of the traffic now with george. George thanks a lot erica as we are tracking a hot spot on the nimitz freeway. An accident with enough vehicles on the shoulder but it is attracting attention. Backing of the ride out hayward and san leandro heading down toward union city york and. Mark the European Union says its former policy chief has visited egypt ousted president at the place of his detention and held it to our indepth discussion with them. This is the first report a meeting by anyone outside egypt military or Security Services with mohammad morrisseymor si. Since his overthrow and a july 3rd military coup. Since the coup, which followed days of mass protests by millions of egyptians calling for more seats ouster, the islamist president has been detained by the military and an undisclosed location. Darya private first class brattling manning will learn whether hell be convicted of aiding the enemy for sending more than 700,000 government documents to the anti secrecy website with the leaks. This afternoon and military judge at fort meade in maryland will announce the verdict. Aiding the enemy is the most serious of 21 countermanding is contesting. If convicted he could get life in prison without parole. Mark the senate has confirmed james comey as the new fbi director. Comey was a former Deputy Attorney general who worked in the george w. Bush administration. The 93 it was one of cocaine after 1 republican senator grant called of kennedyjust kentucky dropped his filibuster of comey over concerns about domestic drones. Darya eight people including three children were injured after an explosion shook the south philadelphia neighborhood over the weekend. Take a look at the video. One home was destroyed and two others were heavily damaged. Neighbors pitched in to help rescue those inside the homes. Fire officials confirmed it was a natural gas explosion. They say it appears a contractor may have been attempting to rely the water heater with the explosion happened. i saw the whole house was down. I saw the house next to it was falling over. I saw firemen. This dude was parked up. There were hosing him down with a fire hose. he was running out of the house with burn marks from head to toe. He was bleeding from his side and he was just asking for help. Darya after more than an hour of searching restores determined no one else was trapped under the rubble and darya its day two of the preliminary hearing in harrisburg, pa. , that will determine whether theres enough evidence to bring to trial three former penn state officials and the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case. Former penn state president graeme spaniard, a retired Vice President jerry schulz index Athletic Director temporal are accused of failing to tell police about an allegation against sandusky and then tried to hide what they knew. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child molestation last june and is serving 30 to 60 years in prison. Dual efforts are under way to recall san diego mayor bob feller over allegations of sexual harassment. The City Attorneys Office is deciding whether to recall campaigns can run concurrently. But that is not all. The leader of one reply for is accusing the other of secretly supporting mayor filner. Over the weekend, senator Dianne Feinstein called for film to step down. Mark the live look at san jose for it a little sunshine the traffic a bit slow especially around 87 tried to get watching what street. Better than expected coming out of home prices of 12. 2 for may of this yearlast year. The largn in six years. The dow now up 18. Darya Regulatory Commission is charging j. P. Morgan chase with manipulated the Energy Market by charging california and the midwest electricity grid 80 times the prevailing power prices. This is the accusation is that they engaged in a manipulative techniques which took advantage of a power market rule. Payments above the market rate and if it does happen from september of 2010 to june of 2011 and j. P. Morgan has already agreed to settle not say they did anything wrong or a settlement with the government paid 410 million, 120 million as opposed to go back to ratepayers three darya twitter may be moving closer to a public offering. The company has posted a job opening for a Financial Reporting manager will be responsible for outlining ipo plans for it to the executives are saying anything about this and not even giving hence but twitter cofounder jack dorsey told bloomberg the company is not even thinking of an ipo. So twitters ipo would be the biggest Consumer Internet ipo since facebook. Mark time warner has stopped plastering of cbs from its lineup after initially announced and it would drop the Network Following a fee dispute. Timewarner released a statement sent customers would reduce debtblues of the network at midnight it then said it halted the plans. About 3 million cable customers would potentially be affte with centers manley how much Time Warner Cable pays for the right to retransmit signals to the cbs home page. Darya the approach to the bay bridge is all clear. We darya the approach to the bay bridge is all clear. We will be right back. Could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Mmmhmmm. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller . Your word is. Cow. Cow. Cow. C. O. W. E. I. E. I. O. [buzzer] dangnabbit. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you. Well, you know. Were new to town. Ells. Welcome to monroe. So you can move more effortlessly. We want to open a new account checking and savings. Well we can help with that. We tend to do a lot of banking online. You play . Yeah discover a mobile app that lets you bank more freely. And feel at home more quickly. Chase. So you can. Mark looks like some traffic 680 southbound. George rascal watching traffic was also watching a hot spot looks like on 880. George thats right. On the nimitz freeway southbound. The crash at ripple road on hayward. We are getting word on delays of an nimitz in oakland with a stock reported north bound are browned high. Erica it is still great out there with temperatures in the 50s. 57 out the door and san jose sixties out the door in oakland darya 829 and police and cupertino are investigating an accident that killed one person and closed on highway 85 for a few hours. It was late last night. Two vehicles collided on highway 3 and one person was pronounced dead at the scene and the crash is under investigation this morning highway 85 and cupertino has been reopened them of this is video of the waves crashing in on the shore. The National Weather service says the Flash Flood Watch remains in effect until tonight. Plus they say they could still cause Power Outages and road closures 3 lead us could get up to 40 mi. Per hour through the mountain passes and honolulus mayor is urging residents to stay state during the storm bridge dont be driving around. Only essential people should be out around six. If you are out after that you are really in danger in yourself and others. You want to be at home or in a shelter at that point. Darya so far this morning as apple and Oakland International just say no delays or cancellations into hawaii. Mark another story where transformer exploded and power lines are down. Jackie sizzle is live and jack london and square with an update. , at third and western. You can see the one that popped. You can see the power lines that are down three that kind of an industrial warehouse area where we are talking about the power outage predicted the pg e crews just got here about 10 minutes ago. About 2000 people without power. Pg e was able to restore most people to power relatively quickly. As you said, a little over remained without power right now. Theres no estimate on a time to redo that service but as i said, pg e got out here and darya the bay areas five days away from a possible barge strike. We are hearing to a different tune. The 800 which operates station agents expresses frustration for what they call a lack of progress but one of the other unions as things look optimistic. Kron4s will tran is live and oakland. Will the reason why is because bart is negotiating with them. I talked to caltrans workers and she says she doesnt think its going to happen there meeting and 30 minutes from now. They have been negotiating since april with still no settlement. We had a chance to talk with both unions. Here is what they had to say about the very latest on the negotiations. we are optimistic. It is certainly possible to achieve a deal in six days. There is no question that a deal could be achieved if the parties are willing to negotiate in good faith. So far the district has not demonstrated that. But we hope that they had a change of heart creek, there are issues of great importance that have yet to be discussed. And perhaps its always come to the table with a vested entrants interest in the bart workers but could get something significantly down. Justine shes hoping bart general manager will come to the bargaining table instead of the chief negotiator. Talks will resume at 9 00 today. It did not read something at least theres a little bit of hope because they promise to meet every day until the sunday night deadline. Back to you. Mark in oakland as City Council Meeting tonight will consider a proposal to except 2 million in federal funding for an expanded Surveillance Center and the port of oakland. City Council President supports the program, the domestic Awareness Center because it would help police and fire officials Work Together to better respond to emergencies but an aclu attorney sent a letter urging the council to withhold the approval for now because of what he says is a significant privacy concern. If the funding is approved oakland would be the first city and the nation to have this kind of center as a combined city port project. Mark 30 residents of east oakland came together to hear from city officials about safety. This comes after a longtime resident was killed 366 yearold judy solomon. They need the publics help to get her killer. Libby shaft talks about the recent spike in crime. these are particularly tragic incident but every death in every shooting in oakland is a tragedy. The neighbors need to get to know each other, bound together. They need to put pressure on their elected officials to put the resources where they need to be in public safety. Darya shaft at the city of oakland and the Police Department are committed to making this community sector. Mark new this morning Fire Fighters and San Francisco discovered a pop growth of battling a house fire. The fire broke out overnight and 100 block of tucker ave. Thats near john mclaren park. The fire has been put out. Investigators said it found out at least 60 Marijuana Plants inside the house. No one was inside at the time. For over 60,000 california foster children, having Necessary School supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. The day i start, im already behind. I never know what im gonna need. New school, new classes, new kids. Its hard starting over. To help, sleep train is collecting School Supplies for local foster children. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help a foster child start the school year right. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Darya anny welcome back. The timeout is 838. Kali hardig went swimming in this week at a water park in little rock, arkansas and came down with president meningitis, a rare infection caused by a brain eating ameba. This effect and had struck only 31 other people in the past 10 years. And the centers for Disease Control says all were fatal. The amoeba a parasite called naegleria, lodes warm water, like lakes, rivers and hot springs. The doctor say the ameba then find itself way back in our noses and then can work its way into our Central Nervous system around our brains and once its there it does cause destruction. Kalis mother took her daughter to the hospital when she noticed symptoms exhaustion and high fever. Mark another small parasite called cyclospora is causing a rash of intestinal infections. Just last week helped officials reported 48 new cases in texas. That number has now grown to 353 cases and 14 other states. Health officials arent sure how people are ingesting the parasite but in the past it has been linked to eating contaminated produce. Symptoms of the infection include diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite and fatigue. And can last a few days and months or longer. Despite the severe symptoms, the infection is not deadly. Treatment for this infection is usually a combination of antibiotics, flew to a lot of rest. Darya 840 is the time. Take a look from the Golden Gate Bridge. We will very back. 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On the right is the Golden Gate Bridge. Lets check it with george who is tracking a hot spot. We are tracking a couple of different problems. The first is on hayward 880 south bound. There was a earlier are occurring accident. The slow traffic still persist even though accident has cleared. There has also been another accident on the peninsula. 1 01 north bound on university avenue. This is slowing the traffic down in both directions. It is backed up all the way to 237. Looking at the bridges here is the bay bridge. They have no backups to speak up. There is a little bit of slowing for fasttrack customers. The san mateo bridge despite earlier recurring problems with the debris in the lanes, it is not backed up but it still has a good drive time. Your commute to the Golden Gate Bridge where 101 is still an easy trip through marin county. The time is 8 45 a. M. Today is another foggy start to your morning. We have not seen much move because the sunshine is not out. Most of us still deal with 50s. He was see visibility somewhat limited. This is fog that will affect your ride. We are still dealing with stubborn clouds. We will see some sunshine for the latter morning. It will take some time it was the wait to see sunshine in afternoon. Future cast 4 is on 50is shog 50s and 60s. By 8 00 p. M. Tonight we are back in the 50s and 60s. You should definitely bring a jacket. Santa clara is coming man at 74 degrees. To the east bay we go. Walnut creek has a high of 78 degrees. San francisco is checking in at 61 degrees. The kron 47 day around the bay is highlighting cooler weather through thursday. We will be in the upper 80s as we wrap up the weekend. A United Airlines employee and his girlfriend are accused of stealing passenger decks. Authority say that it happened at a time when sfo was thrown into chaos after the asiana plane crash. Kron4 then carmen reports. They have been arrested for stealing bags. This could be called a crime of opportunity. It happened on july 8th. This was when delays and cancellations were the order of the day. There were a lot of bags down there and there was a lot of chaos. San mateo and detective stated that surveillance tapes show them handing off to bed to the girlfriend and another woman. It appeared that he was looking through them and then taking them. The entire bay. He stated that the unidentified woman are seen leaving with two other bags. No one would have known about it had, taken the back to the store for a 4,000 refund. The female went to the store to return the items and the personal shopper called the victim to see how the troops went and that is when she found out that she did not have a sister. The victim called police and they were arrested. They were arrested before they were about to board a flight to hawaii. If they also searched their come from ridings. We found more than four suitcases. But there were empty. They do not know how long he had been doing this. They are currently reviewing the tapes to see if they can get that answer. Then, and kron 4 news. Dan kerman kron 4 news. The new east and span of the bay bridge was supposed open Labor Day Weekend but that opening was delayed until december 10th because of broken bolts. Now there is a chance to the role which could be ready before then. Engineers are currently working to replace 32 broken bolts with a network of cables. Caltran has now asked the federal Highway Administration to review the new plan that could possibly lead to an earlier opening. On to bay area baseball. The oakland as continue to roll across the rest of the American League red Yoenis Cespedes homered and hit a two run triple, josh reddick added it to run double and had three rbis, and athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays 94. President barack the obamas is at the San Francisco giants are making a habit of dropping in at the white house. The president welcomed the 2012 World Series Champions and yesterday at a south lawn ceremony honoring their victory and their community efforts. The president says the their second title is their season was because of stellar pitching, defense, and timely hitting. The crowd of wellwishers included giants hall of famer, willie mays. House a democratic leader nancy pelosi, along with samprass go mayor italy were also in attendance. The time is 8 51 a. M. Here is a live look outside the mount tam cam. We will be right back rippl welcome back. We continue to track late spots. These are slowing was slight improvement a 80 south bound leading out of san leandro to union city. There was a crash at ripple wrote that involve about five to six vehicles. This is why the traffic is still slow. We are continuing to track the latest and to paula out so. Both north and south bond on 1 01. This has traffic to 237. We are watching bay area weather. It will be cool or around the bay. We will see highs range from low 60s to 80s. It would be a warmup for friday with a little less fog. We was see the highs climb back of the to the mid to upper 80s. Angelina jolie plays a lot unrolls, actor, mother, you in ambassador and now she is adding another to the list, the top on an actress. Forbes has unveiled a bill is the actresses who have drawn most money over the past year. Topping the list s jolie who are earned a whopping 33 million since last june. She is followed by kristen stewart, who was the most paid actress last year. Coming up on kron 4 morning news at 9 00 a. M. Another barts strike is looming over the bay area. More on the talks between bart and the union. In arkansas a young girl is in Critical Condition after contracting a parasite while swimming at water park. More on her condition. Were also keeping an eye on bay area weather and traffic. We will keep an eye on the tropical depression that is heading hawaii. We will be right back. 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[ male announcer ] at t brings it all together. Good morning, top stories were follwing this tuesday july 30th. Bart negotiators head back to the table today after yet another unsuccessful day of talks. Whats next for workers and riders as we are now just five days away from a second possible strike. And were following a developing story out oakland where a transformer exploded, leaving hundreds without power. A developing story out of oakland, a transformer power. Live in jack london square. Here is to accident site that is reaching to highway 237. This started by backing up to about woodside but now you concede in the southbound direction that were back up to hillsdale. Delays for all or. You may use in the state to aid to save you time. This will be true whether you are north south bomb. However, i do when a show you a bright spot in this is the bay bridge. We have had a lighter than usual traffic. Cloudy skies started out your tuesday morning. These clouds will be slow to clear and a another day below below average temp there is plenty of sunshine for most locations. Were looking at generally 50s greeting us out the door. We are it 60 degrees and more cold weather pattern. The time is 9 01 a. M. A transformer exploded and power lines are down. Kron4 jackie sizzle is live with more. You concede this blown transformer. This is just near and jack london square. You concede pg e crews are out here. According to pg e that about 6 50 a. M. This morning a sego flow into the power lines and that is what blue the transformers. At the height of this about 2200 pg e customers were without power. They were able to restore some of the power in fact, this is a it warehouse, a commercial area. They were able to restore power to most people. Here is video of pg e crews working on the line. They have no timetable how long it will take for them to get this fixed. All it took was just one seagull and air with a transformer. The bay area is now just five days away from another possible bart strike. But now, were hearing a different tone from one of the unions. So far we have not seen the negotiators arrived. They promised to negotiate all day today. They stated that they did not reach one today they will work all weekend long until they get one. This is what is happening at this very moment. Bart workers are showing up at work at least for now. Some of them are in downtown San Francisco trying to win the battle on to why theyre in this situation. Theyre trying to improve safety for the bart employees as well as for the riders. Theyre still fighting over health care, pensions, and pay. We do know that they have been negotiating since april and so far we have not heard anyone come out and said they reached a deal. By the way, it is very loud out here because of an ambulance going past. I had a chance to talk to someone and this is what she had a separate we have been here every day prepared to bargain. Theyre not prepared to bargain. The indicated to you that someone would be available to negotiate. To some extent, that was a very small one but however, with him being away from the table there was nothing that could significantly accomplish. Steve is referring to thomas, the chief negotiator. He was offduty vacation. They stated that he did alert to stay about his Vacation Time that it was approved. Him, been at the bargaining table is not sitting well. They believe that he has a history of not working to settle matters. It has been planning a walk off what he has been chief negotiator. Theyre hoping that the general manager will be at the table. Fire fighters in San Francisco discover a pot to grow while battling a house fire this morning. The fire broke out overnight in the 100 block of to occur ave. That is near john mclaren park. The fire has been put out. Investigators say they found a 68 Marijuana Plants. Oaklands recycling workers are walkin off the job to protest abuse, disrespect dangerous conditions by city contractors. An estimated 200 workers are involved in the job action, making it one of the nations largest protests by recycling workers in recent history. This is what one union protest. Theyre just basically ignoring us. The workers will soon make their way over to Oakland City Hall for a rally later a Radio Communication tower that collapsed in the east bay yesterday may be the work of vandals. At about nine am officers responded to a tower on rocky ridge, near san ramon and danville, had failed and collapsed during the night. The tower supports Radio Communications systems across the east bay. All systems remain intact this morning. Police are continuing to towers collapse. We will be right back. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. With qualifying bundles. When you smoke, addictive ingredients like nicotine pull you in. Every day, over 1200 people die from smokingrelated diseases. Dont sink deeper into addiction. Pull yourself out a lin just crossing the wires this morning. Investigators and spain said the operator of the train that crashed into a cement wall was on the phone at the time of the accident. Traveling at 95 mi. Per hour, twice the recommended speed for that section of the track 79 people were killed. An official says that Police Investigators have begun taking data from the black box recorder of the train. The Spanish Court spokeswoman says a the box is opened to stake contain data on the train speed as well as communications. One goal is to find out what caused last weeks accident, including whether a mechanical or technical failure, or speeding by the driver, were factors. The investigation has focused on his failure to break as the train sped into a high risk occurred just outside the northwestern pyramid city of santiago de. Following a developing story out of florida where Officials Say at least four people are in Critical Condition this morning after a series of explosions rocked a gas plant. Take a look at this video. The blasts happened near orlando in Central Florida last night. Authorities first feared that as many as 15 workers at the blue rhino propane plant could have been killed when several explosions blew off the buildings roof. They say this may have been caused by an equipment malfunction or human error. All the workers are accounted for this morning. Eight people, including three children, were injured after an explosion shook this south philadelphia neighborhood over the weekend. Take a look at the video. One home was destroyed and two others were heavily damaged. Neighbors pitched in to help rescue those inside the homes. Fire officials confirming it was a natural gas explosion. They say it appears a contractor may have been attempting to relight the water heater when the explosion happened. We will be right back. Align welcome back. The time is 9 13 a. M. We are looking at university ave. This was the location of accident and it is still sluggish to around 237 but it is improving. We are still backed up beyond redwood city. To 80 will make a great altar that. Here is good news. The bay bridge past zero backups or delays. It isnt easy trip across the upper deck. The san mateo bridge was a report of a crash. This is good news carry it over on the Golden Gate Bridge it has been a fairly easy commute. We are not currently tracking any delays. The drive time is under 30 minutes from novato down to the Golden Gate Bridge. It is a another cloud a star to your tuesday morning. Here is a live look at downtown samprass go. Most locations are waking up to cloudy conditions. This is with the exception of san jose. Livermore is starting to get a few breaks of sunshine. All there will be widespread clouds but that will below average. This is very similar to what we saw yesterday. It will be Cool Conditions through thursday. The temperatures right now are generally in the 50s and 60s. We have 59 degrees in san jose s. 66 degrees in downtown San Francisco. The disability is not that good, concord is only at 5 moss visibility. Here is a look at your satellite and radar picture. The clouds are off the coast. We do have smoke creating hazy conditions. This is because of the wild fire up north. Future cast 4 issue when a 60s and 70s. It will be comfortable for a lot of locations. By 3 00 p. M. We will get up to about seven days for parts of the east bay. Otherwise, the heart of the bay will stay in the 60s. Temperatures a again are below average but comfortable. San jose is looking at 74 degrees. Fremont is a run low 70s. Here is to kron 47 day around the bay. Tomorrow will be very similar to today. Tours that will be a little breezy. Friday we may turn the corner. San diegos county clerk is in hot water this morning for allegedly trying to prevent same sex couples from getting married. In court papers, state attorney general Kamala Harris says county clerk Ernest Dronenburg junior petitioned the California Supreme Court for a temporary stay on issuing same sex marriages. But harris says the state court does not have that power. Last month, the us Supreme Court ruled the states ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional, clearing the way for gay marriage to resume in california. The county clerks lawyers have until august 9th to respond. Dual efforts are underway to recall san diego mayor bob filner over allegations of sexual harassment. The City Attorneys Office is deciding whether the two recall campaigns can run concurrently. But thats not all. The leader of one recall effort is accusing the other of secretly supporting mayor filner. Over the weekend, senator Dianne Feinstein called for filner to step down. 7 women have now come forward with sexual harrassment claims against the mayor. Filner has refused to resign and instead says he is going to a two week intensive private first class Bradley Manning will learn whether hell be convicted of aiding the enemy for sending more than 700thousand government documents to the antisecrecy website wiki leaks. This afternoon a military judge at fort mead in maryland will announce the verdict. Aiding the enemy is the most serious of 21 counts manning is contesting. If convicted, he could get its day two of a preliminary hearing in harrisburg, pennsylvania, that will determine whether theres enough evidence to bring to trial three former penn state officials in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case. Former penn state president graham spanier, retired Vice President gary schultz and exAthletic Director tim curley are accused of failing to tell police about an allegation against sandusky, and then tried to hide what they knew. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child molestation last june and is serving 3060 years in prison there has been an arrest in connection with the vandalism of the National Cathedral in washington. That is just the beginning, as pam lebraun shows umela brow, and other historic landmarks in the Nations Capital have also been damaged over the past few days. We close to the lower level and then additional pain have been found. It is still unknown is the suspect is linked to the vandalism and the other three areas. On friday, the uproar did notice green paint splattered only the memorial. They continue to clean it up and authorities discovered green painted symbols on the specia a another stature. They also noticed the other symbols on the specia statue of martin luther. The senate has confirmed james comey as the new fbi director. It was a former Deputy Attorney general will work in the george w. Bush administration. The 93 to one vote came after republican senator rand paul of kentucky dropped his filibuster of comey over concerns about domestic drones. We will be right back just then this morning, new york citys crackdown on a big, should read so this is staying on iceugary sodas isn ice. An Appeals Court ruled this morning that the citys board of health exceeded their legal authority. The state Supreme Court upheld a lowercourt decision that had delayed the measure before it took effect in march. The citys Law Department has promised an appeal. We are watching facebook shares. Now, theyre almost right back up at 37. 44. The federal Energy Regulatory commission is charging Jp Morgan Chase with manipulating the Energy Market. By charging california and the midwest electricity grids 80 times prevailing power prices. According to regulators jp morgans subsidiary, Jp Morgan Ventures Energy corp. Engaged in 8 manipulative techniques, which took advantage of power market rules, to obtain payments above the market rate between september of 2010, and june of 2011. And just crossing the wires. Jp morgan chase is already settling with the government and paying a 410 Million Dollar fine. Although the Company Disputes the charges. Twitter may be moving closer the company has posted a job opening for a Financial Reporting manager. The person would be responsible for outlining its ipo plans. Twitter executives have remained dismissive around questions regarding its ipo, offering few hints. Twitter cofounder jack dorsey has told bloomberg in recent months that the company is not even thinking of an ipo. Twitters ipo is expected to be the biggest consumer two stars of the real housewives of new jersey Reality Tv Show were in federal court this morning. Teresa and joe giudice are charged in an extensive 39 count indictment. Officials say they conspired to defraud lenders and illegally obtain mortgages. They also are accused of making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud. Teresa giudice will plead not guilty to the charges, according to a statement from her lawyer. The two face up to 30 years in prison and a Million Dollar fine if convicted on does this become a part of the show . The time is 9 27 a. M. Here is a live look outside at san jose. We will be right back reporte welcome back. The temperatures today will be another cold one below average. It will be right around 60 degrees. The cult will be slow to burn off once again. Tomorrow will be a very similar to that on thursday will be slightly smaller. Will look at the weekend forecast a little bit later. We are no longer tracking a hot spot. It is good deals for the bay area. There is no longer a backup or delay and a middling lights were still active. The san mattel bridge, 92 is problem free and the commute time is 11 minutes. Here at the Golden Gate Bridge and were also delay free a little hazy as you concede. There is no problem to the traffic coming off the wall bowl grave on to the span. New this morning, investigators and spain said the operator of that train that crashed into a sea wall was on the phone at the time of the accident, and that he was traveling at 95 mi. Per hour. That is twice the recommended speed of that section of track. Here is video from the crash last week. 79 people were killed including one american. Off the train driver is now charged with 79 counts of homicide. The investigation has focused on his failure to break as the train sped into a high risk curve. We are watching what is now a tropical depression f lossie off the coast of hawaii. The storm has been categorized as a Tropical Storm as it is headed for hawaiis big island. Here is video of ways that crashed into the shore. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect until tonight. The bay area is not just five days away from a possible barge strike. This morning, representatives from both sides are back at the negotiating table with Union Leaders expressing frustration. Kron4 will tran is live in oakland. It just depends on which union that you are talking to. Bart is negotiating individually. The other is just frustrated that no progress has been made. This will be the second strike this year if one happens again. Here is a video of some of the negotiators are arriving. They will negotiate off today. If no settlement is reached and they will go all the way to sunday at midnight. I had a chance to talk to both unions and this is what they had to say about the progress or lack thereof. We are optimistic and it is possible to achieve a deal in six days. There is no question about it. So far, the district has not demonstrated that but we hope that they have had a change of heart. There are issues and that are of great importance. A less to come to the table with state bested issua vested interest. Apparently they made a pact not to talk to the media as far as the negotiations are going. But they did release that for them to offer the Union Workers what theyre looking for a 5 percent pay raise including the cost of living means said they will have to pass this to the writers and race a 18 increase in the fair over the next three years. If something should haen before the end of this newscast will let you know. Tonight the Oakland City Council will consider a proposal to except up to 2 million in federal funding for an expanded Surveillance Center to monitor the port of oakland area. If the funding is approved, oakland would be the first city in the country to have the center. That is a combined cityport project. A United Airlines employee and his fiancee are accused of stealing passengers bags at s. F. O. Authority say it was happening at a time when sfo was thrown into chaos in aftermath of the asiana plane crash. Detectives said they found Surveillance Footage the shows the employee and his fiancee and an unidentified woman going through suitcases. They could have gotten away with it if it were not for the fiancee who tried to return the stolen items to its door for a refund. The personal shopper called to check on the trip and stated that your sister returned some items and that is when the victims stated that she did not have a sister. The victim called the police and officers arrested the two suspects just before that were about to board a flight to hawaii. They search the suspects home and found that the couple had stole more suitcases. Authorities are currently going through more Surveillance Video to see how long the United Airlines employee was helping himself to unattended bags. Here is a live look outside at the golden gate [ male announcer ] with at t, youre sure to get a better bundle. Just choose the 2, 3, even 4 services you want to build the bundle that works for you. [ female announcer ] call at t now choose a uverse triple play bundle for just 79 a month, our new low price. Get the same great price for 2 years. Plus, switch today and get a total home dvr included for life. 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The permit is good for four years. In exchange, they have to meet a laundry list of requirements. Organizers stated that they are planning accordingly for the First Time Ever that will have a shuttle bus available. That will try to also manage the traffic flow. This starts on august 26th and ends on september 2nd. Now to the latest on middle east peace talks. Secretary of state john kerry says israeli and palestinian negotiations have agreed to meet again within the next two weeks. That is one that will continue to talk on so far elusive peace deal. Kerrey says that both sides had set a goal for a nine month deadline for reaching a pact. The next round of negotiations with take place in either israel the palestinian territories. We will be right back. Welcome back the time is 9 43 a. M. We have cloudy conditions was again. Here is a live look at San Francisco. We have great skies greeting you. We are expecting widespread clouds. We will have below average temperatures for today. For the rest of the week we will stay cool to mild through thursday. It will be warmer for the weekend. The temperatures right now are in the 50s and 60s. Satellite and radar shows that we are getting smoke coming into the bay area because of the wild fires in oregon. If you dont smoke that is why you are seeing that. The high to that will be very similar to yesterday for 61 degrees for downtown. Mid70s for redwood city. Low 60s for daly city. Heading farther south it is pretty comfortable 74 degrees for san jose. Heading over to the east bay we are seeing the sea breeze and is still in place. It is cold for places like richmond. Heading farther to the east the temperatures are going to be lower than average by. Livermore will be in the low 80s. Upper 70s for walnut creek. 74 martinez. The temperatures will become a coles side for tomorrow. Upper 70s for vallejo and 73 for san rafael. Check out to kron 47 day around the bay. The clouds will be slow to burn off and we was the sunshine. Tomorrow it will be very similar and thursday and friday will start to warm things up. I also want to mention delays at s. F. And folk for about an hour. We will do a check of the traffic as we look at a hot spot free ride around the bay. There are no backups or delays. The trick is looking good across the upper deck. This is an early end to the backup for two days a row. Looking at the san mateo bridge is a 11 minute trip whether you are east bobby orr westbound. The commute to the Golden Gate Bridge is looking okay for 1 01 southbound. You can expect to see the third lane added to in fact it is already there. As we check the traffic maps i will update your drive time. The San Ramon Valley on interstate 680 has a slowing due to an incident. It is a little sluggish, down from highway 24. The peninsular ride was a hot spot is no longer. It is pretty small conditions as well leisure ride through paula out so. A 12 yearold girl arkansas is in Critical Condition, the battling a rare but deadly brain eating parasites. What is more alarming is how doctors believe she got the infection, after going swimming. Elizabeth cohen reports. This inspection has struck about 31 people. The centers for Disease Control stated that this is fatal. This likes warm water like lakes and hot spring. It climbs in your nose and can work its way into our Central Nervous system. It goes around our brain and once it is there a just cause the destruction. Her mother took her to the hospital when she noticed she was exhausted and she had a high fever. They put her in a coma to stabilize her. The park has since closed down. It is time for us to think about watch out the sick. Her family is asking for prayers. A small parasite called cyclospora is causing a rash of intestinal infections. Just as with Health Officials reported 48 new cases in texas. That number has now grown to 353 cases and 14 other states. Health officials are not sure how people are in jesting the parasite. Symptoms of this infection include diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite and fatigue. Despite the severe symptoms, the inspection is to deadly. Treatment for the infection is usually a combination of antibiotics, fluids and loss of arrest. The new eastern span of the bay bridge was suppose to open Labor Day Weekend, but that opening was delayed until december 10th. But now there is a chance to the road we could be ready before then. Engineers are currently working to replace 32 broken bolts with a network of cables. Caltran has now asked the federal Highway Administration to review the new plan that could possibly lead to an earlier opening. On to bay area baseball. The oakland as continue to roll across the rest of the American League. Yoenis cespedes homered and hit a to run triple, jos reddick added 8 to run double and had three rbis, and athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays 94. President obama says the the San Francisco giants are making a habit of dropping in at the white house. The president welcomed the 2012 World Series Champions yesterday at its south lawn ceremony honoring their victory in their Community Service work. The president says said their second title in three seasons was because of the stellar pitching, defense, and timely hitting. The crowd of wellwishers included giants hall of famer, willie mays. The giants will not get to philadelphia to take on the phillies this afternoon. We will be right back. Line here is Stanley Roberts who found some people behaving badly. While a brillo pad is great for cleaning pots and pans, using them to clean parts of your deal might cause some problems. Take a look at his license plate. If you said it was hard to read to you are correct. The driver had to have a chat with an officer. It turned out at the plate was sprayed with 409 cleaner and scrub with a bill passed. It looks like he took a sharpie and rodin. This person here had a similar problem. It looks like your license plate has been sanded off. Did you do this yourself . He reflective code of the plate. I do not know, i am not sure. My kids, or kids Walking Around my did it. People spray their license plate so is not reflective in order to none did read like tickets. Officer is dealing with a license plate. Let me show you something else. This is a plague that has been sanded. They are doing this to defeat the cameras. You can be stopped and ticket for this. The reason why i am pulling you over schedule have this clear cover over a license plate. Whyd you have this cover over your plate . I thought it looked cool. And the state of california cannot cover license plate. Do you have your drivers license on you . Not only is she missing a plate but she doesnt have a license or hurt registration. Herb deal was also is a it as an operable. It has been expired. That the total car. Stanley roberts kron 4 news. The cold weather will continue. It looks like it will be a few degrees as we head towards the weekend. We are freezing here. We would have a high of 70 degrees. Try to stay warm. We will see you back here in the morning. Dr. Phil is next. Hn announcer today on dr. Phil. She has a boyfriend. Dr. Phil you have paid this man 187,000. Announcer shes never met. Dr. Phil he was going to be here. Look to your left. Is he there . Announcer is she being scammed . Dr. Phil you cashed in your childrens Life Insurance policies . Yes. Dr. Phil sold your great grandmothers diamond ring . Yes. Announcer the phony photos. And phone calls. Dr. Phil these are phony documents. How do you know . His hair is sticking up out of the picture. Dr. Phil were going to ring him up right now. Danny . Dr. Phil he didnt know who you were. I believe that danny is real. Dr. Phil everything hes telling you doesnt check out. I dont believe it. Dr. Phil you dont want to believe it. Theres no way that i can be fooled this long. Announcer plus, this former guest has waited years to meet his online girlfriend