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And the time coming up. I will talk about the mountain snow that is expected. The we have been tracking an accident on the east shore freeway. It is not badly backed up. The ride on interstate 80, the traffic is still moving well, the drive time is about 18 minutes which is still within the normal range for the east shore freeway. Thankfully, nothing unusual for your trip from hercules and berkeley. Breaking nils. Firefighters are in route to the san jose airport because a small plane is having engine problems and tried to land. We are working to get more information about that playing for you and how many people are aboard. We will get that two u. S. Soon as we can. State senator leland yee will be back in court today for a hearing. He is accused of taking bribes from undercover fbi agent and coordinating a gun operation. He has been suspended from the state senate, and says that he is no longer running for california secretary of state. He says he refuses to resign from the senate. He was arrested wednesday, followed a three year fbi sting. Will tran is live with more. We expect the senator to show about a 30 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. We will soar on him and tried to get questions. That means that he is suspended with pay. He has to fight for his life. He is 65 years old, he faces multiple charges including this on this service, if convicted on, and one count is 20 years so if he is convicted he missed and the rest of his life in jail, he was arrested last wednesday. He went to court, sometime later that morning, he did make bail, but what will happen is that they will revisit this issue and theres a good chance, and they will keep the bailout and he will also be in court, ought to enter a plea, so far were not sure how he will enter but on all accounts according to his attorney he plans to enter a not guilty plea and get ready for the court battle. This may last the next couple of months or year. We will talk about the two other defendants who were arrested in this case with him. We will talk about their connection to the senator. One person is dead and the overnight shooting in oakland. Police said that a man died at the hospital after some people dropped and off. The shooting happened after midnight and 580 at 14th street. A second person was shot in the leg also arrived. Today is the final day to sign for health care. Most americans were not covered will face a tax penalty. Two locations in the bay area will help you with that last minute and roman. The first location is at the oakland as and Cultural Center between 2 00 p. M. And 7 00 p. M. The second location is that the Bay Area Rescue Mission in richmond from 2 00 p. M. To 6 00 p. M. If you do go see either of these locations you do need to bring for items with you. You must bring proof of identity, proof of your address, proof of income, and proof of your citizenship. The number of people missing has now dropped substantially since the massive landslide in washington. The death toll has now risen to 21 and 30 other people are still missing. Washington gov. Sestet crews will be an active rest to mold as long as theres a possibility of finding survivors. Rain has been a near constant problem, soaking the debris field area. We have a drain fields, sewers. We have all household products that were in the homes. We are worried about of the area, we are worried about tetanus. We are worried about contamination. The less than we want to do is take any of this contamination out of here to our homes. If the u. S. Army has set up a decontamination station where crews to clean off. They even have the dogs being washed every day. Coming up on kron 4 news. Fremont police are still looking for two men in connection with home robberies. Coming up on kron 4 news. We will tell you who they are looking for. [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. Whats this . Its uverse live tv. With at t uverse. You can watch live tv from your device. Hey. Hey. Anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. So you wont miss a minute of ncaa march madness. Call now to get a uverse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. Guaranteed. Female narrator for over 60,000 california foster children female narrator for over 60,000 california a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. My shoes have a hole in them. I can barely fit in these anymore. I hope no one would notice. They hurt my feet. I never had new shoes before. To help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and theyll be given to a local foster child in need. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. Welcome back. We are taken as a live look at a right to san jose, 101, the tail lights are south. We are tracking traffic because there is no backup for delays for the trip between 880 north and 237. Two men are wanted this morning in fremont. They are believed to be behind a least to home invasions. The latest happened last thursday. The homeowner walked into her house as the robbery was in place. The same two man could also be behind a another one that happened less than a mile away. This time the two broke into a house through a doggie door. The men may be driving a green minivan. Still ahead, there are huge changes coming to muni. We will tell you how it would affect your ride. A mass us fired tears through a texas apartment complex. Residents can only sit by and watch. Plus, we are watching the radar for rain that is headed to the bay area. Good morning. It is not quite raining just yet. Here is a live look from our mount tam camera. The wind is starting to pick up for some locations. Today we will have rain and winds. Tomorrow, more rain is in store and on wednesday we will try to dry things out. Here is Storm Tracker 4. The bay area is a drive with just cloudy conditions. This is a storm system that we are watching, periods of heavy rain especially by late morning. Future cast 4 is picking up cloudy conditions for the 7 00 a. M. Hour. By 11 00 a. M. It will become worldwide spread. San jose, the peninsula is getting soaked. By lunchtime, we will still be very wet. Gusty winds, hail is possible. By 3 00 p. M. It will still be wets. You can see the green indicating the light rain so scattered showers this evening as well. The evening commute is looking to be a wet one. More rain overnight for to are morning. At 7 00 a. M. We will see more rain come through and also hold off for the possibility of thunderstorms. The winter storm warning is from 2 00 p. M. To wednesday morning. The heaviest snow will be tonight. The snow levels are pretty low and we have not seen this in a while. The valleys may see 3 1 6 inches on the summit over 2 ft. Your kron 47 day around the bay shows temperatures will cool down and guess it will be wet and windy. Wednesday morning maybe a shower to the will be chilly for some people the highs only been in the upper 50s. We should try things out and warm things up by the weekend. The time is 7 15 a. M. To we are not tracking any hot spots, the ride is looking good. It is very heavy for the north on rides in the back of this region and to the macarthur mayes. The east shore freeway ride, the nimitz ride is your best approach. If your headed towards the san mateo bridge, we do not have much in the way of traffic. Here we are starting to see things back of just a bit in the write cache line. Right case have very good drive times, it is bound to slow down for interstate 680, the ride into san ramon, the drive time is 22 minutes. 580 west has cleared out with no delays. The south bay freeway is a little heavy on 1 01 because of an earlier r occurring problem. Currently, the drive time is 19 minutes to the Mountain View expressway. Your ride through marin is still just under 30 minutes down to the golden gate bridge. Seismologists are assessing the damage from not one, but to earthquakes. More than 100 after shocks that rocked loss angeles this past weekend. At 5. 1 magnitude quake struck friday, followed by the next one 4. 1. Stephanie elam reports, the seismic activity has come as a wake up call for some. This is way beyond anything that i have ever seen. Take a look at these pictures. Bottles were falling off the shelves and recalls were falling apart. I am just going to double check everything. These buildings were red tagged but there were clear. This place was deemed to be structurally unstable. On saturday, a 4. 1 hits. In fact, scientists were in the middle of this briefing, they were having one. This continued to erupt. This is one of the quietest periods the we have had in l. A. History. Obviously that is not true for 2014. We may be getting back to the normal rate. Or, could mean that the big one is on the way. Most of them major changes are coming to San Franciscos muni and transit routes. It is being called the great muni over all. 59 of the transit systems 81 rooms are going to change. The Overall Service is being increase by 12 percent over the next two years. The transportation sucks, they made me wait for my appointments. They have had a lot of breakdowns. Under munis proposed changes, stop signs at eight intersections will be replaced by Traffic Signals that help make the trains of the priority. Another debris disappointment in the search for the missing malaysia airliner. Australian Officials Say that a cluster of debris was spotted. It turned out to be fishing equipment. It has been more than three weeks as the boeing 777 disappeared with 239 people on board. Teams continue to search the indian ocean. I think we owe it to the families, we owe it to everyone who travel by air, we told this to the government of the countries who had citizens on this aircraft. We owe this to the up war worl water world. Flight 370 left luala lumpur on march 8th for bay jeaeijing when it vanished. Making world headlines this morning. People ran for cover as artillery fire went off between north and south korea. Officials say the difference People Living on five southern caribbean islands to run for shelter. Were modern trend is International Story and we will give you more as it comes in. All this is going on as u. S. Marines are in south korea for military exercises. Those exercises, show what our marines would do if they need to invade the peninsula. The drills are the largest combined exercises in the history between the u. S. And south korean forces. In new mexico, hundreds of people are upset about the Albuquerque Police department. Two weeks ago i homeless man was shot dead by officers. Later, another man was shot and killed. Officers had to use tear gas to control the demonstrators. More than a hundred people watching their homes burned. Firefighters battled an Apartment Fire in houston, texas. The flames caused parts of buildings are the most to collapse. Firefighters have not yet reported any injuries but witnesses say they did see ambulance taking some people from the scene. Coming up, i will have information on scrap metal theft. This is all coming up in my next edition of people behaving badly. So you made some bad decisions last night. Make a good one this morning. Try my. Warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese. Choose supreme or sausage. Right now theyre 2 for just 3. 50. Cmon cody, lets get some breakfast. You drive. I traded the car for the tattoo. Anncr at jennieo we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. male annoucer now here is Stanley Roberts who found some people behaving badly. This is the jim pushing a shopping cart with a bicycle on top. It was hard at work when you were sleep. In the wee hours of the morning, not far from jack london square, his inside of this fence, tossing pipe fittings over to another person. This one for 20 minutes, metal being tossed. I will have more on this and a brief moment. This was captured by people behaving badly, at one point, he looked long to see what else he could find. He checked every area. His buddy is low enough. How do i know they are pipe fitting . If they only took these things. After they got done, look at what theyre doing pripet if you are going to behave badly, using a been may not be a bridge and idea. All i had to do was look for this recycling bin on the corner of sixth. What are the cause . Yes, it is him. In the daylight, this is how he got inside. He used this tire to climb over this fence. Notice the black and white jacket that he is wearing, not too far from the bin. Oh, heres some on his bike a again, the ferry sank when he used before. Very same one that he used before. And now out of jim is looking for placed under load this but because i am around, there is a good chance that no one will touch it. I will have more on this story coming up. In oakland, Stanley Roberts kron 4 news. Coming up on the kron 4 news. We will have the latest on people caught in an fbi sweep. Were also watching the rain. 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This is right at the high rise. This is out behind the camera view, the sensors are picking up delays. Likely, this will become a hot spots unless they get this cleared. Many times, once this traffic backs up a can take up to one hour more to unbind. Especially if we start to approach the commute where things have the possibility of becoming stop and go. I will keep a close eye on this. The bay bridge, is slower than it looks because out of the maze the drive time is 22 minutes. If you are heading towards a Richmond San Rafael bridge, it is backed up across all of the lanes. The back up this just begun to pick up the on the split. State senator leland yee accused the federal corruption charges is back before a judge today. So are the man prosecutors say are linked to his organized crime and potential weapons deals. Kron4 will tran is live outside of the federal courthouse in samprass go with more. Two people will now get out of the car is raymond shrimpboy chow and keith jackson. Let me show you video of them. He received his nickname from his grandmother. People wanted to know about this nickname. He is 54 years old and accused of money laundering. According to prosecutors, he had entered 2. 3 million worth. The other person as keith jackson, he is the common denominator. Also he is a campaign person for the senator. He helped to raise money for his campaign and he is accused of trying to get money for him and also trafficking guns and drugs. Prosecutors stated that he is 48 years old, a former School Board Member and he is also accused of murder for hire plot. They are expected to get their attorneys to enter their pleas. There is so much going on. We do expect so many people tore arrive. This scene is starting to generate but as soon as the senator comes in court we will try to interview him. Stay with kron4, will keep you up to date with this information. You can go on our website to view the latest information. We also have profiles of the other major people involved. No one was seriously hurt this morning when a car slammed into a bar in Oakland Police say that the incident happened around 2 45 a. M. At 17th and telegraph into cars collided. Investigators are still looking for the second car that left the scene. Oakland police said that a building inspector is not needed because the integrity of the building was not compromised. New this morning, an accident in San Francisco has Police Searching local hospitals. Kron4 Terisa Estacio reports with the latest. Take a closer look, Police Stated that this happened about 2 30 a. M. , two women were in this car at the time, they ran away before police arrived. Officers on the scene stated that this lexus lamp into this baker and cafe and they stated that the air bags did deploy so they are checking hospitals to see if anyone shows of with injuries. The building inspectors what the come out to see if this cafe could open today. In San Francisco, Terisa Estacio kron4 new is. The california Highway Patrol is hosting a series of Driver Safety class is for bay area teams at several locations next month. The chp Start Smart Program is a Driver Safety course designed to teach young people safe driving habits. Caltr train was shut down a busy intersection 80 in fairfield this week to perform maintenance work. The on one to westbound 80 at travis boulevard will be closed tomorrow between 9 30 a. M. And 3 00 p. M. It has been more than a month since 93 yearold san rafeal man went missing. His family is now offering a 5000 out of reward. Robert leslie davis was last seen here in court to madeira, leaving it more ran at joes restaurant on february 26th. His family says that he left this restaurant after his weekly dinner with his daughter. The fed says that he turn left out of the parking lot and that was the last time they saw him. Earlier this month, police did send out planes and helicopters looking for him but so far, Neither Police or his family have had a look. Any luck. New this morning. Japan has been ordered to stopped whaling program. Japan has claimed of this program is and scientific purposes. It has been the target of an barman to last for decades. This morning, the International Court of justice and hague, ruled that this program is not for scientific purposes and that they need to stop operations until further notice. And coming up on the kron4 newest. A pizza you can only deal with a prescription. University of arizona fans and students were ups and after their overtime loss to wisconsin. We will show you what happens coming up. Welcome back. This is miles away from our position in national look, the center lane, you will see the high rise section, this is where the stall is. You will have to avoid this for a lease the next 45 minutes. A pizzeria in vancouver has a topping you can only get with a prescription. The pizzeria, on mega ill, makes the piece of. For an extra 10, they will infuse the food oil extracted from marijuana. The people who run this place say that the only serve the slices to people who are over the age of 18 and have a prescription for medical marijuana. We are waiting for the rain to start. Heres a live look outside. Welcome back. The time is 7 45 a. M. We have a pretty cold front that will produce brief downpours and also the potential for a storm. Future cast 4 shows 8 00 a. M. The storm was start to comment. The north they will be the first to sit and by 11 00 a. M. It will be widespread. It will be coming down hard in a lot of locations including the peninsula and south bay. It will be went through the afternoon. Thunderstorms may have gusty conditions and also hail this afternoon. The evening commute at 5 00 p. M. Should be what as well. We will start to dry things out of scattered showers will still be in the forecast. For the next couple of days, we are looking at what weather and pretty act tough weather. There airport delays from sfo averaging about three hours because of a high winds up. The highs for to they are below average, upper 50s, low 60s. I am concerned about the oakland as home opener. The first pitch is a s 7 of 5 00 p. M. But showers are expected and it will be wednesdayat 7 05 p. Mn mind justin case you have tickets. It is going to be a wet stormy day and the same deal for tuesday. The snow levels are gonna fall today and if you do have to go up there you should carry your chains. We should drive out wednesday afternoon. The weekend should be nice. The time is 7 46 a. M. The san mateo bridge, is a hot spot, this fall has not yet been cleared from the righthand lane on a highrise. It is now backing of to the toll plaza but beyond the toll plaza. Do not even think about heading to the san mateo bridge for a least another hour. This is on to be the area for you to avoid. The dumbarton bridge would be and it better route for you. Out of the macarthur mayes, that is a rough ride over 22 minutes. The richmond san a rafael bridge, especially heavy for the westbound ride. Is backing onto interstate 580 in the westbound direction. Checking the traffic maps, the east shore freeway did not become a back up hot spot even though they had an accident. At the south bay is recovering from an earlier r current problem and then we have three separate accidents in the north bound direction come of the last was at 280. The ride through marin county, we are still under 35 minutes. A beloved movie and theater is close and in san jose. The Iconic Center of the retro domed theater will show their last film this evening. Kron4 John Fenoglio explains why this place is closing in how a number of fans are trying to preserve it. After 50 years, the Property Owner is not going to renew the lease and fans are hoping that it can be saved. If you dont save it now, it will be gone. He slow all the way from texas and this petition they to have this as a historic landmark in hopes that it will not be demolished. The century dome faces a lot of competition but those who want to preserve as say they can be used for something more than movies. We have people right here in the area who are ready and willing to make this a wonderful location. They all need locations to run programming. As for the final show it is sold out. We will talk about the sports. The final four is set in the ncaa mens basketball tournament. It will be seventh seed connecticut against no. 1 florida. Here are highlights from the game yesterday. Kentucky was taking on michigan. Inside 40 seconds, kentucky was up by 2 points and then michigan came back pripet would just two seconds left on the clock, the game is tied. Aaron harrison plays the hero for the wildcats and throws the three. Final score 7572 kentucky. Uconn be to Michigan State 6054 to return to the final four a year after the huskies were barred from the ncaa tournament. The huskies rallied from a nine. Second half deficit to become the first no. 7 seed to reach the final four since 1985. In an emotional overtime loss to wisconsin, airs on a wildcat fans rioted on the streets of tucson. Its you can see in this video about half of the officers charged a man in the street and arrested him. Police fired 200 rounds of pepper balls. A total of 50 people were arrested. You thought that google glass was strange what about this game . Coming up in my tech report are will show you out. Lets face it, most people dont know how to choose a new dentist. Thats where we come in. Weve helped over 8 Million People find the right dentist, and we can do the same for you. Call 1800dentist today. Of wild comeback. The time is 7 55 a. M. For nearly 40 minutes a stall was blocking the alliance. The back up traffic has not gone and now is backed up and the drive times over 22 minutes for the san mateo bridge. To not think about going to 92 to get across. It is time for the tech report with gabe slate. Bryant here is standing just a few feet away from my camera. But he might as well be miles away. He is immersed in an intense a good oldfashioned food fight. Shawn and his team at mine pirate have created a first of its kind with their new game of global food fight. Tech companies have their sights set on bringing these games to wear bows and a whole new category of gaming. This is a new way for you to enter iraq. You can use your head and your gestures as a way to actually control your experience. I tried the game, you really lose yourself incited. This is the most e. Mercer of google glass application i have ever experienced. It is very rewarding when you land food on your friends. You play genscher friends. So you can have an ongoing and with anyone else. Google glass been born and public has been a hot button issue. It grossed some people the wrong way. They find it annoying. We all have got news to everyone around as having their head down and buried in their phone, a tablet or computer. But gaming on google glass is a little different. Gabe slate kron 4 news. Coming up on the kron4 news. An Emergency Landing at san jose airport. We will tell you what happened to. We also have the tech report of some of my we also have the tech so you made some bad decisions last night. Make a good one this morning. Try my. Warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese. Choose supreme or sausage. Right now theyre 2 for just 3. 50. Cmon cody, lets get some breakfast. You drive. I traded the car for the tattoo. I beeclarin car for days. Woohoo athe fst sn ofy alleies, myoctorecoendetaki one clarit eve day ofy alrgy asonor ntinus rief. 16ays 26 ds ofontius rief. Livelarin clr. Everday. 26 ds ofontius rief. Im taking off, but, uh, dont worry. Im gonna leave the tv on for you. And if anything happens, dont forget about the new xfinity my account app. You can troubleshoot technical issues here. If you make an appointment, you can check out the status here. You can pay the bill, too. But dont worry about that right now. Okay. How do i look . Thanks. [ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. Introducing the xfinity my account app. The top stories the we are following, the state senato is back and scored. A driver crashed to their car into a cafe and then takes off. Rain is back in the bay area. A strong storm is expected. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. We will start with the weather. The rain is getting closer and closer. We are picking up like men off the coast. Lightning off the coast. This is of the core of the storm, it is starting to make its way south towards ukiah. The north bay will be the first to see the rain as early as 9 00 a. M. Future cast 4 shows the the temperatures will be cool and by 8 00 a. M. , it would inches wet clothes or but by 9 00 a. M. The north bay will see the rain and 11 00 a. M. It will become widespread. We are going to see the potential for of thunderstorms, by 3 00 p. M. We are very wide in the south. The evening commute is also looking like it will be wet. Scattered showers dropped the bay area. By 8 00 p. M. It should die down. Tomorrow morning, there is more ran on the way, all this means that a legacy snow levels. We will talk more about the winter storm warning and the next chance for rain coming up. It has been at least 15 minutes of the chp said that cleared this stall. We are still at a standstill, this is thus further evidence of how long the text of unwind a back up, miles and miles of stop and go traffic. This is a bridge should avoid for 45 minutes to one hour. You should use the dumbarton bridge instead. This is a problem spot, a again this fall was out there for about 45 minutes. The back of his core of all the way across the bridge. Any minute now california state senator leland yee is expected to walk into the federal courthouse in San Francisco for the First Time Since he was indicted on federal corruption charges last week. He is accused of taking bribes from undercover fbi agent and coordinating a gun operation. You are looking now at a shot side of the courthouse in San Francisco. We received word moments ago that he had left his home. We have crews there to catch a messy what sen. He has been suspended from the state senate but says that he will not resign. He was released on 500,000 unsecured bond. In court this morning, prosecutors are expected to ask a judge to make secure their ranch was for him. We do not know if that means as security detail be assigned to keep him safe or if he will have to wear an ankle monitor. Kron 4 news will be inside and outside the courtroom as a hearing happens and we will bring you the latest period. And airplane made an Emergency Landing at the san jose and mineta airport this morning. A small Team Airplane was having engine problems while trying to land. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Three people were on board but no injuries were reported. The number of people still missing has dropped substantially since a massive landslide in washington. The death toll has now risen to 21 people and 30 people are still on accounted the search for victims still continues. Cnns Andrew Spencer reports how they have another concern. We are waiting for this area to drain naturally before we can reach these areas however, there were able to make progress. The number of people unaccounted for is not as high but some families do not have answers. Were trying to go through here and rescue any possible survivors can find other loved ones. The governor stated that the crews will still be there as long as theres a possibility of finding survivors. Andrew spencer reporting. Until this month, two women crashed their car into a cafe and then took off. Police are looking for them, building inspectors will have to decide if the cafe to reopen for buildin\ business. This happened around 2 30 a. M. This morning. Offices on the scene say that this lexus happened to the corner of the building. Theyre checking hospitals to see if anyone shows up with injuries. One person is dead and the overnight shooting in oakland. Police said that man died at the hospital after some people dropped him off. A second person was shot in the leg also ride but the person is expected to survive. The today is the final day to sign up for obama care. Most americans are not covered either by private insurance or and aca. There are two locations available in the bay area to help you with your enrollment. The first one is of the oakland as and Cultural Center from 2 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. The second a location is that the Bay Area Rescue Mission in richmond from 2 00 p. M. To 6 00 p. M. If you go to either of these locations, you have to bring for items with you. You must bring proof of identity, proof of that dress, proof of and, and also proof of citizenship. Here is a live look outside from the san mateo bridge. There still let stand still. We will get more on this incident coming up. Female narrator for over 60,000 california foster children female narrator for over 60,000 california a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. My shoes have a hole in them. I can barely fit in these anymore. I hope no one would notice. They hurt my feet. I never had new shoes before. To help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and theyll be given to a local foster child in need. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. Welcome back. The time is 8 10 a. M. The stall that caused this problem is gone but the back up as not. The drive time is over 22 minutes. Fees should avoid this area. The dumbarton is a distance away but it is still a great alternate. If you need to use the nimitz, this is your best approach. So men are not wanted this morning in fremont. They are believed to be behind at least to home invasions. The latest incident happened last thursday, the home on a walk to answer our home as robbery was happening. The burglars pointed a gun at her and stole her purse and sleds. The same two men could also be behind another robberies that have been less than a mile away. The men may be driving around a green minivan. Still ahead. There are huge changes coming to muni. Will tell you how it will affect your ride. Seven california emergencSouthern California experience as a series of earthquakes over the experience as a series of earthquakes over the weekend. 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This comes as the threat of wildfires is heightened by the states drought. Several hundred seasonal firefighters are being brought on to staff fire stations from the sacramento foothills to san diego county. Additional hiring usually starts in midair even early in june but because of the dry weather, fire risk is increased and officials want to be prepared to read starting today, cal fire will hire 29 firefighters in this sonoma lake napa unit. Mark a string of storms is giving a muchneeded boost to the dismal sierra snowpack. This comes just before the traditional peak of the snow season. The squaw valley ski resort by 20 in. Of new snow over 24 hour. And this is a picture of north star, showing the 13 in. Of snow that fell over the weekend. According to the u. S. Natural resources conservation service, the storms have boosted the water content of the tahoe basin snowpack to 43 of average for the dates. Another storm is expected to bring up to a foot of snow to Higher Elevations around lake tahoe primarily on monday night. Anny we are going to pick up a lot of new snow especially in Higher Elevations so with winter storm warning in effect starting this afternoon going through tuesday and 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, heavy snow will be tonight and tomorrow. But in the snow level falling to 3,000 ft. Over the next couple of the that days. Summits over 2 ft. And people are saying its not that sierra cement the colder systems were this note should be fluffier and dry tree its going to be pretty good ski conditions by the time the storm is said and done. here Storm Tracker 4. This is what we are watching. This will come through the north bay over the next couple of hours. Picking up some lightning off the coast. A pretty dynamic and active system. Futurecast for showing their plane started in the north ave. If it comes 11 00. All of us will be seeing some really good down fourth and will be for the stormy afternoon. Be prepared to have a number if youre going to go out to run some errands and grab that one street looks like by 3 00 were Still Holding on to wet weather. The south bay holding on to some heavier amounts of rain also all for the Fairfield Area and also points east of antioch. 5 00 tonight, not as widespread but i think will still see showers for that evening commute. It does look like its going to be what one for a lot of folks heading back home tonight and 8 00, things really start to die down will see some showers often on the rope over nine hours and tomorrow morning, more rain is in the forecast. Another potentially stormy day and we will start to try things out towards the middle of highs today are below average. A lot of upper 50s and low 60s. The oakland as home opener against the Cleveland Indians is tonight at 7 05 soph. Thats if they dont care rain doubt because we are expecting showers tonight. The possibility for a rain out for a delay is definitely there. The 7 day around the bay forecast shows temperatures cooling down even more so on wednesday. We will only talk about in the upper 50s. Again a very active and what today. Tomorrow, potentially wednesday morning it will dry out and on the weekend for the first weekend of april looks pretty nice. The time is a 17, here is george with traffic. George the san mateo bridge ride in highway 92 a stall block the lanes near the high rise. One of the slow lane actually were still jammed up into wind across the bridge well over 20 minutes. The dumbarton bridge is clear right now so that makes a good alternate and so does the bay bridge. At least as far as the nimitz freeway approach is concerned because if you come in from 880 1 2youll have hardly any wedding at all. If youre coming from 580 its a different story. 24 still looking at a 20 minute drive time into the bay bridge last. To the richness san rafael bridge a light traffic about as the backup is gone and i dont think we will see any more delays here for the westbound a ride. And east bay corridor interstate 80 looks good drive conditions are under 20 minutes hercules to berkeley. Look at 683 very clear and so is west 583 south bay freeways looks good except for 580 north bound. A backup ride due to install. Slower than usual this morning. Here in marin county still well under 35 minutes for the ride from a bottle down to the golden gate bridge. Darya thanks a lot george. Another debris disappointment in the search for missing a Malaysian Airliner. Australian Officials Say cluster four to object spotted by a search plane turned out to be fishing equipment. Its been more than three weeks as the boeing 777 disappeared with 239 people on board. Teams continue to search the indian ocean west of perth, australia 3 austrias fine minister tony avant is found to keep up the search and solve the mystery of the disappearance if it can be solved. Tonuy y abbott. we owe it to this world. We owe it to everyone to do whatever we reasonably can darya flight 370 left kuala lumpur on march 8th for beijing when it vanished. Making world headlines this morning people run for cover as artillery fire goes off between north and south korea. But Officials Say forced People Living on five south korean island still bound shelters out of fear their homes would come under fire. The south Korean Military says north korea fired first. And it fired its own weapons in response. We are monitoring this International Story as the kron4 dot com for the latest three all this is going on as u. S. Marines are self creek for military exercises. And those exercises show what are marines would do if they needed to end the decree of peninsula. The drills are the largest combined amphibious exercise in the history between u. S. And south korean forces. 40,000 troops in all in new mexico, hundreds of people are upset about the Albuquerque Police departments recent use of lethal force. Two weeks ago, a homeless man was shot dead by officers in the albuquerque foothills. Days later, another man was shot and killed three officers have used tear gas to control demonstrators some of them carry weapons. At least one Police Officer was hurt in the protests. More than a hundred people watching their homes burn as firefighters battled an Apartment Fire in houston tx. The flames caughtjust cost part of a buildings roof to collapse. Firefighters have not yet reported any injuries but witnesses say they did see ambulances take some people from the scene. No word yet on what started the fire. In wyoming, a magnitude 4. 8 earthquake shook the northern part of Yellowstone National park. It was the strongest quake to happen there since 1980. There were no immediate reports of damage in the park as few visitors and staff this time of year. The park is home to a super volcano which experts say it has the potential to be wrapped with a force about 2000 times the size of mount st. Helens. Yellowstone does experience frequent earthquakes with at least 25 record since thursday. And experts say magnitude 7. 5 earthquake in Southern California would be disastrous. The puente hills thrust faults, which brought friday nights magnitude 5. 1 quake should destroy northern Orange County and the under Downtown Los Angeles into hollywood. Seismologists say that in magnitude 7. 5 earthquake along the fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the san andreas which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California. In 1987 the fault called the 549 quake that killed eight people and did more than 350 million m jff d i ve cd. D. M lsa d i ve copd, but i nt nt mbreaingprobms ty ofosti my ok cb. 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Announcement from indicated fed will keep Interest Rates low at least for the time being with that the dow up 38. The recipe of tin and the nasdaq up 38. In round two of apples huge patent fight against samsung goes to court today and the stakes are even higher. Thats because it involves new models like the Samsung Galaxy s three. If apple accused samsung of ripping off its designs. Samsung plans the same of apple. The first sample versus samsung trial ended in a 929 million verdict against samsung. But this time, apple is seeking a lot more about 40 per phone in damages. It darya major changes are coming to San Franciscos muni and transit routes. Its being called the great muni overhaul. 59 of the transit systems 81 routes are changing. The Overall Service is being increased by 12 percent over the next two years off. In many muni riders say the changes necessary. its a lot of breakdowns again be really disappointed. they are always late. They are never on time. The always mcneeley for work under munis proposed changes, stop signs at the intersections would be replaced by Traffic Signals that makes trains the priority. Still ahead on the kron4 morning news, will have the latest on the people caught in an fbi sweep. Were live outside the federal courthouse waiting on leland yees arrival and we are waiting for rain to start fall here in the next few i take prilosec otc each moing for my frequent heartrn. Because you cant beat zero heartburn. Wohoo [ male announcer prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommded frequent heartburn medicine for 8 Straight Year one pill each morning. 24 hours. Zero hearurn. Frequent heartburn medicine for 8 Straight Year why tide ps ladry cs . We, beeen n stain move anbrigener the erag hoeho spends 47 nts a lo on undr the erag hoeho buwithti pod you get all ree oneasyouspac. Whic at nts r lo, you get amakes lotm. Oneasyouspac. So tryide ds, anp. Nts r lo, a 29 right now three or to get a look at weather in talk about the timing of the storm. Hi anny. hi darya. We anticipated it the rain to start coming to the north there around 8 00 and thats basically what were seeing right now. Storm tracker 4 starting to get some return around the santa rosa area. This is a cold rain. This is how you really know. You can see right around hills burned that pinkish purple color indicates a mixture of some rain and sleet potentially. This is a cold rain which is an indication that temperatures are going to be on the chilly side today and you can see now of vacaville. This might not all hit the ground but were definitely getting some returns. But said the bay also get in and of some light rain and this rain is going to identify over the next few hours 3 heres a look at her stormy monday forecast. 9 00 the red will be a little bit more widespread and than by lunchtime everyone pretty much will see the rain and the entire north ave. It will be heavy at times and then at 3 00, still very wet and windy. Also it can see some thunderstorms. A pretty active system. We can see down power lines downed trees. We can also systems mohel forming. Will talk more about this storm and timing coming up in a little bit later first deals george with a live picture commute. The morning george. George thankyou anny 3 its a bad one once again. A stalled at about for 45 minutes block the lane on a high rise has been cleared for well over the halfhour in nearly 45 minutes. That has not helped the westbound a ride which is jammed solidly from the toll plaza if. In fact before the toll plaza coming across from hayward on 92 westbound you hit the south stopped traffic and it will save its way into pockets all the way to the base of the high rise. Use the dumbarton bridge or even the bay bridge if you use the nimitz freeway approach as your alternate routes. Darya thanks a lot george. A 31. Any moment now senator leland yee is going to walk into the courthouse in San Francisco to faces charges. Were told he did leave his home in the sun said district about a half hour ago so any minute kron4 camera to catch him heading in ahead of his federal bail hearing. Kron4s will tran is live at the courthouse and he will keep us posted with the latest period of will note. We have bought insurance covered we are waiting for him to rise. We know he left his house around 8 05 this morning with the traffic conditions could be here in a moment. We plan to get reaction from him. The senator was arrested on wednesday. He immediately made a bail at 500,000. When he arrived back in court today the judge will revisit the issue. Now likely that the judge will revoke but theres a good chance of a Court Appearance and then leave the court. Were waiting for him to make an official plea. So far we havent heard guilty or not guilty but according to his attorney, they say that the senator plans to plead not guilty and it gives them time to buy prosecutors three the prosecutors have 137 pages laid out against the senator accusing him of pay to play trafficking gun charges as well. As far some of those charges. They go on as high as 20 years for each charge. So the 65 yearold center if convicted is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. My colleagues and all of the media are having our eyes trained off looking for him to shot. Hopefully he will give answers to questions three we will carry it live for you. Any moment now he should be here creek darya viewers to know as you do that in this situation is that asking questions. You dont expect to get any answers but we look for signs of who he is with or what he seems like will absolutely. I mean we dont expect them to stop and give a News Conference but he could be jovial, serious 3 we saw last time after he was released from custody that he walked out. He had looked like a jumpsuit or lease their running jacket. He did make any comments to more than likely he is not going to stop to give a News Conference the theres a chance he might some Say Something quickly. Or maybe enough opportunity of him. Theyre a bank cases where they stop and make it a little notice announcement. Anything can happen. The shocked everyone last wednesday. The fbi authoritys were the only ones to know what was going down and thats why this case anything can happen. Its musty tv and thats why were all out there waiting to talk to the senator will by the way of the stores with him in the past and he talked a lot about issues is passionate about. More than likely he will say anything but you never know. Darya we will stay tuned go ride to the one that goes live. mark the positive video of the latest date tearing where the center was suspended three all our web site kron4 dot com. Mark new this morning an accident San Francisco has Police Search in local hospitals. Kron4s terisa reports off construction crews have showed up to shore up the building this after a hit and run three to take a look for yourself and you can see that the party still all here. For the driver slammed into the corner of this business. Police are telling us around 230 this morning they got a call of a car into a Building Permit office when they got here they found that two people inside the lexus had taken off. This is at the corner of 21st and false and street in the Mission District. Police are not sure why the driver lost control of the car and slammed into the building. It is unclear whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved in the police are not say right now whether the car was stolen or not. Police are saying that the air bag was a ploy so there checkin hospitals to see if anyone shows up with injuries from a crash. Building inspectors came out and attacked the building. Its not clear whether the business will reopen today 3 5 if you would be safe enough to do so. But the crews are out here to try and at least to make the building safer. Secure San Francisco Terisa Estacio kron4 news 3 and darya caltrans will shut down a busy intersection on interstate the california Highway Patrol is hosting a series of Driver Safety glasses for bay area teams at several locations next month. The chp is a Start Smart Program is 18 and Driver Safety course designed to teach young people safe driving habits. Chp officers will discuss traffic Collision Avoidance techniques collision causing factors driver and parent responsibilities and seat belt usage. Caltrans will shut down a busy intersection of interstate 80 in fairfield this week to a performance work. The on ramp to westbound 80 at travis boulevard will be closed tomorrow between 9 30 a. M. And 3 00 p. M. Three in nearby offer from westbound highway 80 at our role will also be shut down during the same time. Since caltrans plans to trim trees, remove letter a clearer trains during the closure. Darya its been more than a month since a 93 yearold san rafael man went missing in now the family is offering a 5,000 reward for any information on his whereabouts. Robert leslie davis was seen was last seen here in court madera leaving marin joes restaurant on february 26th. His family says he left a restaurant after his weekly diner with his daughter. Dinner. The family says he turned left out of the parking lot that night and has been ever since earlier this month police said the plan to helicopters looking for davis but so far Neither Police or his family had any luck finding him. 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Were talking thunderstorms and a wind gust. Rentals for the bay areas up to a halfinch. Use your futurecast 4. But at 9 00 today and about 10 minutes. You really start to fill in for the rest of the north bay and then by 11 00 the entire bay area will be seeing the wet weather with the yellow indicating a moderate to heavy rain. The entire bay area has a chance to see some of that act of whether 5 00 tonight i mentioned the possibility for someone to rose. Will start to die down by in oclock tonight. Still but the north will start to dry out. It but dont get too comfortable with that because by tomorrow morning we are looking at more rain. Im a little concerned with the as home opener at all about co coliseum. We are play the Cleveland Indians. Of the first pitch is that 705 tonight but im expecting showers and windy conditions and also may be some thunderstorms. So theres a possibility for some away or the worst in rainouts. Suppose reported three are delays because of the high winds. Highs today a lot of for 50s. And more 60s. A lot of us will be below average. On wednesday made a some lingering showers in the morning. Otherwise we are going to look at part because the conditions and then we should be dry. The majority of us should be dry and in the weekend looks really nice. The first weekend of april. A 50 is your time. George tower of them rose looking right now. tried to clear a spot 92 westbound grid from a past the toll plaza as we continue to try to clear the back up that occurred after a stalled loss the slow lane on the high rise. It used the dumbarton bridge or come here to the bay bridge. To use the nimitz freeway approach, you will have an easy ride. For your ride to the Richmond San Rafael bridge and no real problems left here is the traffic in all of the land and as you can see coming from 580 the richmond westbound no longer any backup or delay. Eshore freeway in fact freeways and general this morning the showy lighter than usual traffic for a monday. Mancini backups on about six a year even in the San Ramon Valley 3 west 580 looks good. With the nimitz freeway. Wheres all the traffic that should be there. Something for which look great in the the with the accident that we had a sunnyvale, north bound 85 central expressway, even that backup is cleared out and never ran the ride is back down under 30 minutes from a bottle to the golden gate bridge. A pizzeria in vancouver has a topping you can only get with a prescription. Marijuana. The pizzeria,mega ill, makes this piece of. For an extra 10, the and use the food oil extracted from marijuana treated the people who run mega ill said the only serve up slices to people for over the age of 18 and have a prescription for medical marijuana. The new regulations that go into effect on april 1st to force the pizzeria to stop making pies with marijuana fifth hawks contamination creates as after the massive landslide in washington. State. And rain is back in the forecast this morning. Were tracking it hour by hour for you. In about a half hour from now. State senator leland yee will be back in court this morning to find out the terms of his release. A will have our top stories in just two minutes. Its never been easier to find a dentist. Watch. Dentist. [ popping ] now you have to figure out which one takes your insurance. [ sighs ] okay. Now, a dentist you trust and feel comfortable going to. Hrmm. I know. At 1800dentist, weve helped over 8 Million People find that right dentist, and we can do the same for you. [ chuckles ] so dont put it off. Call 1800dentist today. Following a developing story of San Francisco where at any moment now suspended center0senator lelan yee is set to arrive in the courts. We will have coverage for you in just a couple of minutes. None rain is back in our forecast you consider shot from our mount tam that the clouds are already here. This is the bay areas new station. Kron4 news in nine starts now. Darya good morning and thanks for waking up with a kron4 morning news. Im darya folsom. Starting out with weather and traffic this morning the morning good morning anny. Anny were looking at some rain already a Storm Tracker 4. Heres a look at it. You can see in santa rosa area. And the north bay we also have some reports of light rain you could see in Santa Rosa Hills burned and bodega bay. That inching closer and closer to petaluma here so we are expecting. A rainy and windy. Some thunderstorms this afternoon also coupling with some high when the gus. Tuesday, march rain and storms are expected. George we are looking at live better here on the san mateo bridge where weve had a hot spot that has taken about an hour to clear this back up out in the westbound direction and it looks as though we may finally be free of the major delays. The drive times which had gone over 22 minutes are now back down around 60 minutes for the westbound a ride and if were lucky we wont see any more stopping the traffic here at the toll plaza. At the bay bridge westbound we are also seen the back up start to dissipate here so even coming from the macarthur maze the drive times have dropped to 16 minutes from a high of about 26 so its a much better ride all the way around. Darya mark and about a half hour from now state senator leland yee is expected in court to see the terms of his yee is accused of taking bribes from an undercover fbi agent and coordinating a gun running operation. He has been suspended from the state senate, and says hes no longer running for california secretary of state. But yee says he refuses to resign from the senate. He was arrested wednesday, following a three year fbi sting. Yee was released on a 500 thousand dollar unsecured bond. Kron 4s will tran is live in San Francisco now with what is expected in court today. Will . You can see the crush of media here. He left his home and around 8 00 this morning so any minute now he could be arriving. He went to court and may belt that judge belfi founder thousand dollars in unsecured bonds. He left at that time without saying a word and now he will be back. Theres a chance of the judge could revoke that the bail although no one thinks thats going to happen and theres also the possibility of him entering a plea. He has made an official plea at this time but his lawyer has already said the suspended center plans to enter a not guilty plea. Hes in the fight for his life. Forget about running for office ill will term note anyway. He will need every money he can get its hands on which is why some are speculating this is why he continues to hold on to his position. He suspended without pay. He faces on a Services Fraud with each count 20 years per count. After his apparent to other people make their appearance that to raymond one person is dead in an raymond shirimp boy chow and keith jackson. Were all waiting for leland yee to arrive at we will carry it live for you as it happens. We heard from our other colleagues that he waved to some of the camera people of side of this house so we would just have to wait and see. Stateowned and back to you. Darya will check back with you later. Today is the last day to sign up for obama care. This is it today is the final day to sign up for obamacare. Most americans who are not covered either by private insurance or an ac a account face tax penalty. And there are two locations in the bay area helping you get last minute enrollment done today. The first one is at the oakland asian Cultural Center. It will be open from 27 p m. And then the second is at the Bay Area Rescue Mission in richmond. It will be open from 26 p m. If you go to either of those locations, four items are needed to help you get enrolled. You must bring proof of identity, such as a photo i d, drivers license, or passport. Proof of addres. Such as a piece of postmarked mail. Proof of income, which can be the last 30 days of paystubs or your tax filings. And lastly. Proof of citizenship. That could be a birth certificate, or a permanent resident card. The number of people missing has dropped substantially since that massive landslide in snohomish county, washington, more than a week ago. But the death toll has risen to 21, and 30 other people are still missing this morning. Washington governor jay inslee says crews will be in active rescue mode as long as there is any possibility of finding survivors. Rain has been a near constant problem, soaking the debris field and, in some areas, forming ponds which are too large for searchers to work through. But the most pressing issue for search crews right now is soil contamination. we got drain fields, sewers. We got all the household products that we all have in our homes. Those have been spilled. Were worried about dysentery. Were worried about tetanus. Were worried last thing we want to do is take any of these contaminants out of here and take them into town, take them back to our families. The us army has set up a decontamination station where crews clean off. Even search dogs get a thorough washing at the end of the day. Coming up on the kron four morning news. New help is on the way to find the missing Malaysian Airliner somewhere in the indian ocean. And a one two earthquake punch in Southern California over the weekend. Sending a wakeup call to residents. Welcome back to the kron4 morning news. At the the san mateo bridge hot spot is now back down between 13 and 15 minutes coming out of hayward and handing over to foster city. Even the back up so long and 92 for the westbound a ride coming over from 880 have cleared out. Darya thanks a lot george. New details this morning on the search for debris from missing Malaysian Airline flight 3 70. Malaysian officials have instructed an Investigative Team to release a full transcript of what was said in the cockpit to the families of the pilots. Meanwhile, australian Officials Say a cluster of orange objects spotted by a search plane turned out to be fishing equipment. This is video of another ship set to join in the search. The ocean shield is carrying equipment built to locate the planes black box. It will take a couple of days for the vessel to get to the search area. Malaysias acting transportation minister says a joint agency is being set up in perth, australia to coordinate the Multi National search effort. The frustrating search for says any sign of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 isnt getting any easier. Its been more than three weeks since the boeing 777 disappeared with 239 people on board. Fuel indian ocean west of perth, australia. Australias Prime Minister tony abbott is vowing to keep up the search and solve the mystery of the solved. With no clear sign of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, relatives of those on board are left with little option but to pray. They gathered at a buddhist shrine in kuala lumpur today. Flight 370 left malaysia on march 8th headed to beijing more local news and the big stories you need to know more local news and the big stories you need to know about where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. Welcome back. At the time now is 913. It is your camera set up a waiting for state senator leland yee shop to the courthouse this morning. It may be to enter a plea. This will be a second appearance as the fbi arrested him and 25 others last week. We will stand by. Kron4s will tran is there. We have cameras inside off to bring you live when he arrives. It was never to george with traffic. George and lighter than usual ride all around the bay area especially here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Even at this hour its like traffic in the westbound direction for it would not be unusual to see things back up in the maze and the nimitz freeway north bound is also feeding into it is also very light right now. The san mateo bridge rainouts is clear. The stock has been gone for over an hour. But it took a long time at least an hour to one wind the back up. At the Richmond San Rafael bridge and no delays or problems for the westbound train. But take a look at the traffic mess and you will see the e shore freeway is back down to about a 15 minute trip time leading westward and down toward the base. Self 680 west 24 no traffic. A look at this ride on 880. Where would the otherwise heavy traffic to be here. Normally were still back about of san leandro with racial and on the roadways sensors. South bay freeways look good and in north bay ride is back down to around 25 minutes from the bottle down to the golden gate bridge. Heres the weather check now with sandy. Anny will maybe the coming storm this scary folks from driving in they may be decided to take public or work from home. Storm tracker for picking up on the light rain that has come from the north bay. And has the effect to be more widespread. Temperatures come this afternoon or going to be on the cooler side. Heres will be are expecting right now. The timing of the rain really starts between nine and 11. Starting in the north bay it will spread south words over the next couple of hours. We will have to watch for the transfer some thunderstorms which could bring some wind gusts and also some help. Lanes rain totals for the bay about 1 4 inch to a halfinch. Gotta watch out for some tough driving conditions especially for the evening commute and also the possibility for some urban flooding. Pierson futurecast 4. 11 00 widespread the winter storm warnings in effect 2 00 today through Tuesday Morning treat heavy snow starting tonight and goes through tomorrow. Snow levels will be pretty low. Down to 3,000 ft. At times. The valley is picking up 3 to 6 in. The summit over 2 ft. Of snow. Heres your kron 47 day around the bay forecast 3 its one to be a really went after known. Heavy downpours and we have to watch out for lightning and the chance for a wind gust getting up to about 40 mi. An hour. Same deal tomorrow. More rain and also the chance for thunderstorms. For wednesday may be lingering showers. If otherwise, temperatures topping out in the 50s only in that we will start to rebound with a temperatures starting on thursday and friday to send time for your weekend, back in the 70s by sunday. time to talk winners and losers with our financial expert rob black today is the deadline for the healthinsurance mandate. i think a little bit differently. Healthcare spending is hitting a 10 year high. You want some a healthcare Mutual Fund Exchange trading fund, index inside your portfolio. Its roughly 20 percent of our economy and it seems its always going higher. The inflation rate this year is about 5. 6 driving the big increase was hospitals. Even the hospital usage was down by 1 percent by patients, spending was up 8 billion plus 3 powerful to see how much we spend in health care and as we get older we are only going to spend more to you want to get involved as an investor investor and where Interest Rates are going she saw much for it gives me ease with the stock market. Youre going to keep money keeping people mortgages cheap which will help people make their Monthly Payments and that will help people have a little extra over at the end of the month. That will help people spend in the economy. Buybacks and building factories in building new businesses. I love the idea. Shes telling us of this because a couple weeks ago she said at some point in time Interest Rates shall fall and early to go to 50. Shes kind of correcting what she said two weeks ago. Who knows what happens but for now cheap money equals higher talks market oakland have become a big player in startups. this is taken from the San Francisco chronicle. A great article about how way city with by the protest to keep violence keep businesses away another starting to bring a businesses here and like and jack london square. It looks like the brooklyn. It is a very good type venture. Down side is there still a ton of space and oakland. But dont look for to become the next Silicon Valley as far as price increases go but oakland can expect a lot of diversification as far as ipos and locations coming into that area. Obviously for one of the big ones pandora. It towers over the city. Mcdonalds has been losing revenue and the breakfast time slot for four straight quarters. Taco bell Dunkin Donuts starbucks all sighting aims against mcdonalds. so for mcdonalds if you order a breakfast of give you a free small cup of coffee. to free weeks of coffee. Ago and joy. figure wroth and if ever a question for arabica posted on his Facebook Fan Page and we will answer tier of kron4 dot com. Darya seismologists are assessing the damage from not one but two earthquakes and more than onehundred aftershocks that rocked los angeles over the weekend. A fivepointone magnitude quake struck friday, followed the next day by a fourpointone temblor. As Stephanie Elam reports. The seismic activity has come as a wakeup call for some. the four separated from the wall. in case other californians prefer got this is an earthquake country. Mother nature provided a reminder over the weekend. At 5. 1 magnitude quake which struck an Orange County on monday followed by more the 100 aftershocks. Many of them so small most people didnt fill them but still a lot of activity words been unusually dormant. this was way beyond anything ive ever experienced. ticket with these pictures from fridays initial quake. Rick was falling apart objects falling out of shells. following the shaker 20 apartments salt of a los angeles war initially red tags and then cleared. Busted, homes where structurally unstable this place in a couple hundred people. And im worried aftershock is coming. And on saturday 4. 1 aftershock. In fact even while scientists were in the middle of an earthquake briefing, aftershocks continue to erupt. the last 20 years is one of the quietest periods we had in l. A. History. or could it mean the big one is on the way. we have never found a worldwide a pattern of building up in the bid the other big earthquake. Thats not the way earthquakes a lookalike. Most of them are randolph street and not so gentleand now so gentle warning to to get ready. state senator leeland yee. Accused of federal corruption charges. Is back before a judge today. And a loss of the story of how to on and went crashing into a cafe in the citys Mission District yesterday and got away with it. Thicken a live look at the Richmond San Rafael bridge not very much traffic at all on the richmond [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. Whats this . Its uverse live tv. With at t uverse. You can watch live tv from your device. Hey. Hey. Anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. Hey. So you wont miss a minute of ncaa march madness. Call now to get a uverse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. Guaranteed. Everything is running right on time this morning. Udc is a sliding towards our area. Anny yes and you can even see some of the blue appear which is the snow off the l. A. County is that just goes to show that not only do we see the right but its a cold rain that we are going to be experiencing today so hopefully you pack the kids up with their rankle terrain rainbows and umbrella. Theres a Storm Tracker 4 the difference is now filter is out of santa rosa and this is where we are scene of the light rain. Nothing to have the right now but definitely it is picking up on intensity and do well, so over the next couple of hours. Conceal Storm Tracker 4 ride around santa rosa and wine country we are getting some of thats a light plane. And to all of this will be making its way farther south impacting the entire bay area between 10 and 11 00 or so. That heres a look at what we are expecting for the baseball game tonight. With their rain, the first pitch is that seven of five but im expecting showers in the when us to act up and maybe even some thunderstorms. That means the possibility of delay is potentially are even worse, a rainout. Keep that in mind if you have to to tonights game against the Cleveland Indians. More details on the store for it will time out for you in a moment but first heres george with traffic. George things quieted down pretty nicely. Take a look here at the e shore freeway was 24. although there is a stall on 23rd its going to start to back sings of a coming on of sam leandro, none of the usual slow lane. None of the usual slowing here through the corridor commute. This is usually jammed up and his sometimes be 40 to 50 minute drive time from 238 down to 237. It does not the case this morning. So the bay freeways even 85 in the marin ride our developing story. State senator ileland yee accuse the federal corruption charges is back before a judge today. So are the men prosecutors say link lee to organized crime. And potential weapons deals. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco with what will happen today. Hes running late jealousies lifted by dozens of reporters on the side as well as on other side. His Court Appearance was supposed to start at 930. As you can see were all waiting for him to arrive. Theres no preferential treatment as far as prosecutors are concerned. We have a crew of the other side as well. I can tell you this is his second Court Appearance. He posted 500,000 of unsecured bonds. Today, the judge will revisit the issue. There is a good chance of the the judge will allow him to continue to be freed bargain he did anything on wednesday up until now. Also theres a possibility of whether or not he will enter a guilty or not guilty plea. So far we havent heard a peep but his lawyer says they will plead not guilty. In the meantime not only is he no longer running for secretary of state street he has been suspended by state lawmakers and he will need every dime because season the fight for his life. He faces multiple charges about six counts of the fraud and each count is worth 20 years everpresent. Biggest and the rest of his life in prison if convicted. our coverage continues online. You can view the full criminal complaint. Also weve posted the video from the latest state senate hearing, when yee was suspended. And profiles of the Major Players involved. Its all on kron4 dot com. New this morning, an accident in San Francisco has Police Searching local hospitals. Kron fours Terisa Estacio reports has the latest. And this after a hitand run. Take a look for yourself and you can see the car is still out here. The driver slammed into this business. Police are telling us that around 230 this morning, they got a call of a car into a building and what they got here they found out to people had taken off. This is at the corner of the Mission Street the Mission District. Police are not aware of why. It is unclear whether drugs or alcohol may be involved in the police are not say right now whether not the car was stolen are not. Police are saying that the air bag is deployed. Building inspectors can monitor and tag the building. Its not clear whether the business will reopen today arafat will be safe enough to do so. But the crews are out here to release make two men are wanted this morning in fremont. Theyre believed to be behind at least two home invasions. Both of them happening in broad daylight. The latest incident happened last thursday. The homeowner walked into her house as the robbery was happening. The burglars pointed a gun at her, stole her purse and fled. The same two men could also be behind another bbery less way. This time the two broke into the house through a doggie door and stole jewelry and electronics. The men may be driving around in a green minivan. The search is on tonight for two men police say are responsible for at least two home invasions last week. Will be right back. As kron 4s alecia reid reports, one woman walked in on the thieves. Obviously shes shaken up but physically they didnt hurt her, and were glad for that. Police say a gun was pointed at the victim who surprised burglarers on thursday afternoon by walking into her house during a home invasion. The suspects, whore described as black males, stole her purse then fled the 4200 block of san juan avenue. I cant imagine what she was going through. She said she was surprisingly very calm,, m for here on t of balboa way, thieves broke into a doggie that homeowner reported m and connec miniv burg as welcome back to the kron4 morning news. While we might have a rough ride this afternoon we may have a somewhat easy ride but at the hot spot at the san mateo bridge here is a the saw the ride. Even from the guadalupe parkway up to 237. today is cesar chavez day all state offices closed. This morning at 8. San francisco will host the cesar chavez holiday breakfast and legacy awards ceremony at Mission Language and Vocational School on 19th st. 11 a. M. In pleasant hill. Anthony chavez, grandson of cesar, will speak at an event hosted by john f. Kennedy university. And at 6 30 p. M. Anthony chavez will again speak prior to a 7 p. M. Screening of the new film cesar chavez. At the century theatre in pleasant hill. The high threat of wildfires fueled by the states drought has cal fire beefing up its firefighting staff. Starting today, the agency will hire 29 firefighters in its sonomalakenapa unit. Several hundred seasonal firefighters are being brought on to staff fire stations from the sacramento foothills to san diego county. Additional hiring usually starts in midmay or even early in june but because of the dry weather, fire risk has increased and officials want to be prepared. A string of storms is giving a muchneeded boost to the dismal sierra snowpack. This is a picture out of northstar, showing the 13 inches of snow that fell over the weekend. The recent storms have boosted the tahoe basins snowpack to 43 percent of average. Another storm is expected to bring up to a foot of snow to Higher Elevations late tonight. A warning today about food and global warming. A panel of experts with the United Nations has released a report, saying a warmer world will push food prices higher, making it much harder to feed the worlds poorest people. The latest warning is a big change from the last time the panel issued a report. In 2007, the un said it couldnt tell if warmer weather would help or hurt food production. Making world headlines this morning. People run for cover as artillery fire goes off between north and south korea. Those artillery shells landed in the ocean off the coasts of both koreas. But Officials Say it forced People Living on five south korean islands to fill bomb shelters out of fear their homes would come under fire. The south Korean Military says north korea fired first. And it fired its own weapons in response. Were monitoring this International Story and stay with kron 4 dot com for the latest. Will only see temperatures topping out at the upper 50s low 60s more than likely. Is your kron 47 day around the bay forecast. Stormy and rainy today. Watch out for hail and downed power lines. Tomorrow, same deal with storm conditions in wednesday, may be some link rainshowers said the temperatures will be a lot cooler. Temperatures are going to rebound especially by the weekend. The time is 1145. All this is going on as us marines are in south korea for military exercises. And those exercises. Show what our marines would do if they needed to invade the cost korean peninsula. The drills are the largest combined amphibious exercise in the history between us and south korean forces. 14thousand troops in all. Have a look see he was in court about 50 minutes ago. It was going to happen is he will maintain his freedom. His bill not being revoked. We see our colleagues pressing against the window so perhaps he has already wrapped up and is heading out this way. I can tell you that what is going to happen is hes going to look to see if they will secure his bond. He paid 500,000 of unsecured bonds which means he didnt have to put collateral. They say as a condition of his continued released it will look into matters of equity. But like everyone is waiting for leland yee to rise. We did not see him walking and witches because hes a senator which allowed him to go under a tunnel between two buildings. He made his way into the courtroom without anyone noticing as far as the media. This is ahead of schedule. Raymond shrimp boil it chao was there at about 935. Shrimp boy. He went before a judge but did not enter a plea. He did not even say a word. He does not have an attorney at this time so they pushed back the case until wednesday to give them two more days to possibly find an attorney. His attorney did all of the speaking for keith jackson. It looks at the any moment now we will try to get a shot of him. Darya sketching will lead the other reporters off guard there and of sight as he was able to get into the courthouse without anyone seeing him. 932 is the time now for it was the live look from our mount tam camera. As you can see all the fog stock then as we are waiting for it to really start to rain. Well be right back. Welcome back to the kron4 morning news 3 its 955 sonny gray will take to the mound to kickoff the season for the twotime defending al west champion oakland as. The athletics host Justin Masterson and the Cleveland Indians for opening day at odotco. After Jarrod Parker was lost to seasonending tommy john elbow surgery late in spring training, gray assumes the top spot in the rotation for the time being. Grays rookie season last year inlcuded all of 12 major League Appearances and 10 starts. Today kicks off the start of oakland as spirit week. Fans are encouraged to wear their as apparel or green and gold clothing all week. We want to see your opening day fan pictures. Send them to us on facebook, to eye report 4 kron at kron 4 dot com or by tagging hashtagkronfourbaseball on twitter or instagram. we are continuing to follow the investigation into senator leland yee who appeared in court this morning. We will give you the very latest. Thanks for tuning in. Have a good day. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. Doctor phil is next. Announcer today on dr. Phil. What turned this beautiful she beat up a friend. I broke her nose. 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