This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Welcome to tuesday morning. Matt and al said bring the tissues for the last half hour as we say goodbye to willard. It will be nostalgic for us on the show. He has been a constant for us and several generations of americans. We will pay tribute to willard. To the top story. The next republican president ial debate is hours away in las vegas where donald trump was met by a contentious crowd. We will start this afternoon with our correspondent Peter Alexander out in las vegas. Reporter good morning, savannah. Keeping with the las vegas theme. The donald trump lead is not a mirage. The poll showing him out with the biggest advantage yet. Expanding the lead 28 points. In second place is ted cruz. Leaning independents largely supporting trump in their words as the strongest leader. The man likeliest to bring change to washington and best chance of winning the general election. Along the vegas trip, high stakes ahead of the last Republican
A proposal to establish citywide park closure hours in San Francisco was passed by a board of supervisors committee. The legislation would establish closure hours of midnight to 5 am. At most parks around the city. The proposal is an attempt to combat vandalism and Illegal Dumping in parks which cost San Francisco more than 900thousand dollars annually to clean up. Violators would face a fine of up to 100 dollars for a first offense, with escalating fines for subsequent offenses. The legislation will come in front of the full board at its october 29th meeting. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office says the streets are a little safer after seizing close to a million and a half dollars in drugs from a san jose home. The bust was the culmination of a two year investigation by the Sheriffs Office confiscating crystal meth, cocaine and heroin. Several weapons and 825 thousand dollars in cash. Detectives believe it is all part of a meth distribution organization. They say the operation is r
Another car had its windows showed out out with a bb or a pellet gun while the driver was heading down a san jose freeway. Details coming up. The u. S. Government has plans to interrogate a suspect it out qaeda opealqaed operative who was captured on a pair of highprofile operations in africa, this weekend. Now they believe that this man could be linked to the bombings of to u. S. Embassies. You will see on your extended forecast that the 7 day around the bay shows at the temperatures will continue to slide. We w sunshine afternoon. We have possibility of showers because we are tracking a system to the north. As of right now it will be added 10 to 20 chance. There is a possibility that the system will not hit and at all. Warmer weather and is slightly richer by the end of the week. We have pretty mild conditions. As for the traffic, were not monterey any hot spots but we may have a fire on the side of the freeway on highway 1 01. You should keep this in mind. As for the bridges, all is
Weather and traffic. This is a live look from our roof cam. The San Francisco skyline everybody is waking up to clear skies. A bit of a warming trend. Temperatures are deftly warmer for this time of year. The extended models are definitelywarmer. Here is however, is called right now. We read in the upper 30s in Half Moon Bay is cold your kron 4 7 day around the bay looking like a great week and still temperatures are right where we should be for this time of year. So that is something that we will continue to monitor on kron 4. As for traffic . It is looking good. This is the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. This has no problems, no delays. Very quiet on the san mateo bridge, only 12 minutes. Also no fault of the Golden Gate Bridge and no accidents no fog. Good morning and top stories we are folling this monday morning strike deadline by 24 hours tonight, granting bay area commuters a days grace, but blasted bart leadership for what they called a refusal to negotiate. Bart leader
Or if no sot of the union or management get sot of negotiator while the possibility of a second bart strike looms, many are asking. Why isnt it illegal for bart workers to walk off the job. Maligned there will continue negotiation all San Francisco Public Workers are allowed to strike except for muni, which is prevented by a city charter. Labor and negotiations expert john logan shares why bart negotiation break downs are so troubling this time around. They have had more than enough time to reach an agreement. We were moving towards an agreement. Iall of the participants says that everything must work this time around. If a bart strike does happen. Stay connected to kron4 dot com. Thats where we tell you how to get around the bay. Well also keep you updated on our facebook and twitter pages. You can also download our mobile app to get push alerts for the latest bart information. Making things worse for commuters. The ac Transit Union announces a plan to go on strike this week the Union