The worlds big sports stories for you, including argentina taking on switzerland in the world cup quarter final miswell have the action later in the program. The if you know release are being held in israel for three settlers whos bodies were found in the west bank monday. They disappeared over two weeks ago. Israel accused hamas of being behind their kidnappings and death. He said those responsible for the deaths would be found. Our military has been working over the past few days against hamas targets in gaza and we will continue to do that. If we need to, we will expand the battle. If anyone thinks they will achieve anything with terrorism, they will find the opposite results. Hamas is responsible, hamas will pay. Hamas will continue to pay. Israels military said more rockets have been fired from gaza, but no one hurt. In jerusalem, israels religious right have been protesting, calling for revenge. They accused the government of not doing enough. Hamas has kidnapped israels in the p
male announcer live from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. Traffic on and off the island has been shut down since shortly before midnight. We will go to erica who is watching College Traffic along the bay bridge. Erica. Good morning to you anny. The offer as shut them you will encounter a blank closure leading up to the ranks closure erica for the most part we are still seeing a lot of cream on our roadway sensors indicating speeds over 50 mi. Per hour. The police have no estimated time when the lines will result in an the outcome of that standoff this is something we will continue to monitor and track morning. As we take a live look at our cameras we have made fog advise before the bay bridge area. Traffic is still light in the area we do not have any major problems heading into San Francisco. We have the ramp closure if you are heading to Treasure Island. Here at the san mateo bridge is quite in both directions. The drive is 12 minutes and set in. Southdown 101 looks good
Now the race for mayor in new york city. This formed the latest in a series of debates between the candidates with less than three weeks before voters in new york city go to the polls. The democratic primary is scheduled for tuesday, september 10th. If no candidate obtains 40 of the vote a runoff will take place between the top two finishers. In a leading democrat and republican will face each other in the november 5th general election. The race continues to make national headlines, and it will put the candidates and their campaign in the perspective. Joining us from new york, kate taylor for the New York Times. Thank you for being with us. A pleasure. Three weeks to go, set up this race. What youre looking at . As you said, if none of the candidates get 40 in the primary there will be a runoff but when the top two candidates. What you have right now is three candidates all in a very tight race for who will be the two people who get into the runoff. The most recent polls, roughly tied.
Rain, San Franciscos department of public works this morning rushed to release sandbags to residents. The city stockpile several hundred bags for distribution. Given out approximately 200 sandbags so far. Clearing catch basins and the areas flowing leaves. Weve had a couple of minor incidents with trees coming down. The skies cleared by midday leaving behind flooding that prompted the park service to close the highway. This mans car died moments after he drove through the intersection. I went through the puddle and, a car just stalled. I guess the water just went into the hood. Fear of flooding is strongest in the citys mission district. Heavy rain in april flooded an Apartment Building including a restaurant. The water wants to pool here. This used to be a lagoon. When we have that coupled with high tides the rain has nowhere to go. Whether School Workers is tying to secure the site. It took two days of phone calls. Sandbags could be picked up in the agencies operation yard. Proof of
The race continues to make National Headlines and for the next hour, we will put the candidates and their campaign into perspective. Joining us from new york is kate taylor. Thank you for being with us. My pleasure. Three weeks to go, set up this race. What are you looking at . None of the candidates get 40 and the primary, there will be a runoff between the top two candidates. You have three candidates, Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson, and de blasio in a very tight race. Poll, christine were and bill de blasio tied. We will see some very intense backandforth. Some of the issues you will see, our term limits Christine Quinn made a very controversial decision to lift the term limits. Youll also also see some discussion of new york citys police stop and frisk baptist, which was the subject of a friskl stop and practice, which was the subject of a federal case. The candidates all have said they will reform the practice. They have slightly different means of doing so. Outher issue that will