And burglars are starting to use a very strange strategy to get inside victims homes. Well tell you about the so called snake scammers and the cities theyre targeting. And the rim fire continues to burn an yosemite. Well talk to cal fire and get the latest in the fight to contain that fire. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im marty gonzalez. Our top story this morning is the closure of the bay bridge. Many of you are looking for alternate routes to get around the bay this Labor Day Weekend. We want to start off and check out traffic conditions with robin. Our top story this morning. This is the thrid full day of the bay bridge closure. Crews continue to work around the clock. Connecting interstate80 to the new span. At the same time, theyre also demolishing portions of the old bridge. San fog this morning zeitover the Golden Gate Bridge up 50s for coast itsand bay area uopper 60 on the coast low 70s inland kron4s mike pelton joins us live from the oakland side where hes been fol
Continue, the fire chief says she and the mayor have reached out to the families of the three chinese teens who died. The eight family members of the girls who are in the bay area have not indicated if they want a meeting. I think now, i request say that they are are, i can feel how very, you know, deep sorry inside. Reporter as for the fire chief, she says shes sikking by herman and women who she describes as devastated. Were in the business of saving lives. Obviously, this is very difficult news for us. Were heartbroken. Reporter now still a lot of questions in this. How did the girls end up where they were. And how did the girl miss the girl and run over her. We dont know when toes answers will come. As for the fire department, no disciplinary action taken. No one is on leave. And the chief saying it will likely stay that way as she and the department consider this a very tragic accident. Nbc bay area news. And theres more to this story. Tonight, we have confirmed that firefighters
The us and russia reach a groundbreaking deal today in the crisis in syria. Well have all the details. Good morning and thanks for joining us on this saturday september 14th. Im marty gonzalez. Well get to your top stories in a moment but janu for your weekend forecast. Developing news thisthe us and russia reach a groundbreaking deal today. On the framework to eliminate syrias chemical weapons. Kron 4s mike pelton reports the latest on this breaking story. Mike . The deal comes following the third day of negotiations in geneva between us secretary of state john kerry. And Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. The two made the joint announcement today. Laying out a series of steps the Syrian Government must comply with. Among the steps. The two diplomats say syria has one list of its chemical weapons inspectors must be on the november. The hope, then, is to see the destruction of all syrias chemical weapons by the middle of next year. This comes after president august 21st chemical w
And giving you a chance to sound off about it this early in the morning. You can do so by giving us a call at 186655press. We invite your comments as always on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. President obama bringing the focus back on the economy yesterday. Weve got to the stakes, he said for the middle class could not be higher than they are today. He told crowds yesterday in illinois and missouri. Today he takes the same message down to jacksonville, florida challenging republicans in congress to stop bhoking everything and get to work, helping create jobs in this country. Meanwhile, the pope continues to wow them down in brazil. Yes, Anthony Weiner vows he is going to stay in the race up in new york city but more and more people including the mighty New York Times are telling him hes got to get out and take care of his personal problems. Well talk about that and a whole lot more here on current tv. vo current tv gets the conversation started weekday
Pennsylvania avenue at the white house. Well take a look at the rest of the country and the rest of the globe. John kerry announcing yesterday that the initial round of peace talks here in washington were successful and the representatives of the palestinian territories and israel will meet again in a couple of weeks somewhere in the middle east. More on that and a whole lot more. Youll want to talk about it at 186655press, thats our toll free number. On twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. Well, the government failed to find Bradley Manning guilty of aiding and abetting the enemy but he was found guilty of 19 lesser counts. The sentencing phase of that trial begins today. He will definitely spend some time in prison. President obama has offered republicans what he called a grand bargain. He said i will give you tax lower taxes for corporations if you give me money to create more jobs in this country. Thats the deal. Will republicans take it . Find out righ