Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 11AM 20150109 : co

Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 11AM 20150109

Girlfriend. Schools were with on lockdown and a highway closed. To the northeast of paris, police ring the printing plant and say they trapped the brothers inside. Im steve handelsman, nbc news. Now the massacre at that french newspaper may not have been the brothers first strike. The Associated Press is reporting that he one is suspected of fighting for the terrorist group in spring. He may have been among the foreigners deported from yemen in 2012. Stay with us. This is still a developing story. It continues to unfold. You can find the details when we are not on the air at nbc bay area. Com. Happening today there will be a historic closure of the Golden Gate Bridge. A live look this morning. Traffic light and flowing. The key word is flowing. Come midnight the picture will look different because the bridge will be closed. Nbc bay area is live at the bridge this morning and it is supposed to keep drivers safer while crossing the bridge eventually, right . Thats right. Good morning to you. This is whats going out, getting taken out of the bridge. These yellow plastic pylons. This is the only thing separating the traffic in both directions here on the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see them in the distance. Those are out. Crews are beginning the work this weekend for the closure. The longest in the Golden Gate Bridges history. The old and new. Concrete and steel barriers three times wider and twice the height. The primary goal prevent headon collisions. It is tall and strong. It will separate oncoming traffic and virtually eliminate headon collisions. Since 1970s there have been 128 headon collisions and 16 fatalities. That doesnt include the number of crossovers where they come back to their own lane and cause a traffic tangle. Reporter Golden Gate Bridge representative says the technology for an extremely narrow barrier didnt exist until now. The 30 million for the project pays for the 3500 steel and concrete barriers and the brand new machines that will change the lanes in each direction, helping the flow of traffic during rush hour. While the trucks arent new, they are designed for the bridges need for a narrow median. Manufactured by a local company. Regular bridge commuters say they welcome the change. Im glad those will be done. They pop up all the time and cause accidents and come up on your windshield or im happy about the barriers going up. Whenever i am next to the fast lane coming the other way it is frightening to me. My wife will appreciate that. I can tell you that much yeah. Reporter tell me more . Has she talked about it . For sure. She finds it fairly narrow. I would usually drive across but even if i am driving she finds it unnerving. Reporter the bridge reopens monday morning at 4 00 the advice, take your time. The barrier is put in place to stop mayor accidents. If drivers take it slow thats what will happen. If they are not paying attention to their surroundings and the new merge there could be more minor accidents. Thats not what we want to see at all. Now other changes to look for. The merge will shift from right to left now. Speed limit drops from 55 to 45. The project costs 30 million. 75 from the state, 20 from toll revenues and 5 from federal funds. The last time the bridge closed was in 1987 for the 50th anniversary celebration for a few hours. So 52 hours is a big deal for the Golden Gate Bridge. The closure starts at midnight saturday morning through monday 4 00 in the morning. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. A lot of folks head to the Golden Gate Bridge on the weekends. And if you have to travel around the city not as a tourist but because you live there, we have ways to get around that closure. Good morning. The full closure of the bridge is for a good reason. Behind me is a live look. These pylons are all that separate the southbound from the northbound directions. Will be a little better if we have that physical barrier to keep those directions separated. Lets look because we have some options for you. Even though the bridge is closed to the drivers, we have the bus drivers which will continue across. Golden gate transit will have a weekend service. Golden gate ferry and larkspur ferry will have added service. Sausalito and ferry terminals to and from the city the best options if you must travel between the two with. Another ten miles to go around richmond to the bay bridge both directions of course. Thats the only alternate and the san mateo bridge may see more traffic. San mateo bridge will be less than 80. Stay with us online. We have more of mikes information of how to get around the closure and details about the new lanes and configurations you want to know when the bridge reopens on nbc bay area. Com. This morning a bird strike forced a United Airlines jetliner to make a sudden uturn after departing from sacramento. Heres a photo inside the plane showing sparks flying off the wing shortly after the strike. The 737 was bound from sacramento to denver when it was hit 5 30 this morning. Passengers say they definitely felt the strike but then didnt know what to think next. It was like a jolt to the plane, and i could see the flames. The lights started flickering, everybody started yelling. I was thinking this could be it. Reporter the passengers say when flight attendants heard people yelling fire one showed up with a fire extinguisher not knowing it was in the engine outside. Fire crews responded as a precaution. The 737 landed safely and passengers boarded new flights as investigators examined the plane. There are an average of 1,000 bird strikes a year according to the faa. Were going to go now live well no were not apparently. Yes, we are. Thats jerry brown, not live. Governor brown unveiling the latest state spending plan. His 113 billion budget includes 1. 2 billion each for the yan day fund and death payment. The second year in a row the state budget will run a surplus. The governors plan does not include funding for university of california. That likely means tuition rates will likely go up. The meeting looks the same every year. The numbers are different. They are not doing enough according to protesters in san jose. Less than an hour ago they gathered in san jose demanding Governor Brown put more focus on the health and well being of those living in poverty. Were here to speak out against the governors proposed budget because it does not deal with the incredible poverty we have in Silicon Valley or around the state. Another protest is expected to start in San Francisco within the next hour. Also happening today, president obama is in tennessee right now announcing his plan to make Community College free for students. The plan is to give two free years of Community College for everyone whos willing to work for it. These are live pictures of the president speaking in tennessee right now. California has more than 2 million Community College students. More than any other state. The College President said he is happy to see the push to make going to college as necessary as going to high school. The importance of him declaring it as an objective cannot be underestimated. It really is a signal to the students on this campus and their families that getting an education is a national priority. The president can propose it but congress has to pass it. The federal government would need to pay 3 4 of the average cost. Participating states would pay the remaining tuition and under the proposed rules students would have to be enrolled halftime and maintain a 2. 5 gpa. Seems fair enough. We will have new details on the Measles Outbreak at what is the happiest place on earth. Coming up the warning expands as the number of people who have gotten sick goes up. This is the world famous Harlem Globetrotters back in the bay area. Dow industrials down 149 points this morning despite some solid news. 252,000 jobs were created in the month of december. More than 3 million jobs created in the entire year. The inemployment number the lowest its been since the dotcom boom and rates of hiring the fastest since the end of the depression. 252,000 jobs in december. Unemployment rate falls 5. 6 . You may recall novembers numbers were blockbusters 321,000. Economists announced they are revising the number up to 353,000. When we deep dive to the numbers, we see the jobs created are good jobs professional jobs. One strange thing, hourly pay dropped slightly. Thats hard to figure out. Number one the jobs are fairly high end and when you lower the Unemployment Rate the competition for workers goes up. More than likely the person you are trying to hire already has a job and you have to pay her more to leave than if she were unemployed. We shouldnt see the hourly wage fall. People walking off their jobs in fast food. Protesting wages. They want 15 an hour. The big question is whether lowskill and entry level workers may get too expensive, even at 10 an hour. We talked a long time about American Factory workers. They have been losing jobs replaced by technology. Unemployment went down. Thats robots. When it is fast food the experts will argue about that. This sunday on press here, we will talk about that and get in to heavyduty arguing. We dont normally argue on that show. But not this week. Okay. It is interesting. It is a touchy thing when you see the divide between the middle class shrinking down. Yes. Now the entry level, as well will shrink down because of automation. Switching gears now, some of the worlds best basketball players are this this bay area and this time were not talking about the warriors. Were talking about the globetrotters. We have gotten to know the game but what about bob . I think he knows the game pretty well. That is not him. I can tell because he is not as gooded with a basketball. Hi, bob. Reporter hey, scott and chris. You are looking at slick willie shaw with the Harlem Globetrotters. Good morning to you, slick. Good morning. I you guys are back and taking on the Washington Generals. Our 2015 Washington Generals revenge world tour. We havent played them in five years. I was on the team so i cant talk about that. We are giving them an opportunity. I was thinking horse or pig. I dont know if we have enough time. I like to play photo synthetic echo plaz plachl mraz eck t ectoplasm. I have to put it behind my back. Whatever works for you. Im going mad on this. There we go. Oh i have it. There we go. Wait i have to do this. You have to do this too. We will also honor a hometown hero. Fabs fans can go online and a game to support our men and women. What if i dont do the under the arm thing. Yeah there you go. Better than i can do. It is still spinning. We had time. One more. We will make it. Sounds good. Here we go. All right. Halfcourt. And, and. Oh, too much, too much. Ill concede to you. Thank you very much. You guys will be here tonight and next friday and saturday back and then tomorrow at the arena. Come out if you are in the bay area. The memories last a lifetime. Great playing bball with you. Thanks. I played basketball two years in high school and never scored a point in the game. I didnt score in high school either. I think the camera i was nervous. I can always nail the back thing, always. It was the camera. We will run it some other time. Bob played with the Washington Generals for a couple of plays once. It was fun. He actually is good at basketball. He actually is. Lets check in with anthony this morning. Good morning to you both. In fact this morning a lot of cloud cover across the bay area. High thin cloud cover but nonetheless cloud cover and out there because of the system to the south expected to make its way in to Southern California as we head throughout the day today and tomorrow. If you are traveling across Southern California, you will run in to showery activity. Here at home another hazy day. In fact another spare the air day for the bay area. This will remain in effect for the next 24 hours them good news as we head toward the weekend we are talking improving air quality. Saturday and sunday. For that matter monday. It looks like the air quality will go from unhealthy to moderate levels. At least we are looking at improvements. There overall highs today will be comfortable in the mid60s with a good mix of sun and clouds. 65 in the peninsula. You can see it is shrouded in with haze. 63 San Francisco. Close to 70 in the north bay. Today will be a cool day. It will be even cooler as we head to the weekend. We are talking about low 60s for san jose. That will be most of the day in the 500ss. A dry start to the workweek. If you are looking for something to do this weekend, theres a guided sculpture walk where you can see sculptures like this. Temperature s in the low 60s at the presidio with a mix of sun and clouds for saturday and sunday. If you are trying to check out some cute fellas like this head to the marine maamle center in sauls lito. You can get involved in the marine life. It is science sunday from 10 00 to 5 00 and you will notice a mix of sun and clouds in sausalito. We start off the month and year very dry. You can see each day we didnt have rain is an orange. The days we had green, thats the rain. Thats where we will be looking at as we head to next week. A week from today we will track the system that will move this way with. Friday late in the day in to saturday morning. The next chance of rain will push to the bay area. Until then it will be a dry workweek an weekend with better air quality. Hopefully that will help you get out and enjoy the activities across the bay area. Guys back to 0 you. Still to come award shows can drag on if you have you have the wrong host. Thats not likely the case with tina fey and amy poehler at the mic. Well tell you. He is saying in the movie its the last time. No its not the last time. I love these movies. I dont know why. Im not going to see it. Have a great weekend. Hollywoods award season kicks off this weekend with the Golden Globes. While those up for the awards will generate a lot of was the host tonight will create their own. Heres nbcs mark barker. Getting sloppy in here everybody. Reporter the third time might be a charm. We got drunk. The first two times went well for tina fey and amy poehler. We are going to get this show done in three hours or as Martin Scorsese calls it act one. Hi julia. You know us from tv. Thats not to say they cant improve. Im trying to maintain eye contact with one person and win that person over. Great idea. Yeah. Im going to try to get Julia Louisdreyfus to smile once. Good luck. Luck may not be an issue for birdman. The comedy is expected to be a win dmer the film category unless the hosts get their way. I think there should be a hunger games type thing where we put the people through challenges to see who wants it the most. I. Reporter less challenging is finding targets for the hosts humors. Taylor swift you stay away from michael. Is the Hollywood Foreign press off limits . I think they have a good sense of humor. And lot of them are asleep by the time the broadcast. A few of them are ghosts. Reporter which raises the hopes. They can be funny and not mean. You can watch the Golden Globes on sunday night. The show starts at 5 00. Dont miss our premier special countdown to the globes with meredith vieira. That is 10 00 on nbc bay area. Still to come a Delivery Driver caught on camera doing a pickup instead of drop off. Police are looking for the driver turned dog napper. Now back to new details in the developing story out of paris where two hostage standoffs came to a deadly end this morning. Both linked to a terrorist attack on a magazine. The suspects were spotted an chased in to a printing factory outside of paris where they took at least one person hostage. After a sevenhour standoff French Security forces stormed the factory. Police say both brothers were killed, one hostage was freed. At the same time another hostage standoff was happening at a kosher market in paris. The gunman was identified as coulibaly. Officials say he was threatening to kill hostages if police didnt stop their attacks on the kouachi brothers. Officers stormed the market and the gunman was also killed. We are trying to investigate reports from french media that several hostages were killed in the standoff. Stay with us for the latest on this story as it continues to unfold. An historic closure of the Golden Gate Bridge. Feast your eyes because traffic is flowing. Come midnight it will not. Picture will look different. The bridge will close. Heres nbc bay areas stephanie with why. Reporter these are coming out. These yellow plastic pylons are the only thing for years that separated the two lanes of traffic for the directions south and northbound here on the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see them in the distance. They will be there no longer. Crews start work at midnight. The closure beginning the longest in the Golden Gate Bridges history. Out with the old and in with the new. Concrete and steel barriers that are three times wider and almost twice the height. The primary goal prevent headon collisions. It is tall and very strong. It is separate oncoming traffic and virtually eliminate headon collisions. Since 1970 there have been 128 headon collisions. And 16 fatalities. That doesnt include the number of crossovers where they come back to their own lane and cause a traffic tangle. Spokesperson says demand for sprouted in the 70s but technology for a narrow barrier didnt exist until now. The 30 million for the project pays for the 3500 steel and concrete barriers and these brand new machines that will move the barriers to change the number of lanes in each direction, helping the flow of traffic, especially in rush hour. While they are not new, they are designe

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