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KNTV Today In The Bay April 19, 2017

A slowdown, northbound 101 to highway 85. 26 minutes. Northbound 280 to 85, 8 minutes, and taking a live look in san jose, we can definitely see we have crews on the way. You can see some cops. Hopefully everything is okay. Well keep on top of it. Back to you. Thank you, vianey. Lets get back to the breaking news, which we have been following since we came on air at 4 30 this morning. Convicted murderer and former new England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is dead. According to the Massachusetts Department of corrections, hernandez was discovered in his cell just after midnight hour our time. Investigators say he hanged himself using a bed sheet. Staff at the jail did try to save his life there. He was then taken to a boston area hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. You talk about the hospital. Here are the aerials over the hospital this morning. Investigators say that hernandez actually tried to block them from getting inside of his jail cell by jamming it shut with items from inside the cell. Obviously, he was unsuccessful. Just last week, hernandez was found not guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of two men back in 2012. But hernandez was already serving a life sentence in jail for a 2013 murder. Coincidentally, the patriots are headed to the white house today to celebrate their super bowl victory. And we learned within the past hour, the patriots are not expected to comment on hernandezs death today. All right, now were following a developing story out of the south bay this morning and it is new overnight. Safety concerns on the San Jose State University campus after a man trying to attack a woman while she was out jogging. It was an aggressive attempt as well. Bob redell is live on campus to explain how the woman was able to get away. What a lucky break for her, bob. Good morning to you, kris and sam. This is what makes the attack so frightening, that the suspect, this man seems very determined to try to catch this woman. But fortunately, as you mentioned, she got away. This happened around 7 45 at the intersection behind me. East san fernando and south seventh street, when this man lunged at the woman who was jogging and tried to grab her. According to the campus alert on your screen nat was sent out to students, the woman was able to run away. Her attacker did not relent. He ran after her, chased her to park lot four, which as you can see in the map we put together for you, is just a few blocks away from here. Thats where she was able to get into a students vehicle. The student happened to be passing by. She was able to get in that vehicle and escape her attacker. That suspect took off, last seen at the intersection of south 10th and east san fernando. According to the campus alert, Campus Police looking for an africanamerican man in his 40s. They said he has a thin build, around 63. At the time, he was wearing a gray cap, brown camouflage puffy jacket, dark blue jeans and a mole on the left side of his face. Reporting out here, bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thank you very much. After a close vote and a of calls for change, new rules will take effect for landlords and renters in san jose. Last night, renters fought for their rights during a city council meeting. Take a listen. It was a deeply divided crowd as the Council Voted on just cause evictions, and late last night, we learned it pass 65. That means the landlords must now a reason why a renter is being evicted and reason has to match one of 12 different criteria, including not paying rent or newance violations. Renters consider this a win. These landlords will survive. Tenants need more protections in san jose. I think that that would do much better to serve this Community Without more ordinances. Well, critics say new regulations mean fewer units in san jose. They also say landlords are going to start screening renters more thoroughly. 6 04. Happening today, one east bay city is trying to help people facing rising rent. The concord planning and Housing Division is holding a workshop to talk about a proposed residential rent review program. That will be presented to the city council on may 2nd. It would allow tenants to receive rent increases of more than 10 in a oneyear period to request Mediation Services through the city. Today workshop starts at 1 30, its at the city council chambers. Trying to get you where you need to go and faster. New changes to report right now for bus riders in palo alto. The vta is putting more buses on routes with more riders and fewers on routes with fewer riders. The vtas new plan would get rid of route 88 and replace it with three new routes to help people traveling to gunn school and the v. A. Medical center. Theres going to be more buses on route 522 as well. The vta is scheduled to vote on the changes on may 4th. New this morning, out of half moon bay, a state parks building is set to be demolished after years on the cliffside, facing pounding weather conditions. We have been reporting on this since the winter. The demolition will close part of the California Coastal trail there. The demolition is set to take place here in the next couple days. Moon bay state parks is estimating at this point theyll have the trail up and running by saturday. It is 6 06. As you get ready to get the kids ready for school, it will be mostly clear and a chilly start. Heavier clothes needed. You can leave the umbrella at home. It will be a great afternoon ahead to go to the park and take in the sun and warmer weather. Later on tonight, talking about a quick round of rain. Ill have more on that in four minutes. Vianey is now giving us an update on what happened with the motorcycle accident. Still trying to figure out if anybody is seriously injured out there. Were definitely seeing the backup, the alum rock crash. Northbound 01. More than one lane blocked as crews check out the scene. You may want to take alternate routes because it looks like it may a crash. About 20 minutes to northbound 101 to highway 101, taking a live look in san jose. You can see some of the backup building up. Thank you. Tens of millions of people liveling in places with unhealthy air. In three minutes, find out where the bay area ranks on a newly released state of the air report. And bill oreilly may not be a factor on the factor much longer. Well take a look in business and tech. At 6 10, you have a clear and dry start. As we get a live look outside in palo alto. 101 looking good and not raining this morning. The temperature trend will go from the upper 50s at 10 00 to 65 degrees at lunchtime. Still bright and sunny throughout the afternoon, and right where we should be for average as far as temperatures for this time of year. Then well see a quick round of some light showers moving through late tonight and more dry weather, more on that coming up at 6 18. And were seeing some major backup in san jose due to a crash along 101 near alum rock. It appears there may be a lane blocked and it involved a motorcycle driver. Well keep you updated with the latest. Thank you very much. 6 11 right now on your wednesday morning. And all new, 125 Million People are living in areas that are considered to have unhealthy levels of air pollution, and that does include the bay area. As we take a pretty clear look right now outside at the bay bridge. Bakersfield and l. A. , they top the list of the unhealthiest places to breathe in the united states. The bay area also ranked in the top ten for particle pollution. All of this is according to the American Lung Associations Annual state of the air report that was just released this morning. Cities in california, utah, and nevada saw spikes in pollution, largely because of wildfires, factories, and cars. The American Lung Association Says those pollutants can cause severe asthma attacks and other health complications. Particle pollution especially is risky for cardiovascular harm, like heart disease, stroke. It also is greatly risky for people with diabetes and it causes lung cancer. For the cleaner places to live, a lot of those cities with the cleanest air were on the east coast. Developing this morning, police in healdsburg are looking for a man accused of stabbing another man right in front of a Community Center. Police are looking for him, 22yearold luis enrico gonzalez. They said he stabbed 23yearold man in front of the Healdsburg Community center yesterday afternoon. That Community Center hosts an Afterschool Program for kids. But fortunately, there were no children there at the time. The victim is expected to make a full recovery. Well, today marks 22 years exactly since the tragic Oklahoma City bombing where 168 people were killed in that explosion in 1995 that included 19 children. That was the deadliest terror attack on u. S. Soil until, of course, the september 11th attack. Timothy mcveigh was executed for carrying out the bombing. Terry nichols is still serving a livance for conspiracy. Ben carson will be speaking at a memorial ceremony. The department lost 35 employees that day. 6 13 now. The massive manhunt for the so called facebook killer is now over, as you likely know by now. Steve stephens took his own life yesterday. Now, in this surveillance video, you can see his car being followed by police. This was just after he left a Mcdonalds Drivethru yesterday morning. An alert employee identified niece. Stephens here was wanted for murder after recording himself shooting Robert Godwin sr. Godwins sister said she wanted stephens to be taken alive so he could stand trial. I wish this guy could have sdaesh they could have got him in court, he could spend the rest of his life or whatever it is happen to him, that he would have time to think about what he did. Godwins funeral is set for saturday. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the killing in the f8 conference in san jose yesterday, saying his thoughts are with godwins family and that facebook will do what it can to prevent such tragedies. Business and tech news now, and fox news could be sending bill oreilly packing. This as the outspoken host deals with accusations of Sexual Harassment. Oreilly hasnt been a factor for a while. Hasnt been a factor on the factor, hes on vacation, but hes probably thinking about work. Whether hell still have a job is probably top on his mind. Fox news has had many allegations of Sexual Harassment in the past, but this time around, advertisered starting pulling their ads. New york times says the companys is going to meet thursday to discuss oreillys future. Oreillys attorney tells the times the accusations are, quote, a Smear Campaign being orchestrated by far left organizations bent on destroying oreilly for political and financial reasons. Stocks fell tuesday. The dow was down 113. Nasdaq down 7. Disappointing results from some of the Companies Reporting profits. Later today, we get the beige book from the fed. Thats an anecdotal look at business around the country. The head of United Airlines with representatives of the chinese gump to talk to officials there about the beating of the asian passenger two sundays ago. China is a critical market for united and the video of the doctor dragged off the plane was viewed tens of millions of times on the chinese version of youtube. Reuters said boeing is going to lay off hundreds of engineers. This is the second round of layoffs and will hit washington state. President trump visited their plant in february, where boeing was all too happy to credit the president for adding jobs. President trump tweeted, going to charleston, south carolina, to spend time with boeing and talk jobs. Looking forward to it. Not that the president is going to fly on the dream liner because earlier, the same man tweeted, lithium ion batteries should not be allowed on aircraft. I wont fly the boeing 787 airlines because it uses those batteries. That was back when he was civilian mr. Trump. Well, well see what happens there. Well see. Yeah. Sam, lets go to the a. P. Center. This was exciting because the sharks struggled putting the puck in the net. Not a problem last night. A live look right now at the s. A. P. Center. Quiet right now, but a few hours ago, that place was roaring with fans excited over a historic playoff performance from the sharks. They scored seven goals last night wrfrb ties a franchise playoff record. The Edmonton Oilers couldnt even snag one. Game five of the series now set for tomorrow. Thats going to be in alberta, canada, and the series is all knotted up at two games apiece. A big game tomorrow night. All right. Still rocking the teal. I have a lot of teal, apparently. And you guys have the warriors covered because theyre playing tonight. All of our sports teams here. Except the as. Well, in the playoffs. We do have the as covered in the forecast today. We are going to have some great weather for heading to the coliseum. Even as you step out the door this morning for work or school, it is 46 degrees. Look at how cool it is compared to yesterday morning. When we started out in the upper 50s, well, that was because it was cloudy and raining. You dont have to worry about that right now as we get a live look out there at San Francisco. Its 53 degrees. Looking at highs today in the peninsula up to 69, 68 degrees in the trivalley. And 64 degrees in San Francisco. Were also taking that live look outside at oracle arena in the east bay 67 degrees will be the high there. Looking at an approaching storm system, but this is a weak one. Another weak one. It will bring in an increasing cloud cover, but its still well to the north of us right now. Going hour by hour, we have some mostly cloudy skies in the forecast for today. Around santa rosa, most of marin county as well. And then as we geinto this afternoon, it looks like it will be dry. Mostly sunny, and then later on tonight, some scattered showers moving from north to south and then as it continues to progress through the south, it will break up and become light. So not everyone will see the rain. And then as we go into the next couple days, more dry weather in the forecast. I know for some schools its spring break. Maybe you plan to head to the sierra for the weekend. At squaw valley, lake tahoe, this is a live picture right now. As the sun rises, its 26 degrees. We have a fresh coating of snow on the ground. There will be some additional light snow in the forecast over the next cup days. And then look at how these temperatures warm up for the end of the week. Up to 55 degrees. And we have had 20 inches of snow over the past seven days. Now here in the bay area, were bringing it back to San Francisco. Well be in the mid to upper 60s heading into the weekend, and for the inland areas, it will be well above average. Reaching into the upper 70s by friday. As we head out here on the roadways, vianey, youre tracking one major slowdown in the south bay. Thats right. The traffic seems to really be backing up near this area, and unfortunately t is due to a traffic collision involving a motorcycle, and it appears chp says there are injuries involved. There is an unrelated accident just behind that. It may be fender bender, but this is definitely causing some major back up out there. 39minute delay right now, northbound 101 to highway 85. 42 minutes, it just updated. As we head into the 6 30 hour mark, were expecting big issues. Ewe do still have one lane blocked. Make sure to take extra time and be safe on the roads. We hope everybody is okay. Back to you. All right. If you have that nbc bay area wazers being set up, use that as well. Join our team. Report what youre seeing. People magazine announced who will be on the cover of its worlds most beautiful person issue. What pretty woman could it be . Well tell you who coming up in just 2 1 2 minutes after the break. Also, a major fast food chain raising its prices. Well tell you which one next. Youre going to be hanging out in here. So if you need anything, text me. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. Julia roberts is moren 6 23. New this morning, Julia Roberts more than just a pretty woman. Within the last hour, People Magazine named her the worlds most beautiful woman for a record fifth time. The 49yearold actress previously claimed the cover spot back in 2010, 2005, 2000, 1991. Old hat for her already. Peoples 28th annual worlds most beautiful double issue hits stand on friday. An interesting story with apple which is making a bunch of its apps available for free at its apps stores. Thats including imovie and garage band. Its worth noting those are already free for people who bought a mac, iphone or ipad after 2013, but the move benefits anybody with an older device who never had a choons to buy those which cost between 5 and 20. You might want to brown bag it today. Potely is raising prices. The mexican chain bumped up its prices last week by about 5 in select locations. Its the first price hike for the company in three years. Chipotle has been trying to revive sales in the wake of several foodborne outbreaks that began in 2015. Meantime, good news on the food front. Beef prices dropping just in time for sam to crank up the grill. The data from the u. S. Bureau of labor statistics shows consumer beef prices were about 3. 59 per pound last month. Thats 30 cents lower than last year. 60 cents lower than two years ago so camcan now invite me to the barbecue. I would have you anyway, but my hamburgers are really big. Theyre like a pound. Consumer investigator chris chmura has a good tip. Heres a federal protection for contact wearers that you know about. You dont have to buy your lenses in the same office that gives you the exam. The federal trade commission requires the doctor to give you your prescription. You can take it other place

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