Spot on interstate 580 right in the heart of the Macarthur Mayes. This is between the 580. A motorcycle accident is blocking the to righthand lanes. The biggest impact is on highway 24 coming down from the tunnel. The back up is now reaching childrens hospital. This means that there will be light traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. We are starting this friday off with a a live look from walnut creek. The temperatures are in the upper 60s. The fall that we see right now will be quick to clear. The temperatures will reach the upper 80s. I will have full details of what to expect. Another instance of thieves in disguise tricking older residents in to letting them in their yards. This time they posed as Tree Trimmers in hayward. Kron 4s will tran is live near the home that was hit. This time they pretended to be Tree Trimmers. The other day they were pg e workers. We are not sure if they are the same people. I will show you the exact, but it was on this neighborhood. This one and not on her door and one man told her that he needed to come to her backyard. He stated that he was working on a neighbors home and that he needed to go through her backyard for access. She tried to comply and then she was robbed. He told me that hed wanted to trim my trees. I told him that i did not have any trees. He stated that my neighbors tree may fall on my home. He took me right here. This is when he stopped and he told me, point to the tree. I heard eight racket and i told him what was that . He stated that was the man bringing the tools. They were in my home taking my safe. What she was helping the first person the second person to occur safe, and 17,000. He is described as a latino man. A another person had a dark complexion. Was still out was that they were driving a red pickup truck with a list. Ift. Police are stating that if you feel on easy this something is my right perry ed you should not open up your door. If you feel weird the Chicago Police department. In these cases, theyre always driving something that looks like a work vehicle. I am surprise no one has wrote down the license plate. These people are holding as been legit. They had on hard hats. They even tried to show a badge. They always try to look like they are okay. The victims do not realize in a salicylate. It. Santa clara police just released this sketch overnight asking for the publics help in finding a Sexual Assault suspect. Take a look. The man is described as white with a light tan, standing between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds with an athletic build. He was cleanshaven with light brown hazel eyes and was wearing his dirty blond hair in a fauxhawk. The reported incident happened early wednesday morning in the area of franklin and sherman streets. The woman was walking alone when the man came up and sexually assaulted her. Governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency around the burn zone of the wildfire burning near yosemite. That frees up money and resources. To help fight the massive blaze. The rim fire is still burning out of control. 25hundred structures are threatened. The fire has now burned more than 63thousand acres. And contained. Thats down from 5percent containment at this time yesterday. Highway 120 remains closed. And evacuations are still in effect. San francisco officials have also issued an Emergency Declaration. Because critical water and Power Systems for the city. Are being threatened by the fire. An upgrade to the bay bridge toll plaza this weekend will mean lane closures for you. Three lanes on the right side of the toll plaza will be closed to add a new fastrak only lane. This starts at 9 pm tonight and is scheduled to reopen at 5 am on monday. The closure means fastrak drivers who are coming from i880 or west grand avenue will be allowed to use two busonly lanes at the far right of the toll plaza. This is all happening ahead of the five day closure set for next week. Temporary connector modules. For the new spans bike and pedestrian path are ready to go up on the bridge. They will be put into place during the Labor Day Weekend closure and will allow bicyclists and walkers to get on the bridge from the oakland side. The path will be policed by chp officers on bikes. The path is also expected to the same day the bridge will the exact time is still up in the air. For now, people will only be able to get about two thirds of the way across. The path is not expected to be complete until late 2014. Or early 2015. When it will connect to treasure island. And stay with kron 4. As we continue our coverage of shutdod the opening of the new span of the bay bridge. You can also get the latest on our 24 7 channel on comcast 193. As well as kron 4 dot com. And the results are in on barts latest quarterly performance report. What people werent so happy about with the transit agency. Besides the strike. Coming up. [ male announcer ] introducing live tv from southwest. Now you can turn your device into your television. Try it for free today, only on southwest airlines. On the air. In the air. With live tv. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news. If we continue to track a hot spot in the Macarthur Mayes. Two lanes are blocked just before the bay bridge. It is backing up traffic worst on highway 24. The backup regis to rockledge past childrens hospital. San Diego City Council will vote today on whether to except the terms of a settlement with the embattled mayor bob filner that will likely include his resignation. He kept a low profile yesterday following speculation that he will resign as part of the Sexual Harassment settlement negotiated by the lawyers and the city. President barack 0 obamas call in possible chemical weapons attack and syria bought a big event of a grave concern. Obama assesses the United States is still seeking confirmation that tacit gases were used in syria. He says its such actions are very troublesome and ongoing to require americas attention. However, obama says that the idea that the United States can solve serious civil war is over stated. The number of children made refugees by biting and syria is not passed 1 million. According to you in some 740,000 children are under the age of age11 of 11. Officials say that even after the tragic state syrria, they are traumatized, depressed and are in need of reason for hope. Coming up on kron 4 morning news. Some new ideas are coming in about elon musks hyperloop projects. Will have an update on this story. But first we have this look outside at the bay bridge approach. Align welcome back. We want to get first of the weather and traffic. There is a motorcycle accident that is still blocking the to righthand lanes of 580 westbound. This is a very bad spot. The biggest impact is not here on 580 which is not backed up. It is on 28 for the traffic is backed up to a rock ridge. It is hard stop and go traffic. There is still awaiting a tow trucks. This is why it is taking so long for it to clear. They need to get a flatbed truck out there. Lets update the incident that we started talking about earlier in marin county. In marin county, 1 01 south bond a van when into a tree and not the tree and a power pole down. The right lanes closed because theyre trying to clear the traccrash. It does not seem to be having an impact on the one on one ride. Your ride to the bay bridge has no traffic. They have not activated the metering lights. Your ride to the san mateo bridges looking good. The golden gate bridge, 1 01 southbound is an easy trip. Speaking of the fog last checked the weather. We are waking up to cloudy conditions. It is not that low that we are impacting visibility. The temperatures are similar to 24 hours ago. You was see the cloud cover on satellite and radar. It is pretty quiet conditions. Future cast 4 is tracking the temperature by the noon hour. 70s will be along the delta. 80s will start to the fln. Mike 8 00 p. M. You will notice of the temperatures will be back in the upper 50s a low 60s. If you have a dinner reservation you should grab a jacket. More clouds to my and we was see and enhance the sea breeze. As we focus some afternoon high for today it will be the law more than what we saw yesterday the temperatures will be 10 degrees warmer than what we saw yesterday. Pittsburg will get a high of 94 degrees. Downtown San Francisco will have a high of 66 degrees. Your extended forecasts shows that the pattern of a morning fog but the temperatures will coalesce with star the next work with. More riders are hopping on bart trains but service and reliability are down and customer complaints are up. Barts most recent quarter, from april through june, showed mixed results. Total ridership increased by more than six percent compared to the same time last year. Nearly 400 thousand people take bart everyday. But on time service dropped. There were lengthy escalator outages and an increase in customer complaints. The most frequent complaints included station cleanliness, train delays and barts new bicycle program. The news comes as bart and its unions continue to battle over a new contract. No new talks are scheduled. Billionaire entrepreneur elon musk hyperloop travel idea is gaining fans. Just last week,musk released sketches of the hyperloop that he hopes will one day shoot capsules full of people at the speed of sound through tubes connecting los angeles and San Francisco. He also urged the public to question, modify and, ultimately, perfect his proposal. One firm hustled out a model using a 3d printer, while another is testing a virtual hyperloop with sophisticated computer software. Meanwhile, musk himself has shelved the project and returned to his established futureishere transportation ventures up next on the kron foupresil visit pennsylvania today for the first time in more than a year. The president brings his plan for College Affordability to scratch time and date evening visit to block a want college. President obama will appear with to scratch and natives, u. S. Senator bob casey and vicepresident joe biden, as he delivers his message to one of the nations Biggest College states. A life or death phone call has not connected to women in that way neither could have predicted. A ntionette tuff, who talked on a man with 8 k 47 and a Georgia Elementary School tuesday, was reunited tonight with the 911 dispatcher. She is a bookkeeper at the school, and says the date everything happen in for a reason. Maligned up next, kron 4 and morning news. Well have a preview of the markets. And a glitch that shook stocks up on the nasdaq yesterday. 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Digital insurance id cards. Just a click away with the geico mobile app. The two righthand lanes are still blocked and we do not have tow trucks on the scene. If this is ride in the heart of the maze. This is where all of this cross over traffic is occurring. It is backed up to harrison on 580 westbound and backed up about rock ridge. It is way beyond a childrens hospital. It is adding about 8 to 12 minutes to your drive time. Make sure that youll allow extra time. We are waking up to cloudy skies and the temperatures are in the upper 50s and low 60s. The temperatures will be pretty close to where they should be this time of year. It will be cooler as we head into saturday and sunday. I will have full details of your extended forecast coming up. Governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency or, burns on a wild fire that is burning your yosemite. The rim of fire is still burning out control. 2500 structures are threatened. The fire has now burned more than 63,000 a. Highway120 remains closed and the evacuations are still in effect. San francisco officials have also is an Emergency Declaration because critical water and Power Systems for the city are being threatened. We are waiting for an update. Will get that to you shortly. New this morning, police of looking for a man who sexually assaulting a woman who was walking in santa clara. Kron4 mike pelton is in santa clara with the latest. Police describe this as a brazen attack. Very early yesterday morning about 12 10 p. M. A man came up and saw to this woman. Heres a sketch of them. They described him as a white wing 200 lbs. With light brown hazel eyes. Police stated that he fled the scene after sheit is unclear if they have any ties to the university. There have been calls to the university and a police. The San Mateo County district attorneys Investigation Unit released facial reconstruction images of the unidentified woman was found dead in brisbane. She is described as a white woman of european ancestry, between the ages of 33 and 46. The woman had a hilt bone injury on her left arm and held in bonn, and investigators believe that the injury may have been the result of a fall or a traffic accident. Investigators believe that the woman has been deceased for more than five years. An electronic billboard on the side of interstate 880 in oakland is featuring a picture of missing toddler daphne webb. Her family came out with the idea, after talking to a child advocate. Oakland councilwoman Desley Brooks was in charge of getting her picture on the billboard. It is not clear how long it will run. She was kidnapped out of a car while she was with her father when he ran inside of a store. Emergency dispatchers and Santa Clara County are threatening to go on strike. Union workers are demanding that the county stop requiring their 61 communications and dispatchers to work overtime. Union leaders say that dispatchers have had to work more than 2000 hours of overtime this month alone. That coming may seek a Court Injunction to block the strike, saying that the dispatchers must work because they are vital to public safety. San franciscos the City Attorney is suing the agency that is pulling the accreditation of San Francisco city college. City attorney dennis herrera, claims the the decision by the agency known as they see seat j. C. Was politically motivated. He says, that a course to strike it down. He says that city college, and acc jaycee when a political battle in the state legislator. A sad end to a search for a lost service and all that went missing earlier this week. Lobo , who is pictured on your screen, was killed when he was hit by a car on the freeway. The dog was rescued and trained to be a service got through the Program Operation freedom calls. Paws. Still ahead on kron 4 morning news. Jeep issues, a new we call today on some of the grand cherokees. 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