Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 Early News 20140402 : comparemel

Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 Early News 20140402

The Weather Center with erica kato. Erica good morning. Wet roads always shoot for your entire length of 1 01. Why rain right now walnut creek. The ticket look at interstate 680. As we focus our attention on the peninsula looks like some light rain right now for portions of the bayshore freeway but thats really the extent to extent of it but overall showers are really starting to taper off. With seem more along the coast line up almost a net and a half. You can see the rotation of the system of satellites and radar. It continues to move out of the bay area. As we head into the afternoon we will expect partly cloudy skies. 63 year high and san jose is 7 day around the bay forecast shows we should stay dry into tomorrow could see anything shower the ticket and the weekend. More on that coming up in a moment. Right now i do want to talk about traffic around the bay area. Like the mentioned it is raining out there. Just be careful. Bay bridge toll plaza up mostly dry. No delays at the cemetery bridge the we are looking at a few raindrops. Lots of space between cars. In fact looks like to live thank you erica. A monster earthquake in chile the magnitude eightpoint two. At least 5people are dead. Video shows people running for Higher Ground because of tsunami warnings. Which are being extended to northernmost chile now. And geologists say an even bigger quake is coming. Andrew spencer reports. an eightpointtwo magnitude earthquake happened off the coast of northern chile, about 60 miles northwest of iquique, just before nine pm local time. Residents fled the coast when they learned the earthquake triggered a tsunami. Officials announced tsunami warnings for chile, peru, and ecuador and watches for colombia, panama, and costa rica though those warnings were later dropped. The president of chile declared disaster areas in three northern provinces. Sa i would like to make a call to the people who live in the areas to keep calm, to follow the instructions of the local authorities, and local authorities, and do everything that is necessary to ensure the security of themselves and their families. Several people were reported dead as the earthquake triggered small landslides and cut off phones and electricity. Officials said members of the air force were on their way to the port city of iquique, where about 300 prisoners managed to escape in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Officials as far away as hawaii worried about the potential impact there and asked people to stay out of the water. If youre not ready for it, you can get into difficulty, and if youre in the water, you can get banged about, so we really want to keep people out of the water, close to the coast. Im andrew spencer, reporting an earthquake expert here in our state in pasadena says his team can estimate the size of a new earthquake expected at some point. We expect about another 8. 8, 8. 9 earthquake here sometime in the future. Could be tomorrow, could be in 50 years we do not know when its going to occur. But the keypoint here is that this magnitude 8. 2 is not the large earthquake we were expecting for this area were actually still expecting potentially an even larger earthquake. Chiles leaders plan to survey the damaged areas today. Threeandahalfyears after a pipeline exploded and destroyed a san bruno neighborhood, the us attorney has officially filed an indictment against pg and e for ignoring safety warnings and relying on bad information. Kron4s grant lodes read through the indictment and has more on what pg and e is accused of. Its being described by state attorney general Kamala Harris as an important step to hold pg and e accountable for the 2010 pipeline explsoion that killed eight people and injured 58 others. The indictment filed today charges pg and e with 12 felonies, accusing the company of violating several federal Pipeline Safety laws. According to the indictment, the agency willfully used false and incomplete information while checking the safety of the pipeline that eventually ruptured and destroyed 38 homes in san bruno. The indictment specifically looks at three different lines that were trouble spots one of which is said to be the highest risk of all. In 2011, investigators with the National Transportation safety board learned pg and happen es use of the false information is what led to the explosion. A conviction on all 12 counts could cost the agency six million dollars. No person within the agency is named in the indictment, and while this is a criminal pg and e released a statement on the 12count indictment. Expressing regret about the incident. And all who were affected by it. Pg and e says it continues to make strides in the aftermath of the explosion. The agency recently opened the new Gas Control Center in san ramon. And is also attempting to repair pipelines currently at risk. Sounbd of that woman being struck by lightning how shes even talking about it this morning. Well take you to the university where you can earn a degree. In drone technology. And meet the 425million dollar powerball winner who struck it rich on a whim right here in the bay area. An 80foot redwood tree in berkeley practically exploded because of lightning on monday. Lightning apparently wasnt just a problem for trees. Kron4s Justine Waldman found out an east bay woman is lucky to be alive, after she says she was hit by lightning during the same storm. Even this morning when i got up i was leary about going outside isemily davis is counting her lucky stars. During mondays storm, she was walking by berkeley bowl streets around 1 in the afternoon. When it looked like someone took my picture big flash and i was holding my umbrella because there was a downpour going on saw orb of light come down the umbrella handle and then i heard huge noise and it sounded like a bomb went off and it sho the windows something shocking came from the skywith her heart pounding, emily couldnt believe what happened and dropped her cup of coffee. I had to put it down bc my hand was shaking couldnt stop for 5 minutes glad her umbrella made of plastic and she wasnt wearing any metal. Umbrella sot i felt a little bit of a shok like when walking across the carpet she wasnt hurt and didnt go to the doctor until today because she tells me she still has a metallic taste her in mouth. My teeth on the side where i got struk have pain in them and no superpowers either my 16 year old cousin asked have you tried running maybe you are the flash now emily thinks one of the branches from the bolt is what actually hit herpossibly saving her life. Since i didnt get fried it makes sense to me that it was a smaller one and not the main event in an odd twistemilys father told her her great, great, great grandfather died after being hit by a lightning bolt. She definitely feels lucky. i got a Lottery Ticket in my pocket right now according to the National Weather service, the chance of being hit by lightning in a given year are 1 in a million Justine Waldman kronjust one in 80 million. Im just the wahl limitim Justine Waldman 4 news. Speaking of the lottery. The sole winner of februarys 425 million Powerball Jackpot has come forward to claim his prize. The bay area man named Raymond Buxton says he purposely chose april fools day to turn in his ticket. He says he can thank his stomach for the big win. He was getting lunch inside a gas stations Convenience Store in milpitas. When he decided to buy a second his that twodollar single quick pick turned out to be the winner. Buxton chose to take the cash option. About 242 million dollars. Before taxes. He says he will use some of his winnings to travel and set up a Charitable Foundation to help chlidren. Continuing our Team Coverage on the rain i will talk about where you will major opera was this morning when the kron4 morning it was coming down all day yesterday in the north bay. The rain. Traffic was very slow, drivers were taking their time, and roads were very heavy earlier in the day. And ot was an allaround wet thunder as well. There were no reports of any flooding or damage. One person is dead and four others in the hospital. After a fatal fire near the cow palace. We dont have anything to organize this morning. A light rain right now for walnut creek. As we had to the peninsula we do have a few sprinkles. Perhaps some areas of drizzle clock around long coastline. But for the most part the rain is really tapering off along the bay area. Looks like a partly cloudy. Were looking at the cooler conditions. Take a look at these numbers. The colder start this morning on it under partly cloudy skies. As we head into the afternoon of looks like most locations will be in the low 60s. Soy cool afternoon ahead at least to be dry. I think we will see similar readings in the east bay as well. Mainly 60s out at livermore for upper 50s along the coastline. Berkeley today with a high 5759 today and oakland. Heres a look at your 7 day around the bay forecast. We do have unsettled weather still in the picture as we head into perhaps tomorrow. How pressure builds in fact something to look forward to after all the showers will be dealing with. Really nothing until leaving your house. Had they rejoiced us some areas of bonding and what are out there so just keep that in mind. Over at the san mateo bridge we did have a wind advisory in effect. Taking a live look looks like it still damp as you were to read a foster city. It look at the rich and san rafael bridge show still pretty well out there as a worker went to marin county. Darya we did have heavier rain as a matter when closer to san rafeal. Taking it over to the traffic maps. In a drive time ran out about 12 minutes from hercules the berkeley. pas oneperson is dead and four others in the hospital after a fatal fire near the cow palace. And reports say, the fire was so intense, one person was forced to jump to safety. Kron4s jeff bush has the story. Firefighters from multiple agencies responded to this house on castillo street just before 5 30a second alarm was called. The house was fully engulfed in flames and a man was lying on the ground in front of the house. He jumped from the second story window to escape the fire. Edson pineda lives on the block and came out of his house right after the man jumped. I guess he didnt have no way to get out and he just jumped and it was crazy seeing him just laying on the floor full of blood and the house full of smoke. It was really sad because you dont wish this on nobody especially in your neighborhood. Houghfirefighters had a lot to deal with. We had a combined responsibility to deal with the fire attack and with the medical responsibility to deal with the people in the building. Hamas in all one person is dead and five people were transported to various hospitals. Two of those who were transported are listed in critical conditiontheher thrd moderate injuries. Edson says he thought his neighbor was dead. He was not moving. I thought he passed away but when they put him on the bed he was moving. Everything was alright so, i hope he gets better. Hotthe cause of the fire is still under investigation. The red cross is on scene to help those who are displaced. Im jeff bush in San Francisco, kron four news. This just in. The death toll in the washington mudslide continues to grow. Right now 28 people are dead and 20 remain missing in the community of oso. Officials say all but six of the victims have been there ages range from 4 months to 71 years. Receding floodwaters are now allowing searchers to reach places where it was inaccessible before. Its been nearly a month since malaysian flight 370 disappeared and the intense search continues. Countries and nine ships are was crisscrossing a 46 thousandsquaremile search zone. Then two japanese planes headed out to join them, taking off from perth, australia. With so many planes in the skies over the search zone, australia sent an airborne air Traffic Control plane to guard against accidents. The first flights from the current search are expected to return this morning. Lufthansa has canceled almost 900 domestic and intercontinental flights on the first day of a threeday strike by the pilots union today the airline says its done whatever it could to offer alternative travel arrangements for its passengers and rebooked many customers on trains or different airlines. The strike is expected to last until friday. A small town in colorado wont be issuing hunting licenses to shoot down drones. Voters in deer trail overwhelmingly defeated a proposal that would have authorized the Rural Community to issue drone hunting permits. 73percent of the voters voted down the idea. Federal aviation authorities have warned its a crime to shoot at drones. Residents of deer trail, colorado voted tuesday to reject a measure that would allow them to shoot down drones. Mayor frank fields knew it might seem crazy to some people but he thought it might bring in some much town. Hes not upset that the measure was voted down. Its been a long year and im kinda glad its coming to end one way or the other. 181 residents went to the polls. 73percent of the voters shot down the idea of shooting down drones. And the future of technology has one Ohio University offering a new degree program. Starting this fall, Kent State University will offer a minor in drone technology. The five course minor will be taught be a part time professor who has experience has in operating drones and will help develop the new drone cirriculum at the university. Many students say they are very excited about the drone minor being offered this fall, they say they cant wait to register. Kent states Drone Program will be the first of its kind in northeast ohio. Stanford has reached the final four in the ncaa Womens Basketball tournament. Chiney ogwumike scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the cardinal carolina 7465. Stanford will meet connecticut in the womens final four. Warriors mavericks former warriors monta ellis now plays for dallas 4th quarter, mavs up 1, 1 15 left ellis the pull up jumper from 19 puts mavs up 3 108 105 dal ellis 27 points, 6 assists mavs up 3, 1 00 min left Klay Thompson catch and shoot 3pointersplash 108 klay 27 points overtime tied at 108 Dirk Nowitzki 3pointer from the top of the key 115111 dal dirk 33 points, 11 rebs 28 seconds leftdubs down 2 great passing igoudala to Draymond Green to Jermaine Oneal dunks 120120 tie oneal 20 points, 8 rebs 15 secs left game tied oneal swats monta ellis to keep the game tied same possession no timeout. Stephen curry step back deep 2 for the win curry 23 points, 10 assists mark jackson wins on his 49th birthday final 122120 warriors warriors in 6th mavs drop to 9th sharks Oilers Patrick marleau and the sharks 6 games left 3rd period 43 oilers brent burns scores off the caught assist by thorton pavelski 44 tie 7 ½ minutes left marleau on the power play scores the game winner 54 sharks final 54 sharks sharks trail the ducks by a point with 5 games left continuing our coverage of the fbi sting involving suspended state senator leland yee one of the key figures notorious former chinatown gangster Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow will be back in court today. Officials say they hope to assign an attorney to him soon. He still doesnt have one because of conflicts with previous cases. Chow has been convicted in the past of racketeering and Drug Distribution conspiracy. In all, 26people are named in the complaint. Another key player in the Corruption Case was just in court yesterday. Political consultant Keith Jackson. Caught up in murder ahead for hire, drug and firearm allegations. But as kron 4s dan kerman reports, his Attorney Says jackson is innocent. The attorney is questioning tuesday federal prosecutors argued that political consultant Keith Jackson is a one man crime wave who should not be released pending trail . Prosecutors allege jackson, a Campaign Consultant for suspended state senator leland yee solicited drugs from an undercover agent, conspired with yee to traffic in firearms, and facilitated a murder for hire. Ja Jim Brosnahan says the crimes are in the minds of undercover fbi agents. He says jackson is innocent and he questioned the fbi tactics that snared his client former federal prosecutor and uc hasting law professor rory little says not only is trolling is not a defense . But neither is the fact that guns weren . T transferred or no one was murdered. That said little cautions just because something is prosecuted doesn . T mean jury will convict. On for the kron4 to report what did slate. Good morning yesterday was the tech world favorite holiday april fools day. The web of social media just erupted with hoaxes of all different kinds. If this tradition started years ago with google doing in trade, every year on Research Site and now Everyone Wants in on the action. Today people are still buzzing of yesterdays big current. Pranks put this years april fools day was their stunts. They sent out a convincing press release with as high as polished promotion video announcing a new product hightech where rebel glows called digits. Supposedly Motion Control featuring a camera, a video screen that you cover your face to view agreed to use the phone you hold your hand up to your face like a child pretended using a front. Card cure you tubes video transfer 2014. You to put together a great fake a video showing off what was currently trading. its called a glove glove water dance. most of our gang of style is time to get to wet terrific, this dance is so weird and fun to do grid and the sound is another language. and heres another new trend called clotting. sp

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