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Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 8 20130727

Pam the traffic trouble is not over tonight. Those concerts and the games are just getting underway. It all started with what happened near the bay bridge. Details on that in a moment. But first, kron4s Jacqueline Bennett has more on how traffic looks right now. Jacqueline . Jacqueline really difficult, and especially, if you are trying to get to that concert. You can see the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up it is bumperto bumper and also, the james lick traffic and both directions is headed out towards the east bay. We do have an accident on interstate80 that the slowing down traffic. And also, southbound is because of the jay z concert. The 280 101 with 88 minutes and slower traffic as you go towards candlestick. Another concert right now at the shoreline amphitheater. It is starting to ease up a little bit but it is slow and go in both directions. Pam the slow traffic weve been seeing. Actually got started earlier than expected today, when the Highway Patrol shut down the bay bridge because of a suspcious device on Treasure Island. Kron 4s dan kerman has more on what they found. Reporter it was shortly before 1 00 p. M. When authorities received word of a suspicious device of interstate80. The bomb squad and made contact with the device. This immediately closed and was brought and. We can see that theyre rolling traffic breaks to make sure that they did not come close to the on ramp. And all fal and officers of course came to this area to investigate. Reporter this grinding halt came to a parking lot and the bay bridge got even worse in both directions for at least 30 minutes. Authorities wanted to be on the side of caution until the bomb squad could determine if this device was dangerous. It was notformful but obviously, suspicious. We wanted to take all the precautions. Reporter by 3 30 it was still, not up to full speed but still, back open. Dan kerman, kron 4 news. Pam continuing our team coverage. Commuters on the bay bridge were not happy with all the traffic. There. And jr how were drivers handling the back up . Just six hours ago, they are still waiting. Reporter you can see even the car pool lanes are backed up. That is something that we did not say when this got started earlier in the afternoon. What we did notsee. With nothing just some short of a mess on a friday afternoon with bomb squads and also, this was how the suspicious package led to a standstill. These backups were not pretty. It took me, 25 minutes from the toll plaza to the financial district. And if youre going to be just and timber lake justinj z concert it was also difficult in the fast track lanes or even slowing longer and more waiting. As of of right now, just to recap you can see it as i mentioned, these car pool lanes are backed up. And the fast track lanes are also slow. If your headed into the city it is going to take you sometime. Reporting live in oakland, j. R. Stone, kron 4 news. Pam on the San Francisco side of the bay bridge. Commuters werent happy, either. As our John Fenoglio found out. Reporter continuing our coverage, on Second Street and bryant street. A bit better but earlier, a round drive time people were trying to get home from work and other areas from the bay. Showing this have the on ramp. This closure only happen for about 30 minutes but given these factors it was a nightmare we spoke with those commuters and this is what they said. The traffic is terrible can you believe it . Get off the bridge. It is ridiculous. It is a prelude to another part strike. Anotherbart strike. Back out here live, this is a prelude. Kron 4 news. Pam and the suspicious device near the bay bridge wasnt the only Thing Holding up traffic. How about adding several concerts . One, with two of the biggest acts in the entertainment business jay z and Justin Timberlake at Candlestick Park . Kron4s Charles Clifford is live near the stadium. Charles . Reporter right now, near highway 1 0 1. Take a look it is the northbound going towards San Francisco many people are going towards the concert but many people are behind because traffic is very slow going. This section of 1 0 1 has been slow all day. It started. The bay bridge and also, from candlestick it nearly impacted most of the erie all afternoon. The c h p says that they will have extra patrols on 1 0 1 this evening and also the San Francisco police will have additional officers at candlestick. And also at at t park. Another final note the fog has been rolling in and also, that is indicative of a possible cooler night you might want to bring a jacket. Charles clifford, kron 4 news. How jacqueline that fog is going to be extensive. A tad bit cooler for most locations but we are still warm for the in the valleys. 80s and 90s. 70s and the same for the north bay. Where we were in the 60s this live look from the golden gate bridge. You cannot even see the bridge towers it is so effective. Going towards oakland it is going to be widespread. It will be drizzling knew the coast. And also, for saturday it is going to be slower to clear with cooler. 86 degrees i concord. 66 degrees along the coast. The additional cooling trend will continue for the weekend will take a look a your extended forecast, coming up. Pam ahead at eight. A plea deal for the infamous cleveland kidnap suspect ariel castro. A san pablo mother facing vehicular manslaughter charges following a Traffic Accident that killed her 5yearold daughter. What led to the charges. A major honor for an antioch soldier. Militarys highest honor. During a daylong firefight in afghanistan. A major honor for a bay area soldier. The white house has announced. That Army Staff Sergeant and antioch resident ty carter will receive the medal of honor in august. The honor is for his actions in combat outpost keating in afghanistan on october 3, 2009. You may remember, earlier this year, former Army Staff Sergeant clinton romeshay received the medal of honor for his actions that same night. Jake tapper explains how these two men earned the militarys highest honor in the same battle. Reporter it was a devastating taliban attack. Captured in this insurgent made video. Launched on an eastern afghanistan outpost positioned so poorly it was nearly indefensible. Combat outpost keating. Tucked in a valley surrounded by towering mountains. Up to 400 insurgents used the high ground to stage an overwhelming assault on just 53 us troops. Every kind of weapon they could get their hands on they were throwing at us and we hadnt see that before. Reporter eight men died, but there were heart stopping heroics to defend the base. One. Staff sgt. Clint romesha. Has already given the nations highest honor for his bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Cop keating, the investigation found, was tactically indefensible. But thats what these soldiers were asked to do defend the indefensible. Now there will be a second white house ceremony. This time to sergeant ty carter. A member of b troop, third platoon nicknamed the bastards. That morning hed been risking his life running ammo to troops. When a sniper pinned down him and four others in this humvee. As the picture shows. The roof mounted weapon was destroyed by an rpg. The men were sitting ducks. They were totally ineffective in that position. They had no more ammo left, they were getting hit from every which way. Sergeant josh hardt led two other soldiers to try and provide cover for their comrades with their own humvee. It was a suicide mission. Hart came across the net and said you know i have an rpg pointed right at me and that was the last we heard from hart. Reporter bad went to worse. Rounds were penetrating the humvee. The enemy was now inside the base. The five men trapped decided they need to get out of there three tried to make a run for it. Carter and sgt. Brad larson provided cover. Enemy fire killed sgt. Justin gallegos, specialist stephan mace was bady wounded lying trapped in open ground. Carter sprung into action. Rescuing mace bringing him back to the humvee. But they needed to get him help. Carter once again braved the bullets and ran and retrieved gallegoss radio. Is anyone still alive . The men radioed. A response whats going on . The tide was turning. Over the radio, they heard comrades who were pinned down in a humvee. So clint and his team unloaded everything they had into the enemy positions. And with that cover, three wounded americans made their escape mace would not survive. But carters bravery among the brave now deserving the medal of honor two medals of honor for the same battle is very rare. The award for ty carter marks the first time in almost half a century that one battle resulted in two Living Service members being awarded the highest honor a troop can receive. Two Service Members who were killed in the black hawk down attack in somalia were posthumously awarded the medal of honor for that battle, which was on october 3 1993 16 years to the day before the attack on combat outpost keating. Jacqueline we can see the fog clearing. Cooler temperatures and even along the coast. 62 degrees 68 in the san mateo and the east bayshore. 65 and alameda. And a few low 70s in union city. The east bay in the valleys are still going to be warm. 90s in brentwood and livermore. Still cooler than today. 70s for the most part. 70s and the sunnyvale. And 85 degrees for the gilroy garlic festival. Temperatures of be comfortable. As we look towards the north bay 70s and rohnert park. And look it your extended forecast. Cooler on a sunday and monday but that is good news if you are away from the coast. Temperatures are going to be more comfortable. Along the coast. And you can watch the Weather Forecast whenever it is convenient for you on our its on comcast 193 and on kron4. Com. Pam a major problem with the bay bridge toll plaza continues. The traffic on 80 trying to get to the lower back and look at how things are moving on the southbound will keep an eye on at. We everything with the oakland athletics, the giants, and Justin Timberlake we should be in the concert [laughter] we will see you it is a hot night. And jay z. [ man ] we have a go for auto sequence start. Tminus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Ignition. [ male announcer ] launch your internet experience on at ts newly expanded advanced Digital Network and connect more wifienabled devices at home. [ female announcer ] call to get uverse high Speed Internet starting at 14. 95 a month. 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She has been charged with child endangerment. Reporter this is aerial footage courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Showing you the aftermath of the may 20th accident on a hilltop drive. The five yearold was killed when the s u v that swerved rolled over. Three other children, and eight teenagers were injured and they say they were not wearing seat belts. Several family members were in court to show their support but not any offered their support. They offered to comment that she is a hard working single mother with no priors in richmond, kron 4 news. This live look with a major for the back up getting into San Francisco. And south as you can see from this live picture of the james lick also in San Francisco and you can see the top of your screen. Barely moving. As we see it is still just crawling we will be back. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Pam the cleveland man accused of kidnapping and torturing three women for a decade takes a plea deal. But the victims are just a few of the women that went missing in the cleveland area. Well examine why its all the ohio man accused of kidnapping and imprisoning three women for years in his cleveland home. Has accepted a plea deal. That means ariel castro will not face the death penalty. He told a judge today that he agrees to the deal and understands what it means. Castro will die in prison. With a sentence that technically calls for a thousand year term because of the long list of charges. Prosecutors agreed to the deal since it means castros three victims will not have to testify at any trial. Castros three victims are said to be relieved that there will be no trial. And they were not the only women who were missing for so long in cleveland. Far from it. Hundreds of women have disappeared without a trace there over the years. Gary tuchman reports that residents are demanding action and even trying to find the victims themselves. It is time to take a stand reporter the angry people gathered. This has gotten bad that the residents are calling for the president of the United States to bring in the National Guard to find these women and posters can be seen all over these impoverished neighborhoods. The Cleveland Police website listing 54 women missing. That compares of just three women on the cincinnati. And baltimore, a larger city, there are only six missing women. They acknowledge that these lists are not complete but Many Community leaders say that these numbers could be much higher. Vanishing without a trace one of three sisters. I just want her back. Id just want to see her. Reporter a cleveland resident has been missing since 20 07. I want you to come home and i want you to know that i love you, miss you and i will never give up. Reporter in many of these cases, they have not done enough. They say that the police have not done enough. Reporter she went missing on the july, 20 07. That was over six years ago. Do think that everything is being done to find hurt . No. Reporter they acknowledge that this is a serious problem. The mayor also acknowledges this as well. There are far too many that are missing. Reporter this live look at traffic it has been quite a day. The bay bridge toll plaza where things are beginning to ease up. And the james a lack showing a better picture but traffic is also beginning to increase just a bit. For many that have been in traffic for many hours. Jacqueline let me show you the bay bridge toll plaza. That pending low cloud coverage over oakland a nice cooler night with more on that, coming up. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. Call to get uverse tv for just 19 a month with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Pam now for a look at our top stories at eight thirty. A suspicious device brought traffic to a halt today on the bay bridge eastbound 80. The device was spotted just after 12 pm by the Treasure Island offramp. Traffic from both sides of of the bridge was stopped for about half and hour before police allowed drivers to make their way across groups at a time. Thats when the bomb squad gave the all clear and reopened the bridge. But that backup caused some major headaches as commuters were left to deal with the traffic these are some images of the back up on the bridge and near the on ramps. That traffic not expected to let up soon as several events tonight are making the bay area a commuting nightmare. There are two home baseball games plus three concerts all which just got underway within the last hour. Stay with kron 4 news as we continue our coverage on a second possible bart strike. It has now been 16 days,, we are extremely concerned about these allegations. We are expected a further investigation and the fact that although we have been invoices show that the bill 16,000, however, partly paid 5,000. Bart does not see this as a conflict of interest. And as of now, he is still the lead negotiator and plans are that they will resume again on tuesday at 9 00 a. M. Stay with kron 4 as we continue the possible second to bart strike. The weekend deuce will have the very latest on any negotiations and as well www. Kron4. Com comcast. It has been 16 days since 21 monthold daphne webb. Was taken from her fathers car outside an east oakland supermarket. And just yesterday her grandfather spoke exclusively to kron4 questioning the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. Those questions focused squarley on what her grandfather says are inconsistancies in daphnes fathers account of what happened. Oakland Police Investigators say they are curious about that as well the father has been intensely interviewed. And also he i

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