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KRON KRON 4 News Weekend February 1, 2014

This live shot approach in the bay bridge toll plaza. We are going to have pretty chilly conditions. 40 degrees in oakland and upper 30s in san jose. Below freezing in santa rosa at 30 degrees. A chance of rain will be for tomorrow. I will talk more about this coming up. Developing news this Drought Conditions are getting worse. The state has taken an alarming step its cutting off water to contractors which serve 25 Million People and 750 thousand acres of farmland. So, californians who have been unaffected by what some consider the states worst drought in modern history may soon feel the pain. Kron4s jr stone looks at the impact this move will have. We talk so much about this a drought and i want to put fridays announcement in laymans terms. One of the big impacts will be on the farmers. Were talking about 750,000 a. Milk, beef, and fruit are just some of the things that are produced. Theres also an impact on the bay pacifically Santa Clara Valley and Alameda County water district. For precaution, they have taken these. We talk about precautions and we talk about voluntarily asking people to restrict their water usage. Most of the major Water Companies have asked for this. They want people to voluntarily do 10 to 15 depending on where you live. The big question is when can you see these mandatory changes . All the water districts that i spoke with did not want to get into specifics on the question. However, officials in San Francisco said that we are a least one to two months away from having this conversation about mandatory restrictions. Other representatives and for other districts also agree that this is a topic to take up months down the road. J. R. Stone, kron 4 news. Heres how you can save water inside your home. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. Take shorter showers and baths. Wash clothes in full loads smaller loads use more water. And check all your faucets and toilets for any leaks. Baseball season is right around the corner. And giants fans are gearing up for todays fan fest at atandt park. Kron fours mike pelton is live at the ballpark with baseball is a back and a lot of people are out here and gearing up for this fan fest. Hundreds if not thousands of fans are already here waiting to get in at 10 00 a. M. You can see a lot of them on your screen. All the more dressed in orange and black. Some of them arrive as early as 11 00 p. M. Last night. It runs from 10 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Today. You can get autographs as well. They also have Face Painting and you can walk from the field. What more can you ask for if you are a giants fan. One fan fell into the bay area just to attend. I fly here from denver, colorado. I have been a giants fan for life. Everyone told me, it is superbowl this week. But you have to be a giants fan to do this. Yes. I have been a giants fan my whole life. San fest is free and you do not have to pay anything. Single game tickets go on selleck a. M. And we expect to see people picking these up. If you wanna come down to get your fanface payment and interact with the team that is okay. Good point mike. Do you have any word from the giants of how many they expect to see today . I have not heard back from them but i know thousands of people will be attending. There are people at all of these interest aentra we would check back with mike drop the morning. Also happening in San Francisco today. A protest to mark one year of the nudity ban. It was one year ago today when the ban went into effect. Supporters of the right to bare all are staging a rally and body freedom parade to mark the anniversary. This is video from a protest in january of last year. The rally will happen today at the Jane Warner Plaza at 17th and Market Street in San Francisco. A disabled ship near the port of oakland almost disabled bart. The ship dropped anchor, coming very close if not striking the transbay tube. We have video of the ship from our helicopter partnership with abc7. It happened around 8 45 yesterday morning, when the ship dropped anchor near berth 37. Bart shut down trains in the transbay tube for about 15 minutes. Bart Officials Say inspections were done, and if the anchor hit the tube, no damage was done. Coming up on the kron four news weekend. Its snowing in the sierras, and thats good news for skiers, snowboarders and business owners. Well have the latest coming up at 7 15. And most everyone has a smart phone, but has yours ever caught on fire, while in your pocket . One teenagers iphone did. Well have the images coming up at 7 25. And are you looking to get out and celebrate the year of the horse. Well have a look at how people are ringing in the Lunar New Year. That story coming up after the break. The break. I want you to know stuff i dont. I want you to be kind. I want you to be smart. Super smart. I want one thing in a doctor. To speak my language. 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There is a lot of fireworks and drums. It is to bring about keeping all of the evil spirits away. This is all to kick off the year of the horse. It means spirit. All the positive. Mayor ed lee was on hand to ring in the new year by putting a brief on a horse. This is a good luck. This is for prosperity. Dancers more dragons and others spent money. This is a tradition of giving. This is the first day of the year. Especially, money and good health and peace. Everyone in San Francisco and todays festivities are just one of the big ones before the parade which is absolutely spectacular if you have never experienced this. If you are looking to get out and celebrate the Lunar New Year, stick with kron four. Coming up at 9 15, marcia from tablehopper will be here with tips on where youll be able to go to celebrate the Lunar New Year in San Francisco. We have more rain headed we have more rain headed our way. Nights can feel long and lonely. I miss my sister. I miss my old school. I miss my room. I dont want special treatment. I just wanna feel normal. To help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help make a Foster Childs night a little cozier. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. Welcome back to kron four news weekend. A welcome sight for skiers this week. Several inches of new snow in the sierra nevada. Plenty of people headed to the slopes this weekend. And because of that, those who own ski shops in the bay area are happy this weekend. Kron4s jeff bush has their stores like this store has seen one of the worst ones winters in a resort to the dry weather. But, that is changing this week and heres why. Snow has finally came down. All of this has the sport lovers out of the house and into the store to pick up new gear. Rentals are up as well. Finally, business is on track. People are getting excited for the winter. Hopefully, that will come soon. By the looks of things this season is starting to get under way even if it is too late. These guys just pick up things so they can enjoy the fresh snow. There is a snow storm that is coming. We are expecting good conditions. We have been looking forward to this for a while. We are expected to get more to my. You can tell that these guys were pretty excited and i am sure that will have a lot of company on the slopes. We will find out more about the latest conditions. We do have the storm system that is approaching. Also, it is bring in a chance of snow showers. Chances for snow, we have a base of 22 in. No new snow that we are expecting. Bring that back to the bay it is want to certainly be clear. Heres your view approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. There are lot of places in the upper 20s and 30s. Tomorrow, we have the chance of spotty showers. It will be dry for the next work week. 29 degrees for santa rosa and upper 30s for a bottle. 21 degrees for fremont. Mid 30s for livermore. Afternoon highs will be more seasonable. Upper 50s, low 60s. It will start to feel like winter. Mountain view and fremono get up to 60 degrees. We are also looking at 50s along the delta. 57 degrees for danville. Low 60s for those of you in richmond. Downtown San Francisco will get up to 57 degrees. Berkeley will top out at 58 degrees. 61 degrees expected for napa. Satellite and radar shows a system coming so expect clear skies today but as we head into the evening you will see the increase in cloud cover. Tracking the system for yield you can see by 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow we are looking at light rain in the north bay. By 10 00 a. M. You will see that it will increase in intensity. We will have moderate downpours and by noon time will have a little bit less. Portions of the south bay will slowly dissipate. Spotted by nature by 2 00 p. M. And you can see it will dry out. A dry evening in store and address start for the work week. The kron 47 day around the bay shows spotty showers for tomorrow and a lot of sunshine by monday. New this morning. Police are searching for a gunman who shot two College Students inside their apartment near Michigan State university. It happened just before nine last night, in an apartment complex less than a mile from campus. Both students were taken to the hospital, one was treated and released, the other remains in Critical Condition this morning. Investigators believe the victims were the intended targets. The motive for the shooting remains unclear at this hour. A key figure in a scandal involving new Jersey Governor Chris Christie says there is evidence that christie knew about the lane closures on the George Washington bridge when they were happening. Thats according to a lawyer for the former Port Authority official who was blamed for the incident. Christies administration denied the allegations. Christies appointees reportedly ordered a couple of lanes into fort lee, new jersey be closed to punish the towns mayor for not endorsing christies re election. A new state Department Report makes no definitive recommendation for approval or denial of the proposed Keystone Pipeline. But it finds that the project will not have a Significant Impact on Natural Resources or the rate of oil production. The onethousand mile long, seven billion dollar project would run from canada to the gulf coast. The Keystone Pipeline is a major point of contention in washington. Proponents point to the possible economic benefits, while opponents cite environmental concerns. Those in favor will likely embrace the report as evidence the project should in the past, president obama has said he will only approve the project if it wont hurt the environment. A decision is expected this it was a busy week for president obama. Following tuesdays state of the union address, the president delivered his message to voters in 4 executive orders. Today, he is back in washington focusing on the longterm unemployed. Shannon travis has the story. Get used to these images. Every day americans are talking about their concerns. Getting people back on the job is one of our top priorities. He appeared with veterans for them to find jobs for the long term. Just because you have been out of work does not mean you are not a hard worker. The president s stated that the federal government should do the same yet another executive action in his year of action going along if congress doesnt go along. Thursday, job training. I want to sign this executive order to make sure everyone is trying. The federal command on wage is to go farther than 1950. When women succeed, american succeeds. With the november midterm elections looming, the possibility of the democrats losing the senate, these issues will help people like women, young people and minorities but also drive to the polls. In washington, i am a shannon travis. For more information on what is happening around the bay you can go to our website at th line taking a look at wall street. Investors were hit from all sides in january. Concerns about the Global Economy and us Company Earnings led the dow to its worst start since 2009. But, many investors remain hopeful that the problems will not spill over into the rest of 2014. Heres a look at the numbers turned out yesterday. The dow was down 150 points ending the day at 15,698. The nasdaq lost 19 points. And the s and p 500 lost 11. A middle School Student in maine says she was burned when her iphone caught fire in her pocket. The 13yearold has first and seconddegree burns. She reportedly sat down with the phone in her back pocket. The principal at her school says the eighth grader heard a pop, then saw smoke. Friends and staff helped put the fire out. The principal says the girls burns are minor, and shes doing fine. There are a lot of fans out here for the fan fest. We also have more on flu outbreaks. Have your novel email been hackes your yahoo email ben phacked . We will tell you what to do coming up. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious, but say i press a few out flat, add some beef, sloppy joe sauce and cheese, fold it all up and boom delicious unsloppy joes perfect for a school night. Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make dinner pop. Kevin toaster strudel, yah . Warm, flaky, toaster strudel. [ female announcer ] now get two bonus box tops for your school. It is time to check the water. This is the view from our roof cam. It is a clear start to the day. It is also a chilly start for the morning. If you are going out the door it is pretty chilly for santa rosa there at 29 degrees. 39 degrees for about. Freezing and pleasanton at 32 degrees and waking up to upper 30s in the south. For the afternoon you can expect mainly clearly skies. A mixture of the upper 60s for the afternoon. In the north, 61 degrees for napa and 60 degrees for santa rosa. 55 degrees will be the high for daly city. In pleasanton and livermore that will be in the upper 50s. As we head into the evening we are expecting an increase in cloud cover and the temperatures will get pretty chilly. You can see mainly 40s outside. 47 degrees for San Francisco. Low 40s for santa rosa. Cloud cover is just ahead of a system that is coming with showers for tomorrows. I retract that for you coming up. And a jump in the number of flu related deaths in the bay area and statewide. Well break down the numbers by county, coming up after the flu outbreak in the bay area claims two more lives. Both in the south bay. Santa clara countys number of flu related deaths this season increased from eight to 10. A 54 year old man. Both had the common h1n1 strain. That makes 34 people across the bay area that have died of the flu. Since october. And new state numbers show that the death toll in california soared. From 52 last week. Now up to 147. Four of those victims are under the age of 18. Shot is still your best defense and its not too on our website here. We have a flu section. There youll find locations closest to you that are offering the flu shot. Lots of other helpful info. Too. Thats kron4 dot. Com. Baseball season is right around the corner. Giants fans are gearing up for todays san fest at at t park. Kron4 mike pelton is live with more. You can see all of these fans are decked out in orange and black. Some of them are heavenly decaffeinated. They have been here since last night. You can get your face painted and play on the field. You can also get autographs. A lot of these fans got a really early because of that. You have to get on that field and get as many autographs as you can. It is a even year so will take it step by step and game by game. Their Single Game Tickets for also go on sale at 8 00 a. M. And we will see a lot of fans spent money on tickets and also go to get giants gear. A lot of these fans just want to interact with some of the team. We expect thousands of people to come here and what this is one of the most popular events the crop is only about half as what it was last season. The giants came off a world series win. All the fans and i spoke to stated that they expect a another one this year. Of course, every fan is confident. There was mike pelton reporting. The warriors on the road against the jazz last night in utah. Steph curry led the way with eight 3pointers. And a season high 44 points. Leading the dubs to a 95 90 victory. The jazz honored former coach jerry sloan. But it was currys night. With 13 points in the fourth quarter. The warriors came from nine points behind to win on backtoback nights. David lee didnt play. Hes nursing a shoulder and hip injury. Andrew bogut chipped in with 16 points, 17 rebounds and five assists. The dubs are off until tuesday when they face the Charlotte Bobcats at oracl

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