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who believe that russia lost it say, forever when the usaa saw collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i roddick, isn't it? the women death, the soviet union still shapes off futures. well after the 7 union foul people gained certain freedoms but lost out in other ways. the up slough pancreatic moved to lapierre back in 1965, but has been unable to obtain citizenship ever since he told us to lie for leasing better in the ussr. i moved to live here from the russian, the pat screeching in 1965, and i've lived here ever since. at that time it was good fun and people have liked to the full ever was good natured and cheerful. and it fell as if there was some kind of future when more comfortable than under separate rule than of course there was the referendum to leave the usaa on people voted for it. we're here from then on. we were divided into citizens and non citizens. those who lived in not feel before 1940 wednesday grant assistantship, and those who came later went on citizens. if you're not granted citizenship, then you do not hav

with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. >> in the south bay. we're getting our first look at the woman who was slammed to the ground by san jose police after police say she interfered with an arrest. officers were trying to arrest a group of people involved in a theft. they say saturday night as many as 15 people ran into the macy's at the oakridge mall in san jose and tried to steal merchandise, even ended up assaulting one of the store employees. police say the woman in the video tried to interrupt them during their arrest. and that's when things escalated as a result, one of the suspects that they were trying to arrest there on the ground got away and has not yet been found. the woman is now being held at the santa clara jail on multiple charges. >> well, governor gavin newsom says that he wants to use about 300 million dollars to help law enforcement battled very retail theft that we just talked about there in that last story. as we know, there's a rash across the

with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron 00:00am morning news at >> and the weather outside is not frightful anymore, which means good news for you because i won't saying had better news santa doesn't have. that's like of a alright. that's whatever you have to do this morning. we're here basically just to keep you company kuz. i just thank you for watching. you probably don't have to go. i know you have to go school. you probably don't have to go to work. if you do have to go to work with her. happy to be here exactly with you this morning. get you where you need to go safely. so let's take a look at the weather. we are getting a nice break today. john. but it's not going to be that way for christmas day no, it's not. so you've got to take advantage of the break we've got nice christmas eve travel weather here locally, at least this year and about is already pretty rough. >> and then we're also looking at g

with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. kristen: tonight on abc 7, the vikings and bears on monday night football. you can watch minnesota take on chicago at soldier field. coverage starts in a few minutes at 5:00. then stay tuned after the game, followed by more local news at 9:00. new york city is getting ready to say goodbye to 2021. the 2022 new year's eve numerals arrived in times square. the seven foot tall numbers took a road trip across the country from los angeles, even people a chance to see them before they are hoisted above a crowd in new york. people they are not wasting any time in welcoming the new year. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, happy new year! there is no those numerals light up and we are cheering in times square in a blizzard of confetti. kristen: mayor de blasio is expected to announce this week whether the traditional celebration in times square will go on or whether it will be modified because of covid. dan: it is touch and go. a merry morning in oakland

and by that time you see it was committed to break up usaa to an independent russia party because, you know, he, he kind of reinvented himself as a russian nationalist also, partly because he saw as a way to power as a way of talk topic go, which of course what happened in december 19 to break up your side so not too much fun. it's basically a type of deal with the leaders of the ukrainian or russian republics. and together they sign the steel constructed. ussr replace this commonwealth a c r. yes. ok. and then subsequently, y'all seem to complete control of also institutions down forces secured security service. ready financial institutions and, and the foreign ministry and everything. so, yeah, so, so it was the empowerment of you'll see crew is popular election. remember, it's a popular election as russian president during lunch, not one. that seems to me to be the case. of course, we have a big time period was the attempted code in august 1991 occur, which was intended to stop the break up of usaa. but because of this failure actually empowered, yeltsin rushing not even will really

usaa. only for the military community. >> our top story tonight, state health officials expecting more cases of the omicron variant to be detected in california. kron four's capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala explains how state leaders are responding to the first case that was found today. >> this did not come as a surprise to the state's top health officials or the governor who say because of california's genomics sequencing effort. it was inevitable. the state was going to have the first detected case of this variant, one of their main message is that now is not the time to panic or let your guard down. >> this was predictable. this was predicted. governor gavin newsome and state health leaders say they've been prepared for this moment when the omicron variant would reach california. the nation in state's first case detected wednesday in a fully vaccinated. san francisco resident who had recently traveled to south africa the person has mild symptoms. we are proud to be able to identioy

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even those words of video provoked an outcry the usaa beyond. but in some ways, they were typical of another year in which people were on the move dues was shut to them. lock them in my pocket, like kills me about this is that everyone knows what we haitians are going through, even though there's no president crime as high students can't go to school, there's no work the economy is down, people can put up with, that's the partition is not good for olive, even other people with other problems from the middle east trying to get into poland, neighboring belarus, that load them in and encouraged them to try and cross said the european union. it's not just a matter of political will putting up barriers to migrant. the protocol for dealing with them in many countries is also hopelessly out. they says the chief of staff for the iowa, the international organization for migration. the, the tools, especially from a legal point of view that governments have at their disposal. i are tailored for 60 years ago when that movement and the reason for moving we'r

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with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. >> from the bay area's local news station. you're watching the kron 4 morning news at 6. >> good morning. thank you for joining us at 06:00am. we're taking a live look here at storm tracker. 4. we've got a lot of rain coming down right now. rain that's going to be with us for the next several days. good morning. thank you for joining us on this wednesday. december 22nd i'm james fletcher. and i'm noelle bellow in for darya folsom. we do have team coverage of the storm this morning, of course, will tran is going to be tracking. >> the storm in the north bay where we do see the rain falling right now. he's keeping an eye. their raining harvey's keeping an eye on our wet commute because that's definitely going to be an but first, we're going take a look at the forecast with john trouble. he's got a little bit more detail on what we're seeing today, yeah, the lighter stuff today for sure. guys which is nice, but it is enough to get r

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with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. >> 5.29 right now. we're taking a look here. little quick tower. >> it's nice that it still looks incredibly denotes stormy out just that one day we were here. it was just very who could hardly see it and that is surprising to because not all you have rain, but some areas have some pretty heavy fog tonight. >> the rain is coming down good and our is exactly right. we do have some patchy fog in there mixed in too. so it is a morning full of obstacles. one thing that isn't going to be an obstacle is a heavy load of traffic. it's actually very light. so that means you have to slow yourself down because the 3rd traffic's not going to do it for you and with this heavy intensity rainfall. the risk of hydroplaning is higher today than it was during our light rain yesterday looking outside at your berkeley hills camera. we are seeing some of that low cloud cover obscuring the view right there. and we are seeing certainly some heavy spots

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with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. moving through the bay area. you can see here this wide shot of northern california. the radar showing us some of that green here moving over the bay area and off toward the sierra and obviously you can see we have more wet weather headed our way throughout the week. alright looking outside now this is what it looks like right now on the richmond san rafael bridge on this thursday night, the night before christmas eve looks like not a lot of traffic at this hour. in this area. the roadway there looks wet as the showers have been coming and going throughout the day. all this rain, though, made for a difficult morning commute from trees blocking highways to some bad accidents. ktvu is frank mallicoat. has a look now at the problems that were caused by the wet weather all around the bay area. the mop up in lafayette went well into the afternoon over 100. gallons of fuel leaked out a pleasant hill road after this big rig got rear end

usaa. only for the military community. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron 00:00am morning news car. >> and look who's catching up with us on wednesday feeling better. a feeling a little better, but now james is the one feeling that i tell you what, impasse on no, no, it was it was back and as john knows, it's not working out that olympian and taking 2 steps at a time. too many steps. you know, when you get yes to every step. you must count. >> it's funny things you'd never expect was. i with facts. it's always like that. you can go like this is really a anyway. i'm sure he'll be back. just going rest and build better ties james half cm and magnesium. >> james, if you're watching can hope. hits and don't go outside even though it could be tempting. i know and actually a super tempting. i know it's december first. it should be colder than it is. but today an unseasonably warm one to start the new mother. we're going to be looking at daytime highs climbing well into the upper 70's for a couple of spots in the south bay. this is close t

usaa. only for the military community. >> 5.29 right now. have you gotten used to buy sound effect deal. like do you want every day. >> which do want that work. i mean, should i keep do it. should choose is what is or a pole thing. i don't do the social i don't know if i could ask people, i think to it. i think they should just better not to asked right. yeah. okay. ask for they can always turn it john, in the weather center a live look at this and other here's i did. i said i never get tired quite hours that we full. and mark, i daria sound effects as my >> mean, it's haha baby sound. i do not use but we are looking outside at conditions that are nice and clear. coit tower looks beautiful. >> we saw a very nice day across san francisco yesterday for a record breaking day time. high of 73 with 75 in san jose yesterday. and we're going to be back to some similar conditions today. not quite as warm, though, your view outside of half moon bay, a very warm morning for half moon bay, by the way, are in the upper 50's to low 60's at the coastline

with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. ho. ho. ho. it's santa. we got a problem. ♪ ho! ho! ho! >> welcome back. a day as far as here with us with your forecast gave it's been raining. it's been sunny. it's snowing in the mountains. what's it looking like? >> here in the bay area. more of all that that you just mentioned will continue for this weekend and on into early next week. here's the progress that we've been following this heavier line, this drop south of the peninsula also covering a good chunk of the east bay. we expect the heavy rain to kind of settle there on the south bay going on for today. that includes the santa cruz mountains as well. live shot coming in from half moon bay basically mostly cloudy skies with that rain continuing what's going on the mountains. guess what, snow and more of it into early next week. maybe a little break happening by tuesday. notice the temperatures fall here in the mid 20's for high temperatures. this is what we're going t

with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. really upset with city officials over changes meant to improve an annual christmas tradition. displays of elaborate holiday lights attract people from all over the bay area. but the money spent on safety changes has some neighbors upset in one area and turning their lights out. ktvu brooks jarocz joins us live from san carlos, with the roadblocks that they say are ruining their christmas, brooks. let me start out by saying if you come down a eucalyptus avenue here in san carlos, you're actually in for a real treat. because every single home is decked out with lights from top to bottom yards have displays in them, but you'll also find up and down the streets here. barricades like this as well as security guards , and because of that, some neighbors say their holiday spirit. they feel scrooged. from decorating to decking the halls and trimming trees with holiday cheer. it's pretty much mandated if you live along these two blocks of