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WEBVTT TEO: MIKE TESELLE IS LIVE AT THE INTERSECTION TO EXPLAIN WHERE IT IS ABOUT TO BECOME OPERATIONAL. REPORTER: WE ARE ABOUT A BLOCK AWAY IN ROSEVILLE AT FREEDOM WAY AND INDUSTRIAL AVENUE. LET ME POINT OUT WHAT IS ABOUT TO COME HERE IS MEANT TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR DRIVERS BUT MAY AT FIRST CREATE PUZZLED LOOKS FOR DRIVERS BECAUSE THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. A FIRST OF ITS KIND FOR ROSEVILLE, FLASHING YELLOW LEFT TURN ARROW. THE IDEA IS USING A FLASHING YELLOW ARROW INSTEAD OF MAKING A LEFT TURN A TRADITIONAL RED, YELLOW, GREEN LIGHT FOR DRIVERS WILL HELP TO KEEP TRAFFIC FLOWING MORE FREELY BECAUSE DRIVERS CAN MAKE A LEFT TURN. WHILE LIGHTS HAVE BEEN GROWING IN POPULARITY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, THERE ARE SOME ACCOUNTS DRIVERS AT FIRST IN THOSE AREAS DID NOT IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS. >> THE FIRST THING THEY NEED TO REALIZE IS OPPOSING TRAFFIC HAS A GREEN LIGHT. THAT DRIVER NEEDS TO YIELD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC. HOWEVER, WHEN THAT DRIVER SEES A GAP IN THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC, THEY ARE FREE TO COMPLETE THE LEFT TURN. REPORTER: BACK LIVE, ROSEVILLE CITY OFFICIALS AT THIS INTERSECTION. IT IS A NE INTERSECTION NEAR THE NEW F.B.I. BUILDING. IT DOES NOT GET A LOT OF TRAFFIC WHICH THEY SAY WILL ALLOW DRIVERS TO SEE IT, START TO GET ACCUSTOMED TO IT, AND GET USED TO HOW IT IS INTENDED TO WORK. HOPEFULLY, IF SUCCESSF HERE, THEY CAN DEPLOY IT AT OTHER SPOTS THROUGHOUT T CITY IN HOPES OF MAKING TRAFFIC MORE EFFICIENT THERE AS WELL. THIS PARTICULAR YELLOW FLASHING ARROW GOES INTO EFFEC -- INTO OPERATION ON THURSDAY. MIKE TESELLE, KCRA 3 NEWS. TONI: THANK YOU. POLICE SAY A MAN SUSPECTED IN A TRIPLE HOMICIDE IN SACRAMENTO, MAY BE IN THE RENO AREA. NOW NEIGHBORS HERE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE SCARED HE MIGHT RETURN A MEMORIAL IS GROWING ALONG BROADWAY, WHERE 20-YEAR-OLD JAMES FERRELL, 23-YEAR-OLD MARQUISE BROWN, AND THEI GRANDMOTHER, 68-YEAR-OLD CHRISTINE LUCAS WERE MURDERED A WEEK AGO POLICE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR 52-YEAR-OLD JEROD WATSON, AN EX-BOYFRIEND OF THE BOYS' MOTHER, AND THE KEY SUSPECT IN THE CASE. >> HE MIGHT COME BACK HERE BECAUSE I THINK IS ONE OF HIS