A budget crisis for the Golden Gate Bridge district. Good evening, im alan martin. Im elizabeth cook. Board directors were faced with either raising the toll or cutting jobs. Don ford on the tough decision made just a few hours ago. Reporter the Golden Gate Bridge is in financial trouble. Serious financial trouble. Today, the board of directors took action. The Golden Gate Bridge is looking at a 48 million shortfall. The bridge says southbound traffic crossing the gate is significantly down. Bus ridership is down by 75 . And is down a shocking 96 . About 155 employees would be laid off. The total number of affected positions is a little over 200 and we have about 840 employees. So about a quarter of our workforce will be impacted. Reporter the decisions were made this morning on a conference call. One of the choices was to raise the total by two dollars, making it eight dollars to cross. That idea was rejected. Our board decided that on ballots, the best thing to do is to strike a balance until we make the Effective Date after the holidays. And then, to not impose a toll or charge. Reporter the majority of the layoffs will be those in the bus operations and some in the ferry operations. President Roger Marenco was not buying the logic please, give us a break. These are men and women that have put their health, their safety, their lives and their families in jeopardy. These are the men and women operators who give life to the city. Reporter drivers have missed reactions. Keep the people working. None of these things are going to be the best decision or solve it. Even when we do find solutions, every solution is going to create a new problem. Reporter eight dollars to go over the bridge for anybody is just six dollars is too much. Reporter the layoffs will not happen until the first week of january. At the Golden Gate Bridge, don ford, kpix 5 news. The board of directors also threatened to cut pay by 10 . An employee is being layoff will get an increased severance package, including four months of medical been benefits. Contra costa county is back in the red tier today. Health officials warn that the county could slide into the purple or widespread tear, even without guidance from the state. We are prepared to add additional restrictions in the future if our cases and our hospitalizations continue to rise. Even in advance of the state making those restrictions. Reporter today, Santa Clara County also dialed back its reopenings. For more on all the new restrictions in place, check out kpix. Com. A bizarre arson plot has been uncovered in saratoga. A woman found bound and gagged inside a burning Office Actually set the fire herself to cover up her financial fraud. The fire broke out in november of last year at investments in downtown. Deputies say 74yearold employee janice was found tied up with a broken nose. She told investigators she was ambushed from behind. However, deputies collected evidence that the 74yearold had embezzled more than 580,000 from her employer. When deputies confronted her with the evidence, they say she admitted to staging the fire and assault. She was arrested yesterday and released on bond. In san leandro, the road rage incident along highway 580 ended in an freeway shooting. A man and woman have been detained. Officers believe the two were inside a gray volkswagen the opened fire on a black mercedes at 6 00 a. M. Two shots were fired, but the man driving the mercedes was not hit. Police officers will no longer patrol the high schools in fremont. The school board voted 32 to ends up the School Resource program. That came after contentious debate with nearly 100 people speaking on both sides of the issue. A task force recently found that black students were disproportionately arrested in the program recently. Other districts have also ended Police Presence on their campuses. Coming up, President Trump playing politics with the covid 19 vaccine. How he is singling out one state. And we go live in sierra, where snow is falling right now. We check out the conditions heading up to tahoe. Coming up, new at 6 00, the final hours against San Francisco. Restaurant owners worry about being let down in the raid. Plus state Health Officials issue a travel advisory. How people are reacting to that and an Infectious Disease specialist weighs in on where we are seeing a surge in hospitalizations across the this weekend, former president barack obama spoke exclusively with cbs news. Its his first set of tv interviews following the election. First, he is speaking with gayle king. He gives a personal look at his life and family and his time as president. Gill also asked him about President Trumps legal challenges with the selection. And his republican support. The former president called that disappointing. Theres damage to this, because what happens is that the peaceful transfer of power, the notion that any of us who attain an elected office, whether its or president are servants of the people. Its a temporary job. We are not above the rules, we are not above the law. Thats the essence of our democracy. Reporter you can watch president obamas interview with gayle king on cbs sunday morning and on 60 minutes, he sits down with scott pelley to talk about his new book, a promised land. Thats sunday night at 7 00. President trump says a covid19 vaccine will be ready to distribute in april. If the emergency authorization use of the visor vaccine is approved. But the president says that the people of new york wont get it. He spoke this afternoon at the rose garden. We wont be delivering it until we have authorization to do so. And that pains me to say that. This is a very successful, amazing vaccine, 90 and more, but the governor, Governor Cuomo will have to let us know when hes ready for. Reporter in september, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new york would form its own independent task force to review every fda approved vaccine. Meanwhile, new york citys Public School system is on the verge of shutting down again. Mayor bill de blasio says all 1. 1 Million Students should prepare for a brief period of Remote Learning is covid19 cases sore. And oregons governor announced a two week freeze, starting next wednesday. Is going to limit restaurants to take out only, close the gyms and require remote work if possible for all businesses. A new survey Shows Healthcare workers are burnt out. Research from the California Healthcare Foundation shows 70 of Healthcare Providers have seen or treated patients with covid19. And nearly 70 of them feel emotionally drained. More than half agree their employer is providing enough emotional support, but more than three quartersagree not enough is being done to address problems. Coming up, astronauts set to blast off this weekend and another historic spacex launch. How these flights are about to become business as usual. A positive end to the week on wall street. S p closed at a record high of 48 points today. The dow is up nearly 400 points in the nasdaq gained 119. Delivery giant 9. Door dash is planning to go public. The San Franciscobased Public Company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol dash. Door dash grossed 1. 9 billion in the first nine months this year, but it also lost 149 million. In may, door dash passed grubb up to become the number one on demand Food Delivery Service in the us. The pandemic is making the holidays even harder for those in need. But one southbay organization is hoping to. San joses Republic Urban Properties is going to sponsor Catholic Charities food drive in Santa Clara County. For the month of november. The company typically sponsors the nonprofits tournament which usually raises enough funds for the project, but it was canceled this year because of the pandemic. Said Republican Urban Properties got creative. In addition to lets get people out, lets replenish volunteers, lets man up, lets woman up. Is also to be used here in volunteers. Reporter Catholic Charities will have six different drive through sites. This weekend, six astronauts blasting off in a joint spacex mission. That launch pushed from saturday to sunday night because of the weather. Itll mark the start of regular crew rotation flights to the International Space station using americanmade space craft. Space x new will have more science above the covid19 made the launch to this more difficult, and that is why the crew named their spaceship resilience. We feel like if our vehicle to give a little hope, little inspiration, put a smile on peoples faith, then that is definitely what we wanted to do and we felt like resilience was the name they did that. Reporter the spaceflight rookie in the 20 lab history is the first black astronaut to stay for a Long Duration mission. This year is getting hit with snow. This is what it looks like in trucking. Flakes started this afternoon. Reporter thats right, we spoke to caltrans short couple hours ago. They said this was completely unexpected and as you said, its causing quite a mess. Down here for a second. This is exactly what we are seeing, slush along the sides of the roads, cars doing their best to drive as carefully as possible. I want to show you what we saw earlier today. Driving up i80, tons of cars and trucks on the side of the interstate, doing exactly what caltrans is doing them today. Putting on chain controls. Of course, there were some nice camaraderie that we saw experts turning around to help the less experience drivers. Im going to tahoe. Yeah. Its pretty, its pretty dangerous. But you know, im trying to keep my cool. To be cautious. Mostly with the weather now. Reporter again, caltrans preaching chain controls on tires unless you have four wheeldrive. We will send it back to you in the studio, where im sure its a lot warmer. You doing great out there, laura. Im sure the businesses that there are thrilled, but Everybody Needs to stay safe, no question. Thanks, laura. People are pretty excited. They are, and we dont blame them. We have been waiting so long for a little reward. And there it is. Im happy to mean a spot where its all just liquid. Thats enough of a problem on the roads. We will start with the wide view, which includes the high sierra. Were mainly talking about about 5 to 6000 feet. And its just rain around the bay area. We will zoom in for a closer look. The north has been dry now and that dry trend is going to make its way from northwest to southeast across the bay area as we head through the rest of this evening. Still quite a bit of show activity right now. The Santa Clara Valley will break from the rainfall the moment. We will zoom in for an even closer look coming up at the top of the hour at 6 00, but we want to show you how much rain we picked up so far in the bay bridge is still surrounded by myths, drizzle and rain shops, but so far, 2. 5 drops one 100 in san jose. A letter almost 1 3 of an inch in over a half inch of rainfall. You can see the camera lens in san jose is wet. Temperature managing to make it up to 66 degrees before the rain moved in. The rain arrived a little faster, the temperatures were not as warm. Only 66 right now, temperatures are in the 50s. On the nose right now in oakland, livermore 52 degrees. Also, fairfield. When you are the cool location on the map, currently at 52. Temperatures tonight are going to drop down into the mostly low to mid 40s. Clear skies clear out faster. He will drop out more quickly because you lose that link it those clouds. Some patchy frost in the valleys of the north bay. We are going to warm up nicely and be dry. Temperatures will make it up into the mid to late low 60s. It looks nice to the entire we can. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Mostly low 60s on the south end of the bay with low to mid 60s for the Santa Clara Valley. Around the back, low 60s and northbay, been to the mid 60s for highs. With plenty of sunshine to the day. Little cooler to the north. Mostly just climbing up into the mid to upper 50s. The next chance of rain is not that far down the line. Futurecast has a good handle, and most of the weekend does look dry. Just a real slight chance of showers girding through northern Sonoma County by midday sunday. Tuesday brings in the next good chance of rain, so this is the european forecast model and its usually got a pretty good handle on the overall pattern pickett shows when approaching by early Tuesday Morning and spreading in the same direction across the bay area as we head through the day on tuesday and even some lingering showers decibel interview wednesday. Looks like we will clear out by the end of next week, but the overall weather pattern gives us another rain chance of every three or four days and thats a pattern we would like to be in as long as we can avoid having any torrential rainfall. Up into the mid60s and lynn tomorrow, low 60s by the bay with mid 60s by the bay sunday up to around 70 degrees in and. The next chance of rain moving in and our temperatures will cool down to about whats normal for this time o f year. Another radar update coming up right at 6 00. With 6 00 as well, Holiday Travel advisory issued. What that means you should do if you leave the state. Plus last night, an Indoor Dining in the city of San Francisco starts tomorrow. The effects on restaurants, especially in the rain and cold. And a harrowing journey that landed these three adorable Mountain Lion cubs at a local zoo. Still ahead here at 5 00, in their own words, how a bay area nonprofit is giving students a safe space to speak out about current events. Bay area homeowners, learn how you can eliminate monthly mortgage payments and improve your cashflow. Look, this isnt my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldnt be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. Its just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, its helped over a million americans. A reverse Mortgage Loan isnt some kind of trick to take your home. Its a loan, like any other. Big difference is how you pay it back. 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Trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. Call now so you can. Retire better with covid19 keeping most students isolated from their social support system, many do need a creative been constructively to express their feelings about current events. Kpix 5 newss Michelle Griego explains how students rising above is meeting that need for the young people it serves. When students rising above designs coordinator witnessed her community explode in the aftermath of George Floyds death, she knew she had to act. We wanted to do something to make sure the people knew that we were Still Standing in solidarity with the movement. We wanted to make sure that our students need their voices were heard. Reporter so allison created Dear Community, an Online Initiative encouraging students to share videos, essays and art, all reflective of their feelings about social justice and the black lives matter movement. And they are all completely from the students. So whatever message they want to convey, whatever message that they want to share, based on their experiences were based on what they want to teach other people, they share that with us. Reporter posts are not edited and some may see the content as controversial she says. Some of the post may read as a little contentious, but we wanted students to be able to voice their opinions. I had to get involved, because i am a black man living in america. Reporter student contributor jp mackey says that he hopes that this inspires curiosity and change. Its so important for young kids to learn about this movement, because if they dont learn to treat other people with respect, prejudice might build up within them. And lily anna says her own post about Mental Health care will be up soon. Personally, its just hard to see all thats happening in the world. And i know that its really important for institutions and organizations to do things like this, because a lot of the people both allison and lily anna say Dear Community will continue as long as there is a need for students rising above, im Michelle Griego. Dear community is only accepting content from its students, but anyone can view the posts on the organizations online hub platform. To learn more about students rising above and scholars, go to our website. Now come at 6 00, the rain is back. Our meteorologist is here tracking the strong cells. San francisco Restaurant Owners call it a double whammy. Winter weather now on Indoor Dining. The effects on restaurants coming up. Tonight, surging covid cases. Now, california issues a travel advisory. What it means and will anybody listen . Good evening, im elizabeth and ken bastida. Two big stories this friday evening. First, bay area has much needed rain. Lets take a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge right now. Folks getting home and coming in. We have been watching the showers. Being blown across lanes of traffic. A little bit of wind out there too. But its not just the north bay or San Francisco this evening, everybody is getting a little bit of rain and this is a soggy shot. This is what downtown San Francisco look like for most of the day today. Timelapse shows with our clouds, rain and a bunch of clouds moving back. Lets get the latest on all of this with chief meteorologist paul heggen. Sometimes the cameras are good and sometimes they misbehave. Theres plenty of rain still on the radar and appeared to northbay is drying up. Most of that rain is concentrated from the golden gate to the east and south. I80, north of that. Plenty of showers. Aware hey, give a little blip on napa county. Heaviest rain so far, you have added up only 1 100 of an inch, but you are going to build on that. Rain chances will diminish as we head through the rest of this evening down to some lingering mist or drizzle by about midnight and then the weekend does look dry and nice overall. Details on that. We will have a
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