Wouldnt be able to rebuild again and leave. 1000 people have been murdered here in our pool in killings related to land disputes chiklis shows us where he was stabbed a few years ago the knife pierced his lung. With only 3 Environmental Agency officers assigned to an area larger than all of england its almost impossible to protect the community or the forest has passed a prosecutor said that. The legal activities that impact the environment such as mining and logging are done in the most remote areas where the local power structure is linked to criminals and now we have severe budget cuts for policing along with the government discourse that encourages illegal activities. Most of the members of the community would too afraid to appear on camera but she remains defiant even so you dont have to look far to see that at least for now hes losing the battle to preserve his rain forest. You see in human and brazil. In the United States the former South Carolina governor mark sanford says he i
To start the work week. Lawmakers are expected to continue working on allowing kelly kraft to upset the United States in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in new york. They moved to advance her nomination is set for 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on the. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, sovereign of our nation and lord of our lives, thank you for infusing us with the confidence that you order our steps each day. Give our lawmakers courage and a strong resolve to glorify your name as they trust the unfolding of your providence. As they remember what you have already done to bless this nation, inspire them to march confidently toward tomorrows difficulties with a total dependence on your power. May they recommit themselves each day to faithfully fulfilling the awesome responsibility you have entrusted to them. L
Heading towards powell street. That is where all lanes are now open following that earlier fatal accident. Bay bridge toll plaza, you will see some delays now. We are see a back upjust coming off of 580 into the maze at this point. Much better coming off the east shore freeway commute. Drive time have improved as well. We are looking at 25 minute to go from highway 4 to the macarthur maze. Lets get us moinformation on how traffic is looking from jackie ward. Reporter it is actually way better than what we first got here. We are if he 50880 onramp at frontable road. Everything is completely clear now. A great image heading westbound. When we got here, this onramp was closed and there were no cars on this stretch of the east shore freeway. That is not the case and from what we can see, everything is flowing freely. So that is really good news on this friday morning. Jackie ward, kpix5. Lets get you out the door weatherwise. I want to hoe you a really god example of what the cloud are doi
Clearing out, and overall thats a nice day, and that will keep the temperatures down as we reach into the low 80s, and there will be upper 80s but this is nothing compared to the way we started this week, so i think we will enjoy it. Mike, why is the bay bridge commute so light . Yeah, holding study, kari. You have a preview and its a lighter flow over here. The metering lights are on. The traffic held up in this Contra Costa County, theres a break there for the crash, and we have all the traffic feeding in off of pittsburg, and its slowing through walnut creek. The other crashes are cleared to the shoulders. 6 01 right now. New details. Bart could soon become safer. We are joined live at the warren station in fremont. The agency Just Announced they hired a lot more Police Officers, i understand. Reporter correct. Bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers so far this year alone, and to give you perspective thats the same number of new officers from the previous two years combined
Even for the Security Forces but now a decent number of vehicles used the old killings and abductions used to happen here almost every day so for most people the relative peace there now we draw it seems and feels almost unreal. And its not only the displaced who are happy with the turn of events in some of. The police who been targeted in the mayhem say they realize that the force of arms cannot and the violence along. The military or security actions in the states. As fast as most what does not a simple official move from. The coveted to their grandest sign it came with an idea of having it will result in this issue that is use in dialogue. And that has started peeling off several assault rifles and rocket launchers are surrounded by the gun and soon the police say and writable i expected. They say there never was a will to resolve the conflict in some for a state until recently lets call out a full court order to then we are not serious i might but they have another idea so i have t