Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Good morning, everyone, it is sunday, june 14. Im liz kreutz. Its start with a quick look at the weather. First, meteorologist liz kreutz. He lisa argen. Hey, lisa. Hey, liz. The clearing will work its way to the south. Looking from mt. Tam, you can see the low cloud deck in the distance. Low 60s on the coast. This is walnut creek, cloudy to start with mid60s, mild in response to all that sun in the north bay. 61 in livermore. This morning, were a few degrees milder. By noontime, 70s inland, about 70 around the bay. And everyone should be sunny with partly cloudy skies at the coast, warming to the 80s midland, mid70s around bait. Well talk about a bigger warmup towards the middle of the week. And we have the summer solstice on the way, well include that in my sevenday outlook, liz. An investigation is under way after someone shot at chp officers in hayward. We have brandnew video that came in overnight. Take a
Soon could risk a 2nd wave of infections. Im told me a lot of well welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has given his 1st Briefing Since his controversial remarks about using disinfectant to treat the coronavirus trump launched a fresh attack on china saying beijing could have stopped the virus before it stopped the world the president said his administration would conduct what he called a Serious Investigation despite the number of u. S. Covert 1000 cases now approaching 1000000 trump insists all areas of the country are doing well the white house also unveiled a new measures to ramp up testing for the virus. A washington correspondent stephens inmans followed the briefing steffen what was your big takeaway from this briefing the big one is there is a plan though according to the white house plan is to ramp up testing at the moment the United States conducts 200000. 00 tests a day that is impressively more than it was just a few weeks before or just say 2 months before
Uber and lyft are prosing a 21 minimum wage for their drivers. What the drivers this happening about the new proposal. Not going down without a fight. The controversy over a proposed School Closure in the Oakland Hills. Plus Hurricane Dorian intensifies, the storm on track to slam florida. Preparations are already underway. And the stage is set for the next democratic debate. Who is in, who is out. We begin with the bay areas ride share giants prosing a new minimum wage for drivers. They are looking at 21 per hour among other employee protections. The change comes on the heels of a driver led protest that crossed california. Kpix 5s joe vazquez asked drivers tonight is this enough. Reporter uber and lyft are telling drivers they are willing to compromise with a proposal that includes a 21 minimum wage. The proposal comes after days of protests that brought drivers through San Francisco and ended in sacramento today. They are demanding a living wage and pushing for a bill that would mak
To slam florida. Preparations are already set foay. Next democratic , who is out. We begin with the bay areas ride share giants prosing a new minimum wage for drivers. They are looking at 21 per hour among other employee protections. The change comes on the heels of a driver led protest that crossed california. Kpix 5s joe vazquez asked drivers tonight is this enough. Reporter uber and lyft are telling drivers they are willing to compromise with a proposal that includes a 21 minimum wage. The proposal comes after days of protests that brought drivers through San Francisco a they are demanding a living wage and pushing for a bill that would make drivers instd ract ofivyi it cae customers more money and make them wait longer for a car. Lyft is willing to compromise, promising they would get paid 21 an hour, provide some benefits and make sure drivers get their voices heard within the company. Lyft is advocating for an approach in line with the interest of drivers by modernizing labor law
Routes, 10 stations and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service. It was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katerina. With funding support from dot , amtrak in the states im , pleased to report that mississippi, louisiana and alabama are likely again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi a third amtrak route. Restoration of the service would support growing populations centers, connect tourist destinations, bring new jobs and improve the regions quality of life. This will make a positive difference for the communities and the people of the mississippi gulf coast. This hearing provides opportunity to examine the state of Passenger Rail and consider how to support existing routes like the southwest chief and restore gulf port gulf coast service. In i introduced along with 2015, senator booker the Railroad Reform enhancement and efficiency act which reauthorized