Talks wrapped up about an hour ago, barts unions accuse the Transit Agency of pulling a new offer. Im carolyn swron son. And im dan ashley. Heather ishimaru is live in oakland. Hetter, walk us through heather, walk us through what happened. Anyone concerned about a strike the latest developments are disappointing. The kind of thing that makes your heart sink. The unions are accusing bart of pulling the rug out from under neat them and bay area commute underneath them and the bay area commuters at the last minute. After back to back 12hour bargaining days, barts hired chief negotiator left at 9 45. Tom hawk said see you in the morning to reporters and followed by grimfaced Union Members who said last night they had actually been closing in on a deal. Today the unions came to the bargaining table with a hope we could close the gap and reach a final agreement. We were taken a back when bart management backed up and withdrew their offer claiming to be confused the day before. There was no
Chief negotiator left at 9 45. Tom hawk said see you in the morning to reporters and followed by grimfaced Union Members who said last night they had actually been closing in on a deal. Today the unions came to the bargaining table with a hope we could close the gap and reach a final agreement. We were taken a back when bart management backed up and withdrew their offer claiming to be confused the day before. There was no confusion. Instead barts hired gun hawke lied to the unions and shattering the fragile framework of an agreement. It is not true that we had a proposal on the table that was withdrawn. I think it would be it is more of a case of miss communication involving the mediator and working between all three parties. Both sides say despite this, they will be back at the bargaining table tomorrow. Thats after the board of directors meeting at 9 00 and includes a closed door meeting and update on the negotiations. In Oakland Heather ishimaru, abc7 news. Heather, thank you. We ha
Good afternoon live. I am cory johnson. We are already having fun. We were actually talking about Chris Christie apologizing for firing one of his aides. We were talking about, how is it possible he did not know about the traffic jam and that his aide had caused it. There was a revelation he made meabout it, which light up. It made us laugh harder. Fun laughs. It was good. Can you imagine people caught in traffic thinking that is the day. Ambulances could not get to people who actually needed help. Are jumping in on this. To me, you know, this is the problem with coming out of local politics and then trying to go to national politics. Depending on where youre coming from, local politics may not in fact be consistent with expectations of the country as a whole. There is a high probability the notion of punishing somebody because they did not endorse you in a campaign where you got 75 of the vote, and then punishing ofm on the first five days school, shutting off their access to the only
Tourist from all over the worldcom to see it so why does San Francisco wanted to close lombard street to traffic for the summer. Its a controversial plan that some are calling crooked. It comes with a big price tag. That closure would happen on the curvey part of lombard street between hyde and eleven worth. Cornell is live there with details tonight. Cornell . Tomorrow the city will consider spending 100,000 dollars on the temporary closure of this very famous stretch of lombard street. After months of complaints from neighbors about traffic but many tourists dont like the plan one bit. They say its down right crooked. Trip to San Francisco may not be complete without a drive down the crookedest street in the world. First stop for this woman visiting from new york. What do you think. Its gorgeous. Its beautiful. Reporter iconic brick line street is so popular people can wait up to an hour on weekends to drive it. Thats a problem for jim hickman who moved here 17 years ago. Its not tha
Brand new accident involving a couple of vehicles we have cars just pushed to the shoulder but not before causing a bit of delay there as you come away from highway 4. Back to the Santa Cruz Mountains we had an early accident involving two vehicles blocking both lanes, northbound 17 leaving us with give miles of backup up to the pass it will take you 30 minutes. The traffic is stacking up away from the maze and the dry, all in all, it will take you 15 minutes. Police are vetting investigating whether a teens foes cuss on her cell led her to be hit and killed by a train in san lenadro. There are different stories how the girl was discounty distracted. A neighbor said she had her phone to her ear but others say she was wearing ear buds. The friend saw Brittney Silva and the train coming and screamed but she did not hear. She lives close to the tracks which she crosses all the time. The mother was at the scene and talked about her daughters kindness. Her smile. Her hugs. Her. Her. The way