People or how seriously. But you can see traffic backing up northbound. Well keep you updated and you can get breaking news updates by following us on twitter. Good afternoon, everybody. Im carolyn johnson. Traffic and traffic woes clearly the story of the day. Other Major Incident occurring today nearly 10 hours later, as you can see here, in this picture that was taken this morning there was a big rig fire that caused massive problems throughout the day. The morning commute was a disaster. I just got across the bridge myself. Took two hours and and it just caused, well, do you know what . Looks like Good Progress sk made now, but whats happening when we were stuck in this is that you have nerve a dead stop, then, people running out of gas. Other cars are overheating. Then you have chp officers trying to drive in and it was back up on top of back up, weve got a shot of what the metering lights are. Commuters thought theyd caught a break today. You can tell its just been a mess out the
Potential role in the transatlantic trade negotiations. For those of you just in case you didnt get a copy you will also be liable to download this from the brookings website and as i know from coming into the office we have boxes of it sitting around so if you didnt get a copy, get in touch with us and we can get one out to you again launching of the report today and we will be talking about some of his conclusions from having spent several months now looking at turkeyss interest in the negotiations and how this is likely to unfold and the challenges this will pose not just for your not what for turkey and for some of the others and will be interesting to see how they feel between europe and the United States unfold. We are also very much delighted to have our neighbor and colleague uri dadush from the Carnegie Endowment who is one of the u. S. s phoenix experts on the economic trade topic. And a director of the International Economic program next to carnegie. He will give a brief ove
Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to all americanamerican s. 60 billion a year and a couple of battleships left, we have actually made public Higher Education a genuine public good. I think without some fundamental change the quality is going to erode. Scientists all over the country having to choose the basic research that will bring in the most dollars. Rather they choose the research that will do the most good for the people in t
But there is a new transit strike on the horizon that could wreak havoc for thousands of commuters. Tonight the Union Representing ac transit is threatening to strike wednesday if demands are not met. Were live at the terminal with the story tonight. Commuters and cross hairs with this threat as well. Yes. Ac transit shock asked surprise they had plan to strike on wednesday even if wrk workers have walked out. So, the transit nightmares continue. I will have to probably start my commute at 4 00 in the morning and figure out how much it will cost me to park here. Joanne is already trying to figure out how to cope with 1800 drivers and workers strike on wednesday. The threat left sheri almost speechless. Theyre just two of the 181,000 riders who depend on a sfts, daily n oakland, local 192 president delivered a formal strike notice tou mtx commissioners at headquarters she says the strike notice would have gone out even if the governor had not stopped workers from walking out. We did not
The meeting. He saw smoke plaster flying as gunshots tore through the walls. You. Man shot after he pushed aside a woman who had run to the door. Witness say a local official tackle the gunman who was shot by his own gun. This happened in rural pennsylvania about 85 miles north of philadelphia. It was pretty chaotic and heck ticket i wasnt there but phone conversation i had in the beginning was very, very hecti hectic. This is a rural area too so its kind of tough getting in there and getting things set up but now, scene under control now. Reporter we do not know yet whether victims of the somewha somewhating are township officials. Officials say a property dispute likely led to this tragedy. Back here. Sigh of relief from commuters after move by the governor pushed back a possible bart strike. But tonight there is growing concern about another possible transit strike. Union representing 1800 workers for ac transit is threatening to walk on wednesday. If the demands are not me. Thomas