Coming up at 730. Youll hear from Union Leaders in reaction to barts latest as you can imagine. Bart riders are anxiously waiting to see if a deal is struck or if they have to find other ways of gettingw. Kron fours will tran is live at the west oakland bart station with that part of our coverage this morning, will . S of the morning has moved on the people are telling me that they are sick of this. People stated that they had stayed up late. They thought everything was a done until. If they thought that if no deal was in place by sunday midnight that they would strike, they woke up, they saw the news and they know that the trains are working. People work yawning when i saw them this morning. They just want a resolution. There is so much uncertainty seat right now every one is trying to make this work. Everybody is just getting tired of this. I think everyone is tired of staying up late. It is just very demanding. They know theyre in for a another long day because of the negotiators ar
Weather and traffic. This is a live look from our roof cam. The San Francisco skyline everybody is waking up to clear skies. A bit of a warming trend. Temperatures are deftly warmer for this time of year. The extended models are definitelywarmer. Here is however, is called right now. We read in the upper 30s in Half Moon Bay is cold your kron 4 7 day around the bay looking like a great week and still temperatures are right where we should be for this time of year. So that is something that we will continue to monitor on kron 4. As for traffic . It is looking good. This is the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. This has no problems, no delays. Very quiet on the san mateo bridge, only 12 minutes. Also no fault of the Golden Gate Bridge and no accidents no fog. Good morning and top stories we are folling this monday morning strike deadline by 24 hours tonight, granting bay area commuters a days grace, but blasted bart leadership for what they called a refusal to negotiate. Bart leader
Of federal appropriations from the National Park service. We recently spent be several hundred thousand dollars repairing their or sewer system, we do ongoing safety and food inspections, trash removal and road maintenance. So we had to evaluate in the case of claude moore, in the case of dozens of these, of whether or not we would be in violation of the antideficiency act by allowing these to continue to operate. So if you may, let me just say we took the closure date on october 1, and then we began to evaluate each of these operations individually to insure that we were not violating. And those that we felt we could honestly and clearly and legally reopen, we have done that. By the way, i have limited amount of time left, but i want to say at least speaking for this member i just heard my colleague from colorado make some rather strong statements about you and your service. I completely disavow those comments. I think you have been an exemplary public servant. I think youve done the
There has been many, many cases of i asked my question. Im sorry but there is a body of law associate with First Amendment activities on the mall. Let me give you a for instance. The chamber of the Lincoln Memorial is not available for First Amendment activities. So thats in statute, or in regulation. Nor is the chamber of the jefferson, but the plaza is. In the case of the world war ii memorial, the entire memorial is open to First Amendment activities. Except in this case when the barricades were put up because of, well, i dont know, maybe we will really find out where that came from. Last question, and im over time and i try not to do that. I really try to hear to that in my committee. I guess the obvious question is, is all of this decision that was made regarding restricting activity, was that your decision . Yes, sir. It was. Totally your decision . Yes, sir. Was. Thank you. I want to recognize now mr. Defazio. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is a photograph from the
We closed and secured all the 401 National Parks across the country. And furloughed more than 20,000 of our employees consistent with the antideficiency act. Approximately 3,000 flows were excepted from the furlough to respond threat, the safety of human life, and the production of property. The closure has far reaching impact across the country on families with planned visits, businesses, gateway community, and employees. The National Park system welcomes more than 383 Million People every year. The park are loved not only because they are beautiful and historic because they are well managed, protected, and interpreted and maintained by a professional work force, a work force that is now largely on furloughed. The National Parks are incredible economic drivers. In communities near National Park and contribute 76 million each day to the National Economy. In response to the Economic Impact of the closure the secretary announced on october 10th. They would consider agreement with governo