Choose their own work hours, telecommute or provide incentives for carpool . The alternatives are better than the alternative. We would be short staffed and it would be pure chaos here without those people. Reporter whether you count another strikes impact in loss productivity or the number of commuter headaches, these Business Leaders hope companies thinking ahead could ease any potential pain. Healthcare . Reporter theres a live look at Frank Ogawa Plaza from the air live video from chopper 5. The Bay Area Council says julys strike cost more than 200 million in lost productivity and a strike now that would cost millions more according to the Bay Area Council. Live in oakland, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Its getting down to the wire. We are only two days away from the end of the coolingoff period. Our own don knapp is following every step of the bart negotiations. Don, any hint as to what is happening inside that building tonight . Reporter well, there is some sense of it. Now, we were told t
Heavy smoke and even put out extra patrols at this time. Officials have some words of wisdom when dealing with this much smoke. For children for the elderly, of course, for those with asthma, its best to stay indoors and as for the rest of us, close the windows to keep the smoke out. Live in the Oakland Hills, mark kelly, kpix 5. Thank you, mark. Lets head out to Roberta Gonzales in Solano County where firefighters are now facing the problem of flareups. Reporter take a look at this right now. This is what it looks like after a fire runs through the hills here in the suisun city area. 1,000 acres already burned. The biggest problem now for the firefighters, not only the fire that continues to burn on the other side of the ridge there, a good two miles in, but the flareups that continue to pop up. In fact, my photographer scott and i were standing at this exact location just after our 5 00 newscast when we had indeed a flareup immediately in front of us. We were able to capture some of
Actually be performed legally. Such as acommercial boat yard or shipyard. Whats more, if tita doesnt correct the situation within 125 days, bcdc could begin a formal enforcement, including fines up to 30,000. But larry goldspan doesnt expect that to happen. What we expect is the barge will most likely be moved to another area that is permitted. Therefore, the construction will then resume in the future at that place, and tita will then request a permit for future work at that site. The Treasure Island Development Director told me it has every intention to resolve this in a timely manner, meaning no fines, and get the proper permit for this project or any in the future. Now, a letter was also sent to lawyers for gaggle outlining the companys option for this. When i contacted google today, they simply said it has just received the letter and it is reviewing it. No surprise they are keeping it pretty tight lipped. What about the possible illegal aspect of this, though . That has to do wit
This is kpix5 news. From electronics to toys, to everything else. The Holiday Shopping rush is onto night. In fact, it has been ramping up for hours. Andrea is live. Reporter they have to get in the stores and some of the lines here are more than an hour live just to get inside. The turkey was juicy an so were the deals at the livermore premium outfit. The crowd big enough to make your head spin. Lines stretched as far as the day is line. This line comes out the door. All the way down the corridor here and wraps around the building. Reporter and the bags were as stuffed as the bird of the day. I dont want to wait until 10 00. Reporter shoppers were committed if not a bit delirious. I have leggings, leggings, and some, um. Whats it called . Mascara. Reporter tired from turkey an high on sugar. How much pie have you had . I only had two pieces. This night. I had a full pie. [ laughter ] reporter a combo not always conducive to shopping. Dessert will be when we get home. We couldnt get to
Hours to get it under control. Now no one was hurt. But many were quite shaken up. At least three residential areas are on the bottom floor are in the building of those two buildings and on the bottom floor is a store in which Isabel Hutton was working at the time. Because we stuck started to hear voices and fire, fire. So i left. And i see flames but we were not i went back hoping to put everything into the safe. And then already knocking on the door, out, out, out. We are on the fire. So thats right away. Talk a little bit about the buildings all dry the whole thing right . You know theyre dry and theyre all wood buildings and as you can see, theres something inbetween but the buildings actually touch up above. Theres zero Property Line there. If it gets into unboiledding it will usually go one building it will usually go into the other building. In this case minimal damage. Reporter firefighters very proud of what they were able to stop. Look at the building behind me on the corner.