I am elizabeth cook. Andria borba is live at dolores park where it all happened. Andrea . Reporter , tonight that skateboarder is at sf general with a fractured skull and brain swelling fighting to stay alive. Her four borders the sharp grade and steep inclines of the streets of San Francisco presented the ultimate challenge on four wheels. High up on the list, dolores street on the edge of Mission Dolores park. Everyone comes out to enjoy what they do. They call it bombing the , that is what she did several times. Ski last thursday, one of those happened as hundreds of skateboarders tempted gravity and g forces on the mighty. Among them 21yearold tomoko oikawa. She took a terrible fall on her last run of the night. Today the entrepreneur is in the Critical Care unit at San Francisco General Hospital recovering from a dramatic brain injury. She needed emergency surgery on friday to relieve the swelling on her brain and save her life. It is very hard, i try to be strong. We all are, we
Emeryville. Reporter this is all about Small Business owners, particularly small Restaurant Owners with under 55 employees who say they cannot take this next increase in minimum wage. They are asking the city council for a pause on the increase minimum wage. This will be the second vote on the pause ordinance at the emeryville city council. Small local Restaurant Owners like Wayne Boucher say they may have to lay off staff if the cost of payment has to go any higher and that is if they manage to stay open at all. It is hard when it went to 15 but we managed to struggle through that, i do not know about this. Here is how it stands now, on july 1st the minimum wage increased the highest in the nation at 16. 30 an hour. It had been at 15. The pause ordinance was given an exemption for restaurants under 50 employees. Now, if this passes, this pause ordinance passes the city council tonight to stop the minimum wage increase, labor activists are ready, they have circulated petitions here in
The gulf coast. Our business has just tanked. Axelrod and we remember ross perot, a selfmade billionaire and president ial candidate who called them as he saw them. There will be a giant sucking sound going south. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is our western edition. The calls are growing louder labor secretary alex acosta to resign over his handling of the secret plea deal that gave the wealthy investor Jeffrey Epstein an uncommonly light sentence in a sex trafficking case 11 years ago. Acosta was a federal prosecutor in south florida at the time. Today President Trump weighed in saying acostas very good at his job, but mr. Trump did add he will take a closer look at the case. And in the oval office, paula reid had a chance to ask the president about his relationship with epstein. Reporter President Trump once considered Jeffrey Epstein a friend, but today he distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. I was not a fan of his, that i can tell you. Reporter but m