A budget crisis for the Golden Gate Bridge district. Good evening, im alan martin. Im elizabeth cook. Board directors were faced with either raising the toll or cutting jobs. Don ford on the tough decision made just a few hours ago. Reporter the Golden Gate Bridge is in financial trouble. Serious financial trouble. Today, the board of directors took action. The Golden Gate Bridge is looking at a 48 million shortfall. The bridge says southbound traffic crossing the gate is significantly down. Bus ridership is down by 75 . And is down a shocking 96 . About 155 employees would be laid off. The total number of affected positions is a little over 200 and we have about 840 employees. So about a quarter of our workforce will be impacted. Reporter the decisions were made this morning on a conference call. One of the choices was to raise the total by two dollars, making it eight dollars to cross. That idea was rejected. Our board decided that on ballots, the best thing to do is to strike a bala
Up the hillside surrounding the lick observatory. Positive news from the fire lines in santa clara county. Evacuation warnings lifted this afternoon for parts of morgan hill. Crews are focusing their efforts on digging and shoring up containment lines to trap the flames in the more rural rugged terrain to the east. This entire west flank remains the number one priority of the incident because of the increased threat of Public Safety along populated communities and infrastructure risks as we move further down to the south. Deeper inside the fire lies a very close call high atop mount hamilton. Len ramirez is there. Reporter the views of this once gorgeous california wild land are scenes of devastation. Practically as far as the eyes can see. Fire fighting super tankers come in low over the the of mount hamilton. But the flames and smoke moved farther south revealing devastation all around the lick observatory. Itto see flames, 200foot flames to go through. Site superintendent says the f
Like a numbers game. What happens when a Novel Coronavirus threatens to shut down schools. It places pressure on those who are barely making ends meet. If the school shut down and parents are working minimum wage jobs have to stay home with the kids, there is a good chance they will not make the rent payments. Thats what ray branson chief impact officer with destination home is worried about the nonprofit across the country are increasingly concerned about families that are already in the midst of a housing crisis, now may soon be impacted by a health crisis. I absolutely think that Something Like this which keeps people from being able to go to work, which keeps people in the big economy from being able to do their jobs every day, i think various a if things get out of hand the worse it will see more people o homelessness. The homeless are another focus for nonprofits now especially when the message from officials is, washer hands, try to wash your hands frequently. Continue to be vig
As i leave the presidency. To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every american. And leaving it, i do so with this prayer. May gods grace be with you in all the days ahead. More now on the 40th anniversary of president nixons resignation. With a recent discussion hosted by the Washington Post. It includes journalist bob woodward, carl bernstein, Elizabeth Drew and ruth marcus talking about the scandal that led to president nixon stepping down and the white house tapes that provide further insight into his presidency. This is two hours. Welcome, everybody. My name is marty baron, executive editor of the Washington Post. It is a real pleasure to welcome you here tonight. You can consider yourself all very special because when the invitation went out for this event it was sold out within a day. And ever since, folks here at the post have been telling people that theres no more room. And you can see that from the attendance here and th
Standard were going to make our judgements on . Is it good information . Is it solid . Is is it well reported . Is it balanced . Is it fair . Or is it a bunch of sound bites in a bunch of tweets. The aftermath of nixons experience, no same president will ever we will not have lbj tapes, tapes, we will not tapes. People are scared to keep diaries. We have different technology. We have reporting. Will we be able to know either in real time or after the fact what we were dealing with . Thats why we need more indepth reporting. Thats it. If you go i just was looking at something i hate to come back to something the two i was looking at one of bobs books. [ laughter ] or elizabeths books, actually. In fact, if you look at what elizabeth has reported through these administrations, which is a very different take than the conventional wisdom of this town, read her new yorker pieces, read her pieces in the new york review of books and you see that the conventional wisdom of this town is so far