Coming up at 6 00 the cuts and the plans to save the hospitals altogether. Robert handa, nbc bay area news. Thats big news for a lot of south bay families. New video of protesters taking over San Franciscos si city hall. Lloyd and active as you can loud and active as you can see. Black lives matter. The rallying cry. Its across the bay area and across the country. Lets look at a birds eye view. This is a planned march against police brutality. Below, you see protesters marching through the streets of San Francisco. This is Market Street right now. Theyre walking slowly down market. Obviously tying up rush hour traffic and traffic heading to the giants game this evening. Nbc bay areas mark matthew is at city hall and whats the plan here . How long will the protests last. I wish i could tell you that. Theyre marching west on Market Street. I started covering this at noon today when the rally began on the steps of city hall. But it was clear pretty early on that they intended to go inside
Inside to occupy the 2 00 p. M. Supervisors meeting and that is what happened. When the board president announced the meeting would be adjourned until further notice the protesters stayed for a while and descended the steps to the central rotunda. Marchers from a rally that began in the mission, got to city hall and demonstrators took over the entrance standing on the security desks and raising the roof with whistles bull horns and chanting. Sheriffs deputies locked the front doors to city hall to keep more people from coming in. And at 2 30 the protest groups con verged on the first floors keeping them from joining up. Outside a woman told me that her family has been forced to move out of the city where she grew up. All my friends are doing the same. Having to move out of the city. Another woman wanted to be here because her son was shot and killed by San Francisco police in 2001 and last year she lost her home to foreclosure. My son is dead. My home is gone. All i got left is my soul
Illegal wiring in the basement caused the fire. They found other items suggested illegal activity boarded up in the basement. Your money being misused. The Investigative Unit first uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of questionable accounting transactions at samtrans. But now Community Groups are calling for a close lyric at the financial records. Vicky nguyen has this report. Reporter a small group of demonstrators from the group stop Workplace Bullying rallied in support of district whistle blowers tonight. They have problems with their wrong doing and develop path ways for whistle blowers to report it safely. Reporter the san carlos vice mayor says that the concerns warrant an independent investigation into the districts finances. I would like to see it investigated and taken up by the district attorneys office. They provide more than 100,000 rides a day. The protest comes after two former employees came forward to nbc, instructed to inflate expenses and hide spending
Into characterizing how the negotiations are going. The mediators asked us not to publicly talk about whats going on. Were going to leave the bargaining at the bargaining table. Reporter b. A. R. T. s spoke person says theyre working very hard to find a negotiated settlement and willing to continue talks well past the deadline at midnight thursday. Any given work day, some 400,000 passengers rely on b. A. R. T. To get where they need to go. Earlier today the Municipal Transit Agency issued a warning to commuters to review their contingency plans. They say if b. A. R. T. Strikes and if that happens this month, it willikely have a bigger impact than the fourday strike back in july because more people are headed to work and taking their kids to school. The governor has already used his onetimeon the legal privilege to call for a 60 day cooling off period. He says it is now up to the two sides to work it out. Live in oakland, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. Could be some progress. Thank
The staff they do have is poorly managed. Reviewers found between 2009 and 2013, there was a 4year period in which direct supervision of personnel lapsed. In august we sat down with director debby rafell. She said permit reform would be a top pyriority. I would suggest and agree our permitting program is not operating as effectively as it could. Reporter critics are not satisfied with what they call continued lip service. They point to Evergreen Oil in newark and says they have a history of leak, spills and explosions. Just last month a tank overflowed spilling gallons of fuel. The latest incident is under investigation. When you look at the company history, it hasnt faced significant sanctions for being a serial polluter. Why is that . Evergreen is absolutely under careful scrutiny and attention from our department as well as other entities. When you look at a company like evergreen, its a complicated its a complicated industrial setting where you have a number of agencies looking at