Hopes of reaching a deal. 2 main sticking points pay and benefits. In the last strike 2300 employee walked off the job for 4 and a half days in july leading to massive Traffic Congestion throughout the bay area. Now even with formal strike notice the union could continue to work without a contract. Governor could step in to the halt a shut down or bart could turn up the pressure by impose ago contract. Tonight Union Leaders held a big rally thrown in a little star power. Sf hundreds of people including actor danny glover who you just saw turned out for the march and rally. We see the group as they walked from the plaza to bart headquarters at lake merritt. Thousands of bart riders caught in the middle of the labor dispute not knowing how they manage to get around next week. We talked to those frustrated bart riders today. The thats a big problem. The pension things just when you thought it was over bart workers put the brake on service once again. Bart riders are not happy about it. I
Roger drives to oakland from walnut creek and is planning for a strike. It was awful. Double time. And this time its gg to be worse, right . There is going to be 10 more. The director off camera told us that he thinks these talks are more contentious than nose 1997. If there is a strike anyone expecting a short resolution he says hes heard it would be two weeks. First week is when public would crucify unions second week hating everyone except then works run out of money. In oakland abc 7 news. Heather, thank you. Now thousands of bart riders caught in the milleddel of the labor zpu. A labor rally is just getting underway. Nick you smoke spoek to some riders today. Im going to tell you ive heard people who are already ready to put workers up on that proverbial cross. 100 workers representing various unions, here for a rally. At 6 00 theyre going to march down to the bart headquarters. I tell you theme was frustration it couldnt have been more clear they do not want another strike. Pensi
An the bay we go from 70 to 80 down to san jose and long the coast, 62 to 68 in downtown San Francisco and a few more clouds than yesterday. The morning commute, here is the lady with the answers. I have some answers and it is busy in the east bay on 880 southbound, with a construction project that should be wrapping up in moments. Look at this, down to 16 or 18 Miles Per Hour, and six Miles Per Hour in some areas headed south of 980. We should see cones picked up as we speak so hopefully this will disappear. If you are headed in the northbound direction we have another construction project in the same area between 16th and embarcadero, so, hopefully that is going to be wrapping up as we speak. As we look at our speeds across our bridges, along the richmond and san rafael, seven minutes gets you from east to west and 92 san mateo is 13 minutes and dumbarton is 11 minutes. Thank you, leyla gulen at 5 01 it could be deja vu on monday, bart unions have given 72 hours strike notice and the
Only today, but for the weekend and much of the week ahead. So it looks like with the warmer day coming in today, we are talking about an Even Stronger cooling trend headed our way as these numbers come down in the days ahead. But as for today, thats your warm spot inland. We will pinpoint the numbers and talk about the cool down, show it to you with our sevenday outlook in a few minutes. Katie. Lisa, thank you. Breaking news right now in san jose. Police are investigating the citys 30th homicide of the year. Police say a 19yearold woman was shot while riding this a car just before 1 30 this morning at south third and east san salvador street. The 21yearold driver of the car stopped at south Second Street and called 9111. The woman was taken to the hospital where she died of her injury just after two. Motive is not known. No one else was not hurt. At least check Police Department have any suspects identified or anyone in custody. Unions and bart management will be back at the bargainin
We are hinting at another cooling trend. Stay with us. We will have a look at the seven day outlook in a few minutes. Katie. Union and bart management will be back at the bargaining table today with less than 48 hours until the streak deadline. They left talks last night giving no indication a breakthrough was imminent. We have the latest on negotiations from oakland. Marks lead negotiator, thomas hawk, pushed through a gauntlet of reporters and talked while he walked about ongoing negotiations. Longs you continue to meet, theres progress. Just before 8 00 p. M. The talks ended for the night with a sunday night deadline looming. At this time there is no discussion about extending the contract. Chris finn is a Union Negotiator and train operator. She said only about ten minutes of negotiations between the union and bart negotiators happened to, pinning the lack of negotiation on barts lead negotiator. The people who are interested in keeping bart going, they would like to talk more, but