Ghost town. How bad is it for cal train . Its devastating. Were facing a fiscal cliff in october and the rail lane may simply cease to exist. Reporter rumming between San Francisco and san jose faces shutdown after the San Francisco board of supervisors failed to support a sales tax measure for the november ballot. The supervisor says there are bigger priorities. Our cities is facing a 1. 7 billion deficit right now. Our own Transportation Agency is suffering. Reporter muni facing its own financial crisis. Its director tweeting some sobering facts. Muni eliminating 40 bus lines. Golden gate transit cut half the service to San Francisco. B. A. R. T. Facing a billiondollar loss. Cal train may end service completely. This is public transit, reality in america. I think were now in a fast crisis. Reporter austin brown from the uc davis policy ins Institution Says transit may depends on a Covid Vaccine for riders to come back. Justbly needing to see good data and then get people comfortable
Weekend coming up. New overnight, dozens of firefighters are battling flames at a place where they learn their craft, a Fire Training center in is an a fire would out in a building that houses offices and classrooms. Investigators are looking for what sparked the fire. We know parents all over are struggling to make school plans for the fall. Education is a critical part of building a better bay area. And this morning marin countys Public Health department is recommending that students stay home at least for the beginning part of the school year. Lets go to Amy Hollyfield who is live in san rafael. Reporter good morning. New guidelines were Just Announced out of this office last night. School administrators along with Health Officials here in marin county say kids should not plan to be in the classroom at the start of school. That just coming down last night. This was a pivot, it was looking like marin was going to have kids in the classroom, but parents were pushing back and formed a
Bay and valleys. Definitely going to be cool around the coast and cloudy at least for the majority of the day with peaks of sunshine expected for the afternoon. Ill have a closer look at your full forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mike . All right. Vianey. The overall commute and ive circled the slowing that just about cleared for north 101. But in the last couple seconds, the crash reported around oakland road and 880 and details from chp that may interrupt the south bay flow. Meanwhile, heading towards the bay bridge, no major problems. Minimal slowing. You see the blip at the toll plaza and the live look shows you not much of a problem. We just have some slowing right now just past the toll plaza as you lose some lane. Marcus . An update on americas road to the recovery and as coronavirus numbers shoot higher and Unemployment Benefits inch closer to drying up. Our washington correspondent tracie potts live with us this morning with what we need to know. Tracie . Hi, marcus. This
Warmer for the weekend. Ill have that updated forecast coming up. We know parents all over the bay area are struggling to make school plans for the fall. Education is a critical part of building a better bay area. And this morning, marin countys Public Health department is recommending distanced learning for students and that may make it not as critical a planned proes. Amy hollyfield is live with the details. Reporter the district was getting a lot of pressure from parents not reopen and just last night, district officials announced that they had changed their mind. The announcement just coming from marin countyffialshat shou to start the school year distance learning, the kids should not plan on being in the class room. Marins Public Health officer said with the current spike in covid19 cases, they need more time before bringing kids back to school. Officials say that they still hope that they can eventually bring students back, but now is not the time. It was looking like marin was
A former fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the humanities. She has written on the Tobacco Industry, the rise of ezbrets and the grassroots fight to battle climate change. Her Research Explores how organized Interest Groups and Everyday Americans influence government policy. And today is day two of the publication of the cigarette. Please welcome sarah milov. [ applause ] thank you so much for being here. Its such a treat and an honor for an historian of the United States to come and speak at the National Archives. The other day, i saw that the twitter account of the National Archives tweeted out information about this event. And i thought, you know, as a historian, it was kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. I mean, this is the mohr ship. So thank you all so much for coming. So, my book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco and the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of E