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
Going to have to pay . Two students at the grad are also organizing, their petition garden nearly 1500 signatures so far. Most students are still at home with their parents but some have chosen to move into these apartments because they cannot break their lease. Some have already complained that that move in here is not going well. Students there have complained to management that they do not go safe during the Ongoing Health crisis. One wrote to management that during move in, there was zero social distancing and pack elevators with 10 people. Right now we do not feel we are care for. We dont feel like they put our health in any sort of importance at all. Remake just for he is being asked to sign his liability waiver, saying she acknowledges that it is possible she may owner rmleanand that she agrees released the owner from any and all claims related to physical or psychological damages, resulting from covid19. She will not sign it. I feel like they dont care for the residents, they j
Today in the broader house regarding Marjorie Taylor greene . Democrats have the majority. We have at least one republican saying theyre vote to remove. So it seems Fait Accompli for her. Reporter this is something hardly ever done. The house taking action to strip a member of an opposing partys Committee Assignments. That is something that could create a precedent that future majorities could certainly replicate. But the democrats say they have to move forward now because of the dangerous views that Marjorie Taylor greene has expressed over her last couple of years, whether it is about the massacres at the Parkland High School in florida, or if it is about the promoting the qanon conspiracy theory. They say there is no room on congressional committees for her and it is time for the house to act. And that is exactly what they will do this afternoon. A simple majority will vote to remove her from the House Budget Committee and the house education committee. Now this came after the repub
Eastbound lanes remain closed from 73 to center road. A car veered off the road and hit a tree and then caught fire. Fire crews did have to pull a passenger out of the vehicle. The person was transported to a hospital with lifethreatening injuries. As far as the impact of traffic goes, you will see some delays in and around that area. It is shut down until further notice. You can use 101 as an alternate depending on where your commute takes you. I want to look at the bay bridge in my next report. Here is mary. Ackirrt air goratemo of t bay area but for part of the north bay, we are dealing with unhealthy air. There is a spare the air alert in effect once again it it makes it record 17 days in a row and likely, it will be extended beyond that as we are looking at highpressure trapping that smoke at the surface. We are watching that smoke and haze and also our heat wave that is expected for the upcoming Holiday Weekend with excessive heat watch is in effect saturday through labor day. I
Reporter and the social media showdown between twitter and president trump. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. We have several new developments on reopening this evening. The first bay area mall opens its doors. The governor tells gym owners new guidelines for them are coming in seven to ten days. And bart today says the bay area is reopening and it is ready with new Safety Measures. Big steps toward reopening. Good evening, thank you for joining us im ama daetz. I am dan ashley. Health officials are sounding the alarm about the pace of reopening. One of them, sarah code. Krigs nguyen has the story from san jose. Reporter as california moves to reopen parts of the economy on a county by county base, there is growing concern it could be happening a little too fast. Santa clara county Health Officer dr. Sarah cody shared her opinion at a Virtual Meeting with the board of supervise. The state is moving ahead without knowing the consequenc