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Coming down towards hilltop drive, and no slowing has showed up just yet. And theres the bay bridge toll plaza, and they had a little slowdown. Theres a trash reported that i will check on, and not as bad as 580, which is fine. Your ride on bart could soon become safer. Bob is live with the details. I am hearing a lot of Police Officers are ready to roll out . Reporter bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers this year alone, to give you perspective, thats the same number of new hires at the previous two years combined. Look at the numbers on your tv screen. Bart has been recruiting more officers after an independent review, and they want to hire 94 more officers over a fiveyear period and the report recommends they create a team to patrol just the bart stations. Under the most recent fouryear labor contract, new recruits receive a 15,000 signing bonus, and bart Police Officers received a onetime 6 Salary Increase and annual raises ranging from 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Many wouldbe hires
Clearing out, and overall thats a nice day, and that will keep the temperatures down as we reach into the low 80s, and there will be upper 80s but this is nothing compared to the way we started this week, so i think we will enjoy it. Mike, why is the bay bridge commute so light . Yeah, holding study, kari. You have a preview and its a lighter flow over here. The metering lights are on. The traffic held up in this Contra Costa County, theres a break there for the crash, and we have all the traffic feeding in off of pittsburg, and its slowing through walnut creek. The other crashes are cleared to the shoulders. 6 01 right now. New details. Bart could soon become safer. We are joined live at the warren station in fremont. The agency Just Announced they hired a lot more Police Officers, i understand. Reporter correct. Bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers so far this year alone, and to give you perspective thats the same number of new officers from the previous two years combined
About theres a war because once you really start inflaming the fire of conflict and of retaliation and country attenuation you need to war theres no doubt about that my sense is that since this was started by Prime Minister netanyahu is that israel has 3 messages to send or Prime Minister netanyahu has 3 messages to sent one to iran and hezbollah that israel is watching that israel is not accepting that iran continues to project and to modernize its projection of forces in syria and lebanon and that israel will act preemptively against any expansion of iranian influence within the region the 2nd message is to the israeli public and that is Prime Minister netanyahu is mr security or not but the hope and i was like to call it in israel and that israel could in trust him with its security and that he would always be there making sure preemptively and. Otherwise that iran will never iran or its all eyes or anyone else for that matter and the region. In danger of the secure to vizard and th
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