Their stalled contract negotiations. And it may be working. Heres cbss mark strassmann. Reporter l. A. Is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all Union Service workers, are staging a 24hour walkout. Theyre indignant. Contract talks with the city have sputtered. Think of all this as a warning shot, a 24hour reminder of what disruption feels like. Here in l. A. , its the cost of living. Reporter custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. Double trouble low wages, high inflation. We need some help. Youre working too hard and making too little . Yes, yes. You know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. Reporter more walkouts. Two hollywood unions have struck the set. Without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all Studio Production has stopped. Whats scarce here, insight into an end in sight. L. A. s labor actions just the latest in americas summer of strikes. Widespread walkouts
Lightning strikes due to the unsettled weather. Photojournalist captured this as he was driving down highway 87 in san jose. With the thunderstorms came the rain. The sky suddenly opening up in gilroy this afternoon. For more on all of this wile weather and if is going to calm down, here is paul heggen. We expected the showers but not the number and intensity of the thundershowers. The funnel cloud likely what we call a cold air funnel and they rarely ever reach down close to touching down but startling if you were seeing that. Now thing are calming down. We have an urban and small stream flood advisory in effect for Alameda County until 7 15. I thought the Weather Service was going to cancel it 45 minutes ago because the rain quieted down in that part of the region. A few pinpoint showers one in santa rosa for the most. Those will calm down now that the sun is down it takes a lot of the energy out of the atmosphere. The loop over the past couple hours, you see the showers diminishing
This primary. Good evening. Im raj mathai. This is a big week in politics. Super tuesday is tomorrow. The state of the union is thursday. And tonight more pressure on a local district attorney. We start with the push to recall Alameda County d. A. Pamela price. One step closer now to going in front of voters. Those behind the recall say they have enough signatures to put it on the ballot. They call themselves safe, or save alameda for everyone. Today safe turned in more than 123,000 signatures. They only need about 73,000 valid signatures to qualify for a recall. Safe says the d. A. Has failed to hold criminals accountable. But the d. A. Refutes that and says the group is using crime victims for political gain. Our big question is, like, what are the solutions, right . Like what are the solutions . Number one, who would they put up in place . Who would be against d. A. Price . We have no name. What actual policy change would they put in place . Eve heard nothing. All weve seen is a wea
The bay area, but the sierra is dealing with blizzardlike conditions. The road shutdown this hour, and cinthia pimentels forecast and snow totals. Good morning. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. We start with that violent overnight pursuit in santa rosa in which one person was shot and killed and four sheriffs deputies were injured. Nbc bay areas Ginger Conejero saab is live at the scene with the road closure still in effect because it is an ongoing investigation. So, talk to us about where things stand at this point. Reporter well, marcus, authorities have opened up the road a bit more this midday. Were in santa rosa and a bit closer to one of the crime scenes that you can see behind us. This is up with of several locations investigators are looking into to try to piece together what happened during that deadly pursuit overnight. If you take a look, you can see a white sheriffs car in the middle of the road there.
In a matter of hours. Also, more snow and not in the sierra. Snow falling in parts of the bay area over the weekend. Our Cinthia Pimentel is tracking how the forecast is shaping up for the rest of the week. This is today in the bay. Thanks so much for joining us on this monday morning. Im kris sanchez. Laura garcia is off. And im marcus washington. We first begin with breaking news this morning, and this is whats happening here in the north bay. A large sheriffs presence at two separate scenes, the first on stony point road in Sonoma County and the second on todd road west of the freeway. Both of those areas are expected to remain shut down for the next several hours, and the Sheriffs Office is asking commuters to avoid that area. So far, no other information is being released. Our own Ginger Conejero saab is heading to the scene and will have a live report for us in our next half hour. Were going to turn to Cinthia Pimentel because you are looking at what we can expect weatherwise. We