President obama and the first family are back in washington tonight. After wrapping up their holiday vacation in hawaii. Air force one touched down at joint base andrews in maryland earlier this morning. The president interrupted his vacation by flying back to washington to settle the fiscal cliff negotiations. Now. Hes back to face new battles over spending cuts and raising the countrys debt ceiling. The president could also announce nominees for key positions in his cabinet as soon as tomorrow. With the fiscal cliff beginning to fade from the minds of Many Americans a new fight is heating up on capitol hill. A new deal over the debt ceiling is looming in the notsodistant future. We go now to elizabeth corridan to check up on both sides and how theyre preparing to get a new deal in place. I believe we need to raise the debt ceiling, but if we dont raise it without a plan to get out of debt, all of us should be fired. Reporter strong words for a new congress, the new years deadline for
We are on storm watch as the bay area braces for a much needed rainstorm. In some areas the umbrellas are already out and residents are filling up the bags to prevent sandbags to prevent flooding. Drop anywhere from an inch to nearly a foot of rain and we are tracking the storm. But first, we have breaking news out of San Francisco where an industrial accident has killed at least one person. Ktvus David Stephenson joins us live and david what happened . Reporter well, good afternoon tori. It happened just past the overpass. You can see behind me over there, this is being called an industrial accident. We were told earlier one person dead and another with severe injuries at a Granite Company just again beyond that overpass where there were fire trucks on the scene up to about 15 minutes ago. This is the site of a Company Called cgi granite. Its listed as a granite wholesaler. The Fire Department tells me they got the call about 10 30 this morning and when they responded they found shatt
Come monday morning, several bay area transit agencies are planning to increase their service. Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. The union has given its notice to strike monday morning. Thats when the contract extension expires. Were watching the clock. With two and a half days remaining, the 2 sides are running out of time to secure adeal. Ktvus Tara Moriarty is live with more. Good afternoon, tara. Reporter good afternoon. A lot of finger pointing at one person in particular and it was not b. A. R. T. s general manager. Im a San Francisco native born and raised. I take peop coming here and disrupting my likelihood. Reporter Union Leaders lashed out to the at thomas hock, the negotiators. Several out to thomas hock, the negotiator. Now, two b. A. R. T. Members attended talks. B. A. R. T. Officials say they are bracing for monday. In the eept vent the unions do decide to go on strike monday morning, we have limited Charter Bus Service and we were able to get our hands on more buses. Ou
This is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. Good afternoon, i am tori campbell. We begin with developing news on the search for a missing oakland woman sandra koch. Police have identified randy alana as a person of interest in this case. Several hours ago crews resumeed their search of a three square mile area in vallejo, mike nemack joins us with that. Reporter we will get to that in just a bit. We want to get you up to speed on a new development. 10 minutes ago i saw a sheriffs boat being pulled out of the water here so i called him. I said hey what is happening. Why are you pulling them out. He said there has been a new development. I said did you find a body. He said i cant confirm that, all i can say is we are expanding to a new area, we will get more on that later he said possibly 30 minutes. Meantime we got new video we shot 30 minutes here north of us shows search and rescue crews pulling and poking at a comforter along the shore and also found an old white boat they left alone but de
About shutting things down back then. Despite that, dr. Fauci says he has reason for cautious optimism, citing a decrease in the rate of hospitalizations, icu admissions, and intubations. We have a team of correspondents across the country on this Easter Sunday covering the latest development in the coronavirus outbreak. Lets start with cnns Jeremy Diamond at the white house. So, jeremy, what is the administration saying about this new assessment from dr. Fauci . Well, fred, President Trump said on friday that it might be the biggest decision of his presidency, deciding when he could release those relax those social distancing guidelines and begin to reopen the country. The president is spending the weekend mulling that decision. And today, of course, is the day when he had hoped that he could reopen the country. Easter sunday is the date that the president had talked about a few weeks ago. Of course, since then, the president decided to extend those social distancing guidelines for an