you can see cars coming towards you heading towards the bay bridge trying to get on the span. slow as you might suspect. but there is a glimmer of hope. bart and unions are talking now, returning to the bargaining table just about three hours ago. good afternoon, everyone. we re going to take you live out to the roads and bart negotiations in just a moment. first breaking news in egypt this is a historic day in cairo. the country s president has been forced out of office. millions of people now celebrating at tahrir square. the military has force td mohammed morsi out of o.s egypt s constitution has been suspended. the military leaders say they re not interested in long term rule and appointed civilians to temporarily run the government. jipt s opposition leader says a plan is in the works to help iron out differences between political groups. the plan is that we ll have reconciliation efforts so all of us come back, again, and reconcile. the people, together.
throughout the bay area, sky 7 shows us empty cars here in hayward they ve been there since monday morning. this afternoon, a sign of hope with bart announcing state mediators scheduled to talk at 6:00. both sides now say they are ready to talk, and they ll be at the bargaining table tonight at kf 6:00. here is a look at san francisco skyway now. you look live, you can tell traffic coming towards you, headlights coming toward you are cars trying to get into the bay bridge. once again today, traffic in this area on the skyway and so many other spots in the bay area pretty bad because of the strike. let s give you another view this, is our camera in emeryville looking towards berkeley this, is 80. usually jammed up like this on a regular commute. cars making their way towards san francisco. and of course eastbound traffic on the right side of the screen towards berkeley and beyond. abc 7 news is live in san francisco for us. where casual carpooling has been a popular option
pointed sfmta traffic enforcement officer. once people get through it, they have gridlock them. get onto the bay bridge. take a look an hour ago at this time lapse video. people started trying to leave the city. we saw the back up about 1:00 this afternoon. traffic is diminished thanks to casual carpoolers. ntc is sort of rewarding people extending hov lane hours. if you have three or more people in your car you can use carpool lanes all day for the duration of the strike. one casual carpooler was surprised more people weren t taking advantage. i get on the carpool after 7:00 a.m. and this time i got out there after 6:00 a.m. i didn t see many people waiting. it s not a line up of cars waiting to gelt people up. on a difficult workday casual carpoolers can meet at roughly two dozen loxz you can see here in blue. but during this strike bart is offering 35 stations for carpool pick up spots. there are also added casual locations here in san francisco. you want to go to our
commuter nightmare. that is what we have. saying is up to management to get the bargaining session scheduled next. bart calls it unnecessary, no new talks have been scheduled so here we are. it s created a traffic mess around the bay area today. folks try to navigate highways. people who call themselves occupy protestors blocked buses this afternoon. after 45 minutes police uchered them away. despite how long it took there were fewer cars on the bay bridge this morning. accord together commission, there was thousand fewer vehicles on the bridge. possibly because it s 4th of july week. traffic all up 4% to 5%. and morning news traffic reporter laila. how is it looking getting out of the city tonight? i don t know how else to put it. it s pretty much a mess. honking and yelling and people trying to get on to the bay bridge, take a look if you can down first street. there is one special lay pointed sfmta traffic enforcement officer. once people get through it, they have grid
right is just crawling along towards the lower deck backed up as we approach the evening hours here. commuters crowding on to buses, ferries and freeways after bart workers went on strike for the first time since 1997. good afternoon, everyone. here are the latest developments now on the bart strike. there are no sked yumed talks at the moment. these workers picketing outside montgomery station in san francisco. bart is asking to return to the bargaining table and union leaders say they re waiting for bart to offer a better offer. sky 7 shows you back up today, take a look at this mess. maybe you got caught in it. traffic officials report commutes from east bay into san francisco took about an hour longer than usual and the situation is expected to be the same tonight. let s take a look outside right now. this is the san francisco skye way. you see traffic is on the lower deck of the bay bridge heading east and it s slow going but much lighter for drivers haetding out