Often, they dont even call to report it anymore. Usually its fairly late at night. Were in bed. And its just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. I would hope they would not get rid of it. The neighborhood really needs it. Oakland really needs it. Reporter heres an example that people not everybody calls in. Last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. That same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. So theres about 60 reports that were not called in by folks who live here. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. The department has to come up with the money to keep shotspotter by this summer when the contract is up. New at 6 00, volunteers are going to Start Testing the waters off the west coast for traces of radiation from the fukushima disaster. Scientists expect to start seeing low levels of radiation next month. They have crowd sourced volunteers to take water samples from alaska to california. This comes thr
Can see striking workers are at it. Find out why they say labor talks fell apart. With the trains not running this morning, people forced to find other ways to get into San Francisco. You can see lines growing here. Well tell you why the commuters are frustrated. We depend on bart and i understand their plight but its just you know be fair to the commuters. And caught in the middle between bart and its unions. Helpless bart riders voice their frustrations. Good morning, everybody it is friday, october 18th and this is not the scene that many commuters wanted to see this morning. A live picture from the lake merritt bart station where early this hour there are bart workers picketing. Welcome back to the ktvu morning news im Claudine Wong in for pam cook. Good morning, everybody im brian flores. Lets get you started with weather and traffic. Steve paulson is here. Fog is back. It will be a much, much cooler over by the coast. Its not making much of a surge inlapped. We will get a little
To that and a bid announcement no one wanted to hear. The commuter chaos no one was to deal with it. And the battle with no end in sight. Tonight it is time to strike. Thursday evening bart board the but the union to come back to the bargaining table. Your members announced it will go on strike at midnight. I must inform the public debt at midnight tonight we will be on strike. This is not a union strike appeared this is an Amendment Strike brought on by absolute arrogance and they thought they could take workers right away. The use of this is not about salary of benefits it is about managements hard line about making changes to employees work rules appear it the work rules create waste and inefficiencies. The one to turn the work rules to other arbitrator bart management rejected that suggestion appeared not mattresses that wanted give the arbitrator the entire package appeared basically there are three options take the latest Union Proposal to the rank and file and let them vote on i
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to mornings on 2. It is saturday, march 15. Im mike mibach. And im claudine wong. Lets start off with a quick look at the weather. Rosemary, shaping up to be a nice weekend . It is going to be a beautiful weekend. 20 minutes until the official sunrise. Skies are beginning to lighten a bit over San Francisco and the bay bridge. A quiet start out there. Temperatures will warm well above the seasonal average, but well have a ways until we get there. Take a look at these numbers, a cool start in some areas. 43 santa rosa, 41 in napa. Widespread 40s to low 50s around the bay. 53 in San Francisco. 46 in foster city. 44 menlo park. Palo alto. Waking up with 46. 47 in sunnyvale, as well as saratoga. Cool for you as well. Walnut creek in the mid40s. 48 for lafayette, upper 50s in areas around pittsburg this morning. If youre going to the st. Pattys day parade in San Francisco, going to be a nice one. Low 60s at 11 00. Then into the afternoon, low 70s in store for
Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. Good afternoon, everybody, i am brian flores in for tori campbell, bart workers are on strike leaving communitiers scrambling to find alternative transportation, we want to take you live to the bart station where as you can see they are rallied to gather and picket. This is the scene as they lined up at ferries and waited to load there and took their chances driving to work, we have latest developments, tom vacar the developments but begin with david where they struggled to get into the city today. Reporter good afternoon, some of the most visible signs were here at the intersection of howard and fremont streets. Parking and Traffic Control officers told us this traffic tie up at the bay bridge fremont exit should have been gone by 9 00 butly 11 30 they were still coming as they struggled to make their way in. It was an inconvenience because i had to leave at 6 30 and it used to take me 25 minutes an