Even the eastshore freeway not seeing any tapping of the brake lights through richmond or berkeley. Mass transit a great option. Bart all trains on time more than 20 in fact. Muni looks good. Caltrain and ace train number one so far no delays out of the central valley. And a quick check of the san mateo bridge, looks like another kind of glary start but westbound 92 at the limit 13 minutes between hayward and foster city. That is your latest kcbs traffic. Developing this morning, the recent death of two transit workers is putting the death on worker safety issues at bart. Today a state Assembly Committee will look into it. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us know from walnut creek where last months accident happened. Anne. Reporter it happened here on the tracks behind me. At this point, the memorial is gone. But this accident is not forgotten. It is going to be put under the microscope today by the Assembly Committee of labor and employment. We are going to hear from bart workers an
You see it everywhere. Its in tvs, ads, everything. The at sign and hashtag sign is ubiquitous. Its the biggest social media ipo since facebook and while Mark Zuckerbergs baby didnt break big the first time, experts say its recent recovery and growth was a big cue for twitter to take a stroll on wall street. These events are really important because they set the mood and benchmark for other companies and when facebook had so many problems, after that, companies werent getting funded the same. There was a sense that, ohoh, companies arent going to go public again so it took a lot of time. Reporter contract nets paul sloan says twitter took a lesson from facebooks failure and investors took notice. Twitter is taking its business to the New York Stock Exchange valued higher than facebook despite the fact that the company is not making any profits. But once twitter goes public, sloan says management will have to make thanks that could trickle down to the app on your phone. Youll probably s
Jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im morgan radford. Vietnam braces for typhoon haiyan. 300,000 people have been evacuated as a storm is expected to make land fall there sunday. In the philippines people are dealing with the aftermath of what is considered the worst storm on record. More than 100 people are dead after the storms struck the island on friday. Leyte was the hardest hit. Southwest of manila. It caused landslides, blew off roads and shut down electricity. For more, we are joined by mar margo ortiguez. What is the scope of the devastation . The full extent the government cant begin to estimate. We are seeing pictures of the worst areas way beyond the first 24 hours since the storm hit. Particularly on leyte island many homes in fact, some witnesses are saying all the homes on that island have been destroyed. This is not a small island of fishing villages, there was a fullblown city, almost 2 million inhabitants, concrete structures, and the roads have been damaged or
Commanding general for u. S. Troops in the korean war, china sent hundreds of thousands of chinese troops over their border into north korea to help the communist side in the korean fight. And general Douglas Macarthur went to president truman when that happened and he told president truman that he wanted the United States to wage war on china in response. He wanted to start bombing china, and quite famously, president truman fired him for that. Fired him. Removed him. That was a big hairy political deal at the time because General Macarthur was really, really popular. He was so popular they threw parades in his honor when he came home from being fired. Youve seen this footage. Some of the most iconic footage of gigantic ticker tape parades in the canyon of heroes in new york city is from the enormous parade that new york threw for Douglas Macarthur after he got fired by the president. Literally millions of people turned out in tribute to him after he got fired. Macarthur was really, r
Response. He wanted to start bombing china and quite famously president truman fired him for that. Fired him. Removed him. That was a big hairy political deal at the time because General Macarthur was really, really popular. He was so popular they threw parades in his honor when he came home from being fired youve seen this footage. Some of the most iconic footage of ticker tape parades is from the enormous parade that new york threw for Douglas Macarthur after he got fired by the president. Literally millions of people turned out in tribute to him after he got fired. Macarthur was really, really, really popular even thoughe maybe want to start world war iii. All the legends about Douglas Macarthur were larger than life. In world war ii when he was ordered to leave the philippines during the fight against the japanese Douglas Macarthur famously said when he was leaving i shall return. And two years later he did come back. He waded assure on leyte island and he said i have returned. Qui