Rockridge and orinda stations. Some cars quickly filled with smoke, sending several passengers to the hospital. Anne makovec is live at the orinda station with more on the breakdown and the panic that followed. Anne. Reporter oh, really was a mess. All told, nine people were treated for medical issues and we just found out from the Fire Department saying it was not smoke, it was brake dust that was filling the bart cars. But it affected a lot of people negatively. 700 people were stuck inside a tunnel inside a train for almost an hour and the entire pittsburgbay point bart line was affected for most of the morning. Passengers were taken out on stretchers once they arrived at the Rockridge Bart station this morning. The train they were riding had suddenly stopped in the Berkeley Hills tunnel partially filled with smoke. An emergency brake was engaged by accident, not on purpose, and that emergency brake caused white smoke. There was never a fire. But there was a good amount of white smo
Lafayette, dublinpleasanton, san leandro, hayward and the fremont stations. Caltrain will be offering extra service. All their trains including the baby bullet train will be stopping off at the millbrae bart station where passengers can park for free. So far no delays reported for ac transit, the ferries or caltrain. Thats a look at the monday commute. Now to lawrence with the forecast. All right. We are starting out with thick fog around the bay area especially near the coastline into some of the north bay valleys, as well. Visibility down to a half mile in santa rosa. Out the door clouds over the bay bridge. A lot of folks trying to get to work this morning without bart but nonetheless you have clouds out there now. Temperatures cool in spots. 40s and some 50s at this hour. I think by the afternoon though we are enjoying mostly sunny skies away from the coast. We have this blocking ridge in place so thats going to keep the jet stream well to the north so we are going to stay dry for
Captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cb this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Ley. Captioning sponsor pelley good evening. If you missed the movie groundhog day, it is playing in washington. Day 8 of the Government Shutdown was like 17 the president and the speaker made appearances but neither saw even the shadow of a solution, at least none that the other would accept. In the meantime, nearly 460,000 federal workers are furloughed. Their jobs are not getting done. And the cost to the economy is now estimated to be 8. 5 billion. And there are new casualties of this battle the families of americans who made the ultimate sacrifice. David martin has their story. Reporter four americans killed in combat in afghanistan this weekend are on their way home for the last time. Sergeant Joseph Peters left a wife and 20monthold son. Normally they would receive a 100,000 death benefit, and the government would cover the cost of flying to Dover Air Force base in delaware, wh