Weekend. You too. Erin burnette in outfront starts right now. Up next, a Top Republican threatens to shut down the government if president obama wont negotiate on the debt ceiling. Plus, after president obama one of our guests says the next president of the United States will be black. Does it add up . And why one politician acruised of a crime was strip and beaten. Well show it to you. Lets go outfront. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good friday evening, everyone. Im erin burnette. Outfront tonight, on the brink of battle. A threat from the government to shut down government if president obama refuses to tell gauche yat. President obama needs to take note of it and put forward a plan and note it immediately. Will those threats work . A senior democrat says if the republicans dont want to raise the debt ceiling it will be on their shoulders. Risking government shutdown, risking not raszing the debt creeling is playing with fire. Playing with fire. Hes the former direct over the Cong
Reporter at 32 an hour in full benefits, they are the second highest paid. The new contract, which the drivers overwhelmingly rejected that would have given them the 11. 25 raise over the next two years, but also require the drivers to pay about 7. 5 of their pay into their pensions, just like the other city workers. So it is not a good offer, but the wage cut when you look at inflation and everything else. Im paying more in my pension. They get a raise to cover that. And i remember getting details, but to take it out on the public. Reporter but clearly the idea is to put pressure on city hall. Are you willing to reopen the contract to negotiate . Im not getting any details at this point. So we need to find the money if there will be more, but i need to find out what is exactly in their minds. That is a little tough to do right now as you know a lot of the times with the transit union, what they think would be different than what the leadership would think as we saw it in bart and in t
Through a bay bridge closure before and Law Enforcement on both sides of the bridge will use their past experience to guide them when the old bridge closes. For the last time, next week. Meantime weve got a look at what it will be like to make that first trip over the new bridge. This video show whats it will be like for driver whos say travel at the eastern span of the bay bridge. Like the old bridge there will be five lanes. Unlike the old bridge there will be shoulder. The infamous scurve will disappear its going to feel more open for drivers heading eastbound. Youre going to come out of the tunnel skpb on the open right away. And are going to seat towers and cables, immediately. The old one will have to be closed for five days starting wednesday evening at 8 00 p. M. The process of closing will likely begin before 8 00. Were asking individuals to be patient. Do not by any mean as tempt to pass a chp vehicle attempting to slow down traffic. Onramps will be shut down on both sides. A
Leader coming up. And we are learning more now about the colorado teenager who brought a handful of weapons to his high school last week, what authorities are saying his intentions were and his plan to hurt multiple people. Plus, new training procedures will take effect at sfo after the deadly asiana crash. How the new training will help First Responders deal with another emergency at the airport. Good morning and thanks so much for joining us. Im Justine Waldman. We will start at ate a. M. With 8 00 a. M. With a check of the forecast. Erica kato is also here today and a warmup on the way. We are certainly heading toward a warmup. We could see 70s in the bay area by tomorrow. Right now we are off to a cold start, santa rosa at the freezing mark, 31 degrees currently in concord but low 40s in San Francisco. So it is cold out there, with he do have some patchy fog for snowstorm sonoma county, napa, 2 2 1 2 miles visibility, less than 2 miles for those of you in novato. Areas of fog as fa
Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. We believe that we owe the American People a balanced budget. For the Third Straight year weve delivered. In fact we balanced this budget in just ten years. Reporter as House Budget Committee chairman paul ryan spelled it out, the republican plan would cut the deficit by 4. 6 trillion dollars over ten years. Some of that would come through the higher taxes approved in january. But 1. 8 trillion would come from repealing the president s Signature Health care law. In addition the plan convers medicaid to a block grant to the states and reduces its federal funding share. Ryan also proposed, as he has in the past, transforming medicare by giving seniors a fixed amount to purchase Traditional Program coverage or a private plan. Last years republican Vice President ial nominee acknowledged that the plan wont get past Senate Democrats or president obama. Instead, he said, its an opening bid. Will the president take everyon