A developing story. We have a crew heading to the scene. Darya another developing story that we are following is bart. There are delays because of a fire that happened at the horrendous stationhorrendous station orinda. A second live look with kron4s mike pelton. Whats going on right now mike. well the good news is both tracks are opened here at during the bart Station Creek earlier they said there were recovering from 15 to 20 minute delays the state should not be a big issue for commuters this morning. One of the bart trains caught fire last evening and that trend was the cure overnight. Officials are not yet sure where the fire started but in addition to the fire we bart spokesperson tells me the motor reactor underneath the fixed car fifth car of the train detached and was sitting on the track. To see a picture. This is a 3 ft. By 3 ft. Metal box way more than 1,000 lbs. And it was big enough to obstruct the train. Accrues used blowtorches to share down the size of the box. The tra
Are. We have a top five, i guess its the bottom five, but we begin with obama care, and the website. Yesterday experts who by the way have seen things like this happen before, they want it to work. They are reaching out and offering to send help. We have had some of the best i. T. Talent join the team. We are confident that we will get all of the problems fixed. Here is the bottom line. The product, the Health Insurance is good. The prices are good. It is a good deal. People dont just want it, they are showing up to buy it. Nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website is not working as well as it should, which means its going to get fixed. Citing health politics, and the first remedy is extend the sixmonth Enrollment Period set on march 31st, and the second solution is to exempt taxpayers from penalties while the government fixes the website and enrollment process. Meanwhile the Washington Post says these problems should not come as a surprise to the Obama Administration. T
President obama defended his Signature Health care law monday following weeks of technical failures that have prevented many from signing up. Obama declined to say how many people have actually been able to enroll, but he admitted there have been technical roadblocks. The problem has been the website that is supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody. Theres no sugarcoating it. The website has been too slow. People have been getting stuck during the application process. I think it is fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than i am. Precisely because the product is good. President obama urged people to call the governments toll free number to apply for health insurance. Although he acknowledged wait times on the line may now increase. Syrian president Bashar Alassad has dampened hopes for international talks on the Syrian Crisis late next month in geneva. In a prerecorded interview with a lebanese tv stati
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th
Issues because of a crash. Alex savidge is joining us live. Alex. Reporter sal, good morning to you. The traffic lights will not be working at this intersection at walnut creek for the entire morning commute. We are here autoing gnash owe valley road. This is a very popular intersection in this area. The lights are flashing red this morning. You can see. And the drivers need to treat this as a fourway stop and use extra caution. We are seeing people take care this morning. Police tell me this was because of a driver and crashed into the control box. It was a single car crash that happened around 1 00 this morning. The driver in this case was arrested according to police. But now traffic engineers will have to replace that electrical box to get the lights working again. That wont happen until 2 00 this afternoon. In the meantime, you can expect delays out here throughout the morning commute. Obviously the traffic lights will not be functioning in this area. So use caution or the police