Theyre crowded now, but we have a lot of plans of how to increase the capacity of the system. Reporter do we even have the b. A. R. T. Cars to handle the people once they live here . We seem to have a hard no and those b. A. R. T. Cars are coming, albeit very slowly. Reporter now b. A. R. T. Will be getting 169 new cars next year. Those 8 and 9 car trains that you see in the morning will become 10 car trains. If. Reporter but they will still need another 300 cars. We wish we had all the funding today, but we dont. So well need to continue to work on that. Reporter and one of the plans for trying to get that funding is called regional measure 3 and it is something thats making its way through the legislature now and could be on the ballot for us to vote on next year. It would require a 2 increase on bay area bridge tolls run by the state. The idea is to generate money and a good part of that money would go to buy b. A. R. T. Cars and other improvements needed so that people can take b.
Coming down with this storm. Up to 20 inches of rain expected as it barrels its way through the bahamas. Thats whats next. A 20foot storm surge for the island. This is the largest evacuation in the history of the bahamas. Several islands are being evacuated, mandatory evacuations. They had some time to try to get out but 20 inches of rain already came down for places like Dominican Republic and puerto rico, still going to continue to come down through the bahamas. Heres where its tracking. This is the turn that we are all watching. This will determine whether or not its going to hit florida directly or go just to the east of it. The spaghetti plots show it there. If a cold front comes down it could help push this storm into the atlantic. The models are looking like its going straight for the carolina. Coming up well have more on the local forecast in a bit. Now to our storm watch. The [ indiscernible ] will hold a meeting about the island of st. Martin. Its a former dutch colony. Aeria