Course and called on congress to approve a series of Coronavirus Relief measures. The news came in two tweets. The president wrote, the house and senate should immediately approve 25 billion for Airline Payroll support and 1. 35 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses. The president also wrote, if i am sent to a standalone bill for stimulus checks, 1200, they will go out to our great people immediately. The president s earlier message to hold talks until after the election spooked wall street. The dow ended the day down 375 points. Nasdaq lost 177 and the s p fell to seven. A change in dialogue tonight, what comes next . Reporter it was just this afternoon that the president had sent the first tweet saying negotiations were off until after his reelection. Tonight he did an aboutface and basically said that he is calling on congress to send him a relief bill. President trump turned to his messaging app on tuesday tweeting out his call for congress to pass federa
Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. The train [ signal breakup ] [ please stand by ] [ no audio ] reporter this happened in between the west oakland 12th and lake merritt stations. Thats the cross where all trains converge. Getting around it was a mess. People had to switch trains and get around and endure long delays all day long. The problem was a broken component of the mechanism that switches the train. Their initial preliminary findings is that something struck this receiver coil and damaged it. We still dont know what. It could be a train, a maintenance vehicle, equipment, crew members, so we need to figure out exactly what struck this coil and damaged it. Reporter bart crews found the problem right before the peak morning commute in the earlymorning hours until about 9 30 this morning tried to fix this piece right away. It made the morning commute a nightmare. The fix took longer because of new bart safety protocols for workers on the tracks. They had to make s
Richmond is on the toll plaza and it is still raining but not so heavy as it was. In the day planner today, we will have our best chance of showers through the Morning Hours and by noon the clouds on and we hid the upper 60s but most of us will have wet weather right now on a broader because of the rain we are tracking in backups. You will be met with more traffic trying to get an the backup. You will find more road closings. San rafael along 101 much slower in the southbound direction and a look at walnut creek and starting to build as you making the drive down highway 24. As mike tracks hane we can show you how the north bay is get hit tiffany . As we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge at sausalito rain was falling and then it was absolutely dumping. Look look at video the cars were slowing and the rain was pouring. We are outside of the Ferry Terminal and the rain has slowed with not too many drops. There stillwater on the roadways but cars seem to be traveling at the usual speed. 6 02.
Falling right now and this is how it look on 101 in san rafael, you could see the rain is falling so watch out with varying conditions depending if the falling showers or falling. The 12 hour day planner at noon we will see a little bit of a lull and democrats in the upper 50s to mid60s and the clouds open up. We will hang out in 9 midtoupper 60s with a stray shower possible and the best chance and this morning and get ready for a color will sunrise at 7 30. We will be more dry than with the worst of the wet weather right now. Thanks, mike. And the traffic . We just got started. We will look right now at walnut creek and this is the drive along 680 southbound, the tail lights headed beyond receipt and it looks like it is moving along and as mike has been telling us the rain is on the way so be careful and make sure your windshield wipers are working. Into san jose that and 101 and sparse in the southbound direction approaching the nimitz northbound traffic is building eversoslightly an
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many proportionals to france port crude oil on the railroad is proposing health and safety concerns. A train derailed in virginia sparking a fire and forcing hundreds to be evacuated. In 2014, 1. 3 million gallons of oil were spilled nationally more than the combined total of every year since 1975. Many officials and residents are opposing planning to increase crude oil shipments, proposed storage and transfer facility in pittsburgh raised further controversy. How much of a danger does crude by rail pose and are there any alternatives . Joining me now for a look at the issue are tom, consumer editor with ktuv. Yvonne with the California Office of spill prevention and response and molly samuel. Why is there so much concern . There are two on the table in the bay area. The pittsburgh one you mentioned, the west pack oil terminal that would wring in crude by rail, ship and pipeline and there is another, the valero refinery wants to bu