Noticing anything unusual and not seeing major problems where riders, for example, cant get on a platform or into a train. According to bart though, that massive traffic jam this morning did send thousands of people who normally drive to work to bart instead so they can get into San Francisco. The agency had to move more than 10,000 additional commuters today through the transbay tube and into the city because of the box truck crash that caused a traffic nightmare for drivers. Bart said it is not adding extra trains for the evening commute, but did suggest that people live earlier in the day to avoid huge crowds or just wait until later in the evening. One bart rider noticed more people today and many saw the crash on social media. I go reverse commute and i didnt see it too badly, but the opposite train was quite full. Even more than normal. I can see the tweets going on, crazy stuff this morning. So far again, it doesnt look like wereee at the embarcadero station, just the usual comm
So far, it looks like folks are able to get on the trains without any major problems. B. A. R. T. Says the agency had to move more than 10,000 additional commuters today through the trans bay tube into the city because of the box truck crash that caused all the traffic. B. A. R. T. Did suggest that people leave earlier in the day to avoid huge crowds or wait until later in the evening and leave then. One b. A. R. T. Rider described what a headache it was for him to change his plans last minute this morning once he learned about the bay bridge crash. I left my house out of concord at 8 00 in the morning. By the time i got to lafayette, it was just too backed up. I had to take my car, drop it off at a hotel, then find my way to the b. A. R. T. In lafayette. Reporter were not seeing any major problems but certainly a lot of commuters here at this hour. B. A. R. T. Did tell us that the agency, however, did not add any extra trains for this evenings commute. Reporting live from san bay area
Applause here today at the Marines Memorial Club when she said that facebooks refusal tof hers shows that fake news is their model. If i didnt have thick skin, i wouldnt be speaker of the house. Reporter she says she was unphased by a recent video doctored to make it look like she was slurring her words. And then he had a press conference in the rose garden with all this sort of visuals that reporter but she is concerned that it will turn people away in running for office and she took aim at facebook for acknowledging that it was fake but still not removing it. Something like Facebook Says i know this is false, b were st anyway. And she has changed her mind about the company. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt on russia, but clearly they unwitting butleay wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across facebook. Reporter she also thanked Robert Mueller and his team for stating that russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Very clearly stating that ru
Dangerous situation on the streets of San Francisco. The Surveillance Video youre looking at is how it started. A woman driving a stolen car hitting people, and cars. She left a trail of destruction, five separate crash scenes spanning nine city blocks. Jean elle is in San Francisco for us with more. Jean . Reporter this is the scene of the first hit and run collision. You can see the evidence left behind. The woman drove her car back and forth, flattening street signs on the sidewalk, narrowly missing Police Officers and hitting a man here. Surveillance video shows the Moment Police tried to stop a woman driving a stolen car on eddie street, right in front of the tenderloin station. A police car pulls in her path and several officers approach the car but she doesnt stop. We heard her yell, get out of the car now, and then that car the lady in the car, she drove off on the sidewalk, hit the scaffold that pinned a man that was walked. Reporter she hit a pedestrian, two cars, and took of
Toll rising and the flames reaching containment. But first, u. S. Attorney Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden who he is named and why the case is now taken this turn. From the bay station, youre watching kron. And news. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman and we start with some breaking news as u. S. Attorney general Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden. Garland says he is naming david weiss as the special counsel. Why says the u. S. Attorney in delaware who has already been probing the business dealings of the president s son. And this is coming after a plea deal broke down last month and a tax and gun case against hunter biden. So heres what the attorney general said just moments ago. Tuesday of this week, mister weiss advice me that in his judgment, investigation had reached a stage at which he could should continue his work as a special counsel. And he asked