Morning. And there are also School Closures this morning. Those will be listed at the bomb of the screen and abc7news. Com. Lets check in with mik nio. The r fg warning is for all of us except for the santa cruz mountains, that begins at 5 00 this evening. Now the wind event just begins. Just now at 6 00, the wind advisory went into affect for those north to northeast winds of 35 to 55 Miles Per Hour. That could down some trees, power lines, that could help spark and spread fires if they do develop. Heres a look at some of the winds in the higher elevations. Still very manageable. The fastest is mount diablo, 3,800 feet at 36 Miles Per Hour. Lets look at the humidity. Still manageable. Just in the initial infant stages of this fire threat. Were doing well there. Let me tell that you things will get worse especially tonight. But during the day today if youre going to be out and eoy temperatures. Mainly in the 60s at noon. 60s at the coast. Mid 70s for the rest of us at 4 00. Not as warm
The he federal Mediation Service here working 20 hours per day for four days, the parties should have been able to come to an agreement. Its because this employer is entractable and committed to having the workers go out on strike its not management that asked for a strike its union. Were available to continue to bargain and to discuss items. Now, unions say they will work through end of the schedule tonight. They will not leave passengers stranded. And will then park trains and unless something changes they will go on strike. I spoke with a uc berkeley labor expert who said at this point now that the mediation period is over, that were going into unchartered territory and said a lot will depend on the strike and how difficult sit on the bay area economy, and commuters. And at some point we might see Legislature Step in if things dont get resolved on their own n oakland laura anthony, abc 7 news. Word of a strike is dispagt news for bart riders coping with the threat of a strike all we
Athletes career end because of a con sugs cushion. It happened to steve young. There was a burial helmet hit. That hit was recorded by a special mount guard like this. The zeatd being included in Research Conducted by 49er medical director dan garza and Research Assistant at stanford university. They showed me some head Impact Research from a different player during a game. They are pointing not necessarily where they are hit but where the acceleration. The n. F. L. Is planning a tenyear study on the consequences of repeated head injuries. We want to have a way to understand how to measure the impacts that occur, not just from the concussions that you see happening, but from what we call the sub concussive events. Cheryl the doctor is chair of Neurology Department at ucsf and Advisory Committee to the n. F. L. He is working with john york coowner of the 49ers who was on the safety committee. They the tell me the n. F. L. Is getting closer to find the best way to Gather Research on impa
Anymore. Both sides went home. They seem to have given up tonight. Brian, does bart have any plans to have managers drive the trains some of them could run tomorrow . Reporter they have been going through some training but we asked about that and bart says that has to be approved by the bart board before it could happen so it doesnt look like it will happen immediately anyway. Thank you, brian webb. Lets get right to ryan takeo in berkeley. Bart riders are getting the dreaded news. Ryan. Reporter this all went down in the last 90 minutes. You can imagine the commuters surprise. We are here at the ashby station. We talked to a couple of commuters already. They say that they had no idea that this went down. We had to tell them about these developments. Take a listen. Thats too bad, though. A lot of people gonna be stranded. Back in you will, i tried a little bit of everything, did ac transit one day, the ferry another day, carpool the other day. Carpool seemed to be the most successful.
Them. Every major american automaker reported sales that were way above estimates and if this keeps up, the industry is on track to sell nearly 17 million vehicles this year. It hasnt seen that many since 2005. Now, the gains were across the board, chrysler sales up 17 , it was helped by surging demand for jeeps. General motors rose 13 . And thats despite recalling millions of cars. And ford had its best may in a decade. Sales were up 3 . Investors likeded what they saw. Gm shares rose more than 1 . Ford also higher today. Phil lebeau has more on why sales were red hot in may and look ahead to how the summer is shaping up for the automakers. A big day for the Auto Industry, as most of the major automakers reported may sales that were much better than expected. Depending on the automaker, they beat street estimates by between 2 and 6 . And a couple of storylines stand out. First of all, recalls, particularly at General Motors are not keeping people out of the show room. Gm, in particula