male announcer live from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. Kron 4 news at 7 starts now. New reaction to San Francisco fortyniners quarterback Chris Culliver falling the some antigay, its what he said in reaction to his remarks coming up. It is good news bad news for the hot spot. The bad news is traffic is backed up on one to 1 northbound to san jose. The good news is there are moments away from reopening the two right hand lanes at the lawrence expressway or they have been shut down since the 3 00 a. M. Hour and for the morning commute. For a while they had three accident lines shut down. A big rig and slammed into a guard rail and not debris along the road way. The cleanup operations are just about wrapped of. They have removed our photographer and Michael Bolton from the scene. Michael pelton. I will have another completes traffic check coming up. Erica. Good morning george. Taking it over to satellite radar we are enjoying clear skies. We are a dry around the bay area.
Matt, thank you very much. Much more about super bowl xlvii coming up a little later in sports. Terry and diane, from the big easy, lets go back to you. Dave, what are the niner fans like down there . I assume much cooler. What do you mean, much cooler than San Francisco 49er fans in San Francisco . Theyre pretty cool here. Its a hip place. For instance, when you guys let me go tonight, it will be about 1 30 in the morning and im going to walk two blocks to cafe du monde, im going to have a beignet, i might have Something Else to drink, and something to eat, you can eat until 5 00 in the morning. I meant cooler than baltimore fans. I dont want to offend San Francisco fans here. You cant leave for the beignet just yet. Its not too late to get a ticket to the super bowl. The last time we checked on stub hub there were about 950 tickets left, ranging from 1,000 for a seat in the nosebleed section, yes, 1,000, to 10,000 for a seat in a suite. Super bowl celebration is are helping day water
But there is a new transit strike on the horizon that could wreak havoc for thousands of commuters. Tonight the Union Representing ac transit is threatening to strike wednesday if demands are not met. Were live at the terminal with the story tonight. Commuters and cross hairs with this threat as well. Yes. Ac transit shock asked surprise they had plan to strike on wednesday even if wrk workers have walked out. So, the transit nightmares continue. I will have to probably start my commute at 4 00 in the morning and figure out how much it will cost me to park here. Joanne is already trying to figure out how to cope with 1800 drivers and workers strike on wednesday. The threat left sheri almost speechless. Theyre just two of the 181,000 riders who depend on a sfts, daily n oakland, local 192 president delivered a formal strike notice tou mtx commissioners at headquarters she says the strike notice would have gone out even if the governor had not stopped workers from walking out. We did not
Resolved. Providing a meal and rest period for transit operators. Its not been part of the procession at this point. Clarence johnson is the spokesperson who says the real Sticking Point are wages and health and welfare benefits. The union contributes nothing towards health benefits. And there are several proposals on the table getting them to that 10 figure over the course of the three year contract. Williams says there is wiggle room for continued bargaining without a strike. If we do make progress well continue to go past it but it would have to be significant progress with a number of issues. Without progress the buses will stop rolling wednesday moshing. With the strike averted there are questions tonight about whether this break in the negotiate yaigs will lead to a productive settlement. This panel will be taking testimony here in the bay area. Abc 7 news is live for us in oakland. Laura . Were there, today, here at the caltrans building were told the Governors Committee will ge
Weaning threats we supposedly face, russia, that somehow hacked american democracy during 2016 president ial campaign. But infiltrated the government at the highest level. Honor formal naval officers like carter page were, in fact, secret stooges of Vladimir Putin and they were working towards diabolical ends with the Political Consultants like roger stone. It was all hiding in plain sight, forget mexico, saudi arabia, or many other countries. It was russia more than any other place that threatened americans sovereignty that was actually in control of foreign policy. That is the story they told tugnus. None of it was ever plausible. In fact, it was completely absurd. There was no evidence that it was true. But they kept saying it, day after tiresome day after stuck after every single cnn viewer, every pbs viewer, every subscriber to the new York Magazine with a matter of religious fate. Russia hacked our democracy. It was their mantra. M the russians exploded a massive back door into t