Day one of the bart strike and thousands of commuters had to find other ways to cross the bay. Right now traffic is leaving San Francisco and it is still crawling. This is a live picture. The headlights coming at you, folks trying to get on to the bay bridge. Earlier tonight, it was worse. This video looks like it slowed down, but it is not. It was realtime at that time. It took some drivers more than an hour to get to the sky way. It has been a mess. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Carolyn johnson is off tonight. There is no end in sight sorry to say as bart and the own yens continue and the unions continue to argue. A lot of frustrated commuters. A lot of them hopefully aring paing lots of patience even though the traffic is backed up on the freeways heading to the bay bridge. The good news is that right now traffic on surface streets in the city has eased up a bit at least in the last couple hours. But on this first day of barts fall strike, there was that such thing as rush hour. Ther
Government loses its ability to borrow money tomorrow, and a lastditch effort by the house to muster an agreement was sunk by hardlined conservatives, so this morning congress has its back against the wall with time about to run out. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the very latest. Susan, good morning. Alexis, good morning. We are strangely in almost exactly the same spot we were this time yesterday. All of the focus now is on the senate hoping for an 11th hour deal there. This is after a house plan that was introduced yesterday collapsed, bringing the resumption of this effort in the senate, but those efforts resume dangerously close to this debt ceiling deadline. Senate republicans and democrats worked through the night on a bill to reopen the government and avoid a default. Majority leader harry reid and Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell quickly resumed their efforts after talks in the house fell apart. We felt blindsided by the news from the house, but this isnt the first time.
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But things have calmed down. The Golden Gate Bridge shows fog but traffic is moving quite well. That is good news all the way around at this moment. Abc7 News Reporter, matt keller, joins us from lake merritt in oakland. Matt . There is a picket line. I spoke with bart management and no negotiations are scheduled if now. That could change at any moment. That means workers are stilt striking. Several showed up at the bart station at 4 00 a. M. And promised to picket until they have a deal. Workers gathered at bart stations but rather than running the trains they were holding signs. A few hours earlier at 5 30, they were literally attacked. We saw a man upset of the strike throw a cone at them. Half an hour later bart Police Arrested him. It wasnt all negative. Several people driving by honked in support of the unions. Union negotiators say talks broke down yesterday not because of the Economic Issues like wages and pensions but because of work rules. They say management is asking for to