Im richard lui. Another day, another country outrained over nsa surveillance. This time germany. Wednesday chancellor Angela Merkel called president obama. The u. S. Ally asked him pointblank in the u. S. Spy agency isthatting her cell phone. If so, she said, it would be an unacceptable breach of trust. Merkels suspicions reportedly coming from the german magazine der spiegel tra provided articles from edward snowden. I can tell you that the president assured the chancellor we are not monitoring their communications. Germany is especially sensitive. It has tight privacy laws. So much so that when google tried to implement street views of homes, germans insisted on the right to blur. Germanys outrage is now added to anger from france, mexico and brazil over reports of alleged nsa snooping. A community is mourning the loss of a young teacher who is murdered at school this morning rather at school and this morning one of her students just 14 years old is held for her killing. Nbcs chris p
Local spent the night packing up tent and bottle of water getting ready for what could be a long hall. Nearly 30 straight hours of talk did not produce an agreement but a lot of sniping. Union members say they were basically on board with wages and pension but that bart pulled a fast one at the last minute. We were this close and yet at the last minute they threw in a management strike clause to take away our rights as workers. Everything else was done. Reporter bart general manager grace says there were no surprises. These are work rules that were essential to maintaining the future efficiency and effectiveness of the agency. What happened is the union decided to, they wanted to take the money that was on the table but not the work rules that were than ought table. Reporter bart says it offered work ears 12 percent raise over 4 years with employee paying more for Health Pension benefits. They couldnt degree on work rules. What they thought was total and complete flexibility to time sh
And that breaking news is bart. Lets than an ahour away from a strike and negotiations completely broken down. Certain the trains will not be running for tomorrow morning commute. Good evening. Im in for dan. Im carolyn. We have Team Coverage for you on the bart striking beginning with john live at caltrans if oakland where the talk break off late today. John . Reporter federal mediator gave open invitation to both sides to return to the building to begin negotiations restarted but tonight that seems very unlakely. Members of seiu local spent the night packing up tent and bottle of water getting ready for what could be a long hall. Nearly 30 straight hours of talk did not produce an agreement but a lot of sniping. Union members say they were basically on board with wages and pension but that bart pulled a fast one at the last minute. We were this close and yet at the last minute they threw in a management strike clause to take away our rights as workers. Everything else was done. Repor
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