For months now, the backers of barts 3. 5 billion bond have been selling it hard saying the system will fall apart unless measure rr is approved. Backers like bart director. We need the money from the voters. Reporter and former caltrans director. Breakdowns on the system could become much more frequent. Reporter while early polls show that the bond appeared to be passing in San Francisco and alameda counties, voters in Contra Costa County where the 2013 bart strike hit commuters the hardest are still up in the air. So today when opponent of the key county led by state senator steve glazer said bart cant be trusted, everyone took notice. They have negotiated five contracts, given excessive raises to managers and workers and now gun to the head you must approve rr. Reporter they also called for a law barring strikes and an end to 1,000 bonuses for every bart worker and manager if ridership exceeds expectations. It is about trust. Reporter the bart director says the board is committed, t
Expect some slight delays there. But looking good at the bay bridge. Well check the san mateo bridge coming up. The Republican National convention now history with donald trump ending the event by formally accepting the partys president ial nomination. Cbs news weijia jang has high colitis from cleveland, ohio. Reporter fireworks lit up the sky outside the arena as balloons rained down on donald trump, mike pence and their families. The joyful celebration contrasted trumps dark 7 five minute address in which he vowed to restore law and order to a nation in peril. The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon and i mean very soon come to an end. Yeah [ applause and cheers ] reporter trump also made his case against opponent Hillary Clinton. The world is far less stable than when obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of americas foreign policy. [ applause and cheers ] lock her up, lock her up, lock her up lets defeat her in november. Yeah [ applause a
Michelle griego. Pg e could face a 3 million fine on charges from the san bruno blast but some Community Leaders are not satisfied with the potential punishment. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne live in san bruno this afternoon with more. Sandra. Reporter yeah. A bit of a mixed reaction out here. A News Conference just wrapped up here at city hall leaders saying they are pleased that pg e has the guilty verdict. Even the city manager saying justice has been served. Still, some question the maximum penalty saying that pg e may not be facing enough when it comes to those penalties. You know that, explosion which happened back in 2010 killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. A federal jury found californias Largest Utility Company guilty of misleading investigators about how it was identifying high risk pipelines. Although prosecutors got the conviction, a decision to lower the maximum fine from 562 million to 3 million took them by surprise. Still, today at that News Conference Officials Say it was
Life. Here is the thing, those people, they are not alive anymore, your ancestors. Reporter leilani and her parents took the recording to the school board and in the meantime, they hope their stance serves as a reallife lesson on free speech. She says it represents the military and that they risked their lives for us but then i always give her the well, my people risked our lives for our freedom, for al land and for our rights. Reporter the superintendent didnt want to go on camera today but i spoke with her on the phone and she said no student will be denied First Amendment rights when they walk in the door. We are dealing with the teacher on this. Our go any idea what repercussions the teacher could be facing . Reporter at this point, it is too early to tell. Again, when that actually happens there is the probability that we wont know what happens because it is a personnel matter. However, leilanis entire village will be going to the next School Board Meeting to make sure something h
Chuck coppola has the details that is linked to a tragedy. A bill was introduced just this month that has a lot of buzz on social media about social media. Marjorie pott was sexually assaulted by three teenage boys. It drove her to suicide. Now lawmakers seek to give School Administrators the power to suspend or expel students. They admit sexting to cause harm is a growing problem. Its critical that policy makers take a thoughtful approach to figuring out how to not only protect students from the dangers posed by technology, as well as help them understand the power of the technology but to educate them with the appropriate technology. But expulsion may not be the best answer. It takes them away from sometimes their only opportunity to get the help they need to either realize the behaviors theyre engaging in are completely inappropriate and to stop. The bill was just introduced this month. Hearings to change what some call vague language. Its definitely a problem that needs to be dealt