Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. In an 8415 vote the Senate Passed a sweeping new Defense Budget which now awaits president obamas signature. The bill gives the pentagon more than 552 billion to cover standard military expenditures and almost 81 billion to pay forward in afghanistan and cracks down on rape and Sexual Assault in the military tripping them to overturn convictions and loosens restrictions at Guantanamo Bay making it easy for them to transfer prisoners out of the facility. The National Defense authorization act is the First Defense bill to overhall the way Sexual Assault cases are handled in the armed services. The 30 Sexual Assault provisions were spearheaded by senate women in response to what the pentagon called an epidemic. Legislation means that victims must be provided with legal counsel. It eliminates the statute of limitations for courts marshall in sexual as assault and dishonorable discharge for any person convicted of Sexual Assau
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Candles and prayers, handshakes and hugs. Everybody at bart is affected by this. Its sad. At the accident scene, federal investigators arrived one day after two men were killed they walked the tracks, sifted through evidence and moved the train. We took measurements and wanted to get a look at the lay of the land, the accident area before we moved equipment, which is done by us. Some individuals at 16 decibel two on the c 1 track. A bart employee and contractor were inspecting a reported dip in the track when they were hit by the train controlled by a computer. Investigators will look at signals and cameras and regardings, records and the rails plus the people on the train and the tracks. They insist the strike is secondary. Im aware theres a strike and i dont know if that will have impact on what im doing. Egg here is of interest to me. Were going bow our heads. In walnut creek a second memorial. A strong feeling this accident didnt need to happen. We watch each other as backs. I feel
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Lafayette, dublinpleasanton, san leandro, hayward and the fremont stations. Caltrain will be offering extra service. All their trains including the baby bullet train will be stopping off at the millbrae bart station where passengers can park for free. So far no delays reported for ac transit, the ferries or caltrain. Thats a look at the monday commute. Now to lawrence with the forecast. All right. We are starting out with thick fog around the bay area especially near the coastline into some of the north bay valleys, as well. Visibility down to a half mile in santa rosa. Out the door clouds over the bay bridge. A lot of folks trying to get to work this morning without bart but nonetheless you have clouds out there now. Temperatures cool in spots. 40s and some 50s at this hour. I think by the afternoon though we are enjoying mostly sunny skies away from the coast. We have this blocking ridge in place so thats going to keep the jet stream well to the north so we are going to stay dry for