Department over the sale of bad mortgage bonds. As talks consider to end the San Francisco transit strike, there is a report of tragedy. Our top story tonight is out of syria, which has seen hostage negotiations, a shootout and a suicide bombing on the last few hours. Nine lebanese hostages abducted in syria last year have been freed. The release comes after a complex negotiation between turkey, lebanon, syria and the Syrian Rebels. Andrew simmons reports from beirba bayroot. Their homecoming was a kay on theic emotional ent. The men ands made their way out in the crowd. They expected there will be a delegation. Can he. This was quite a problem, a set of negotiations with turkey involved as well and nothing could happen until there was an absolute clearance on the security of the Turkish Airline pilots and they are safe so now, after all of this time, the men are with their loved ones in beirut celebrating their homecoming. Inside syria, bombing killed 16 soldiers at a military checkpo
It looks as though our warming trend really gets going again today with a little bit milder weather at the coast. We will detail the rest of the weekend in a few minutes. Katie. Lisa, thank you. And there appears to be no end in sight for traffic woes across the bay area. Bart and the union remain at odds. We have a report on how it is i am pocketing traffic. Reporter this is a line of cars wait to go get to the bay bridge about 8 00. It was a crawl all afternoon and through the evening. It takes me about 35 minutes. Literally two miles from here. How long it it take you . About 45 to an hour. To avoid the traffic backup, lots of people tried getting out of the city early. With no bart trains running, the afternoon commute turned into an evening odyssey. I could see the traffic from my office going over the bridge. Its more getting on to the bridge, which takes a long time. For casual carpoolers, it made for a long wait to get home. Usually its about 30 minutes to get home. Its usually
Well if you are head out early. But by 7 00 temperatures should be up to the upper 40s inland and around the bay. Bay side about 50. Noontime will be in the mid60s around the bay and already into the 70s in the inland spots. But if you head into the afternoon, we dont stop there. We are looking at 4080s inland and upper 60s at the coast and mid70s around the bay. The mild to warm weather continues for the first part of your weekend. We still have the second half of your weekend and this area of High Pressure that looks to stick around. We will let you know if theres any changes with the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Katie. Lisa. Thank you. There appears to be no end in sight for traffic woes across the bay area. Bart and the union remain at odds. We have more on how the bart strike is impacting traffic. Reporter this is a line of cars waiting to get to the bay bridge about 8 00. It was a crawl all afternoon and through the evening. It takes me about 35 minutes. Literally two
To that and a bid announcement no one wanted to hear. The commuter chaos no one was to deal with it. And the battle with no end in sight. Tonight it is time to strike. Thursday evening bart board the but the union to come back to the bargaining table. Your members announced it will go on strike at midnight. I must inform the public debt at midnight tonight we will be on strike. This is not a union strike appeared this is an Amendment Strike brought on by absolute arrogance and they thought they could take workers right away. The use of this is not about salary of benefits it is about managements hard line about making changes to employees work rules appear it the work rules create waste and inefficiencies. The one to turn the work rules to other arbitrator bart management rejected that suggestion appeared not mattresses that wanted give the arbitrator the entire package appeared basically there are three options take the latest Union Proposal to the rank and file and let them vote on i
President obama defended his Signature Health care law monday following weeks of technical failures that have prevented many from signing up. Obama declined to say how many people have actually been able to enroll, but he admitted there have been technical roadblocks. The problem has been the website that is supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody. Theres no sugarcoating it. The website has been too slow. People have been getting stuck during the application process. I think it is fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than i am. Precisely because the product is good. President obama urged people to call the governments toll free number to apply for health insurance. Although he acknowledged wait times on the line may now increase. Syrian president Bashar Alassad has dampened hopes for international talks on the Syrian Crisis late next month in geneva. In a prerecorded interview with a lebanese tv stati