An offer to membership. Its the middle of october. General managers saying unfair left is the final offer so we can reach an agreement. Lets be clear. The strike notice for this year is disruption in service with f. We dont reach a deal by midnight tonight. And again, all that said work to sides have been meeting today to discuss this offer which is 12 raise over four years. The unions have to pay more for benefits, they say negates that raise. Bart says they will not increase the package but are willing to talk about the terms within it. The union says if talks continue and seem to be progressing there, or there is decent progress they may consider moving the strike deadline back again. Theyre telling riders they should be prepared for the real possibility of a strike tomorrow moshing. Making matters worse ac transit has given a 72 hour strike notice that. Decision cups after workers for Transit Union local 192 rejected two contract proposals last week. Latest included a 9. 5 pay raise over three years. Union leaders encouraged workers to accept the offer. Workers say theyll walk off the job at 12 01 thursday morning if they dont reach an agreement on a new deal this, uncertainty has been bad enough but prospect of both bart and ac transit striking is worse now. And people are having to make plans to get around. There is a lot of commuter angst. If youre a bart rider how are you dealing with uncertainty . Are you planning on taking the bay bridge . Maybe a bus bridge . Maybe a carpool . Ferry . Do you plan to day home . If youre wondering about this, youre not alone. They tell us that we live and work in a land of opportunity. All through unless youre a bart commuter hostage where opportunity yeel yielded to uncertainty. The cooling off is heated up. How do you sleep at night not knowing how youre going get to work . I dont sleep. Not sure. Dont dits pair there are nalt tiffs. Is this an opportunity . Site for us. We might describe them as all nalt tiffs fchl you cant up and move your Office Building just take up residents in a different one. Both sides of the bay a Company Called regis is ready, and willing to set you up. We have lounge thats we can have folks qus too,. Any calls on this . With bart going out . A couple come together lounges. What is that . You dont like carpooling . You get sick on ferry boats . Did you bu dont have sfwheels. We have a Toyota Sienna minivan. Last time bart struck car rental agencies saw an uptick. All rental Companies Even rent a relic. For 30 a day rich will lease you 30 worth of car and each with its own personality. Is there a bart strike special . No. No specific. That could be someone. Ive got to go. When it comes to commuting, dont we all . And here is what you need to know. Bart chartered 200 buses in the event of a strike running from these nine stations. Be sure to purchase a round trip ticket that is the only way theyll let you back on coming home. San Francisco Ferry will have 12 boats in operation and an extra dock in use at the Ferry Building to help reduce congestion for other option wez have a list four on abc 7 news. Com you can down load the exclusive waze traffic app and be sure to follow twitter on abc 7 news bay area. You may have noticed elected representatives jumping into the fray and talks. Lieutenant Governor Newsom ask others met with both sides during bargaining yesterday. Nancy skinner trying to bring manment and workers together. We have two objectives keep trains running and discussions going. Having them present in the room and talking to both sides is just really emphasizing both high stakes and emphasized how important it was that the both make compromises necessary. Labor unions make major contributions, giving 2. 5 million to California Democrats between 2010 and 2012. Weve been asking to you tell us how you feel about the impass using hash tag dear bart. David cruz tweets all new members should be able to vote on the best and final offer. And in this person write youre all being too greedy. One says please make a deal son. Im more worried if ill have a way to school than mid terms. And stacy says dear bart, please come to a compromise, soon, im tire fd worrying about how i will get to school. Here, opinions are just as divided as labor negotiations but almost everybody agrees a strike is not what they want. Dear bart you guys cant strike. This is stupid. I dont like drichlgt i like bart. Bart gets me every with where. I pick up my son on bart. I work in the city. Please. Dear bart im glad youre rung today please do not strike tomorrow i need to ride again, tomorrow. Dear bart please do not strike. It really makes our lives hard and we need you to operate. Please figure this out. Many riders echoed desire for compromise but a few chose to take sides. Dear bart i believe you have enough money to give workers what they want. I understand what workers want. I ask this be resolved. Who is going to pay for it is us, commuters anyway. Were going to have to pay. Dear bart i think you guys are getting overpaid personally im getting paid minimum wage. And im in the getting paid to sit down door do things you guys do. As much of an inconvenience for riders i dont think people should feel like slaves and disempoi powered so if you need to strike to get wages you feel you deserve then i feel that is the right thing to do. If you feel have you something you need to say send it to us with the hash tag dear bart. You can send us your video on video, twitter or instagram. Our Morning News Team will be on half an hour early tomorrow. Their coverage beginning at 4 00 a. M. To help you navigate. Work expected to resume tomorrow on 49ers new zwraimd after a worker was killed there this morning when a delivery truck driver was crushed by the rebar he was unloading on the south side of the stadium. The victim identified as a 60yearold edward lake junior. Cal osha is investigating. The site has been deemed safe and will reopen in the morning. Well hold an all hands meeting inside of the bowl and talk about this tragedy and swril a safety discussion as well. This is a second deadly accident in four months. In june a worker died when hit by an elevator counter weight. Officials did not sanction the contractor in that incident. The Company Manufacturing the rebar is a facility in napa. That is where the victim worked. Lived in vacaville. Well, edward lake lives in a house just around the block here. Neighbors tell us hes lived in this vacaville neighborhood sometime. Now, one neighbor gave us a photograph and says he was a nice person who liked to keep to himself. The photograph taken as he helped her move into their house six years ago. He worked in napa as a Delivery Driver were told he was injure fate fatally injured in santa clara. Now, sadly we found a site at the plant to warn drivers to be in their trucks or far what i loading or unloading rebar, one neighbor heard his father may have been a famous baseball player who played for tigers, cardinals and red sox at one point. Police police cars showed up and parked and told us they just wanted to ensure his Close Friends and relatives in that house to ensure privacy so moved here to this block. Thank you. Still ahead here tonight the backlash against freedom of speech. What these protestors want facebook to do to root out online hatred. Summer like warmth coming to bay area beaches. How long will this last . Find out coming up. A new way to find your lost car keys. Great pumpkin weigh off. Tonight how the winner managed to squash the competition. Nice car. Sure is. Make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] so, what do you say . Thanks. But i think i got this. [ male announcer ] the allnew cla. Starting at 29,900. There has been a strong earthquake in the philippines. Usgs measures magnitude 7. 2 with you h. But say theyre not anticipating a tsunami from it. The quake just hit so were waiting for more information. Back here a group of facebook users went off line to pressure the company to do more to combat online hate speech. 15 people protested outside of the campus they want the company to take down page thats promote antisemitism and bullying and classify page thats holocaust as hate speech. Its very easy for someone to create a page and pay 10 a day in order to sponsor their page, promote it. Its running through our news feeds whether we want to see them or dont want to see them. Facebook says you can get rid of ads by hitting the hide button. Many people heard the shots and now, San Francisco police want to hear from witnesses of a man was killed in the mission district. Neighbors dialed 911 after shots were fired around 4 30 this morning. Officer arrived and found a man suffering gunshot wounds. He died after being taken to the hospital. Investigators have not said fit was gang related. In this neighborhood you cant put it past. Were here. Do you know what i mean . God bless the person. No arrests have been made. The medical examiner has not yet released the name. Police offering a 10,000 reward in the the death of a man in this car and believe the 33yearold crashed his vehicle after being shot. Police found him dead after responding to gunfire. And frightening moments in one neighborhood today. The driver of this big rig got out of a truck to check something and it somehow got away from him. The truck rolled down a hill and then came to rest about 100 feet from some homes on vanessa street. No one was hurt. Well, on to something different. A nappy county farmer had to do all of the heavy lifting at pumpkin weigh off, it paid off. Gary miller just set a record. My heart going 100 miles per hour. You know . You know sni mean, pretty neat. Napa valley farmer took top honors. Pumpkins weighing nearly a ton competing to be the heaviest in the festival. Last year an org rg man took first prize setting a record with a 1775 pound pumpkin. He took home a prize of 10,600. For breaking that record with a 1985pound pumpkin, gary takes home a heck for 11,910. Extra thousand for being the overall winner. Coolest thing ever. Reporter this is the 43rd year of the festival. Who knows . Wannabe third graders from sea crest could be a few tour champion. The current world record for heaviest pumpkin is 2032 pounds, todays top contenders told me theyre determined to beat that record n half moon bay, nick smith abc 7 news. Look at the size of those thing autos yes. Monsters. Yes. You dont want to get crushed by one. No. Would like a pie from them. Many pie autos yes. Weather looking great. Great weather for growing large pumpkins. Beautiful conthe coastline. Here is a look weve got sunny skies coast to inland. Taking a look at the temperature change now, its six degrees warmer at sfo than this hour yesterday. Nine degrees warmer in half moon bay. All around the bay area were several degrees warmer except novato. Two degrees cooler now. Were under a bit of a warming trend here is a live view of santa cruz now. Clear skies, 69 degrees in San Francisco right now. Mid 70s in san jose. 66 half moon bay. Towards the bay bridge, sunny skies, 73 now in santa rosa. 72 napa. 73 fairfield. 75 concord. 77 livermore. And one more live view downtown sunny skies, clear tonight but mild in the early hours. Cooler overnight. Warm tomorrow by a few degrees. Satellite shows a big ridge of High Pressure in our weather picture now that is bringing us a nice land to sea flow. Tonight going l down a lot in spots. Low temperatures dropping to 40 in nappa. Mid to upper 40s in other locations so overall, a cool day but chilly in the north bay valleys tomorrow, sunny warm with highs into low 70s. Peninsula, highs 78 in millbrae to 81 in redwood city. And 76 pacifica. Downtown San Francisco, 78 degrees tomorrow. North bay well see mid80s, 83 in santa rosa and 84 napa. East bay, 80 degrees. 82 in castro valley. Inland east bay, low to mid80s there. Nice, beautiful and warm conditions across the bay area. Here is the accuweather forecast. Warming up saturday, then down sunday and no threat of rain just cooler than it is now. Nice. Yes. Thank you. Coming up next, americas 25 best paid women. How many of them here in the bay area. Im kristin zee what do you want to tell bart ask unions for possibility of another strike . Well help you get it out there. Just post your video message using a hash tag dear bart. Tell us who you are and where you live. You might se to thsuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Tonight on open letter to black ber year users. Black berry trying to conduct buyout talk was siso google. Wall street may know something we dont. Stock prices went up today. Dow gained 64 points. S and p gained six. Facebook said its acquired a start up in israel called onovo compressing data so you can use more of it. Facebook paid 100 million for the company keeping an office in tel aviv. Dont be surprised if you see net flix popping up. To offer video rentals through your box instead of online or webconnected tv. Fort yooun magazine issued a list of the 25 highest paid business women. Coptop three are here bay area, coming in at top of the chief Financial Office at oracle making 43 million. Second is yahoo chief executive marisa mayer, 36 million last year, third, Cheryl Sandberg at facebook makes around 26 million. And number 10 is hewlettpackards meg whitman taking home 15 million last year. Other well compensated women in the bay area include renee james head of software ask services for intel, laura alber, williams sonoma. You might have to have salary of a ceo to buy chocolate soon. Rising demantd and bad weather he in key areas is driving up the cost. Price of coco butter has risen 70 now at a fouryear high. You probably wont notice much of a change. A trade group says chocolate manufacturers are more likely to reduce content or make candies smaller rather than dramatically increasing prices. Well, here is more still to come here tonight with less than six hours to go were going update bart talks for you. What could happen if washington doesnt lift the debt ceiling. Quickly followed by skydive. And paris romance. There was a quick interlude. Then mighty aphrodite. But then the day came marry me. And she thought and thought and then she chose freedom trail. Theres a deep, rich, enduring color for everything, including love and happiness. Benjamin moore. For everything that matters. Good evening, again. Bart and two largest unions locked in a standoff now. The clock ticks towards a strike deadline. Management reiterated final offer stands today as its last, best offer so theyve been meeting much of today bart says its not changing final offer that would give employees a 12 raise over four years. Employees would have to make a contribute togs pensions and 9. 5 into health plan autos unions came out after bart and blast that had final offer saying new payments would cancel the skpraiz they will not accept it that is where things stand. Hope after voiding a strike appears to be fading. Unions warn riders could be ready for bart to shut down. They he is stress all drivers will finish routes if they do go on strike. Commuters face a second possible transit nightmare, too. Ac transit workers gave notice they too, would go on strike againing dwsh beginning on thursday this, after rank and file rejected offers last week. Many relied on ac transit m n. July. Talks in washington sound like the bart negotiations. The two sides cannot agree and we just dont know how long this is going to last. The story from the nations capitol. With clock ticking, president obama urged the government to raise the debt keeling. If republicans arent will owing to set aside partisan concerns in order to do what is right for the country we stand a good chance of defaulting. Leaders of the senate, mostly at odds have taken primary role in behind the scenes deal making. A meeting with congressional leaders postponed to allow hairy reid and the minority leader, Mish Mcconnell to continue hashing out differences. Im very optistic. I share his optimism. Reporter the go government hit this debt keeling in three days a rough outline would extend the Borrowing Limit and reopen the government with some minor changes to obama care. The president said answering a third week was unnecessary. And made comments where many volunteers are furloughed worker autos i think American People made clear this is now knot how we expect washington to do business. Republicans taking moat of the heat with a new high of 74 of americans disapproving of the way republicans are handling the budget crisis. If the senate does come to an agreement there is no guarantee the House Republicans will support what gets past. Abc news, washington. Barbara boxer went on a blister rg being tirade quoting president reagan who warn btd consequences of default 30 years ago ask said the clean up of 500 toxic sites has been halted and noted Nuclear Safety inskbrorkts have been furloughed as well. Earth to my republican friends have you ever heard the word fukishima . Know what im talking about here . Wake up, what are you doing to the American People . You dont like a bill . So you shut down the government . You take all of the watch dogs off the job . This shut down is mindless. Boxer noted thousands of people in california and conservative states signed up for Affordable Care act. Well, as you mentioned a moment ago, signs wash is moving closer to a deal sent stock prices up today but what happens if there is no deal . A lot of people are warning of the consequences. Wendy gill yet has that part of the story. Closing bell signaled the end of what turned out to be a positive day. Signs a deal may be closer at hand helped turn around u. S. Markets experts say no agreement would bring big problems. That i is going he trigger a Chain Reaction that is unpredictable. Nobody know whats will happen if have you to call in to question the viability of treasury securities. The shut down cost the u. S. More than 100 million per day. But economists say