The he federal Mediation Service here working 20 hours per day for four days, the parties should have been able to come to an agreement. Its because this employer is entractable and committed to having the workers go out on strike its not management that asked for a strike its union. Were available to continue to bargain and to discuss items. Now, unions say they will work through end of the schedule tonight. They will not leave passengers stranded. And will then park trains and unless something changes they will go on strike. I spoke with a uc berkeley labor expert who said at this point now that the mediation period is over, that were going into unchartered territory and said a lot will depend on the strike and how difficult sit on the bay area economy, and commuters. And at some point we might see Legislature Step in if things dont get resolved on their own n oakland laura anthony, abc 7 news. Word of a strike is dispagt news for bart riders coping with the threat of a strike all week long. Abc 7 news is live in San Francisco with that part of the story. Ama . Reporter this is frustrating for bart riders. Were down on the platform, people were asking me what latest was. I told them unions said theyd strike at midnight unless bart agrees to arbitration. One woman said at this point this is more than frustrating. Its keeping me up at night as well. Because you dont get updates until late. I dont know how im going to get to work the next morning. I wanted to say i woke up, maybe three times oo. Reporter her options she says if there is a strike to take a bus or take cal train into the city so she has an alternate plan but again, riders are just hoping something will avert the strike at midnight. Thank you. Bart riders have been sounding off on twitter about the strike now looming. Diana tweets really . The union doesnt care about thousands of commuters affected by the strike . Selfserving and greedy. And joseph tweets as the government shut down ends, your unions decide to go on strike . Will fun never end . We still want to hear from you on how it will impact your life. You can post your videos on twitter and insta dgs gram and send videos to axe bc 7 News Facebook page. Weve assembled a wide range of resources for you on abc 7 news. Com to help you plan for what appears to be a strike including alternate transit options and realtime traffic maps. You can down load exclusive abc 7 news waze traffic app to help you navigate freeways and follow us on twitter on abc 7 news bay area. Be sure to join us for abc 7 morning news at an earlier start time of 4 00 a. M. Get the latest on the threat before heading out of the door. A strike pretty much seems likely at this point there is a chance something could halt that between now and midnight. You can down load our app allowing push alerts so youre sure you get latest information. Ac transit board of directors held a closed door session a day after gone brown stepped in to order an investigation into ongoing contract dispute averting a strike that could have started overnight. The move is the First Step Towards declaring a cooling off period. A board will report back to brown within seven days. We have breaking news out of menlo park. Officials say a driver jumped the curb then pinned a set of 6yearold twin as cross the side of a storks one children has major injuries. Abc 7 news joins us live now at the scene with the latest. Lisa . Reporter police are calling this a horrific accident at santa cruz avenue and curtis street in downtown menlo park. The driver of that bmw suv drove into two twin 6yearold boys. Pinning them against the wall of the walgreens store. The boys were with their older brother and nanny. Both of them were not hurt. Police say the 90yearold driver was parked on the street, just had lunch with a friend and was about to drive home to woodside. Instead of reversing he put the car into drive and hit the accelerateor. One boy was not seriously hurt but his brother was. He is undergoing emergency surgery for life threatening injuries at stanford hospital right now. Any time you have children involved in an accident like this, something, all that can be describe is as an accident. The driver of the vehicle was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. We tested him for that. As far as we know, we dont know if there is anything wrong with the vehicle but were going to be impounding it to make sure nudging is wrong with the vehicle. Reporter the driver was not arrested because police did not feel gross negligence was involved. Back live, police are working with the traffic analyst just arrived from stockton. He is going help them try to figure out what happened. Live in menlo park, abc 7 news. Thank you. Terrible tragedy there. San Francisco Union Square back open tonight after a scare over a sus spishus package. We reported this on twitter this morning. A backpack was found near powell and stockton streets just before noon. You can see in the video here, a oneblock radius around union square was all cleared out. Shoppers and workers told to shelter this n. Place. Nothing was found and union square reopened after two hours. Clean up underway following a massive Apartment Fire in redwood city. Dudsens escaped including four are injured in the flames. Take a look at the view. You can see its heat from the fire blows out windows and roof. Tonight the red cross is helping residents forced out of homes, abc 7 news now with the story. Massive fire started at 5 15 on the top floor of the Terrace Apartments on the 900 block of woodside road. First arriving units found heavy fire. The blaze moved to six alarms, video from sky 7 shows just how intense flames were. Residents scattered out of the building as firefighters did bat yes. Encountered heavy fire. People coming out of the build goinging to rescue and interior operations. Reporter firefighters struggled to get hoses to top floor, no sprinklers to help. The building construct brd sprinklers were required. On the top floor, waits that first chaotic. People helping others climb over to get out of the apartments. Upper floor tenants scrambled out of bed trying to get out as heavy smoke stopped them from using front doors. 60 seconds hall fwhi. Way i can do down stair autos firefighters had to take Paul Jenkinson down from a ladder. Others tried to escape down the hall way. There is a guy crawling out from the apartments up there. Crawled on hands and knees. In his under wear. He had burns. Reporter no one was seriously hurt, four residents taken hospital to the hospital. Red cross reported all tenants checked into the center no one was missing. Total Loss Estimated at 4 million. Vic lee abc 7 news. We want to update you on another fire in a nearby apartment building. One man died and a100 people left homeless in the blaze in this house apartment on woodside road. Investigators have determined that fire was accidental and began in the apartment of the man who died in the fire. More than 100 firefighters responded to that disaster. There is more still head here on abc 7 news at 6 00 including details of another recall for a store because of possible salmonela contamination. A big relief for bay area tourist economy. The rush to visit some famous sites today. Im spencer christian. A warm week, there are signs of a warm weekend. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up. Later legal battle over these tee shirts at a high school. The question now where a before a just wanted to keep you updated on breaking news. Watching for late developments on the bart strike. Unions saying trains will not run tomorrow unless there is a last minute deal which seems unlikely at this point with midnight deadline looming. Two sides not talking now. The mediator is not involved and are going back to washington. A bay area costco store recalling thousands of additional chickens over concerns about salmonela. The recall of 13,000 Kirkland Signature foster farms rotissere chickens and soup, Chicken Salad and leg quarters sold at costco south San Francisco store between september 24th and october 15th. The same store recalled 9,000 similar rotissere chick yenz last week, Officials Say there have been no reports of illnesses from the latest recall. Tourists once again flocking to famous bay area spots. Wayne freedman is live at vista point in marin county. Wayne . Reporter i am. Who wants to look at he with alcatras island lit up behind us tlchl a perfect moment. Alcatras and the moon and maybe that appropriate because it is open again today along with the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area and Point Reyes National sea shore. Now its a thing of the past, well, maybe. Not exactly. You might tell that to people there today or who are nearly locked out. All is well that ends well. Isnt that one of the band aids to ease strike . Tell that to barbara and bobby from louisiana. This, their once in a lifetime vacation to muir wood thats nearly didnt happen because of the government shut down. Just glad that the government settled their dispute and was able to open it. In time for us to come. So you can doum this . Youve got it. If you work for horn blower yachts giving tours with rock closed to companies furloughing every employee one day per week. In 16 days lost 100,000 customers who would have brought in 3 million. Visitors dont have a couple days to wait. That is their one shot. For many, gone. So its bad for visitor and employees around the country. Gu bu gogt dogs . Not exactly like this dog walker for whom fort funston is, then wasnt now is his office. No reason to shut down parks. They could have worked out something. Supposedly they did. Back in washington but bygones . This should have been settled, i thought years ago. So not happy with any of them. Me either. Me either. At muir woods, Wayne Freedman abc 7 news. The marin hellands are open but not as pristine. Check out what vandals did where workers were furloughed. They took advantage of the opportunity. Graffiti spray painted on signs. There is more vandalism on the streets. Benches tagged. National park service says taking this is going to be costly. The signs have to be replaced then power washed to get the graffiti off the street and sidewalk. 2400 employees of nasa ames were back on the job returning employees first saw a welcome back sign approaching the gront front gate. Back pay being processed so employees can focus on their research. Lawrence livermore labs also reopened today. They had stopped all projects on tuesday and told 6,000 employees they were furloughed. Now, furloughs wont be necessary. Good news there. Its gorgus outside. Something positive we can address. Pose activity is going to remain with us into the weekend. Its probably good news. Sheer look at live doppler 7 hd. Clear skies, mild conditions. Its been a mild to warm week all week long. That pattern continues for at least a few more days. A live view here in abc 7 looking over the bay across embarcadero and clear skies. 65 San Francisco now. Still 80 degrees in oakland. Readings into 70s in san carlos. And a cool 59 in half moon bay. Another live view looking down on the bay. And well have temperatures into loi to mid70s from santa rosa to napa to novato to fairfield and almost 80 still at livermore. And here is a live view from our east bay hills camera. We can see the moon. In a clear sky. These forecast features clear, cool overnight once again. Mild to warm tomorrow. And saturday. And then, well have gradual cooling but no sudden or sharp changes in our pattern. A forecast animation start agent 5 00 shows some low clouds off shore, looks like theyll remain off shore moving farther away during mid day and afternoon hours so, another sunny day, beautiful day. High temperatures from mid to upper 60s on the coast. Upper 70s around the bay. Lets take a look at our temperatures trend for next seven days in oakland. Peak temperatures, high temperatures peaking saturday at about 78 degrees, then leveling off at 75, 76 sun, monday, tuesday, upper 60s wednesday and that is typical of the trend foremost of the bay area. There wont be any dramatic changes. Just a few degrees up or down. Overnight tonight clear skies and Cool Conditions again. Maybe chilly in north bay valley locations. Nappa, a low expected of 39. Santa rosa, 40. Other locations lows into upper 40s to around 50. On we go to conditions tomorrow afternoon, sunny in the south bay. Mild again highs into upper 70s to low 80s. 78 santa clara. 82 morgan hill. Well see high of 76 in san mateo. 77 palo alto upper 60s on the coast. Almost 70 on the coast. 74 likely high downtown San Francisco. 70 sunset district. North bay highs into low 80s from santa rosa to nappa. East bay, oakland a high of 76 tomorrow, 78 union city. 79 Castro Valley inland east bay highs into low 80s. Here is the accuweather forecast. Saturday well probably be warmest day across the board with inland highs up to 80 around the bay. Then, notice each day temperatures dropping off into one, two, three degrees until getting back into mid70s inland. Going to be a dry, mild pleasant seven days ahead. Still head embarrassing problems for california Insurance Exchange. At Kaiser Permanente weve reduced serious heart attacks by 62 , which makes days with grandpa jack 100 more possible. 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Tonight the states Insurance Exchange is revealing its pulled online directory of providers and the reason . Wrong information. Covered california listing baby doctors as eye doctors describing others being fluent in russian and farsi when they werent. Despite glitches health Officials Say 95,000 april politics have been started since october 1. Good news if youre looking to buy a home in the bay area. Prices cooled down last month as more homes went up for sale and demand by investors declined. Data quick said median sales price was 530,000s ndz september that. Is down for the second month. The median price was 562,000s ndz july. Prices up nearly 24 from just a year ago. Coming up update on our top story. Unions threatening to go on strike after talks breakdown with management. Were told we may have a statement from the bart board. Under the bay for a look at a major project designed to keep water flowing. 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Bart will offer direct Charter Bus Service between nine station s in downtown San Francisco, you can catch between 5 00 and 8 00 in the morning. Evening service from San Francisco back to those stations will run between 3 00 and 7 00 p. M. But have you to have a round trip ticket in the morning to catch that evening bus. You find out if there is a last minute settlement if you down load our abc 7 news app allowing for push notification. And the abc 7 Morning News Team will be on to show what the commute looks like. Anchors eric thomas along with traffic will be here at 4 00 a. M. Local case receiving nationwide attention made its way to ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco. Pitting students wearing American Flag deshirts against those celebrating kinko de mayo. This incident happened in 10 so drama have long since died down. But the legal battle continues. Moving from a District Court to the court of appeals today. Her son is in college but what happened three years ago still wrangles. Our boys being teenagers, were proud of their team. Had nothing to do with their political animosity. Nudging. His sons case heard today by a panel from the ninth Circuit Court. Its a controversy prompting a walk out at live oak high school. Spirited public debate and investigation and national attention. The incident occurred on cin