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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY October 19, 2013

This evening the union offered new proposal in attempt to settle the dispute. And get the trains moving again. This plan would allow us to reach an agreement without going back to the bargaining table and therefore it would allow us to end the strike medley upon signing. Reporter bart management responded to that Group Proposal my minutes later. In response to the union leader statement tonight bart would welcome an end to the strike. Union leaders is similar play repeat of the same unacceptable offer they made at the bargaining table yesterday before the yawn leaders ordered m ebbs to walk off the job. Reporter bart claims the key issuets to be able to file report that documents paycheck stub electronically and bart also wants to be able to change the way it schedules workers. Union say it needs to protect Worker Rights that would be affected by these rule changes. But they say they are willing to accept partial binding arbitration to settle the issues between them the. Now roads leading to the bay bridge were packed with this morning and tonight as well. This is what it looked like early this evening. Real mess on the sky. We stream headlights as far as you can see. Cars moving at crawl and guess what heres what it looks like now leif. Not much of a defense. Headlights coming towards you. Trying to get on to the bay bridge. Like this for several hours now. It was a hectic evening at the temporary transbay terminal south of market. A lot of people waiting in line to board ac transit bus bound for the east bay. Jack London Square this morning a lot of people opted to take the ferry into work. Ferry agency added more bet and staff to help with the extra riders. They usually get about 2700 riders this morningment more than 7100 people showed up moored to get on the ferry to get to work. Casual car pooling popular alternative too. So popular we found people waiting if license for 20 to grave minutes. Some people were a little confused because pick up area had been moved if the last several most. I werent to the old car pool section and some lady that was in muni directed us hyped us further away from her. I just got off work. I have to two back to vallejo to let my doing out and then come become to the city for 8 00 oclock. Reporter also challenge for drivers look to go pick up rides because of the grid lock crust to get there. Tough on so many people. Some workers are doneing the traffic by not commuting at all. Theres an option. Company allowed them to work from home today. 7 News Business Technology Reporter david louie is an example. You can see smile on my face im exited i dont have to tale with the traffic nature mayor day, bill normally takes bart to downtown San Francisco to work at tech start up but this is his office for the duration of the strike. In the living room at his danville home. He work at new Relic Software company that gave them an option to avoid the grid lock the strike created. Im still going to wake up at the same time. Instead of getting ready in a consider and going to bart ill just start working making phone calls. Using tools like right now to speak with you. Reporter however his boss ceo lewis doesnt plan on working from home to be longterm option. We focus on results and so made sense for somebody to work for home we are open to that idea but we think that its best when people are able to work chosely together in the office utechnology from santa clara base company here made homework more feasible. Facetoface conversation at meetings it also enables file and screen sharing so up to 25 people collaborate on projects. These product are simple easy to use no training the allowed. You dont have to have if things that take a long time. Reporter boosted number of people working once a week from home from 18 to 27 percent in the past 2ers why. With bart extension still under construction south bay is unaffected by the strike. However Silicon Valley is helping commuters in other parts of the bay area to cope better. In san jose, david louie abc 7 news. Strike is proving very costly for some drivers now that the chp expanded car pool license hours on interstate 80, 6 80 and 8 80. Officers pulled several drivers over that ignored or up aware that the hours run from 5 in the morning until 7 00 p. M. All night. We are trying to keep the license open so people who have decided to ride share or car pal during the strike are able to get to the destination quickly. Reporter again 5 in the morning until 7 00 p. M. All day really. Car pl text not cheap either. Run minimum of 3 81 dollars. The. Strike is of course affecting people who take bart but also affects people who drive for a living then the poorest of the poor as well. And wayne is on that story. By now we heard about how the bart strike making life difficult for San Francisco office workers. But imagine what it is like down here if your office is on the street. Come monday traffic is a mess. I end up sitting in traffic. People are not going anywhere. If the getting places. Reporter commuting l getting the job done and making delivery in multsed traffic good luck. We talk over 400,000 people joining us now open the street. I expect my shift to go longer. Due to the traffic my shift is to be 6 hours but it will be seven or eight. Reporter people stayed home today how can we tell. California and montgomery past noon normally this would be people in all directions. Do you ride bart. No. I do not. Where are all the bart people . Not near. Reporter definitely not at work. Victoria runs organic food catering company. Today good portion of her staff never made it in. I think like 10 or 20 percent left. Maybe a little more. We suffer for it not the employee and not corporate. Those who serve the people who suffer every day on the street. 25 of the volunteers failed to show up. Larry miller the. He left the east bay at 6 00 a. M. How long did it take you. 1 hours 15 minutes better than i thought it was going to be. Reporter how long normally. 15 or 20 minutes. Reporter thats a straight level stream of day one. You cant wait for day 4 on monday, bet you cant wait. I have no sympathy i take bart whole lot. In San Francisco abc 7 news. Well, keep it tuned in to 7 news for all the development during the bart streak. Down load our free abc 7 news app and push alert to get any breaking news alert find out medley what is going on. We have assembled range of resources on our web site including latest update from Bay Area Transit Agency on how they accommodate the extra passengers. List of park and ride lot and look at real time traffic map. Also follow us on twitter at this the site for breaking news updates join us early monday morning for the latest on the bart streak. Morning news team will be hear beginning at 4 a. M. With look at how the morning commute is shaping up on monday assuming the strike continues all wean. You have to see. Men time moving on to other news. About 2yearold boy Critical Condition after being hit by gunfire in oakland. The shooting happened 1 00 p. M. On sunny side street and 92 avenu avenue. Mr. Is say stray bullet from shot out 2 block away struck the child while playing in the front of the house. Other chirp family members were also there they saw it. They all run for cover thats when the family noticed the boy was bleeding from a bullet wound to upper body. Police need witness to come forward. There are so many Young Children being injured for wha what. Nobody knows just crazy. Go home and im going to sit didnt and pray that also baby is all right. Nobody else was vird in the shot out. Child in critical but stable condition. Council lor High School Wrestling coach arrested on suspicion of child molestation. Authorities in Santa Cruz County arrested brian chris well on october fourth. Investigators say he molested a child he met while working at the advocate for the Santa Cruz County court system. After he was arrested investigators discovered another possible victim. They believe there could be more out there as well. Chris well is a wrestling coach at Harbor High School in santa cruz. Well stay here with us because we have a lieutenant more ahead for you open 7 news at 9 00. Crime or tragic accident . Prosecutors make major decision in the death of an asian crash victim run over by mm. Vehicle that day. Also how the james bond movie prop may real life subject marine car. Spencer here with the weather. Bit chilly in some spots around the bay area but we have a nasty warmup tomorrow. I have the accuWeather Forecast in just a moment. Dear bart where is the bus at. Dear bart i dont know why you are all doing this. Frustrating commuters. Sound off about the bart strike. Love to hear from you. Tell us how you feel on social media using hash tag dear bart. Media using hash tag dear bart. 7 news at 9 00 continues San Mateo County District Attorney has announced no criminal charges filed in the case of an asian plane crash passenger run over by a fair truck that day in july. 16yearold girl was covered in foam on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport when fire vehicle ran her over. As lillian explains, the da sets it was a tragic accident. Not a crime. Quite candidly this was not a close call. District Attorney Says theres no evidence to suggest that the San Francisco firefighters was criminally neglect when she ran over asian passenger miss yee. 1 15yearold was in a foot deep layer of foam when the fire truck drove right over her. Driver of the vehicle could not have seen her or done anything or avoided it. Is i also em pa size this was the word chaotic is not xanl ration for what was going open out there. One of 3 passengers who died following the july 6 crash at asian flight 214 at sfo. Firefighters was driving this fire truck when it rolled over yees head killing her. District attorney also concluded that the other First Responder not criminally neglect either including the firefighters whether failed to take the girl to a triage area exploratorium fire chief declined to comment open camera but in prepared statement said San Mateo County District Attorney steven wagon staff has confirmed there World Trade Center no criminal culpability by any of our members exploratorium Fire Department remains vigilant next mroring areas in operation strategy and alaska particular where improvement could be made. Civil action plans moving forward. The family is represented. They didnt properly examine her. They didnt carry her to safe place she essentially abandoned her before any foam put down. Reporter the family is expected to file a claim against the city and county of San Francisco in the come wee weeks. This is abc 7 news. Police muni officials in San Francisco tonight investigating the death of bicyclist hit by a bus. Collision happened this morning at 8 45 at the busy intersection of brand and 11th street. Biker identified only as 43yearold male died at the scene from traumatic injuries. One cyclist says the intersection is a little busy and can be dangerous. Its pretty sketchy. Theres lots of traffic with 5 way intersection and bicycle routinely disobey light and whether is to say what happened but definitely sketchy. Bus driver who has 10 years of experience is cooperating with the investigation. This is the second bicyclist killed on city streets since august. Southern california for a moment where fire officials in West Los Angeles report 8 people including a child Critical Condition after horrifying highrise fire. Flames broke out before noon on the 11th floor of the Harrington Plaza apartment. Building is 52 years old. Doesnt have a sprinkler syste system. 3 injured are firefighters who suffered burn burns. 8 people again and child in Critical Condition. Terrible situation. Before we have the forecast as you hit the weekend and spend any time outside this is fabulous time of year. Beautiful week all week long and weekend might be even nice nicer. Imagine. That heres live doppler 7hd some areas of Coastal Clouds but they are not stretched along the entire coast line. Clear sky over the bay inland and we have a beautiful evening writ now around the bay area. Live view from sutro tower cam. Thin financinger of fog from the golden gate and customer sky over the golden gate. 51 in San Francisco. Cool here in the city. Oakland 60, 55. San jose 59. Los gatos in a flat 50 at Half Moon Bay. Another have you from our camera out towards the bay bridge under clear skies extensive visibility tonight. 60 in nap napa. 48 in novato. 58 fairfield. 63 concord livermore 66 and one more live view mount tam in the basement forecast feature we see some 80s of fogal the coast overnight. Mild warm both weekend days. See cooler days next week but wont turn sharp i cooler but gradually cooler. Animation overnight show area of coastal fog pulling away from the coast line tomorrow. Sunny skies coast inland maybe one little patch near the the coast in the north bay. High from upper 60s to near 70 on the coast. 70 up to about 80 around the bay and low to mid 80s inland. Over tonight tonight is we see areas of Coastal Cloud but wont push far beyond the coast. If Napa Santa Rosa but cooler spots north bay valley and we have mid upper 40s to low 50s over most of the remainder of the bay area. Then tomorrow get ready for more sunshine and warm weather south bay high 80 santa clara and san jose and 84 at los gatos and peninsula. High of 77 at san mateo o. 80 redwood city mount view 68 at pacifica and 70 open half machine bay sought coast is nice and mild downtown San Francisco 74 degrees tomorrow. 70 in the sun set district. North bay high 81 at santa ros rosa. 82 at sonoma. 83 at napa. East bay look for high of 78 at Oakland Newark 80 free mont 79 at union city inland east bay noise and warm with high in the low mid 80s up to 83 walnut creek 84 at Livermore Fairfield 83 accuweather i was going to 7 indicate forecast but no. Lets go to Half Moon Bay if pumpkin festival. Sunny sky throughout the day if up to 70 in the afternoon at half machine bay and now 7 day forecast warm saturday sunday. Temperatures will dropoff about 2 degrees each day monday through friday inland high reach only in the mid 70s but still its quite mild pleasant week and inform rain in sight. Remarkable. Walk down of tichlts you are right about that. Dont see it very of. Thanks very much. Still to come on 7 news at 9 00. Doom and gloom about the strike but transit story not about strike or stop and go traffic. Man who turned his commute into a life time commute into a life time okay. Not all transit stories end badly. Even in this period of a strike. This is Mike Cunningham propose to go girlfriend jordan on muni line last night. This Instagram Photo shows mike slipping the ring on her finge finger. He wrote us today saying he and jordan are ucsf immediate students and it was romantic and epic to the extreme after she said i do, they poured champagne to celebrate the event. Congratulations thanks for sending that in. Tesla founder musk ready to start new project and he is jims bond to thank for it. Musk confirmed he recently purchased the submarine car prop quud in the 1970 bond film the spy who loves me with roger moore. He bought it in auction in london in september for just under 1 Million Dollars. 9 8 89,000 dollars. Musk says he was dispointed to learn that actually didnt trans form into this but eccentric billionaire will change. That he plans to convert it into a real car that can in fact transform in a subject marine. Of course he plans to use a test la electric power plant to make that happen. Well coming up next. Bart strike update. Plus why some local experts think this could be the last walk out of this kind ever. Also obama care web site glitch. You hear from the architect washington wept wron wrong. And new kind of sugar rush. On line game turning in gambling addiction for women. Stay with us another half hour of 7 news at 9 00 begins in just a momen [ man ] theyre big. Strength that has withstood the test of time. Strength we can count on. Same with aladdin. Aladdin became the biggest in bail by treating people right. No one has lower prices, is faster or more professional than aladdin. Thats why more people turn to us for help. Aladdin bail bonds. Bigger because were better. Aladdin bail bonds. Thanks for being here. Start the half hour with up to date on the bart strike. Largest union pro boatsal to bart management to put an end to the strike. Union ask bart mappingment to agree to 6. Rider first plan but less than 2 hours later rejested it saying same proposal they had already seen. Bart labor negotiations have a little been contentious and certainly the case this time. They actually rarely led to strike. We talked to insider about this strike might mean for the future. Is transportation reporter heather has that story jeans. Until this year july current strike bart had 3 prior. Two week in 1976 when workers went out in solidarity with the bart Police Officers union. In 1979 there was a 90 day strike or lock out depending on which side you ask and in 1997 there was 8 day strike.

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