Not knowing whats going o. There is no bart strike. Trains are rolling today. But no deal as well. The negotiations will continue a little later on this morning. And we are following all the very latest developments. Well get to that in just a moment. Thank you for waking up with us wednesday morning, october 16. Im pam cook. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Lets get your day started with weather and traffic. Steve, just gorgeous out there. It is indeed. We have one more really nice day. It will still be nice as we go into friday and the weekend but theres a system coming down from the Pacific Northwest which will give us a cooldown tomorrow. Today, though, fog still off the coast so its clear. Cool for some. Warm for others. 40s, 50s to 60. A 19degree spread between Oakland Airport and santa rosa. For some its a chill. For others not that bad. San francisco spot on yesterday at 78. Still looking at an off shore breeze. Its not that strong but the trend is off shore going 80 today. 21 up in tahoe which makes sense. Sacramento a 348 degrees at 48 degrees so a little cool there. Theres that little system but it wont be here till later today, more likely tonight into tomorrow. So one more day of beach weather. Lots of sunshine for everybody. It will be nice to mild to warm today. Temperatures all really close and all about 80 or 81. Heres sal. Steve, good morning. Right now we are looking at traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. 80 westbound doesnt look bad. As a matter of fact, its a nice looking drive coming into San Francisco at the bay bridge toll plaza. If youre driving on the lower deck, it also looks good. Here is San Francisco. Weve had a pretty quiet commute to start off the morning on 101, 280 and also coming down to the south of market area. And if youre driving on 880 north and southbound, that traffic looks good. 5 02. Lets go back to the desk. Topping our news once again, no bart strike, at least for today. The trains are running this morning following another marathon negotiation session that ended early this morning. Once again Tara Moriarty joins us from outside the building where the negotiations have been going on. They start again late this morning. Tara . Reporter at 12 30 they decided to take a break, get some rest and theyll be back at it again at 10 00 this morning. They have been hunkered here on the 13th and 14th floors of the caltrans building for months trying to ink out a deal. Last night they could not get it done. At 10 15 the federal mediator came out. He announced that there would be no strike. The unions had agreed to keep talking and that Something Different in talks recently. The general manager has led the charge for bart since monday and that has been barts lead negotiationor, left town for another engagement. Union members say his absence has helped talks progress. Were working within the financial parameters and taken some of the unions ideas and were trying to integrate them. Were costing them out. Were under a gag order trying to reach a deal. It is the unions attempt as it has always been to get a contract deal. Reporter sunday bart management came up with a 57 million proposal and called it best and final offer. 12 pay raises over a fouryear period, pension contributions up to 4 , and an average of 144 a month in medical contributions. Unions say its a wash though they didnt accept the offer as it stood and thats when federal mediators stepped in and said you cant quit negotiating here. The two sides will be back at it again in five hours but the good news of course is that there will be no bart strike, at least for today. Im tara more orty, ktvu channel 2 Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Were learning more about why bart workers decided not to go on strike this week. The bart union slowly backed away from their strike deadline early yesterday morning. They made the decision after conclusion bart management was not going to bend in its so called final contract offer. There were also theyre also reportedly worried they risked being on the receiving end of angry public backlash if there was a repeat of the july walkout. Pane bay area commuters are already giving up riding bart, possibly due to the recent deadlock drama. More than 23,000 fewer people than usual rode bart from friday to tuesday morning. Thats a drop of about 5 . In the meantime its not just bart trains but ac transit buses that could stop running soon. Claudine wong is live in oakland with how the governor could step in and put off this latest strike threat. Claudine . Reporter good morning, brian. Yes, ac transit buses are running. Theres actually one right there. Thats good the thats the good news. Weve been stopped numerous times by people saying are they striking. Our response is no but are you talking about order or ac transit. If youre talking about ac transit, keep your eye on the governor. Weve been watching as the buses do as they do every day line up along 14th and broadway to start that i day but tonight is the deadline. The strike notice issued by the union and one driver we talked to this morning said he is prepared to walk off the job. Are you ready to strike . If its what has to get done, it has to get done. Reporter are you planning on being work tomorrow . Im planning on it. Ill get dressed but if it doesnt happen, it doesnt happen. Reporter ac transit says the request for a 60day cooling off period was hand delivered to the Governors Office yesterday morning. And Officials Say if its not granted, the results could be catastrophic. Riders say the uncertainty is hard to handle. One man told us he rides every morning with the same group of commuters and all of them are worried. We all catch a bus together. We all know each other. Its throwing everybody off. Got everybody off balance. Reporter heres where things stand now. The Governors Office says it is reviewing the request but the expectation is that he will issue it, especially considering this ongoing bart dispute and the uncertainty surrounding that transit agency. If he does though, its still unclear where all of this goes next. There are no negotiations scheduled. Live here in oakland, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. Still lots of uncertainty. Thank you. Stay with us for continuing coverage on bart and ac transit developments. Well bring you updates during this newscast as well as on twitter and at ktvu. Com. New information in the hospital death of lynn spaulding. The investigation surrounding her death at sf general has led to new safety precautions. The San Francisco chronicle reports stairwell alarms at the hospital must now be manually turned off once they go off. Its believed spaulding entered a stairwell through an aharmed door that may have shut off automatically. Her body was found in the stairwell more than two weeks later. Turns out patient disappearances from sf general are pretty common. 96 people have left the hospital without telling staff since january, according to the San Francisco examiner but the hospital says spauldings case is unprecedented. This morning a san jose father is desperately searching for his missing girls. 16yearold madeleine dorchich and her sister emily disappeared sunday night after a Church Service at delmar high school. Their father has filed a missing persons report, started a Facebook Page called finding emily and madeleine and passed out flyers with volunteers. I dont know where they are. I dont know who theyre with and i just i want them home. I want them safe. He says the girls have never run away or gone missing before. Searchers have fanned out from cupertino to downtown san jose checking Shopping Centers and transit stations. The girls mother has come in to help. Two Young Children in San Francisco are back safe with their father who watched helplessly as his suv was stolen with his kids inside. Family members say the 1year old and 3yearolds were in the backseat last night at 22nd and full sop when a woman jumped in and the father was outside talking to a friend. The suv was found about 45 minutes later abandoned in a driveway on sweeney street two miles away. The children were not hurt. Police are still looking for the woman described as thin, white, and pale with short curly burgundy color hair. The Cupertino City Council has unanimously approved apples propose to build a circular building that looks like a space shift. The complex will sit along interstate 280. The new apple headquarters can o could house more than 14,000 employees and fulfills a dream of cofounder steve jobs. Theres one final council vote september is for november 14. The western span of the bay bridge will be glowing through the night. The hours of the show will be extended till daughterinlaw. The artist has programmed new light patterns for the extended hours. The lengthened show begins on november 1 with a public sunrise viewing party at the Ferry Building on november 2. Its 5 09 right now. Some workers in Alameda County say theyve become the prime target of car thieves in oakland. The workers reached out to us here at ktvu channel 2 news. When they couldnt get answers anywhere else. The scramble on capitol hill continues. The chances for a deal to raise the nations debt ceiling before the deadline tomorrow. Good morning. Right now traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. As you can see a live picture of the east shore freeway shows the commute looking good. Skies are clear again. Temperatures warmed up yesterday. Will they continue that today and how long is this going to last . Welcome back to ktvu channel 2 morning news. Firefighters are on the scene of a house fire and ktvus jeanine de la vega on the scene as well where flames were huge early this morning. Jeanine . Reporter yes, they were. Its very dramatic video were about to show you. The fire is out. You can still smell a strong smell of smoke in the air. Were here on dove court off of Pleasant Hill road and grayson where you can see this garage and attic of this house is completely gutted and essentially inside theres so much water and smoke damage that again its completely unlivable at this house. Firefighters are doing overhaul now but i want to go to some video that shows you just how big these flames are and you can also hear explosions. To get a little more information about this fire which started about 1 25 this morning, i go to the battalion chief of the Contra Costa CountyFire Protection district. What happened . At 1 25 this morning we were dispatched to a structure fire here in the city of Pleasant Hill. We had crews from the city of concord and Pleasant Hills responding. We found a fully involved structure. The fire appeared to have started in the garage area. An immediate hazard when we arrived on scene were the electrical wires that were down. We requested pge to come out because that was an immediate danger to our firefighters. Fortunately the residents were able to get out unarmed and we were able to control the fire in approximately 30 minutes. Reporter talk to me about these explosions. You said you heard about four. What was that that caused it . There were numerous bystanders around here. We had two cars in front of the residence, eats an overpressuring of the batteries as well as the tires on the vehicles that popped causing what people believed to be an explosion. Reporter the fire was so large that people who live in an apartment complex next door, there was a car battery there that exploded because of the heat . There were some exposures to the apartment complex, to the left to the front of this residence. They werent harmed at all. Reporter thank so much for this information, battalion chief from the Contra Costa CountyFire Protection district. Were told that a mother, a father and their daughter live in this home. They left maybe about 20 minutes ago to seek some shelter because again this house is completely unlivable right now just because of the extent of the damage that the fire caused. Reporting live from Pleasant Hill, jeanine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. The clock is ticking. Senate leaders are negotiating a deal to keep the u. S. From breaching the debt ceiling tomorrow. Ktvus Kyla Campbell is live. Reporter a major Credit Agency warned the u. S. Is on the verge of a costly ratings downgrade. Fitch said it may grown grade the nations aaa credit rating. A potential repeat of what Standard Poors did after the last debate two years ago. The warning came after a House Republican plan to increase the countrys Borrowing Limit collapsed yesterday. And that pupts Senate Leaders back at the negotiating puts Senate Leaders back at negotiating table. We dont have a lot of time and what im subjecting to the congressional leaders is lets not do any posturing. Lets not try to save face. Reporter the deal the senate is working on would fund the government through mid january and extend the debt limit into early february. It would also strength thin Income Verification for people who will apply for subsidies for obamacare. Analysts said today the markets may not react for another three or four hours once we know just how close the senate is to finalizing a deal. But will the house take it up for a vote . Im working on that story for you for 6 15. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. Cab drivers in San Francisco are applauding new rules on taxi permits. Yesterday the Municipal Transportation Agency board approved an amendment that only let at permit let as permit holder or taxi company operate whats called a medallion. A medallion is a permit that allows the cabby to operate. More members postpone add fee drivers must pay to rent cabs for their shifts. The city of oakland takes a step toward keeping the as, raidsers and golden state warriors. The city Council Voted knew man mousily to move forward with a Development Project called coliseum city. Some deep pocket investors have already signaled theyre interested in backing the proposal. It calls for a newcomb flex for all three my major sports franchises plus hotels and housing. It would be built at the site of the current coliseum and arena. Right now 5 18 is the time. Sal is covering traffic of course. Coliseum city, that would be pretty cool. I think that would be cool. Obviously the stadium needs to be revamped a little bit so im all for it. Good morning, everybody. Lets take a look at the commute. The traffic is moving along pretty well on 80 westbound as you head out to the mcarthur maze. It looks good east 80 near gillman. Some flashing lights. Could some road work there but eight not causing a major delay to traffic right now. Also the morning commute looks good at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is light coming into San Francisco so its been a nice drive there. There are no major problems by the way on highway 4. Highway 4 in antioch is a little slow but bay point looks good. 80 westbound from hercules to richmond. We talked about that. A very nice looking drive. Then marin county between know sad dough and san a novato and san rafael, were off to a pretty good start. 5 18. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. Forecast headlines, theres not much in the way of breaking news for sure. Breaking weather news i should say. Sunny and warm, highs near 80 today. Cooler tomorrow a. Weak cold system coming in. Theres fog off the coast. Looks like its pasted the fair lawns to be honest. But theres some trying to farm. We may go through the rest of october with really not much happening so well see. Well get there. Have faith. Very deep systems forecast for the great lakes and the north east. Probably for the next 7 to 10 days which means High Pressure here. Thats exactly whats happening. There will be a weak system dropping down tomorrow which i think will give a little enhancement to the off shore breeze. So High Pressure large and in charge as we like to say. That equal as pretty warm pattern for this time of year. Coast, bay, everyone is close on the temps so its warm at the coast. Hot in santa cruz yesterday. They were 88. 81 in san jose. Cooler in the morning. Blossom hill areas not far away from downtown san jose have been in the mid40s on the lows. You can see some of that fog. It needs a little help. Plenty of going on. From the glaikdz to the northeast great lakes to the northeast, pretty good systems there. The tropical moisture continues to stream over texas. Been a lot of rain in missouri, arkansas and the deep south. So if theres plenty if youre heading east, just not here. 40 napa. 41 santa rosa. 46 half moon bay. They were 59 with the wind. San francisco 57. Oakland went from 60 to 51. They lost the breeze so it drops. If a breeze kicks in, your temps go up about 10 degrees that little guy right there will give us a cooldown tomorrow. Lets go with one more beach weather day. Maybe not as great as yesterday but it will be close. Temperatures upper 70s to near 80 degrees for everybody. Looks good here. Im still seeing a slight component of an off shore breeze in San Francisco so until it turns, it will be another warm day. 88 again santa cruz. 86 gilroy. Theyll be the warmest now. Temperatures will cool along itself coast. Things look quiet even going towards the weekend. Thank you, steve. European markets are down in early tra