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we now know the identity of the 109/i m notsot109/i m not we now know the identity of the worker who was killed yesterday while clearing a mudslide on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. 54-year-old robert gill of los banos died after a dump truck backed up.hittimg him and another crew member - who was pinned under the truck for a time before rescuers were able to pull him out. he was taken to the hospital.and was conscious at the time. both men worked for a watsonville-based construction company. which was sub-contracted to caltrans. the accident is being investigated by the c-h-p and state safety investigators. meantime .two fund-raisers have been set up online. one is to help with funeral expenses for the gill family.. another is for a gratitude meal to thank the crews working so hard to clear the roads.. you can find links to both - on kron-4-dot-com also in the south bay.highway 35 in los gatos is now indefititely closed. you can see why in this video court ....
the weather is causing problems for travelers this holiday weekend .for some it s a matter of days..kron 4 s hermela aregawi is live at sfo .. how bad is it? ñ this group of co-workers visiting from la. unexpectedly spent the long weekend together ..sot enri rodriguez we were supposed to leave friday 845 to burbank. and that was delayed. and the next available flight was tonight at 845.. but it s delayed again.to midnight tonightsot enri rodriguez, flight delayed 2 days we are had plans. its the long weekend so we werent expecting to be stuck with each other another two days this long weekend.they paid out of pocket for 2 night in a hotel.. but fortunately..their employer has agreed to reimburse them.at the peak.. delays were on average about 3 hours..sot sry forgot to get name we re on our way to denver colorado and right now it s pushed back an hour. it started off a half hour then 45 minutes so i have a feeling it might be an hour and a half by the time we re done. ....
worked. right, jackie? reporter: yeah, no kidding. so this is an interesting situation because usually when people or groups put up large objects or barriers, the city takes them down immediately but that s not the case here. behind all this traffic as you can see it s a busy intersection, there are barriers that a bicycle group put up and the city is keeping them up until they replace them but we don t know when that will happen. to get into the east side of golden gate park, bicyclists and cars branch off the street and veer on to jfk. we see cars come around this turn fast cutting into lanes. reporter: those speeding cars are what deters people from biking in this area according to a member of the sfmtra who wanted to remain anonymous. the truth is, we don t mostly need to do this. we don t want to do this work. we would like our city to do this work but they are not and not fast enough. reporter: a couple of weeks ago the sfmtra an organization not affilia ....
the pain of it. you know, my dad was in the black panthers. this is a huge deal. i m telling you what it means to me. my dad was in the panther party, the story of early pushing after he left the panther party to stay involved. my earliest memory of black men in jail. commitment jail. i mean it to be true. my dad taking me into the person to see folks. he identified it as the headquarters. he wanted me to watch a close. the buddy said to me, at the time it was mostly folks, radicals or something went wrong i told them that is why you shall. that is why you scream outside the mainstream because you never know when history will come around 45 years later and people verify things that the mainstream at the time and it turns that is exactly right. i ll save that for the bug. even though i m only halfway through. if you hear who are not familiar, can we just get a very quick summary of what happened and why it s important. sure. 1971, abaco like so many priso ....
prudence and there s great work to change the way we finance our campaigns so that candidates and elected officials are more responsive to the people that they are hoping they ll be elected to represent. so and there s more. their efforts to expand run off voting and implement voter registration. there s work being done. we have to make sure we are engaging the 85% of americans and i bet you right now we are only engaging a number of that. even in the last year, there s the largest i forgot the term. the largest civil disobedience in congress ever not just in democracy ever and we had hundreds of people getting arrested, so 1300. were you one of them? great. i think there is promise and there s hope. ultimately people power will outnumber the very, very wealthy that want to keep that want to keep control of their power and the more we are able to organize and activate, the 85% of us out there, i think, will see change. that s a great point. whenever they want ....