A budget crisis for the Golden Gate Bridge district. Good evening, im alan martin. Im elizabeth cook. Board directors were faced with either raising the toll or cutting jobs. Don ford on the tough decision made just a few hours ago. Reporter the Golden Gate Bridge is in financial trouble. Serious financial trouble. Today, the board of directors took action. The Golden Gate Bridge is looking at a 48 million shortfall. The bridge says southbound traffic crossing the gate is significantly down. Bus ridership is down by 75 . And is down a shocking 96 . About 155 employees would be laid off. The total number of affected positions is a little over 200 and we have about 840 employees. So about a quarter of our workforce will be impacted. Reporter the decisions were made this morning on a conference call. One of the choices was to raise the total by two dollars, making it eight dollars to cross. That idea was rejected. Our board decided that on ballots, the best thing to do is to strike a bala
Going to have to pay . Two students at the grad are also organizing, their petition garden nearly 1500 signatures so far. Most students are still at home with their parents but some have chosen to move into these apartments because they cannot break their lease. Some have already complained that that move in here is not going well. Students there have complained to management that they do not go safe during the Ongoing Health crisis. One wrote to management that during move in, there was zero social distancing and pack elevators with 10 people. Right now we do not feel we are care for. We dont feel like they put our health in any sort of importance at all. Remake just for he is being asked to sign his liability waiver, saying she acknowledges that it is possible she may owner rmleanand that she agrees released the owner from any and all claims related to physical or psychological damages, resulting from covid19. She will not sign it. I feel like they dont care for the residents, they j
Eastbound lanes remain closed from 73 to center road. A car veered off the road and hit a tree and then caught fire. Fire crews did have to pull a passenger out of the vehicle. The person was transported to a hospital with lifethreatening injuries. As far as the impact of traffic goes, you will see some delays in and around that area. It is shut down until further notice. You can use 101 as an alternate depending on where your commute takes you. I want to look at the bay bridge in my next report. Here is mary. Ackirrt air goratemo of t bay area but for part of the north bay, we are dealing with unhealthy air. There is a spare the air alert in effect once again it it makes it record 17 days in a row and likely, it will be extended beyond that as we are looking at highpressure trapping that smoke at the surface. We are watching that smoke and haze and also our heat wave that is expected for the upcoming Holiday Weekend with excessive heat watch is in effect saturday through labor day. I
Virtual town hall. The monday prior to the start date to make sure that everyone has the right tools to succeed, plus they know how to use them. The new school year is rolling out in phases this week kids will learn from home then comes phase 2 which would be a hybrid with in Person Learning for some in the online form and of elliott sick with the department of Public Health says that that can not happen until a few things change as we all know the School District has decided to remote learning. However we will absolutely need to see a decline in hospitalizations. And in case all the research has shown that it is safest to open schools. When there are lower rates of community transmission. In the meantime support of programs known as Community Learning hubs were brought into focus to make sure that parents still have that resource in kids have alternatives to screen time. To be truly say that heads will be small and focusing on stem cells go students who need the supports the most well
That i think we match this morning and i think its amazing. We did. This purple thing going on. Its a little warmer guys this morning im sure you felt that when you opened your door. But im certainly feeling that this morning and we do have a return of the marine layer as well though its not back with a vengeance. Its just letting us know it is still there. Very good visibility, so it is just around half moon bay. Thats about it. Temperatures out there, we are talking 40s and some spots yesterday, meanwhile look at oakland, 60 degrees already. San jose is 60 degrees. Livermore coming at about 58 and yeah, that is warmer than this time yesterday at an oakland it is seven degrees warmer. A kind of tells you where we are going today. We are going to start warming up. Theres the marine layer. It is closer than i was yesterday but not making a full push in this morning. Those little went out over the water that is helping it to stay away and mix down a little bit. Today is going to be a war