There is relief in time for the holidays. Im lori stokes. Im ken rosato. Its monday, november 23rd, thanksgiving week. Bill evans with the forecast. Good morning. We kick it off with really chilly temperatures. Just like lori said, its brisk, cold. 37 degrees and we will warm up today but we got a tough wind out there. Hopatcong 29. 33 montauk. We have a wind out there that makes it feel like 29 in the bronx. 30 laguardia and j. F. K. And off to our north and west you see the real feels are in the 20s. 19 for the real feel at monticello. It will be a chilly day. The Weather Service issued a freeze watch for manhattan, brooklyn and queens. They realize in the overnight hours its cold. 36 around 7 00. 40 at noontime and about 42 to 44 this afternoon. At cold day. It will feel like the 30s this afternoon with the wind. We will talk it warming into the 60s for thanksgiving. Thats something i like to hear. How is it, heather. We have a bear main break water main break in hoboken on the sout
Don knapp is outside of the negotiations, what is happening out there. They are working against time, they have, as you say, 6 1 2 hours to the deadline. It means a b. A. R. T strike is possible if they dont get things done. Earlier today a newses conference is canceled. It that is taken as a fairly good sign as what is going on inside. Here is what was said. Good afternoon. Speaking on behalf of there will not be a press conference at 1 30. They are working to get a contract. Okay . Thank you. They are negotiating. Reporter going into today this was a disagreement without plain old animosity. They are ignoring our safety issues, 99 people attacked in the last few years, physically attacked and they are disregarding safety issues completely. Now, what they are doing is generating more hostility towards their workers. B. A. R. T chief worker was a bit more up beat. That is it. Both sides have to realize that they have to do something other than what is on the table right now. And comp m
Will endanger the publics health, safety and well fair. No word of the time line for it, this is relief for b. A. R. T riders all over the bay area. Tonight, we have reaction from south bay commuters, kit . Reporter we are live here where riders are just getting off of the last few trains of the night. Many of them resigned to the fact it just might happen. A lot of them made plans, they were going to telecommute and go in to work late or early and a lot of them were making plans to carpool together, here is what they had to say. I hear the b. A. R. T employees are paid quite a bit already so, i dont know, i can not sum it up so quickly. But it is good that people can get to their jobs, you know. Seems reasonable. And i know a lot of people rely on b. A. R. T to get back and forth to work so they rely on the service. It seems like both the unions and the b. A. R. T service have legitimate positions. Reporter relatively speaking it it is good news for now. As one rider said what differe
Commuter express. Leaving oakland into the city, still no major back ups. A few of those lanes a little backed up. A nice start to the monday morning commute. San mateo bridge has been fine. That light traffic stays with you across the span. You are moving at the speed limit. Thats a look at your drive. Now to frank and juliette. Breaking news, governor jerry brown has stepped in to avert this mornings strike. Late last night, governor issued an order of a 7 day inquiry. Could call for a 60 day cooling off period. The two sides are able to continue negotiations this week. A lot of Team Coverage for you this morning. Sue kwon is checking in with commuters over at walnut creek. First, we kick it off with cate caugurian. Shes in San Francisco with reaction from bart management. Good morning. Reporter good morning, frank. I can tell you aside from those two sides, the people that are the happiest are the commuters coming out of the bart station. And really all bart stations across the bay