their greed is beyond belief. drivers want a tip option and a 60% rate hike from the company that keeps cutting rates to attract customers. do you regret having left a cab company? sometimes, i do. that is sometimes bitter taxi cab drivers walk from the side line. no one is winning. they re under insured, their rates are not transparent. they change by the minute. the drivers are not licensed. plenty of drivers did go to work today, josh stevens took an uber car to the airport this afternoon. there is no problem. what do you think the strike? i have no idea. no impact. how ironic that san francisco muni drivers emerged from a union meeting. among them, president eric williams. they re fine. fine. not yet an effort that tried uber users. let s see what the weekend brings. wayne freedman, abc7 news. also today, uber is addressing a serious complaint involving a driver. a san francisco woman says a driver threatened to rape and kill her. she hailed the
notice the last couple of hours some thunderstorms have been flaring up from the san joaquin valley heading up to the sierra nevada. if you could have travel plans you will want to keep that in mind. the timeline of exactly when you can expect the showers is coming up. chris. thanks. uber is an app many have on their smartphones but one woman said requesting a wide turned into a terrifying experience with the driver threatened to rape and kill her. alyssa harrington tells us if passengers are still getting into that car. she s just wrapping up dinner when she summoned a uber driver to take her home. she was near 400 duboce avenue. the driver could not find her. he said i m close to duboce avenue and you are not here. frightened, she cancelled the trip. the furious driver would not leave. you see that ramp? he started pulling up on that ramp. he came around the corner at that point and started screaming i can see you on your phone. look over and you can see me. and i
good evening. in san francisco, and across the nation, uber drivers went on strike, some of them, anyway. has it resulted in gridlock? wayne freedman is live near highway 101 with what be described as mixed results, so far, wayne? well, yes. mixed results so far. drivers are hoping to send a message but they re only going to send a strong message if they get people off the road. we checked our app from this spot. we can have a car here, and it may not be what drivers were hoping for. in theory this, is supposed to be the day they told managers they re mad but was it a roar or whimper? are you disappointed? there should be more. if there was a ground 0 for the strike, you re looking at it outside of the company head quarters. next time, it will be bigger and better. as uber seize it, there cannot be a strike when drivers are private contractors. to quote a statement if a spokesman, we welcome feed back from driver partners. but this kind of feed back? they re n
it and says the site enables people to buy drugs safely without having to go to dangerous parts of town looking for dealers. quality and fewer ti of the drugs is almost never in question. the feed back was actually very sow fis ti indicated. it took danger out of the drug market. it s internet sale or street corner, it against the law. he says they are missing the point. these drugs are hazardous to amend human live. court documents say several thousand drug dealers use the site. eight more people have been arrested since fbi shut down silk road including a man in washington state accused of dealing drugs on the site. seven others arrested in britain and sweden. he is also accused of engage hg a murder for hire plot. authorities say he unknown noeingly hired an under cover agent to kill a person who threatened to reveal the identities of his users unless he paid him off. a disturbing confirmation from san francisco general hospital about what abc 7 news first repo
ashley. the bay area man accused of running a massive online drug ring is leaving town. he agreed to go to new york to face charges for an operation authorities say existed in something called the deep web. the furtherest recesses of the internet. san francisco police say he made a fortune selling drugs there. and tonight is he facing all sorts of charges. he appeared in court today in leg shackles, being exindicted to new york because that is where the u.s. attorney filed charges against him. he waive his right to ask for bail. in federal court today he agreed to remain in custody while transported to new york. once there, he ll face money laundering and drug charges related to a black market for drugs. authorities say the 29-year-old resident used the alias dread pirate roberts like the character in the princess bride and he operated silk road on a so called deep web where fictitious names and e mails are hard to track. courts show silk road sold a billion dollars o