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
Long . Now three british men have been killed in israel in an aid convoy that they were told was safe and the question is arising. Is this now a turning point in this war, particularly with regard to western support for israels air defence . Yes, absolutely. And a number yes, absolutely. And a number of prominent politicians, including the leader of the liberal democrats and a former National Security adviser, lord peter ricketts, have both suggested and among other voices, of course, that britain should now pause arms sales to israel off the back of this incident. We want to know whether your view has changed at all due to this horrific tragedy. We, in terms of whether you still support israels right to defend itself, whether you still support israels aims in the region with regard to gaza, do you accept the idfs apology . Theyve come out and theyve said we did. This was a grave mistake, and theyre going to do an investigation. Do you believe that that investigation will give us the a
Following president trumps decision to recognisejerusalem as israels capital, will be live at the united nations, where this has been in discussion tonight. And we will be live in the pennines, where temperatures are due to dip below freezing tonight. Thats ahead on bbc news. But now, time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. Heres whats coming up on tonights show. Its mourinho versus guardiola. United versus city. Second versus first. We look ahead to the premier leagues most expensive game in history. The first against the second. Its a big match. Its important because its united, because you can get points. Well, soon those big games will be taking on the likes of strictly on saturday night tv as the premier league goes prime time. And mooen rests his finger from the ashes pulse as the england all rounder says he wont bowl in tomorrows tour match ahead of the third test. Well, plenty to get through tonight. But were starting with football, beca
Be clobbered really over the next 12 to 24 hours. It is going to be the areas were seeing snow now that have the biggest kern for power outages. Probably want to make a trip to the Grocery Store right now. Elsewhere it is going to be a fun Winter Wonder land Mayors Office i a look out there. In most areas. Lets look at what is happening now. Current radar, this is the last two hours. Normally with systems like these, they move from south to north. This is not doing that. This is moving right from southwest to northeast. And notice waldorf has not seen any snow. Where leonard town has already seen an inch or two. It is all in our southern zone. Lets go down there. If youre in Saint Marys County or the Northern Neck, you folks are going to get the most snow out of this. Because of that you have a winter storm warning in effect for you. The rest of us are actually going to wait until another piece of energy down around new orleans actually moves up towards our region and brings us snow to
To be righted. Jen Alison Morris is here with a look at what happened. A lot of people are asking that question today. The past couple of days. Reporter what a wild ride. The end of the day gave you a heart attack. It was a crazy day on wall street. It was a wild ride. The markets took a nose dive in the last half hour of trading after they spent most of the day in the green. Take a look at the dow, closing down 205 points after it was up over 400. We saw the same kind of reversal on the s p today. Those turnarounds are the most 2008. And we all know what was going on economically back then. Market. So it is continuing to slide. A lot of traders thought this might happen. Im not going to get into the technicals and charts. Yesterday, particularly on the s p, we did not bottom out. That left a lot of analysts concerned we had more room to fall today and so we did. Where did this come from . By now youve heard china. The markets dropped sharply overnight. The shanghai composite lost 7. 6