Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang the somber tallies keep mounting tonight in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The death toll has risen to 48, many thousands are struggling to get home across florida, and officials are rushing aid to the states hardesthit sections. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter roads leading to the shattered florida keys reopened early this morning. People lined up in cars, anxious to return to their homes, or whatever remains of them, and tensions were running high. Right now we dont know where to go. Reporter some found lawns filled with debris, siding ripped off their houses, trailer homes and boats knocked over like toy models. Governor rick scott flew over floridas coast on monday. The negative is, if you were in the keys, youve
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang the somber tallies keep mounting tonight in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The death toll has risen to 48, many thousands are struggling to get home across florida, and officials are rushing aid to the states hardesthit sections. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter roads leading to the shattered florida keys reopened early this morning. People lined up in cars, anxious to return to their homes, or whatever remains of them, and tensions were running high. Right now we dont know where to go. Reporter some found lawns filled with debris, siding ripped off their houses, trailer homes and boats knocked over like toy models. Governor rick scott flew over floridas coast on monday. The negative is, if you were in the keys, youve
Inspecting the train and conferring with the state and local counterparts. This week, the inspection the officer in charge and his team will interviewer everyone on board, and the operator of the train will be tested for drugs and alcohol, standard operating procedure. Safety records will be used and digital data will help determine who was in the cabin of the train and the speed at the time of impact. When you have a highspeed train going down where people are on the tracks, on automatic pilot, when the protocol says you should be going 25 Miles Per Hour on manual, somethings wrong out there. Reporter the victims were identified as contract worker larry daniel and christopher sheppard. Christopher was a member of afscme. Both men were both said to have a great deal of experience. Here at the lake merritt b. A. R. T. Stations, where Union Workers have held the picket line, candles have been placed in memory of the lost lives. Well continue to follow the situation and let you know the l
Weather and traffic. Any changes . No. Very, very quiet. Fog or sun. Cool to mild to warm. Some of that fog is very thick. San francisco had a good run last week. Not this week. It will be more into the 60s. High pressure wins out. There is a quiet pattern. Fog, sun, cool coast warm inland. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. You know there are no bart trains today. The traffic will be busier today. It will be busier in my opinion than it would be on friday. Lets go and look at some of the pictures. Bay bridge for example is already filled in now and on friday we didnt have this. Moving along and staking a look at interstate 880 north and southbound. The traffic is moving nicely. We have seen more cars on the roads where there are bart stations. This traffic looks pretty good. 680 southbound is already getting busy. Lets go back to the desk. As you heard sal say we expect a lot of traffic in the monday morning commute and jammed freeways. Sunlen serfaty live in oakland now. Near the bart
There was one protest here this morning in front of twitter headquarters on Market Street and another set for noon today. The people are upset saying that the city is giving them a tax break that is costing the city millions and the founder and the employees here are making millions. Twitter opening trade this morning came in 73 percent higher than the i. P. O. Price. That was impressing the financial analysts. We can say that twitters first morning as a publicly traded company exceeded all expectations. It is trading right now at above 70s percent of the i. P. O. Value which is better than most thought. Twitter came to life as a public company, people played dead identified their friend offices calling attention to what they call the death of Affordable Housing because of twitter wealth. They are against the tax breaks the city gave to twitter when the company was looking to possibly move out of San Francisco. I like to see them pay their fair share of prices and be accountable to the