zapped. reporter: it is small, and expensive. $1,000. reporter: it takes 22 weeks owe order. when it fails, the cars stop powering themselves. they re being dragged and pushed. the ones that failed yesterday failed quickly. understandably, bart doesn t want to lose more cars so officials stopped service. a bus bridge was set up. how you feel depends on where you re going. i tried to make it today on time. you know? so i m late. bart says the cars will take months to fix. as for service, that remains a mystery. it depends on whether engineers can figure out what is causing the surge, then, fix it. in concord, abc7 news. riders tweeted about delays, crowded trains and broken equipment and received a response. laura anthony joins us live. laura? reporter: well, as bart service issues deepen, so does the criticism. bart is talking about it on social media responding in a way rarely seen by a government agency. sugar coating things is neither an effective, nor
it s a catastrophe. a commute catastrophe. people want to be reached where they re at. good evening, i m dan ashley. bart delays have stretched into a second day because of broken equipment. we ll have the problems and responses for bart. melanie? people are asking me if this is the same issue that happened at the transbay tube. engineers say it s not. there is no connection because there is no electrical connection. that being said, they don t know what is causing this problem, and say this time, it s worse. they don t know what is causing the problems but have identified where it s happening. we ve got this failure isolated. reporter: every time the cars pass over that track they get zapped. reporter: it is small, and expensive. $1,000. reporter: it takes 22 weeks owe order. when it fails, the cars stop powering themselves. they re being dragged and pushed. the ones that failed yesterday failed quickly. understandably, bart doesn t want to lose mor
director says issues like this highlight an overall need for improvement. we re seeing this across the nation. all of the large transit systems, they have billions of dollars in deferred maintenance. so we really need to rethirchg our country investment in transit. reporter: bart hopes voters will pass adds 3.5 billion bond measure on the ballot this november to fix the current infrastructure. we really need this funding. we have the plan. we can do the work. it but we do need some additional funding to make it happen. reporter: but that money would not be for new cars. workers continue to repair damaged cars with burned out thyristor devices, a process expected to take months. bart plans to take eight cars out of service and repurpose multiple thyristors from those cars to help put 30 to 40 cars back in service while they wait for new devices to come in. ?oofg a spotlight on us in terms of what our needs are is always a good thing. this problem may not have anything
and the numbers didn t go off the chart in february. a whole bunch of factors. policing strategies, mother nature. i know oakland s citizens will be happy no matter what is causing this significant dip. it really is remarkable especially when you look back as recently as 2012. you had 127 people killed in oakland in one year. in 2006145 people, and right now, if this were to keep up you re on pace for 28 people killed. unbelievable. the good news is there s been a steady decline each year inhomicides from 20 12. so every year more and more. whatever the reason is for that, aus cited many reasons in your piece there, the fact that they have more time now with fewer homicides, it helps them go to all of in the solved cases and start to work on those, because they always after backlog of unsolved cases. reporter: that s right. there s no statute of limitations for murder so they can bring some justice to these victims. we re learning new details about a deadly stando
service. good evening, everyone. a firefighter fired by the city of vallejo won a wrongful termination and was awarded more than $2 million. he said he was retaliated against for telling the truth about what happened in a deadly fire. only on 2, ktvu amber lee is live after hearing the firefighter s story. reporter: amber, the jury voted on his side. he hopes nobody has to go through what he experienced. reporter: this mobile home is where it started in 2011. a paraplegic trapped in his bed called for help. reporter: his battalion chief ordered him to kick down the door. i went ahead thinking he will be behind me. reporter: he found the disabled man inside. i still remembers what it feels like. i got you buddy and he is looking at me with his hands and grabbing me. i will never forget that. reporter: his captain never followed him in to help. the firefighter was alone and trying to save him. i was covering my body. i pulled a hamstring. reporter: up able t