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about this move, they d voted to approve the contract as s now will have to decide whether to support the revised version. this is not the contract we voted on or took to our members to vote on. they should be voting on the same thing they ve presented to us. last few weeks we ve been stuck in the red zone if i can use the football analogy. we have to find a way to get into the end zone. the provision would have given six weeks of paid leave each year, bart says it would have cost $44 million. that is remarkable. but the third party without a vote in this is the bart riders. abc7 spoke with them to get their view. dear bart let s settle this whole contract issue. we ve had enough of this. reporter: many barlt riders don t care anymore who gets what in the contract. just that it s done. bart management and unions need to get their stuff together the public has been with this with two what? two bart strikes now? some do have an opinion about what is agre ....
point that could leave you stranded in another bart strike. a decision on a botched contract. we are live tonight with the story. sergio? reporter: the bart board wanted to know how it is that the signature of the chief negotiator, thom hawk got on that provision. today, he talked to the contra costa times and told him 4.8 was not part of the last, best final offer that he offered in october. the board voted today to ratify the contract. but negotiate yagsz are not over. in a vote the bart board had an unusual caveat. minus section 4.8. this motion districts the manager to get unions to delete section 4.8, paid family leave, one board member reiterated it was mistakenly included employees do have fmla. the difference is that we have never paid six weeks for it. member james fang calls this a mess. there was a mistake but the end of the day someone has to say i m responsible. i ve not seen that so far. reporter: the board wants to launch an inquiry to figur ....
computer, which wasn t functioning, and that led to us having no service at all this morning. things getting back to normal now, but we ve been speaking with commuters, and they say between the strike, contract issues, and things like this, they ve had enough. the fwats to bart station across the bay area have been shut for hours into the morning commute. there we are. gates are closed. no option. a 4:00 a.m. start rolled to 5:00, then 6:00, and still no service. in walnut creek commuters worked the phones. i already called into work. i told them that i ll be in when i can. all because of a computer failure according to bart that affected the operations control center and communications with trains and their track switches. and without the computers we weren t actually able to see on that big board that we have, the big map where the trains were. we did have a constant radio communication, but without that visual confirmation, it s very difficult to run trai ....
winds. good evening. pg&e is taking steps to protect power lines. you can see a crew pruning tree that s could bring wires down. that just might happen. a wind advisory supposed toke into affect now but it was issued hours ago. spencer christian is here with a forecast for the winds. the winds are poe tn shally damaging. clear skies right now. but winds are brisk. we have a wind advisory in effect. winds gusting 45-70 miles per hour during overnight hours downed trees are a possibility. a local power outage is possible with the strong winds. taking a look at our current wind gusts. it s breezy right now. winds north at santa rosa. napa, 33 miles per hour. 43 miles per hour gifts now in fairfield you can see winds are strovenlg we ll get stronger especially over the higher elevations. we ll have a look at weather coming up in just a few minutes. abc7 news weather app has latest wind warnings and weather alerts. section 4.8 is a sticking point that could leave you ....
american student was only 17 last august when these incidents first started happening. and because he was a minor when it first started, he hasn t been named by police. we understand though that he is still enrolled here at san jose state. as for the three other students, ken, they have up until 45 days before they will be arraigned in court because these are misdemeanor charges. they have not been arrested as of about two hours ago. they will be self surrendering to authorities in the near future. these are young college students, len, you know, they should have come under the scrutiny of the ra in that dorm. what was the resident advisor doing? should that person have known what was going on? reporter: well, ken, we have heard from other students that the resident advisors did know. in fact, students tell us that this flag was visible to people walking in from the hallway in the outside. they apparently did not report this to any higher authorities. they simply to ....