Terminal one. Union workers began walking a picket line that is set to expand tomorrow. These are custodians, electricians painters and plumbers. They kicked off this 24 hour labor action, that will not only target the airport, but also the port. Frank, and julie, its no coincidence why they are choosing now to walk off the job. This is after all, one of the busiest travel days of the year at Oakland Airport. While plenty of people are getting away for thanksgiving, Airport Union officials hope they get their message loud and clear. What our members want is for the port to come back to the table and sit town with this realistically, and fairly. Reporter it represents about 220 maintenance, and custodial workers. The port has been completely transparent in our negotiations. Reporter the port says it faces serious financial challenges, including 1. 3 billion in outstanding debt. It is now asking employees to start contributing to their retirement. Weve been offering 100 employer paid, be
Affecting Holiday Travel. Reporter city crews in pittsburg working to repair a broken water pipe that burst overnight. Well tell you how long this work will take and how many neighbors will be without Running Water. And major delays for caltrain because of an incident near the palo alto station. Mornings on 2 starts now. Well, good morning. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Its tuesday, november 20th. Happening now a strike at the port of oakland is disrupting delivery operations. Port workers have also walked off the job at Oakland International airport. We have Team Coverage for you this morning. Ktvus Christien Kafton is at the port where workers are blocking some instances, but first we go to Tara Moriarty at the airport to find out if the strike is affecting Holiday Travel there. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning. Maximize the message. Thats essentially what these workers are doing here at the terminals. They are scattered at every entrance visible to the hundreds of passen
Feel sorry for people who live up the hill. I know that people are working on it. Ive gt confidence in this city to take care of it. The city estimates that the cost of the repair runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but theyre not worried about paying for it. Unlike other cities, lafayette has a 5 Million Rainy Day Fund as its called and as city managers told us. Yesterday qualifies as a rainy day. In lafayette, abc 7 news. This did thank you. Near Scotts Valley would be closed sometime as well. You can see part of one lane has been washed away. This is a sparsely populated area but people who live here its going to be inconvenient getting around this closure, officials should have a better idea how long this will take within the next few days. Were learning tonight 30,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled out of a man hole during the storm. The Ross Valley Sanitary District blaimz it on a clogged sewer line. Some 20,000 gallons washed in the local creeks and streams. Students
Definitely it has been a challenging week. We had officers working long, long hours. Oakland police on the defensive tonight after residents and city leaders say police are too soft with the protesters. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Carolyn johnson has the night off. Lets get to abc7 News Reporter alan wang live in oakland. Alan, a lot of people are frustrated with the cops on this. Dan, we have police on all four corners of broadway and 14th tonight. We havent seen the scale of demonstrations we have seen in the past three days, but a few minutes ago we did see Police Arrest a protestor after they found out he had a warrant. There is a small group thats been yelling at police and two people have been given citations for stepping off the curb on a red light. Still it is a big difference from the actions police took during the occupy demonstrations. Tonight a city councilmember spoke out against the Police Departments soft stance. At a press conference today, Oakland Police chief said th
Definitely it has been a challenging week. We had officers working long, long hours. Oakland police on the defensive tonight after residents and city leaders say police are too soft with the protesters. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Carolyn johnson has the night off. Lets get to abc7 News Reporter alan wang live in oakland. Alan, a lot of people are frustrated with the cops on this. Dan, we have police on all four corners of broadway and 14th tonight. We havent seen the scale of demonstrations we have seen in the past three days, but a few minutes ago we did see Police Arrest a protestor after they found out he had a warrant. There is a small group thats been yelling at policepeople hae people have been given ing off thethe curb on a red light. Still it is a big difference from the actions police took during the occupy demonstrations. Tonight a city councilmember spoke out against the Police Departments soft stance. At a press conference today, Oakland Police chief said the demonstratio