Going. He handled the tools like a pro. Former president jimmy carter in oakland today marking the 30th year of building homes for habitat for humanity. I think its just great. These are going to be wonderful apartments at a fairly modest cost, at least for this area. You know, rent and homes are very expensive. Reporter just south of the coliseum, a neighborhood with more than its share of crime. Just last week, a group working here was robbed. I heard about it. I regretted the theft. Its kind of a shame, particularly not only to steal from another person, but to steal from people who are looking for a good house for the first time in their lives. Its kind of a double. Reporter a neighborhood today filled with hope and star power. Country stars garth brooks and Trisha Yearwood building window sills and feeling good about it. Its humbling. Its not choosey, you know. You look at here and you wont find a certain percentage of race or anything. Youre going to find a whole mix. Thats the f
Illegal wiring in the basement caused the fire. They found other items suggested illegal activity boarded up in the basement. Your money being misused. The Investigative Unit first uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of questionable accounting transactions at samtrans. But now Community Groups are calling for a close lyric at the financial records. Vicky nguyen has this report. Reporter a small group of demonstrators from the group stop Workplace Bullying rallied in support of district whistle blowers tonight. They have problems with their wrong doing and develop path ways for whistle blowers to report it safely. Reporter the san carlos vice mayor says that the concerns warrant an independent investigation into the districts finances. I would like to see it investigated and taken up by the district attorneys office. They provide more than 100,000 rides a day. The protest comes after two former employees came forward to nbc, instructed to inflate expenses and hide spending
Into characterizing how the negotiations are going. The mediators asked us not to publicly talk about whats going on. Were going to leave the bargaining at the bargaining table. Reporter b. A. R. T. s spoke person says theyre working very hard to find a negotiated settlement and willing to continue talks well past the deadline at midnight thursday. Any given work day, some 400,000 passengers rely on b. A. R. T. To get where they need to go. Earlier today the Municipal Transit Agency issued a warning to commuters to review their contingency plans. They say if b. A. R. T. Strikes and if that happens this month, it willikely have a bigger impact than the fourday strike back in july because more people are headed to work and taking their kids to school. The governor has already used his onetimeon the legal privilege to call for a 60 day cooling off period. He says it is now up to the two sides to work it out. Live in oakland, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. Could be some progress. Thank
The staff they do have is poorly managed. Reviewers found between 2009 and 2013, there was a 4year period in which direct supervision of personnel lapsed. In august we sat down with director debby rafell. She said permit reform would be a top pyriority. I would suggest and agree our permitting program is not operating as effectively as it could. Reporter critics are not satisfied with what they call continued lip service. They point to Evergreen Oil in newark and says they have a history of leak, spills and explosions. Just last month a tank overflowed spilling gallons of fuel. The latest incident is under investigation. When you look at the company history, it hasnt faced significant sanctions for being a serial polluter. Why is that . Evergreen is absolutely under careful scrutiny and attention from our department as well as other entities. When you look at a company like evergreen, its a complicated its a complicated industrial setting where you have a number of agencies looking at
So we dug through the Accounting Records to find hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable transactions that insiders say paint a very different financial picture that weve been told. Hires vickie nguyen. They didnt want you to ask questions. They want you to do what they said. David ramirez worked in the finance department at sal transfrom 2001 to 2012. Its the department that operates the budget for caltrans and the transportation authority. Its only the worker bees with, the grunts who actually know whats going on. In this case, i provide the financials, i know whats going on. His duties require preparing the financial statements. He left the agency after he was repeatedly instructed to make changes to financial records he believed were unlegal. Those changes were intended to inflate the expenses so it could ask for more taxpayer money. We had to increase the expenses where there were no true expenses. Ramirez said they asked home to make up these kpnss. Its hard to believe b