Knead is also here. As i said when i started the presentation, we have continued to get inquiries from the commission related to the Implementation Committee spanned and so i thought it prude to just share a little bit more information with you today about those dollars even though they are not under the jurisdiction of the commission. As i said at the beginning of the presentation, the commitment thats been made to the San Francisco foundation on bow half of the community is over 8 million. To date and again to date through q2, over 2 million in grants have been made we have currently a 500,000 grant pending to San Francisco Housing Development corporation to support the purchase of 5033 and some of you know the brick building on third street next to the vacant lot near bank of america and it has residential on top and those tenants are protected and below market rate tenants and the commercial space below it is my understanding that that will be a second location for craft men and it
B. A. R. T. Tragedy to the b. A. R. T. Strike and congressman eric swalwell. And tom radudovich joined us earlier in the studio and what is next with the b. A. R. T. Strike. First, were starting with the tragedy on the b. A. R. T. System. A fourcar train struck and killed two workers inspecting the tracks on b. A. R. T. It happened yesterday afternoon about a mile north of the walnut croak station. This is as the federal ntsb is taking over the investigation. As Kpix Brian Webb takes over the has more. Reporter youre hearing the radio transmission between a dispatcher and train operator as the accident happened. We just struck some individuals at approximately 16 decibel 2 on the c1 track. Reporter behind the tarps, the bodies of two b. A. R. T. Workers, an employee and contractor. They were checking a reported dip in the tracks and, by b. A. R. T. Procedure, one was supposed to do the inspection, the other was supposed to be the lookout for incoming traffic. Both said to be experience
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President coming in live. Were going to get the latest update on whats going on there. Also the legalization of marijuana proposal gaining steam. A tragedy on the bart system. A train hit and killed two workers inspecting the track. It happened yesterday afternoon just before 2 p. M. , and now the federal ntsb is taking over that investigation. Reporter youre hearing the radio transmission between a dispatcher and train operator as the accident happened. Behind those tarps the bodies of two bart workers, an employee and contractor. One was supposed to do the inspection, the other supposed to be the lookout for oncoming traffic. Both said to be experienced on the tracks and around trains. Their specialty is track work and understand the railroads and understand how to work around moving trains. They were doing today what theyve probably done 100, if not 1,000 other times in their career. Reporter bart Officials Say out of Service Train was on a routine maintenance run with an experience
This is kpix 5 news. A tragedy on the tracks. Bart train hits and kills two bart workers. This is a tragedy of the greatest proportion for the bart family. Federal investigators are taking over. What this means for the strike and negotiations. Good evening. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage on the accident and what bart and unions are saying. Lets start with brian webb where the crash happened. Reporter weve learned the National Transportation safety board has taken over this investigation from bart police. This is what they will be looking at. A 500 yard stretch of track behind me with four empty bart train cars and the bodies of two bart maintenance workers at the other. Bart emergency, bart emergency. You are hearing the radio transmission between a dispatcher and train operator as the accident happened. We struck individuals at 16th decibel 2. The bodies of two bart workers, an employee and a contractor. They were checking a reported dip in the tracks today and by bart procedure,