Line. Public Safety Agencies such as police and fire will still be fully staffed and working, but the mayor of sunnyvale says he may be the one to answer the phone in the Planning Department. Reporter Jackie Davidson loves her job and was happy to come to work on sunday to put on a living green fair. But she says being a sunnyvale City Employee barely covers the bills. And the cost of living and the cost of housing especially if you rent just continues to go up. A lot of City Employees are allowed to live in sunnyvale and that is the fact. We have people driving three plus hours every day to come in. Reporter on monday davidson and half of their staff say they are planning to stay home. Sunnyvale employees are going on strike tomorrow. Reporter employees working in the the Planning Department will join the picket line. The mayor says he is prepared to work in the front office this week after employees rejected the citys last offer. It includes a 10 raise for them. It has generous healt
As they were biking home. My immediate action is shock because i tend to think of this community as a safe place. Reporter on the weekend Stanford University is welcoming perspective freshmen to the form with another indecent exposure case on campus. I find it concerning people would choose to do these predatory acts in a time when new faces are coming to the school. Reporter stanford junior stan ortiz lives on Mayfield Avenue not far from where three undergrad students reported a man exposing themselves as they were biking home to their dorms just after 1 30 sunday morning. They were sitting in a parked white car and drove off. Honestly i feel a lot of those have happened recently. Reporter last wednesday at the mitchell earths Science Building a staff member reported a man came up behind her and grabbed her. Police later identified the 24 yearold man not affiliated with the school. On april 18 a grad student said a man followed her into her campus Residence Hall exposing himself on t
Political science professor warns what more airstrikes could bring. During the president ial campaign, President Trump himself mentioned the danger of starting world war 3 with russia and syria, and i am sure that Everyone Wants to avoid that. Reporter some suggest a regime change may now be the goal for the trump administration, but secretary of state Rex Tillerson wouldnt go there. Were asking and calling on Bashar Alassad to cease the use of these weapons. Other than that, there is no change to our military posture. Reporter many here in the bay area are watching. We need to have negotiations. People need to talk to each other. Reporter today military commanders defending the assad regime threaten reprizals for future u. S. Attacks. Cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Both supporters and critics of the president s actions against syria are concerned about the longterm strategy for dealing with the troubled region. I think there is a strong moral case to make for what the president did. Str
Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Palm sunday terror in egypt. Dozens dead after isis strikes during sunday mass. Here in the bay area, a message of defiance tonight from the coptic christian community. Terrorists will never win. This action makes us very strong. This action makes us very united. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Tonight egypt has declared a state of emergency after the two suicide blasts. One tore through a church as a choir was singing. [ explosion ] that video feed cutting out as chaos erupts at the church in the city of tanta about 70 miles north of cairo. Hours later in alexandria, security cameras caught a suicide bomber detonating his bomb right at the security checkpoint outside the building. In all, at least 44 people were killed and more than 125 injured. And isis is claiming responsibility tonight. Evening prayers went on as scheduled tonight as a Coptic Christian Church in the east bay. They worry about whats next for egypt. Abc 7 News Reporter leslie br
About the airstrikes in syria. Supporters and critics now demanding to know what the longterm plan is for dealing with the region. Reporter songs of peace followed by protest. Activists with code pink marched across the Golden Gate Bridge honking for peace in syria. After the u. S. Launched airstrikes on the Syrian Air Base in response to last weeks horrific chemical attack. You can bomb the world into pieces, but you cant bomb it into peace. It is a complext think can b more and more bombs. Reporter today the regime Bashar Alassad defiant after the airstrikes. The air field struck 59 american missiles back up and running. Fighter bombers armed for battle. The white house says the u. S. Bombing was the right move. What happened this week was one of the president s finest hours. He wont stop here. If he needs to do more, he will do more. Reporter but san jose state Political Science professor warns what more airstrikes could bring. During the president ial campaign, President Trump hims