A shift in state employment law. It requires companies to treat contract workers as employees. Good evening. The bill is now on the governors desk and she expected to sign it. It puts a target on the Business Models of app based Companies Like uber and lyft. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is in the city. Uber says the law doesnt apply to them . Reporter well, they are prepared to fight it out in court. This is a big change for the state as you mentioned and some experts say it could have impacts nationwide. Drivers who work for the Ride Share Companies say they were excited about this change but it could be setting up a much bigger battle. Millions of ride share drivers navigating the fine line between called independent contractors and employees. On wednesday california lawmakers passed a bill that would reclassify contract workers as employees. An uber driver was thrilled. Better than the super bowl for me. Reporter if it is signed into law drivers would qualify for standard employment benefit
The president says it looks like iran was behind the attack and hes waiting a final determination. Good evening, im julie haener. Im frank somerville. President trump also said he doesnt want war and that theres room for diplomacy, but he made it clear the u. S. Is prepared. The attack on saturday crippled a huge oil facility on saudi arabia that produces 5 of the daily global supply. Rebels in yemen claim responsibility. They say ten drones were used in the attack. But behind the scenes, u. S. Officials are suggesting they are originating inside iran. The price of crude oil prices jumped by more than 8 a barrel to more than 63 a barrel. The biggest increase since the first gulf war 30 years ago. Live coverage now from fox news Lauren Blanchard who is in the Nations Capital with more on how the u. S. Could be pulled into the concept. Lauren . Reporter julie, President Trump says soon he should know definitively who was behind the weekend attack on Major Saudi Oil sites and whether or n
Travelers this way. Reporter relief. San francisco cancellations and delays due to construction schedules to end on thursday night. A closed runway is due to reopen soon. An airport Spokesman Says a project will wrap up by 9 00 tomorrow night and will hit the recess button with normal operations, im julie haener. Im frank somerville. For travelers that means just one more day of inconvenience. The repaving project on the runway is expected to finish eight full days ahead of schedule. A lot of coverage tonight from Jana Katsuyama who is at sfo nish early. Ws were able to jana . Reporter frank and julie, the Spokesman Says the layer underneath the pavement on that runway was actually in better condition than they thought when they dug in. And so that sped up the process. But still passengers, they have either blocked 11 days and theyre expected to have at least one more day of delays. Runway relief on the way. Sfo officials announced the reconstruction project that shut down runway since
Foothills ask the sacramento valley. Pg e has already implemented the Public Safety power shut off. So far there are no planned Power Outages in the bay area but pg e is monitoring the condition in napa, sonoma and lake counties. Live coverage from Debora Villalon in santa rosa where a state of emergency has been declared. Reporter Sonoma County have 33 people inside the possible shut off zone. So when it is power or fire, people are getting ready. We are set up for the power outage. Reporter the johnson live on the fringe of inferno. The fire burned up to but bypassed their home. You look, we are cleared back pretty far. You can see we are clear to the fence. Reporter now the couple is ready to do it themselves. I mean, everybody is on alert. Everybody is watching for it. I think that is comforting. Every time they say the winds will pick up tonight, it is scary. It is scary. Sounds like they are ready to pull power if they need to. Maybe tomorrow. And that is a good thing. We are mon
As it heads towards the u. S. Mainland. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The good news is that Hurricane Dorian only caused limited damage today as it passed the Virgin Islands and then puerto rico. The hurricane did knock down trees and caused scattered Power Outages across the northern caribbean but there is no official flooding or excuse me no major flooding and officials in puerto rico say they are breathing a huge sigh of relief tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at the storm. Dorian is now a herrick and as you know. Checking out the last 10 hours or so as it moves by puerto rico and they dodged a bullet here. This went right between the islands, not a lot of damage at least so far on san juan, puerto rico. But we are looking light in thi the forecast for dorian as a category one for it to turn into a category three as we get to the weekend here and look at the focus of the storm. Category two as it moves in through the bahamas