Not real front line stuff, but important in terms of back house. We have a lot of skilled professionals within the agency, many of whom are getting close to retirement and we dont necessarily have a lot of folks to come in after them, so we are really happy to be about to launch a partnership with a couple of the Machinist Union recollect local 1414 and Electrician Union local 6 together with the city. Well start apprenticeship programs for a number of our most critical difficult to fill and mission critically important craft positions we need. These are the fonegs maintaining the muneee and traffic and signal systems. We are joining to create these apprenticeship programs modeled an successful programs in place in the sit a such as labors local 261 and in addition we joined a National Partnership of transit agencies that are led by a Organization Called the Transportation Learning Center to develop rail car technician program. A small effort on our part we contribute to a larger effor
American history was just drawn and we have the winning numbers. It is wednesday night, jims off, im brian taff. The big story on action news tonight is the powerball jackpot. Are you holding the Winning Ticket . Grab your tickets and hold on to your hats because were about to find out. Here they are 4, 8, 19, 27, 34, and the powerball number is 10. 4, 8, 19, 2, 34 and the powerball is 10. I am listening for screaming. Do i hear it . Not from christie. No matter who claims the jackpot, one thing for certain, the states involved in the powerball will come out as winners. And live to show us where all the money from ticket sales goes. Hi, christie. Brian, every time we pay 2 just to win to get that Winning Ticket, when we buy in, people in our area win. The buying frenzy is real. Ok, 4. I realize you have virtually no chance of winning, but somebodys going to. Thats because every ticket sold means revenue towards your state. You know where the money goes in the state . To people like me,
The amount of money they have. Chapman. The wife of dwayne dog chapman says the suit if successful will make it easier to get out of jail which is unfair to crime victims. Not being considered here. The people that are beaten and have accusers to be put in jail dont need to have the guy come out with no deterrent. The help of the public defenders office. The public defender filed it in support of the suit saying a fearsome of pretrial justice would not rely on monetary conditions. As such conditions penalize arrestees. The judge says pontificating is not legal analysis. He denied the request and told the plaintiffs to go back to the drawing board and file a new lawsuit if you can back it up. So what happens next . If the plaintiffs decide to look up their legal analysis and refile, they will do so and it will be up to the judge to see if it passes legal mustard. Henry lee reporting live in the newsroom. It is now official. July 22nd is mario woods Remembrance Day in the city of San Fra
Happening. Stocks are moving higher at this hour. It feels like investors are shaking off fears about the debt standoff between europe and greece, but folks, the action is really in oil. Prices plunging again after the International Energy agency warned of more selloffs in the near term. We begin with fears in the bond market. Were talking about, yep, puerto rico, and its debt crisis sending its bonds to record lows. Why does it matter to investors here . Many hedge funds and big Bond Investors have exposure to puerto rico. Kate kelly has more on the fallout. Big legal news the last few days on puerto rico which has been struggling with over 70 billion in debt as well as highend employment and other Economic Issues for some time now. On friday a federal judge blocked the islands efforts to restructure certain debt through a new law known as the recovery act that was passed last summer. The law was intended to help agencies like for example, the purity wroe ricco electric Power Authorit
And havent intersected. The theory right now is that this probably came through if you stayed or ate at this westin hotel in napa between february 9th and 26th 45e89 authorities want you to closely monitor your health. Its a very slight chance if they ate in one of the two restaurants within the hotel, that they might have been exposed to hepatitis a. Again, i stress very unlikely. Reporter two hepatitis a cases were detected here. Both patients are restaurant employees. No kst myrrhs are known to have contracted the virus but symptoms dont usually surface until a month after exposure. It can be contracted through can a nated food andrey. We dont want people to over react. On the other hand, we dont want people to think their physician think they have something else. Reporter a worker told us management has asked them not to talk to reporters. They were talked to about risks. Current hotel guests tell us they were not told about the hepatitis cases but they are not concerned. I have my