Million. An amount some consider too small to prevent such disasters from happening again. Joining me now is george avalos, Business Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Pg e faced 12 criminal charges. It was found guilty of six. Aside from obstructing an investigation charge, what were some of the other charges they were found guilty of . They were found guilty of a variety of violations of the Pipeline Safety act. These primarily included things such as their preparation, assessing threats and things like that, prioritizing threats, determining how to deal with dangers in the pipelines. The acquittals primarily related to there were six counts in which they were acquitted. Primarily related to Record Keeping issues. Initially, federal prosecutors were seeking nearly 600 million in fines. Then early this month, in a surprise move, they dropped that request to 6 million. Now with this latest verdict, the maximum penalty is 3 million. Why did prosecu
Million. An amount some consider too small to prevent such disasters from happening again. Joining me now is george avalos, Business Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Pg e faced 12 criminal charges. It was found guilty of six. Aside from obstructing an investigation charge, what were some of the other charges they were found guilty of . They were found guilty of a variety of violations of the Pipeline Safety act. These primarily included things such as their preparation, assessing threats and things like that, prioritizing threats, determining how to deal with dangers in the pipelines. The acquittals primarily related to there were six counts in which they were acquitted. Primarily related to Record Keeping issues. Initially, federal prosecutors were seeking nearly 600 million in fines. Then early this month, in a surprise move, they dropped that request to 6 million. Now with this latest verdict, the maximum penalty is 3 million. Why did prosecu
Any future travel but again looking at something perhaps a test run of some sort that went awry. In all 775 cars expected to come to the bay area between this year and the year 2021. Sky fox will continue to monitor the situation. We have folks in the newsroom going to bart. Obviously nobody in the train so that is good news. No passengers. And we will get back to the picture if we find out more information. Great having you on board this friday afternoon. Lets go to the weather. Started off wet and woke me up at 4 30. Peeks of sunshine and breezy. Take a look at this, rainy view. We do have still sleek roads as we begin the evening dries. The scattered showers continuing for the next couple of hours and winding down. Fortunately it looks like in time for the giants game, a little bit later this evening. Maybe just a little bit of drizzle to start and we will be drying out for the evening. Here is another picture from San Francisco over the bay where we can even see peeks of blue skies
The evening of january 2 9 begins with a bart officer giving a man a stern warning. Get off the train. Hold it get off the train reporter someone on this train called bart police to say the man was harassing riders . An officer arrived and tried to convince the man to come talk to him on the platform. He didnt comply and even though witnesses can be heard saying the man was done nothing wrong and was bothering no one, watch what happens next. Taser, taser, taser reporter the officer tases the man and he falls to the ground. Dont move or ill tase you again reporter minutes pass. More officers arrive and as the man is being held down and cuffed tase him again taser, taser, taser [ taseing ] reporter the same officer does it again this time for five full seconds. One witness was so horrified that she wrote a blog post about the incident and later reported it to bart police. In a statement to kpix 5, bart said, as per policy and protocol, bart police have initiated the proper investigation
Donotresuscitate order and although the worker was following policy, this death opens up a legal can of worms. Lawsuits are the least of their problems. Theyre looking at lawsuits that could put them out of business. Every person in the facility and the owner of the facility could be looking at license revocation from the state and they could be criminally prosecuted on a theory of homicide. Reporter alyssa harrington, kpix5. So the big question, why was this against policy . Well, bayless, the elderly woman in this case was part of the independent facility at glenwood gardens. Its almost like an apartment complex for seniors and is separate from the skilled and assisted nursing facilities there and that independent section does not offer medical help. The executive director of the facility said in a statement that its Standard Practice for workers to immediately call for emergency help and to wait with the patient until that help arrives. The executive director also promised a thoroug