This afternoon. Bart management and the unions walked out of the building after nearly 17 hours of negotiations. Still no word on a deal. The federal mediator assured commuters trains will be running today but not comment on the progress of negotiations. At the mediators request, well be taking a recess until early this afternoon. And thats all im going to have to say at this moment. Negotiations are continuing and back at it early this afternoon. Reporter now, this is a major shift from what we saw last night. The unions were close to calling for another bart strike and said it would take a hail mary to avert it. We did see several of them walk out of this building this morning. Again, they have not commented or refused to commented on these talks. They did say they will be back here today at 1 00 this afternoon. Cate caugurian, kpix 5. Last we heard, the unions offered a counter proposal. Bart management made it clear they had no intention of changing the final numbers. And we have i