Investigation and never informed of the drivers employment or unemployment. Reporter in their research the attorneys say they discovered nearly 100 Sexual Assault complaints against the company in an 18month period in california alone. Lyft has shown a total destain to making any changes that could increase the safety of passengers. Reporter the changes the lawsuit is calling for mandatory reporting of Sexual Assault complaints to the police. You have to cover up rape allegations and due to its own internal investigation instead of reporting these allegations to the police. Reporter in addition to installing cameras in cars, the lawsuit calls for lyft to add safety features to the app that would alert the company to any suspicious actions by drivers. Well, the lawsuit caused for fingerprint background checks, now you may remember orlando lazo, the socalled ride share rapist reportedly used a fake name when he applied to become a lyft driver. He would have never passed a fingerprint che
Longer commute. Yes, were talking about folks driving in for stockton and tracy and everything is moving smoothly. The live shot a good amount of traffic coming through the area. On a very early commute like we have now, before 6 00 in the morning, you may see a little more traffic on the roads, some folks try to edge in, get in early, get out early if youre looking at perhaps shorter hours this week. A lot of vacations floating around. South bay along the peninsula no problems but slowing as they clear through derek and menlapark, no problems for the bay bridge. Back to you, laura. Thanks, mike. 5 01, breaking in afghanistan, dozens are feared dead after a powerful explosion and military assault. You can see the huge plume of smoke from kabul. A car bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building. Militants then fired on that same building following the blast. So far theres no official announcement on the number of dead but the New York Times spoke to one source who says at least 40
More increases to report this morning if you re taking mass transit around the bay starting today fares are going up if you don t use a clipper card. For muni riders who pay cash. A single fare now costs 3dollars instead of 2. 75. That s in part to speed up service. Clipper card users still pay 2. 50. The same thing for ac transit local single rides for cash payers will go up 25cents to 2. 50. Single ride fares for clipper card holders will stay at 2. 25. Happening today it s going to cost you more to drive across the golden gate bridge. Here s a live look fastrak fees will go up by 35 cents and payasyougo will be 20 cents more the toll rate is still the lowest for fastrak drivers. So you ll want to use that pass. The tolls will continue to increase each year by the same amount until 2024. It s part of a five year plan o improve public transportation. In Alameda County leaders in piedmont are expected to decide tonight on a plan to add more license plate readers. If approved. The devic
Feeling like you cannot open the door to a stranger without it being a potential person coming after you. Reporter the mayor wanted to continue the contract with vigilant. He did not have enough votes. He doesnt think ice can access the Police Departments plate readers. He speaks to us via face time from a mayors conference in hawaii. Im frustrated with everybody. Im frustrated with activist groups to make a big deal about this. Im frustrated with the police chief for not following the rules. Reporter the police chief should look for a different vendor sooner. They cant use the license plate readers for the next 3 to 6 months until they can find a new company. Right now we are getting live images of smoke from a fire in san jose billowing over 101 near mckee road. We learned the fire is coming from a one alarmed the spark in the city of san jose soviets service yard on mayberry road. No word on a cause. We are hearing the smoke is coming from piles of garbage and wooden pallet. Larry b
Of a breeze, 21 mileperhour sustained wind speeds in fairfield and 5 mph in concord and oakland and home along the north bay. Feeling a little marine air influence which will keep us cooler today and it will cool down more as we get into the week. Look at the temperatures are much it will drop. We will see a significant drop off by midweek. These are the house yesterday, santa rosa 87 and today they will hit about 85, concord was 96 which was a high sunday and today about 89. So these temperatures are close to the average for this time of year, this weekend we were well we will be well average, i will explain that coming up inforecast. Good morning to you and good morning to you at home if youre dr580 westbound, traffic is doing well for the tracy super commute, no major issues drore and pleasanton, moving well in both directions on interstate 880. At the bay bridge traffic is light, it will not say this way but for now it is now back to the desk. We begin with a developing story from