Could slow you down. Details coming up. Bart has new plans to stop fare evaders from cheating. Kpix 5s Susie Steimle shows us why officers will riding trains to ask if you paid for your ride. Its frustrating. Reporter less than five minutes after we walked into the 19th street bart station in oakland, someone jumped the gate and got a free fare. A guy just like hopped through the emergency exit, didnt pay, attendants dont do anything. It happens . Every day. Fare evasions costs us 15 to 25 million a year. Reporter barts board of directors unanimously approved two ordinances to target cheaters. Starting january 6th, officers will be hired to board bart trains and ask every, Single Person for proof of purchase. If caught, you will be charged 75 for your first offense. Minors will be charged 55. Three strikes and you face criminal charges. Do you think the checks will help . I think so. I think so. It really makes sense for the people who do pay for their fares. You know . Its not fair to
Someone jumping over the entrance gate getting onto bart for free. But the board of directors for bart says they are trying to do something about it. They unanimously voted last night on two ordinances to fight this problem and punish fare evaders. Beginning next year, officers will be hired to board bart trains and ask every person for proof of purchase. If you cant provide one, you will be charged 75 the first time, minors will be charged 55. Three strikes will lead to a criminal charge. Frustrated bart riders who pay their fare hope this will force change. The guy just, like, hopped through the emergency exits, didnt even pay and just got on the train. Attendants dont do anything. Reporter 75 of barts operating costs come from people who follow the rules and pay. Officials think it will bring back 8 to 11 million each year. Bart says that fare evasion costs them between 15 million to 25 million every, single year. In San Francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. Week one of a highprofile murd
As well. This pattern looks like it will be here for a while. I just call it as i see it. I dont favor anything over another. But it looks like seven to ten days we are going into a cool pattern for may. The wind has just been flying out towards the delta. So that means cooler weather out to sacramento and probably sacramento, San Joaquin Valley. 50s on the temps. A couple of upper 40s as well. The clouds will get chewed up tomorrow because of the cold air coming in. Impressive low spinning in the four corners. That is getting knocked out by the next system. This will give us an unseasonably cool pattern into the weekend. 60s, 70s. 7 01, sal. Sal, the traffic is doing what . It is slowing down, steve. Okay. We are seeing more slow traffic in the south bay. Just a few moments ago if you have been with us for the last 20 minutes, 280 was light. Now that is changing. 280 is now slow. That is near bird avenue downtown san jose. It is beginning to slow down. It is slow also getting up to hi
After that reporters were ushered out of the room. The president said in a letter it was attorney general Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein who wanted to fire comey. They believe he was wrong to speak publicly about Hillary Clintons email investigation in july. He announced he would not seek criminal charges. Because of that unconventional public announcement the fbis reputation and credibility quote, suffered substantial damage. Its something Vice President pence referenced today when he spoked about the firing. Back to a place where we move past the difficult politics of the last year and we can move back to a place where every american can know that the fbi is able to do its job. Comey apparently found out hed lost his job on tv. Before actually receiving his official termination letter. And up until he was fired yesterday comey had been the top official leading a criminal investigation into whether there were any ties between the russian government and the Tr
May be setting the fires. I also asked the fire marshal how far back these fires go when theyre talking about the people responsible. They said theyre even looking into 2016 to see if any of those fires that may have happened are also connected to the five this week. Alyana, do investigators say it appears whoever is steght fires is just randomly looking for cars parked in peoples driveways . Reporter its all part of their investigation that theyre not going into. Theyre being very careful about would theyre revealing to us. I believe that whatever they reveal that were not being told is only something that the suspect or suspects may know. So theyre being very careful. Obviously all the cars set on fire this week were in driveways, set on fire while people were sleeping. When youre sleeping youre not thinking about that but have an extra eye out, especially in Contra Costa County. Ktvus Paul Chambers will have the latest tonight on the 10 00 news. New details from wine country where a