Move. Its a job for both skpidz he is just representing interests. Getting employees to contribute into pensions is one of those interests where unions will have toughest filts. Most every fortune 500 company in the United States has gotten rid of the defined benefits plans. The only place you find them is public sector. Youve got to think of a lot of different parties. Not just one group youre thinking about. Weve pleaded with the board today. And asked for help in changing the direction a little bit. We need to get dialogue going. We have heard quite a bit from the unions here on the sidewalk but nothing today. I did see evidence of work getting done today. A negotiateor came out with a pack of paper work and told me he had to go find a copier. Waits a 16page offer no word how late they will go tonight tonight or what time they will start tomorrow. A lot of work to do, thank you very much. Bart general manager homding out hope that say contract will be in place by the commute. Say prog gres is being made on negotiations. But insists agency cant give into the Union Demands for higher wages and keeping benefits. Bay area has fwhn a recession in the past. Were starting to come out of it slowly. And they thought would it makeup for the past four years, its just not done. Saying agency needs to balance costs with ongoing fro jekts they must pay for like protecting a fleet of aging train cars saying train operators willing not be hired if workers walk off the job. Union leaders want bart Board Members to get more involved and they made that plea today in a special meeting in oakland this morning then directors disappeared behind closed doors. Nick smith joins us live from berkly. Nick . You know a possible strike is only days away. Today Board Members met facetoface. Both sides tell meeg they hope an agreement can be reached within the next two days. If you want us to bargain you have to cooperate. We cannot bargain with our self autos this morning the bart board got an earful from frustrated commuters and Union Representatives pushing for an agreement. We do not want a disruption of service. And hope you do not. A looming deadline means bart is closer to uting brakes on service, leaving thousands without a way to get around. I hope they get settled soon. Im starting a new job. I need bart badly. I work in the city. Ive got to go to work. They issued a notice sunday at midnight. The board held a closed door session to talk about the looming crisis. The first time all Board Members met since june. The boards suggest am excited we want to get this done this weekend. We havent been able to snare a Group Setting our experience to see if we can make this work. Closed door session gave an opportunity to provide how to move forward they shared nothing of what was said with us. These are safety issues. With the deadline looming, both sides are under pressure to make a deal. A lot of people are dreading possibility of a strike. We want to show you a hur vai that a Public Policy group. Only 30 say they pup sort support a bart strike. 70 are against it. 30 disagree with, 17 not sure. 41 say if money is available bart should invest more in worker compensation. 49 disagree with that idea. 11 dont know. Interesting. You can see the rest of the results on abc 7 news. Com. Governor brown could step in to appoint a strike by appointing apxzn special board. The commission would have seven days to issue a report, bart workers would be prohibited from striking. The governor told abc 7 news would it have no comment on whether brown is considering appointing such a board. The labor secretary met with mayor ed lee. We have seen negative impacts that a strike has. We do not need yet another bart strike. This is a great hardship for the people in the bay area for everybody works here, lives here, travels here. The mayor says a strike costs 70 million a day in lost productivity. In case there is a strike some carpoolers will get a little kickback for helping commuters offering 5 gift cards to peeps coffee and tea to snin who picks up riders in San Francisco. Ftc says sit to make it easy theyll use twitter to connect drivers and passenger autos twitter users can use that hash tag casual carpool to let the world know where dreefrs are needed or where paempks are needed. To get cards youd need to pick up passengers in two locations in the evening if the strike happens. Other Public Transit agencies gearing up for th5qmvq possibility of a strike. Cal train said it may add Additional Services trains and crew availability permit. Ac transit plans to add buses but doesnt yet know how many. And bart still plans to round up 95 charter buses to shuttle passengers from these five east bay locations with the possible addiction of concord. And we] d have put togethea list of resources four on abc 7 news. Com. Youll find alternative transit options and realtime traffic maps and you can down load exclusive abc 7 news waze traffic app follow us on twitter for updates. Anchors eric thomas and traffic reporters will keep an eye on the morning commute for you. All start agent 4 00 a. M. On the abc 7 morning news. And one more note. Were going to take a look at technology now available to let you perhaps skip the commute a redwood city man convicted of killing a poodle has been sentenced to three years probation admitting hitting the toy poodle with a brick last march saying he was tired of the dog coming on to his property. The poodle had to be euthanized. The u. S. Supreme Court Ordered california to release thousands of state inmates because prisons are overcrowded. The governor has been fighting to stop it but has run out of options. Plenty of people have serious concerns. Despite pleas that the prison population can not be reduced with outleting out dangerous felons u. S. Supreme court refused to stop its release order to ease overcrowding. The ruling in a decades old case is a victory for inmates claiming the Health Care Behind Bars fails to meet constitutional standards causing needless suffer and death. Overcrowding stands in the way of an effective remedy for problem thats plague california. California has already reduced its population in prisons by 46,000 but courts said that is not enough. The state needs to shave another 10,000 in less than ve months. Governor brown is out of legal mc7 of Court Charges if he doesnt comply by the end of the year. The Corrections Department confirms preparation has begun to meet reduction. 30 from womens prison have been identified eligible for medical parole with more than 800 men throughout the system. Contracts have been extended and sentences recalculated for those with completion of program thooz is insane. Crime rates are still at lows, the numbers were up for 2012. Unfortunately, they have already shifted those they consider low right after this tok counties now all that is left are serious, violent criminals. The legislature has until mid september to pass laws or approve funding that enables the state to further cut the population. Still head here tonight a warning from the state department to anyone planning a trip overseas. Travelers at sfo may be taking a big risk. Evidence against two men accused of keeping a sex slave one of them reportedly confessed. Ill let you know if this will keep us in a cooler than normal mode or if there is heat coming up tonight the state department issued a travel alert. U. S. Citizens traveling abroad are being warned for phone shall for a terrorist attack. More on the warning and things you can do to minimize the risk. The barn warning says that u. S. Citizens should take every precaution to be aware of surroundings and adopt appropriate Safety Measures to protect them selfs when traveling. Ranna heard about the alert. On the way i was telling my husband there is an alert. Her 16yearold son is on a flight for a tournament. Aweddel is not concerned. Well, you know, im not a great deal unless its impinges upon my travel plans. But its not . No. No. Liam heading back to india. I deal with terrorism threats every day. There. The alert is world wide with particular emphasis on the middle east and north africa noting tourist sites, Public Transit systdy i would say if you dont have urgent business in that part of the world you shouldnt go. He says temporary closing of 20 embassies over the weekend is a sign that the u. S. Has picked up on what it believes to be a credible threat. It has to be fairly specific. Sources and phone calls are probably well known. My question is will an attack occur in the middle east . Saying before the september 11th attacks there was chatter about an attack in turkey then, al yaed is perfectly capable of creating a diversion. Almost air year after the richmond fire the city of i richmond filed suit against chef rochblt a pipe burst causing an explosion and fire n a lawsuit city leaders say it resulted from years of neglect and indifference to safety. City leaders say litigation is meant totohold the oil giant account ybl. Just not about money. Money is something the city has coming to us. The focus is creating a healthy, safe atmosphere. The suit cites 14 other incidents since 1989. Chevron would not respond but in this statement says the city meritless law surt is a waste of resources and yet another example of failed leadership. As will have to jump through more legal hd hurdles tonight if they want to build a ballpark in san jose. These are pictures of what it might look like claiming a deal to sell land is below market rates and illegal. The as waiting for Major League Baseball to give permission to make this move. We enjoyed a lovely day around the bay. A tad bit cooler. Yes. Well keep it cooler than normal. Warmer today, areas came up. Were going to show you live doppler 7 hd. Some fog along the coast. Temperatures upper 50s up to 90 degrees in antioch. Check out the view now from our camera. You can see the marine layer now. San francisco, 61 degrees marine layer about 1400 feet deep. Not going very deep inland. You can see low clouds out there towards west. Santa rosa 81. 70s in napa. Novato, 75 Degrees Holding on to warmth. Concord ix 83 degrees. From our camera were going to give you a perspective looking back towards San Francisco. A cooling trend starts sunday running throughout the middle of the week. So as if is not cool enough compared to normal. Steady flow continue was this cool pocket of air here, heat stay as way. And we havent been seeing hot weather lately. This cool air mass will just linger over us. Into middle of the week no sign of the summer heat. There tomorrow morning if you have early plans cloud cover near coast and will start out kind of cool. For afternoon youll be able to shed layers. 81 los gatos. 78 san jose. 80 degrees in gilroy. Peninsula, blue skies. Some lingering low clouds into afternoon. 65 downtown and nice looking day in santa rosa. Have you to get up towards clear lake to get low 90 as above marine layer. In the east bay,rnj1 still pleasant. 75 oakland. Good looking weather. 76 castro valley. 88 in antioch. Accuweather forecast, little dip in temperatures for your sunday. Cooler into tuesday and wednesday only low 80s inloaned yes. That is different. Yes. Thanks. Coming up next a Progress Report for new bay bridge. Testing under twi see how well it bay bridge officials started putting new pieces of the span under the microscope, today crews started testing steel anchor rods. In may an oler set broke when tightened potentially delaying the opening date. Crews now making steel saddles to fix the problem. Newer rods undergoing tests to find out what will happen to them decades from now. We want to make sure people understand that we take safety seriously. So far caltrans has not found any additional problems and do not expect additional delays. Tonight Money Matters a big disappointment for chevron despite oil prices at 100 a barrel quarterly profits down to 5. 3 billion more than google or general electric. Justice department and 33 states offered a plan to let apple off the hook for allegedly kol youding with e Book Publishers wanting apple to sign new contracts that encourage pet better price competition. U. S. Employers added 162,000 people to payrolls last month. the rate fell to a 4. 5 year low. And Facebook Stock hit a milestone today closing for the first time higher than when it went public. Heading in the right direction. Yes up next latest on the barlt strike and technology that can allow you to skip the commute next week and beyond. Also a man report lid admits his role in holding a teenaged raun way as a sex sflaif a pot farm. What a difference a decade 2004 can make. Old freeway and building boom erupted since demo good evening well begin with latest on the ongoing bart negotiations. Both sides back at the bargaining table. Talks resumed this afternoon but there is no deal on wages Health Benefits and pensions. Bart general manager and Union Leaders are hopeful theyll be able to reach an agreement on points as talks continue throughout the weekend. Workers may walk off the job if an agreement is not in place by sunday night. Now, abc 7 news morning news will go on early monday at 4 00 a. M. Strike or not to bring you latest developments. This sm thought impossible to go to work but figured out where to go to get the job done. The city wants to help those by making main libraries accessible. We have free wifi access all normal, open hours so that is a s. Available. So well have that space in addition to this. It will be open monday and tuesday from 8 00 in the morning. During the last strike coworking spaces became popular. Drew says if he cant get on bart hell stay in the east bay. With a strike boy stay there. Monday, will drop its drop in fee if there is a strike during the last strike owe of the employees were not able to make it to the office. Its a virtual white Board Company using a program called go to meeting able to work on projects by staying connected. A week is doable. 20 are used to being here. There are other options for smaller operations. Cisco has the basic app connecting using any device. We have a free offering where we can meet with up to three people for as lng as you want to. He says there are more workers surfacing every day strike or no strike its how it is evolving. The library said it, too, will offer free work space and ive eye next week. There has been a tragic death in san jose tonight. A toddler drowned. It turns out it happened after the babysitter fell asleep we now know. The 2yearold wandered into his neighbors yard in the evergreen area and fell into the swimming pool. The panicked sitter called police. When he woke up and could not find the boy. Police found the child, tried to resuscitate him but to no avail. Two men pleaded not guilty today to holding a teenaged run away as a sex slave on a lake county marijuana farm. The two men appeared in shackles this morning in court in San Francisco. Investigators claim they assaulted a 15yearold girl and locked her up in this fourfoot box n addition to a thousandk9cfn pot plants numberf assault weapons and body armor investigators found equipment used for bondage and a human torture rack. A hayward man facing charges. The video here was taken just moments after firefighters arrived on the scene provided to abc 7 news by the Fire Department destroying the car port and six vehicles. Investigators say the suspect may have been siphonning gas from one car when he lit a cigarette treated at the scene after telling abc 7 news he was punched by a neighbor accusing him of starting the fire. Remember the embarcadero freeway . Officially interstate 480. A double decker highway south of market neighborhood but along water front. Its been 22 years since torn down after the quake. The freeway rubble is long gone replaced with sky scrapers these days but the building boom snot over. Taking a look at how the city skyline is still changing. South of market neighborhood youll see a whirl wind of construction. This is going to be the biggest change to the skyline since i think mid80s. He says San Francisco about to burst with development. Most centers around this site. And looks like just a big hole in the ground right now. Trance bay terminal will be the Grand Central station of the west linking high speed rail, cal train and eight bus lines from around the bay area under one roof. A fourblock long public park will drop it off. This animation shows what the center will look like when its completed in 2017. Idea to make transit more accessible, available. In 1980s San Francisco saw a backlash against highdensity projects. Critics worried the new high rises would threaten and lead to manhattan drs ization of the city. But since 1980s demographics shifted and so has public opinion. Next to the Terminal Developers will build a center piece. The Transbay Tower rising more than 1,000 feet making it tall qleft, mostvisible building in the city. Development is starting to move forward weve got four buildings under construction or about to be. Nearly two dozen projects have been approved between Second Street and the bay. These renderings so some projects under construction or about to break ground. 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