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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY August 3, 2013

Streets passed. More informatn on this breaking news story in San Francisco as it develops. Now to the latest on the bart negotiations. Bart today brought out general manager hoping to calm the nerves of xhirts. Says progress is being made and heres where things stand rate now. Talk have ended for the night. They broke offht at 8 00 oclock. Both side will be back at it again at 10 00 oclock tomorrow morning. There was new Contract Offer yesterday but both sides are still far apart one of the make sticking points is contribution to health benefits. Over fortune 500 company has gotten rid of the benefit plan. Its only in the public sec tovrment taxpayer supporting. What the bart Board Management are concerned about is the taxpayer riders you have to think of different parties. Its not just one group you think about if trying to resolve Something Like this we pleded with the board today asking for some help in changing the direction a little bit. We need to get dialogue going between chief negotiate or and us. Barts general manager and leader hopeful they can reach an agreement on the points as talk tip through the weekend. Bart workers may walk off the job if agreement not in place by sunday night that make a mess of the morning commute. Union leders want Board Members bart Board Members to get more involved in the negotiations and they made that plea today at special meeting of the bart board in oakland this morning. Thisen director december appeared behind closed doors. Nick smith was there when they came out. If you want us to fully fairly bargain then you have to cooperate. We can not bargain with ourselves. This morning bart board of direct tr got an earful from frustrated commuters and Union Representative pushing for an agreement to avoid the potential strike. We dont want disruption of service. We hope you dont as well. I hope they get it sorted out so it doesnt kilometer to that. Commuters caught in the middle. Looming dead lean means bart that much closer to putting the brake on service and leaving thousands without a way to get around. I hope it gets settled soon because im starting a new job next week and i need bart really badly. I work in the city and i still have to go to work but you have to go 2 hours ahead of time. Union representing the majority of bart worker issue notice of intent to strike sunday at midnight. After hearing them out bart board of director had closed door session about the chriss. Its all met together First Time Since jichbility we all went want to get this done this weekend. They accuse Board Members not getting the daily done. We cant share in the group setting. Our experience to see if wegngn make this thing work. Closed door session gave the full board of director an opportunity to provide direction to mappingment and negotiators on how to move forward. They shared nothing of what was said with us but Group Representatives remain skeptical. Our safety issue. Have yet to be addressed. Other issues that are extremely important to us. Have yet to be addressed. With the dead lean looming both sides under pressure to make a daily. This is 7 news. All right. If there is a striking bart is hoping to have up to 95 buses visible to make limited runs from el cerrito, walnut creek, dublin, plane anton, fremont westc oakland Station Service from condition cord san leandro may added as well. Ferry run extra boats from oakland vallejo. Overflow in alameda golden gate transit inform Additional Service but 2 boats will be used by bay ferry and car pal license hours will be extended like they were last time from 5 00 a. M. Through 7 00 p. M. We have assembled a range of resource wealth of information for you section for the latest on bart contract negotiations and details on casual car pool locations as you prepare for plan b. You can also down load our exclusive abcx÷ 7 news way traffic app to help you navigate the freeway that is busier if the trains arent running. Remember to follow us on twitter at this breaking news update . Now the cause of the possible strike 7 news will begin half hour earlier than usual. At 4 00 oclock on monday. Eric and christian will anchor the govrj and traffic reporter will show us is what happening with the commute. Joan us for early start monday morning at 4 a. M. On abc 7 morning news. All right we mav on now with stay on tp the of the bart negotiations of course. U. S. Supreme court orderedxd california to release thousands of state inmates because the prison are over crowded. Governor fighting the feds in court to stop it but ran out of option. If people have serious safety concerns. Governor brown california prison population can not be reduced my further without letting out dangerous felon. U. S. Supreme court refused to stop an Early Release order to ease overcrowding. Ruing in the decade old case is a victory for inmate who klaev health care hyped bars fail to meat constitutional stand arrested causing needless suffering and death. Overcrowding still stand in the way of effective remedy for the medical Mental Health problems that play a californi california. California has already reduced the prison population by 46,000. Since 2006. But the court have continually said thats not enough. The state needs to shave another 10,000 in less than 5 months. Governor brown is really out of legal option at this point. He risk contempt of Court Charges if he doesnt comply by the end of the year. Correction department confirmed preparation ve the reduction. 30 from the women prison if chow which will a identified as eligible for patrol along with 800 men throughout the system. Contract with out of state prison extended and sentences are being recalculated for those with good too many credit and completion of rehab program. This is absolutely insean. Crime victim group worried. Crime rate are still at historic low the numbers were slightly up for 2012. Unup fortunately they have already state has already shifted the those who they consider low risken mate to the counties and now all that is left are the most serious violent criminals in our state prop. Legislature has until mid september to pass law or approve funding that enables the state to further pass the prison population n. Sacramento, abc 7 news. Contra costa county judge sentenced pedophile to the maximum 69 years today calling him evil personified. The judge says miller repeatedly molested 11yearold boy. Prosecutors say miller was arrested several times on chilled pornography charges but deliberately manipulated the legal system. Victims and the family to serve as little time as possible. Not any more. Tragic story to report in san jose where toddler drowned. It turns out it happened after the babysitter fell asleep. 2yearold boy wandered in the next door neighbor yard in evergreen area and fell into a swimming pool. Panic sitter called police when he woke up and could in the find the boy. Authorities fond him in a pool tried to resuscitate him but sadly to no avail. Well the fda says farm in mexico is the source of stomach bug in two state and the farm is subsidiary of Company Based in salinas. Investigators traced outbreak to taylor farms of mexico. It provides salad mix to restaurants in iowa and nebraska. Fda not saying whether salad is responsible for sickening hundreds of people in 14 other states but taylor farms says half of its salad to olive garden and red lobster. Company says its cooperating with the fda and that none of the salad mix is in the food supply any longer. Fda says its stepping up the surveillance of green and exported to the u. S. From mexico. Strange crime spree is prompting folk in a quiet san jose neighborhood to wonder if they need to get private security. Happening in the willow glen neighborhood of san jose. Vick lee investigated the story today and has some answers tonight. This is ideal up scale neighborhood with manicure lawn where serious crime unheard of. Where cat burglar may a real cat. But race interestly something disturbing happening here. We have had some break in. We have had people entering people houses and when coming out of the shower and if alar alarming them. Reporter neighbors say a bit more careful now. They close the wind 0and lock the doors when they leave. Putting many of the neighbors ill at ease to say the least. Reporter safety concerns of neighbors here did not start with a breaken. They started with peaches. Thats right. If its true. Barrage of them reigning down on homes late at night. Woke me up. Hitting the wall and window. Reporter it was like a hitchcock movie. Over the tree landing on various roof top. Police were called. But the police didnt ever show up. It was very low priority for them. Reporter folk here think someone is using some is kind of lawchblinger. Shoot peaches at home why nobody knows but the peaches have gallivanize the neighbors who want to hire private security patrol. Especially since they have discovered that there have been breakin as well. They have been told it would cause each resident less than 24 dollars a month for the service. That would be security to have to be able to cull in somebody when the police cant really get here. There is opposition from those who have burglar alarms. Just one more spechbilitys i pay for the alarm system. Why do i pay for more. Nbs gather here at the Community Center next week. To discuss peaches and security. This is abc 7 news. Still ahead this friday night. Warning from the state department to anyone planning trip overseas. You will hear from the joint chiefs of staff open this. Plus face book stock break important barrier for the First Time Since going public while the Company Admits to Million Dollar pay out. Find out to whom. We have the weather. Weather lacking fantastic dachbility warmed up today. Let you know if we will 10 to a wise jamaican once said, drinking beer is like dancing with your lady. Always better when you slow down. Red stripe. Hooray beer whats up with all these beers needing their own fancy glass . Not me mon. I am my own fancy glass. Red stripe. Hooray beer pass. U. S. Embassy around the world on alert tonight. Americans traveling abroad being warned to be vigilant. Possibility of danger. Martha has the story. The worldwide warning is alarming and unusually broad. It covers travel for americans be. And caution travelers to be especially wary of tourist site and public transportation. Also unusual. The warning will stay in effect until the end of august. Terrorist bulletin says may use a variety of means and weapon and target official and private interest. We spoke today exclusively to the chairman of the jont chiefs for abc this week. It is Al Qaeda Affiliated threat yes. So it is of the al qaeda branch. The threat to blow up embassy cons lieutenant or something else. That part is unspecified but the intent seems clear. In the intent is to what. Intent is to the attack western not just u. S. Ents. Senior u. S. Official telling abc news that this is an active plot. Coming from yemen where the socalled underwear bomber got his training. Where radical american mostly clear ick directed terrorist attack until he was killed in a drone streak two years ago. But there is a new boss now. Now the coordinator of worldwide attack planning. Intelligence showed latest plot could involve multiple target both inside and outside yemen. Thus belong list of Embassy Closure across the muslim world. This after billions of dollars in security measures this can stop a truck and protect from blast. Today warning clearly fall out from the deadly attack on the mission in benghazi. Since then 151 new Diplomatic Security positions have been approved. 1,000 additional marine for Embassy Security although not yet in place and more than 500 marine soldiers now part of a Quick Reaction force to respond to attack in africa. Officials hoping closing down the facilities and improving security in the region will avert an attack but there is no certainty that will work. Martha abc news washington. Back here. 1 author calls humboldt county marijuana frontier. Tonight the border fast becoming the danger to bear and mammal. More than 1 16,000 Marijuana Plants enough poison to kill more than 750 black bear and other types of mammal. Army of rodent. This week raid targeted areas near willow correct, hoop valley and or liens. The banned pesticide kill mammal lake the weasle like fisher. Sheriffs deputy also seeing clear cutting creek dam damping and pipe he moved from the ground. Sheriffs office says it does not have any suspect at this moment. Financial news. First people who purchased Facebook Stock finally say made some money. Today facebook closed at 38. 05 a share which is 5 cents more than its initial Public Offering price. Lowest point the stock dropped to 1 17. 55 a share. However ad revenue from mobile did he advice boosted aerption this year. Stock has seen a 44 percent increw necessary valley sense Quarterly Earnings results announced last week. The initial i p o now made a nickel a share. One more note about faceboo facebook. It has paid out more than 1 Million Dollars to more than 300 hackers in the past two years specifically those known as white a hat. Hacker who fond vulnerability and shared the problems with the company. 2 of the helpful hac hacker have been hired fulltime in fact. Fulltime work is what sandhya is doing in the Weather Department all the time sitting in for spencer tonight. Weekend is here. Nice. Cool. Looks great. If i dont do fulltime work i dont know if i could deliver such great weather. Today we warmup. By 2 to continue grease. Tomorrow we hold you right around the same then sunday cool it off. This time of year. It dan by several degrees below normal this time of year. Doesnt lack like any changes. So enjoy the break from the heat. As we check out the live doppler 7hd we have the low clouds and fog. Not just near the coast but filling in over parts of the bay tonight. And heres view from our exploring camera you look towards the transamerica pyramid. Financial district it is overcast right now typical around this tame of year. 56 in San Francisco. 57 oakland. Still pretty mild on peninsula down to the south by. San jose 62 degrees. Golden gate bridge camera we do have some low clouds around visibility okay. Santa rosa 61 writ now. 67 though in fairfield. Novato 59 livermore currently check in at 64 degrees in and from our High Definition emeryville camera you see lack back to San Francisco we do have the gray skies around. Low clouds coast bay tonight. Mild warm for saturday and cooling trend starts for the second half of your weekend. It really takes us rate on through the middle of next week. Not lake anything is going to get warmer or hotter any time soon. Here is the reason for it. Theres is a trough parked here steady wednesday off the cool ocean water on shore flow will continue over the next 7 days. See our forecast animation even though the trough will shrink at times and eventually just park itself rate over us, its going to prevent any heat from getting out here so no sign of summer heat. As long as High Pressure cant build in we cant really bring you any hot weather so like i said enjoy the brake from the hot summer weather. Typically see around this time of year. Also means lower fire danger for the firefighters out there. Tomorrow morning low clouds fog temperatures in the 50s 0so cool side early plans. Pleasant south by 77 santa clara. Sunny vale 78 in san jose. Shining on peninsula for the afternoon. 79 in los alto altos. 78 redwood city. 70 million addresses. Upper 50s low 60s coast side still extra layer around the coastal area. 61 in the sun set district. Low clouds 65 in downtown San Francisco. North bay you will see 60s here coast side. 83 santa rosa. 82 sonoma. East Bay Community hayward Oakland Richmond all in the low 70s. 74 union city. Inland spots running warm. Antioch 88. 83 pleasanton. 84 concord. 85 degrees in livermore. Mild to warm saturday. A little bit cooler sunday and then temperatures dropoff a few more degrees. Tuesday and wednesday. 82 in the warmest inland valley. Thats cool. Upper 50s coast side temperatures come back up thursday and friday. Thanks vichlt police chase happen all the tile. Boy not like this. 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