Tops stories we are following on this thursday. Bart management is set to vote on the new contract with unions today. Well tell you if a rejection could lead to another strike. And San Francisco police describing this man as extremely dangerous we have new details in the search for the killer wanted for a weekend shooting plus. A string of armed robberies in vallejo is leaving residents on edge this morning. Well have the latest in a live report. Good morning and thanks for im james fletcher. We saw a lot of rain yesterday. And it slowed the morning commute down quite a bit. We are seeing dry Clear Conditions at the bay bridge. Drive times about 23 minutes from about reaching the walled old tunnel. James. James thankyou ericanew this morning. Three San Jose State University students are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjecting him to racial and religious taunts. College freshmen colin warren, Joseph Bomgardner and Logan Beaschler each face up to a year in county jail if convicted. The three defendants allegedly called their black roommate threefifths and fraction. Have placed a u shaped bike lock on his neck and refused to give him the key for five to 10 minutes. Also contributing to the atmosphere of a hate crime the defendants kept a photo of adolf hitler and a Confederate Flag in the suite they shared. Vallejo police are looking for the suspects involved in a string of eight armed robberies at homes and businesses in the city. Police say all eight happened last night. The first incident was reported around 530 outside a home on olympic street while the last one happened at 915 at the parking lot of the pep boys on plaza drive. Victims have given similar descriptions of the robbery suspects. The suspects have been described as a group of two or three black males armed with a revolver and wearing black hooded sweatshirts. No arrest have been made at this time. The bart District Board will make a critical vote today which could leave bay area commuters in chaos again. Board members says the will reject the agreement, which Union Members have already ratified. That is because that paid family leave provision should not have been okayed by district negotiators because it . Is too costly bart Union Representatives say they are willing to discuss the boards concerns with the provision and consider making revisions but only if the board approves the agreement first. Here is the anchor lead and script we are less than a day away from a critical vote. Which could leave the bay area commute in chaos once again. The bart District Board is set to reject the tentative contract agreement. It reached with its unions last month. Tonight, dan kerman explains why, and talks to the union to see if a thumbs down vote. Means workers will go bart unions refuse to say whether they will return to the picket lines, if the bart District Board rejects a tentative contract agreement reached last month. 50 there will be a bart protest this morning following a press conference. It will all happen in front of bart offices in oakland. Beginning at eight15. The event is being held by united Public Workers for action. To stop Union Busting against bart workers. It will last until the bart board of directors meeting at nine am. Organizers say. The bart board continues to try and cut back worker benefits. They also say managers should be jailed for unsafe health and safety practices. Stay with kron4 for more on the latest bart contract trouble. You can always log on to our website kron 4 dot com to get an update. Or check our facebook and twitter pages. You can also download the kron4 mobile app. Developing news this morning. San Francisco Police have identified a suspect involved in a deadly shooting in San Franciscos soma district. They are looking for this green. Police believe hes responsible for opening fire after a fender bender dismisses and jessie streets early sunday morning. They say a woman in a red dress got out of one of the cars and started yelling at the victims. Then a passenger, melquiesha warren, got out of the car to calm the woman down. Thats when police say green walked up with a gun and started shooting. Killing warren and critically injuring the driver. Chief suhr says green is dangerous so if you see him, dont approach him. Call authorities instead. They believe he lives on the peninsula and may be driving a 2001 mercedes benz. The High School Coach of one of the victims says this tragedy is beyond senseless. Monique walton was melquishas High School Basketball coach at tennyson high and was melquishas teacher, mentor, and friend. She says that melquisha was an outstanding player who mentored the younger students in her school she was an honor student at tennyson. She was a three year varsity basketball player. Her work ethic was very strong. She was a mentor to a lot of the other kids. She aspired to become a lawyer one day and wanted to work with students, young people that were struggling with school and things like that and just wanted to be an advocate for them and let them know where there is a will there is a way. Monique says that melquisha made the world a better place while she was here. Walnut creek is moving forward with a plan to double parking meter fees downtown. And change enforcement hours. The city currently enforces parking meters from nine in the morning until six at night. The proposal would make the new enforcement hours ten am to eight pm. The proposal also looks to charge people on sundays. To park at the meters. City Officials Say higher parking fees should bring the city around twomillion dollars a year. If adopted, the new parking fees and rules will go into effect in next year. Its a big sign the Holiday Season is underway. The Salvation Army has started its annual Red Kettle Campaign in San Francisco. The campaign helps more than four Million People in need during the christmas season. And about 30 Million People every year. Officials say all the money Officials Say all the money rto those whove worried. Suffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. A bay area teacher attacked by a student in her own classroom. And the weapon used. May surprise you. That story after the break. A developing story out of santa rosa. A teacher is stabbed multiple times with a pencil. That is what police say happened at midrose high school. Kron 4s j. R. Stone has more yellow tape and a Police Officer marks the spot where it stood at went after a teacher. in fact police tell us it was a 16 yearold male who stabs the teacher multiple times in the head and neck and arms. And get this this didnt in not having night. Police say the weapon used was a mechanical pencil. Another student jumped and to give the 16 yearold off the teacher. Officers tell us the on the attacker ran off School Grounds to a relatives house. Melrose high school and cousy and highschool all share the same campus and were put on locking down for about an hour after the attack the administrators were quick to assure parents and their students were ok. No one else was hurt during the attack and investigator said injuries to the teacher are not life and dreams. The child has been arrested about the names are not being released of the teacher or the attacker. As for why this happened officers are still trying to figure out. And they tell me that the attacker does not have a history of violence. A j. R. Stone kron4 nose for it james out live look outside as San Francisco international airports. Looking like chronic conditions overhead but no word of delayed flights. We will keep an eye on its. If it should happen to pop out will alleging a. Zczczcto the death toll in the philippines has crossed the fourthousand mark. Nearly two weeks after typhoon haiyan struck the nation. About 16hundred people are still missing. Aid continues to pour in for those who survived the storm. Long lines of people wait for food and supplies in hardhit tacloban city. And now china says it plans to send a medical ship to the region. We are picking up some light rain. More of a drizzle. Looks like the rain is actually a little more intense closer to san ramon print as resume and take a look at all of this yellow brick rain is coming down at about two tenths of an inch for an hour and the livermore area and we already see cant field solver 3 in. Of rain. In most locations in the east bay we saw over an inch closer to 2 in. Of rain really not too much reported for those in the santa clara valley. Heres a look at temperatures right now. Chronic conditions overhead which is actually keeping us a little bit more insulated. As we carry these numbers into the afternoon youll see plenty of 60s. Low 60s for today. Sunny skies are expected. Campbell hitting a high. As we work our way to the east bay. Walnut creek to a high of 65. 63 the, number for both san leandro and Castro Valley. Your 7 day around the bay forecast shows temperatures will warm as we havent closer to the weekend. In fact we are a little bit of warmer than where we should be for this time of year. A string of sunshine will carry us into next week. Although we arent looking at any hot spots take a look. A few raindrops on the camera at the bay bridge toll plaza. You may need to use your windshield wipers approaching the maze. San mateo bridge dry conditions and at traffic off to a good start on highway 92. The we do have clotted conditions in the north ave. All was well for highway 24 despite the light rain. We dont have the incidents to report for the ride through the san ramon valley. James tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the j fk assassination. Its a moment that everyone alive at that time can remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. However, for one politician. Who was a boy at the time. The memory is a little more vivid than most others. Thats because he met president kennedy shortly before the fatal moment in dallas. Dana bash reports. it was a sane abstinence experienced all over the country but for williams it was different. He had just met the president that morning. But i couldnt stand him frankly and i had just seen him. his father was a car dealer in fort worth texans were the president started out the day he was killed. Whims dad told a local congressman he would surprise supply cards but only on one condition. he said the only thing that asks for congressmen is that my wife and my son can meet the president. and thats exactly what happened. At the texas hotel after what turned out to be the final speech of a jfk is life. No one took williams pitcher with kennedy but it blazed in his memory. Little did williams to know that he would become one of the last people kennedy would ever meet. i literally was a last person to shake his hand as he left in the hotel that day. now williams is a member of congress and credits his encounter with the jfk that fateful day 50 years ago with his interest in public service. its hard to describe and sometimes get too emotional. In empowered me to do something for my country. The idea that i was here at the United States congress. he touched my heart and soul and all of the generation where i really believe that on that moment the world changed. Did abash cnn, capitol hill. A palo alto man is being held in north korea. Merrill newmans family says the 85 yearold was in the country with a tour group to visit a war memorial. They said was pulled off the airplane just as he was about to head back, just minutes before it was careful to depart. This was back on october 26th. North korea has not publicly acknowledged that its holding the elderly man. As the second american being held there. Election of we find out anything more for newman. ladies and gentlemen we have here looks to be a salmon or great white washed up on ocean beach. James pretty crazy. Interns out when he got a good look at the shark he realized it was actually just near death. 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New details about a will the bart board of directors will vote at 9 00 this morning. It is expected that they will reject this tentative agreement because it says this mistake could cause a bart the 26 and 40 million. It was a clerical error that they did not mean to have it and the language of that the bart workers would be allowed six weeks paid leave each year. Instead has been rejected several times during the negotiating process and bart unions fully know that bart directors did not want that. It was an accident. They want the bart unions to acknowledge it was an accident and just remove it. And then sign the bill that bart unions say is they denote a deal. You put it in place you have to live with it. Right now bart unions is not say what they will do if the bart board of directors will reject the it will probably head back and decide whether or not to take that clause out and about again whirrs and we have to scrap this thing. We saw how ugly it was four months and that we sought to bart strike is. They broaden and she negotiator. lets turn our attention to weather. We have erica check in now the forecast. Erica we are not done with the wet weather just yet. We are picking up some sprinkles. Light rain for both the nimitz freeway and interstate 580. Looks like san leandro we start to see drier weather around oakland. Dont be surprised if you need your windshield wipers for your drive to and from the caldecott tunnel. We are san ran at about a quarter of the net falling apart hour for your ride along the all to my past. Rain starts to clear up a bid to but we are right back and its working their way to the dublin interchange. You may need to use your windshield wipers carry an umbrella just in case for it but this is really the last of it. You can see the showers actually rotating heading closer to my right and eventually reaching southern california. We are working up to plenty of clouds here in the bay area. And thats actually keeping the temperature is insulated. Livermore today checkin with a high of 62 upper 60s are back on the board. Were going to continue with a dry and mild conditions affect all signs turned to clear and dry weather approaching the thanksgiving holiday. More details on your extended forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Traffic around the bay area looks good. We do have some right now theres a you may want to watch your speed. Taking it out to the bridges just a small weight in one of the cash lanes here and the bay bridge toll plaza barley so far so good working your way out of oakland and San Francisco. San mateo bridge moving well in both directions of highway 92 and you can see traffic on the right hand side of your screen those taillights are delayed for approaching the high rise and eventually reaching the