The bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Catherine happening now at 8 Catherine Day four of the bart strike. And there are hints that an announcement may be coming soon. Bart management and its unions have been talking. And while it may be too late to get trains running for the morning commute. There has been progress. We begin our Team Coverage tonight with kron 4s dan kerman. Hes live outside mtc headquarters in oakland. Where both sides are meeting. Dan . Reporter far from here we know that all sides are close to a deal. At this point all we know it is close. That sad, all sides have been marking hard throughout the day. We have work are not lee to meet their needs without out compromising there are safety. Reporter president Roxanne Sanchez says her team of negotiatiors is doing all they can to end this strike and reach an agreement . And in fact significant progress has been made reporter the unresolved issues appear to be about work rules and safety . Seiu has been caucisng here at their oak street offices all day, while atu and bart mtc heaquarters in separate conference rooms. A federal mediator has been moving between the locations trying to hammer out an agreement which will take these bart workers off the picket lines and put them back to work. Reporter atu president Antonette Bryant was unusually quiet as she returned to the mtc building after a short break . Bart spokeswoman alicia trost tweeted if an agreemnt was reached by 6pm trains would role for the morning commute. 6pm came and went, but just after 7 oakland mayor jean quan arrived saying a great announcement would soon be coming. Reporter the news media is waiting anxiously waiting to see if they had achieved an agreement. If that opens if that happens we will bring it to you. People in the bay area have catherine been forced to look for other ways to get where theyre going. And a lot of them have been using busses and casual carpooling. Kron4s Charles Clifford is live at the transbay terminal in San Francisco. How does it look tonight, charles . Reporter just about in half hour ago, things have started to come down. The morning commute and also afternoon commute were very heavy down here. Trying to use casual car pools, getting a ride home. Even though it seemed like it possibly could be a solution or finished on to this strike in sight. Theyre still a lot of frustrated people down here. People have a lot of places to go and get to this is nonsense. I understand why they had to do it but i was 45 minutes late for work and i have to wait to get home and ive been on my feet all day. I un know that other people filled the same way. Reporter trows Clifford Kron 4 mayors catherine the bart strike is hurting lots of people not just commuters. Its been particularly tough on some independent buisnesses. New tonight at 8 kron 4s John Fenoglio shows us how the strike is taking its toll at the cash register. Reporter the bart strike is having an impact on local buisnesses. I think a lot of people are avoiding downtown altogether. Working from home it is frustrating for a small business. Reporter thats jonathan levin. Owner of cable car clothiers. The oldest mens retail store in San Francisco. Reporter at sams grill. Management says buisness is so slow, it wasnt worth the commute from the east bay for some of their staff. Here in the financial district during the lunchtime rush, customers usually line the alleyway to order a sandwich from the takeout window at golden west. Today, though, you can see that there are hardly any customers at all. When bart is running. The streets are empty. Our sales will definitely be floor. Low or reporter all of the folks i spoke with out here expressed the same sentiment. They say they are tired and frustrated with the strike, and that they want it to end soon so that they can get back to business. Std. Reporter people ready for the strike to end. Reporter bart strike. You are my excuse if im late for anything this week. Reporter two hours and ten minutes. Total doorto door commute this morning. Takes one hour when bart is running. Bartstrike reporter stay connected with kron4 for the latest on the bart strike. You can get the latest on kron4 dot com. Also our facebook and twitter pages. You can also download our mobile app to get push alerts for the latest bart information. Well continue to monitor the latest developments. And bring you live updates throughout this newscast. A male student came to the school with a semi automatic handgun. Shooting to students and teacher before turning the gun on himself. Himself. Catherine a shooting at a middle school near reno today. Two people are dead. And the community tonight is asking how and why it could happen. Kron 4s j. R. Stone is live near reno and has the latest on the police investigation. Jr . Reporter fact that those two middle School Students that were shot are in stable condition this evening. The last two hours the miniscule have been able to drop off flowers in light candles of in memory of the tube that died. Reporter clean up crews spraying down the area where a middle School Student opened fire on classmates and a teacher. Reporter seventh grader faith evans was there on this blacktop before school monday. Before officers could be seen running every which way. Reporter Police Say One boy was shot in the shoulder, another in the stomach. Both now in stable condition. Faith says her math teacher mike landsberry, a veteran who has served several tours in afghanistan, tried to help. He was trying to tell the guy to put the gun down. But hit the boy shot him and i was very upset. Reporter landsberry was shot and killed. Faith said after hearing the shots she ran with her friends to the nearby elementary school. As to what she knows about the shelter. Shelter. Hooter. A humanity issue catherine ahead at eight. The family of a woman whose body was found in the stairwell of a hospital say theyre shocked by asaw the body but did nothing. And a little girl is at the center of an international mystery. Police in greece believe she was abducted. But now they dont know how to find her parents. Catherine and next the investigation into the accident that killed two bart workers. Jacqueline the command was no fun out there today. We do see clear skies now i will have more on that coming up in al later in the show developing tonight. Catherine developed in tonight. We now know the person driving a bart train that hit and killed 2 bart employees this weekend was a trainee. It happened saturday near the Pleasant Hill station. And as kron fours scott rates repots the ntsb now is now investigating. Reporter the ntsb spending the day monday interviewing bart employees, trying to figure out why and how Larry Daniels and Chris Sheppard were stuck by a train killing them both. Reporter lead ntsb investigator James Southworth flanked by his team on either side answering questions from reporters monday afternoon questions like, how fast the train was going, and who was in the operators compartment at the time of the accident reporter the ntsb does confirm that the train was in an automatic mode, but would not comment on if all the bart employees were following procedure when the accident happened. And was there to do training into were trainees. Reporter we have also learned that an emergency stop was pressed just before the accident, and that the video shot from the inside of the train has been sent to a washington d. C lab for processing the ntsb saying this is just the beginning of a long investigation into how these two men died these things happened and basically in an instant we have to take a look at it and it is quite a lot of time. Reporter now investigators tell me they will be interviewing members of barts Management Team during the day onots new tonight at 8 catherine another twist into the investigation of a body found in the stairwell at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital. Kron 4s Justine Waldman talked to Lynne Spaldings friends about new allegations saying an employee saw a person slumped in the stairwell and nothing was done about it. Reporter an orderly at s f general told and nurse that he sought and found unconscious moment in the stairwell about one week before they sit out spaldeens body. The news this paper also reported that they saw twice the one going up the steps and won going down the steps. This has not been confirmed. Her family is out reach. Out reached raged reporter it is unclear if the deputy effort checked the stairwell or went to the car wrecked stairwell. My heart goes up to the professionals m sure theyre a lot of people who are upset about this spirit but those two institutions have very very hard questions to answer for when spaldings family. Reporter posting on is block site that it is committed to finding out what happened so that it will never happen again. This would have a Good Samaritan rolling in his grave friends of Lynne Spalding are deeply disturbed by a new report in the sf chronicle that says an orderly at sf General Hospital told a nurse he saw an unconscious woman in a stairwell, about 1 week before authorities found spaldings body the 57 year old had been missing for 17 days. The newpaper also reports. The orderly saw the body twice, once going down the stairs the other going up. Sf general has not confirmed the passed out person the employee saw is spalding. Even so, her family is outraged. Catherine it could be a sad case of like mother, like daughter. Vivian vosburg is under arrest on suspicion of child abuse and child neglect. Her daughter, Guadalupe Shaw, has also been arrested accused of bullying another girl, who later committed suicide. Reporter a surprising video showing the van shelton in yelling at six kids. It would being child abuse and neglect. Milan but authorities contributed to a suicide of 12 your old of rebecca said wick. Boz burke said two boys were having a fight and she was trying to break them up. She added that she was having a bad day. The one in the video is a far cry from the concern mother that she was sure her mother and her daughter was wrongfully accused. They are punishing my daughter for something they say she did over the internet. And i knew thati know that my daughter would not do anything like that. Reporter sure states that they easily located this video on facebook. The two cases are unrelated. What the mother allegedly did was caught on video, and posted online. Chris cuomo has the story. The apple doesnt fall far from the tree. Reporter harsh words from polk county Sheriff Grady Judd for the mom of an alleged teenaged bully, after he saw this what the hells wrong with you, stupid . Reporter a disturbing video showing Vivian Vosburg punching and screaming at six kids, ranging in age from nine to 14. Child abuse and neglect. Vivian, do you have anything to say to rebeccas family. Reporter the mom was arrested just five days after vosburgs daughter 14 yearold Guadalupe Shaw was arrested and charged with aggravated stalking, bullying that Authorities Say contributed to the suicide of 12year attorney denies that charge. Reporter according to an affidavit from the polk county sheriffs department, vosburg said two boys were having a fight and she was just trying to break them up. She added that she was quote having a bad day. What the bleep is wrong reporter the woman in this video is a far cry from the concerned sure that her daughter was wrongly accused. Catherine nearly two dozen members of the Arizona Air National guard are facing felony charges theyre accused of cheating the federal government out of 1point4 million dollars. The guardsmen were part of a unit which operated predator drones over iraq and afghanistan. Catherine Authorities Say they falsified records using fake home addresses in order to collect money intended for others. Some of them allegedly pocketed more than 100 thousand dollars in pay beyond what they should have earned. Catherine beach visitors in Sonoma County and beyond are being warned to be careful of whats known an sneaker waves as well as strong currents. Sneaker waves are big waves that crash onto shore with sometimes sweeping people out to sea. Jacqueline keeping things cool near the coast line. Still in the 60s for bay shores but more away from the coast line with low eighties in inland valleys. We will not see much change in the next couple of days but at the end up the week a storm will approach with more clout coverage and showers. Well talk more about that at 845. Catherine catherine the National Weather service has issued a beach hazards warning through tomorrow afternoon for Sonoma County through southern monterey county. Visitors are being reminded to keep their eyes on the ocean. And fishermen are being told not to fish from rocks and jetties. Catherine still ahead were monitoring the latest developments in the bart strike. Both sides are still talking. Well have a live update. Catherine also singer ceelo green is booked into jail. The serious charge hes facing. Gary we will also give you the warriors in china a little bit later catherine if you want to sell an ipad youd better do it soon. Apple is expected to debut a new ipad tomorrow. That will send prices for the older models to fall. Last year, tradein values for the ipad dropped four percent when apple announced its latestmodel. That was last october. And prices later fell another 10 percent. Stay tuned to kron 4 for the big announcement. Our tech reporter gabe slate will join us in the studio tomorrow night at 8 with all the details catherine singer ceelo green wont be charged with Sexual Assault. But hes still facing a felony. The la District Attorney says he slipped ecstasy into a womans drink while at a restaurant last year. The two later went back to the womans hotel. Catherine prosecutors eventually decided there was not enough evidence to file Sexual Assault charges. But hes facing one count of furnishing a controlled substance. Green pleaded not guilty hell be back in court november 20th. Reporter what we know about her where she was found . And how police think she may have gotten there. Catherine also ahead at eight. A day of fishing turned into a fight for survival reporter coming up and the next addition of people behaving badly. Table. Were live with an update. Commuters are increasingly frustrated. Reporter on kron 4 and facebook as well most bart stations look like this. Frustrated people are saying that they will boycott bart like jones. Even if it runs surgery is better. He will convert politician have been some are aware teen were could change again down mobile received scholer spirited a lot of you are sounding off about your bart strike what youre saying. Grant . Olie please i cant afford just 3 hours of sleep, trying to function at work, catherine raid. Is no sugarcoating at separate the web site has been slow and people have been given spot during the process. No one is more upset that i am. The product, the Health Insurance is good. The prices are good. It is a good deal. Reporter half a Million People have applied for obama care for the applications. We have people working overtime, 247 to address the problem. Reporter technical the is stealing is receiving criticism on both side. This is a fiasco it is ridiculous they are working to correct that reporter reminding everyone is just three weeks into a six month open enrollment how two fisherman stayed alive. After their sailboat capsized. R catherine now that are looking for her parents. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Catherine this just in to the kron 4 newsroom. The reporter and catherine bandit they have a deal . Catherine dan do they have a deal . Reporter they have to meet with bart facetoface across the table but this is a very good signed we believe that they are bringing in a tentative agreements. But are the only ones that are not in this building. Bart management is inside this building. It looks like we are one step closer catherine as three dozen of them walking down the street marching in to the building and headed upstairs with what we believe is a tentative agreement that needs to be signed off on. That would be enough to get the trains rolling again but a good positive steps so far appeared will let you know. The next thing would be an announcement. Catherine sold basically, everyone is in one place, finally. Reporter we are waiting for everyone to do the signing and make the announcement appeared that could happen in the next 10 minutes for the next two hours. We would have to wait and see Catherine Grant . 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