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Is live in oakland to tell us what the city and b. A. R. T. Are doing about them. Laura . Reporter well, hi, ama. Oakland has been doing a lot to tackle homelessness. Theyve constructed a safe rv parking lot and those Community Cabin locations but there is an enormous problem that now includes the construction of whole buildings, structures, communities underneath the b. A. R. T. Tracks. The homeless are building their own homes. Underneath the b. A. R. T. Tracks in oakland. Like here along san leandro street near 81st avenue where at least a dozen wooden structures are you can it had right under the tracks, trains whizzing by at regular intervals. Structures that have taken awhile to build. It is a concern. The structures are a bigger concern. Theyre not a tent. Theyre not mobile. And as people build them up, its a whole new chapter of what were concerned about around danger associated with encamp muchmen mentes. Last year a man ....
The good news is that theyre not too many issues on the roadways. It has come down to left talked to you. Lester is a life look of the bridges. Starting with the bay bridge. The metering lights are on. They are in the process of clearing you can see the tow truck in the backhand corner of your screen, as it is pulling out of the parking lot. It now had a through the toll plaza. You are backed up towards the maze and onto the a 80 file. It is not very far once you get through the toll plaza youre looking good. It is started to slow down on the san mateo bridge. So a better picture than yesterday. Still plenty of volume of the westbound direction. Eastbound is not a problem the Richmond San Rafael bridge starting to back up as is the approach to the toll plaza. We are following developing news out of japan, just minutes ago, authorities were confirming the death toll from a suted anda nois now up to 33. At least 36 people are a ....
Controversial arrest this summer, an arrest some say involved Excessive Force. The arrest is led to an internal investigation involving bart police. Abc 7 News Reporter has reaction tonight from the force. Down on the ground get on the ground. Reporter this is july video of bart police arresting michael smith. He and his pregnant girlfriend, andrea appleton, were getting off bart. Get down, get down. We didnt know what for. Reporter bart just received this report. On the bus right now, getting off, just starting to rob me. We believe he has a weapon on him. Reporter the man who called 911 had been cursing at them and telling them they smelled. Neither smith nor appleton was armed. Do you believe your officers used Excessive Force . Absolutely not. It was absolutely a perfect response to what they had, a person with a we ....
Gfx scott boxes we have Team Coverage of this devastating flooding. As we mentioned nbc bay areas krischez is the. She just talked to people who tried to stay in their homes to ride out the storm. So is bob redell, whos been talking to people who fled thier homes evacuating their homes overnight and this morning. But lets begin with meteorologist kari hall kari anim kari chroma wx at ck laura boxes gets back out to the scene of that massive flooding south but we may still have some waves of rain moving in. We just had crazy amounts of rain over the past several days. And as you see in morgan hill, weve had 5 1 2 inches of rain and it may have been even higher over the Santa Cruz Mountains we had 8 to 15 inches. And even spots like san rafael measuring a lot of rain, the amount that we should have for the whole month of january we had over a short period of time. And now ....
To expect delays out here. If you come back out here live, you can see another train is coming in. This train was waiting outside of the station. It was one of the trains that was stacked up. So the next train is going to be for fremont. Weve been seeing a lot of trains for San Francisco, so the trains are coming through. They are working through this delay. But again, you could be sitting on the tracks not even at a station for several minutes this morning as you heard from our frustrated passenger. Back to you in the studio. Alexis smith first alerted us to this problem over an hour ago. Shes still tracking the recovery system right now. They did not get that resolved for about 40 minutes and it all started with that disabled maintenance vehicle that was just stuck n the tracks between macarthur station where matt is and the 19th street station so they are in recovery mode but still have some trains stacking up and theyre saying ....