if you're looking for osha, you go to the osha website. in part, because of our dialogue with you and some of the questions you are raising, we are looking at, do we need to create a new web portal? sen. lankford: when we got the information back from you, and we went to those hyperlinks we started asking -- what is called guidance? these are the words that were used. people don't even know what his guidance. it is a dear colleague? what standard is this have? what enforcement does it have? we have to find a way to make it clear to someone who is new. i am hogging the time. ms. maxwell: point to follow up a little bit on senator alexander's direction and maybe this is a simplistic -- i want toitkamp: follow up a little bit on senator alexander as her direction maybe this is a simplistic way of looking at it. a guidance should not hurt you. a guidance should only help you meet the requirements that are set out in the statute and in the substantive rule. where we are getting concerned here is when guidance seems to hurt us. it should be inst

if you're looking for osha to go to the osha website.but in part because of our dialogue with you in some the questions are raising we are looking at doing each great a new web portal that would link -- >> just some way because we put these were clouds up there because when we got information back from both of you, and we went to all those hyperlinks can we start asking the question what is called the guidance? these were the -- these were the words that were used to is that a dear colleague, is that a guidance document? what standard does this have come what enforcement? we have to find a way to make occur to someone who's knew coming into this. again i'm hogging the time. >> and i want to follow up a little bit on senator alexander's direction and maybe some of this direction. a really simplistic way of looking at this. but it seems to me that we passed the statute, that's binding. that's got the full force and effect of law. you go through a formal rulemaking process, full force and effect of the law. i guidance shouldn't hurt you. ri

osha seems to have abandoned all rule making.they don't have the money to implement the law, there's been several stories about that again just in the last couple of weeks, and nitza was looked like if it couldn't muster itself to even understand what was going on with some of these more sophisticated problems. it took actually plaintiff lawyers, thank you, plaintiff lawyers to discover that the ignition switch had been changed out. they kept it a secret from all the people were driving around with what they knew was a dangerous switch, so bottom line is, i would say, too many companies large and small are galloping across the tundra without fear of prosecuted and this is a bad situation. it's really something that we need a new approach to address and to really change, and if we go up to capitol hill, there's so many veteran lobbyist here i see, going to capitol hill, would you please give the agencies for more than and see what kind of reaction that gets. so it's not going to get better any time soon, and the -- if we can find

the same with osha. head of osha is doing a great job enforcing the act. is a very weak act that makes it difficult to enforce. areresources they have totally inadequate. fournk if they take them or 500 years to inspect every workplace in the country just time, which isn't much of a deterrent. to focus on the resources that osha has but he's good job there. think regulation side, i for most of the first term and the beginning of the second he was baited by republicans talking about too regulations and he said, the show you, so regulations just stopped. silica is an example. everybody's known the dangers of silica. by the way, seven people die every day from silicosis, seven every day. sundays, holidays, every day -- seven die every day. not my workers, workers across the country. theycould be carpenters, could be cement works breathing noica because there's standard for silica in this country. every other industrialized has a standard for it. we don't. this for 100bout years. a you remember your history, place called hawk's nest. happened in west virginia

a million dollars in the building of a hotel because they didn't provide at least osha alleges, fall protection workers. in the quarter million dollar fine, osha said that flint lock workers were, quote, one trip, slip or misstep away from a deadly fall. injured. whether 0 show comes in and investigates, usually they don't unless there is an injury or fatality but they could because of the potential severity of this accident. one final note here, the city is undergoing a massive construction boom. down the street there are two high-rises and cranes all over the city. and we can tell you that construction accidents, because of this boom, are up so far this year. live in midtown south, jim news. >> jim, thank you. >>> in other news, a difficult day for students returning to class at a high school in new jersey where a quarterback died after taking a hit on the field. a memorial for evan murray now grows outside of warren mills regional high school. new jersey reporter toni yates is live at the school with more on this tragedy. toni? >> reporter: good afternoon. i will step outside of t

you.ank >> miss maxwell, osha's guidance on recognizing generally good engineering processes, was that intended to be a performance -based standard with flexibility for regulated parties to choose among industries best practices that were most appropriate for their businesses when it was originally set out there? to giveerformance-based flexibility? if so, is that still continuing even under the guidance? thinkator lankford, i your question is beyond my expertise. designed to give guidance to the field on implementing the standards. >> the concern i have is the guidance seems to remove flexibility that previously existed. when we try to look at what is guidance and what is regulation, it seems the regulation give flexibility to say you have this generally recognized engineering practice, go by those, or you can create your own process, you just have to show it is good process. this new guidance seems to "or" and everything else seems to go away. that seems to be one of those things that it would look like it would be a regulation that would need to go through a comment. if it is meant

john: what about workplace safety, rules like osha?ake cost to benefit into consideration they myopically focus on one goal the negative side effects often does protect large companies. we see this in the battle right now. john: it is intuitive to think that only government can do business. they have gone down dramatically. but researchers checked how they were proceeding before osha was created. they were already dropping before. they government is like someone jumps in front of the parade and claims it let it. john: there is good news? seven out of ten americans say government is inefficient and wasteful. maybe people are learning. a lot of other people are noticing what we have this level of operation then people are libertarians when it comes to her. i can only connect the dots to the rest of the government. coming up, while government kills some businesses, it props up others. taxpayers will pay when government promises. ♪ john: probably the most expensive where the government acts like a distract her boyfriend is the way it helps

you know how workers stop dying so much on the job because we created osha and osha limited to spending much as they tried to crack down sufficient funding has produced safety problems because there's some chance of an inspection. the government is absolutely necessarily a well functioning government moving forward on these issues. an american government where climate change is an issue, where we said we have to do something about this and the only way will happen is not by me driving. but the consumer will have been because the government gets involved and creates massive changes. we have done that before and we can do it again including on climate change. they made a point where the climate will not change to some extent. but we are certainly where it is as bad as we could get. we could do a lot to limit these changes. it's not going to be easy, but we can do it. we're not going to do it without the government stepping in that is working for international corporations and providing public transportation and affordable, all sorts that it could do. look at the freeways. they drive all a

we're wondering now if it was a subcontractor or why osha wasn't called if they weren't called.o the bottom of that today. >> very interesting. >> midway through a holiday week, which means labor day is around the corner. >> mike was telling us people take off early, maybe to get a jump on what is not enough of a three-day weekend. live look outside golden gate, people may be heading into the city by the bay. check the forecast. meteorologist kari hall. >> you'll have the iconic low clouds to get shots this morning. we are seeing clouds roll away from the hills in sunol and a beautiful sunrise. temperatures are in the lower 60s out the door and it will be a much more comfortable day. we've had nice weather recently. but temperatures coming down a few more glees. gilroy, 79s also san mateo. embarcadero 70. breezy one, too. late on this afternoon, 74, napa, pittsburg 85. san ramon topping out at 80. sushs la sunshine later today and next few days. heating up this weekend. right now check in with mike who has the answer to why the chicken crossed the road. >> i was making a comment

funding of osha, has reduced work lace safety problems -- workplace safety problems.ernment is absolutely necessary. a well-functioning government that is moving forward on these issues. so an american government where climate change is an issue is an american government where we have made climate change ab issue. where we said -- an issue. where we said we have to do something about this, and the only way it's going to happen -- it's not going to happen by me driving less. that's a consumer, individualistic thing. it's going to happen because the government gets involved and creates massive changes. we've done that before, and we can do it again including on climate change. we may be past the point where, you know, the climate is not going to change to some extent. but we are certainly well before the point where it's as bad as it could get. we can do a lot to limit these changes. it's not going to be easy, but we can do it, but we're not going to do it without the government stepping in, being an activist government that is working for international treaties, cracki

sabemos que la organiozacion cal osha de seguridad esta imvestigando el percance.ador en el video aparenta estar bien, hasta este momento, es decir un ano despues no ha regresado a trabajar debido a los estragos de ese dia aunque no sabemos exactamente que le ocurrio. (sandra a cuadro) lo mas preocupante de todo es que el historial de la compania constructora turner no esta del todo limpio. ya han tenido varios reportes de incidentes o accidentes similares. el mas reciente ocurrio durante la construccion del un estadio..aqui en la region. sandra live blanca ---al menos 10 personas quedaron desplazadas luego que un voraz incendio causara grandes daÑos a su hogar. vo --el siniestro se report cerca de las 5 de la maÑana sobre la cuadra 500 de la calle "nokomis". --los residentes despertaron con el humo y el sonido de las alarmas. --los bomberos sofocaron las llamas rpidamente, unos 40 minutos despus de llegar a la escena pero seÑalaron que los residentes no podrn regresar al inmueble hasta nuevo aviso. ---los bomberos dijeron que tuvieron suerte porque las alarmas de

because there was no catastrophic injury, nor hospitalization, turner was not required to notify cal osha. a digital team found out that the worker has since filed a worker's compensation claim related to post traumatic stress. the county released a year-old video showing one of the reasons why turner should be fired from the job. but state your name turner says this is all a publicity stunt. >> >> now after the battle of same-sex marriage is putting a kentucky county clerk in a national spotlight. she defied orders to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples. >> she's now facing jail time and is due in court tomorrow. we have more on this heated debate. >> this morning, is a county clerk in kentucky is in the national spotlight. >>> why are you not issuing marriage licenses today? >> because i'm not. >> under whose authority? >> under god's authority. >> a court ruled gay couples have the right to get bharry pd . >> it's our civil right. it's plain and stifrm. >> bshe's become a hero to peope here. >> no employee should have to release their religious believes at the door. >> two

most is when we see this case there are criminal prosecutions that can be brought and the head of osha should head over to the justice department and sit down and say what's going on here? we are prosecuting people in upstate new york for mistreating cats. maybe they shouldn't be criminally prosecuted. these are people that are dying on the job, humanbeings. another case that is just starting to come into the press are these auto cases, the one that i've been looking at his jeep cherokee. they put the tank behind the rear axle. someone accidentally rear-ended the car may be recklessly. the passengers inside of the jeep survived the crash. the gas leaks and there's an explosion. the person that rear-ended the car ends up in jail. it's a dirty deal including the so-called recall where they say let's put a trailer which didn't do anything. there's a grassroots movement among people that witnessed one of these inspirations and got so upset she started a petition online waiting to criminally prosecute and have an investigation of the company and executives and there's like 10,000 signatures

osha fined the company. no word with what caused the rig to tip over today. >>> for the first time in a year president obama met with vladimir putin today. if the frosty hand shake is any indication, there's no sign of relations between washington and moscow will warm up anytime soon. in separate speeches at the united nations today the two offered starkly different who to support in syria. a sharp response from mr. obama. >> in accordance with this logic we should support tyrants like assad who drops barrel bombs to massacre innocent children. >> putin announced his own alliance with assad government and iran and iraq. in response, mr. obama said he is prepared to work with any nation including russia to resolve the syrian conflict. >>> new jersey senator menendez allegedly used his position to help a doctor battle allegations of over billing and medicaid fraud and helping him to win a port security contract. the senator allegedly accepted free private plane trips and vacations in exchange. his attorney iss

osha cited and fined the company for $250 for failing to secure its workers from falling. the stores on 30th street, while they were upset over lost business, they are just thankful no lives were lost. >> yeah. literally a matter of feet and missed one of the businesses by maybe, i want to say, two feet. and that difference would have made a huge difference both for the building and the business and everything else on the block, really. >> again, we put multiple calls into the construction company. i gave the secretary my name, my personal information. we called them multiple times and flintlock has still not gotten back to us and their response for what happened out here today. again, major developments. the rig has been moved. chuck and sibila and right now 30th is open between sixth and broadway. we're live in midtown, marc san am tia. >>> tonight the health department is reporting a new ledge legionnaires outbreak in the bronx. health officials say that even though the cases have been geographically linked, that doesn't mean the cause has been found. water cooling towe

cal osha has no record of the incident. the worker did file a workers comp claim. they denied the contractor was more interested in building l i levi's stadium. >>> an emotional scene on san francisco's pier 14 exactly two months after an innocent woman was shot there. kate steinle's family returned to the scene of her murder this afternoon. you can see the flowers marking that spot. they filed formal wrongful death charges against two federal agencies. the sheriff released sanchez from custody without notifying federal immigration officials even though sanchez was an illegal immigrant. until sanctuary city rules are changed, the same thing could happen to anyone. >> she stops, takes a selfie, turns around and was shot. and she fell. she said, help me, dad. >> you can come to san francisco next week. be walking with your daughter or son. and in a moment, they can be taken from you. >> the steinle family claims i.c.e. knew about mirkarimiae policies and did nothing to retrieve sanchez. the third target, the federal bureau of land management. the gun used to kill ste

the same with osha. head of osha is doing a great job enforcing the act. is a very weak act that makes it difficult to enforce. areresources they have totally inadequate. fournk if they take them or 500 years to inspect every workplace in the country just time, which isn't much of a deterrent. to focus on the resources that osha has but he's good job there. think regulation side, i for most of the first term and the beginning of the second he was baited by republicans talking about too regulations and he said, the show you, so regulations just stopped. silica is an example. everybody's known the dangers of silica. by the way, seven people die every day from silicosis, seven every day. sundays, holidays, every day -- seven die every day. not my workers, workers across the country. theycould be carpenters, could be cement works breathing noica because there's standard for silica in this country. every other industrialized has a standard for it. we don't. this for 100bout years. a you remember your history, place called hawk's nest. happened in west virginia

madehanges that osha has will be difficult, if not impossible, for the companies to element within the six months provided and will yield little if any safety benefits. we will cost these retailers tens of thousands of dollars per site, a cost that will be passed onto the family farms that they serve. since they did not go to the formal rulemaking process, these key stakeholders were not afforded the opportunity to comment on the impact these changes and regulations will have on their livelihood. going back to the anhydrous amonia safety. the change to do away with the 50% rule? talk about the process and what led to that because the senators i'm sure are aware that these documents are the subject of litigation. i cannot talk about the substance of the specifics. as we know this was in response to the tragic explosion in west texas. it injured hundreds more. reuters reported $100 million in damage. west texas will never be the same. all of us are committed to preventing any sort of catastrophic tragedy again. there really was a robust engagement process as we embark on following that.

. >>> at 4:34, cal/osha has joined in on the investigation into a construction accident that shut down part of highway 101 in burlingame. a large excavator hit a transmission tower on friday. high voltage lines fell across the freeway closing all the lanes for much of the weekend. it was a mess. another closure is expected sometime in the future so crews can install a permanent replacement for that downed tower. >>> have an old traffic ticket you haven't paid yet in you might be in luck. the state will offer some drivers a chance to settle tickets for a fraction of what they owe. the plan is governor brown's idea. he says low income people often get trapped in a cycle of steep fines for minor infractions. >> what the bill basically does is says that if you are below a certain income level, you can have your fees reduced by 50 or even 80%. >> you can even get your license back if it's been suspended in some cases. theamnesty program begins october 1 and runs through 2017. >>> brook silva-braga has more on the case and the demonstrations planned outside the courthouse of six officers acc

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they created osha and expanded social security from the elderly to the disabled and they spent way more on the art than his predecessor. get rid of the draft, introduced a national health care plan that teddy kennedy stopped on his deathbed regretted having stopped. he said i'm sorry we stop nixon [inaudible] alger hiss and so on. it was the most i've ever seen in my life. i am not an expert. actually i found it very un-american because he was very cynical about it. everything that he did i've never seen in politics. at that time he was the most cynical man i've ever seen. he was conducting the hearings. he didn't allow any defense or rebuttal of any kind. he had such control environment are looking at this at the same time. he was cynical although not as cynical as he appears to be. he was a show off and that was defense. he was a shy guy putting up this kind of awkward defensive setting and he sounded insincere but look nixon was genuine about his patriotism and public service. one of the ironies is that mixing through watergate did a lot to diminish the public's faith in government s

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according to cal/osha he has been investigated for minor safety issues twice because!bu only paid 1, 2 25 dollar penalty. now the whole project is on hold for the ongoing investigation and assessment of the cost and damage in delay. >> pg&e has to total up all their damages to their property and then there will probably be other people filing claims for damages as well for lost time lost business. >>reporter: pg&e wrapped up most of the work here early today but those new poll just a temporary fix. >> we have to come back here in the coming months and construct new metal tower where the old one was. >>reporter: when they do build a new tower there is a chance highway 101 will be shut down again but that may take months and may not even happen until this project is completed which is scheduled for 2017. in burlingame certainly yoshtion abc 7 news. >> now to what may be largest apple account theft ever discovered. researchers say a piece of mall ware is affecting i-phone called key raider and stolen log inform from 225 i tune users. the accounts belong to people who unlo

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the olympic about osha right into the spotlight. >> so giuliana, one thing that's interesting about the book is rio i think solvency on times with is very carefree people at the beach and somber. your book just think with some the problems of the city and the violence environmental degradation, poverty and i was wondering. how has the city for some been able to maintain this image for the rest of the world, people abroad especially? why does remain this very iconic image of brazil? >> part the reason why rio has this nature is because it is all of those things at once. if you live there, if you spend time there, you know. it is one of the most beautiful places i have ever been to and it's a place where the physical environment imposes itself on your everyday life. you can't step out of your building without going all, my gosh. it's astounding every time you see. and at the same time all of these other things that you live and you suffer if you're based of their our very much true. went to investigate and way of the other. water is that the debate is gorgeous and the setting sun is also

we looked into walter because we looked into walter because of osha is about ethics to customers on a 30 minute or less basically what really works are drones. in this way our customers will be able to order something off of our website and have it delivered in less than 30 minutes to his or her home. she didn't have to go to the store, hop in the car or try to get a delivery truck to bring. it just gets delivered. >> i just popped up on the door right in front of there? >> yes, sir. >> okay. [laughter] >> mr. wynne, the faa proposed rulemaking -- >> we have a basket of fresh fruit headed your way right now. [laughter] spent potential uses of drone such as crop moderate income bridge inspections, aerial photography. photography. can you give a few other examples of potential commercial use of drones? >> there's all manner of infrastructure needs be expected in the country. for example, natural gas pipelines, high utility high-voltage lines. it would be an example of large industries that are just chomping at the bit to embrace this technology. so they're small uses, large uses, visual

osha protections. probably the biggest reason is that employers have stepped up since the 1940's and treat their employees a lot better than they used to. all this sort of goes towards explaining why there is a decline in union membership from the 1950's, which about one third of the private sector was organized to what it is now, which is 6.7%. i think we are still going to hear about stories of -- employers are the bad guys, so therefore, we need to have -- need to strengthen our labor laws. i am not going to go through and detail each case. and why we think that was a bad case. i want to talk a little more generically about how i view, based on conversations with my labor relations committee, as greg on -- what is going on in the labor department right now. as a justification for a lot of the things going on, a buildup of the unions in the sense that -- that the arguments made that as union membership declined since the 1950's, income inequality has increased, so therefore if you reverse that member

. >> host: they had osha and other protections and so on. wage theft. you talk about wage theft. that's something that we say if they had better character and they would accept for small responsibility and there are certain work supports. we know that they don't have the pension we know often they don't have health insurance but these are things that people don't take a bow. they just take the same working environment for granted. what is wage theft? >> guest: common practice is with hotel pay. you are told you have to clean the room before you clock in, so you have put in 45 minutes before you are allowed to clot can and then you are paid minimum wage. these kind of practices were you are paid sub minimum wage or you are the fourth to clock in and clock out in ways that don't capture the full day you were working overtime but this also happened to jennifer at the spa where she was working downtown. she was working 10 or 12 hours a day and not being paid overtime. so wage theft is a huge problem in our country and it's something that is not often talked about. it's very real. >>

. >> reporter: cal osha has no record of the incident. the worker still has an active workers' compensation claim for neck, digestive and nerve distress. this is the very same vault one year later. the county says turner had to redesign the system and is creating delays, one of several which has put this building two years behind of the the two sides had two meetings yesterday to iron out their differences. a spokesman for turner told abc 7 news, quote, turner continues its work and offers proactive solutions while some county officials are attempting to divert attention from their mismanagement of this project. the county has threatened to fire turner by the end of the week. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> the santa clara county sheriff's office is investigating tonight what, if any, role three corrections deputies played in a maximum security inmate's death. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow has more information on the moments leading up to that inmate's death and she joins us live from san jose tonight. melan melanie. >> re

another construction accident that shut down highway 101 for 24 hours is now being investigated by osha. a large excavator hit one of the transmission towers near the new broadway overpass causing it to collapse. high voltage lines fell across the freeway closing it for 18 hours friday night and nearly six more on sunday. thousands of drivers got stranded. cal trans is also investigating. >>> fire damages a south bay home. how it's shedding light on the housing prices all over the bay area. >> and the shame campaign against netflix. a generous benefit but not one shared by every employee. >> temperatures very comfortable in the low 80s but forget about the 80s for a while. temperatures going down to depths we've not seen since may. >> it's a peninsula landmark thousands of drivers pass by every day. why the flint stone house is in the ,,,, ♪ ♪ it took serena williams years to master the two handed backhand. but only one shot to master the chase mobile app. technology designed for you. so you can easily master the way you bank. >>> more than a dozen people need a place to stay after a fi

. >> reporter: cal osha has no record of the incident. the worker still has an active workers' compensation claim for neck, digestive and nerve distress. this is the very same vault one year later. the county says turner had to redesign the system and is creating delays, one of several which has put this building two years behind of the the two sides had two meetings yesterday to iron out their differences. a spokesman for turner told abc 7 news, quote, turner continues its work and offers proactive solutions while some county officials are attempting to divert attention from their mismanagement of this project. the county has threatened to fire turner by the end of the week. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> the santa clara county sheriff's office is investigating tonight what, if any, role three corrections deputies played in a maximum security inmate's death. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow has more information on the moments leading up to that inmate's death and she joins us live from san jose tonight. melan melanie. >> re

: and so, you know, like you said, middle class workers wouldn'tñr tolerate this, becaue they have osha other work protections and so on. >> guest: right. >> host: wageçe1 theft -- >> guest: wage theft. >> host: you talk about wage theft as something that, you know, we just say, hey, if they had better character, if they would accept responsibility, they would do well. we know they don't have a pension, we know often that they don't have health insurance, but these are things that people don't think about. they take a safe working environment for granted. what is wage theft? >> guest: so common practice is with hotel maids. so you're told you have to clean a room befe you clock in. >> host: yeah. >> guest: so you've put in 45 minutes before you're even allowed to clock in, and then you're paid minimum wage. so these kinds of practices where you're paid said minimum wage or you're forced to clock in or clock out -- clock in or clock out in ways that don't capture the full day, working overtime, but -- this also happened to jennifer at the spa where she was working downtown. she was work

. >> reporter: some drivers worry about heat stroke and took the complaint to cal/osha.c transit says it doesn't have the money to put air- conditioning into the older buses. >> it would be a real feat of engineering to be able to do that and in some cases, some of the buses it would be impossible to retrofit. >> reporter: they are putting the newer buses in hotter cities like castro valley, fremont and hayward, cities in the high 80s and mid-90s this week like oakland got some of the buses with no air- conditioning. >> you feel like you want to -- like dizzy. like i have a dizzy spell sometimes. >> reporter: ac transit is requiring all drivers to have watered with them. there's even -- to have water with them. there's even an emergency button to push if they feel sick. >> i have a cup of ice. >> reporter: for now a lot of water and fans. >> my back is soaking wet. and i'm on my way to go home so i can get in the shower. >> that was da lin reporting. the sun took a toll on sun valley mall in concord, as well. the heat forced a short in an electrical box. the mall lost al

he's saying, well, that osha just could not -- or epa just could not totally police all the activities that they want to police. they just don't have the tools to do so. that is, if every american ignored the epa regulations, the administration would have to somehow back down. and he was suggesting that -- and i haven't read the book. i just got a description of it. but he's suggesting that we set up a big, a large fund to be able to pay the fines of some of the people who would ignore the epa regulations, but the rest of us -- the people who would have to pay fines -- but the rest of us just ignore it. i mean, there's something to be said for civil disobedience. and there's -- my column next week talks about the level of ignorance that americans have about the constitution. .. he was not talking about king george. he was talking about united states constitution and as a matter of fact very few americans appreciate the level of distrust that the framers and founders had for the united states congress. it was a great level if you just redo the constitution or just read through the bill

. >>> cal/osha joined the investigation into a construction accident that shut down part of 101 in sanvoltage lines fell on the freeway closing lanes for the weekend. another closure is expected to allow crews to install a permanent replacement for the tower. >>> getting a traffic ticket is bad enough but many drivers can't afford it when extra charges are tacked on after you don't pay it in the first place. kpix 5 reporter kiet do with more about the state's new program which should provide a little relief for a lot of people out there. good morning, kiet. >> reporter: yes, good morning. the governor signed this into law to help people out of what he called a, quote, hell hole of desperation. we are talking about low income people trapped under a mountain of court fines and penalties. it is estimated that nearly 5 million people in california have had their licensed suspended because they got a traffic ticket they couldn't afford to pay and then hundreds of thousands of court fines piled on top of that. it's estimated the amount of unpaid traffic tickets in california is more than $10

we are working to figure out whether cal osha was involved in the investigation and whether there was any penalty for turner construction because of the incident. >> thank you. >>> 5:37. heads up, all this week low-flying helicopter is buzzing around the bay area. the chopper keeping track of radiation in the air for a federal resent program. the survey was last taken three years ago. the chopper flew over san francisco yesterday. pacifica and berkeley are on the list for today. >> concerns now this time on the ground. this morning about trains carrying crude oil past bay area schools. >> "today in the bay's" chuck coppola is in live in emeryville this morning. a new report shows thousand of kids go to class very close to the tracks. >> that's right. the oakland center for biological diversity says a quarter of a million schoolchildren could be in classes within a mile of bay area oil trains rolling through under a proposed new route change. that distance under a mile is within the evacuation zone of a number of oil train explosions like one in west virginia just two years ago. the pr

taken back out into the real world, more permeability in the system, changes to the upper outcome osha, blogger time and station, you are pcf throughout one's career. preferential treatment for duty stationstation if you're a high performer. a lot of this holistically is being called force of the future but it's a conversation that's been underway since the last administration, since we have the national guard commission. there was a discussion of continuum of service you know well from your time on the armed services committee as ranking member. so while the conversations have been underway for argument a decade and have been some changes like a member of the guard on the joint chiefs and some other types of compensation changes can this force of the future stuff is hard. discontinue service model is difficult to do. do you see progress being made in the last 18 months of this administration or is this something because its executive and legislative branch the coming of two different definitions of success in this regard? some of it is internal to dod, a lot of it would be congression