bart paid $84,000 for just two months of use.y work or were they just a really expensive bad idea? next time on "derailed." for a lot of passengers those changes were laughable. did you honestly think those gates would make a difference? >> it's a prototype. >> reporter: bart recently hired a new general manager that de what's he plan to do about it? that's our next stop. >> we have worked months on the series. if you want to watch the rest of the series all right now, just head to nbc bay area.com/derailed. you can also watch on our youtube channel as well as apple tv and roku. >> if you've brv been on a bart and soon weird stuff going on -- time table? >> it's going to get here once we hit tomorrow afternoon. so if you're driving around tomorrow could be slipping and sliding around quite a but. soyou want to rede as been, as we mentioned six months since we have soon this kind of rainfall unour forecast. there's a lot of oil on the roadways. just remember that when you are driving around tomorrow. we had this cold air system th

bart police are saying they have nothing to be sorry for. >> >> reporter: you have got the bart general manager saying sorry, we should not have done this, apologizing to the passengers, employees, and the person that was cited. then, you have bart police saying wait a second, we were just doing our job and following the rules. then, you have bart's board of directors divided on the whole matter. >> you are detained and you are not free to go. >> reporter: by now, you have probably seen the video, steve foster being cited for eating a sandwich on a platform while waiting for a bart train. bart police say they arrested foster after he became hostile and belligerent, using curse words and homophobic slurs toward the officer. when bart's general manager issued in apology to foster and bart writers for how the situation unfolded, it did not fit well with bart police and bart board of director, deborah allen. >> for the police officers, it is very demoralizing for our general manager to come out and say--to apologize. >> reporter: in a phone interview, pete garcia, president of the bart asso

[ bleep ] bart shooting up. all the different stuff that's so much more important, you mess with a guy eating a sandwich. >> reporter: the video shows foster refusing to hand over his i.d. and then cursing at the bart officer, even using a home phobic slur. >> i want to be disciplined. if you don't know how to approach people in that field of work -- >> reporter: bart's general manager robert powers says he's apologizing to foster and is disappointed by how the confrontation ended. powers says, quote, the officer was doing his job, but context is key. enforcement of infractions such as eating and drinking inside our paid area should not be used to prevent us from delivering on our mission to provide safe, reliable, and clean transportation. >> hell yeah, if i'm hungry i'm going to eat. i don't care where i'm at. if i'm hungry i'm going to eat. >> reporter: melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. >> new at 11:00 tonight, the search is on for not one, but three cars stolen from an east bay car show. someone drove off

bart is a very safe system. one more time i would say bart is a very safe system. >> he says bart is safe. you heard it. thank you for joining us. >>> we're going to do a deep dive into bart because obviously having a safe an reliable transit system is part of a better bay area. >> yesterday afternoon police say the victim was trying to stop a man from stealing another man's shoes. >> and was killed with his own knife he had pulled out in self defense. the victim was identified as a 49-year-old man. a neighbor said he's not surprised he gave his life trying to help someone else. >> that is his nature to always help people. i'm really sad to hear that this has happened to him and he's always willing to help anyone in the need of help. >> the suspect a 39-year-old man from san francisco. abc 7 news has learned he had walked away from a hospital just hours before the attack. he is facing charges of first degree murder and carjacking tonight. >>> the question is are these incidents as rare as bart is trying to portr

yet here we are. >> are passengers safe on bart? >> yes. >> if you're saying bart is safe but passengers don't actually feel that way, doesn't that mean your police department is frankly failing at its main job? ♪ >> if you would like to watch the rest of the series, you can watch all five parts on our website. just head to nbcbayarea.com/derailed. you can also find it on the nbc bay area youtube channel. if you have apple tv or roku, all five parts are waiting for you there too. >>> riders are complaining about sunday service, so bart is working to do something about it. for weeks now riders say bart trains pull into the stations routinely late. it's because of track work happening in san francisco. but today bart's new general manager offered a solution. the sunday schedule will change to show trains arriving every 24 minutes instead of every 20 minutes. >> we weren't making the 20-minute headway. so bart isn't being transparent with the riders. if we say we're going to do 20, we weren't making it. so with 24 we've looked at it. w

i have a stun gun on me because i take bart every day, and especially when i come on bart at night, i'm always watching. i watch everything, even not for myself, but for other people as well. >> i just got off the phone with bart officials. we're waiting to see if we can get an on-camera interview. they did tell me there is not only increased security personnel on their system, there are more police officers. we spotted our first bart police right there. i will tell you this. every rider that we've spoken to, they have not seen any increased security. >> and so why did kris not see many police officers? bart provided this explanation. all patrol officers are required to ride trains during each shift. we also have a team of officers who are dedicated to riding trains during the peak of commute. there are as many as 58 trains in service. most shifts are staffed with about 30 officers. so we do not have enough officers to be on every train. we rely on our bart customers to be our eyes and ears to reported illegal activity. our officers will respond. >> so what do you want to see on bart? b

will you keep eating on bart? >> heck yeah. if i'm hungry, i'll eat, no matter where i'm at. >> reporter: and ironically there's a take-out cafe right outside this station, and they sell breakfast sandwiches, but an employee at the cafe tells her customers to buy it, but don't eat it at the bart station. bart says they've turned over the video to an independent police auditor, and they'll review this case there. reporting live in pleasant hill, andrea nakano, kpix 5. >> all right, so what do you think? did the bart officer go too far or should people eat before they board? weigh in on our facebook, twitter, and instagram pages. >>> and a massive fencing ring busted in hayward. it spread all the way to russia and iran. mark sayer is live with more. >> reporter: this store front is boarded up now, but in authorities say it was the international center for an electronics fencing ring. tucked in this office park on mission boulevard is a company that police say was a front, and nearly a million dollars in stolen phones came through

our team road bart trains for months recording what they saw. the good, the weird, and the simply dangerous. you can watch the entire series right now. we posted it on our website at nbcbayarea.com/investigations. if you prefer, you can also watch it on youtube, apple tv, and roku. >>> a deadly hit and run in san jose, police need help finding the driver of this white truck. you can look at it there. it's a commercial sewage truck. the crash happened around 5:45 a.m. on old bay shore highway. the driver hit a man on his bicycle. that cyclist died at the scene. >> now to capitol hill where the last two witnesses testified in the public impeachment hearings. today president trump's former top russia expert discredited a conspiracy that it was ukraine that interfered in the 2016 election, not russia. >> this is a fiction being perpetrated by the russian themselves. >> that narrative is part of what president trump wanted ukraine to investigate, joe biden and his son. david holmes described how he personally heard the president ask about the investi

still ride bart. >>that makes you not want to have their phones and you know you got to be aware of your surroundings he used to getting just get on board. now to get to where you're going outside. >>today the general manager of bart bought power, our spoke to riders about their concerns while some are riding a bit on easy today. others are calm that it in the transit system i feel first told reporters today barred has hired 54 police officers this year and all officers said that improved over time for nights and weekends after yesterday's deadly stabbing he says he's taking the appropriate measures to improve safety would say bart is a very safe system. >>michelle thank you it is time to take steps to improve passenger safety that's what a member of bart's board of directors is saying in the wake of that deadly stabbing him that marred official tells kron four says the on the answer is to prioritize funding for public safety. >>by passengers stabbed to death while trying to prevent another by passeng

an apology from bart's director. bart cops are saying sorry, not sorry. >> i felt like that was just one more misstep in the handling of the whole situation. >>> they lost their mommy over something dumb. >> a pregnant mother of three killed outside of her home. why her death has devastated a school community. >>> how much would it take for you to consider leaving california? how about a $10,000 bonus to pack up and move out. tonight, mixed signals when it comes to following the rules on bart is what we begin with. good evening, i am veronica de la cruz. >>> bart police are not happy with their boss who apologized to a passenger who was called eating a sandwich on a bart platform. kpix 5's juliette goodrich joins us from the dublin bart station. bart police are saying they have nothing to be sorry for. >> >> reporter: you have got the bart general manager saying sorry, we should not have done this, apologizing to the passengers, employees, and the person that was cited. then, you have bart police saying wait a second

bart police are sath suspect walked away from san leandro hospital right before getting on the bart train yesterday. also tonight family and friends are mourning the death of the victim, who was a good samaritan. tonight an outpouring of love and grief on facebook for a man family says died a hero. oliver williams, who also went by the name tyrone hodges. one saying of the long-time raiders fan and family man, can the i can't believe this. life will never be the same." investigators say the 49-year-old was killed by this man, seen in a video shortly after the stabbing. 39-year-old jermaine jeremiah brim. brim was allegedly trying steal someone's shoes on the bart train when williams tried to stop him. brim used a pocket knife the victim was carrying to stab and kill him.police say the confron lasted about ten minutes. >> it was a fight that began. and anything short of having an officer on that train car, it would have been something that would have been tough to prevent. >> reporter: bart police walked out of the south hayward station yesterday with bags of evidence after the stabbing. t

tonight the interim bart police chief called the killing tragic and rare. >> bart is safe, and we're continuing to reassure them by providing presence in our system. >> reporter: the general manager released a statement saying they'd increase officers and fare inspectors throughout the system, but our cameras caught this. no one from bart on the platforms with several trains just before 8:00 p.m. steve says he's grateful the customer he was helping was not hurt. >> i'm okay. >> reporter: and because of steve, according to what police told him, a murder suspect is now behind bars. >> he said you did a good job with the suspect. >> reporter: and bart police say their platforms and stations have surveillance cameras. they're reviewing what may have been recorded in the case. maria medina, kpix 5. >>> just in tonight, a call for action from bart director deborah allen. quote, how much more of this will occur before our board takes swift action to secure our entrances and greatly expand or police force. >>> new tonight, 2 people had to be rescued from this roaring house fire in san franci

i've done nothing wrong. >> reporter: bart declines to talk on camera. in a statement they said officers detained him for not cooperating and cited him for eating a sandwich. >> it just escalated quickly on both parties. i think he should have stopped eating when asked to, especially because the other guy is doing his job, and i think the other guy could have been more lenient. >> reporter: in the video, the officers identify the man as steve foster. we reached out to him, but haven't heard back. but fellow passengers have plenty to say. >> i feel like there's better things to cite people for. >> sometimes i question why they cite one person opposed to another person. are they discriminating in any way is this. >> they need to look out for the real bad guys. >> reporter: bart says the independent police auditor is reviewing the video to see if the officer did anything wrong. and a lot of bart stations have snack bars right in front of the fare gates. while bart is saying you're supposed to hold on to your food or eat it before going beyond the fare gates

abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez is live from the bart station. she talked with the hero rescuer today. lyanne? >> it just takes your breath away, and it's one of those videos that you just have to watch over and over again. now reporters talked to that employee, that bart employee, and he told us that at first he was mad at the man for what he had done or what happened. and then he said but then i realized that he is just like any human being who needs help. he needed help at that moment. dan, how else can was very close call. it was a situation where you had extra people on the platform, extra trains, and fortunately extra bart staff when that happened. a man rescued with just two second to spare. >> oh my goodness, right before the bart came? >> yep. >> that happened here? >> yep. >> oh, my gosh! >> the bart supervisor, who somehow lifted the man is john o'connor. he had been working last night, helping control the crowds following an oakland raiders game. >> he is down there. we're all yelling. the crowd saying hey, get out of the track way. a

hopping the bart. people getting stah t beeps foster also used foul language, was confrontational and there was even a homophobic slur at the end. the officer did not respond in kind. bart says it cannot tell us how common citations are for eating and drinking without us filing a freedom of information request. back to you. >> what is the penalty for eating on bart or the bart platform? is it just one citation? >> the citation comes with some penalties that will make the sandwich really expensive. it is a $250 fine or 48 hours of community service. >> wow. interesting. >> so what do you think? are rules rules or are there bigger concerns? we're asking you and we have our megapoll open. 56% say there are bigger concerns but 48% say rules are rules. >> it is interesting. context is important here. if as this gentleman says there was a whole line of people eating and he was the only one singled out you have to wond-hour did they target or select him. but bart has so many issues and i would rather not see

bart rider describes how she tried to help a man stabbed on a train. >> new developments in another bart tragedy. the suspect accused of killing wilson is in court and does something the attorney warned him not to do. >> the rush to save a neighbor. a fire and the retired firefighter who did everything he could. >> following the money. when it comes to rebuilding after the tubs fire the feds trust the state. >> it's all hands on deck. the effort to ensure the show will go on for the big game bonfire. >>> he was conscious and i tried to speak to him. asking him questions about so you're a raiders fan. he was wearing raiders clothes. >> a young woman talks about being with oliver williams and in his final moments. she hopes his family find comfort in the fact he was not alone when he died. >> good evening. >> williams was killed on a bart train earlier this week. it happened when he tried to stop a sleeping homeless man from having his shoes stolen. >> we spoke with the woman there when it all happened. >> that's right. i spoke to 22 year-old nursing student. right here on the college camp

. >>> sorry, not sorry of the sandwich citation on bart is dividing the transit agencies bart board of directors. >> for the officers it's demoralizing.>>> they lost their mommy over something dead. >> a pregnant mother of three gunned down why her tragic death is what hitting one community extra hard.>> someone who is making a difference. there's evidence of bleeding. >> gets an echo of the weather we had a couple of winters ago, sudden oak death returning in the north bay. >> this is standing dead.>>> kpix 5 news @ 7pm starts now . >>> colin kaepernick said he's ready to be scouted by nfl teams and just days. >>> good evening. with the lead shocking move.>> reporter: it's been three years since colin kaepernick played in the nfl. he said sees ready but are the teams ready to give them a chance? the nfl will hold a private workout for colin kaepernick saturday in atlanta all 32 teams are invited to attend. he's not played since 2016 and settled his collusion case against the league this year. 95.7 the long-term sports writer is not getting his hopes up for return.>> this is not the nf

a man was stabbed to death on a bart train. we want to get to that news co1 pm we receive calls into our dispatch center of a fight in progress involving two males on a warm springs train just leaving the bay fare station. the fight continued through our hayward station. at which point a knife was introduced into the fight between the two males. as the train approached south hayward, the hayward police partners responded to the call along with the bart police department and we were on the platform, walked onto the train and determined that there was a victim on a train that was bleeding and was possibly the victim of a stabbing. our partners in the hayward police department and our officers had a good description of the suspect. they conducted an area search and they were able to stop a suspect matching the description about one block from here on tennyson. our victim unfortunately deceased as a result of the incident. this is something that is very tragic and rare on bart. not something we get a lot of. i do want to ensure our

daniels, bart rider"i am still going to ride bart but it just makes you feel some type of wayes you not want to have ear phones in, you gotta be aware of your surroundings ... now its like you have to be more on guard" // you need to look at it as you need to fix the problem before it starts, not after it happens"> to improve safety ... bart has hired additional officers to work overtime for nights and weekends. ( james ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news ... the trial has been set for the two bay area teens accused of murdering an italian police officer in rome. we have the new details. ( james ) plus the bay area dungeness crab season is delayed yet again ... and that could impact your meal plans for the holidays. ( james ) this just in. the dungeness crab season is delayed yet again and has been pushed back into december. this will impact plans for people who choose to eat bay area caught crabs on thanksgiving. the season was going to start tomorrow after the first delay earlier this month. the california department of fish and wildlife made that call to better protect