. >> if confirmed by the senate, he will secede janet depolitano, who left last month. >>> the bay area rapid transit workers are on strike. doing it now for the second time in four months. the bart train shutdown leaves hundreds of thousands of san francisco area commuterstraying to get to work. lisa joins us from oakland with what was a nightmare commute. and how are they holding up? >> reporter: dell, most commuters are pretty irritated this morning. many of the 400,000 people who ride bart to work every day are instead on this bridge in bumper to bumper traffic, and others are taking ferries and working from home. workers we spoke to are fed up. >> i'm disappointed. >> i ride bart every day. >> i have to be up and out really early. >> and of course it's not just bart riders who are impacted. those who take the highways every day now have to share the road with many other commuters, making for a much longer drive to work. economic impact is widespread as well. bart's four day strike this past july cost this region an estimated $73 million a day. and with no future negotiations schedu