you have heard a lot about john courtney. rightfully so. tuesday night in sacramento i was on a zoom. with john courtney and representatives from sei you and another of other unions. most of those representatives were asking for something and rightfully so. better wages and better conditions and better benefits. a fair share of a state surplus we have never seen before. not john. when it was john's turn he just said thank you brother. i do not know if he will ever know how much that meant to me. as i sat there on the other side of the screen. i will try to express it today. no john, thank you brother. thank you and brothers and sisters of atu to 65. >> you put your lives on the line every hour of every day that you have been on shift. you should not have to go to work and worry about your survival. course of the first responders that showed up to help you. you should not have to worry about somebody who is so unstable. they should not be in possession of a firearm in the first place. we have to do something about that. i want to thank the f

i'm grateful that john courtney is a courageous leader of the transit union representing the women and. [ applause ] thank you, john for being here and for your leadership. >> good evening, everyone. >> we love you, john! >> i love you guys and gals. that's what it's all about. be there, hold each other, love each other, hug each other, kiss each other when you get home from the end of the day. we're all we've got, we're all we know please, whatever you need do to get some support. i know i need it myself. these aren't names to us. these are people we love and we've seen every singy day of our working lives. it really hurts down to the core of our souls. so please let's do what we do and stand with each other, for each other, by each other. please, please, just love each other. thank you. [ applause ] i'd like to introduce the rock of atu. atu international president john costa. [ applause ] thank you, john. >> thank you, everybody for being here. atu. 265. on behalf of our 200,000 members in the united states and canada, our condolences go out to the families for your loss. 265, your

atty., john courtney the president of atu. we are also going to hear from several religious leaders. everyone will speak for roughly 2 minutes. this events well finish and conclude with the singing of amazing grace. none of this will ease the pain but coming together we are certainly hoping it will help. localities people gathered here tonight. if you don't believe this has impacted san jose and touched everyone, look at the crowd still filing in to the area outside the san jose civic center. earlier today we spent some time with flowers and flags names of the victims and a memorial outside. the flags have been not have staff all day. it is a constant group of people filtering in leaving their messages. among them a vta bus driver who parked his bus about 100 yards away, walked over dropped flowers and then went back and got onto his bus. we asked him why he was here and why he stopped the bus. it turns out one of the men killed in that shooting yesterday was a friend of his from his own village. is is i don't know what we are

i'm grateful that john courtney is a courageous leader. >> the amalgamated transit union representing the women and then this served our community. buses and light rail so many ways. here. thank you, john, for being here and for your leadership. >> good everyone. >> we love you guys and gals and that's what it's all about. they're holding each other, love each other, hug each other. >> kids each other when they get home from the end of the day. >> we're all we got. we're all we know. we're all we need. >> please. whatever you need to do get some support. i know myself. but these are names to us. these are people we know and we love and we see every single day of our working lives. it really, really hurts down to the very core of our souls. so please. to you. let's do what we do as stand with each other for each other by please, please just love each other. i'd like to introduce. they teach you. tu international president john koster. job. thank you, everybody, for being here. to you. to 65. behalf of our 200,000 members and united states and canada. our condolences go out to the famil

yes, it's -- john courtney is one of those people.re there that -- >> yeah, senator i can hear that the phone free is lighting up where people are trying to all connect and contact each other. miss chavez, tell us your experience of yesterday and what was lost. >> well, you know, first of all, i know our hearts are broken, really across the nation, as we are victims like so many other places have been of the mass shootings. and, you know, i think what was most profound both yesterday in meeting with the families and colleagues of so many was just the real heart break and the shock of something like this happening in our community. >> yeah, senator, is there anything that could have been done differently to stop this tragedy from yesterday? >> well, we heard our district attorney in santa clara county, jeff rosen speak pointantly yesterday about the red flag laws and we need to advance those laws in california. those are fairly recent laws which essentially encourage coworkers of family members and others to come forward when they see

unit president john courtney. >> be there, hold each other, love each other, hugged each other, kiss each other when you get home at the end of the day. we are all we've got, we are all we know, we are all we need but these are not just needs to us. these are people that we know and we love and we see them every single day, of our working lives. and it really, really hurts down to the very core of our souls. >> reporter: many of the families have set up gofundme accounts to help out with donations. >>> still ahead on kpix5 and cbsn bay area, oakland working to keep the a's from leaving town. >>> the latest move to try to get the county on board with the waterfront ballpark project. >>> getting ahead of wildfires. how crews are now working to reduce the risk of the north bay. >> reporter: the new get yourur spring onon at ros. yeyes! with brarand-name lolooks at prices s that say i it's o. yeah, itit is! geget this seaeason's stylys fofor you... ...andnd you... and you..... with t the best babargains eve. ...at roross. yes fofor less! calilifornia's c choice beau? and you..... with t

john courtney. >> be there, hold each other, love each other, hugged each other, kiss each other when you get home from the end of the day. we are all we got, we are all we know, we are all we need. these are not names to us, these are people we know and we love and we see them every single day of our working lives and it really really hurts down to the very core of our souls. >> reporter: many of the families have set up gofundme accounts to help out and received donations. you can check out our website. at downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix5. >>> many of you have been asking us how to reach out and help the shooting victim, so we put the information in our vta stories section on kpix5.com. >>> switching gears, millions of people are expected to take to the skies this holiday weekend. take a live look at sfo and oakland international where business is booming. aaa reports more than 37 million americans will fly this weekend. that is up 60% from this time last year when most of us were in the pandemic lockdown. all of us, for some, this is the first time they traveled in a while. >> it

his name is john courtney zine executive with the union. >> he says that is not the case. he released a statement today. it says i wish to make it crystal clear that tu local to 65 officials who are at the site of this tragedy. we are not repeat not there to attend any disciplinary or skelly rights hearings or to respond to any job site or racial oriented complaints. i was at the yard subway to check on working conditions and the continual safety of the dedicated men and women who work there. families and friends of the t a gunned down this week. still, of course, struggling to comprehend what happened. >> home towns and neighborhoods are also grieving among the bca 9 was this young man, adrian bias, only 29 years old. kron four's rob fladeboe has reaction to his death from his hometown of gilroy. >> at 29 years of age, a green via. so was the youngest of the 9 vta employees murdered in wednesday's shooting rampage at the vta rail yard in san jose. he lived here in this quiet cul de sac in gilroy next door neighbors to chris burnett and his mother who's just a great guy. h

john courtney said it better than any politician could say. absolutely spot on. out about the active shooter i immediately thought of my friend and i sent him a text message that was not returned it will never be return. i reached out to him immediately . i did not know that john was standing right there, barely escaping but watching my friend get murdered. thank you for saying it best. we need to offer assistance and embrace our struggling peers, family members, and loved one's. we need to bring them into help before this happens again. tragedy and violence like this does not get solved with more violence. it is solved with love. and what i see here today. thank you to the san jose community and for being here and showing your love to us. >> we are pleased to have a wonderful friend of our community that represents temple emanuel. welcome rabbi. >> in the jewish tradition we believe that each life is equal to a world. and we have lost nine worlds. i am so done with a lack of sensible gun laws. i am so done with how insensitive we are to mental il

i'm a little troubled not having received a response from him, john courtney was talking to me just yesterdaycing, concerns that they still had about ppes and such things particularly on the light rail, and that shooting today occurred literally in the light rail yard. i heard from the sheriff, i was here on the senate floor in sacramento, you know, in the california state capitol. the sheriff herself called me while i was on the senate flor and i stepped out to take that floor which is when she indicated she would be publicly announcing nine total death, including the shooter. >> i don't know how much you know specifically about this facility, but do you know anything about the typical security there, what would have about expected at that hour of the day 6:30 on a wednesday morning? >> yeah. it is a facility that's just -- it's sort of inhalifax international airportly secure from a public standpoint. it is set in a location a lot of people are familiar with because essentially when you drive down the street past the sheriff's department you're forced to make a left turn or to enter the pri

union president john courtney released a statement saying, quote, i wish to make this crystal clear. that the atu local 265 officials who were at the site of this unfathomable tragedy were not, repeat, not there to attend any disciplinary nor skelly-rights hearings or to respond to any job scythe or racial-oriented complaints. courtney went on to say that he was at the vta building wednesday to check on working conditions of the site. >> if you would like to help th south bay labor council. the money will go exclusively to the victims' families. you can learn more about the nine men lost on our website. we've also posted other ways to donate to their individual families and we have the latest updates on the investigation. go to nbcbayarea.com/vtayardshooting. >>> in other news now, firefighters are on alert this memorial day weekend. this is a live look across our bay area cameras. you can see sunshine and fog. and as meteorologist rob mayeda told us, temperatures are about to heat up. fire crews are worried about the heat, the wind, the bone-dry conditions. they're asking everyone t

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john f. shelly drive. that day, my friend courtney tweeted a response, the very next day on april 29th. courtney biked from the department through golden gate park along the great highway down to stern grove and back. she even saw a baby owl. two days later, courtney was shot and killed on the way home from a walk. courtney was a hopeful san franciscan who loved the city and wanted to see a car-free transit city come to life. the answer is not re-open jfk to cars to increase access. the answer is increase access to car-free jfk. >> thank you, caller. hello. caller, your 1 minute begins now. >> hi, i'm lisa. i permanently support the closure of cars to jfk. even with limited mobility issues, i do access the park. but the only real issue is in park car grid lock blocking the bus. i hope that every member of the stakeholder working group was required to visit and experience the jfk space as it exists now before making recommendations and that everyone voting here was required to do the same. the space is full of joy and activity in a way i've never seen in the park. separately, it is a dis

john f. shelly drive. that day, my friend courtney tweeted a response, the very next day on april 29th. courtney biked from the department through golden gate park along the great highway down to stern grove and back. she even saw a baby owl. two days later, courtney was shot and killed on the way home from a walk. courtney was a hopeful san franciscan who loved the city and wanted to see a car-free transit city come to life. the answer is not re-open jfk to cars to increase access. the answer is increase access to car-free jfk. >> thank you, caller. hello. caller, your 1 minute begins now. >> hi, i'm lisa. i permanently support the closure of cars to jfk. even with limited mobility issues, i do access the park. but the only real issue is in park car grid lock blocking the bus. i hope that every member of the stakeholder working group was required to visit and experience the jfk space as it exists now before making recommendations and that everyone voting here was required to do the same. the space is full of joy and activity in a way i've never seen in the park. separately, it is a dis