forces should take a punt let's go live now to london love to artie's a laura smith is there laura the british government does seems a very determined to get involved doesn't it. that's right prime minister david cameron's making some very carefully weighed statements on the one hand he says no decision has yet been taken whether to get involved but on the other hand he says it's very clear that it is the assad regime that is to blame for using chemical weapons according to him he reckons that he's got clear evidence that it that it was the regime the government that used chemical weapons so in response to that he has convened a meeting of the national security council here in london on wednesday they're going to talk about the information that they've already received from the u.n. inspectors obviously not the final report because that won't be as sean said available for another few days and then they're all to going to talk about whether to push ahead with a military strike following that on thursday and he's will meet in parliament being recalled from the summer holiday and they wil

mandate an attack would be justified of humanitarian grounds well we're now joined by our team is laura smith live with us from london well laura we've just heard british prime minister david cameron addressing a parliament and a heated debate there so how much unity is there in fact on this issue. well not very much actually certainly going into the debates david cameron would have thought very carefully about what he's going to say because he's got to say something pretty special to carry and he's behind him on this motion as you say that it will carry on through the afternoon and into the evening they'll vote on the motion that the prime minister's had to backtrack quite significantly during the course of the last twenty four thirty six hours the motion that was going to be debated the softening was originally on military action but cameron knew that he wasn't going to get the votes on that he knew that labor m.p.'s the opposition m.p.'s would not back him and he also knew that seventy of his own members of parliament weren't going to back the motion either so now this mission is about a s

interesting stuff laura smith live from london there are many thanks indeed were shaded thank you we had to say overseas surveillance reach has also sparked plenty of controversy in europe where they german government is increasingly on the defensive over its corporation would be notorious agency berlin has been forced to publicly deny accuse ations by a german newspaper which claimed many of the country's computers work as a bonded door for the u.s. organization this comes in the aftermath of edward snowden's. in fact the top european target for the n.s.a. they cross atlantics of valence which barely that south helped facilitate apparently targets around half a billion german data connections every month and this includes phone calls emails and mobile text messages and web chats all the data ends up being stored right at the n.s.a.'s headquarters near washington tens of millions of german connections are tracked and recorded every single day and that number doubles during busy holidays on the reports now on how deep this imbalance runs. should the average person be concerned about t

whistleblower himself says he has not released any information links to these allegations and laura smith is here with us to make sense of it all hi laura so first of all please tell us well it was reported in the independent newspaper. well the independent friday morning published an article that as you say it said came from leaks made by edward snowden about this secret internet monitoring station based in the middle east to intercept all sorts of internet traffic in and through the middle east and then pass that on to western intelligence agencies basically what it does is taps into internet cables that run into the sea extracts that data and then passes it to g c h q here in the u.k. and to the n.s.a. in the states it's particularly valuable according to the independent because it can access cables that are passed between submarine to very sensitive data and it's part of this much larger project which is designed to. intercept global digital communications all over the world e-mails text messages literally everything there are over half a million miles of cables internet cables it's c

act but britain says even without sanction an attack will be justified on humanitarian grounds laura smith reports from london. david cameron has realised that he's probably not going to get the votes for an immediate motion on military strikes on syria and so he's put the brakes on slightly opposition leader ed miliband said that he was going to make his m.p.'s votes against any such motion and also it became clear that around seventy of cameron's own m.p.'s looked like they were going to vote against so now there's going to be a much more softly softly approach there will be a debate on thursday but m.p.'s instead of being asked to vote immediately on military action will be asked to vote on a strong humanity. alleged use of chemical weapons cameron now says and the government say that they will now wait for the results of the u.n. report from syria on this alleged chemical attack the u.s. however still says that it's not really interested in waiting and then off that report has been received then they will have another vote on direct military action and david cameron also says that he w

council agreed that the use of chemical weapons was unacceptable in the world should not stand by laura smith brings us more now on london's possible response. prime minister david cameron is making some very carefully weighed statements on the one hand he says no decision has yet been taken whether to get involved but on the other hand he says it's very clear that it is the assad regime that is to blame for using chemical weapons according to him he reckons that he's got clear evidence that it that it was the regime the government used chemical weapons so in response to that he has convened a meeting of the national security council here in london on wednesday following that on thursday and he's will meet in parliament they've been recalled from the summer holiday and they will be given a chance to vote to discuss and to vote on what they think should be done also downing street is saying that the u.s. and the u.k. won't necessarily be balanced by what the u.n. inspectors are saying and also britain's made clear that it would consider going ahead without a u.n. resolution foreign minister wi

surveillance these are the new revelations from edward snowden published in the british media and she is laura smith has the details on the latest for us. it's an exclusive to the independent newspaper and they're saying that britain is running this secret internet monitoring base in the middle east to basically look at all traffic that goes in and through the middle east they intercept vast quantities of emails telephone calls general internet traffic you name it to pass on then to western intelligence agencies and of course to be used by d.c. h.q. here in the u.k. and what it does is basically it taps into undersea cables which are called by some the backbone of the internet so they carry all internet traffic all around the world extracts the data and then that's passed after it's been de coded of course to the national security agency in america it's particularly valuable they say because it can access cables that pass between submarines so that's obviously highly secret data but the program can literally intercept everything that goes over the internet it's done much more widely than just in the

data and laura smith are joining us now live from london laurie lovely to see what's the latest development in the legal case of david miranda. well this is a story that gets more and more bizarre as it unfolds with high level government involvement we now know and now david miranda lawyers who have come out threatening legal action against the government as you say saying they want his belongings returned they don't want any further search and search is performed against him he of course was detained at heathrow for nine hours and questioned all his electronic devices taken away his his passwords goes out to him for investigation by the security services we actually have got a small clip of what his lawyer said so let's listen into that now. but in order to. leave. me here. today. so that's more embarrassment for the government potentially on top of what is turning into really and very embarrassing situation for them we now know of top level involvement in the government prime minister david cameron was intimately involved in the decision to detain david miranda and also in that decision i

also refused to make the case that a strike would stop or reduce the bloodshed in syria artie's laura smith reports from london. the prime minister's had to backtrack quite significantly during the course of the last twenty four thirty six hours the motion that was going to be debated the softening was originally on military action but cameron knew that he wasn't going to get the votes on that he knew that labor m.p.'s that opposition m.p.'s would not back him and he also knew that seventy of his own members of parliament weren't going to back the motion either so now this motion is about a strong humanitarian response it's significantly watered down but it still includes of course a clause on military intervention in principle so that may be what gives a lot of m.p.'s pause for thought even on this new motion opposition m.p.'s the labor party has already indicated that it's not going to back the prime minister cameron also has agreed in the last thirty six hours that he will wait for the results of this un report on the lead to do so chemical weapons and he will also go back to the un secu

investigators before deciding whether to act joining me now live from london is already is laura smith lord of the british parliament will sooner or later decide and take a vote on the u.k.'s military option in syria so tell us how much unity is there among british m.p.'s. well it's a very different picture here on thursday to the one that we store on wednesday when really it was full steam ahead towards a vote in parliament on military action now david cameron has realised that he's probably not going to get the votes for an immediate motion on military strikes on syria and so he's put the brakes on slightly opposition leader ed miliband said that he was going to make his m.p.'s. any such motion and also it became clear that around seventy of cameron's own m.p.'s looked like they were going to very sick against so now there's going to be a much more softly softly approach there will be a debate on thursday but m.p.'s instead of being off to vote immediately on military action will be able to vary so on a strong humanitarian response to this alleged use of chemical weapons cameron now

laura garcia-cannon. "today in the bay's" christie smith joins us with more on the scheduled press conference scheduled forhis afternoon. >> reporter: the chp expected to release their findings after about a 3 1/2 month investigation into what went wrong, what may have caused this deadly limousine fire and whether any laws were broken and perhaps who may have been at fault here. five women were killed as nine nurses were headed to the hotel to celebrate the marriage of one of them who was in the limo and among those killed. on may 4th, the back of the limousine burst into flames as it crossed the san mateo bridge that evening. four of the women managed to escape through a partition between the driver and passenger area. the driver also escaped and spoke with nbc bay area shortly after that may tragedy. >> at that point, smoke, smoke, smoke, pull over. i'm looking. i finally kind of look back a couple times and i see the grief on her face. >> reporter: after this the driver's estranged wife had told reporters that he was arguing with her on the phone during the ride. after that his attorney says they were n

smith. this it's friday, august 30th. this is "today in the bay." >>> beautiful shot out there. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm marla tellez in for jon kelley. breaking news in the south bay. for a second time an officer shot at a suspect in san jose. the two shootings happened within four hours of each other on different sides of town. the first happened around 1:00 near homes on balboa near king and alum rock in east san jose. the second near west san carlos street and meridian avenue. today in the bay's bob redell was at the first scene, moved to the most recent shooting now. bob, what do you know? >> reporter: busy night for san jose police. good morning to you there, marla. this happened about quarter to 5:00 this morning, the second officer-involved shooting. it was a man who was apparently drunk -- new information from police -- who went into a safeway at san carlos and meridian and robbed it at gunpoint. police arrived. a few moments later they get a call that a man with a gun, they find out is the same guy, is over in this area, just a couple blocks away from the safeway at san c

"today in the bay's" christie smith live in oakland where a rally is plachbd for later tonight. >> reporter: good morning, laura this is coming down to the wire. there are basically only four days of negotiating left for b.a.r.t. to work out a deal with its unions. at the same time b.a.r.t. union workers and other supporting unions plan to gather starting at 5:00 here at frank ogawa plaza for a big rally this evening. if b.a.r.t. trains aren't rolling next week and the union workers do gone on strike, of course you'll have a huge challenge trying to get into work. the metropolitan transportation commission wants to make sure your know about services like alert511.org which measures traffic congestions and posts it in realtime using information from caltrans, chp, fast track sensors, radar beams under free ways. it captures your speed without identifying the car. about half the b.a.r.t. riders we spoke of never even heard of it. but it can send you drive times and best routes. >> i'm commuting from union city to berkeley right now. i would have to find another way without driving. that would be pretty tough. >>

smith joins us live from the scene with details. good morning, christie. >> reporter: good morning, laura.ust spoke with one of the organizers and he says he was here when more than a dozen postal inspectors and postal police came here and gave notice to everyone out front of the berkeley post office on alston way that had been camped out that they would have to leave. he said that since then they've made sure that they were not blocking access to doorways with their tents, and he says basically they decided they're staying put. he estimates that about 25 people are still left after on friday they got notice to go away. he says a couple of them did go, but others filtered back in. they are from the group save the berkeley post office. they've been camped out here since july 27th, upset with plans to sell the post office off and many more like it. it's a historic building, about 57,000 square feet. the postal inspector says they can't put signs up on the building or keep tents out on the steps, that it is a safety hazard. one protesters says it's important to keep fighting on. >> renew our

"today in the bay's" christie smith joins us live with more on the scheduled news conference. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laurao if any laws were broken in the tbx this investigation took 3 1/2 months. it also involved the district attorney's office. you may recall it was may 4th when nine women, all of them nurses were riding in a limousine over the san mateo bridge to celebrate the marriage of one of the women. that's when the back of the limousine suddenly burst into flames. five of the women died including the bride. four of the women made it out. they crawled through a partition between the passenger and driver's compartmentless. shortly after this fatal fire nbc bay area spoke with the lick scene driver. he said one of the passengers said she smelled smoke, but he thought she was saying she would like to smoke, then he spelled it, too. >> at that point smoke, smoke, smoke, pull over. i'm looking -- i finally kind of, you know, look back a couple times and i see the grief on her face. >> reporter: the driver's estranged wife later said they were arguing on a cell phone call during the ride. his attorney s

smith. this it's friday, august 30th. this is "today in the bay." >>> beautiful shot out there. i'm lauraa-cannon. >> i'm marla tellez in

"today in the bay's" christie smith is live by the crash scene with the latest on the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, laurawhere the crash happened. you can see the driver hit the tree on the right and smashed right through the fence. three teens in that car, one of them died. this is the first day of school in the danville san ramon area. i have calls in to danville police this morning. he was 16 years old and was the passenger in the right front side of the car. it was around 8:50 last night. their car was going northbound on el capitan near clarage when it spun out of control. the driver, just 17 years old, had broken ribs. the other passenger suffered a broken leg. police say they aren't sure what caused the wreck, but it doesn't appear alcohol was a factor, perhaps speed. again, school set to begin today. >> the first thing that makes it different is a fatality. the second part is the people in the car were under age and young local students that should have been starting school tomorrow morning. >> reporter: the families, we're told, have been notified. but the identity of the deceased has not been r

"today in the bay's" christie smith live in oakland where a rally is planned for later tonight. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. there are basically only four days of bargaining left to get this whole thing hammered out. today b.a.r.t.'s unions and other labor unions are going to be b gathering at frank ogawa plaza. they'll have a rally and march to b.a.r.t. headquarters, demanding b.a.r.t. make more concessions in these negotiations. meantime there is a service that you may not know about, alert511.org. this is what the metropolitan transportation organization is hoping commuters get to know in the event that b.a.r.t.'s strike does resume. it measures traffic congestion and posts it in realtime using information from caltrans, the chp, transit operators that feed into a center in oakland. it monitors traffic cameras, fast track centers, even radar beams that are on the freeways in the south bay. sending out that info on land and water rounds that might work for you. >>> every minute it just shoots a beam across the roadway, captures the speed, without identifying it. it's a blip we get, a minute-by-minute sen

today in the bay's christie smith is live at the scene of the crash in danville with more on the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauranly a tragedy for the families, a tragedy for the schools. today is the first day of school in the area. last night a 16-year-old boy was killed and two other teens were hurt when the car they were in slammed into a tree and crashed right through the fence. now, the car hit the tree on the right side and that's where the passenger was sitting who was killed. it was around 8:50 last night when 911 calls starting coming in near the el capitan drive area. the 16-year-old was taken to san ram mole regional medical center where he died. the driver, a 17-year-old suffered broken ribs. the other 16-year-old passenger suffered a broken leg. >> too early to tell. there's no obvious signs of anything. that's what our investigators will be working on to make sure they can pinpoint speeds and other things. there's nothing obvious such as cans of alcohol or anything like that. >> reporter: police telling us they are looking at speed as a possible factor. they still don't know where these teen boys

smith. she's live at the west oakland b.a.r.t. station that has been a pretty big hub of activity. >> reporter: good morning, laura.we've been at the west oakland b.a.r.t. station for a couple hours now. this is the kind of place we normally come to to talk to people and we normally don't see it this busy. no hard numbers out yet from b.a.r.t. they won't have that until 10:00 or 11:00 on ridership. riders say they would normally drive, but with the bridge out, they got up one to two hours early to make sure they would get to work in san francisco on time.:kyíqq!"%jju we looked at morning, not completely wall-to-wall commuters, but they certainly are full. that could be because b.a.r.t. is running longer trains. all the ten car trains they have available are working this morning. 285,000 commuters use the bay bridge each day. that's a lot of ground to make up. ferries, ac transit,chz÷ b.a.r. boosting service to help out. one woman in emeryville who normally drives into the city tells me how long she's been at it just to get to b.a.r.t. today. >> about an hour, yeah. >> and why did you pick west oakland? >> it's the

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laura garcia-cannon. we begin with a developing story where the search for a woman missing for five days moved from oakland to vallejo. "today in the bay's" christie smiths live at the solana county fairgrounds where search crews are expected to be out in just a bit from now. good morning, christie. >> reporter: good morning to you. they'll be out at 8:00 this morning searching the solana county fairgrounds, also looking in the lake chabot area, too. investigators haven't said what brought them to the fairgrounds, why they're focusing on this area. we can tell you there is a person of interest in the case. he was arrested but on a separate charge. he was actually being held on a parole violation. he and 50-year-old san droe coke have a history. they actually dated before, about 20 years ago. police have information that puts he and the oakland woman together on the day that coke was reported missing. oakland police major crimes homicide unit left police headquarters last night headed to the solana county fairgrounds. coke went missing on sunday evening after telling her daughter she was going to investigate a tip about her missing dog. randy alana is th

laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm jon kelley. it is a cold hard reality. contract negotiations continuing today between b.a.r.t. and union leaders. that clock is ticking big time. "today in the bay's" christie smith at the west oakland b.a.r.t. station with the latest on the looming strike and how commuters are bracing for the shutdown. good morning, christie. >> reporter: speaking with commuters this morning and hearing about the 72-hour notice, this is not what they wanted to hear. they're very frustrated. i asked what their plans are for next week in the event of a strike.

laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm jon kelley. it is a cold hard reality. contract negotiations continuing today between b.a.r.t. and union leaders. that clock is ticking big time. "today in the bay's" christie smith is live at the west oakland b.a.r.t. station with the latest on the looming strike and how commuters are bracing for the shutdown. good morning, christie. >> reporter: speaking with commuters this morning and hearing about the 72-hour notice, this is not what they wanted to hear. they're very frustrated. i asked what their plans are for next week in the event of a strike. one man said i'm going on vacation. another man said i'm just going to have to walk around being mad. they said this as they entered the west oakland b.a.r.t. station on what could potentially be their last commute day on b.a.r.t. for quite a while if that strike does happen next week. b.a.r.t. negotiators left the caltrans building in oakland around 9:00 last night, but negotiations will continue again, expected at 9:00 this morning. there are only three days left to do this. b.a.r.t.'s union workers took to the streets of oakland yesterday evening demanding a contract. but the issue seemed to stay the same, pension