coming back live you just heard pete castelli he's the executive director of aciu. what he said is the unions have given b.a.r.t. a counter proposal and that b.a.r.t. is looking at it. they haven't gotten a response but everything seems to hinge on whether they can accept that counter proposal or take that counter proposal and work from there and find more compromise. we don't know how different this counter proposal is. how far apart it is from that final offer that b.a.r.t. made yesterday. but that was pete castelli giving us an update and telling >>> continuing coverage now of the government shutdown. it is dragged on for two weeks. and the looming deadline to avoid a default is only three days away. the good news tonight, senate leaders are reporting progress. they say they are close to a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. but house of representatives remains a question mark. mark emanuel reports tonight on the positive tone coming from one side of the capital. >> reporter: the bipartisan leaders of the senate say the conversation in recent day

coming back live you just heard pete castelli he's the executive director of aciu. what he said is the unions have given b.a.r.t. a counter proposal and that b.a.r.t. is looking at it. they haven't gotten a response but everything seems to hinge on whether they can accept that counter proposal or take that counter proposal and work from there and find more compromise. we don't know how different this counter proposal is. how far apart it is from that final offer that b.a.r.t. made yesterday. but that was pete castelli giving us an update and telling the public to prepare for alternative transportation tomorrow because at this point, there is no move. >> thank you deborah. we'll be right back in a moment. >>> continuing coverage now of the government shutdown. it is dragged on for two weeks. and the looming deadline to avoid a default is only three days away. the good news tonight, senate leaders are reporting progress. they say they are close to a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. but house of representatives remains a question mark. mark emanuel

s: pete castelli 7:20 'i m soro tell you that after marathon negotiations this weekend, workers and managements have been unable to reach an agreement." last night the s took a turn for turn for the worse when bart said. it's latest offer would be it's t and final officer management claims it's 7 million more n friday's offer: a 3 percent raise each year of the fourr contract. sot:(17:83) gracee bay area is tired of going bed at night and not knowin bart's going to be open or . we need to bring this to a e it's been long enough." bute unions say this isn't good enough - in fact the so-cald best offer is less than one the past. 20:05 antonette 's regressive, we can take it our members for a vote. but again we want to bargain a fair equitable contract. the offer that we received is ne of that." bart management's latest deal won't be on the table long. bart gave the us two weeks to accept before take it away. live: so we're seeing a shift in negotiations. the only goods is that commuters get a bitf a reprieve but i don't think they like the idea of anoth strike looming over their h kpix 5 mark kel

s: pete castelli 7:20 'i m soro tell you that after marathon negotiations this weekend, workers and managements have been unable to reach an agreement." last night the s took a turn for turn for the worse when bart said. it's latest offer would be it's t and final officer management claims it's 7 million more n friday's offer: a 3 percent raise each year of the fourr contract. sot:(17:83) gracee bay area is tired of going bed at night and not knowin bart's going to be open or . we need to bring this to a e it's been long enough." bute unions say this isn't good enough - in fact the so-cald best offer is less than one the past. 20:05 antonette 's regressive, we can take it our members for a vote. but again we want to bargain a fair equitable contract. the offer that we received is ne of that." bart management's latest deal won't be on the table long. bart gave the us two weeks to accept before take it away. live: so we're seeing a shift in negotiations. the only goods is that commuters get a bitf a reprieve but i don't think they like the idea of anoth strike looming over their h

contract nats union leaders took the stage and tried to rally the crowd sot antonette bryant/atu sot pete castellieiu but some were having none of it? some calling for a strike? calling for shutdown? sot sot while its unclear just how many there are, some here feel union negtiators are selling them down the an emergency situation. that's how bay area business groups are characterizing another possible bart strike. kron 4's maureen kelly has the suggestions they are making to employers. which could help ease the expected gridlock. crime tape was up at san francisco general hospital. where a woman's body was been found in a stairwell. the discovery comes more than two weeks, after 57- year old lynn spalding was reported missing from the same hospital. so far, police have not confirmed any connection. hospital officals explain what happened. a hospital employee who saw the body says it was decoposing and appeared as if it had been there for sometime. san francisco police are looking into how the body got there. even though the body has not been identified.family and friemds of lynn spaulding are spea

pete. castelli. i'm executive director of seiu1021.sent the largest union in bart with over 1400 service and maintenance workers. we're very sorry and sad to be standing in this

pete. castelli. i'm executive director of seiu1021. we represent the largest union in bart with over 1400 service and maintenance workers. we're very sorry and sad to be standing in this early morning with the trains silent and our workers on strike due to the inability to reach an agreement with the bart district at the collective bargaining table. most of you know in the last week, we have had intensive bargaining that's featured a federal mediator from washington, d.c. and the last bargaining session we had was a marathon. it was 28, almost 30 hours of bargaining. we really thought we were going to reach an agreement. uhm -- the union had moved a lot off its positions on economic issues. we had moved to bart's position on pensions. we had moved to bart's position -- we had moved to bart's position on healthcare costs. we had agreed to lower our request for a wage increase. progress was being made. we were substantially close to reaching agreement. but in the last minute, in the last part of the bargaining, bart sort of did what we c