pardon my skepticism about the seiu, however. i'm still going to stay with that. >>> now, if you tune in to nbc's "meet the press" this sunday, i will be talking about this with host david gregory. "meet the press" airs at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. many of the nbc stations. please check your local listings. >>> all right. many thanks to carrie wof ford and rick berman. appreciate your points of view. >>> the clock is really ticking on obama care. we know millions of americans have already lost their insurance effective january 1st because of obama care. for those people and anyone else who wants to sign up for new policies and be covered on new year's day, the deadline is actually december 23rd. that's not far away. doesn't say much about the sticker shock of the premiums, even speaker john boehner experiencing that today. take a listen. >> my health insurance premiums are going to double. my co-pays and deductibles triple under obama care. i'm thrilled to death, as you can tell. >> next up, we talk about this fast approaching dead

this event was put on by health care workers from seiu. >> this is the best way to have them come in and find out what options we have and what they can afford. >> reporter: rachel jackson came down because her part-time job doesn't provide benefits and for this mother of two, health care is critical, because she has lived with hodgkin's lymphoma. >> i need to make sure they cast it early. come january i will be able to make an appointment. i'm so excited about thatment covered california is seeing a surge of applicants ahead of monday's deadline. the latest figures show well over 50,000 people have enrolled in health plans in just the past week. in berkeley, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san josi police are saebing for sunsets from a suspects from a double shooting near san joaquin university at least two males were shot one with critical injuries remains from the hospital tonight. other had minor injuries. >>> 17 people are without a place to live of a two-alarm fire ripped through their homes this afternoon. the fire was reported around 4:30 at a six-unit building near ha

seiu was founded from immigrants from poland, ireland, the czech republic.as a labor movement, we're going back to our roots, advocating for people who come to this country in search of the american dream. it was difficult at first, the getting to shift from what had been basically in isolation position to one that says, you know, our job as the labor movement is to unite all workers so that we can all fight together for improving the wages and the benefits of everybody, for our mutual benefit. while it took some time, i'm happy to say that over the last 15 years, we have all been united. we had building trades. we have construction unions. we have industrial unions. tent and alln the uniting to fight for immigrants rights, working together with business. who would have thunk it? the chamber of commerce, the afl-cio, together on anything? all one issue overcomes those barriers and divisions and brings us together because at the end of the day, it will be good for the economy, it will be good for working people, and he will be good for us as a nation of immig

. >> and crowley and after that jim, seius. >> thank you, commissioners, good to see you, again, the port staff and especially to the broadcast employees who beat us out to the general populous. >> and this city is no stranger to icons and being against those, if it were not for people who could see ahead we might not have the golden gate bridge today so i was lying in bed to say what i can say that has not been said about this process and so i put together the notes and read them to you today. i am here as a native of the great city to express my support for the new pavillion. i love the design, it is dramatic and accessible and it is incredibly useful and the people want to go to it because of the location on the water front and it is a gathering place and vocal point for the residents and visitors to san francisco and isn't that what we all want? secondly, it creates hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs, san francisco arts and entertainment economy is valued at $4 billion and responsible for 48,000 jobs and not all of these jobs are paying living wages and benefits like healthc

. >> reporter: seiu's president says it resolves the issues and allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of family leave per year, using vacation or sick leave, which they couldn't previously do. >> it will be a benefit. it will be a benefit for the district and for the members. >> we hopefully finally have a resolution to something that should have been resolved many months ago. >> reporter: riders are relieved. >> nice to know that in the morning, i can take my regular route to work. >> just ease the pain a little bit. we're already going through so many other things, with the government and whatnot. i think it's a good thing. >> reporter: now it's up to the agencies and the unions to each approve the deals, which could happen for ac transit late next week and for bart, a week after that. live in oakland, i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2news. >>> a heart-wrenching letter from the mother of a 13-year- old bay area girl who was declared brain dead after tonsil surgery at oakland's children's hospital has been released. in an open letter, the mother of the girl asked for prayers on behalf

and very few of the para professional and very few of the seiu workers. and i urge you to make the use of the final item on your proposal, where it says you can direct your staff to take the steps in negotiations to involve the city and in responding to the 3 points that i have made and i have heard others make tonight. we need a master plan. you need a real estate officer, and you need a workforce housing plan for the employees. thank you very much. >> i am bobby coleman of the san francisco tenant's ununand also with the we are all poets, and youth meets public officials poetry literacy project. and i wanted to be sensitive to mr. heely and the teachers and the points that were just made which i think are really important. i mean, when you look at negotiation and reaching fruition and we see the merit of it and it comes in the context of the crisis in this city of the likes that touches everybody and there is an obvious desire on the part to cheer lead for the project but it is like a lot of things that happen in city government that are vaguely good an

members of the eight atu and the seiu have filed a lawsuit against the transit agency.im that the board of directors broke the state law when they approved a contract without a key provision. that provision gave union workers six weeks of paid families. bart says it should have never been in the contract in the first place. meantime, the unions have once again talk about the possibility of another strike. >> the board took up was a negotiating team that would help them. a mistake was clearly made an issue never been a part of the agreement. >> a lawyer for bart workers say that no strike is planned at the moment so far now, the lawsuit will not affect the train service. >> the time is 6:35 a.m. perry eresidents on treasure isd are not happy this morning after receiving a notice to vacate operate because of toxic cleanups. last night several residents asked about when they would have to leave their homes. the navy wants to start removing the toxic waste next year. all ultimately, all the homes in the treasure island and the yerba buena islands a development plan will be

do you think that this is smart or is it an seiu push to get more members?ll, i don't think you can live on what they make at mcdonald's. everyone can agree that the university of chicago is the leading economic business school in the country. it's very conservative. after doing an analysis their bottom line was that there is no, zero, impact on the increase in minimum wage on job growth. same with bloomberg, same with the economists. people reaching the argument that eric raises, you increase these jobs and these -- >> but would you submit that it actually -- >> it doesn't cost jobs. >> so it saves jobs? >> it actually turns out in the economist -- >> what should the minimum wage be? >> for me personally, 15, 20 bucks. >> why not 50 if it doesn't affect job growth. you tell me that raising the minimum raise to 100 bucks an hour -- >> what's wrong with raising the minimum wage? >> i don't know what study yir reading. >> bloomberg economists and the university of chicago are wrong. and you're correct. >> i'm not taking your word for it. >> congress the last t

. >>> the bart board of directors will have a meeting regarding contracts with the unions, seiu local 1021 and atu local 1555 agreed to remove a family medical leave provision. the board says it was mistakenly left in the contract that was signed off back in november. it could have cost the district tens of millions of dollars potentially over the life of the contract. the board is set to vote on the new agreement on january 2nd. >>> with christmas just a couple days away, holiday travel is in full swing at bay area airports. they are expecting big holiday crowds this week. 130,000 air travelers are expected to go in and out of san francisco international just today alone. oakland international and san jose international say things are running smoothly. they expect the peak holiday travel to spread out over several days before and after christmas. >>> and during this holiday travel rush, gas prices are unchanged across the country. aaa's fuel gauge report says the nationwide average is $3.25 day, up from a week ago, and the same as a year ago. in the bay area, gas is $3.66 and prices

today and tomorrow both sides plan to sit down with a federal mediator to try and end the dispute with seiu and atu which includes station agents and train operators. b.a.r.t.'s union leaders haven't talked about the dreaded s word, strike, but riders are watching. this has shut down trains leaving thousands tranlded looking for other ways to get to work. because of the strikes. this mediator has had success before, it's the same person who reached a tentative agreement in october and that's the latest from here. live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> on capitol hill the round-the-clock session continues and the democrats and republicans are fighting over president obama's nominees. republicans are refusing to give up debate time over the 11 nominations, so majority leader harry reid decided to keep the session going through saturday or until the republicans relent. >> it's 5:48. investigators say they need more time to figure out what started a fire at a phone company in concord. fire burned for hours yet, continued to smolder even after crews put it touxt warehouse

. >> the seiu played a bill rowling in getting the minimum wage. activists say, despite the critics, keep fighting for the higher wages. we just heard the woman behind it admit that some jobs will be lost, quote, here and there. it that their proper tradeoff, to have fewer people making more money? >> well, let me start by saying, the three-quarters of americans believe the minimum wage needs to be raised. right? i certainly agree with them. the minimum wage is at a level that doesn't allow people to even if they -- did work fulltime -- it was designed to be a safety net but designed to be a reasonable safety net. right now -- >> i thought was designed to be a stepping stone. very few people in this country even are working at minimum wage, and even -- >> that's actually not true. it's -- we're talking about 20 million americans, a significant number of people, and most of them are not teenagers. 84% of them are over 20 years old, and because our economy has changed and because our economy is suffering, right, we are in a position where people are

seiu and atu. to meet and discuss the proposed family leave provision in the labor contract. kron 4 has also learned. >> pam: federal mediator greg lim meetings set for this thursday and friday. >> pam: at issue is a family leave provision that the unions bart district approve the provision. >> pam: preliminary numbers are in america's cup sailing races. >> pam: they are less than area council economic generated at least 364- for the san francisco bay area. >> pam: generate. >> pam: the san francisco chronicle dollars. an airport security screener this cowboy sock monkey too real. >> pam: k-i-n-g t-v reports a t-s-a carry-on bag of sewing police. >> pam: in the end, may says no one was called and she got her sewing supplies back, minus the toy gun. he transportation security back, minus the toy gun. hi love watching tvecurity outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no,

yesterday seiu united health care workers west host an enrollment event in oakland.walked those folks through the process and certified enrollment counselors input applications into the cover california web site. >> i mean it's people here to help you understand what you don't understand because i know it's big, but it's simple when you come and get an understanding of it. >> some of the people who went to the event say they did so because they were unsuccessful at signing up online. event organizers say if you want coverage by the beginning of next year, december 23rd is the deadline to apply. meanwhile a federal analysis shows about 15,000 signup forms did not get sent to insurance companies. the mistake is being blamed on technical problems on healthcare.gov. the department of health and human services says it will be contacting all of the enrollees to make sure none of the forms were misplaced. >>> your time now is 8:20 and snow in san fransisco, how the city by the bay turned itself into a winter wonderland. >> and hollywood comes to the palace of fine arts as a

seiu, i think they spent close to $30 million helping the president of the united states get elected.ething like that. it does show that -- you look at that and think, well, maybe he's more interested in having the job than doing the job. but as he just pointed out, it's all about priorities. yesterday i think we heard the president of the united states say when he retires from the white house, you know what he'd like to do? he would like to host the sports center top ten program. >> right. >> maybe it will work with your husband. >> i know condoleeza rice wants to be nfl commissioner. >> speechless. just to think about this, this is his signature plan. how does that make you feel is this right now in your home, millions of people losing their coverage, knowing the president met with kathleen sebelius one time in the 3 1/2 years leading up to this? how does that make you feel? >> the "new york times," oftentimes they have the unnamed white house source, we watched how the stories pop up. now we understand there is mounting pressure from democrats and close allies to hold senior level