paramedics that work at some at the stations and some at station 49. everyone on the command staff that i'm looking at, including chief ollie, who is the senior member, is an emt. [laughter] >> senior member in terms of seniority. senior member too i think as i'm looking out. so, we're real proud to be cross trained as emts and firefighters. it's a proud week for us. looking back, there was some roadblocks and stops and starts. but i think we have a very, very good service that we provide on both the fire side and ems side. >> commissioner veronese: my hat's off to everybody because you are all truly lifesavers. i know you don't like to hear that you are heros. but i have a lot of people that i care about personally that wouldn't be around today. so, i have a deep appreciation for you. the barbecue i'm sorry i'm going to miss that. like commissioner covington, my -- the invitation didn't catch my calendar and that's unfortunate for the event today. but i will try to be better about that. because of the long weekend, i will be out of town. and then one

next project is the northern police station richmond police station and taraval police station renovation. it's under construction, and the contractor is moving along, and they have completed the site and drainage work at richmond police station. they've also -- are close to 80% done at northern police station. and the next project is the firearms simulation training facility at the lake merced range? the modular building was fabricated at an off-site facility and it was delivered and shipped to the site and placed on a foundation that was built by a different contractor. that work was completed and the mission police station renovation which is a structural strengthening project at this station is -- has completed 65% design? it's actually further along now, with upcoming mile stones on the various projects, the firearms simulators training facility was supposed to achieve completed construction in april 2018, but due to some late discoveries during construction, it's now going to be completed this month, and it's actually substantially completed. and the building is done. the simulation

station 35 update. for the new station 35, we have an important meeting with them on june 11th, with bcdc, bay coastal development commission i believe. we have a meeting that the chief will be attending. this is for the station 35 permit approval. we've been working with bcdc for quite a while in terms of what the building looks like and it's footprint and all of that. so, this will be a big step in the process for us getting that permit approval. and then we will be able to move forward with other permits that we need to get. but bcdc is really the big one for us. the adf. ambulance deployment facility. there's been plenty of talk about that. determinelation and abatement -- determinelation and abatement has begun behind station nine that were filled with asbestos and some other things. but that has begun and dpw, bless their little hearts, has already pulled all the construction permits for adf. which is great and they're currently preparing the contract proposal to go out to bid. so that's great new

and the station area. and really to dedicate police staffing to help bart. we are short almost 30 bodies in the bart police department. we are desperately trying to hire high quality candidates, but it's very difficult. as we are continuing to try to hire, we need help from the san francisco police department and that's what the mayor and chief scott has helped us with. on wednesday, i was there in the morning doing site visiting and immediately, i saw san francisco police department at the top of the top of the entrances and patrolling in the concourse area. and i started to receive lots of compliments from people. they're cheerful, just again, adding that positive energy we desperately need at that station. this will continue. we had a follow-up meeting with the mayor and his team. this partnership is going to continue with sf police department and we're excited about that and it's going to be fantastic for our customers. >> co-chair blacksten: sounds good. any more questions? >> council member mcdonald:

every reporting station already has a low cloud deck in place. it has come roaring back and it will be with us for most of the day. coast and bay will settle in on the 50s and 60s but inland temperatures will come down. we have a low heading toward salt lake city. some of that moisture is coming back in when the sierra. they will have another round of thunderstorms. if anything, it will pick up from the next system coming in later in the week. 50s in lakeport, 53 and the castro valley, 53 in berkeley. napa is 54 degrees. the clouds are back and will be slow to burn off for some. we had a warm-up yesterday but another system dropping will give us some rain friday morning. 50s, 60s and 70s with a few locations cooling off. inland was in the 80s yesterday, but i don't see that today. thursday we have cloudy with light rain to begin your holiday weekend on friday. saturday will be breezy and sunday will be warmer. >> i am ready to get the patio furniture and the barbecue up and ready. >> it is june almost, it is about time. >>> a backlash against a p

i went to station 1 station 16 u and had a look around. the firehouses almost completed. the workmanship is first class. i'm very pleased. i had a question on fleet week. what are the dates of that? >> do you know the dates of fleet week? >> october 2nd through the tenth. >> and final question, i know that one of our priorities in the department has been to update our fleet, whether it be fire engines for trucks, or our ambulances, and i had a question for you. just how many of our rigs currently are old and need to be replaced, if you had to give a guesstimate? one of our priorities in the department is to replace the old fleet to make sure that we have the best that we can get. i just wondered how many of the old ambulances need to be replaced of the 300,000 miles on them, as well as trucks and fire engines? >> i can get those numbers for you. i don't have them off the top of my head, but i do know that we do have three trucks in the works and six new engines in the works. july 1st, we will be developed -- developing the new spender sr ambulances because they would have

station 35, we had a construction meeting as you know station 35 we are going to be getting a new station there. we had a construction meeting with bcbc, the port and ourselves to work on finalizing the design and we will have a follow-up meeting responding to their comments on june 11. the ambulance deployment facility, so we had a meeting with perspective artists that were chosen to do the art work on the gates and they had their walk through of the site and although dpw is the project manager for our facilities being built, we want to be more directly involved in the artist selection process, so we have inserted ourselves into that process and we will have more of a voice moving forward. then also with the adf good news, we got the permit for demolition and abatement was issued today, so they can begin that behind station nine of the structures that are there, the earliest they can begin may 11. station 16 still on track for september 11 completion and station 5 on track for december 28 completion. the latest at station 5 is the installation of underground utilities and there is framin

there's some video of drug users taking over a station corridor at civic center station san francisco. bart police chief carlos rojas reports property crime is down 2% year to year. robberies are down 9%. but aggravated assaults are up 26%. there were 34 last year. this year, 43. still, bart police say the crime rate is lower this year than a year ago. but the pictures of rampant drug use at stations tell a different story. >> right now, i find it hard to believe that crime is down. >> we are seeing a downward trend. we believe we are going in the right direction. >> chief rojas says bart hired 22 more officers in the last 18 months. but there are still 30 police officer vacancies so right now they are focusing on recruiting more officers and making those police officers more visible at stations throughout the system. reporting live here in san leandro, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> in just a few hours, civil rights leader al sharpton will discuss the shooting of stephon clark outside the state capital. clark was unarmed when police shot and killed him back in march. police say that

drug users taking over a station corridor at civic center station in san francisco. but bart police insist the crime rate is lower this year than it was a year ago. bart police chief carlos rojas reports property crime is down 2% year over year and robberies drunk 9% but aggravate assault on bart trains are up 26 -- robberies are up 29% but aggravated -- robberies are down 9% but aggravated assault on bart trains are up 29%. >> it's something we need to work on. >> reporter: bart hired 22 more officers in the last 18 months which helped curb crime. but there are still 30 police officer vacancies so they say their big thing now is focusing on recruitment. they want to get those vacancies filled. they want to make officers more visible at bart stations. we haven't seen a police officer yet this morning but when we have had problems going live at bart stations and have needed a call, bart police have arrived within a couple of minutes. live in san leandro, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> the kilauea volcano continues to unleash its fury in hawaii. hotter faster moving l

motorists tell "7 on your side" it happened on two gas stations miles apart. one prius hybrid came to a halt on the freeway and had to be towed. >> she say they had gassed up at the shell station. this subaru has been in the shop since may 5th. she recalls the day the car completely lost power moments after filling up her tank at this chevron station in san ramon. chevron has confirmed that it has received 60 complaints from motorists. it says a third party c accidentally introduced diesel into the supply of regular gasoline. the car is spewing black and white smoke, the result of what the mechanic at fairfield subaru. shell has not acknowledged the mistake, but we do see that one pump has shut down. >> we haven't heard from shell. >> reporter: the two stations are in san ramon. and the shell on north main street in walnut creek. we heard back from shell and tells us we are reaching out to the operator of the shell branded station for more information. shell oil takes product quality very seriously and will investigate this issue further. >> thank you very muc

polling stations were really really empty we did see long lines at supermarkets bus stations and people are talking about the lowest participation in venezuelan history we don't know for sure what the number of abstention will be but what we can say for now is that it was not only the opposition that didn't go to the polls it was also the government supporters that didn't go. many people say nowadays people are more worried about getting food and that's why they're standing in line at the supermarket and not at the polling station so obviously the economic situation is very dire is the next government even if it's the same one prepared to face the economic challenges the country is facing. we haven't seen tangible proposals to overcome this crisis so far. durable probably. i have to phrase more sanctions from the international community we have seen that the u.s. has already threatened to cut some of his of its oil imports from venezuela if the elections were going to be carried out in the current situation which has happened so we could expect more sanctions more multinational companie

and a senior manager at the station says the shooting was politically motivated. to see schools released this is an ordered political killing of a former russian journalist who was criticizing the policy of the russian federation who was living in ukraine for the past one and a half three is and he worked as a presenter on his t.v. show on crimean tatars t.v. channel a.t.r. where he used to talk about russia he wrote articles about russia i cannot think of any other reasons but the russian authorities were a challenge more from the russian reaction from moscow. the russian response to all this is pretty textbook they've got you know a well used formula for what they do when incidents take place the they are likely to be blamed for they call for an independent unbiased and swift investigation they say that the incident itself looks like some sort of provocation and they also suggest that the incident is going to be used by russia's adversaries as a way of attacking moscow and we've heard pretty much all of these points being hits by russian commentators by russian

at one of those stations you will be slightly cheesed off.in hertfordshire. hardened and are hopping mad because they say one third of rush—hour services are being taken out of circulation. the train operator says, well, that is only between certain hours. if you look more widely at the morning rush hour you will see there are probably roughly about the same. north of that, in wellingborough, and impact of the new thameslink service in the station, which is beyond the thames link area, is affected because the nutrient patterns. if you commute from wellingborough to bedford, instead of getting a 30 minute train service you will be put on a bus because there will be no rush—hour trains south to bedford. in sussex, lewis is not doing well. they might have the average dreamtime to london of 68 minutes. i have seen timetables from 1912 for the fastest trains are significantly faster than that! simon, thank you so much about. to speak to you. more residents have been rescued from their homes in hawaii as molten lava continues to pour from the groun

and antioch is 10 miles long and adds two new stations.n will be able to carry an estimated 2,400 people in each direction, per hour, during rush hours.there will be a ribbon cutting at 11-am but we will get to ride on these trains at 6am.reporting live in antioch, lydia pantazes kron4 news. < we're currently looking at a transit center in brentwood. the model in this quarter. we buy and purchase some land.we developed a park and ride. and then when the money the politics and rider ship develops we'll do a rail extension. so we're actively looking at purchasing 20 acres of property in brentwood. > ( james ) thanks we will with you through out ( darya ) coming up in the next hour... the family of the elderly woman attacked and robbed at a concord bank is speaking out.... as we learn the suspect may be linked to áanother robbery. ( darya ) and after the break... today marks two years since bay area teen pearl pinson went missing. and we have new pictures in the case just relased to the public. ( mabrisa ) and i am tracking your bay area fore

i'll start with fire station number 16. so as charles already mentioned, structural steel for fire station 16 has been completed, and roofing and building envelope has progressed, and we experience a very small delay due to the weather condition. rain delays -- that has already caught up, so we are already on schedule. and utility wrap ins are already scheduled. the final completion is projected in september of this year. fire station number five, still completion ceremony was held on the 26, and that was capped by the pouring of the concrete and second and third floor. almost a month ago we poured the concrete slab on grate, and this project is tracking on completion and budget. completion is scheduled for december of this year. [inaudible] >> good morning. my name is sherry katz, and i am the director of sometime projects. exterior envelope package four, the mpp went to the contractor on 5-14, and that's underway. f-bay door and ancillary work, bbr has completed about one fourth of those now. that's in completion for the

it is a very challenging location for a station. there are clearly operational benefits, and it allows the possibility, which we did not include in the cost estimate, of even expanding underground at the fourth at townsend station which would be an underground station at that location. there are obvious negatives to this alignment. there is some increase in cost, about 900 million, we think, that requires additional environmental review of the segment that is south of the railyard. it requires relocating storage and maintenance facilities, as i said, and probably requires some relocation of utilities. so where are we headed here? we think this is a reasonable, doable timeline, obviously there are factors, that will come into play here, that might affect this timeline. but we are, of course unit may, updating you, on tuesday of next week, we will presenting the same pub -- presentation to the public. over the next five or six weeks, we'll be doing presentations and we will hope to bring a recommendation for your approval either in ju

center station. today - >>> b.a.r.t. is cracking down on drug users openly shooting up inside civic center station. today a member of the b.a.r.t. board of directors is making a bold move to get up close and personal with the problem. kpix 5's anne makovec shows us. >> reporter: you may have seen this video shot last month in the civic center b.a.r.t. station, people shooting up drugs out in the open at the start of the morning commute. lining the hallway in various states of consciousness. >> our employees and riders really experience bad things at this station and i think it's really affecting b.a.r.t. >> reporter: b.a.r.t.'s supervisor decided to set up his work desk in this very spot. >> i feel responsible as a director, and if the most i can do is to sit here and ask people not to shoot up here, i guess that's the best that i can do. >> there was an increased police presence at the station this morning, in large part because of his appearance. the police chief says he's doing his best. >> our officers are out here e

stations saying that. there are so many claims about fraud now the most important things that does all these things going to change the result especially especially in provinces like. like nato are because those three other governorates actually suffer so many from so many things specially from tourism and there are so many i.d.p.'s there and there are so many conflicts there are political conflict especially between the kurds and arabs between the kurds and turks and also in anbar because of the political conflict there between the different parties in amber and so to the question the question that you pose do you think. this number of votes i mean are not entirely sure of the number of actual votes that are caught up in this controversy but it could be as many as two percent of the entire vote is that enough to change the overall victory for the coalition that was led by mokhtar outsider. i don't think so i don't think so it won't it won't go on or on that on that road. i don't think and i don't think th

one of several stations used frequently by the >> there are no bathrooms inside the station. for many it's been easier to use the elevator as the place it relie relieve themselves. he's one of several who will be working here and at the civic center station from 5:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. 7 days a week. >> it's ground zero for the frustration that riders feel. about homelessness and feeling unsafe. >> they work for a community based organization. >> we are tasked with bringing a sense of safety and security. to areas that have become chaotic. >> the cost of the program is $600,000. paid for by bart. they will be in place for six months. remember, it's a pilot program. after that period, both will evaluate the program to decide whether or not it's worth keeping. >> bart is not the only one dealing with a public health hazard. oakland city counsel member got down and dirty in effort to help clean the system. tweeting this video. that's a live rat. it's among the trash and filth he encountered yesterday during a clean oakland day. volunteers help clean up areas turned into dumps.

or at lake merritt's station to clean the mess.licia trost, bart spokeswoman "needles are a safety hazard for our riders and our employees so we want to make sure we are protecting all of them"bart says they've had rapid response team members on board since february -- and are now looking to add more cleaners due to the increasing (pam) news since our story aired last night, we have receieved more pictures and videos from you, our viewers, of even more needles on bart trains and in the stations. now, as kron 4's michelle kingston reports.. bart officials say, they are launching a new program to tackle the problem. alicia trost, alicia trost, bart spokeswoman"people are seeking refuge at bart because they are getting kicked out of whatever area they were at" recent viral videos of drug use at a bart station ... photos coming in to the newsroom from viewers of needles on trains ...and this woman -- who says she sat on a hypodermic needle on bart last week.ánatá"i just kind of touched it and it was a syringe tip"bart is now stepping u

station will take place. b.a.r.t., by the way, is offering free rides. >>> b.a.r.t., dublin and pleasanton line will not be extended into livermore. that plan called for five and half mile extension from the dublin/pleasanton station east into livermore. supporters of the extension say that it would've helped to ease traffic congestion but critics say few writers would use it and the money would be better spent on other transit projects. >>> 6:07. north korea is reacting to president trump's decision to cancel next month's summit with kim jong-un, saying he is still willing to meet at any time with president trump. doug luzader joining us live from washington. doug, what is the president saying about getting that meeting, that summit meeting back on track? >> reporter: well, you know, the president is reacting to what was a restrained statement from north korea expressing their hopes that the summit would actually happen. the president on twitter saying very good news to receive that warm and productive state

if you're wondering what's name of this station, the identification will be obvious. upgraded lighting would also be uniform throughout the system. >> i would like to see little coffee shops down here. >> that's also on the drawing board. >> what i think customers will notice is that it's going to be easier to get around the stations. it's going to be a more pleasant experience for them as they do that. >> he tells us bond money will help pay for the plans without taking anything away from improvements to the system's infrastructure. quality of life issues like cleanliness will still be a priority. carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. >>> okay. let's look at what you think b.a.r.t.'s focus should be. you can see on the bottom of your screen are the live results from you voting. coming in from abc7news.com/vote. crime and safety remains the top concern at 51%. a lot of folks also care about cleanliness. more trains and modernizing facilities. you can continue to vote. >> pg&e doubled its support to help oakland young people succeed in higher education endeavors. the company is a

.>>> happening at the jolly washer gas station, a deputy shot, after the manager called police. emily turner says a car wash employee opened fire. emily? >> reporter: yes, the city of sonoma contracts with the sheriff's office for the police force, a deputy acting in that capacity, when he responded to this carwash, and things went downhill from there. the line is to the street, the employees are hustling, but yesterday was a different scene at the jolly washer carwash in sonoma. >> drove by, i looked in, possibly get my car wash, truck, and we saw yellow table around, and a vehicle still sitting in there. >> reporter: police say this man, ryan fratello, shot a sonoma police officer, he were to the carwash, the manager called when he had a loaded gun and acting oddly, as the officer approached him, police say patel fired, hitting the officer in the upper body copley still don't know why. there is video surveillance of yesterday's event, not only were the officers wearing body cameras, but the jolly washer has their own surveillance footage, all of that is being reviewed, althoug

. >>> new details tonight on a big fire by the oakland coliseum station. an abc 7 news viewer took this vio lasnit. you can see the flameair. it startedn roofing materials yard. the oakland fire department says fire works with -- at the ark's game. the official cause is under investigation. >>> a light pole nearly toppled over after being hit by a car in city college near san francisco. abc 7 news was at the geneva off ramp. it ended up leaning on a tree following this morning's crash. highway principal told us nobody was hurt. the on ramp closed for several hours. >>> a chaotic scene outside mountain view sports bar. a man and woman got into a fight with another man at 2:00 in the morning. the fight spilled out in the parking lot where investigators say the man drove his car into the couple hitting them and pinning the woman underneath the car. bystanders attacked the driver and lived the car off the woman. all three people taken to the trauma center for their injuries. >>> lava at kilauea mountain is growing hotter and hotter tonight. the rocks shooting

some gas stations offer significantly stations offer some gas stations offer significantly lower prices on the kron 4 morning buzz... let the betting begin for the n-b-a finals. one bet could cost a cleveland browns player millions of dollars. we all know guys like gavin... boasting. overselling his achievements. making false claims. as lieutenant governor, he skipped many of his duties, saying the job was "so dull," he only shows up to work at the state capitol "like one day a week, tops." the same gavin who, as mayor, "split town" during a massive oil spill and "jetted off..to hawaii." gavin's not gonna work... as governor. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) marine layer will develop and spread inland by this morning with patchy drizzle and fog possible early. the return of the marine layer will bring much cooler temperatures on wednesday, especially for inland areas. coastal areas will warm up in the 60s to lower 70s. inland area daytime highs will be in the (robin) no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101.

and antioch is 10 miles long and adds two new stations.ted 2,400 people in each direction, per hour, during rush hours.there will be a ribbon cutting at 11-am but we will get to ride on these trains at 6am.reporting live in antioch, lydia pantazes kron4 news. kron4 news. ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) starting tomorrow morning... áno trains will run between the pleasant hill and concord bart stations. crews will doing various maintenance work on the tracks thru monday. bart will run free buses between the two stations... with 20-minute delays expected for passengers. crews will replace electrical equipment and a drainage system. they'll also resurface rails and trim trees. ( darya ) new this morning ... harvey weinstein surrendered to police to face rape charges. this is video of the disgraced hollywood producer showing up at a new york city police station this morning. he was arrested on criminal charges in a months-long investigation into sexual assault allegations. two law enforcem

station in san francisco, 40 cents higher than last year.e numbers. in california, the average price for a gallon of regular is $3.62. that's up 12 cents from a month ago. san francisco is up to $3.74. oakland $3.64. san jose $3.65. petroleum analysts say the increase in prices is an art because of the trade conflict with china and fears over military uprising in syria. the surge also being traced back to opec and its decision in 2016 to cut production. in many cases, it's supply and demand. >> there's some troubling refineries in the state, couple of them down for scheduled maintenance. when they come back online, we'll have more gas coming in. >> reporter: he says there's a good chance that production in the u.s. will bounce back by summer. of course, something that's really adding to the pain at the pump here in california our new gas tax that went into effect in november adding 12 cents a gallon. so without that we would be below the $4 mark here. but that's not the case. live in south san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> a new supre

staff from the stations which have less than 40 daily on/offs at each station. each one of those station positions cost roughly $100,000 and so itt is a significant expense and our aim is to improve as congress has directed us to improve the economic performance of the agriculture network on keeping our service, and serving the communities. >> was 40 the kind of the line that you drew then? >> we did. we did. we are continuing to look -- >> any other stations on the amtrak network with fewer on site ticket purchases that have fewer ticket agents? >> no, everything on the long distance network there. are some instances of potentially the state-supported national network where states are paying for the costs. they have decided to invest. but in general, no, with redestaff i redestaffing or moving the the staff from these locations, and instead, because of the points that you raised, we are using generally two strategies to make sure that we had an adequate presence and one is to the higher caretakers and where we hire someone to come and open up the station to mak

and to keep the stations clean bart just hired 20 new custodians.san francisco justine waldman kron 4 news. ((vicki) in national news tonight... oakland mayor libby schaaf is responding to an attack from president trump. earlier this week president trump said the mayor should be investigated for obstruction of justice. those comments came during a roundtable discussion about california's sanctuary policies. but the feud goes back to february when the mayor warned the public that ice raids were likely coming in the bay. here is the message she had for the president today.<> (vicki)oncam tag president trump has repeatedly said schaaf's warning allowed as many as one- thousand people to avoid arrest. that number has been disputed by a former ice spokesman... who resigned saying the number was a lie. (grant) we have new images from the kilauea volcano in hawaii... check out this spectacular video from pahoa... lava erupting from the ground on the east side of hawaii's big island. a new fissure opened up last night. now 22 vents have formed since kilauea

adrian two police stations appear to come under attack police station number thirteen in district thirteen that's been dusted archie in the west of the city that's mainly a minority. neighborhood you know that pack apparently is still ongoing at least one building in flames there in the second attack on police station in district number ten that's the very heart of the city's a very center of the city at least eight explosions there over the past hour and forty minutes or so and lots of small arms fire the interior minister saying that there are still suicide bombers in one of the building in the area and that that attack also ongoing as well it's unclear whether the targets were actually the police stations there are also a number of other things in the area there is the main visa agency for india right next to the police station which some have suggested may have been the target in p.g. and as well as the asian development bank a big donor here but definitely too complex attack something we haven't. been for a while simultaneous complex attack and put this into context for us jennifer ju

several explosions in the afghan capital kabul targeting at least two police stations. a hostage situation as a prison in indonesia at least six people have been killed. i believe now the urgent warning to more homeowners in hawaii. iran's supreme leader has challenge the u.s. president of the pulling out of the nuclear deal saying that his statement contained at least ten lies donald trump announced washington's withdrawal from the twenty fifteen agreement on tuesday. vowed to impose the highest levels of sanctions against tehran inside iran's parliament politicians demonstrated and burned the u.s. flag they're expected to vote on a response to trump's announcement iran's president condemned the u.s. for not respecting its commitments he says that iran will remain in the pact but warns that it could resume in reaching your radium if its national interests on respected other signatories to the twenty fifteen dealing clued in france germany and the u.k. say they regret trump's decision but will remain parties to the agreement but trump's received support from the united

the station agent who took the photo... says she wants to see more police at stations.k to you. ( james ) happening today... bart officals will hold a meeting about the future of the proposed expansion to livermore. the board is expected talk about the results of the final enviornmental impact report... and dicuss the next steps moving forward with the expansion. ( james ) this week marks two years since 15-year-old pearl pinson went missing in vallejo.. her father is now speaking publicly for the first since her disappearance. ( james ) pearl was kidnapped while she walking along an overpass.. on her way to school. police found her blood on the overpass.. and say she was dragged and possibly shot. her abductor, fernando castro, died in a shoot out with officers in southern california... police found her blood in the trunk of castro's car. we spoke to pearl's sister who says a witness saw what happened.

station would. commuters here at the end of the line in dublin-pleasanton perk up when you mention a ride from livermore. >> it would be a lot easier commute, yeah. a lot easier. it would be more convenient to not have to fight the traffic in the morning. >> reporter: in the afternoon, what's it like? >> even better. around 3:30, 4:00 in the afternoon it is horrible. it's horrible. it would be nice. >> reporter: highway 4 is about to get some relief. the new antioch extension is set to open this saturday. commuters over here who use interstate 580 say it's their turn. they need some relief. b.a.r.t. will take up that issue today. we will keep you posted on how the board decides to vote. live from the dublin-pleasanton station, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >>> new this morning and making international headlines, north korea saying it demolished a nuclear test site. we don't have the video of the demolition quite yet. this happened this morning as you were sleeping, deep in the mountain ans of north ko

the station agent says she found this as she was getting ready for her shift at the concord bart station showing two men using drugs inside an elevator in the parking garage. it was in the morning around 4:30 just before the station opened. this picture curtesy of claycord dot com. the agent goes on to say that she is frustrated that this is going on and that bart is failing by not providing enough security or tackling this issue. alecia troust/bart spokesperson. we are certainly concerned. there is an opiod crisis going on and people are using our stations to use drugs and sleep. george perez, rider. i see needles in the bathroom. and it is not just the elevators, but riders say they see needles in and around the bathrooms and trains frequently. john taylor, rider. i am worried someone is going to get hurt. this is the not the first time - bart has been contacted about a drug problem these are images from the civic center in san francisco. troust. we are working with our partners. sf police are now going to go and help patrol. bart riders say they are quite concerned and feel bart needs

i regret embarrassment i caused the station. my recent actions do not reflect the high standard of conduct expected at kgo more do they represent the integrity with which i have conducted my professional sports and broadcast careers. i have nothing but grate memories working here. and covering four world series, three super bowls, three nba championship runs. a stanley cup and two u.s. opens. i want to wish the station, and all my fantastic colleagues at abc 7 the best as they move forward. it has been my pleasure to work with you. i also want to thank all the great viewers that supported me over the years. through thick and thin. it has been a great run from a super bowl champion with 49ers to riding in parades with other world champs here in the city by the bay process. as a 40-year resident i'm humbled by the support and will never forget how fortunate i have been to ride the wave of bay area greatness. hope to see you down the road. that statement from mike shumann. abc 7's president and general manager tom cibrowski release

stations. law enforcement and legal experts told "the chronicle," the problem cannot be solved with more officers. say most of the offenses result in a citation, not jail. rehabilitation programming are voluntary. at leaf one supervisor wants to try safe injection sites for the users. live in san francisco, matt keller, abc 7 news. >>> a heads up for travelers going to san francisco international airport. starting tonight the air train light rail system will shut down from 8:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. crews are starting work on a new station to link the train system to the grand vie yacht hotel which is set to open next summer. the overnight air train closures are supposed to happen until june 15th. the airport will provide bus service to take people between the terminals and the -- >>> the much anticipated series match-up between the warriors and rockets begins in houston. it's the start of the western conference finals. the team arrived in houston yesterday. for the first time in steve kerr's po

. >>> a member of bart board of directors tackling the outgoing drug problem at the bart station. and who he is bringing into helping. >> you may have seen this video shot last month in the civic center park station. people shooting drugs in the open at the start of the morning commute. they are lining up the hallway in various states of consciousness. >> our writers experience bad things at the station and it affects bart. >>reporter: the work -- was set up in his spot here. >> i feel responsible as a director and i can ask people not to shoot up here and that's the best i can do. >>reporter: there was an increased presence here at the station in large part because of dusty's appearance. the police chief says he's doing his best pair expect our officers are out here doing a very difficult job and shortstaffed. >> chief rojas says keeping this activity out of bart stations is like a cat and mouse game. >> your people with serious problems with addiction of drugs and at the same time we want to prioritize the safety for our ridership here in the station. >> dusty is talking with th