because if you take bart...you want to feel like there is a police presence. joel keller/bartthe thing that's disappointment to me is we don't have enough officers to be on the trains , be in the stations and be in the parking lots.rebecca saltzman/bart board president they can be off in a corner of a parking lot and you never see them even though they are there the same time as you so i think we need to better communicate with riders that they are there.(grant) in the meantime, bart says there are currently 38 vacancies on the force, which is about 20-percent. bart board director joel keller says it's time to make filling those positions a priority. (pam ) new information on breaking news we brought you at 10:00... hayward police are investigating a double shooting. this is happening on meekland avenue and medford avenue.police say, calls came in around 7-30 tonight ..we have now learned that police believe this was a drive-by shooting.the two victims were rushed to the hospital in critical condition. authorities say, there is no motive or suspect information

bart/passenger: "believe it or not i just saw one on that train"bart/passeneger: "i believe bart police are doing the best they can"other passengers say they would like to see more officersbart passenger: "no question about it, that would get rid of kids jumping the gate and going in there"bart officials say they the police department currently has 38- vacancies...when those spots are filled that will help deter crimealicia trost/bart spokesperson: "no police department would say they don't want more officers"in oakland haaziq madyun kron4news (pam) the heroin epidemic continues to make its mark on the bay area... . in just the last ten days, the sonoma county coroner's office says, there have been five deadly opiod overdoses.. authorities believe the type of heroin being sold in the santa rosa area.... is extremely volatile .. potent and lethal. there is concern about the sharp spike in deaths.... all five of the cases were in the santa rosa area this week... the exact cause of death is still being determined.... but warnings are going out to the public about the disturbing trend. a li

there is on bart.... and we talked to riders about just how safe they feel. bart is a transit agency that has its own police department with 187-sworn officers and 47- community service officers who patrol bart parking lots. in light of the recent incident involving bart passengers being attacked by a mob teenagers at the coliseum station..."i had 40 kids board my train and beat up someone" ...i decided to take a look to see how visable bart officers are at few stations. the first bart police officer i saw today was here in the parking lot of pete's coffee in jack london square. from there i moved onto the lake merritt station, which also houses bart police headquarters. i saw a bart patrol car parked on the street. inside the station there was no sign of any police officers at the fare-gate or on the platform the next bart officer i saw was here in the parking lot of the coliseum stationhere in orinda there was no sign of bart officers in the parking lot, fare-gate or on the platformno officers at the ga

we are dealing with bart delays. this is all due to a disabled train earlier this morning at the lake merritt station and that's causing delays systemwide. heads up if you are using bart this morning. you will be in for some delayed trains. you will need to give yourself extra time. plan accordingly. 10-minute delay in san bruno due to equipment problems and it looks like they have fixed that but still dealing with those delays. let's take it over to our maps where we are tracking a couple of problems. drivers heading along southbound 880 at thornton. we have a crash that is building, delays beyond 92. speeds below 40 miles an hour and reports of a crash in oakland. southbound 880 right near the coliseum. chp hasn't arrived on scene. bay bridge toll plaza, oh, it is backed up into the maze. expect delays if you are heading over there. that's a check of your traffic. back over to you, roberta. >> i have been scanning my facebook, twitter and email and i have been receiving so much information from you out there tellin

bart chief gary gee and former fbi special agent rick smith. together they have around 60 years of experience. bart mob attack last saturday in oakland.safeway mob burglary grab last month in san francisco.carnival mob attack last month in oakland.former fbi special agent rick smith says we are seeing a change. rick smithsot i don't think it's a good sign of the times i think a lot of this stuff happens because i think there is no consequence. it needs to be a multifaceted approach to a real problem and that is an increase in low level crime. if it is allowed to happen more serious things are going to happen.in the bart mob attack on saturday 6 out of the 9 train cars had working cameras. there were also multiple working cameras at the coliseum station. bart says state law doesn't allow them to release the video because the suspects appear to be juveniles. former bart police chief gary gee says the fact that they aren't or are unable to release video or pictures is certainly out of the ordinary.gary geesot i know you don't release photos of min

the bart train. bart police say they have also stepped up their presence in and around the oakland colseium bart station... (catherine) that disturbing weekend incidence of mob violence on a bart train is causing another victim to come forward -- who says she was also attacked on a train. kron 4's maureen kelly talked to the young woman - who says bart police didn't take her assault seriously enough and she wants answers. there were a group of teenagers kind of messing around on the train, hanging off the bars being loud but in general i wasn't paying much attention to them because they're teenagers why would i ever be afraid of them. tess pawlisch says she was sitting on a bart train while travelling thru oakland...looki ng at her phone on the train when she was attacked.all of a sudden i felt a huge punched my head she was diagnosed with post concussion syndrome after suffering multiple blows to the head while riding on a bart train in oakland back in february. her attacker, a teen girl, ran off th

even to the bart board member. in an emailed response to one of the witnesses a bart police lieutenant agrees that the train operator should have immediately reported the attack to bart pd. and today the acting deputy chief says he was made aware of the delay in contacting the witnesses in this case two weeks ago. he calls it unacceptable and says he's put protocols in place to address it. pawlisch says she hopes bart pd has truly learned from this incident and is trying to improve...and isn't just saying that to deflect media scrutiny. (pam) just days after a group of forty- to sixty- teens jumped the ticket gates then robbed people on a bart train... bart is now saying it is using a new tactic to thwart potential attacks. this time, a bart worker spotted three to four juveniles who did not pay their fare. this was tuesday night at the lake merritt bart station .. that's when the worker called bart police.. who then instructed trains to keep moving through the station without stopping. the teens got away. bart say

a gap in bart's safety rules. although bart now says he broke several of his rules, assistant chief transportation officer retired last year without any discipline. neither he or the trainee got back to us for comment. nbc bay area news. >> and recent lethe effort to fine bart suffered a blow with a judge decided for bart's lawyers and dismissed on process grounds. if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call or send us an e-mail. and we'll be right back. live-stream your favorite sport, at the airport. binge dvr'd shows, while painting your toes. on demand laughs, during long bubble baths. tv on every screen is awesome. the all-new xfinity stream app. all your tv at home. the most on demand, your entire dvr, top networks, and live sports on the go. included with xfinity tv. xfinity the future of awesome. >>> it is among the fastest growing businesses here in the bay area, and a school designed to put more people to work wants it to stay that way. we're talking about solar, a business where we have

calls bart police... those kids took off and got away before police showed up. and how bout the people who wanted to get off but the train didn't stop. have to get off at the next stop...and take a train heading back to the intended station. (maureen kelly)in oakland a victim of a different bart attack is coming forward...beca use she says bart pd dropped the ball in investigating her case.she has text messages from her witnesses....one whom a month later says she had not been contacted by police....another saying she was called by police on april 6th. today the acting deputy chief says he was made away of the delay in contacting the witnesses in this case two weeks ago. he calls it unacceptable and says he's put protocols in place to address it. pawlisch says she hopes bart pd has truly learned from this incident and is trying to improve...and isn't just saying that to deflect media scrutiny.maureen kelly kron4 news (justine waldman)in vallejo, a gruesome dicoevry off of columbus parkwayabout a dozen dea

major system wide delays for bart and this is a big deal if you take bart. they say well i can't just wait around i have to go and i'm going to have to go in the car. so we're going to see if it effects traffic. >>> let's go out and take a look at the gilroy commute right now. morgan hill. this commute here is not bad so far getting right through morgan hill and getting into san jose. that commute looks all right with no major issues reported here. the traffic is doing well on 280 right through downtown san jose. at the bay bridge we might see more people taking the car again because of those bart issues. we're going to try to get to the bottom of it here in the newsroom. i'll let you know how long this is likely to last. at 5:18. let's bring steve. >> bart delay at... >> system wide. >>> all right. we have clear skies out there. it will be a nice day out there if you enjoyed yesterday. temperatures didn't have a little breeze for some. still be some higher elevations. everything looks nice for a friday forecast and padres in town tonight. giants. some guy n

we stop the video right before impact. >> bart emergency. bart emergency. bart emergency, go ahead, tral. >> central, train nine six three. we just struck some individuals at approximately sixteen decimal two on the c one track. >> reporter: bart's report issued just this january concludes that their deaths were unavoidable. under bart's policy, the workers were individually responsible for providing their own protection. bart concluded adherence to the rules would have prevented the accident. >> they're blaming the victims for this. it is shameful. it really is. >> reporter: state senator jerry hill believes bart needs to be held accountable for theÑi laps he sees in the video. >> no one was properly trained. no one was doing the job that they were supposed to do for safety. >> reporter: the public utilities commission wants to fine bart $600,000 for having a, quote, poor and inadequate safety culture. regulators contend bart should have either banned workers from the deadly curve can or at least made sure trains automatically slowed for workers ahead. ba

still bart, sal? >> yeah. bart is definitely going to be one of the things that we're following, steve, because early this morning, one of the brand- new trains that they test overnight ended up stalling at the lake merritt station. it took a while to get that train out of the way. the train had to be pushed by another train. there is the new train. kind of hard to see. it is one of the newer trains. it was completely dark. it was being pushed out of the way by a regular train down to bayfair and found a site to put it to get it out of the way. regular train service is moving but delays have been pretty much all morning long. not as bad as they were. right now bart is running trains in and out of san francisco and there are still lingering delays. i want to mention the traffic on the bay bridge earlier was slower. now it is recovering. nearby, by the way, there is an injury accident southbound 880 at oak street. if you're leaving the macarthur maze and heading south at oak street there is a crash there. we mig

first, bart riders need to know about this to show you the blazing red. the richmond station is closed right now. what we heard from bart is that the station is closed because of a power issue and we saw pg&e has one small report by the station so we're following up is what is going on. the station is the fartherers north you can go on that line right now as far as stations are open. let's get you out to the roadways. roadway lts show you the richmond station is here. eller er el zero d cerito is right here. we'll see what information bart can give us about the bridge between those two stations. for now, back to keri and her forecast. >>> a few clouds across the bay area but not drizzling, misting like we had yesterday morning as ting fep out in north bay and san francisco. an all dry start as our temperatures are coming back down a couple degrees in the tri-valley. 56 degrees in the south bay as you head out in san francisco, highs will be warmer than yesterday reaching 72 degrees with sunshine and gusty winds, 64 today in san francisco. we'll look ahead

kron four spoke with former bart police chief gary gee. he says the agency should show the public what happened because public safety is involved:

bart spokesperson jim allison bart spokesperson: "there was never any safety concern. it was a matter of our components that were supposed to fail when there is too much power, failing, the bad news is, those cars have to go into the shop and those parts have to be replaced, so it takes those cars out of service">bart engineers have isolated the cause of these power surges to metallic dust created from rail grinding the solution for this...bart will equip special cars with magnets to remove the metallic dust off the tracksin the mean time bart has temporarily stopped rail grinding here and will decrease the power needed for trains by reducing the length of cars ..traveling between north

major problems on bart. the richmond station is closed this morning power outage.( darya ) robin winston is here with the details and a look at how it is impacting your commute. bart delays due to a power outage the richmond station is closed use el cerrito del norte instead bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. (james)we're off to a cloudy start once again, but not as much fog. let's go outside an check our 4-zone forecast camera network. also gone, is the drizzle. we're looking for a drier day today. temperatures are generally in the 50s right now. here's your "ready 4 daypart 8:00 when school begins, expecting low lunchtime, we enjoying partly cloudy skies then by 3pm, as school, we'll hit our peak which should the low 60s at upper 60s by the bay, to low winds will be again today, especially at that's today's have your 3-coming up in 15 minutes. ( darya ) happening today - berkeley is bracing for protests even after conservative commentator ann coulter cancelled her planned speech at t

because i take bart every day. people harass me on bart. when i have headphones on i feel uncomfortable. can't hear what is going on. >> the psa on bart's page, includes a longer explanation of bart's stance on so-called creeps. >> the chicago department of aviation, placed two officers on administrative leave. all over this. the now infamous dragging of a passenger off a flight. the department, the department says it will not release the names of the officers, due to union regulations. meantime, the fallout continues. we have learned today, customers on the flight will receive compensation for the cost of their tickets. and as we reported, oscar munoz called the incident horrific and promised to make changes. the passenger, david doa and attorneys have a news conference scheduled tomorrow morning. >> the bay area housing crisis, community groups taking action. protest, set in san jose for a fight over a controversial proposal. robert honda joins us, we have seen people upset over housing before. what's different now? this protest is aimed

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bart station. jessica is live in concord with the details on what's taking shape. >>reporter: 6,000 riders use this station every day and as rent goes up across the bay area, more and more folks are moving out here. to keep up, bart officials are taking on a modernzation project. take a look. bart will start construction on a bart station project and upgrade the parking lot, including a direct connection between the bicycle station and the plaza in downtown concord, plus new benches, lighting and trees. they're upgrading crosswalks and bike routes on both sides of the station as well. of course your tax dollars is funding it, in part by the contra costa measure j fund and prop 1b. the groundbreaking kicks off at 10 a.m. >> how much will the project cost, jessica? >> about $6.5 million. back to you. >> thank you. >>> prosecutors in south korea indicted the country's former president to a criminal court. he is currently in jail as he deals with a high profile corruption scandal. he and a close adviso

the violations allege concerning individualçó employees violatio of a bart rule, not a gap in bart safetyt( rules or general failure by bart to enforce those rules, they told us in a qÑiq statement. >> although they say broke several of the rules. the transportation xdofficer, pl lipton requiíq last year without any discipline, neither hee1 or the trainee gotfá back him for comment. nbc, bay area news. >> thanks. bart suffered a blow with a regulatory gun cited and charges on due process. the judge, by the way, had yet to rule. bring you jeff, let's talk about this rain. it's here now and it's going to be a wet commute. >> it is. weÑii] definitely think there w be some areasçó ofÑi moderate a few heavier pockets into tomorrow morning. i want to get you right to the doppler radar right now. you can see what we're dealing with. ll has been okay to handle for tonight, and especially after the brutal assault against the bay area with thatçó heavier rain fall lt week. the top zone here with that heavier pocket of rain fall is across thexd Ñipeninsula. that will likely move by 11:39 to

. >>> the city of concord and bart broke ground on that new project between the concord bart station and todas santos park. bart riders we spoke to have mixed feelings be about the $6.5 million project. >> we would totally use it. >> put more money in the bart trains. they're really in bad shape a lot of them. i've got to go but that's where the money should go. >> the project is expected to be complete by the summer of 2018. >>> bart has a problem that says it has cost them millions of dollars a year. riders who don't pay to ride. several ideas not only catching the cheats but preventing them from doing it in the first place. >> this is the proper way to pay for a bart ride but bart says many passengers are cheating. bart estimate fare cheats are depriving the rail system between 15 and $25 million a year. >> there are people who will follow behind very closely someone who's going through the fare gates. bart's strategy to deter cheating at its four busiest stations all downtown in san francisco. at monogom rooe, montgomery. >> also emergency gates would no longer be easier to open.

bart will start construction on a bart station plaza and upgrade its parking lot. this includes a direct pedestrian and bicycle connection between the bart station and the plaza in downtown concord, plus new benches, lighting and trees. bart will upgrade crosswalks and bike routes on both sides of the station, making the station safer for customers. >> honestly i'm excited. it's going to create more jobs for this community that we desperately. it's going to be a safer environment. >>reporter: according to bart officials, it's set to cost $6.5 million. how is this all being paid for? well, in part measure j funds and also prop 1b. the groundbreaking ceremony will take place behind me starting at 10 a.m. reporting live, i'm jessica flores, kpix5. >>> tonight santa clara valley water officials will face the county on the coyote creek devastating flooding. the creek spilled its banks during february storms and 14,000 people had to evacuate. >>> the eve of the 111th anniversary of the great quake is tomorrow. it struck at 5:12 a.m. on april 18th, 1906, remaining the wor

this is the proper way to pay for a bart ride with a clipper card or bart ticket. but bart says many passengers are cheating by not paying. >> it's annoying, because i'm paying for it, so why shouldn't everybody else be paying for it? >> bart estimates cheats are depriving the system of $15 to $25 million a year. >> there are people who will follow behind very closely someone who is going through the fare gates, then there's people who will simply hop over the waist-high barriers. >> bart is proposing a multipronged strategy to deter cheats at its stations. one of the proposals is to raise these rather low barriers to about five feet, up to about here. also, emergency gates would no longer be so easy to open. under a proposal, a station agent would control the gate using a remote, and bart would hire more fare inspectors to check tickets. passengers gave the proposals mixed reviews. >> you would have to have someone here policing it all 24/7 so that's not realistic. the high barriers may be the way to go. >> and lower the prices. maybe people won't jump over. >> th

we have breaking news involving bart . the bart station is closed in walnut creek. a man is threatening to jump from an elevated platform. this is causing delays. bart has stopped trains running through the walnut creek station. a bus bridge is now in place between lafayette and pleasant hill. >> we want to bring in a bart spokesperson to give us an update on the situation. as we look at life pictures from sky fox, you can see a large crowd of people. this is all the people waiting to get on the bus. let's bring in taylor huckabee to update us on the situation. >> reporter: it's the last thing anyone wants to hear. about 1:33 pm the man began threatening to jump off of the track there. we've been negotiating with him to get him safely down ever since. we do have a bus bridge in place between lafayette and pleasant hill. five buses are in place. were trying to negotiate for more as crowds come in. were doing the best we can. >> taylor we are looking at these live pictures. at the lafayette station. people who are coming from san francisco and heading toward walnut cr

and cutting 15 bart positions. bart could face a deficit between 25 to $35 million in the coming year. and the proposal to close the gap is also coming at a time when fares are already going up. set to increase 2.7% next year. we spoke to some early-morning commuters who say the proposed change to cut service before 5 a.m. isn't sitting well with them. >> i think it's kind of sucks because with public transportation you need a lot of time for yourself to get everywhere. >> 4 to 5 amines a lot of peep won't get to work. all construction will slow down in the city. they should start at 4 a.m., not 5 a.m. >> reporter: that board of directors meeting is at nine a.m. today in oakland. final decisions on the proposals is going to be around june. reporting live in san leandro, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> time now 6:57. it is time for your "final 5. >>> >> first two san francisco police officers will not face charges for a deadly shooting. the d.a. released this 3d animation based on eyewitness testimony and forensic e

we stop the video right before impact. >> bart emergency, bart emergency. >> bart emergency, go ahead, central. >> [ bleep ]. >> central, this is train nine six three. we just struck some individuals at approximately 16 decimal 2 on the c one track. >> bart's report issued just this january concludes that their deaths were unavoidable. under bart's policy, the workers were individually responsible for providing their own protection. bart concluded, adherence to the rules would have prevented the accident. >> they're blaming the victims for this. it's shameful. it really is. >> reporter: state senator jerry hill believes bart needs to be held accountable for the lapses he sees in the video. >> no one was properly trained. no one was doing the job that they were supposed to do for safety. >> reporter: the public utilities commission wants to fine bart $600,000 for having a, quote, poor and inadequate safety culture. regulators contend bart should have banned workers from the deadly curve or at least made sure trains automatically slowed for workers ahead. bart quickly abandoned its poli

we had a bart issue. has that been resolved. >>> well they're pushing the bart train out of the way. the other lines are better because of that train being pushed away and here we see a video of what looks like one of the new bart trains darkened here being pushed away as you can see it's just dark by the headlights down to the hayward yard. so there you go. there's one of the normal trains. so it's being tested overnight. we can surmise and the test did not go well. no it didn't. but they're pushing that train out of the way. there it goes. all right. so we do have a reporter on this by the way and we're going to find more about this later coming up. let's go to the bay bridge toll plaza. you can see more people are on the road. i found out that some people just decided not to take bart. and they're in the city. so we do have a 25 to 30 minute delay at the bay bridge toll plaza. however, i will say this if you're in concord or bay point and you want to take bart to the city you can do that. there aren't

passengers, bart announce its first arrest. we have new information that the person picked up is a teenager. good evening, i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. more arrest warrants are out tonight. bart police saying they identified a number of juvenile suspects through surveillance video. they face charges for saturday's mob-style take over robbery on a coliseum bart train. she's been talking with police. melanie? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and bart police say when they saw the surveillance video from this incident, one of its officers recognized the suspect who was arrested today immediately. tonight bart police have a strong message for anyone who is considering committing these types of crimes. first police say they've made their first arrest in a flash mob style robbery on a coliseum bart train >> we're completely focused on this issue. >> reporter: saturday night 40 to 60 teenagers jumped the turn styles, hopped on the train and grabbed phones and bags, in some cases even beating up passeng

bart spokesperson jim allison explains why bart spokesperson: "in the three and a half weeks that preceded friday we had ground that rail 4 nights a week">4 nights a week of this......rail grinding, the process bart uses to create a quiter ride. now bart engineers have determined a link between rail grinding and a recent propulsion problem that temporarily disrupted service friday between north concord martinez and pittsburg bay point another factor is the increased amount of electricty used in the section of the line

calls bart police... those kids took off and got away before police showed up. and how bout the people who wanted to get off but the train didn't stop. have to get off at the next stop...and take a train heading back to the intended station. (pam) the white house. . . moving on one of president trump's biggest campaign promises. . . tax reform.his team outlined the proposal today . . . one that leans heavily on tax cuts. stacey cohan from our partners at cnn reports from washington. . . with more on the plan. with just 3 days to go before president donald trump hits the 100 day mark... the white house is going big on one of his major campaign promises steve mnuchin/ treasury secy: under the trump plan we will have a massive tax cut for businesses and massive tax reform and simplification. secretary steven mnuchin and national economic director gary cohn treasury laid out trump's vision for tax policy. reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 to 15 percent would be the biggest tax cut in u.s. history, mnuch

want to walk from the plaza to bart? you'll have a new walkway. >> being able to create kind of, like, that red carpet setting to where bart riders can get off here at downtown bart and be able to travel that avenue all the way into downtown concord. >> reporter: riders question whether any of this is necessary. >> didn't need any improvement at all. just takes up parking and, you know, overcrowded as it is, so makes it -- i don't know. doesn't need to be done, in my opinion, but oh, well. >> reporter: focus on concord's plaza comes as bart deals with delays from equipment problems. friday, commutes were snarled because of problems in concord. elected officials said money has been designated for this plaza project, but they also have money and plans for track improvements. >> we do a lot of things at bart. we can't just focus on one thing. we were successful in the three bay area counties in november casting measure rr. that will provide $3.5 billion in capital improvement for the district. we're in the process of identi

alicia trost, portavoz del bart francisco morales- usuario del bart mi troca bastantes veces me la han robado, una ltima vez me la robaron, dos veces me quebraron los vidrios despus la ltima vez se la llevaron completa. autoridades del bart reconocen que asaltos como el del sbado no son un problema nuevo. alicia trost, portavoz del bart it is something that occurs frequently enough that we know it is a problem es algo que ocurre con la suficiente frecuencia, que ya sabemos que es un problema y hemos estado trabajando con agentes del orden en esto. iris caravantes usuaria del bart uno quiere estar seguro, saber que los transportes donde uno viaja son seguros. meli live outro el ataque quedo grabado en cmaras de vigilancia y ahora las autoridades examinan el video para tratar de identificar a los ladrones. dijeron que lo compartirn tambin con distritos escolares y autoridades de vivienda para dar mas rapido con los asaltantes. melissa hernandez noticiero telemundo 48 cesar/campan --una familia en ''walnut creek'' despert poco antes de la medianoche de hoy con el estruendo de un carro est

new details about a stunning crime on bart... dozens of teenagers get onto a train and begin a violent crime spree.good evening i'm steve aveson..(pam) and i'm pam moore... it happened at the coliseum bart station on saturday night.. people were attacked -- others were robbed. no arrests were made.grant lodes has details about where bart police were when all this was happening. (grant) there were two officers in the coliseum station parking lot...but none on the platform of on the train that was targeted. now the transit agency is hoping surveillance video helps cath the group. the distress call from bart around 9:30 saturday night as 40 to 60 teenagers... jump the gates, go up to the platform, and rob passengers aboard a 9 car dublin train as it entered coliseum station passenger: "shocking, scary as well."alicia trost/bart spokesperson:"the moment the doors opened they jumped on board committed 7 robberies, 6 on the train, one on the platform. we had 5 cell phones stolen, one duffel bag, one purse, i do know 2 people were punch

and they could also consider cutting 15 bart positions. so this is all coming at a time when riders are already feeling the squeeze. fares are already going upset to increase 2.7% next year. and this is also coming at a time when last fall voters approved a $3.5 billion bond measure to improve the aging bart system. but bart directors say riders won't be seeing major fixes from measure rr money for at least 2 years. and the meeting is today in oakland at 9 a.m. but final decisions aren't due until june. reporting live in san leandro, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> ac transit has decided to hold a community meeting before deciding whether to cut bus service to students at several oakland schools. about 1600 students use ac transit to get to three schools: skyline high, community day school, and montera middle school. if the route goes away, other buses will stop near the schools but not right at them. the school district says the state has changed how the district is funded. and the bus problem is a result of dollars being redistributed. >

associated with those thefts, bart says their -- bart says their police department have seen a lot of crime. >> when i was young i used to fight those guys. >> we will have increased staffing at the coliseum and particular fruitvale and bell fair. >> since march we've arrested 19 individuals that were involved in group robberies. >> reporter: some extra patrols would stop passengers from robbing a bart train on saturday. there were multiple warrants in the system is for juveniles to be arrested in connection with those crimes. they're known to bart police and neighboring agencies. >> and we have taken one of the suspects into custody. >> we're developing a redirectional task force. we will work with alameda county sheriff's where the juveniles are creating crimes. >> reporter: on thursday bart officers are working emergency staffing levels with five days on, two days off verses four days on and three days off. >> it's crazy because so many people rely on bart because of the traffic in the bay area now and now it's like you don't want to use bart because you're worried about somebody r

a project in san francisco on bart. between the concord bart station and toddos santos park. bart riders we spoke to had mixed feelings about the $6.5 million project. >> we would totally use that. i have five kids. they are mobile. >> i've got to go but there's where the money should go. >> now the project is expected to be complete by the summer of 2018. bart says magnets could solve a power surge problem. the electrical surges knocked out power to 22 rail cars. bart engineers say metal dust caused by grinding on the tracks clings to the under side of the train and then arks. crews have tried vacuuming. engineers are now planning to install two magnet vehicles. >>> veshgs are looking to stop cheating on bart fares. they're focusing on the four busiest bart stations in downtown san francisco. also emergency gates they won't be so easy to open. a bart station agent would open them using a remote control and bart will be hiring more fare inspectors to check tickets. >> who will follow behind very closely. someone who is going through the fare gates and then there's people who

here between the north concord martinez and pittsburg bay point bart stations, bart officials say they have found the cause and solution for power surges on trains in this area the solution for this...bart will equip special cars with magnets to remove the metallic dust off the tracksat the north concord martinez bart station haaziq madyun kron4news here in the santa cruz mountains accidents on highway 17 are up, way up.the 983 accidents reported in 2016 represent a 34 percent jump, the biggest increase in 13 years. excessive speed, wet weather and distracted driving are getting much of the blame. but traffic on the twisting 26 mile stretch between los gatos and scotts valley is also up as people are finding jobs in silicon valley and looking to santa cruz and

kpix 5's anne makovec is live at the embarcadero bart station to explain. >> bart's acting police chief is vowing to crack down on two major ongoing problems. kpix 5's anne makovec is live at the embarcadero bart station to explain. anne. >> reporter: apparently there are a lot of problems when it comes to crime on the bart system. in fact, almost all types of crimes are up about 22% just since the beginning of the year. more attention has been called to this after the story you probably heard about a mob of teenagers that robbed and beat several passengers on bart trains over the weekend. this all follows three years of decreases in crime in the bart system. bart's police chief says he has enacted emergency staffing levels now which means canceling officers' days off and he says that his detectives are on the trail of some of the teens responsible for last week's crimes. >> we're working without side agencies, like we did in 2014, to increase our presence on the train and also going to the neighborhoods where these suspects live and hopefully arresting them. >> reporter: another proble

kron four spoke with former bart police chief gary gee. he says the agency should show the public what happened because public safety is involved:

at bart station every single day, costing barts tens of millions of dollars. this was planned back in december to accommodate the public since those meetings take place in the morning. with the fare evasion topic relevant following that incident with teenagers hopping fare gates at the oakland coliseum stop, jumping on a train and snatching cell phones and purses from passengers on bart. i got a chance to speak to the bart board president who says fare evasion has been a concern for riders for some time and solutions will be discussed tonight. >> there's solutions including capital investments so making the barriers higher so people can't jump over them, doing some things with the fare gates to make them harder to fare evade and some solutions involving enforcement to have more officers out there. >> a bart committee is pushing for solutions to be a part of the upcoming budget which will be discussed at tonight's meeting. this was the first evening meeting in two years and it will take place at the keiser mall in downtown oakland at 5:00 p.m. live in millbury,

mimi powe, bart station agent "this is mimi!"mimi powe has been a bart station agent for ten years. "i'm not going anywhere girl i'm part of this village for life."she says there's a lot more to the work than meets the eye. "we're more than station agents we're therapists, we're aunties, we're uncles, we're social workers."but thanks to her giving spirit and vigilance an east bay family was reunited with their teenaged daughter who ran away from home. jesse manibusan, dad"it just touched my how much love and compassion is still in the world."mimi spotted the girl wednesday soaking wet and shivering at the fremont bart station just as she was leaving work. "and then she just came into my arms and starting crying and was like i ran away."she let the girl know it was best to call her parents. "when i called it was just the excitement and the emotion and his cry, i wanted to cry but i had to maintain my composure."but the 15-year- old was worried what they would think once they found her. janylin rayana- manibusan, home safe"i guess i was scared that when i go to them they would be disa

safe on bart...it was called..."avoidi ng creeps 101" the transit agency tweeted that out yesterday. a handful of people took exception with the fact that bart was not telling creeps... to keep their hands and stares themselves. rather...putting the onus on the victims. don't sit by yourself, don't get distracted, trust your instincts. so, one day later...this afternoon bart has a "don't be creepy 101" visual...for all the weirdos and crooks and creeps out there. keep your hands to yourlsef...don't leer...this is not a dating app. (steve) still ahead: heartstopping video.. just how close a stray bullet came to hitting this little girl. "coming up a little bit later in this broadcast... have the giants broke out of their funk... we've got the highlights coming... the warriors... the fun stuff is over... here come the playoffs... highlights of there final game... we throw forget the sharkies... game one of the stanley cup playoffs... highlights in moments." whoa! you're not taking these. hey, hey, hey! yo

are bart fare gates a security risk? it will be a topic of discussion at the next board meeting, after a brazen robbery on saturday night. >>> good morning. it is slow out there. a little bit of wet weather also. it has made the commute a little slower than normal. this is a look at 680 northbound approaching highway 24. we will tell you more about this commute coming up. >>> for that commute, there may be a little rain coming through. enough to produce a few light showers. but there are signs of warmer weather on the way. >> we're following a developing story. we will bring in live pictures of a neighborhood in north st. louis, missouri. this is the aftermath of an explosion that happened at a vacant home this morning. one home is destroyed and firefighters are checking adjacent structures for natural gas levels. you see the home has been reduced rubble. a number of emergency crews on the scene. the streets are blocked off. no word on injuries. it is early on. we're following this news and will bring you more throughout

several people are suing bart for discrimination. joining us now to talk more about this is rebecca wilford. she's a disability advocate. >> thank you for having us. i'm here with my colleagues from disability rights advocate and legal aid at work. >> the disability right advocate filed this class action lawsuit on behalf of two people with nobility -- mobility disabilities. talk to us about the driving force to take action.>> disability rights advocates and legal aid at work have filed this class-action lawsuit in order to enforce the civil rights of people with mobility disabilities. who simply are unable to use bart due to elevator outages and inaccessible -- and broken fair gates. it stops wheelchair users and other mobility disability bart writers in their tracks. it stops them from being able to go from place to place. we also have 200,000 people throughout the bay area with mobility disabilities that are affected by this. that's why we had to file the lawsuit.>> that is a large number. what reason would you attribute to this w

the bus, bart says trains are running through the walnut creek station but only on a single track and they are not stopping, disclosure as the minister can to jump from the walnut creek station disclosure is causing major delays, ali anna gomez is at the bart station to tell us more. >> we are here at the lafayette bart station i want to give you a look at the line from the ground this is the line, many people are just getting off of work they have arrived at the lafayette bart station to have been taken off the train now they are waiting to get on a bus bridge, they are picking up people and it is taking them to the pleasant hill station if they need to go past this area, if they need to get to walnut creek -- creek it is taking them there. as you mentioned, there is a man who is threatening to jump from the side of the tracks. he is on the sfo side of the track threatening to jump from the tracks to the ground this has been going on since 1:30 this afternoon so obviously causing delays. at last check i was told they were running 45 minute delay so if you're coming from the city resu

but at least the power at bart is back on. (philippe)joe hickey/ sfmta/nats- 'hi, the stations closed -- we have no power." before even really starting their work day...john romanach/bart rider- "(philippe) is this a bit frustrating? (john) uh, yea, it's a little anoying." bart and muni riders put in a bind... turned away from the underground montgomery station... which for several hours remained dark. joe hickey/sfmta/nats- "but if you go to embarcadero or powell -- the trains are running there." while bart and the san francisco municipal transportation agency worked on the pitch black platform to figure things out... street level crews installed a generator to eventually repower the station... during the outage -- bart and muni trains still passed through montgomery station -- just without stopping. commuters were asked to jump on buses until the power issue was fixed.aldo gomez/bart rider- 'or, i might walk home." some stores stayed open through the outage... but dozens of businesses along and off market street had to close

<(amanda smith/bart rider-- i've been taking bart for six years and it's not a just bart for you thing. it might be late at night. it happened at 930.)(unnamed bart rider-- new oakland yeah. but maybe in the 90's i might say, yeah, that's an everyday thing but the way oakland has changed yeah, i'm a bit shocked)>( will ) ( will ) bart is also sharing surveillance images with oakland police as well as police at oakland high schools, and the oakland housing authority. ( mark ) thanks will. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) a man is behind bars this morning after attempting to kidnap a woman in san francisco. it happened on saturday night on steiner street in the cow hollow neighborhood. a 31-year-old woman says she was walking when the man got out of his car and grabbed her. police say the man tried to put a mesh bag over the woman's head and force her into his car. she screamed and people nearby came to help her... but the man got away. on sunday, the man was spotted in sonoma county. there was a brief police chase before he crashed in petaluma and was arres