The Bay area rapid transit system was shutdown at midnight friday and now evening communters are flooding buses and ferries and jaming the free ways to get out of Sanfrancisco.Both sides say they were near agreement on wages, benefits and pensions but negotiations broke down on thirsday over worke rules.Management says it needs to changes to those rules to modernize the barge system.The uniob says it is prepared to surmit the work rules dispute to arbitritor,but management declined that offer. This is a second barge strike this year after workers walked off jobs for 4 days in July.Richard Ganzalas, NPR News,Sanfrancisco. 

President Obama formally announced his choice to place Jay Atano as head of the department of Homeland securtiy.The president is speaking in the White House rose garden today saying his nomination of Jay Johnson to the post brings someone with deep understanding of the threats and chanllenges the US faces.  

I am confident that I could not make a better choice in Jay,somebody who I am confident is going to be moving not just agency forward but helping move the country forward. The former pentagon laywer who is active during Mr Obama's first term the 46 years old Johnson was in sight of the increase use of drone strikes as well as rewiping the military commission to try terriorism suspects.

Cansua supreme court has indefintely suspended the law license of former state attorney general Phil Clins following allegations of ethical misconduct during investigation of abortion providers.Lim reports from KMUW in Wichta.

In 2007 then attorney general Phil Cline filed 107 criminal charges against a planned parent of clernic in the Kensuca city suburbe.He accused performing illeagal abortions and forcefying records.Clients also persuade Mr Miner criminal charges against doctor George Tailor because of laid abortions performed in his   clinic.Tailor was fatally shot in 2009 by antiabortion activist.Clin's attorney says the Cline never intensionly lied of mislead anyone during his investigations and they are reviewing the ruling.Forn NPR News,I am Milina in Whicatu Kensucity.

HSBC,europ's biggest bank by market value,is paying out a hafty 2.46 billion dollar fine in the classic action lawsuit which violated security laws.  says the settlement includes nearly a billion and half doallars in damage and another billion in judement intersest.The biggest fine ever lever in the security production case named in the super household international now HSBC finance corporation has hold several kig executives.

Up the weekend for Wall Street,the Don Jones industry average gain 28 points, s&p 500 rose 11 to close at record high. You are listening to NPR.

Former House speaker Tom Forly has died.Forly's wife confirming the Washington state Democrat,died of complications following a stroke.Forly served more than 30 years in the house including more than 5 a speaker before losing the seat in the so-called republican revolution of 1994 when he became the first speaker since the civil war not to win the election in his home district.Forly also served 4 years as ambassdor to Japan during the Clinton administration. Tom Forly was 84 years old.

Same sex couples in New jersy will be able to get married beginning next week. New jersy's highest court today denied the state's request to put same sex marriage on hold one appeal considered.NPR's Joe Rose explains.

A state judge ruled the New jersy civil union law violates the civil rights of same sex couples and ordered the state to recognize same sex marriages beginning next week.The administration of governor Kris Crisdy a popular republican who may run presiden in 2016 appealed that ruling to state supreme court which agree to take the case,but the court denied the administration's request to stay the lower court's ruling in the meantime.That's means same sex marriages will likely begin across the garden state just after midnight on monday morning.Governor Crisdy argued that the New Jersy voters not courts or law makers should decide whether to allow same sex marriage.The state supreme court will hear the administration's appeal in Jan.Rose NPR News.

Nasa official say huge astronauts that wased by earth last month largely unnoted should not be a major worry when it returns in 19 years.   umons with the nasa near earth orbits program put the autografly 148,000 1300 long astronuts will hit earth when it returns in Aug 2032,     called 2013 TV 135 was discovered on Oct 8th.

I am Jack Speer, NPR News in Washington.