If you look at the shot now, maybe a e couple lanes are 11 miles per hour. C66u others are just at a stand still. We are hearing its taking more than two hours to get between oakland and San Francisco now. Two hours in either direction. Its rough. Its rougher than it was yesterday. Lets dmek now with the latest. Lail yeah . Good afternoon, everybody, we started off on a quiet note this morning. People anticipating taking Labor Day Weekend but now, everyone is heading out to the road for get away friday. Heavy traffic. At Golden Gate Bridge the traffic is moving along slowly f youre traveling out of San Francisco youre running at two, three, four miles per hour. It will take ab an hour, already, its only 4 00. Now, we can see across san mateo bridge heading into eastbound direction headlights coming out of foster city into hayward. Its a little bit slow now. 30 minutes its going to take you. So already, lots of Traffic Building up. Now going back to sky 7 hd, taking a look at i 80 into the westbound direction taillights pushing towards maze the you can see heading away from highway 4 down to maze, that will take currently 30 minutes and its only going to get worse, get on to roads as soon as you can. This is day two. This is a live look from our camera, crews are finishing work before the lane markers put down here this, afternoon, sky 7 was overhead, workers finished painting last signs on the eastbound lanes of the span. Pretty impressive coming this far, take a look at this video provided by caltrans showing crews pouring concrete connecting an onramp to the new span. Its amazing how much is going on. Caltrans not only getting the new eastern span ready for traffic theyre getting ahead on maintenance of the western span. You can see crews moving in a place to get work done. Caltrans says they can do four months worth of work in just four days. More on the progress of the construction. There is no staying in your lane driving on the bay bridge today because there are still no lanes. The patrol car gave us a view of what you can expect. Officer daniel hill is impressed. We get access to roadways prior to anyone else. Youre the First Vehicles to tra verse the bay bridge. Awesome feeling. Paving is about complete. Now, everything going well. Were on schedule and looking forward to opening on time. Check this out. A big chunk of the old approach is gone. A thousand feet being demolished to make room for the temporary path. Construction crews expect demolition to be done by sunday morning. With the temporary bike and pedestrian pass in as early as tomorrow night. Caltrans is taking advantage by cleaning painting and doing electrical work. Traditional lights burn out in two, three years. And provide better lighting. Because there is no scurve, speed limit is 50 miles per hour. We want to take you live into afternoon commute. Do we have to . Unfortunately. You have to see what is going on there. Self 7 technology were live now in the middle of 101 traffic. Where are you . Well, larry i just got on to highway 101 here. Northbound at spencer avenue just north of the tunnel. I can sum up friday, marin get away ride here in one word. ]8[ more yichblt i just came at the other direction its like the stop and go, fastest its gone is maybe 10, 15 miles per hour. So youre looking at it, its not pretty. This is a tough route. These folks are taking Richmond San Rafael bridge to connect back to the east bay. Its slow going there just as it was on 101 yesterday. At times just looking like a parking lot. Were expect a briefing from caltrans to tell whaus work has been accomplished z whether theyre staying on schedule to reopen on time. That is set for early tuesday morning. One of the reasons this pro jeblgt is right on track is because weather has been cooperating. Yes. Spencer christian has the day off. Skbrantdel got here somehow, some way. I d live doppler 7 right now. You can see most of the bay area enjoying sun just a patch of fog along the coastline. Southern california thunderstorms again and some showers you can see here. Flash Flood Warning until 5 45 this evening, getting ready to head out just keep that in mind. Beautiful day bridge, temperatures this afternoon two to 10 degrees warmer than normal. 77 oakland. In the 80s redwood city. Los gatos, 68 in half moon bay. Taking a look at the view you can see a limb bit of fog looking out towards Golden Gate Bridge. Some hot spots 94 in santa rosa right now. It got warmer today. Now looking at the Golden Gate Bridge camera, blue skies. Tomorrow morning patchy fog at the coast then, in the afternoon warm condition conditions inland but not as warm as it has been today. That is not the only change coming. Ill tell but possible bigger change autos thank you. The Contra Costa CountyDistrict Attorney found there is not enough evidence to charge a San FranciscoPolice Officer with sexually mofl yeftding a teenager. He is accused of sod mom yomy against a boy. The District Attorney said the case back to police for more investigations. Hastings Attorney Says the sex was consensual and the Police Officer thought the boy was an adu. An adult. Pinole police are investigating a homicide. Officers received a call indicating people inside arrested might be injured. Authorities founld the body of a man and woman inside separate baed rooms. The person who made that call, a 25yearold man was taken into custody. Police say hes a relative of the deceased. Authoritiesa av believe a missing 14yearold hollister girl may be heading to mexico with a family friend. She was last seen yesterday morning taking out garage at her home. Police say the 42yearold jose ariano car rio is a person of interest in her disappearance. A 70yearold woman pulled from a Burning House by firefighters is in Critical Condition at this hour, firefighters arrived after 8 30 this morning. Rescuers ripped security bars off the windows to gain access there. Firefighters were also in danger from falling roof tile each of which weighed at least 50 pounds them could have done damage. One resident hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Arson investigators are combing through rubble. Firefighters now have the rim fire one third contained. They worry next few days could be dangerous. Area near yos sem city expected to be dry with temperatures reaching nearly 100 degrees. Now, 4500 homes are still threatened the biggest wildfire in Northern California history has spread to more than 200,000 acres. People south of highway 120 near yosemite have been ordered to leave homes and businesses. Workers tested water from the hetch hetchy reservoir. Sf p. U. C. Says this is just a precaution now. Water coming to the bay area is clean and safe. Crews repaired two turbines damaged at the power house another power house was damaged but not yet repaired. And spending 780,000. Still head on abc 7 news at 4 00 u. S. Makes its base kais against seara. Whether or not it should take military action. The new findings released today about those chemical attack autos plus bay bridge troll. An update on the brinl ace good luck charm. A brothers decision to save his sisters life by donating his kidney turns into a hospital horror story. And abc 7 Traffic Center look at the sky 7 hd. Where are the hot spots . More still to come when abc more ships in place in the mediterranean they could deliver a punishing blow against syria. France is the only country on board now. President obama net met with his National Security team today hes not made a decision on action in response to syrias chemical attack but president obama says the world has an obligation to respond. Abc news has more from washington, d. C. Leaders at the white house today, new comments from president obama as he nears a decision. In no event are considering any military action involving boots on the ground that would involve a longterm campaign. The president met behind closed doors of his team as administration worked to build public support for action in syria releasing a fourpage bulletin says Syrian Government planned and executed a brutal chemical weapon as tack last week claiming lives of more than 1400 people, including more than 400 children. Read for yourselves the verdict reached by our Intelligence Community about the chemical weapons attack, assad regime inflicted on the opposition. And on on opposition controlled or contested neighborhoods in the damascus suburbs. We know that these instructions and we know why wr they landed and when. Getting support can be difficult. 50 americans oppose taking action in syria. Suggesting the president could order a strike against the regime that attack could come at any time now than a u. S. Weapons team in syria finished gathering evidence. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says she doesnt want to be House Speaker again, telling National Journal she would not again, pelosi became the first woman to be spoken as speaker in 2007 when democrats captured the majority. A Spokesman Says shes working hard to win back the majority and her colleagues would determine who the speaker would be. Bob filners term as mayor is almost over. Counting down minutes now filners ves res flaigs becomes effective. The former congressman forced out of office after 19 women came forward with accusations he groped them or made other waunted sexual advances. Despite resignation filner denied he harassed anyone. A special election will be held in november to fill his post. New iphone isnt expected until next month but you can dell get a deal on one right now. Customers bringing an old iphone this weekend will be able to receive credit, though apple wasnt saying how much traders will get. Best buy slashing price in half for customers ringing in a working iphone 4. Target and radio shack offering programs apple expected to unveil its next iphone september 10th releasing it on september 20th. New developments from the bay bridge today, lucky charm troll from the old eastern span. Sky 7 hd. Welded on by workers repairing the bridge after earthquake in 1989 supposed to be a lucky charm against natural disasters maybe they can clone the thing and put it all over the place. And hell have a home on the new bay bridge. Maybe the troll is doing something. Mn brothers and sisters keep a watch over us. Boy, its warm out there. Its warm out there. Summer here. We have 96 degrees in some hot spots this after the in. Yeah. And 66 in pacifica. Half moon bay, high so far up to 77 degrees all right enjoy it. We have changes coming up. Let me show you live doppler 7 hd. Well have warmth for start of the Holiday Weekend well be talking about showers, here is a look at live doppler 7 no showers to show you here locally just patches of fog near the coast. Look at this view from our kgo roof camera. Sunny skies looking across the bay. Sun, high clouds tomorrow, cooler sunday with a slight chance of showers in the north bay. Just want to give you a heads up there is a possibility of drops here. As you look at the satellite and radar, High Pressure over Desert Southwest pulling up what we call monsoon moisture. That subtropical moisture resulting in showers and thunderstorms and warnings are up, extra high clouds, more clouds for your sunday and check out whats happening. A few showers, slight chance going into sunday afternoon, situated between sanlta rosa and clover dale, sunday evening still that green showing up in the north bay. So like i said a slight possibility, is slated thunder threat. Its a slim chance. Well continue to see cool down. Overnight tonight mild one, mid50s low 60s patchy fog mainly near the coast lichbltykv so 85 san jose. Heading to the beach 82 santa cruz. Cooler, 72 downtown San Francisco. Sunset district and north bay, mid80s around santa rosa napa, novato. 90 clover dale. 75 sausalito. Occasional high clouds, warm inland. 90 livermore accuweather forecast featuring a tool down. Mid60s coast side. Middle to latter part of the week but like i said slight chance of showers sunday covers mornings tonight f youre going live there, hes looking like what . Are you crazy . Its Labor Day Weekend. Things change. I have learned not to question. Either one of you. Up next a up close and personal with big cats were you need to go to have this kind of experience. Then, after 4 30. Youre looking at over 10,000 worth of lego bricks. Here is a big lego fest going on in san jess yeah. A live report is still to come. And larks spur well weve got it was not a good night for dave chapel. Audience members once anyone would scream out anything, then, began lecturing them. Finally after 25 minutes he left telling audience he had been on stage long enough to get paid. You may recall he quit his show in 2005 walking away from a big contract. I dont know whats happening. He kind of lost it. Too bad hes so talented. A unique wild animal parkepi enjoying a rebirth thanks to world wide attention. Yes. Internati1mpq Media Outlets warming after alana park in christchurch. It packs visitors into these vehicles for a up close look with the hungry lion autos yikes. Approach were just blown away. What theyre doing this since 1999 all of a sudden there is a huge interest, which is great. Wild cage encounters began in 1999. The up close experience goes back to opening in 1976. At this point it would be driving oh, my goodness, its snazzy there. Local officials there are loving all of this new attention. Its providing a tourism boost. Looks like he was slobbering. Looks like his jauz could make it through there. Still head sky 7 live right now above 101 in marin this, is the Richmond San Rafael bridge. You can see its packed for drivers trying to make their way to the east bay. Its packed just about everywhere. What is it like being on Treasure Island when the bay bridge is closed . Were going to take threw and hear from someone having a wedding reception there, tomorrow. Backlash growing against a judge of a so far, so good. Theyre working nonstop on the new eastern span. Sky 7 overhead as crews were laying down stripes. Its affecting live on Treasure Island. Yes. People living and work there say getting around has been a challenge. If you live or work on Treasure Island or just happen to have a wedding theer weekend youll need one of the placards giving you access tolt bay bridge from San Francisco. It took a while but elaine figured it out. I had to go five different places before telling me make a left and a left. People needed to have a good reason, such as being a resident orxd÷ having a business there. Cal skprin stacy are having a wedding reception there on saturday. Today they were preparing flowers for the big day. The situation isnt a deal theyre focusing on the positive. Bay bridge is closed it seems more special. Were still allowed to get on to there. And so its kind of a cool thing. But for ali its been a inconvenience. He works as his familys store. Business slowed down and commute time strippelled on the first day taking the Richmond Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge to the bay bridge. Yesterday, i drove here and took about two hours and a half today i was riding bart and bus. Same amount of time. Its a sacrifice with living and working on the island but theyre counting on the day when live ush returns to normal. Back out live into the friday get away commute. Brace yourselves. Yes. Its very slow going. Abc 7 news is to us with cell 7 technology. Dick, where are you now . Well, i am northbound 101. The distance just traveled about three miles has taken me 22 minutes to go a few miles this is a back up might not happen until way further north. Its been like this from San Francisco to Golden Gate Bridge up to here. Something else is that its very warm up here, 94 degrees and the Weather Center here, if youre in stop and go traffic be mindful of boilovers. Larry . All right, dick. I wonder if hes enjoying this. Your job today to drive around and be stuck in traffic. Hes out of the office. He is one of our best Engineering Technician autos take a look at this view now. You can see traffic winding its way in now. Its gridlock from here to the richmond safer raffle bridge. Taila start agent 4 00 a. M. How are you doing . Im doing great. I dont have to sit in traffic soy feel for you. Taking a look from sky 7 folks are making that drive into the waldo tunnel northbound side of 101 jam packed and just as dick is saying its going to be bumper to bumper traffic to 580 now. The turn our traffic took when the newscast started is that 30 minutes have been tacked on to the commute what. Was an hours drive to head out of San Francisco to 580 is now an hour and a half. Youve got a very busy commute on your hands for holiday get away weekend starting off on now, theyre getting away for the weekend. Weve got busy afternoon traffic. Lets go to waze app right now this, is your drive along i 80. Heading along in that direction we do have our abc 7 wazers reporting its a stand still. So very busy out there. You can down load the waze app down load it free and join our group. Great resource. Thank youuq . ]. Visit for a look at your commuter resources. And check out Live Streaming video of our Yerba Buena Island camera to see how construction is going. As soon as the bridge opens well notify our twitter followers. A montana judges apology for comments made during sentencing in a child rape case is not quieting calls for resignation. District attorney judge apologized yesterday for saying the 14yearold girl who had sex with her teacher said, quote, looked older than her chronological age but stood by his decision to send the teacher to 30 days in jail. The girls mother rejected the judges apology and says the judges behavior sets a bad precedent for cases like this. It discourages other kids from coming forward. If they come forward what is going to happen . Nothing . Sharis morales kill herd self just weeks shy of her 17th birthday. The judge says he has no intention of resigning. Promising live of a 22yearold man was cut in june. His mother is angry no one has been arrested. I he was shot and killed after a car accident. Nick smith spoke with us about her frustrations and hopes. The void cannot be filled. Marias son was shot and killed in june one day before his 23rd birthday. The case is unsolved. There has been additional 22 homicides since iyas incident. In the short span. Abc 7 news learned there are only 13 detectives juggling 13 open cases from this year and over 100 from last year, july 10th iya was on the way home when police say he was rear ended near the corner of Market Street and stanford avenue. He to the out of the car to exchange information. With the other party. Investigators say those traffic jammers captured two men in a silver sedan confronting iya and shooting him one time, coming up what one city leader has to say about the Police Departments unsolved murder rate. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 inflation really hit the tooth fairy hard. Also, later building went down in seconds but clean sup underway what. Is going on now after this demolition on the Cal State University east bay campus. Im sandhya patel. Looking at this live picture from our camera, blue skies over the bay bridge right now. Changes are coming up for the Labor Day Weekend. Ill have the details next. And here is a look from sky 7 hd. Packed conditions on 101. Its a long get away friday on this Labor Day Weekend. Well have more high cost of inflation is having a affect on something you may not think about. The tooth fairy. The tooth fairy. Cu tooth fairy leaving 3. 70 per tooth up 23 just from last year. And a full set of baby teeth works out to 74 certainly serious for a young kid and a bit much for parents. 3. 70 . Our tooth fairy has room to grow. Im inclined to want to go back in time and reclaim my right to a higher percentage. According to the survey 6 of kids get 20 a tooth. 2 receive 50 or more. 50 or more im yanking my own teeth. Yes. Really. Lets get an update on the bay bridge project. So 50 done with paving here. Eastbound theyve started a very cool process of striping over here. That demolition of the 1,000 foot long section of that westbound approach that is in the way of the bike path. Theyre still on track for that work being completed saturday he can and sunday m and down at theyve finished paving on westbound deck they paved that eastbound yn ramp as a temporary onramp onto the eastbound deck. Focus going to be on switching out lighting in the tunnel from traditional lights there to l. E. D. Lights. Then after that, then stale start working on striping so that is the update. Its going to focus on lighting and maintenance and cleaning. Demolition on track and that should be wrapping up tomorrow evening or sunday morning. Paving at 50 on the westbound decks and theyve started striping here. Everything is looking really good. That is nice to hear. Theyre trying to get to tuesdays reopening. Grinding, paving, and striping. Looking good. Lets check out live doppler 7 hd. We have fog out there. Speaking of warmth heat continues across central u. S. 84 new york. Checking out state wide highs state chance of thunderstorms from palm springs up to yosemite. Hot in those areas. Dense smoke advisory continues so hazy sunshine. 62 in eureka. Looking at the view looks great just cooler, warm inland, still. 80s and 90s. High clouds for your saturday afternoon, there is a lot happening this weekend if youre head together millbrae art and wine festival. Check out temperatures in 60s up into low to mid 70s and breezy at times and there is so much going on. Sausalito art festival. Fog patches for morning but mild for afternoon so enjoy the weekend. Its looking great. Still head at 4 00 a brother wanted to donate his kid noi save his sisters cliff not after the hospital made a big mistake. Woah, this kitchenlcome hom looks beautiful. Hey mom its bigger its great, right . Give him the tour. Let me show you quartz countertop, softclose drawers, farm sink, under cabinet lighting, look at this spice rack. Um. Wheres my room . Right there where its always been we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. Just slide right in because your kitchen dreams can be big, ikea has it all. A giant pile of rubble on cal state east bay campus. Sky 7 overhead crews worked to remove the debris from the implosion at warren hall. Crews now 10 days into what will be a 40 day clean up. The implosion went relatively smoothly. The cost for the implosion will be about 12 million. We can watch implosions all day long. And otherwise doing well. Bottles of extra strength tylenol are getting a makeover. The medication had warning on it but now Company Wants people to read it. National institutes of health saying taking too much ar. Acetaminophen can cause liver damage he wanted to donate a kidney to his sister. But a nurse in the hospital threw it away. The family is now suing. The hospital asking the case be thrown out. It was a gift to save her live. I called sarah and i told her i was her Perfect Match. And she choked up and hung up on me. Siblings and friends paul offered to donate a kidney to his sister, suffering from end stage reenl failure, before going into surgery at university of Toledo Medical Center paul held his sisters hands and made a promise. Just wait. After surgery your hands are going stop shaking. When sarah awoke. I knew something had gone wrong. Because i had lifted up the shirt and realized i didnt have an incision. I remember asking where is pauls . And no one would give me a answer. There is would divert their eyes. They wont look at me. At that moment i thought something happened to paul junior. A doctor said paul was alive but there was a problem. They said theyup2v had to go look for the kidney. A nurse had thrown the kidney away thinking waits medical waste. From they wasted part of my brother. The hospital found her a partial match not like a Perfect Match which would have saved her a lifetime of come politic autos he did that without benefit to his sister. An organ from a living donor. Paul says hes not angry but wishes he could have kept his promise. She still on medications her hands still shake. The hospital asked to dismiss the lawsuit sayingazufne apologize and have done our best to provide remedies. The most any sibling could expect is 250,000. The mother of recently oz boys says she cannot wait to hold the babies. Doctors separated owen and emmett last saturday during a procedure. The boys born july 15th joined at abdomen sharing a liver and intestines. Wonderful feeling. So happy theyre here, theyre alive and thriving. Its the best feeling in the world. Doctors say theyre cautiously optimistic the twins will fully recover, conjoined twins are rare occurring in just about one in 50,000 to one in 200,000 delivery autos coming up at 4 00 well, who loves legos . Raise your hands. We know david louie does. Taking you live to the lego kid fest next. Youll hear from master designers what theyre doing on the west span to make the bridge safer, smoother. Also. I about d. What was right. A homeless man come together rescue of a San FranciscoPolice Officer. His brave act and connection to the Police Department is a shhhhh in our day, we didnt have uverse high speed internet. Yeah, our babysitter didnt have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. We had to count sheep to fall asleep. And i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. In my head. Never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. Too much . A little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. Look at this. These newsly weds did it in van yufr. As soon as they said i do they strapped on skies and headed out on the water. Kind of high risk dont you think . There is a degree of difficulty there. Very easy to bonk forheads but they locked lips and made it official and it worked. If you have youngsters or grandchildren odds are that you have a few of these plastic parts scattered around. They belong to a lego set. Consumers spent 3. 5 billion on them last year now there is a convention of sorts for kids into legos this is an mazing thing. Its fun and educational. There are work shops put on my biMaster Builders. There are over 400 million lego bricks in existence. This is 10,000 worth falling on the floor. Theyre awesome. Ive been playing with them for over like i think five years. Lego sets have been around 81 years. Its what you can make that continues to company tour imagination of kids ask inspires them to build things. One of the kids grew up to be chris steinenger one of seven Master Builders of lego. This is a car that took 1800 hours to assemble. Important thing is the colors. It makes the model look dynamic but colors mean have you to have a ton of trays around you. So when we do models, the fester it builds. Prime age for playing with the bricks is five12 but there are no restrictions a person of any age, including mine, can get into it. Some have as few as 77 pieces. What happens when the kids leave bricks all over the floor . There is a sweeper for that. Dan got hooked on lego while playing with his son. Now hes a master builder. Something satisfying about putting something down, snapping it together, there is something inside of our brains says oh that, is good. We have control over that. I made that. Very cool. Thanks for joining us at 4 00. Abc news at 5 00 begins right now. At bay bridge crews race the clock to meet their deadline getting another bonus opportunity wr. Theyre doing four months of work in just four days. Summer heat today and ill have details coming up. Officers being beaten up, are human. Diwla is right you snow. A home less mans brave achblgt its a story only on abc 7 news. Not only sit a holiday get away, tonight, folks in the bay area are trying to get away without having the bay bridge as an option. Sky 7 is live tonight. You can see in one direction cars backed up way beyond park presidio. Good evening. Im about to head out into that traffic. Its a grind. Most of the day on every road youre traveling on this get way friday. Lets take you live now to Golden Gate Bridge itself. Traffic heavy, 11720 cars crossed over southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge this morning about 20 more cars. Taking you out live to the san mateo bridge same can be head sed this morns eastbound commute was up by almost and add bridge closure and Holiday Weekend this is what it looks like tonight were getting a good picture in that shot. Looks lovely. It does. Combination of the Holiday Weekend and bridge closure seems to be taking a toll. And lets go to the Golden Gate Bridge