Morning at 4 30. Gateway to labor day week. Caltran says work on the new bay bridge is on schedule for the Tuesday Morning grand opening. This is the last work day before the Holiday Weekend, we hope the worst is behind us. Matt keller is at the bay bridge toll plaza. Matt . At the toll plaza workers are putting in a new drainage system and crews grinded down the as fault from 2 to 6 lower and they have to maybe it. The work can be divided into three main projects demolition, road surface work and paving and striping. 14 thousand tons of asphalt are coming down the street and the plants are going from pleasanton at the plant to the construction site. We have not had any hitches. The new road surface is finished and the lower deck is half done. It will improve traction and last longer. It is actually on schedule and there is a very slim chance they would not meet the deadline and reopen the bridge. Now, the work is going nonstop and this video from Yerba Buena Island shows crews putting finishing touches as caltran and the workers try to beat the clock and only a small chance that would happen. Caltran workers do not usually move that fast . They always do. One labor, westbound, and it is causing quite the jam up there as you make it along 500 and then you will see top speeds so it will look clear. The drive time traffic across the rest of the bay, tracy to dublin on 580 westbound, 24 minutes and highway 4 from antioch to concord is 15 minutes from san rafael to San Francisco is under 20 minutes so you will be in good shape. Walnut creek, 680, southbound, away from highway 4, you can see the tail lights making it over to the junction with highway 24. Today. It took half an hour longer to get home yesterday, half an hour longer. Almost took bart. Live doppler 7 hd shows it is quiet and the clouds are not so wide spread but we have enough thickness for drizzle. Temperatures are running in the midtoupper 50s in the north bay valleys and along the coast and the rest of us are in the lowtomid 60s and saab ramon is the cool spot at 68. Temperatures today 70 at Half Moon Bay and 74 in San Francisco and 82 in oakland and 90 at santa rosa and 92 in concord. It will be a hot one. I know you consider taking bart, mine, and the bart is running longer trains and aroundtheclock after seeing a huge surge in ridership yesterday. Abc7 News ReporterKatie Marzullo is in San Francisco. How is it going, katie . Quiet. If you need to come to San Francisco now is the time. I grant an empty bart train. We are at the embarcadero station in San Francisco and you can clearly see not a lot of activity to the platform. It is early and we do not know what the day holds. There will be more bart riders. You can look at the video from yesterday people taking bart, routes from the east bay to San Francisco were packed but i got plenty of feedback saying the bart trains are always like that so much having a different experience. Bart says there were 61,000 extra riders between midnight and 7 00 p. M. Yesterday on thursday. A total of 397,000 rider on bart during those hours. The advice from bart is give yourself extra time. With a bicycle. Give yourself plenty of time. Bart is running long are trains and running overnight trains from 14 stations. The trains are running once an hour lasting through sunday night into monday morning and an extra tip for the Holiday Weekend on monday labor day bart is running a saturday schedule. 4 36. Crews race to foreign the new bridge the job of taking down the old eastern span has begun. We flew overhead while workers pounded away at the old bridge deck with giant hammers. We have the first of many steps to demolish the old bridge. The plan to take down the cant cantilever section. This is a highly strained system and it almost like a bow and arrow that is strong. As you take it apart you cannot just snap the bow and arrow. This animation shows working virtual model engineers use to guide the deconstruction of the bridge mostly the steel is recycles while some goes to a museum exhibit. The bay bridge toll has a home on new bridge mounted on the side of the old bridge. Its fate was uncertain until yesterday. It was welded on by workers repair the bridge after the 1989 earthquake and is supposed to be a lucky charm against natural disasters. It will absolutely have a home according to caltran. Abc7 news crews are taking interesting pictures. This is from reporter who got to walk the span and shows the new span in the background. We go outside right now to the roads, for the uptotheminute traffic reports using cell 7 technology to see the conditions on northbound 880 at the 80 split. Dick . I am northbound 880 and you can see the cones off to the left and they are blocking off the exit lanes that would normally allow you to connect to the bay bridge so that is the 880 80 connection. C. H. P. Is on duty. Do not try to sneak through to take pictures. In all fairness to kristen and her driving in the last report i would have been to oakland but i did have to step and wipe off my wipers. As mike nicco has been reporting there is mist and fog on the road so to give you a clear picture through the windshields i had to stop. Kristen, your driving is forgiven for now. I am so buying you coffee this morning we have live coverage throughout the bridge closing and we will spring the caltran morning briefing at 8 00 a. M. At 4 00 each day and, also, we will be live at 3 00 on monday for the official chaincutting ceremony and our morning news begins half an hour early at 4 00al on tuesday. We have breaking news in the south bay where police are on the scene of an officer involved shooting in east san jose. Investigators say police shot the robbery suspect during a confrontation near king road at 1 00 oclock this morning officers spots add car they believe was used in a robbery and they tried to stop the driver took off and the car crashes. The suspect was shot at least once during a confrontation with police. He was taken to the hospital. All available california Highway Patrol officers are on duty starting tonight for the Holiday Weekend joining the nationwide drunk driving crackdown that started two weeks ago with checkpoints throughout the bay area. The drive sober or pull over campaign coincides with the annual labor day maximum enforcement period that me begins at can p. M. And continues until monday night at midnight and addressing something dick said a moment ago, i wasnt the one who said she would be in oakland by that point, she is the one would said she would be in oakland by that point. If i didnt stop to wipe the windshield. Folk, mist, could be an issue. And a lost other things to slow you down including other drivers. I am staying out of that. I have to preserve myself. Good morning, everyone, we will take you to alum rock and officerinvolved chase and an investigation and active scene. 101 is moving fine in the san jose area. We are on par with what it was yesterday morning so if you are headed in the westbound direction from hayward to foster city, san mateo bridge takes you 14 minutes and traveling along Golden Gate Bridge from san rafael to San Francisco that is under 20 minutes and along 580 the richmondsan rafael bridge westbound is 13 minutes. We are in go shape and we expect things to get busier because of the labor day holiday. San jose 87 by the julian offramp you can see a few cars but all in all, it is quiet. We will start with a picture from sutro tower downtown and the clouds are encroaching from the coast in and some are dropping drizzle here in San Francisco and to san bruno and colma and daly city. Check out our temperatures, above average from two to eight degrees, 84 in redwood city and 72 in San Francisco above average and 86 in san jose and 93 in livermore and 90 in napa and oakland is 82 degrees uncomfortable but it will be fine and cool off quickly in the evening. Next 12 hours not so cloudy and we will have temperatures in the lump 60s and brighter and even the coast sees a ton of sunshine so you are 66. As we head to 4 00 we will top out and 68 at the coast and 80 around the bay. Near 70 for the bay and upper 70s to low 80s inland. For the holiday it drops two to four degrees sunday and monday and a small chance of storms on monday. The fire in and around yosemite slowing down. The latest on the sierra fire. Workers will picket all day long at the Oakland International airport. Another look from Yerba Buena Island at the work on the new bay bridge. But first americas money. Good morning, Bank Earnings hit a record high 42 billion in the second quarter. That is 23 percent compared to this time last year but worried that low Interest Rates are pushing the banks into high yield assets. The i. R. S. Says samesex couples who are married can file joint federal tax returns even if the states do not recognize samesex marriage. There will be a warning on tylenol to curb overdoses say covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Happy friday at 4 46. We go back to the roads with our abc7 news engineer by cell 7 technology headed for the richmondsan rafael bridge. Dick . I am on 580 and the vied looking good in both directions westbound. I will be at the toll plaza in a couple of miles. Everything so far on the east side has been looking good, 580, 880, 92 was looking good 20 minutes ago. I am assuming it is still probably close to if not the limit. There is, however, some haze and fog to the deck and you can see the haze in the picture i am showing you as we get into richmond and the haze. Have not used the wipers yet but i see mist accumulateing so that could be a point of caution. So you did the Richmond San Rafael bridge this morning. Did you notice a difference . A little fog in a different point not at the waldo tunnel or before, but after this time. Leyla gulen, is it better trafficwise . We are anticipating a four day weekend because the morning traffic is on par with yesterday so it could be even lighter. Hour, in the afternoon that is when you want to prepare for heavier traffic everyone making the friday get away around the airport at sfo, oakland, san jose and you want to make sure you give yourself extra time on the roads and download our waze app to help navigate the roads. The other areas in the bay show the drive from tracy to dublin still at top speeds at 60 Miles Per Hour and the yellow is indicating extra volume and our drive time traffic 580 across the richmondsan rafael bridge and across the san mateo bridge more than five minutes but moving along and highway 84th dumbarton is 11 minutes. Mike nicco has a cooler forecast. Could i ask everyone to take the day off . Good morning, everyone, we will talk about fog out there with one mile visibility in napa, and half a mile at napa and ten along the east bay shore and away from the reporting stations there are low clouds and mist. Emeryville shows clouds toward the maze sitting on top of the ground. We have quick are sunshine and the clouds are not so widespread and weekend cooling trend are open track and a model is start ing to grid out thunderstorms for monday. Today, though, 90s and los gatos and gilroy and 84 with sunshine and santa cruz and midtoupper through the Santa Clara Valley and 86 at san jose. Lowtomid 80s on the peninsula and 76 at millbrae and 70 for the warm spot at Half Moon Bay and in daly city, 66 and lowtomid 70s downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito with mid80s to 90 in the north bay valleys and upper 60s at your beaches and lowtomid 80s for a lot of the east bay shore berkeley and richmond are the exception and milder for you and more comfortable the 76 and 78 and we could spend money to stay cool today home 90s in the east bay valleys. Tonight the temperatures are in the same range as this morning and more cloud cover in the north bay and around the bay. Temperatures in the upper 50s to middle 60s. While you were sleeping High Pressure worked its way over to us a little bit more and this system will pass to our north and we have a sunshine sandwich so right up here in the left hand corner of the screen is the next area of low pressure that will bring us the cooling trend for the week, two to four degrees cooler tomorrow and again, sunday, our cool of the day is monday. Happening now, food and retail workers at Oakland International airport are taking part in a oneday strike protesting unfair labor practices. The picketing began a short time ago with rallies planned for later today at the airport. Workers say they are fighting for better wages and benefits and in contract negotiations with their employer post international. Todays forecast called for warmer temperatures making it harder to fight the rim fire around yosemite. The flames have burned 200,000 acres and that is larger than the combined size of San Francisco, san jose, and oakland and the rate of growth for the fire has slowed and the fire now is 32 percent contained. Residents can now return to tuolumne and two other small communities after evacuation advisories were lifted. Coming up a new option for bay area commuters a new bicycle sharing program. New changes for bay area Amusement Park and when it will be open year round. Again, a look outside of bridge. Of lung cancer. At the numberone cause thats why the Surgeon General issued this warning now youre looking at the numberone cause of lung cancer for nonsmokers. Thats why the Surgeon General issued this warning radon is an invisible, radioactive gas that seeps inside your home from underground. Whether you smoke or not, radon can cause lung cancer. Protect your family. Have your home tested. Call 1800sosradon. Radon problems can be fixed. If you are driving a new honda you could be driving the safest car on the road. The 2014 Honda Odyssey became the first minivan to receive the top safety pick designation from the Insurance Institute for highway safety. The company says that the steel body is stronger and lighter than previous models. Drivers say safety is the most important feature because many are parents. Honda has a new campaign about on. There is a new option for getting an the bay area, a bicycle sharing program in San Francisco, san jose, redwood city, palo alto, and mountain view. Many got a look of the distinctive new blue bicycles yesterday and there are help bicycles at 70 locations, with bicyclists using a credit card to buy a membership for a year, three days, or just one. Another 300 bicycles and 48 additional stations are planned at the end of the year but the bicycles do not come with helmets so you will want to bring your own. All morning long we will bring you real time traffic updates from the roads using cell 7 technology. Our engineer is on the move crossing the richmondsan rafael bridge with fog along the drive. Where are you now, dick . Kristen, i am on the sir Francis Drake boulevard connection, connecting 580 westbound to 101 southbound. It was a pinch point yesterday as i am sure frequently but particularly yesterday because it is a onelane road that takes you beyond the Ferry Terminal and the Shopping Center that ultimately connects you to an onramp at 101 southbound. The Richmond Bridge traffic is looking good in both directions and the story there is thing for, there are places on the bridge near the midspan and the richmond side where visibility is to 600. I having for here on sir Francis Drake boulevard. If the commute is too tough there is the if you there is the new bicycle share. Yes, it opened year. Now traffic and leyla gulen. I dont know if folks will be taking the bicycle out of antioch to get to the if leans so we will look at what is happening on the freeways where it look like we have a slow down but moving at 62 Miles Per Hour westbound from antioch to pittsburg and closer to pittsburg you are look at clear headed into concord. Into walnut creek it is at top speed and 680 top speed there to dublin and to castro valley, not a problem this. Good morning, everyone, this Holiday Weekend, in millbrae, the art and Wine Festival will be mild and 76 on saturday and 71 with mostly sunny conditions on sunday and to 9 open monday with the clouds lingering. South, watch out there is not much going on now but thunderstorms are possible in the high desert and it will be smoky and 83 in tahoe. Next on abc7 news at 5 00, the latest on what is happening right now to get the new span ready. In is a look from the Yerba Buena Island makes an epic journey throughr pines, wildflowers, and aspens. And is matched only by our journey to capture its scent. Crafted by expert perfumers for your home, air wick mountain woodlands and crisp air is part of our limited Edition National park collection. Airwick. The craft of fragrance. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, action on this friday, thanks for joining us, i am kristen sze. The grinding and demolition work continues this morning to get the new bay bridge span ready to open on tuesday. The gridlock was the exception yesterday. Will the last work day before the holiday be any different . Matt keller has more from the toll plaza. A lot the work is done at the toll plaza and you can see the