Lot of preparation and planning today. Are you excited about it . I am. It will be cool. Yes. Who isnt. You know . Anticipation is building tonight le than two hoursing a hours to go now. Good evening. If you have thoughts about taking a last trip across the bridge forget bit. Its too late. Caltrans hopes to start transition work on the old bay bridge to the new one at 8 00 just two hours away. Trol will be blocking access to the bridge on both sides of the bay, 14 connectors and on ramps beginning at 7 30 or perhaps earlier just 90 minutes from you fr now. Here is a look at the skyway. You can see its packed a slow crawl for drivers on the lefthand side of the skreechblt theyll bemong the la to cross the bridge. Cornell, not much time left. Commute has become a race against time. Traffic has been heavy here in San Francisco. Drivers kw they have got the deadline at 8 00 but road blocks could go up earlier. Well be rnning a traffic break interest there. The officer is running for the closure of the bay bridge. The transition from old to new. We have Additional Units on ds caltrans wants to start work at 8 00 p. M. Sharp meaning chp will close down access asearly 7 00. So will be surprised if they wait too long. Best messagesu know, be patient. Plan ahead. Ke sure youve got time to get to where you need to be. All east bay appaches will close, then, traffic on the eastbound 80 skyway will be diveed on to 4th strt. Im leaving the city. I dont have to deal witness. We found driver was the same idea getting across the brge early. Im making think mi w aconsiders the bridge befo cinderelloses a show. Signs are everhere. Many have commute plans in place. Thursday, and friday. A lot of breaks. You kw go,ing to need to get across. I away. Miff days of detours that begins in a few short hours. Were back live here. I just checked it out. Traffic is backed up so its a nightmare commute already. Chp suggests some people will try to be one of the last to cross the old bay bridge. Up to say dot do it fchl you pull over ne toll plaza you could get a ticket. Thank you very much. A pleasanton company is supplying thsands of payments in a new eastern span of the bay bridge. Taking a look outside from sky 7 , and you can see well, little bit of fogoving n you can see the new span and that new bridge expectsed to be open after labor day. Allen . Here in pleasanton supplying asphalt for the new bridge. These elevators going to take piles of rocks and sand and mix witness a tarlike substance to create that asphalt. From there its a 37mile ride. Mateals are churning outzmkv asphalt in preparation for the final span. We want to get as much done as we can. Between friday and sunday 6,000 truck roads will travel down i 580 during peak hours. We get back into night time hours traffifor the asphalt trucks will be back to 238, and 880. Roads expected to be congested so caltrans will be monitoring traffic from command centers and can reroute necessary. If give people on the ground eyes in the sky. First order of business tonights demolition. Crews will be grinding away e old pavement. They nd to grind aath creating a level path to the bridge doing the same the tunnel. So work is starting tonight is demolition, grinding. A. Birds are nsting on the old bridge so boxes we are built and placed on the new span. We put platforms to try to entice them over to start making their home underneath the new bridge. Boxes now in place and caltrans says the new bdge is already open for the birds. On tuesday, at5 00 they expect it to be open for ca autos to get a sense of what traffic is like right now we sent our engineers out wh a cell 7 okay we cant hear him. Im eastbound on 80 now. I st got on to the freeway. From 8th street. Surface streets are moving a lot better. Hes at the first and harron on ramp there. Onceetting on to the eastbound highway 80 it is bump to bumper you can see here. I just got a warning on the waze traffic app there could be an accident ahead fchl you have a waze app i am in the red zone. Its bumper to bumper. And that is the story here, if you look, you can see another direction westbound direction is als bumper to bumper in this video. Bring your patience tonight. Thank you very much. And speaking of that waze traffic app lets get the big picture now. Ive been tracking our waze traffic app as well, just overjealous to get acrosshe bay bridge right now. Sou jt want to be careful out there. We are looking atlower traffic on our other bridges. Take a look at the skyway. San francisco skyway. If youre traveling along those would be headlights coming towards us. J just sluggish, looks like traffic moving just better all be it it is afternoon rush so were going to be seeing heavy affic. And is so not too bad this is going away. Last souls are making it on the old span. Going to the golden gate right now. Folks making that drive on alternate routes over next veral days you can see traffic is startingo slow just a little bit. From and into san rafael. Its building youve got a little bit of low clouds and fog thereto hug you along the way. Les go to our waze ap its packed on streets that flank the freeway. You can see just nothing but Single Digits here. Six Miles Per Hour. Youreown to 11 Miles Per Hour so slow traffic you want to give plenty of time and dont forget you want to down load abc 7 exclusive waze app. Now drivers may be taki advantage of the slow pace to take insights from the span one last tim carpoolers this morning were know stallic about the old span. Many taking thursday and friday off to avoid detour and some are takin tuesday off. They dont want to be the foirs tryout the span. Im just nvous, its new. I dont know how goitsing to work out. Kind of curious to see how the intrij going to turn out to be. I dont want to go on it so im taking the day off. Sorry to see goiting down. And love the views from the bring and seeing other ones go up. Chp warning drivers to eny views. Its hard toknow what will be the impact of the clee sure on ople who relie on it. Some folks wl be affected this weekend. There are about 270,000 pele who use the bay bridge evy day. So far course, there is going to be an impact. Here is an example. Youre going to get married. You planned months r the big day. Only to find out the brid will be closed. Imine getting married on trsure island with a 1 million view. Now, imagine the bay bridge closed. Our jaw dropped. Shocked. This weddg planner shared these pictures of ceremonies on Treasure Island despite the shut down, preparations are underway for one this sunday. Caltrans has been cooperative giving us access to the bridge from first street onramp autos a financial hair cut is in stor for louie lopez, hes the rber in a hotel in union square. Some of his east bay customers have cancelled appointments th weekend. This is the end of the month. I have to pay rent. Im selfemployed. Not making money. San francisco chamber of commerce hopes not many Small Businesses will hurt. Larger ones have prepared. Goodness is that note has been given, plans have been made. Bart stopped in millbrae theyre having 43 art and Wine Festival this weekend. Orgazers think people will stay closer to home. Very posite impact. Historically when bridge is closd weve seennflux of adwreend to get feed back saying its a god send. As usual its a jam packe weekend from the cal bears football game. To as baseball ask sausalito ts festival. Bay area wi carry on without the bay bridge. And stay with us were going to have a quick live report once the bridge closure is complete. Were going to bring you Daily Briefing every afternoon and well be liv 3 00 monday for chain cutting ceremony. Were going to have breaking news updates and abc 7 morning news begins at 4 00 tomorrow and friday morning. Be sure to tune in for the latest there. Still to come tonight were bringi you a report wher firefighters are making progress and now getting realtimenformation on the rim fire. Plus, following up on some pele who lost their homes last nig. Damage is worse than first thought. Warm days coming our way. What about Labor Day Weekend . Ill give you a look at the accuweather forecast. Well continue the coverage of the [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to find big savings on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Your club card gets you deals you cant find anywhere else. Load up the cooler. Your favorite Pepsi Products are just 2. 47 a 12pack. Charmin is 11. 99 for 24 double rolls. And make it a giant scoop. Breyers ice cream is only 2. 88. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. Welcome back, taking a look at San Francisco skyway traffic i at a sand still just to come away from the 280 extension to east bay its going to take you 31 minutes. Wee finding fender bender as long the way. Well have a details on the bay bridge closure coming up and as we take a look now at the cell 7 technology towards Treasure Island you can see brake lights ahead of us. If news is that its still moving. We have a small grass fire that appears to be out just about now. You can see its burned quite a bit there. No word yet on how the fire started it appears cruise have it in hd, so that is good news. Firefights todayegan using a predator drone to help them monitor the rim fire near yosemite. They hope to have it surrounded in three weeks a reporter on the scene tonight fromur abc affiliate in fresno. Smoke rose at the tree thats gave the ridge its name. Its going t continue for a few more weeks. Tom tidwell surveyed the damage and the work the firefighters are doing the fire growth clo sloeed thi week, but spread like a new breed of wildfire before firefiters could get contain oomt when getting these conditions these fires are somewhat explosive what. Used to maybe take two, three weeks to be able to burn were seng that in two, three day autos some smoke coming from backfires set by refighters that are trying to stop fire progress. This is our group here. Firefighters are also preparincommunities. The crew from san mateo acts as scouts mapping out an attack or escape for mountain residents. Our jb is to go out to identify houses and location autos communits are still evacuated today including buck adows but people here are still safe and that home, and if the look, you can tellrq theyre thankful for firefighters that are keeping it that way. Investigators trying to determine what set off yesterday kajing firethat damaged a neighborhood many didnt find much th can salvage. We want to show you what the fire looked like several homes engued. 15 homes damag including five left inhabitable by tuesdays fire. I was hoping you know, maybe roof fell on my bed and my bed fell on my guitars in cases but i picked up some guitars. Theyre just burned to a crisp. That fire started along intersta 80. Residents believe the city is responsible for the rapid spread becse it aloud grass and weeds to grow. Lets check on the fecast now as we approach Labor Day Weekend. As you probably know, along the coast high temperatures upper 80s icoastal locations. This pattern is going hold. Sunny skies noww nnco acrossy area but low clouds and fog along coaline and spilling throughout the golden gate and over the bay. And here is a live view looking on to th bay. You can see what we get, mainly car viewing there. Temperates are 65 degrees in San Francisco and 77 in san jose and los gatos 64 at half moonay. Another live view, out over San Francisco bay. Weu cz have 78 degrees in jant rosa and nappa. Livermore, 82 degrees, one final live shot you can see low clou moving through there. And a fggy night and later today fog wl be spreading inland areas. Will be mild to warm again, tomorrow, and friday. Then, well have cooler days is weekend. Satuay and sunday into labor day, monday, radar composite shows n areaf disturbed weather. Giving you a few there are showers and may thundershowers staying mainly to our north so starting at 7 00dv l this evening. Notice during overnight hours into tomorrow wel see showers into oregon and washington state. Little change in ourcondition around the bay tomorrow, moving on to the area of rim fire, groveland rimire forecast i should say, calls for sunny skies tomorrow. Afternoon thunderstorm warm down inhe valley with highs about 95 degrees and cooler in high country. Getting back to th bay area overnight night areas of low clouds and fog spreading inland. South bay highs into 80s. 87 emergeian hill, temperatures up to 80 in redwood city. And mid to upper 60s on the coast. Mid80s in the north bay valleys from sonoma. Eeflt bay highs 74 oakland. Inland east bay hhs upper 80s to near 90. Here is the accuweather forecast. Warm again friday. Warmerlow 90s inland. Temperatures tapering off saturday, sunday, monday. Despite the drp will be a pleasant and mild weejd drweekend. Coming up next more on the soono open new bay bridge. And how it is becoming a bay a female narrator through monday, get three years through monday, get three years interestfree financing and save up to 400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on Serta Icomfort and tempurpedic, but this special financing offer ends labor day at sleep train. Work on a controversial caltrans freeway project came to a sudden stop today after ndocino county revoked a permit. Right through sensitive wedlands. Crews have begun dumping filters on the site as you can see. Environmentalists sued saying the county did not required review of the dirt and could contain toxic materials. Caltrans claims the toxics are below allowed sandards. A hearing set for today but before it could happen, the county revoked the permit. Caltrans says it will start trucking dirt as soon as possible. U. S. Army core notified caltrans sit out of compliance with other regulations in this prect. New eastern span ofthe new bay bridge has not opened yet bu is becoming an iconic symbol. The huge white tower that rises from Treasure Island. Against plans to build something more like the san mateo bridge for historians recordinan oral history it will make oakland shine. Idea for the new eastern span was that the east bay should get something signature. That people should be able to see the beautiful east bay hills roll out bore them as theyre hedheading east. 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[ male announcer ] if you cant afford your medication, a look from therea toto look at the new bridge away from opening now just few days away from the closure of the new bay bridge. Take a look at this time next week its going to be jammed were live tonight at the toll plaza how was driving on this new bridge compared to the old one . Well, i can tell you its breath taking. We want to bring you a moment to bring you up to date. So just in about the last half hour, some of the trucks pulled up and staged on the far northern side of the approach to th plaza. And are getting ready to move into actio as i was saying i have been up on the newbridge many times throughout constction. And really, i dont want to oversell it, but its a breath taking experience to be up there. This animation has palm trees on the left that will nobe in place yet when it opens. On the incline the view of Treasure Island is spectacular, and on the bridge, suspender cables, the way they drape from the single cable are reminiscent of sails on a sail boat. Many people ll be relieved to have s curve replaced with a straight sh into the tunnel. Eastbound will be more dramatic coming out into the light and the open right after the yerba buena tunnel no longer on a lower deck. There ll be shoulders on both sides, which should reduce back upswhen there is an accident or a stall. Now the old bridge will be there looking a little bit of the view. Also, chp asked us to remind people with grea that should help prevent congestion those are for emergency purposes only not stopping for sight seeing and picture taking from when the bridge opens. Thank you so much. Later tight ama deatz will be awaiting that final car across the bridge. Checking out in traffic tonight our engineer is behind the wheel have you been back and forth on the bdge now snuck traffic so tell us about it. I have been. Im on the fif street onramp now. Very been back and forth. The bridge moving eastboundw qs baed up. It starts moving nicely. Westbound coming into the city its ope but what is sluggish still are these onramps in San Francisco. Getting to the bridge. So frustrating for those folks. Hopefully theyl get there before they get into those lane autos lets check with traffic messes out there. That is right. Good evening to you. Were going to take a lookt our drive time traffic. So if youre traveling out of foster city its a 25 minute commute on 101 across t golden gate. 580, 18 minutes gets you akro. S heavier traffic these are going to b your alternates to get arou the bay area. Lets take a look outside. Thiss where transportation reporter is just stationed you can see traffic flowing well out there. So people making it acro the bay bridge before it closes. Taking a look at san mateo this is going to be alternate. This is what it looks like. And out of into hayward, out of foster city those adlights moving along in the eastbound direction so thicker but were in good shape. Here is a lk at San Francisco skyway. Bumper to bumper traffic is packed out there. Andts a community of commuters you can see heavy traffic out there. Folks out there helping each other around those delays. Cheryl . Carolyn . Thank you. Prosecutors in the ca of joseph naso hope evidence of anothe possible victim will lead to the death sentence. I team learn td prosecutors thk they can link naso to the murder of sharia patton. A jurylready convicted naso of killing four women. Thaim hear from thehildren of three childrens as well as nasos exwife. Richmond police have arrested a dozen criminals they say were on the verge of committing murders. Just some of the 23 gang member as rested during a operation. 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Try it for free today, only on southwest airlines. On the air. In the air. With live tv. When what difference a few minutes make autos fog is here. And going toe spreading inland. We can see low clouds and fog ne the coastline. You can see in that shot, weve got fog spilling in throughout the golden gate and over theay right now. Tomorrow, mainly sunny skies and warm conditions. 100 in fres noch a cool 95 down in palm springs. In los angeles and scattered showers in Southern California tomorrow but not here in the bay area sunny skies from coast to inland and warm at the coast. Warm inland with highs into upper 80s. Here is the accuweather forecast. We have two nice warm summer days coming our way friday inland highs into low 90s, temperatures dropping off quite a few degrees over the weekend. Labor day weekend. No rai is expected just clouds satury. And slight drop in temperatures but weather going to be lovely throughout the holiday weekend. All right. Holiday weekend is lovely. 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Im goin miss that 19 30s tressel style good old american workmanship. Back inhe day it was state of the art. One of the largest spans in the world. Old bridge my grandther helped work on it im going miss it but you know i lived through that earthquake and its got to go. A section of the ba bridge has been lost. In 1989 oconners daughter had beennt been born yet. I have driven on it lots of times. I have, like memlyries on it. You mean as a passenger, de . Yes. Just making sure. For many a photo will be final keep sake. Some hoping for something more taible. Looking forward to getting a piece of this bay bridge i dont know if theyre going sell pieces if they could, im on it. Now is a good time to say goodbye. By old bridge, hel, new bridge. This abc 7 news sports repo brought to you by Orchard Supply hardware. Good evening. Johnny mansel had eventful off season getting into trouble for comments on twitter and thrown out of parties beg a knucklehead. Today ncaa suspended him for one half of the Season Opener against rice. In this case an atograph signing Session College athletes not allowed to profit fromame. He just will sit out 30 minutes of the Season Opener this saturday. College football season begins for us saturday First Edition of after the game. Srs0t and number a clemson right here on abc 7. You can argue misty franin is the most high profe recruit, starting classes in berkeley tomorrow, shell be a member of Terry Mcevers swim team. She was the most celebrated american inondon won four gold medals. Now,hes ready for school, and ady to improve in the pool if you can believe that. Was thrilled with the results. A lot of room for irovement. I know ter gee going to help me with that. And its just exciting to be in ready for new training. And a change of pace. Help is on the way for as down the stretch. Bred anderson has ben deactivated after missing four months probably working out of the bull pen initially. Brandon mo exploded, a tworun shot his 23rd in the 8th. As leading 142 in the 8th inning. Rangers roughing up felix hernandez. This doesot happen often. King felix lasted just three inngs giving up eight earned runs on 11 hits so tex next a route today, 124 as look like theyre going to win gets and Rockies Second inning lorado Nolan Aranato smokes to left center. This is a rockies are leading 10. Venus williams with china. Looks like is going to go. Nextoint venus wide mike shumann tracked down and his conditn led to shus question about the 49ers theyre receiving threats this year. They have to be able to get it done. Bif committee. Because you know adding to me isores of a possession guy. We know he can move chains. Vernon davis if youre a coordinator youre goi to say were going to take him away. l best videof the day taiwan jones what a sysm. Weeping er a car. Winning bet with his teammates. I know video is dark. But bay area hoop plans hoop fans will remember hook mitchell. Hook used to go over the hood. Jones went over the top of the car. That is impossible, okay . But he did it. Abc 7 sports. That is amazing. Yes. Thank you. We hoped to bring you a different Vantage Point wi our ama daets shes working on getting there. Well have tha for you later this evening. Weve been talking about the bridge being shu douchblt to make the transition there has not been fatalities among workers building that new bridge. 28 people died building the original one. In 2002 one man was killed during retro fit project repinned against one of the gerters when scaffolding broke. A section of the y bridge has been lost. That was me anchoring our coverage a long time ago in, 19. cm cording to tall cal trance because of wind and vibrations. He took that t quickly and his truck toppled over. One other incident of 1968 a Naval Air Station crashed killing its two pilot autos that is going to do it for us. From all of us here at abc 7 news, thanks for wating well see you for a special update as the bridge closes female narrator through monday, get three years through monday, get three years interestfree financing and save up to 400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on Serta Icomfort and tempurpedic, but this special financing offer ends labor day at sleep train. Narrator in new york citys war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the major case squad. These are their stories