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Mark the bay bridge is now shut down and commuters are looking for other ways to get around. We will have the latest from the bridge and updates on construction. What happens to the old and when the news is complete. Officials say it will take about three years to dismantle and remove the old bridge. The old stand can be blown up because of the debris falling and and polluting the bay. It will have to be removed very carefully to to the proximity to the news as well. The old fan is going to cost 233 million. James we are continuing our Team Coverage of alternate routes. Lets go out and get a live report from kron4s mike pelton whos been standing by watching back up all night long. you can see just a mess of a commute here on the approach to the san mateo bridge. You can see traffic extends almost back to where i am at kilometer road. We do not need an accident today unfortunately about an hour ago there was a to a vehicle accident and the toll plaza that caused traffic to back up well behind, and wrote for it crews have removed the two vehicles with cespedes traffic is a little bit but you can see it is very slow going on the approach to the bay bridge for it. No it is very slow going and it will be a long commute over the bridge this morning. James george showed us the traffic jam on the bridge itself and it is stop and go even there. Mike thank you much. Mark 704 is the time. Lets switch gears and did it look at whether it erica good morning. We are starting out with gray and cloudy skies. Visibility however still looking pretty good. We are above 4 mi. Temperatures on the warmer side with most of us wake up to 63 tojust 60s. We will see it begin temperatures as we headed to tomorrow but i will be highlighting the we can change is coming up at 715. Mark still ahead, another developing story. And other news, we are following the latest with san diego mayor bob filner packing up his things and heading out of office. The mayor is now stepping down after more than 17 oneman accused him of sexual allegations. 17 women. Thousands of fast food workers walking off their jobs today demanding higher wages. Including a protesting at placed here and the bay area. We will have more on these stories after the break as a kron4 morning news continues. James we are back at 7 08. Our top story the closure of the bay bridge. The bridge shutdown for five days. This is video of the last car to cross the 76 yearold bridge last night. Crews are now working to transition the old world way to the new eastern span. It was only fitting that they had that there are car drive over one of last time as we transition to the new east unspent. We will be following that story throughout the morning. Darya other stories we are following the wild fire burning in yosemite which is the size of new york city. Thousands of firefighters are ready to defend the yosemite area from a fire. The rim fire is now 30 percent contained. The wild fire in and around Yosemite National park has burn for 192,000 a. And is threatening 4500 structures. Its now the sixth largest wildfire and the states history. Mark weve got some stunning video of the massive rimfire. In the time lapse you can see the smoke and flames billowing up to the sky. About 5500 structures are threatened by the blaze and more than 110 buildings have been destroyed. Several communities nearby the fire remain under evacuation. James today, thousands of fast food workers across the country are planning to strike including here in the bay area. This is part of a nationwide campaign to get chains like mcdonalds, taco belt and wendys to pay workers higher wages. Organizers hope to form a union and press their call for a minimum weight of 15 per hour. Right now, many workers make an average of 725 an hour or 15,000 a year. The fast food restaurants targeted and destroyed our intent bay area cities from richmond to fremont. Darya 710 is the time and we will be back with more Team Coverage of the big story today which is traffic because the bay bridge is closed. Every other bridge is packed this morning and closing here at the san mateo bridge, westbound 92, plus we have had accidents along the route to this morning so that caused them are back up. We will be back with all of the drive times you need and a few minutes. Unbelievable. 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. With uverse high Speed Internet. The st versatile osclati toolystein t indtry. The dgidobma l the dierenpowe tooleads lo intone wer se. Ging y thelexility to getn aming ount wordoe saing, illi, ivin fasting, ttin anmuchore. Likell rgid wer ols, e riid jmax isover forife. Onlyt thhomeepot is cpletjobm staer k is n onl 79, anthis2pc ade t r ju 498. James we are back. 8713 as we take a live look at our bay bridge toll plaza. Obviously note traffic heading to the tollgates because the bridge is closed and will be closed until tomorrowup tuesday at 5 00 a. M. Lets check in with the george. George stop and go reaches past davis and street and looking to 38 back up with the traffic heading here and thats even affecting the 580 westbound ride. The better bet than the san mateo bridge this morning. Theres no reason to even had their traffic is moving so slowly. At the chernobyl commute route go instead to the dumbarton bridge. Lets take a look at our other alternates on interstate 580 to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. You have kron4s jackie so whos been with us down here since the 4 00 hour and jackie we sought ride from the beginning. Already have your than usual and now it is rough isnt it. yes but the good news is all six towboats are the bad news is of those six toll both lets go down to two lanes and thats starting to really back up out here. For the first time all morning we are starting to see the back up from the toll plaza back to 580 and obviously richmond parkway is going to be a mess. Once you get off the bridge to get over to 101 you have the text are Francis Drake, which is down to a single lane and there are lots of lights. We will probably get a lot worse before we get better out here. At the george it is still quite early. Its only 715 so we are about an hour away from the peak of the commute yet we are already seen the stuff traffic conditions. I also want to quickly point out before i get to the Golden Gate Bridge. I want to show you the right to interstate 80 and the westbound direction. They say world theres no bay bridge so why is traffic backed up but thats because the three right hand lanes closed from paul st in order to do some construction work leading into the bay bridge toll plaza and around the berkeley curve. All this traffic is having to march to the left and thats what the backing up the ride on the e shore freeway. Now to the Golden Gate Bridge and that when all southbound ride, you could see the bottom here is heavier than usual. Although the number of lanes is able to absorb that traffic better than the Richmond San Rafael bridge which only has the two lands westbound i also want to point out that the traffic coming o the san mateo bridge tried to get all 101 is having problems with the march because many people dont realize that the two right hand lane to connect with 11 north bound not just the right lane. Whatever to the Weather Center. Here is erica. Erica and george the fog is a little heavier than usual. At least compared to what weve seen the past couple of days. Heres a live look from our mount tam cam. You do have a deeper rain alerce widespread cloud cover as we start our thursday morning but at least temperatures are a pretty mild. I do want to follow these numbers into the afternoon. You will notice 70s and 80s and the south bay, santa clara 84 degrees. If you like the day i think you will certainly like today. Expecting mainly sunny day. Sam antar with a high of 77 degrees. Downtown San Francisco checking and as 69 in mid 80s for san rafeal. Your 7 day around the bay forecast highlight tomorrow being the warmest day of the week but cooler weather as we transition into labor day weekend. Mark an update out of syria right now. U. S. Intelligence officials are preparing briefing for congress and at linking last weeks chemical attack to the Syrian Government. Russia has blocked efforts to seek a United Nations resolution and britains Prime Minister says hes holding off on joining in the military efforts until a u. N. Inspection team releases its findings about the attack. The Obama Administration is bound to take action even without the backing of allies or the u. N. The biggest dilemma is that a major attack could destabilize the Syrian Government but the question is, who would take control. The most organized of the sarah and rebel groups right now have all thepack all tied up backing. Al qaeda backing. James House Speaker john boehner says he wants answers from president obama about possible u. S. Military action in syria. Boehner says he wants a clear, unambiguous explanations of how military action will secure u. S. Interests. The president says he is still discussing whether to launch a military strike against syria. He says he believes the Syrian Government is responsible for end august with the first chemical weapon attack that rebels claim killed 1300 people. Darya a date for a special election to replace san diego mayor bob filner has been said. The city council has agreed to november 19th. Filner is scheduled to resign tomorrow following Sexual Harassment allegations from more than a dozen women. He was san diegos first democratic mayor and decades when he took office in december. The city charter requires a special election if a mayor resigned with more than one year left of his term. The citicorp estimates the election would cost about 6 million and more if a runoff is required. James coming up on the kron4 morning news. The closure of the bay bridge is having a severe effect on the morning commute. Here having a severe effect on the morning commute. Here are unbelievable. 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. D . And then go to college and study scnce. Way to stay focuse and then ill become a scienti and change the world the rld . 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You can find it in apples app store, the google place store for it is very user friendly and very easy to use to navigate and interact with. Its your spot for local news, weather, traffic, sports and right now weve set up a special bay bridge closure title right on the home screen when you click on the bay bridge kosher tap you will see a string of the latest news about the closure. If you want an update at any time about the bridge closure, this is the place for uptotheminute news and information creek also add this new stream will be information on how to get around with the buses and ferries are caltran and bart information. We have a traffic and about tap with the latest traffic and permission. We expect the other bridges to be packed so track the latest traffic on the kron4 act before you had on this bay bridge closure. Heres a cool thing you can actually see the bridges and real time for yourself. We have taps for the bay bridge and Golden Gate Bridge or you can see images from the bridge. And inside the app you will link you from caltrans construction camps better fix on the bay bridge but if people see the final construction take place during the closure from several different angles. You can find a free kron4 app in apples app store and the google place store. Gabe slate, kron4 news. Mark rebound and a little bit today. The dow up 32. 3 that a report showing the old economy starting to strengthen the a bit with growth at 2 1 2 at an annualized . We also had the weekly unemployment numbers coming out. Still at 5 1 2 year low. Fewer layoffs in the u. S. Economy. James facebook have Something Big to celebrate this morning. A new report by Digital Market Research e marketer says that facebook mobile ads are all of a sudden a huge sixsuccess. Thats triple what it had last year. Kron. Darya the company is on track to capture nearly 16 percent of the mobile and market this year. Thats triple the share it had last year. Facebook launched its mobile at last august. But the Company Still has a lot of work to do if it wants to catch up to google. Google expected to take more than 53 percent of the Global Mobile and market this year. Darya the governments consumer advocate offices more than 33 million workers quality to have their Student Loans forgiven because they work at schools and hospitals and military and police uniforms. But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the system is overly complicated and often confusing. The bureau did not have an exact estimate of the cost but he recommends thatrecommends Congress Examine the loan forgiveness programs. Officials also encourage employers to make sure their workers know what options are available. Made in the u. S. Today the First American made for fusion will rollout a detroit Area Assembly line today. 1400 new employees were hired at the flat rock plant to keep up with demand for the for fusion. The new hires are part of fords that fords plan to bring the jobs to the u. S. That were previously located in other countries. Ford says fusion is the first sedan to offer gasoline, hybrid and plugging hybrid power trains and thats boosting demand. The carmakers reported sales for the fish are up 13 this year. The james toyota has to import new vehicles coming into the house of 15. The next generation pre as hybrid and the companys First Hydrogen fuel cell car parade to engineers says of the nucleus will get significantly better fuel economy than its current 50 mi. Per gallon it will have an advanced batteries, motor and gas and in combination that is smaller, lighter and cheaper than the current version. The company will reveal more about its zero emission carl early next year. Darya were keeping you up to date on the commute on this first day of the bay bridge closure. As you can see its rough on both the san mateo and Richmond Bridges. We will be right back. A7 we are back. 8730. Here is a live look of the toll plaza full of Construction Equipment as of a british shutdown. George tracking where they are going. George to the Richmond Bridge and the san mateo bridge. Kron4s mike pelton has been monitoring the approach. It could see it as our lead on a colander road. As it is all the way to the nimitz freeway. The worst approach to the bridge to the richmond parkway about interstate 583 richmond and starting to back up as well as kron4s jack is the sow has been pointed out all morning long its the heavy traffic approaching the bridge past the margin to two lanes that creates such a problem. At the west end of the span of sir francis the boulevard is backing up toward the commute on to 580 westbound lets show you that on the map you can see a flicker of red every once in awhile soap star Francis Drake is backed up to 580. Shouldnt to san rafeal if you want to connect. Youll save yourself a little bit of time. And if youre headed to the Golden Gate Bridge, steady stream of traffic all morning long. Darya meantime work at the bay bridge continues this morning. Hopefully it will be done by 5 00 a. M. On tuesday morning. Just in time for your back to work commute next week after labor day. Kron4s will tran has the very latest on the Construction Permit will we are on top of the bay bridge toll plaza at look right behind me. You can see how busy it is. They are grinding and paving. They expect by the time this is over 5000 dump trucks will come and go from this location either to drop off asphalt or to remove debris and they are obviously on a tight schedule because they have to have work done in time to get this ready for tuesday at 5 00 a. M. You can see just how busy it is over there. Its just a backup of dump trucks. This is basically their staging area on burma road. In currency grid look at that green is so busy that the chp is here just to have a traffic from the people at caltrans to make sure they dont fit into any accidents at all. They expect at any given time 400 workers to be working on the new easters and they tell us that everything is going smoothly and people in the bay area got a heads up long ago that they should avoid the bay bridge seems like everyone is well aware of whats going on. This is the fourth time that the bay bridge has been shut down so caltran can get things into place. That is the very latest. Reporting from the bay bridge toll plaza, will tran, kron4 news. Mark we are keeping our eye on other ways you can get around. At Public Transit options. Bart is offering 24 hour service. There will be starting hourly and 40 stations. They will be up bit all a. C. Transit buses across the bay bridge are suspended until the news and opens but there are extra ferries to help you get around. Heading to and from oakland kron4s mike pelton is out there looking at the parking lot. if you expected that trafficking are certainly not disappointed. You could tell a lot of the bright lights forming their 92 near, their road. About a mile from the toll plaza. For the last two hours. The backup is Holding Steady which is good news. As slow pace but a constant haze. Costa been moving along at a very slow pace this morning said there still sitting at home. If youre considering using the san mateo bridge to get over to the peninsula. Perhaps these are looking at other options but as you now. It will take a lot longer than usual this morning darya a good way to go would be to take a bart with the limited parking at the bart stations are filling up at the lot not good news for you. Kron4s posy, why. available parking is filling up lot fast at the walnut creek bart station. Take a close look at that permit signed three it when you see one of those stay out of that lot unless you have the permit. It could be a 40 to get otherwise. As you can see parking is being shortly in force today with the bay bridge closure. At walnut creek haazig madyun on kron4 nose. Darya this is the first morning commute without the bay bridge. We have to get there five days of this when they reopen on tuesday morning. You can follow our web site are mobile app facebook and twitter to get all the traffic and Weather Information that you need. James speaking of weather and lets give an update with erica. Erica good morning james britt we are starting to see some bricks of sunshine. We are looking at the makes mostly sunny skies. We are looking up to 60s but expect upper 80s inland mid 70s around the bay and mid 60s for the calls. We do have a warm up as we head into tomorrow and big changes by the labor day weekend. I walk you through all those changes coming up at 745. Darya to the latest on the wild fire burning in yosemite. Thousands of firefighters are descending what they can agree that this fire is the size of new york city now. Kron4s Philippe Djegal have the very latest on the containment which is 30 this morning. here in the growth plan this morning Fire Fighters continued to set a price tag of the rim fire continues to rise. Right now its at about 33 million. Firefighters have been able to make headway on this fire ago. The buyer is into Yosemite National park but far away from the yosemite valley. T rarea. This is some vf that fire breaking out in the remote area. Firefighters have been able to prevent some those flames from reaching the tourist areas bridge we also know the fire has reached the hatch hedgy reservoir but firefighters have been able to make contemning lines. That is containment lines around the reservoir. The dam has not been destroyed either. Firefighters said this has been a very difficult fire to fight because there are so many hot spots that keep popping out. You concede there are a lot of helicopters dropping water continually throughout the day and night. Especially at night time they said that since the wind died down and the humidity starts to rise three at that point, thats a time when this fire starts to slow down. I will let you know if there any incidents reported as soon as i find out for it darya still ahead on the kron4 morning news, thousands have taken to a social media to say goodbye to the old bay bridge. The problem is, they may have been taking pictures and giving tribute to the rock fans. We will have that and more and a couple of minutes. That headband looks ridiculous. Your dog is ug. Nice tail, ler. When you dont have a good breakfast, it makes you grumpy. Thats why ive got warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese choose supreme or sausage. Right now theyre 2 for just 3. 50. Thats a great value thatll put anyone in a good md. Get off my lawn, clown you sir, have excellent water pressure a blt with best foods is the best. Bring ou the unmistakable tas that can only be best foods. Bring out the bes happening right now youre commute is at a standstill across the Richmond San Rafael bridge and the san mateo bridge. Traffic backed up for miles because the bay bridge has been shut down as you all know by now. It will be shut down for the next handful of days. Not reopening until 5 00 a. M. Next tuesday. You have to find ways around the bay until then. george welcome back to the kron4 morning nos. We are really feeling the affects on the two major alternates from the closure of the bay bridge. If traffic is still jammed from interstate 880 all the way out to the high rise of the bridge and heavy traffic again at the west and at the 10192 interchange. From time to time youll see stop ago conditions here to the toll plaza. The e shore freeway is also a mess because lanes have closed down to accommodate the toll plaza. Us had ever to the san rafael bridge and checkin with kron4s jackie cecil who has been monitoring the ride since the 4 00 hour. it was going to come up. We know it and you can see right now the toll plaza is basically at a stop at this point for it. Right now basically ive been looking at the truck right here parade is visiting here for about a minute. Traffic is just creeping through the toll plaza rain now. It looks as though its about as bad as its been all morning and getting worse by the second. George its also quite heavy at the west end of the bridge trying to merge onto san Francis Drake boulevard and continuing past the san rafael bridge look at the red shot on the centers main speeds of dropping below 25 and if this is your route to this morning and use our Francis Drake. Continue on san rafael bridge want to alert you to some slowing 011 north bound an earlier a crane accident on the bayshore freeway north bound at willow a quick check to the Golden Gate Bridge and the 1 01 south our ride. Traffic is lower than usual but still do and well. So far the problems are on thejust not all one. Mark kron4s family roberts tells us about the antics of some drivers as they were rushing to cross the bay bridge before a shutdown last night and this addition of people behaving badly. you have to make a left. now. if you want to see people behaving badly might suggest to announce that you plan to close a major artery print for five days. oh wait they did. Pay no attention to this driver. He is from texas and in taxes that must be how they do things. Come to think about it. Thats how we do things here too. Moving on. You see the bay bridge is closed so it can get a new slightly stiffer bridge that will last 150 years or the next big quake. Whichever comes first. hey dude the bridges the other way. there you go. some people thought it was safe to travel in the carpool lane as a solo driver. It wasnt for it these guys got into a fender bender about what better way to Exchange Information than in the lane of traffic. if traffic is backed up simply use the oncoming traffic lanes. After all no one else is using it. the one thing that seems to work drivers is people for in such a rush they dont have time to wait like normal people. You could make left turns when it clearly says no left turns. And you absolutely must blow the horn. Who cares of its illegal or annoying. Although i must admit it work here. remember to make your own turning lane. Pay no attention to the man with a Parking Enforcement ticket book. And stay off yourself, unless you really want to be featured on people behaving badly. You know what. Maybe we should check the bridge down every other weekend. It would make for good material. Im not joking. In San Francisco, Stanley Roberts, kron4 news. James thinking stanley. We also have some pictures on the commute from bart of the east bay and to San Francisco. Did the pictures from our assignment editor. She said trains got increasingly crowded every time she went to a new station. People actually got off the train thinking the next would be less crowded. Good luck with that. Dont do that. She said for the most part it was kind of like a more normal commute but obviously a little more crowded darya a lot of people started their day earlier and that definitely help for it either way you have to know what the day hold for art the weather. Erica good morning. Police the fog was not an obstacle. High clouds and gray skies as we take it live look outside and San Francisco. Again the clouds are a little lower and the north bay. A little bit of patchy drizzle but at least we are working up to temperatures of the warmer cypriot check out antioch and 63 degrees out the door and 61 and san mateo. As we follow these numbers into the afternoon you will notice it will be similar to what we experienced yesterday. Woolsey made 70s down the east bay shoreline downtown San Francisco with a high of 69 degrees and by later on tonight, the clouds will return although it will be a sunny afternoon. By 8 00 this evening, expects audit conditions and perhaps address along the coast with temperatures not too bad. I hope you like cooler weather because pass tomorrow thats what we are going to see. Your 7 day around the bay forecast highlights cooler conditions heading into the labor day weekend. We will keep temperatures and below 70s bayside and expect mostly cloudy conditions of low sixties for the coast. Mark for a sports update. 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Liven the Traffic Center with george raft and it is not getting any better. It keeps getting worse. George thats right. Especially here at the san mateo bridge. This westbound 92 ride got off to a very bad start. We had an accident just as things were getting under way. So its not only slow all across the span of less look at the approaches. Solid stream of traffic caracol moreau. Backed up all the way to the 9280 interchange. And heres the slow traffic across the span. It also slow on 92 coming out of downtown hayward 3 it took a look at this. So found to back up into san leandro. And maybe slightly better here. Now backed up all the way to the coliseum as it had been aware also noticing people are taking the down barton bridge as an alternate. This is 84 and you can see the traffic can bear on the approach and have the across the span. We are also attracting big delays on the e shore freeway because as part of the construction they close their right lanes of interstate 80 westbound and that the jamming up the ride for the e shore freeway. And your trip to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. The west end of the bridge traffic pretty heavily backed up for sir Francis Drake boulevard. All that traffic then heads to the Golden Gate Bridge but there are enough lands here that there are no backups on the Golden Gate Bridge. That option requires that you do pay to tolls. And i want to apprise you of a problem on caltran this morning. We got word that there was a pedestrian struck southbound and paul alto and for a time of service was suspended. We understand now that the trains are starting to move again but theyre likely single tracking so that will be major delays between palo alto, San Francisco and san jose. Mark we will keep you updated throughout the morning on how you will get around but were also watching the construction to make for sure that they will open of 5 00 a. M. Tuesday asked ito after the toll plaza shutdown last night. Kron4s will tran is alive hes monitoring the construction right now will we expect a News Conference to start any moment now. We are 12 hours into the shutdown and already weve seen the bay bridge. I showed you how busy it this place is. They expect by the time its over, 5000 dump trucks. Theyre on a very tight schedules permit. Faugh mark the whole bridge will have to be remote carefully picked up due to the proximity to the new bridge. The news palo thats just the dismantling of the old bridge will cost 223 million. Darya lets go live to the News Conference taking place right now. Alabama the work to prepare the rolodex is on track and so far the grinding and paving has been all on track and that to the work we will be seen for the next 24 hours at least. At this point i would like to bring canned greg allen project manager for mcm construction. They are doing the demolition work on the stand. They will talk about that work and what we should expect in the next day or so. good morning. Right now we are working on the westbound roadway going in at the tunnel. 60 percent of that will work. We will finish the work on the top deck today with a joint still we will install later today. On the lower deck weve corrected. Weve got the temporary on the ramp from the island which will take place tomorrow morning. We will finish paving it and the demolition on this side we are right on track. We have 90 percent of the deck knock st. Will any unexpected problems that you all have not planned for. nothing that we havent encountered that we were ready for. The beams are on the structure for it is starting from the existing bridge coming towards oakland 3 the next id like to introduce officer daniel hill with the chp and he can talk to you a little bit about what theyve been doing. good morning. I want to report that the closure went very well yesterday. We saw very little traffic coming westbound toward the bay bridge up until the closure. Once the closure was put into effect we know this very little traffic affect three people were prepared for it. I want to thank of the media to all of our partners. The message got across. People did seem like they knew was going on for the most part bridge the commute was very light for a wednesday night there is almost no cars on the bay bridge prior to the closure. The closure overnight has gone very well. We saw very little traffic incident other than the normal ones. We are san slightly increase traffic across the other vehicular crossings. Chp is in full force. We are and a maximum enforcement. Is what we call it a point of our officers in order to inspect a lower dui collision event during our weekend. We have officers deployed throughout the bay area to make sure traffic run smoothly. As far as i know, a little bit increase traffic throughout the bay area but we are looking good. Will any incidents of road rage . the Highway Patrol has not observed any increased incidence of new road bridge. We advised travelers they may have a little bit of traffic getting across the roadways but they will get to where they are going. Inmate take longer but you will arrive. Drive safely and keep yourself, and understand it will take a little bit more time getting to and from your station during this cloture. Destinations. The Highway Patrol is planned to maintain closures. We have staff in both day and night throughout the weekend. There will be stationed throughout the entire closures and kantor no one comes into them. That is for the safety of our various contractors and workers as well as the Highway Patrol and of course promoters. We want to remind motorist that if they do encounter a clochard they have not planned for the they do not expect, please do not pull into the culture and stop to ask officers for directions. That is a very unsafe and it is very unclear to modern what is going on and it may strike a worker if they drive and to them. The best plan is to fight pullover and use a gps device or call 511 to get further information on to where you are going. We want to thank the motoring public and media critic make sure your remain patient brought closure and we will be here to help treat them id like to introduce jim allison from bart. good morning i would just like to echo the chp officers called for patience. We are seeing a lot of new people at bart this morning and seen the lines back up at the ticket lines. For ticket machines rather. For people who are regular users of bart will have clipper card i would encourage them to make sure they have plenty of value on those cards did they dont get caught in a line. I do have some rider should figures for you. Yesterday at the preliminary figures show we had an increase of about 16,000 people compared to the previous wednesday so it appears people were already switching to transit and through 6 00 a. M. This morning weve seen an increase of about 7800 people. That doesnt sound real significant but the real crunch. It is going to be from 8 to 930 and then this evening at from 5 to 535 to 6 00 p. M. We are encouraging people to try to be flexible and travel early or late if they can offer the rush hour. The overnight service went very well. From the 14 stations that we have open. The two lines that are runningwere running a print the vicki and the extra security on the bart trains because now you have more people. Are there visible Police Officers there. we have full staffing on the police force. There at the stations that are open obviously making sure everyone is state beer. We have additional station agent at those stations that are open overnight and so it went well last night and were hoping it goes well throughout the weekend as well. i think the key thing here is construction is going very well. We are on schedule and the work started last night at 8 00. The demolition up grinding and paving is what we will see for the next 24 anything tht was that causes that looks the cause of schedule. Otherwise we could head off into the field think you. If you are going out into the field with us. You must sign waivers. And you must sign and and you must have gear. Mark that was the latest from the bay bridge closure. Everything is moving according to schedule apparently. We will be right back. Unbelievable. 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. Darya welcome back. At second look at the san mateo bridge and is packed. And see the traffic. It is even stopped here. Thats how bad the commute is without the bay bridge. We will return with our continuing coverage in just a couple of minutes. Continuing coverage in just a couple of minutes. Teamed up coverage nacwcn [ 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. 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This is a long district of traffic this low that weve ever tracked. Right now, its backed up silently across the bridge all the way out to 1013 this is the approach coming off a cloud or road. The back upper reaches all the way to highway 880 and the nimitz freeway where there is a northbound or was a north bound accident on 880 and 92 per it traffic coming out of hayward southdown is backed up. Its a better ride here on to 38 and 583 thats no longer backed up as it had been. Over on the west end of the bridge, while there was really slow traffic trying to merge on the 101 north bound, its not as bad right now. Things are getting a little bit better print your e shore freeway ride still jammed up because of westbound lane closures in order to accommodate construction and construction vehicles. This was never to this Richmond San Rafael bridge or kron4s tracking system has been since 4 00 this morning for it looks like its a grind out there. it is. On a normal day i would say this is an awful commute but given the circumstances we are at right now actually traffic continues to move. Which is great news. Obviously at the toll plaza, there are six books that go down to two lanes but no matter what theres going to be back up adjutancy here, traffic continues to move. All about 10 mi. An hour but its a lot better than just sitting there like they are over at the san mateo bridge. George in fact its even Getting Better at the west end of the bridge on sir Francis Drake boulevard which is no longer as valley jammed up nor is the traffic coming off the stand on 2101. Its great having at t uverse high Speed Internet. Walter likes to download fixit videos. And watch boardwalk empire. It helps sam with his math. [ beeping ]. And online gaming. And suze loves her smartphone for social studies. Like videochatting with sara. Hi, ms. Kelly. Hi, sara. 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Officials encouraged employers to make for their workers know what options are available in darya still ahead we will get an update on whats going on at the bay bridge as commuters are now stuck in traffic on the san mateo bridge and the Richmond Center fell. We will have the latest there. A b are off following a failed caltran and to that. Fatal caltrain incident that occurred this morning 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. 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. You can see it as a slow go at the san rafael bridge because there is no bay bridge and george youre telling people not to use the san mateo bridge. To go to the dumbarton bridge instead. But i have to say it looks as though we might have turned the corner and we might be seen ever so slight improvement or at least things are not getting any worse. Here we are starting to see a little smoke out and the traffic flow for the san mateo bridge. We dont have the hard stop and go conditions. They could return and the back up on 92 westbound still reaches all the way to the nimitz freeway and beyond. There is an accident as well. The other alternate which is the Richmond San Rafael bridge still very happy though the approach to the bridge is not as bad as we feared it might be. Traffic still heavy across the span of about the marin a ride on 11 southbound leading to the Golden Gate Bridge has not been bad at all this morning so this out bound 101 ride is a really absorbing the traffic coming from interstate 580 pretty nicely. A quick reminder there are major caltran delays. There was a fatal pedestrian accident in palo alto and service is too late. Mark we received an update from caltran about how construction is going. Heres spokesperson and record as saying everything is running smoothly and on schedule pre it overnight i would say the work has gone very well. We are definitely on schedule. In terms of the lower deck, there are about 100 completed with the prep of the lower deck. About 60 percent of the roadway prep on the upper deck heading westbound and in the next day or so they are going to be starting work on the permanent on ramp heading eastbound from the island on to the new bay bridge. And terms of the demolition work, that is all on track. Weve seen considerable grinding overnight and paving has begun. All of that work is going very well. They have also begun the installation of the new drainage system saw a lot of the work we talked about last night. The demolition of that original 1,000 ft long westbound approach on to the bridge that is on track. The work at the island and the road that is on track and so far, the grinding and the paving has been all on track. Thats the work we are going to be seen for at least the next 24 hours. Mark well that was good to hear from the spokesperson for caltrans today. Heres some of the other way is. Other resources you can use to get around. Were talking about mass transit. Bart will be run a 24 hour service stopping at 14 stations over the Holiday Weekend. Only one train an hour during that 1 00 a. M. To 4 00 a. M. Slot but otherwise a 24 hour service. The sf bay ferry system is going to be having extrabold in the water during disclosure. There will be heading to and from a number of terminals. The oakland terminal the alameda main street harbor bay vallejo and San Francisco series will be departing every 45 minutes or so during peak commute hours transit officials are still saying give yourself extra time. We have seen on the road to that people have been backed up for hours on end. Darya if you use bart. Parking is limited. Kron4s haazig madyun explains why. available parking is filling up fast here at the walnut creek a bart station and for bay bridge commuters who may be taking part for the first time and are not used to the parking situation here to close look at that permit signed a there creek when you see one of those stay out of that lot unless you have a permit. It could be a 40 to get otherwise. That is until 10 00 a. M. When its Public Parking for everyone for just a 53 as you can see, parking is being strictly enforced today with this bay bridge closure. And walnut creek, haazig madyun and, kron4 news. Mark there is a big back up there this morning. Mike felt live with an update. stay with kron4 as we will keep you posted on the commute. This is the first commute back to work. You can get the very latest from our web site facebook and twitter and our new kron4 app where there is a whole special section on the bay bridge closure per it lets get a look at the weather. Some of those shot looking very sunny. Erica it thats why we are starting to see a lot of more sunshine. We still have some areas of dense fog and cloud cover. If you have into the afternoon three expect upper 80s inland, low seventies around the bay and mid60s for the coast. I will highlight your full forecast coming up and my next report. Andy coming up. People taking to social media to say goodbye to the bay bridge and an update on the very busy morning commute as we watch delays on other crossings along the bay. Today thousands of fastfood workers across the country are planning to strike including here in the bay area. This is part of a nationwide campaign to get a chance like may donald, talk a bell and wendys to pay workers higher wages. Organizers hoping to form a union and to press a their call for a minimum wage of 15 an hour. Right now Union Workers make an average of 725 an hour or what about 15,000 a year. The fast food restaurants targeted our intent bay area cities from richmond to fremont. Mark still ahead, an update on bay area traffic as we continue to follow the closure of the bay bridge. We will speak with Stanley Roberts who stuck in traffic. George welcome back to the kron4 morning news as we continue to attract major delays on the Richmond San Rafael and san mateo bridge is. Heres a live look from the toll plaza approves weve seen a slight improvement here in the westbound a ride which has remained steady. The heaviest traffic surprisingly hasnt been on the approach. We havent seen the big backups as much as weve seen fairly slow traffic across the span bridge on interstate 580 westbound rich and on the west and we saw some stop and go conditions coming out at sir Francis Drake boulevard and try to get into downtown san rafeal where kron4s family roberts is not driving this morning. He joins us now on the kron4 bridge stanley good morning. What was your drive like print them up when i left redwood city and at exactly 830 and i matt airport boulevard. I have to say that its not as bad as i expected it to be. George your drive and san mateo. yes. George i thought were going to be talking about san rafael traffic. So youre dealing with a 10192 interchange north bound. Tell us again you found it wasnt as bad as it thought it might be. i was with chp this morning and the san mateo bridge was a pretty heavy but want to get on 101 is pretty smooth sailing right now the george studies appear not having passed this 1 0192 interchange and stanley points out it has been heavy traffic coming off the stand and at the march but the 101 traffic has done a pretty good job of absorbent this traffic flow. Lets go to the other end now and ill show you the other approach to it which is the ride on highway 92 westbound. This is a cloud or road and this is definitely an improvement as we are seen traffic moves on much better now about a mile out from the toll plaza and the westbound direction for it are shot from the toll plaza camera shows traffic moving slowly across the span. Its still worth your time to go to the dumbarton bridge instead of this one. But at least youre seeing a slightly better conditions in this westbound direction. If i want to quickly switch over to the Golden Gate Bridge and show you the 101 commute coming in from iran agreed despite the heavy traffic from the rich and san rafael bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge has panhandling at all very well. But had over to the Weather Center print judge panel lanes handling it all very well. Erica 65 in oakland. As we followed numbers and to the afternoon and you will notice it is going to be a mild to warm a very similar to what we saw yesterday so we are getting pretty close to the 90 degree mark for livermore pleasanton. Mid 60s for daly city. Into the evening hours, the clouds will return. We will also see temperatures on the mild side. Holding onto 60s bridge 70s out in fairfield. It is going to be cloudy by later on tonight. In terms of your extended forecast, the 7 day around the bay, tomorrow is highlighted as the warmest day of the week so if you like 90s looks like we will get them for the warmest inland areas. We will start to see temperatures cool as we head into the weekend. In fact labor day. We struggle to see mid 80s inland and low sixties for the coast. Darya 848 right now. The resignation of san diegos embattled mayor bob filner is official friday morning. it was a slam dunk for the citicorp plan to hold a special election to replace mayor bob feller on november 19th. Summing up many peoples feelings about his scandal. its unfortunate and i am too disappointed and saddened as well as the people of my district that we are and this situation but the important thing is to get this over with. And elect a new mayor asap. although he is still mayor until 5 00 p. M. Friday, bob film did not appear and councilveral of thosd as his replacement were there. Councilwoman marty emerald both are thinking about a run but not ready to announce. Ditto for faulkner. But i will make my decision in the next several days. my hope is to spend the weekend with friends and family after digesting and listening to the feedback that we are receiving from hundred and almost nearly thousands of san diegans. Through the mail through calls and letters and calls on social media and make a decision as we can. of the 12 people who have declared their intent to run only one has a big political name. Former assemblyman nation fletcher street the others have until september 20th to file their candidacy for the election that takes place on november 19th. The court has until december 17th to certify the vote and elsewhere and the new mayor or call for a runoff election. That has to happen within 49 days on or before february 7th. Darya Santa Clara Union employees have reached a tentative labor guilt that has come a week after the Service Employees International Union local 521 has threatened to strike. Some of the issues included required overtime by emergency dispatchers. The employees are being recommended to pass this. A vote is happening today. This union represents publichealth nurses, hospital assistance, tax assessors, criminalist and other employees. Mark investigators have revealed that among the victims were young girls at Santa Cruz High School the suspect thirty wrote in no deathdealing reiner says they found more than half a million photos and videos on his computer. Investigators say he taught children how to serve as an approves high and two other unnamed schools. Hes facing 28 criminal charges including four felony charges of lewd and felony and child pornography allegations. Police have identified more than a dozen female victims. Darya darya before defending their titles as americas cup champions in the finals of the regatta and San Francisco next month, oracle teen usa officials will have to first defend themselves at a hearing on allegations that the team illegally modified its boats. The International Jury is investigating allegations that oracle illegally modified its boats during exhibition races in 2012 and earlier this year. The bolts are smaller versions of the 72 ft. Catamarans are being used in the upcoming americas cup finals. The juries rule stipulates that the panel can be a person or team from future races it picked find misconduct. Mark bob melvin club pounding the tigers for a seasonhigh 21 hits tonight as the athletics hammer the tigers. Randy moss with two homers on the night. Kurt suzuki going 3 for 4. At the final 14fort as. Rangers 1 so a state to a half games back in the west, for game lead and wild card. Darya we will be right back. Unbelievable. 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. Darya are big story this morning of with the old span closing for ever. Some people are taking go by but some are saying goodbye to the wrong side of the bridge. Mark all the pictures that are showing is of the western span which will still be the same western span you know and love. Darya they are beautiful pictures is just that new eastern span which was the old is the party will never drive on again. So we said the buyback to that bridge. Mark as we wait for the new bridge open we are following the latest on the construction. If the content of the pavement work thats been done. We are following the latest on the construction and also watching the commute thats been very bad. Especially at the san mateo bridge. We also have problems with a caltran fatality. Will also talk about the alternate routes to get around as a george raft will have his latest update with the drive times around the bay as the kron4 morning news continues as the bay bridge shutdown right after the break. George rask. Female narrator through labor day at sleep train, female narrator through labor day get 36 months interestfree financing plus big savings of up to 400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on Serta Icomfort and tempurpedic, plus free sameday delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. When brands compete, you save, but this special financing offer ends labor day at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep this is the bay area new station. Kron4 news at nine starts now. Mark thanks for joining us as we follow the latest of the bay bridge shutdown. The construction work being done and the terrible thirst a commute thats going with it. James we will be following the lead is with your alternate commute options. Mass transit may be your best option. Darya the san mateo bridge is not a good choice. Its been backed up all morning isnt that right george. George thats right so is the Golden Gate Bridge. Uc darya we are still dealing with these tropical conditions and when the bridge to reach as the saturation point, this is what happens. It will start to slow and then back up again kind of like an accordion affect. Stop and go and work its way back to the toll. Darya it was like this at 536 of so it should not be like this now. Heres one good sign though. We are not at culliver wrote about a mile out from the toll plaza and thats was down 92 it had been solid here all morning long the backup to the bridge is definitely decreasing. Thats good news. I think were on the downside of this. We are looking at some what better conditions over at the west end of the bridge so that at least in some relief and Stanley Roberts reported his north bound 101 ride is lighter than usual only 30 minutes into redwood city. Jackie sizzled has been monitoring conditions here. The backups have been so bad but the traffic across the span has been. Thats barely a really slow ride and its a slow trip he still for your ride across are Francis Drake boulevard though that has improved to and the rest of the moreno ride is actually not that bad. Lets see if we can zoom out and show you the trip. A lighter commute than usual for marin county softball 101 and the Golden Gate Bridge have been able to absorb the extra traffic from 580 and the Richmond San Rafael bridge without any problems this morning. I want to quickly up teaching at the caltran accident. A fatal pedestrian accident. They have restored Train Service through palo alto but that means they are single tracking. It takes about an hourandahalf to get darya lets focus on the popular alternate route which is the san mateo bridge where we find kron4s mike pelton. My call is it going out there right now we are seeing some slight improvement. About a mile from the toll plaza. At one. District of the 92 looked more like a parking lot in a freeway priest to conceal his now traffic is moving at least somewhat of a small the pace at least to the approach to the bay bridge. I spoke with the chp a short time ago who tell me overall they havent seen anything unexpected except for one accident of the toll plaza. Theyve only had to deal with heavy traffic. A lot of commuters have come prepared. We saw this entire span a very busy as early as 330 this morning. At that point there were no backups but a steady flow of traffic. If you are leaving now or stuck in this traffic at this point you might as well look around, because you have quite a while to getting off this man over to san mateo bridge darya and this is only day one. We are hoping that the second day will be able bit better but disclosure is affecting a lot of people mark. Mark he has especially in the san rafael bridge where the other alternate is. Kron4s jackie sizzle is there. A its not that bad over here. Given the circumstances actually traffic continues to move out here. I have to say that the traffic out here since 4 00 this morning has been doubled of which would normally see but as you can see here at the toll plaza, the traffic continues to move a sore right but given the circumstances mark, things look pretty good out here at least for the time being up for the rich and san rafael bridge. Mark james with the roads being the way they are maybe mass transit is a better shot. Lets go over some of whats been set up to help you get around during disclosure. The bridge wont reopen until 5 00 a. M. Next tuesday so we have bart run a 24 hour service at 14 different stations throughout the labor day weekend. Trains will be running. 24 hours. Between 1 00 a. M. And 4 00 a. M. There will only be one train however. Ferries will be departing every 45 minutes during commute hours transit officials are still advising plenty of time to give yourself especially if youll be driving. Darya stay with kron4. We have all the information you need to get around. In the meantime before that tuesday reopening. We look to you all about the construction assets happening right here on our web site, facebook, twitter and you can rely on our new mobile act as well and darya was good erica for our Holiday Weekend weather forecasts. Erica i hope everyone is looking for clear weather because that is what we will be hit with. In a bit more clout cover compared to what we saw yesterday because of the marine layer present cooler weather pripet and darya still ahead. The replacement of the old bay bridge span is 24 years in the making. We will take a look at the hurdles to get here. And a book of letters l losers on wall street. Coming for you in 10 minutes. That dashed the winners and losers of wall street. The kron4 morning news continues a7 bam i am writing on a trend thats coming from west oakland and to San Francisco. Some, maybe people are just waiting to take another route up later. Darya another developing story is the wild fire burning around yosemite. Thousands of firefighters are there defending the fire. It into the huge amount of smoke. Its 30 percent contained this morning. It has burned about 192,000 a. Street is still threatening 400,000 structures. Its become the sixth largest wild fire in the states history. Mark that looks like, cover but that is the smoke. We have some additional the oft from the time lapse of showing how the smoke has been billing and moving. That smoke and you see the land. One quick note just found out the California National guard did send up the predator drawn. It will continue for 22 straight hours. Mark coming up next to the latest on the bay bridge closure. And more on what bart means to riders here this morning bridge and claymore cars and their parking lot. Well police are watching out for this morning as well. The kron4 morning news continues. This just and the walnut creek bart station. There are fewer trains than normal. Maybe commuters decided to stay home or took early time offer labor day parade of parking at bart stations is being strictly enforced so something to keep the mind if youre using bart. Turns out bart has turned out to be a at a great alternative because the other bridges are packed. George the router ship numbers were up but it would have been a much better choice than driving this morning. We started talking a few moments ago about what was looking like improving conditions at the san mateo bridge but maybe because we said that more people started heading their but things have taken another turn for the worse as we are no longer seemed continue the improvements either and the drive time or speed across the span. Last time we looked it was much less crowded and moving better than is now. As we check the traffic the maps. A look at the ride on the age 80 and 92. We will switch over there now. It is improved here southbound and slightly improved on the approach but i do emphasize slightly. Things are still much heavier than normal. If this were a normal work day we would definitely be calling this a hot spot for shore up a stop on nimitz ride out of oakland is no longer backed up. Lets go over to the richmond sambar fell bridge and the westbound from bridge as kron4s jackie cecil has been monitoring it. The approach has not been so bad but the traffic has been slowing and continues to be slow across the span. Your trip here for sir Francis Drake boulevard connection on 2101 southbound still kind of sluggish but now solidly backed up. Heres the Golden Gate Bridge for it we do see a little heavier traffic and the northbound direction. I dont know if theyre going to switch over the southbound lanes but looks like the trucks are over there doing that now already added that third plane in the northbound direction. This is probably a good move because dont forget a lot of people use the bridge east bound as well as westbound so they have to find alternate also permit erica we are taking a live look above all the clout to there. This is from our mount tam cam. You can see sutro tower picking up from those calls. In terms of up temperatures we arent join 60s, mid to upper 60s far east bay inland spot bridge already seen sunshine but still cloudy along the coast. As we had to your afternoon highs, 3 00 this afternoon, will hold onto 60s coast side, 70s around the bay. And take a look at the warm spots. That 80 degree territory will continue to build throughout the afternoon and by 8 00 this evening, still pretty mild with temperatures in the 60s. I do want to break down your afternoon high starting and the south bay. Campbell, 86, 76 for mountain view. I think temperatures will be spot on to what we saw yesterday. 89 degrees over in fairfield. Upper 70s for san leandro. Downtown San Francisco florida with the 70 degree mark. It may 80s and napa and low 60s if youre heading to ocean beach. The 7 day around the bay forecast highlights a warmer friday so looking pretty good as your wrapup the workweek but expect cooler conditions with morning fog at afternoon sunshine. Labor day in fact is the coolest day of the week. Mark watching todays winners and losers with our financial expert rob black. But talk about our ride is then and vodafone up both stocks up. verizon is looking to get away from it. It could cost them 100 billion. At the investment banks like Goldman Sacks would make billions in a profit off of making this relationship happen with a big fat paycheck. For a rise in stock is at a 13 year high. I plan on getting a wireless into my car so they are in good position whereas of vodafone is starting to get more cable access in europe because cable has more capacity in the future to handle data then per say wireless does. Mark is vodafone gonna be hurt down the line. the worst thing is the european slowdown but other than that they are a Wonderful Company to invest mark Gross Domestic Product to rid the u. S. Economy really accelerating. i said it doesnt matter but let me give you the key tackle ways. Strong free economy basically means underlying demand. Takeaways. Government spending was weaker and corporate profits were up which means a Government Spending is sequestration talk but corp stocks are up. They hire people to work and those buildings. That positive for the economy. Here is the federal will raise Interest Rates at some point. The negative aspect is that the federal will raise Interest Rates at some point. should entrylevel jobs pay livable wages. No one takes itno one feels it takes skill to work these jobs. Most people cant live off 18,000 a year. Its extreme poverty. This is a damnation game that i dont even want to hit. If i old macdonalds i would not want to be told i have to pay someone 50 an hour. I think its a federal and state government. 15 an hour. We need a high paying jobs. Mark we have an animal coming from nancy st. Rob i inherited 150,000 dollars. Should i invest. thats not a lot of money because you need 1 million for retirement. Even though its not a lot of money represents a lot of money in the future. I would be afraid. I would do it to yourself. J. P. Morgan is kind of a 1980s up a brokerage concept. Given to some international merchant. Dont be afraid of syria. There is always something out there. Mark you can catch rob black segment on a kron4 dog, or our new kron 4 news mobile app. James happening right now. U. S. Intelligence officials are preparing briefing to congress aimed at linking last weeks chemical attack to the Syrian Government. Russia has blocked efforts to seek a United Nations resolution and britains Prime Minister says he is holding off on joining any military effort until a u. N. Inspection team releases its findings about the attack. The Obama Administration is bound to take action even without the backing of allies or the wind. The biggest dilemma is that a major attack could destabilize the Syrian Government. But the question is who would take control. The most organized of the syrian of rebel groups right now have all kind of backing for italqaedda backing. Darya we will continue our Team Coverage of the traffic in the wake of the bay bridge cloture and just a couple of minutes. Its great having at t uverse high Speed Internet. Walter likes to download fixit videos. And watch boardwalk empire. It helps sam with math. [ beeping ]. And online gaming. And suze loves her smartphone for social studies. Like videochatting with sara. Hi, ms. Kelly. Hi, sara. 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The new hires are part of fords plan to bring jobs to the u. S. That were previously located and other countries. Ford says fusion is the first and offered gasoline sedan to offer gasoline, hybrid and plugging hybrid power trains and thats boosting demand. The car makers reported sales for the fusion are up 13 this year. James we are looking at other ways to get around including big backups around the san mateo bridge. And backups on the san rafael Bridge Street we will get updates on both those locations in just a couple of minutes. uo uo darya no bay bridge and we are feeling that as people are heading for other bridges trying to get around this morning. It is the first commute the without the bay bridge and this is a live look from our kron4s jackie sizzle who is showing us this traffic we have been trying to get through. George the hope is up to date will hopefully be the only day we experienced this. George we have to keep in mind that the bay bridge is not only used during commute hours. It carries about 250,000 vehicles per day so you have to realize its both eastbound and westbound and it all day and all night long. So its likely we will see a heavier than usual traffic on these two bridges throughout the closure. Yes its true that even over the Holiday Weekend there will be lighter than usual lodes remember we are doubling up on these other bridges. Lets start here with a book at Current Conditions at the san mateo bridge. And again it looks as though things are getting slightly better here at least west from the toll plaza. One thing we know this is the density of traffic has dropped considerably and thats one of the reasons why its moving a little more smoothly. And as quickly return to the shot weve been getting from kron4s jackie says so rig here you can see we are getting the movement on the stand. Good news from the san rafael bridge. The 580 backup hasnt been that bad. Darya thanks a lot george. New this morning. We also want to cover every ankle and as you know the bay bridge closed last night at 8 00 and as it was 3 that day about all of this construction work on it. Kron4s will tran i got to be on the bridge and see some of that work going on today. Will heres the new eastern stand behind me. It is wide open. The ground is so new its grinning. Thats the old eastern span which is loud and very busy and the reason why is they have jackhammers out here to demolished this section for it that they need to remove that section because they want to establish a bike path. They already started. You see that white thing that kind of looks like a fence. Well thats the bike path but thats as far as you can go for now until they remove this section of the old eastern standard critic once thats gone they will continue to work on the bike path. That goes obviously parallel to the old easters man. Seems like all the work being done so far is on time. Thats the very latest. Reporting from the new east unspent, will tran, kron4 news. Mark a real mess this morning on the san mateo bridge. An earlier accident causing problems as well. Kron4s mike pelton is live at the san mateo bridge with an update. we are seeing an improvement. Earlier this morning this looked more like a parking lot and then a freeway priest you could see a lot commuters making their way. Quite a bit of leeway. Quite a bit of a eight weight as people are trying to get across the span. The chp says despite all this traffic this is all theyve had to deal with this morning. And have not encountered anything they did not expect. As for the traffic itself. It appears that the san mateo bridge will be a slow commute the route most of the day. James following other ways of getting a round, your alternates. That may be mass transit will be a better bet for you. There will be up in their service. A bart will run 24 hours serve as the route this bay bridge stoppage. 40 stations will be a part of this bank. They will only be running out one at train an hour during the hours what bart is normally shut down with is 1 00 a. M. To 4 00 a. M. 14 stations. Ac Transit Bus Service across the bridge is not going to be happy obviously. That wont resume until tuesday at 5 00 a. M. At the earliest. Happening. San Francisco Bay ferries will have extrabold in the water. Boats. They will be running freeze about every 45 minutes during peak hours and normal schedules after that. That they will be running ferries. Keep it to appear to kron4. We will be updating you on the progress of the bay bridge throughout the weekend. You can get the latest on kron4 dot com and on our new kron4 mobile news app. We want to remind you that we have a really cool video clip on our web site and our facebook page. A time lapse that shows the very beginning of the construction of the way until today. Very neat to see that and fast forward. Darya at 935 we want to keep you posted at the weather. Erica we are still dealing with clotted skies and San Francisco all along the coast line but sunshine for the inland areas. We are starting to see temperatures climb. Afternoon highs expect upper 80s inland, mid70s around the bay and mid60s for the coast. Tomorrow is expected to be the warmest day of the week but we do have big changes to talk about as we head into the labor day weekend. Ill be highlighted that forecast coming up at 945. Mark coming up our coverage continues of the bay bridge shutdown 3 that we will follow the latest with the Bridge Street and construction delays to a political setbacks the climbing costs. What it took for the new span to be built. And a surprising lighter bart ride. We will have an update from bart coming up. Unbelievable. 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. With uverse high Speed Internet. Darya 939 n new this morning and it commuters were expecting a large crowd on the bart because of the bay bridge closure but as one of bart rider tells us she was pleasantly surprised this morning. its not crazy. I was thinking it was going to be more crazy. I even had someone drive me from home because i didnt think there was going to be any parking but im surprised and shocked. I guess people must have stayed home what it normally like. its a huge line. Almost 20 people. must be the holiday in the bay bridge. i think a combination of all of that. Are people just wanted to stay home. Or they took friday off because of the bestor they took this day off because of the holiday. The darya parking is strictly enforced but they will be checking all permit before your are allowed to go into paid a lot. Thats another thought for tomorrow. Take a bart because it didnt work out on the roadways today thats for sure. Mark a date for a special election to replace san diego mayor bob filner has been set. At the city council has agreed to november 19th. Filner is scheduled to resign tomorrow following sexualharassment allegations for more than a dozen women. He was san diegos first democratic mayor in decades when he took office in december. The city charter requires a special election if the mayor resigns with more than one year left on his term. The city clerk estimates the election will cost about 6 million in more if the route is required. James just dan. A federal judge says the nfl in more than 45 hunter former players have agreed to settle concussion related lawsuit for 765 million. The global settlement with fund medical exams, concussion related compensation and medical research. The lawsuit accused the league of hiding known risks of concussions for decades to return prayer to games and protect its image. The nfl has denied any wrongdoing. The judge in the case still needs to approve the deal. Mark when we return we will continue to follow our top story the bay bridge shutdown. We have no pictures and this morning of the bart commute from the east bay to San Francisco. Our assignment desk editor tim maratamara berry boarded at the North Concord station just after 6 00 a. M. And she said the trains got increasingly crowded from there. Once they hit the peasant hill station, people got off the train to wait to see of the next one had fewer people. Tamarin says it was just like a normal commute to, but more crowded than what she would expect at 6 00 a. M. What i cannot with the traffic with the george rask. George better traffic at the interchange with a 80 and better traffic with the 92 and 1013 still quite slow is the e shore freeway ride. This is somewhat unexpected. Caltrans didnt really talk about the fact that it will close down lanes on 80 westbound but they did shut down the three right lanes from powell street and at least a little before. Thats pushed everyone over to the left in order to get into the macarthur maze or to get to the nimitz freeway. The only two options. Jackie looks as though we are doing a little bit better as well its been busy cents for a of the entire time. It continues to move which is great news for people travelling. I get to turn around and get into traffic myself. George if you are going to have a cross the bridge you will be pleased to note that at least a ride coming off the west and is no longer backed up or delayed nor is the ride on sir Francis Drake boulevard. Conditions have improved and marin county we are no longer looking in much of slow traffic. Heres a look at afternoon highs for today. San rafael 85 degrees, 77 and richmond. We will see upper 80s through pleasant tenant. Here 7 day around the bay forecast shows tomorrow will be the warmest day of the week. If you like 90s you get them well and land and it will cool down with the labor day been declared a state of the week. Mark kron4s grant lodes reports despite the warning to theres been a lot of work to build this new bridge. july 1933 what backers call a silver necklace across the bay opened three years and four months later. The cost was 70 million, equal to about 1. 3 billion today. The toll was 65¢ each way. Twoway traffic on the top deck. Electric commuter trains on the lower deck. They were removed in 1963 and east bound traffic took their place. Severe damage to the bay bridge. October 17th, 1989. The magnitude 7. 1 quake damage is the bridge as well as oaklands cypress structure and San Franciscos central freeway. One month later, the bridge reopens. But a longerterm solution is tougher. The pilings cannot be extended deep enough into the bay mud to stabilize the bridge. At the cause of a retrofit, staggering. At 1. 3 billion in maybe cheaper to build a new stand for it in 1966in 1997, eight years after the quake, gov. Pete wilson proposes a no frills skylight. Bay area critics called a freeway on stilts. The governor responded, if you want frills, you pay for it and the free for all began. Special committees and design competitions. Everybody had an idea what it was supposed to look like. The debate included accusations of favoritism and allegations that some designs were unsafe. The ultimate winner was the sas, forcing go anchored suspension. 1999. And a fight broke out. San Francisco Mayor willie brown wanted the new bridge moved south of the present and, so it would not obstruct views from treasure island. He won the backing of the u. S. Navy which was about to turn the base over to the city. The new governor, gray davis, turndown browns request for a new design competition. The impasse ended when the federal government invoked a little used a 50 yearold logger it allows the department of transportation to trump the rights of the navy 4410. Meanwhile, the cost of the new breed had more than doubled. 12 years of debate have pushed the estimate to more than two and a half billion. Finally on january 29th, 2002, work began. Lets build this bridge. By the end of 2003, davis was out, recalled by voters. He is replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the bridges future is about to change again. In 2004, caltrans reveals there is only one bidder for the single tower and that it is double the estimate. The governor says the total cost is now 5. 1 billion and the bay area should pay the extra cost. The debate went on for six months adding another 100 million to the cause. Now as the bridge finally opens, the cost is six times the estimate that included the cost of dismantling the old ban. Time for dyne and dish. San Francisco is a city of trendy restaurants but the balboa cafe at a hundred years old is not exactly trendy bugboy if these walls could talk. Celebrating a century of good times, balboa cafe in San Franciscos marina is one of the citys oldest watering hole. My top picks up the taste the tuna, and the generous cop salad and you cant leave without scene might on your birthday. To find out more about the dog cafe go to our web site at kron4 dot com and click on dyne and dish. In San Francisco, vicki liviakis, kron4 nos. Darya taking a look at the 7 day around the bay forecast, former today and tomorrow at cooler for the labor day weekend. Mark join us this afternoon and this evening as we help guide you home. It will be a tough evening commute we suspect. Darya we will see you back here tomorrow morning. [ male announcer ] wouldnt it be great if all devices had backup power . The Chevrolet Volt does. Its ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. No wonder volt is americas bestselling plugin. Thats American Ingenuity to find new roads. The 2013 volt. Charge ahead of the rest in the hov lane. Announcer today on dr. Phil. These guys were out of shape and in trouble. He had a heart attack. Dr. Phil at age 42. Announcer nine months later, will they get their wives back . Plus dr. Phil im glad to see you two here in a strange way. Announcer a meddling mom returns. Shes a hoarder. I cried a lot of tears at titanic. Thats the only kleenexes i saved. 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