Quickly spread to the others. The red cross has arrived to assist 12 people who are now displaced. Now, at the same time these houses were burning, there was also a brush fire along highway 101 that, as farce as we know is still burring. The chp closed the right lane of southbound 101 south of hilyer avenue because of the smoke and flames. Its close to where we are so the structure fire and brush fire may be related. An ember from one may have caused the other. Thats the latest from here. Abc7 news. Thank you. Now, to the california drought. New restrictions are in place for gray water giveaways after overwhelming demand in the east bay. Cornell bernard is live. Reporter unbelievable. In fact, most of the lawns here on melanie circle are green because theyre being watered from that tank with free recycled water from the Dublin San Ramon Services district. The water give away, once available to everybody now has some new local restrictions. Keep my garden alive. Ed is filling up 20 oran
101, embers from the structure fire started a brush fire. The chp had to close one southbound lane. Both fires are now out. The crews will be spending the next several hours mopping up. Live in san jose, abc7 news. Thank you. Watch out heads up fire destroyed a house in vallejo today. I started at 2 00 this afternoon. Firefighters did keep it from reaching other homes but this house is a total loss. Arson is suspected in a fire on Howard Street in San Francisco. Firefighters believe someone set far to this parked truck 4 00 this afternoon. Young see the tire is melted. The entire hood is charred. Police have not said if they have a suspect in custody. A major road closure in San Francisco should kole to an en. Doyle construction should wrap up by midnight. Reporter from the looks of things you can get a really good appreciation just how much has been completed this weekend. If you have driven through here you may remember that traffic used to drive around the tunnels. Now you can see b
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Hours ahead of schedule doyle drive reopens to traffic. It is great news for commuters. This is a rear view look at what the drive would look like through the new tunnel. And here is a live look right now at the new alignment the two tunnels that make up the presidio parkway one for each direction, both open to traffic. Good evening. Im katie. Another live look and this one is from the Golden Gate Bridge where you can see hardly any cars on the road. Traffic is moving freely. Doyle drive reopened just after 9 00 tonight. They are escorting vehicles in this direction and also if you can see on down the line it looks like there is already traffic that is heading back this way. It looks like officially doyle drive has reopened to traffic. Our abc News Reporter was on the road when it reopened and he joins us now with the changes. Sergio . Katie we with told that doyle drive would be reopening early, sometime around this afternoon. Fi
Led to be finished early tomorrow morning but as has been the case in so many of these Construction Projects over the last few years, this project will be opening much earlier than expected. Once the california Highway Patrol gets the word, we know they are going to start escorting traffic through. We will have from every access point chp escortraffic on to the road way so we dont open it up and everyone starts flying in. Well traditionally lead traffic in for the first time. Once they give us the heads up it doesnt take that long to coordinate for us. We can usually do it within an hour. Reporter now, this is what the project looked like the this weekend. You can see plenty of vehicles and construction workers laying rebar and concrete on the roadways all the way late into the night last night and coming out here back live let me show you again. We are just watching as cars continue to line up so that they can be escorted by those two chp cruisers that are at the front of this traffic
Damage to another house. [lost audio ] just hours away from completion and we are about to take you on a tour of the project like you never seen it before. This is the video from sky drone5. Our alan martin joins us live from the palace of fine arts with the unparallel perspective, alan . Reporter we what a gorgeous evening to be out here. Spectacular. You know, 1936 when doyle drive originally opened they never envisions a 1. 1 billion Improvement Project and never invisions us being able to bring you the first ever live drone view of this project itself before its completion. Mike, with aero city. We are going live. Hang on. You are in for quite a ride. We are at the palace of fine arts. We are taking you north along the new roadway as you are heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge. As i said, what a spectacular evening to bring you this view. As you go north along the highway the first thing you notice, look how wide open it is. We have 3 lanes going north, 4 lanes coming south. New