Hour construction supervisors will hold a Conference Call with cal trans and chp and other agencies to coordinate reopening. They could know when by 6 00. The highway is paved. The concrete roadway between two sets of tunnels is poured and dry. It will carry a 3,000pound car after three hours of being poured. The striping and painting of lanes are all that remain. It looks like well be able to open early. How much earlier, i cannot really pin down the exact time. Well coordinate with molly once we know exactly. We also coordinate with all the other agencies chp, all the other agencies. But from a construction point of view it looks like were going to be ready to open at least before midnight tonight. Reporter midnight not bad. Landscaping on top of the tunnels will continue into next year but that will not require closing the roadway. Roughly 350 workers have poured some 1500 yards of quick set concrete removed 1500 tons of asphalt, put down 2800 cubic yards of new asphalt. Work crews
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
Commute. Chuck, what did you think of that new road . Its amazing. It really is. I mean for a brief moment we felt as if we had that corner of the city to ourselves. Then the gold rush came. But at first traffic was pretty light. I dont think a lot of drivers expected it to open when it did. This is a view from the first vehicle behind Highway Patrol officers as they reopen doyle drive from the Golden Gate Bridge into San Franciscos presidio happening at 9 00 p. M. Eight full hours ahead of schedule. I got a little tears in my eyes, actually watching the first cars come off through the tunnels and down these intersections. Its been a lot of work. Reporter the drive into the city offered the line of Drivers Behind us sweeping drews of the parklike presidio two lanes ss near the palace of fine arts. Since late thursday night, construction on the mile and a half roadway kept about 300 crews busy around the clock. The major arteries around the city challenged the city and tourists to get a
Had chp escorts as they tried out the new doyle drive. Crews shaved eight hours off their goal. This was the symphony all weekend. Construction crews working at fast tempo, drivers taking it slow. I love waiting on saturday. Whats better to be on a sunday. Reporter but monday, a brand new commute. After years watching this new highway go up, drivers will be on it. New lanes, tunnels, a new foot bridge. We ran about 9,000 man hours building this project. Reporter a project replacing infamous doyle drive. Where cars head on through and from San Francisco bridge. Safer for driving and quakes. Most people are excited im sure. Yeah that should be a lot of fun. Reporter will you drive it in the morning. I will. I will drive it in the morning. Reporter whats going on here . Going on to the golden gate. Reporter that remodeling shut traffic on to the precidio. Snarled the Marina District and turned the drive from marin into an hour long crawl. Still chp expected worse. Even though we had delay
Well have them first with the best analysis you can find. That all starts after the bell. Then after that in exactly two hours, president obamas exclusive interview with our Steve Leisman will air in its entirety right here on cnbc. Steve will join us on the show beforehand to tell us some of the highlights. We do know the president wants to talk about tax inversions, letting it be known he will support legislation to stop companies reincorporated overseas to escape the 25 tax rate here in the u. S. Well have much more as the president and Steve Leisman get into it over the economy. Melissa lee and i will anchor a 5 00 special on that coming up. It is a bill sandwich tonight. Lucky you. Also it would be big ceo interviews just ahead. Dunkin brands disappointed today. Jetblues dave barger will be here. Youll hear from both of these ceos on todays closing bell. An hour to go and the do you jones industrial average down again today to the tune of about 21 points. Yesterday it was the lone