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Moving to the tunnel and to the right, the old bay bridge, the darkened part, which will be taken apart over three years. And our engineer is behind the wheel to give us a front row site of the new bay bridge. This is probably not the seen you want stuck in toll plaza traffic. We will check with dick in a few minutes to find out what it is like to cross. The toll is still 6. The same toll. From above, can you see a look of the new bay bridge all lit up. Abc7 news traffic reporter is monitoring the commute. Leyla gulen . All right, we go from sky 7, the traffic is building on the through span of the bay bridge and bumpertobumper traffic approaching the tolls and we talked about the metering lights. Sometimes that happens when traffic is anticipated to be heavier. Those metering lights are there. It is to ease traffic when you pass Treasure Island to fan. It starts to move things better than normal. Headed into hayward county as you make the drive on the transition between northbound 238
Chemical weans and with four u. S. Navy ships off the syrian coast, the whe house is leaving little doubt that the ited states would respond with force. From the white house, president obama is wighing the options in response to a chemical weapons attack he said syrias government carried outlast week. The president is speaking wit his National Security team while assuring americans that a strike against alassads government would not pull the u. S. Into a longterm conflict. We are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act and we are not considering openended commitment and not csidering boots on the ground approach. Reporter military experts say the u. S. Is eyeing a measured response in the form of airstrikes in syrias capital. Dont go after the unit that conducted these attacks. They know who the unit is. They kw where they can be located d they willunish the unit with strikes. Theywill also do something compelling. Th will level a ministry of defens building. But it may be
Motorcycle using technology to give us a live look at the drive across the bridge. You can see the deck and lets here. Perhaps a little bit of fog as well. Very different from the old cantilever section. Pretty cool. Bridge just minutes aafter it opened tonight. Traffic was manufacturing very smoothly. Chp warned drivers not to slow down or pull over to take pictures while on this new spa span. May tempting but not smart. Nobody wants an accident for that reason on this bridge. Good evening. We have leif Team Coverage of the bay bridge beginning with allen leif at the bay bridge toll plaza. Allen . Hi. The first vehicle who came through the toll plaza came through here about 45 minutes ago and many of them had been anticipating this so they parked at the nearest on ramp to the bridge and waited for the chp to give the word. Vehicle line up for hours to be among the first to cross the new bay bridge. Tony werented to make history in the 75 caprice convertible sew parked at the closest o
Bridge was christen as you look live at the toll plaza. [applause] armed with blow torch and wearing goggle and glove california Lieutenant Governor newsom cut the chain marking end of massive decade long project to build iconic and seismiccly safe new eastern span. Good evening bay bridge is one of the busiest bridges anywhere in the country and next 60 minutes or so 280,000 commuters will have a direct route once again in and out of San Francisco. We want to show you several live look fears sky 7 hd flying live right over the span tonight as you can see. It has been shut down for the last 5 days. And will not reopen until the final check done which should happen this hour. Now we can show you a picture from the emeryville camera we have mounted on that side of the bay and spectacula spectacular. Looks like a giant sailboat the fog sort of drifts in and out of the suspension cables . This one single tower bridge replacing the old cantilever section of the bridge. Eastern span the port