Were doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and were still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. Reporter in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging transfer rails floor the west oakland bart station that leaded to to transbay tube. That is why Train Service under the bay had to at the stopped this weekend. According to bart the crews are making pretty Good Progress and bus bridges will continue through regular service tomorrow and then monday morning trains will continue their regular service through the transbay tube. Theyll be doing this again labor day weekend. Reporting live in San Francisco. Abc7 news. Thank you. San Francisco Bay ferry ridership is higher than usual this weekend because of the transbay tube closure. The alameda, oakland, San Francisco ferry, experience ted jump in ridership this morning from its usual 2,000 passengers to nearly 2500. The vallejo Sa
We will talk about the cooler weather thats open wait to start the week coming up. Chris. Lisa, thank you. Developing news in lake county. The Massive Wildfire continues to grow and firefighters have been unable to stop it. Two dozen homes are destroyed, thousands more are in danger and 12,000 people have been evacuated of the 21 major fires burning in california. The largest is the rocky fire. Its just 5 contained. 24 homes have been destroyed, along with 26 outbuildings. And at this hour another 6,000 buildings are threatened. Abc7 News Reporter felony woodrow has the latest. The rocky fire can best be summed up as unpredictable. One day it was blog to the west, another day blowing to the east. Its been a tough fight. As the fire makes its way toward a mainly thoroughfare in lake county, officials are stepping up an advisory for a mandatory evacuation for a dozen homes. Always highway 20 to highway 26 to high bay 53 is closed. One who drove here to help her friend pack up to get out,
Transbay terminal with more on how things are going. Reporter so far those passenger whose have taken the bus bridge tell us not much of a problem. Theyre getting plenty of directions on the ground by a small army of street guides guides and the buses of the bay bridge have their own dedicated lanes. A lot of the street guides have been here since early this morning to help passengers to connect bart trains to the embarcadero and then walk to the transbay terminal to continue to trains to downtown oakland. Passengers from oakland told us the bus rise was not crowded. 25 to 30 minutes across the bridge. Bart says typical ridership is down 50 and they have a fleet of buses to provide shuttle service. We have a total of 94 buses leaving every 45 seconds so were doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and were still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. Reporter in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work
Theres a new worry for firefighters. This stt first mandatory evacuation weve had on the Northern Edge of the fire. Several Housing Developments are located there. More than 1500 firefighters from across the west are battling this fierce fire through unforgiving steep rugged hillsides. Finally, the weather is helping firefighters. We shifted a little bit. We dont have the high winds out of the north. Humidity is starting to come up a little bit and temperatures are coming down. Just keep an eye on it to get back in there. Reporter davids family has been living in this rv. Many of their animals are here, too. Firefighters told the family to leave their home on thursday as the rocky fire crew more intense. Luckily davids house survived. A scary time for you. Absolutely. You dont know how the wind has changed. Reporter the red cross evacuation shelter at Middletown High School is open with room with more. Were expecting a possibility of more if the evacuations in clear lake become mandato
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