Out of the city was the golden gate bridge. It was crowded today but new moving at the limit and going well. We are at the toll plaza with the work happening now. Impressive to see how quickly this is all coming together. As you can see the road surface here at the toll plaza stripped and these crews are laying down new asphalt. Working their way toward the toll booth. Caltrans says it wont be long before you are driving over a fresh surface and across the new bridge. Thinks your drive that San Francisco on the new bay bridge. Approach from the toll plaza almost complete except for the repaving. More than 1 14,000 tons of asphalt are traveling on truck down interstate 5 80 during peek community hours. Ampleing between 35 and 37 minutes from their plant to the construction site which is outstanding compute from pleasanton originating from. The old brim is blocking the way for the bike path attached to the new span. So big chunk of it 1,000 feet is being dismantled. As soon as they cut a
Well the work is nonstop. This time lapse video recorded tonight from our camera on yurba buena island as crew put finishing touch on the eastern span of the bay bridge. Scene of demolition and construction as caltrans and contractors work to beat the clock to get the span ready by tuesday or perhaps sooner. Good evening. Im in for dan. Im carolyn johnson. There was grid lock it this but also signs that people had planned ahead. Take a look at the san mateo bridge on the left jam packed during the evening commute and on the right live picture of traffic moving along is inly rate now. Another option for getting out of the city was the golden gate bridge. It was crowded today but new moving at the limit and going well. We are at the toll plaza with the work happening now. Impressive to see how quickly this is all coming together. As you can see the road surface here at the toll plaza stripped and these crews are laying down new asphalt. Working their way toward the toll booth. Caltrans s
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several financial aid ring involving student government loans throughout california. annette tonight with where the fraud happened and what is being done now to stop it. reporter: u.s. attorney office and u.s. department of education. busted several major student financial aid fraud ring in california. 17 people have been arrested in the last month alone. from sacramento all the way to el cajon. affecting mostly community colleges and for profit schools like university of phoenix. agent recovered nearly 1 million dollars in california. nationally the figure is more than 8 million dollars. those who rip off federal aid funds can expect to find themselves in a prison cell instead of a class ramp. reporter: it worked like this. defendant sometimes applied in their own names but more often recruited straw students who had no intention of actually attending college classes. reporter: once the college gets the federal financial aid check and deducts tuition the rest is given
news. tell me where you are in terms of controlling the fire. well, the fire is right around 500 acres. it s only 10% contained but obviously it s going in an easterly direction so they are not as concerned for that area where they have the evacuations goin going. so it is moving east the homes in the other direction so no concern about the homes at this moment. from what i father no real suggestion or threats that that would change. reporter: not right at the time. no. okay. julie couple more questions here. what are you doing tonight at night fall a little tricky to fight flames obviously. are you able to attack it from the air. no we don t have the ability to do tonight flying so we have got crew ins place. and important resources ordered so the temperatures are lowered a little bit and humidity is up so the fire is laying down a little bit so they will be trying to get a handle on it and get line in. but more resources ordered right now. we are looking at 250 per