These were the last cars doyle drive in San Francisco individually shut down. We are now one hour into the 79 hour closure of the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. Good evening. Closure is part of the Presidio Park project. 1. 4 billion dollar renovation that began in 2009 this animation shows what it will look like when it is finish. Katie is live at richardson and looip with more on the project and katie some advice for drivers. Yes. They are going to need it. But you can see its all quiet here. The road is closed. What that means is that you can not get on to the Golden Gate Bridge this way on to doyle drive again until monday morning. If you think you know a short cut. Maybe long christyfeld or through the presidio tomorrow morning. Just know that you should expect a lot of company. It is very nice. I would rather not spend 2 hours in the car. Molly lives in San Francisco and works in sausolito but she wont have to deal with the doyle drive closure. We were asked if we would like
Just know that you should expect a lot of company. It is very nice. I would rather not spend 2 hours in the car. Molly lives in San Francisco and works in sausolito but she wont have to deal with the doyle drive closure. We were asked if we would like to work from home which ill be doing. Which is exactly what the chp is recommending. We are trying to funnel all the traffic in two lanes going into service streets this San Francisco. So just if you dont have to come down here, dont have to come down here dont. During the sfain hour closure crew will revamp doyle drive so that each direction of traffic has its own lanes and separate tunnel. The initial work they did tonight will be to remove barrier. They no longer need it. When it reopens monday morning. Safety shoulder wider lane and also new access to the presidio. And connection between 1 and 101 will be restored e. If you have to commute during the doyle drive closure try golden gate bus or ferry if you have to drive be prepared for
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
University of tennessee in chattanooga with a degree in electrical engineering. So Authorities Say he doesnt really fit the profile of a terrorist. But they are searching his car, his home to look for connections possibly with terrorist groups or perhaps to find out if he was the so called lone wolf. Reporting from chattanooga, tennessee, im holly firfer, back to you. Kpix 5s ken bastida joins us from the newsroom with the president s response to the shooting. Reporter president obama called the shootings quote, heartbreaking and promised a full investigation led by the fbi, which is under way. We take all shootings very seriously. Obviously when you have an attack on a u. S. Military facility, then we have to make sure that we have all the information necessary to make an assessment in terms of how it took place. Reporter he expressed sympathy for the victims and families. As for the shooter the suspect, 24yearold Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez, he is a naturalized u. S. Citizen original
That is not happening anytime soon. Youll be able to get outside and enjoy to it day. You will like this forecast a lot of sunshine around this weekend. The most of the weekend should stay dry so dont cancel outdoor plans at all. Heres what we have as far as temperatures, this morning very nice stuff. Upper 50s in the Lehigh Valley to the upper 60s in philadelphia. Sixty in millville, new jersey. Delaware is at 64 at this hour. Suburbs looking nice, pos town quakertown, doylestown all in the 50s at this hour. The wind are calm as we have a breeze out of the northwest and that north west wind direction is key. That is keeping the dry comfortable air mass in play. We will look at dew point temperatures if you were watching last weekend i was showing you numbers in the mid 70s. Now they are in the mid to upper 50s. That is a big difference and much dryer comfortable air mass. Storm scan three maybe a few fair weather clouds passing this morning into the afternoon but overall a mostly sunn