Cornell bernard is live in lake county. Reporter its a really nervous time for everyone, and the fire has moved north. You can see the smoke behind me. New evacuation orders have been issued for the golden eagle housing development. And all areas east of the cash creek recreationaway along highway 20. Thats several miles from where we are now where the fire has scorched everything in sight. Just keeping a eye and see when we can get back in there and give is the okay. He is waiting to go home his family has been living in this rv in the parking lot of davids feed store. Hay bales are covered, protected from falling emberes. Self dogs and eight, and a miniature horse are here, too. Firefighters told the family to leave their home as the rocky fire grew more intense. Luckily his house survived. Been a scary time for you guys. Absolutely. Just dont know how the winds change. Reporter more than 1500 firefighters from across the west are battling the fire across unforgiving, steep, rugged h
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
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
Thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to mornings on 2. It is saturday, august 1st, ill claudine wong. Im paul chambers. Happening now, b. A. R. T. Is repairing a vital section of track near the transbay two, no service from west oakland and embarcadero stations. Service will resume early monday morning. 80,000 riders who rely on the Transit System on weekends must find another way around. Made plans with my friends. So those plans are out of window . Now they are out the window, of course. What this is addressing is some of the wear and tear of a system thats almost 45 years old. Now, starting saturday, september 5th, b. A. R. T. Will again shut down the transbay tube during the Labor Day Weekend. Both closures will allow b. A. R. T. To cross trains from one track to another from the west oakland station to the transbay tube. With these changes b. A. R. T. Says if there is a delay they can move trains around easier and reduce the length of the delay. Taking a look at this map from
Cristina rendon is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. Reporter heather, we are seeing traffic, but its no different than any other saturday when people are trying to get into the city, so this is typical right now, but there is an increase in ridership on the ferries. The weekend weve been warned about is here. Barts closure of the transbay tube means many are finding an alternative mode of transportation. Its why the San Francisco bay doubled routes, already seeing a 24 increase in ridership compared to a normal weekend day and a 6 increase on the route between vallejo and San Francisco. Its working quite well. We have four boats in constant operation at alamedaoakland service. We have three boats on the vallejo service. Reporter they have been at capacity on nearly every ferry leaving the east bay, and with that comes long lines. It hasnt been too bad. I mean, its a longer wait than expected. Weve been here about an hour and 15 minutes. Reporter one family visiting from out