Hello, im adrian finnegan. This is, but he is alive from dough hop coming up in the next 60 minutes. Unexplained leaks detected in rushes to north stream Gas Pipelines to europe. Sabotage is suspected. Pulls close on the final day of referendums in separatist controlled parts of ukraine on whether they should join the wash and federation power can ian makes lamb for over western cuba and heads for the west coast of florida. And ah, japan bids farewells which former Prime Minister sions are obey, but many a questioning the need for such an expensive state funeral and in sport, old rivals, england and germany shed a 6 gold ferla head of the world cup, a 3 old dro, wembley, leading piracy with plenty to work on before they arrive in mm. Ah, unexplained gas leaks have been detected in the north stream one and 2 Gas Pipelines from russia to germany. The damage is unprecedented. According to the Networks Operator nord stream, a jeep, it says its impossible to know when the system will be res
Essentially a formality, they say. The bridge is expected to open on labor day. Reporter the decision to open the new bay bridge over the Labor Day Weekend is expected to be formalized in a public vote tomorrow morning by these men, the heads of the bay area toll authority, caltrans, and the state transportation commission. The governor has already thrown his support behind the labor day opening after a federal report and a series of independent reviews deemed the new eastern span safe enough to open with a temporary fix of 32 busted bolts. Now it will be a mad dash to pull the opening off. Crews are expected to shut the bridge down for five full days as they scramble to pave it and paint it. There is demolition work still to be done. Caltrans has told us their crews are up for it. In a sick kind of way, people thrive on being stressed to do a great job and the challenges of doing it are actually exciting. Reporter weve learned there will be a modest ceremony celebrating the opening of
Street stations in San Francisco. 40 of our trips each day either begin at embarcadero or montgomery. Reporter the biggest problem is getting the riders on and off the trains at rush hour without backing up the whole system. And thats why bart is laying tracks for this massive expansion with new underground platforms on both side of the trains complete with sliding glass doors. So that we would you would load on to this train from here and on that side as well . Either that or you could everyone loads this way and exits the other way. Its much more fast and smooth. Reporter they would also add more escalators. We want to make them high speed. Thats key, high speed escalators get people up and out quickly. Reporter in the meantime, you may see some things disappear, as well. Look at this. Theres not on a phone booth here. Lets just get them out. These seats, eight feet wide. Its precious space. We can do something much more narrow and fit a lot more people. Reporter how crowded does it
To the new eastern span of the bay bridge. City in answer is yes. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Im frank mallicoat. The new span of the bay bridge will be open for traffic on labor day weekend. Theres a lot to do between now and then. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us live outside the meeting where the big announcement was just made moment ago. Reporter now transportation officials are going from decisionmaking to planning because two weeks from tonight the bay bridge will be closed. The bay bridge as we know it. And five days later, or less, the new span of the bay bridge will be open. This was a whirlwind decision. The Oversight Committee made the call 15 minutes ago. First the federal government approved a temporary fix for the 32 bolts that snapped on the bridge in march and then we heard testimony from two independent panels who concurred that the new bridge is safer than the old bridge, even while the permanent fix, the saddle, is being installed. Theres risk to all of
Formal decision is made ha ge. This is kpix 5 news. The bay bridge back and forth is nearly over. Even before the formal decision is made, weve learned the bridge will open. Gooevending. Im allen martin in for ken sgli eem elizabeth koovenlth Christin Ayers broke the story tonight at 6 00. Its been 24 years since created a need for this new bridge and finally looks like it will happen in just a couple of weeks. Yeah. This could be the last chapter here. The information coming from top transportation officials who are very close to the decisionmaking process, they say a vote that will happen tomorrow on when the bridge will open is just a formality, that it will, in fact, open on labor day. The decision to open the new bay bridge over the Labor Day Weekend is expected to be formalized in a public vote tomorrow morning by these men t heads of the bay area toll authority, caltran and the state transportation commission. You can criticize the amount of the invest. How long it took, but the