This is kpix 5 news. Its not what youre used to seeing outside your airplane window. The emergency that forced this flight to turn around and come back to sfo. The bay bridge checklist is getting shorter. The major progress made today and whats left to do before it reopens. And president obama says hes ready for a military strike on syria, but why hes looking to congress for the final say. Good evening. The news eastern span of the bay bridge is almost ready for its debut with just a bit more than two days until its skijed opening. Work on the bridge is on track. Tonight kpix 5s don knapp took a preview ride of the new eastern span. No one here will say the bridge is ahead of schedule, but it certainly looks that way. About the only challenge is a thousandfoot section just beyond the toll plaza being demolished. If they dont get it demolished, theyll still open on time or even sooner. This is it. Literally the end of the road for the old eastern span. Even as demolition continues the n
buses and ferries. in parker s words nearly 13 hours to get trains rolling again this service between san francisco in the east bay finally resumed just before 4:00 this afternoon team coverage of the commuter chaos from both sides of them which was basically ground zero for this whole mess. this was a very dangerous fire not only because of what happened to the electrified rail but because of the threat posed to the board structure itself take a look behind me what you can see is the bottom floor of what was the fourth story building burning right next to bart tracks. there was nothing to stop the flames consuming the open frame of the senior housing projects the bourse for building burned fast with he d so intense it damaged the electrical connector known as the third rail of the bart tracks for the west oakland station. the dublin and not as big as a buyer. and everybody ran. the next thing you know, ran back there and fired are was all over the place. sampras s said d