With Norah Odonnell, reporting norom the nations capital. Reporting from t odonnell good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. As we come on the air, the Democratic Candidates for president are hoping what happens in vegas tonight wont stay there but will jump start their campaigns heading into this weekends caucus. Its the ninth debate for democrats, but theres a newcomer. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg arrives with a target on his back. Hes facing accusations from his opponents that hes trying to buy the presidency, that he made sexist comments as a businessman and that he promoted racist policies as mayor of new york. In turn, bloomberg is expected to make the case he is the only viable alternative to frontrunner bernie sanders, even though sanders now leads the pack in several new polls. Today, the bloomberg and sanders campaigns went at each other, even sparring over the two candidates health. Nikole killion leads us off tonight from las vegas. How you feeling today, senat
Is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months weve been engaging groups if a dont even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in San Francisco to identify initiative that benefit the americas working families and the economy were bringing together high ranking officials and researches and Business Leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been Business Practices that benefit working families. The conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that American Families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the National Discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. Please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. We also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how fa
America forward the the president s opportunity agenda is making sure we grow the economy and add more jobs good jobs and making sure that people have the skills to compete and making sure that everybody has access to Educational Opportunity from pre k and making sure we reward work with a decent wage that allows you to put a roof over your head and allows to you have health care and other securities thats the agenda of this president and im hoping happy to be working with him we want to make sure that everybody who works hard we reward hard work and the responsibility and we work with members of congress clapping we have to acknowledge the working family summit is about we have to acknowledge were not in leave it to beaver anymore there are more women in the workplace and the family has evolved and the family responsibility have viewed and Public Policy needs to evolve with those changing democrat garlics and changing trends you tell throughout america i talk to people all the time an
Lateevening crash. Interstate 80 skyway is gridlocked following a clash on the bridge involving two car asks a motorcycle. Our south beach camera captured this picture, oh, sorry we dont have that for you. We can expect back up to last sometime. Going to be slow going, get it out of San Francisco for those heading to the bay bridge on this holiday. Good evening. Take a look at this. In the center of the screen is the new fourth bore of the caldecott tunnel. With just a week to go, it was put to the test today every commuter will be delighted to know it passed the test and all systems go to open to traffic next week. That muchanticipated fourth bore will eliminate congestion. Abc7 news is live with the finishing touches for a grand opening. Laura . Well, hi there. All eyes on construction of the new bay bridge, work here was quietly humming along. This week as these tests unfold throughout the week, passing motorists may see emergency vehicles outside of the new tunnel, but not to worry
Caltrans and several Fire Agencies are running through scenarios in the new fourth floor of the caldecott tunnel ranging from an animal loose in the tounl a major fire or explosion. In this mock scenario there is a smoky fire in the tunnel. Unlike the old boors, people can escape through doorways and there are signs to let everyone know what is going on. This is gruelling. A sfrz final exams we need to pass, and we need to be confident the systems are operational in tandem with other. Reporter as shown from this video this car fire in the 80yearold first floor this month produced frightening moments for drivers. If a similar incident happened in the new fourth floor it should play out differently. Cameras. Carbon monoxide detection. Heat detection. Ventilation and evacuations. There are safety tunnels in there which are very, very clean. There are tiny fans going in there that are noisy. Theyll do a fantastic job of evacuating the bad products in the air. Reporter cal trans opens to op