See this on. Of course a lot of people are using the san mateo bridge as an alternate with the bay bridge closure. It is blocking one lane behind the pay gates. One person is reportedly trapped according to chp. So we are starting to see some backups behind the toll plaza. Once you get through that, the flat section of the bridge moves okay but expect to see some delays. Well continue to keep you updated there. In the meantime, lets go towards the nimitz freeway 880 in oakland and this is a live look so far, so good in both directions as you pass the oakland coliseum. No big delays here. Out towards the dublin interchange, we also have a camera for now this camera you can see the fog creeping in so we may not be able to see traffic too much longer but the westbound 580 commute is Still Holding steady around 15 minutes between those Wind Turbines out in the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. And getting a quick check of our maps and checking mass transit, bart systemwide on time
Says animal control and the name al. But she is not at your house to get rid of snakes. Police tell kron 4 she is there to steal your jewelry and money. It is like the scam with utility workers. There is an urgency because the snakes are supposedly loose in the neighborhood and people have a natural fear of snakes. Reporter the suspect says snakes are on the loose and she needs to set traps in your backyard to catch them. She then, police say, distracts the victims outside for about 30 minutes an then the other suspects come in and steal your stuff. In either case, the violation they feel for having their house entered, you cant put a price on it. Reporter people in the neighborhood where the snake scam took place do not recognize the woman in the sketch but say their sense of security is shaken. Police are now asking people in the neighborhoods to review their security cameras and see if they caught anything suspicious and they want to remind the public if someone comes to your door s
Were also taking a look at the work being done on the span this afternoon from this Vantage Point on yerba buena avenue. Check out this gaping hole in the deck of the old bridge. Crews wasted no time today getting this section of the roadway demolished. Its just one of many projects under way. We have Team Coverage tonight, cara liu monitored the evening commute in the east bay. We begin though with Eric Rasmussen live at the toll plaza and the latest on caltranss progress tonight, eric. Reporter frank you said it. They are the two words everybody wants to hear, on schedule. Now tonight weve noticed a lot of the work has been focusing back actually at the toll plaza. Over the last 24 hours theyve been grinding up all this roadway and now the paving has begun. You can see where a part of asphalt has been completed this evening. And we got a chance to see the construction up close. Its a mastickic mastic Majestic View of the new bay bridge. Now its liking like drivers can see it sooner t
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Tunnel on Yerba Buena Island. Well finish the work today on the top deck with a joint seal that we have to install later today. On the lower deck, we prepped it. That crew will move down onto the lower deck and finish that work. Reporter talk about a team effort. An estimated 400 people working out here to get the new span open by 5 00 tuesday morning. Live here at the toll plaza, mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. This is the first evening commute since the bridge closed and thousands are going around it tonight to get home. The chp told us that the average commute today actually only increased by 10 minutes. Sal castaneda is following conditions. Sal, do you agree with that figure . Reporter no, not really, unfortunately. First of all, drivers are going a longer distance, because theyre going around. Send of all, the commutes on those bridges, the san mateo bridge, for example, has been heavier. More people are on the bridge. And its made it a lot more well, just a lot slower. Newscho