Thefts were following this friday gary james good morning at our top story we are following this friday august 30th. Construction on the bay bridge continues as we are now in day two of the closure. Well have a Progress Report on the transition to the new eastern span. And thousands of bay area commuters turned to Public Transportation to get around the bridge closure. Well have more on the increased ridership and what you can expect while getting around they bay today. Well begin our Team Coverage of the bridge closure with a look at your Early Morning commute. Erica is standing by in the Traffic Center with that. Good morning erica. Now to the construction work. Crews have been working around the clock. Connecting interstate80 to the new span. At the same time, theyre also demolishing portions of the old bridge. Kron4s will tran joins us live from the oakland side where hes been following their progress. Will . Will now to the construction work. Crews have been working around the clo
Toss traffic this was a four to five crash that was blocking the right hand lane. If they have made some progress. 880 southbound is a little heavy. Things are better yester day today than there were yesterday. Here is a live look and the Traffic Volume is definitely down as you would expect on a friday before a holiday weekend. And reminder for those of you who normally commute to san mateo bridge, the dumbarton bridge is a better alternate. Over on interstate 580, the Richmond Center fell bridge kron4 jackets as thougJackie Sissel i thankfully the traffic is still moving smoothly as it did yesterday. The Golden Gate Bridge, one of one south bond ride is looking fine and there are no delays or problems at the sir Francis Drake boulevard exchange. And thats our top story this morning, update to of the bay bridge closure. Crews have been working around the clock connecting interstat80now to the constructn work. Crews have been working around the clock. Connecting interstate80 to the new
Some overnight service from 14 stations. There was question if theyd be able to Staff Service but today says sign ups will be open for staff to staff that until the last minute. And does expect to make it cant gaet cross the bay by driving over it. Bart is the best bet for getting across by rolling under it. Its not the only option. Thursday, friday, its going to be very busy. Were encouraging people to modify their travel times and not travel during peak 8 00 to 8 30 in the morning time. The San Francisco bay ferries were swamped in the bart strike. With that in mind there will be Additional Service this weekend. Ac transit will only be able to take transbay passengers as far as a bart station. People could hop on that bus but it would dump them off at bart station autos transit focuses on getting through the weekend people using the bridge are coming out to say goodbye to the old, hello not new. This berkeley resident marcus brought his 4yearold daughter out for a couple pictures tod
Rethink possible. And forces a neighborhood to evacuate. This started as a grassfire that moved quickly. It is challenging with the winds like it is once the grassfires get going. I could see the flames. All you saw was smoke. Blinded by the smoke. All we hear are sirens going off. We have the winds here in fair field that are pushing the embers around. It is quite a scary situation when you are not sure where the fire is going and you rely on your resources and training to get it done. It was a scary couple of hours in fairfield. Good evening. Im larry beil in for dan ashley tonight. Im carolyn johnson. Right now firefighters are still moping up. This all started around 3 30 when a grassfire quickly spread and caught a house on fire near interstate 80 in the north texas street exit. Winds pushed the flames to four other homes around marigold drive. That fire is now out. We go now live to marigold at daphne drive with the latest. Cornell . Firefighters say they do not know how this fir
And forces a neighborhood to evacuate. This started as a grassfire that moved quickly. It is challenging with the winds like it is once the grassfires get going. I could see the flames. All you saw was smoke. Blinded by the smoke. All we hear are sirens going off. We have the winds here in fair field that are pushing the embers around. It is quite a scary situation when you are not sure where the fire is going and you rely onand r resources and training to get it done. It was a scary couple of hours in fairfield. Good evening. Im larry beil in for dan ashley tonight. Im carolyn johnson. Right now firefighters are still moping up. This all started around 3 30 when a grassfire quickly spread and caught a house on fire near interstate 80 in the north texas street exit. Winds pushed the flames to four other homes around marigold drive. That fire is now out. We go now live to marigold at daphne drive with the latest. Cornell . Firefighters say they do not know how this fire started. The inv