Quickly spread to the others. The red cross has arrived to assist 12 people who are now displaced. Now, at the same time these houses were burning, there was also a brush fire along highway 101 that, as farce as we know is still burring. The chp closed the right lane of southbound 101 south of hilyer avenue because of the smoke and flames. Its close to where we are so the structure fire and brush fire may be related. An ember from one may have caused the other. Thats the latest from here. Abc7 news. Thank you. Now, to the california drought. New restrictions are in place for gray water giveaways after overwhelming demand in the east bay. Cornell bernard is live. Reporter unbelievable. In fact, most of the lawns here on melanie circle are green because theyre being watered from that tank with free recycled water from the Dublin San Ramon Services district. The water give away, once available to everybody now has some new local restrictions. Keep my garden alive. Ed is filling up 20 oran
Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Hours ahead of schedule doyle drive reopens to traffic. It is great news for commuters. This is a rear view look at what the drive would look like through the new tunnel. And here is a live look right now at the new alignment the two tunnels that make up the presidio parkway one for each direction, both open to traffic. Good evening. Im katie. Another live look and this one is from the Golden Gate Bridge where you can see hardly any cars on the road. Traffic is moving freely. Doyle drive reopened just after 9 00 tonight. They are escorting vehicles in this direction and also if you can see on down the line it looks like there is already traffic that is heading back this way. It looks like officially doyle drive has reopened to traffic. Our abc News Reporter was on the road when it reopened and he joins us now with the changes. Sergio . Katie we with told that doyle drive would be reopening early, sometime around this afternoon. Fi
Commute. Chuck, what did you think of that new road . Its amazing. It really is. I mean for a brief moment we felt as if we had that corner of the city to ourselves. Then the gold rush came. But at first traffic was pretty light. I dont think a lot of drivers expected it to open when it did. This is a view from the first vehicle behind Highway Patrol officers as they reopen doyle drive from the Golden Gate Bridge into San Franciscos presidio happening at 9 00 p. M. Eight full hours ahead of schedule. I got a little tears in my eyes, actually watching the first cars come off through the tunnels and down these intersections. Its been a lot of work. Reporter the drive into the city offered the line of Drivers Behind us sweeping drews of the parklike presidio two lanes ss near the palace of fine arts. Since late thursday night, construction on the mile and a half roadway kept about 300 crews busy around the clock. The major arteries around the city challenged the city and tourists to get a
Finished up on the new gateway to San Francisco at nine oclock tonight. Eight hours ahead of schedule. The new presidio parkway open for business tonight. Workers finished up on the new gateway to San Francisco at 9 00. Eight hours ahead of schedule. Good evening. Before drivers could get their first look at the parkway. Kpix5 showed you the project like you never seen it before. Our alan martin gives us the tour from sky drone 5. Reporter guys we are out along the new parkway. We are bringing you the first drones eye view of the new connector from the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. Mike if you want to give us altitude on sky drone 5. Your First Impression it is absolutely a gorgeous roadway that is wide open. It spread out because they want to give people that sweeping view of the north bay. Sky drone 5 is taking us down along the northbound lanes looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge and the marin county side. You see the two tunnels in front of us. There are actually four tu
And included thousands of hours. we think people that gave a up there we can and gave a passion to get it down. Reporter the road has 28,000 lbs. Of asphalt even though had delays we feel like we had great success. Reporter it will open at 10 00. They remember that once its all been its not going to be go drive its can be pursued to parkway. Reporter this fire is reported at 3 00 this afternoon Fire Fighters found two homes our on firings. The roof collapsed he told a dozen what to do. out of nowhere else to go. you can even see the fire drummed and overlong. Reporter nobody was injured i hear in the exact cause of the fire is still being investigated with. Reporter went into the drain today. Wasted. A broken water main was left without repairs for hours on end. Angry neighbors called us. Our kron 4s alecia reid went to investigate, and tells us why east bay mud took nearly a day to fix it. we have people that cant water their lawn but were watering pavement reporter miles of pavement