This that has had so many setbacks over the years. Caltrans just updated us and basically told us that everything is looking good on this project with the overnight construction and demolition of the old bridge connected to the new eastern portion of the bay bridge. Now, one of the critical areas is the grinding of the asphalt leading to the toll plaza. New asphalt will be laid down. Everywhere you look this morning, heavy equipment out there on the road since the closure last night at 8 00. Now, some of the last work on the 6 had 6. 4 billion span, thats whats going on, designed to be more seismically safe before it can open up. 32 rods have failed earlier this year but the fix is holding. It actually threatened the september 3rd opening. Today though, on the approach, 1,000foot section is being removed piece by piece. Caltrans again saying everything going according to plan. The demolition of that original 1,000footlong westbound approach onto the bridge, they can put in the temporar
Had been much later, he might have never woken up, he tells me when he hopped out of bed, the smoke in his room had already extended from the ceiling down to his niece, making the upper half of the room unbreathable and impossible to see through. He called 911, escaped okay, so did his uncle, treated for smoke inhalation, however, he is very concerned about his grandmother, who was stuck inside for several minutes more waiting for san jose fire to arrive and perform the rescue. Firefighters entered the backside of the structure where the fire was and they were able to pull out one of the resident he is from the burning structure. That person is now in critical condition, transported to a nearby hospital. Reporter she was unconscious, was not alert, not awake when she was pulled out of their home here on commodore drive. They arrived within six minutes of that first 911 call. They called for a second alarm for backup a minute after that. A minute later, they were able to rescue the gran
The rescue mission that kept commuters on hold, friday, august 30th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. And im tamron hall along side al roker and willie geist. Savannah has the morning off. A big concert as well. Big crowd on the plaza. Well get to that in our 8 30 half hour. Chris brown out there. We look forward to that. But we have a lot to get to this morning. We want to start with the breaking news in syria. Richard engle is joining us now from turkey near the syrian border. Richard, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, matt. Undeterred by threats of u. S. Military action the regime carried out yet another attack using a chemical agent, this time on a school. And these images come with a warning. They are graphic. We are human beings. We want to live. Reporter another horrific attack against children in syria. Op
134,000 acres. It has destroyed four hos and a dozen other structures. Its nearly put San Franciscos water and electrity supplies in anger. More than 2800 firefighters are having a hard time getting control of the fire because of rough terrain and tall trees which catch fire far abov their reach. The weather is making their effort more difficult. Leigh glaser shows us why. It was really a hot day out the on the fire lines and a gusty winds, reported gusts to 35 mes per hour in the higher terrain there. Were giving you a good see of that plume of smoke that being created by these fires. And its moving as far north as South Lake Tahoe. Theyre reporting very poor air quality. Current readings, temperatures in the upper 80s. Hot out there. Humidity at only 17 . Very dry those winds sohwest gust to 30plus miles per hour. Tomorrow not a lot of relief here. 90 those winds will pick up as well. There is a chance of some dry lightning as we head into tuesday night and wednesday, sothing they do
Something they do not need. Ama. Leigh, thank you so much. John alston joins us live from Tuolumne County with a look at the fire tonight. Reporter this has been one of the nagging trouble spots all afternoon. Behind me that road behind me is the road that leads up to berkeley camp. As best we can tell, that is still apparently threatened by the fire thats burning behind me. Fire crews apparently were able to save some yurts in the area and theyre keeping an eye on some cabins. We dont have any reports of any damage at this point, but the winds have been making matters worse up here in the sierra. Like a welltimed bucket brigade, several helicopters tried to snuff out the fire that would not go away. On the western side, fire crews are taking preventive measures to keep the flames from reaching more populated areas. This clearing will help if the fire moves toward twain hart and tuolumne city. True survivors here. We dont know whats going on either, but we know were safe here. Reporter