Early to the public, we will. A possible early opening for the new span of the bay bridge, but could a wet forecast become a problem for crews . Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama dates. It is the end of the third full day of construction and cal trans says everything is right on schedule. You are looking live at crews from our y re yerba buena camera. Sergio is live with an update. Sergio . In the next hour they will be paving this strip of freeway between the toll plaza and the new bay bridge span. As of this weekend all of the heavy lifting is done and the ramps are in place and right now crews are focusing on the finishing touches. As crews are getting closer to finishing up the work on the eastern span of the bay bridge, there are a few people who have had the unique experience of driving over the new span. Chp officer daniel hill is one of those officers. From a personal perspective and the perspective of a highway patrolman it is very nice. He lead several over the bridge and only a few things that need to be done like patches to be paved. You would be driving over rough patches, but it could carry traffic. Crews have taken the opportunity to update lights inside the tunnels with new leds and washing years of soot off the roof. And the old span . There is work on that too. In 80 years hundreds of millions of cars have safely driven over the eastern span of the bay bridge. But right there you can see is the beginning of its end. This portion of the old bridge is being demolished to install a temporary bike lane over the next three years. The rest of the old steal structure will also come down. Progress is going as scheduled and there is a chance it may open early. If we can open the bridge early to the public, we will. There is no reason to keep it closed until 5 00 a. M. If we dont have to. For now they are sticking to the Tuesday Morning deadline so drivers can plan accordingly. Abc7 news. Sergio is sharing great photos as he gets great access to the construction. He took this picture of the demolition underway. Follow him at svq journalist. Into. And now a look at how it is affecting traffic. It shows in ter state 80 at berkeley and traffic is moving in both directions, but there are a good deal of cars out there. Now lets look at our Golden Gate Bridge cam. Thats your tail lights that are heading to marin county and looking good there. And there are lots of cars on that this evening on the left hand side. Thats your incoming traffic to hayward and the east bay. Abc7 News ReporterCornell Bernard is live on lombard in San Francisco to show us how it has been affected. This may be a good time to drive into San Francisco from the north bay. For the first time all day traffic has finally thinned out here on lombard street. What a day it has been. Labor day weekend has become a real labor behind the wheel. Saturday night traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was moving slowly into San Francisco. But dont tell that to eric pitts who sat two hours in traffic to check out the view here jie. We had to come from the east bay toward hayward. It has been outrageous. Most of the day doyle drive heading toward the bridge was a parking lot. Lombard street wasnt much better as folks detoured around the bay bridge. We were on our gps and trying to find different routes. Kind of hard to not be in the traffic at one point or another. And the view from our emeryville camera was not pretty at all toward oakland. Gridlock. Jeff was stuck in it and returning from napa. He worked up an appetitement. On Treasure Island there was a wedding reception going on. Every guest got special passes to cross the deserted bay bridge. Calvin lee was stressed hoping everybody made it. What if people forget their passes . Hopefully everyone is here. And yes everyone made it. If you were lucky enough to make it through San Francisco the payoff was this, empty downtown streets. A bit of a ghost town. Cornell bernard, abc7 news. Check out these images of the progress from the earth cam it shows 42,000 work hours from 2008 to 2013. Check it out at abc7news. Com. And here is a live look at the nonstop work happening on the bridge. We are streaming the live images at abc7news. Com. You can also get a detailed look at commuter resources on bart, ac transit and the bay ferries. Explore the traffic maps to see where the worst gridlock is during the closure. As soon as the bridge opens we will notify our twitter followers. Go to abc7 news bay area. One possible problem for crews, a wet forecast. Lets head to abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser for a first check on weather. You are exactly right. There is a slight chance we may see some light showers tomorrow night. Lets get to live doppler 7hd. You can see the low clouds and fog increasing near the coast. This is what we will have to deal with tomorrow morning. Well take you to Southern California. This monsoonal moisture is moving from Southern California toward the bay area. This is what could possibly bring us a few light sprinkles and maybe a light shower sunday night and early monday morning. So definitely something that we will keep a close eye on. Antioch, the high was 90ly. Was 93. A cooler forecast for your sunday. Well look at that coming up. Thank you, lee. Police have shot and killed a man. It happened on bristol cone drive this afternoon. Police were called to the scene by several 911 calls from neighbors who they say were seooting off several weapons. They arrived within a minute or two on the scene. They were confronted with an armed suspect. During that confrontation the officers fired their weapons at the suspect. They clearly felt their lives were in danger. Authorities say no one else was injured during the incident. Now to the crisis in syria. President obama is stepping back and now the president will seek congressional authorization. Toe toman bradley has the latest. He will wait for congress to vote on a military strike against syria. I will seek authorization for the use of force from the american peoples representatives in congress. The sheen yes, sir Administration Officials say the president decided on friday that the u. S. Should take military action against syria for its use of chemical weapons against its own people. But he told advisors he wanted lawmakers to weigh in first. The president phoned congression alleyeders and then sent a congressional leaders and then sent a letter of force. While i have the authority to carry out the military action without specific congressional authorization i know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be more effective. The president s announcement surprised everyone. U. S. Warships positioned in the Mediterranean Sea were poised for action against the regime of president alassad while anxious citizens stocked up on food. Congress doesnt return until september 9th, but mr. Obama indicated that the military has informed him postponing a strike is not a problem. Acknowledging the public and congress may be war weary they urged lawmakers to consider the consequences of not acting. What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no place. The president will use the upcoming g20 summit to gain more support for a strike. Senior officials believe the delay will make any action stronger. Abc news, washington. In San Francisco, dozens protested a possible strike against syria. The protesters said the u. S. Doesnt need another war. The United States is claiming the use of chemical weapons by the regime. Even though the United Nations inspectors have not come out with a conclusion yet. Hence the u. S. Is trying to use the same lies that were used in 2003 against the iraq war under the pre assistance of weapons of of pretense of weapons of mass destruction. The protest was one of many in the u. S. And europe. In sang sack about 60 protesters waived signs and marched through downtown sacramento today. It included cindy sheahan, the mother of a soldier killed in combat who became an antiwar activists. They condemned any bombing of syria. Ruther gator ginsberg is the first to perform a wedding. She was in the majority on two gay rights victories. There is a changing of the guard at the university of california system tonight. The tenure of the president ended today. Replacing him will be janet napolitano, the uc systems first female president. She is the head of Homeland Security and will stay with that job until september 6th. Still to come, the massive fire burning in yosemite. The impact on the Holiday Weekend and what may have caused the fire. And a scare nor homeowners a scare for homeowners as a fire comes close and battle ited two brushfires that broke out within 30 minutes of each other. This is the second fire near Dutcher Creek road and dry creek road. A a few structures were threatened, but no losses were reported. A total of 22 acres burned. Containment of the rim fire is inching up as flames are closing in on Yosemite National parks famous giant sequoia grove. Firefighters have been conducting controlled burns around the groves to clear away as much debris as possible and tourists are being warned that the smoke from the fire has moved into yosemite valley. The fire is now 40 contained. 348 square miles of forest have been burned. The cost of the fire has reached 60 million. It is the fourth largest wildfire in california history. Although the official cause of the rim fire is under investigation, a fire chief says it is almost certain that it was caused by illegal marijuana growers. State forest Officials Say the marijuana growers are a hiewmg problem. Are a huge problem. Even though ash from the rim fire is falling on it the reservoir is good. It is one of the primary sources of drinking water. They are moving some of the water into the local reservoirs as precautionary measure. And check out this time lapse video of the fire. The clips were all shot from Yosemite National park and are posted on the parks youtube page. We have posted a link on abc7news. Com. New at 11 00, bay area Law Enforcement agency are cracking down on drunk drivers this labor day weekend. Checkpoint like this one are apparently having an affect. One driver has already been taken into custody tonight. Authorities say there have been fewer arrests this year than in 2010. Than in 2012. Santa clara county is reporting 43 fewer drunk driving arrests. It ends monday at midnight. Palo alto Police Released a sketch of a man suspected of robbing two people at a post office this week. They say this man pulled a gun on a couple in their 50s. They were dropping off mail just after midnight at the east bay shore post office. The suspect and another man drove off with a wallet and cash. The burning man festival is at capacity with 61,000 people in attendance. Tonight was one of the main event, the burning of the man. Organizers had to shutdown gate entry as burning man neared capacity. They were allowed to raise capacity after agreeing to new security, safety and clean up rules. For your Holiday Weekend it is time to check the weather with leigh glaser. We will see definite changes. The temperatures are going to come down. We will see more clouds. As i mentioned at the top of the show, a chance of sprinkles and maybe a brief shower. Here is a look at live doppler 7hd and you can see the low clouds and fog and it will continue to move inland overnight. And it will really reduce the visibility over the Golden Gate Bridge. You will see mist and drizzle overnight tonight and tomorrow as well. All eyes on some of the subtropical moisture that is moving up from the southwest. This is what could possibly trigger a few isolated sprinkles and maybe a light shower across the bay area tomorrow night. A beautiful shot of the bay bridge from our explore for yum cam. You can see some of the low clouds hanging over the bay. 67 in redwood city and san jose 66. Another shot of the Golden Gate Bridge where the drizzle is being reported right now. Dense overcast and 66 in fairfield and livermore as well. 66 degrees. You can see the wall of clouds just hanging down over the Trans America Pyramid this evening. Our forecast highlight, increasing clouds overnight. Poke committees of dense fog. Pockets of dense fog. A chance of sprinkles tomorrow night. It is through early labor day monday and then we will clear out. Lows in the 60s inland and 50s elsewhere where the the fog will sit. Mist and drizzle and this is pretty much the set up. We have this trough that is moving in and then we have the sub troop cal moisture the subtropical moisture moving in from the south. Most will remain to the east of the bay area, but definitely there is a chance we could see a little bit of moisture. Sunday at 6 00 a. M. You can see the cloud cover already on the the increase. It looks like east and south bay communities tomorrow by 3 00 will see the clouds. North bay should be clear. And then just a chance of a few isolated showers. These models keep updating this evening. The last hour had numerous showers around the bay area. Most of that has started to back off a little bit. This is 6 00 monday night. Suffice to say that under this cloud bed we could see some isolated showers right on in through early monday morning. Millbrae art and Wine Festival is warming to 72 degrees. And also heading toward the oakland pride day tomorrow, we will look for temperatures dl in the mid to low 70s. One more location for you, the sausalito art festival will be great tomorrow. Temperatures will reach about 72 degrees. Here is a look at your highs for your sunday. 78 for santa rosa as well as napa. 67 for San Francisco. Interior east bay, get ready for the clouds moving in. Livermore 85. 87 for antioch and 78 for san jose. The accuweather sevenday forecast, folks, monday it will be a slight chance of maybe a sprinkle in the morning and then we will pull those clouds out a little bit by monday afternoon. Get ready for a mini heat wave as the temperatures by friday midto upper 90s. Inland 80s around the bay and even close to 70 near the coast. Follow it at live doppler 7hd for the latest bay area weather conditions rain or shine and get video forecast spare the air alerts and power outage information and weather tweets from your weather team. 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The true freshman looking like a senior and Third Quarter down 10. Going deep to chris harper and 52yard strike. First college touchdown. The next drive and a perfect pass. 35 of 56 and two tds and three picks. Cal is up 2420. The pass was tipped and right into the hands of colin ellis. No one will catch him. He takes off and goes 56 yards the other way. Northwest is back on top 2724. In my day this is a clean hit. Now you cant leave your feet like this to hit a quarterback. He is ejected from the game. Colin ellis in the right place at the right time. He is right into the hands of ellis. His second pick of the game. Cal finds himself down 10 and the ball falls dead. We will have the highlights later in the show. The pac12 third ranked oregon hosting nickel state. A nice move and he dives into the end zone. Ducks up 14. The Second Quarter and looking like Colin Kaepernick and keeps it himself. Turns on the jets and she gone. A a 46yard run. Oregon goes on to win it 663. Oregon state opens ranked 25th in the country and hosting eastern washington. What a day for the eagles quarterback. 23 of 30 and 411 yards and four tds to ashton clark. He ran for 107 yards on 16 carries and two tds including this one. Botched extra point and it gives oregon state to tie. 52yard field goal attempt and it is long enough. But he misses right. Eastern washington with the upset over oregon state 4946 the final. We will take a brief timeout before we hit the diamond. Thanks to cocoa crisp and his low reville slugger. Baseball . The as are looking for their second straight win over tampa bay. The same team they are battling in the wild card with rookie sunny gray on the hill. As usual solid pitching and timely hitting was the formula that keeps on working for the as. Green day throwing out the ceremonial first pitch with the fireworks afterwards. Another solid outing for sunny gray. He surrendered five hits and struck out seven. The as offense came from cocoa crisp. Eighth inning and unloads a solo blast. Cocoas 15th of the season and the as are up 20. Bottom of 9 and as up 21 and he gets Kelly Johnson to ground out to first to end the game. The as win it 21 and they stay two games behind the first place Texas Rangers who come to town on monday on labor day. The giants and diamondbacks in the