Moving to the tunnel and to the right, the old bay bridge, the darkened part, which will be taken apart over three years. And our engineer is behind the wheel to give us a front row site of the new bay bridge. This is probably not the seen you want stuck in toll plaza traffic. We will check with dick in a few minutes to find out what it is like to cross. The toll is still 6. The same toll. From above, can you see a look of the new bay bridge all lit up. Abc7 news traffic reporter is monitoring the commute. Leyla gulen . All right, we go from sky 7, the traffic is building on the through span of the bay bridge and bumpertobumper traffic approaching the tolls and we talked about the metering lights. Sometimes that happens when traffic is anticipated to be heavier. Those metering lights are there. It is to ease traffic when you pass Treasure Island to fan. It starts to move things better than normal. Headed into hayward county as you make the drive on the transition between northbound 238 to the nimitz, we have a stalled vehicle and it is blocking one lane and heavy bumpertobumper traffic at 38 Miles Per Hour, that is 9 top speed and the eastbound 580 the westbound traffic is a bear and we have this report of a brand new crash northbound we we in San Francisco at 280 with one lane blocked. Good morning, everyone, live doppler 7 hd showing clouds along the coast and it is partly cloudy for the rest of us and there is no fog to deal with this morning. Outside the coast, the day planner 9 next 12 hours is a few clouds and temperatures are a few 50s in the north bay and mostly we are in the lowtomid 60s and by noon it will be brighter and more dry with humidity different today. Midtoupper 60s but inland we are around 76 and by 4 00 we are hang out in the mid80s inland and mid70s around the bay and midtoupper 60s along the coast and midtoupper 60s around your bay and coastal neighborhoods. 6 03 and back to our team come of the bay bridge opening, traffic is moving on the new span this morning but that is after cost overruns and questions over the bridges safety. Abc7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield joins us from the toll plaza. You pay the same toll but you could argue you get more for your money. There is a backup and you have to wait to get to the bridge this morning. Check it out, the traffic has gotten heavier in the last 20 or 30 minutes. Enthusiasm here this morning but a wonderful drive and here is the picture of the site we have been waiting for, a lit up functional new bridge and officials got this open before a major earthquake occurred. They got everyone off of the old bridge. 9 first cars to cross the new span opened at 10 15 and it was greeted with enthusiasm. Cars lined up and parked on both sides of the bay waiting to get across. The project has a very storied history particularly this past year. We hope people can see this for the totality of what it is we are delivering a beautiful stateoftheart bridge. C. H. P. Is making sure people do not go too fast or too slow across the bridge with no scurve and people could be tempted to speed or to slow down to enjoy the view. Insert okay, you is to obey the 50 miles an hour. Traffic is so slow you may not even get to 50. Remember, 50 Miles Per Hour is the speed limit. Two incidents c. H. P. Made an arrest at the toll plaza at 2 00 this morning for d. U. I. And they also had to pull someone off of the old span, someone found a way up there to take pictures and they say that is not allowed. You are not allowed on the old span. We are now allowed only on the new bay bridge. Not safe. Ahead in the process from where amy was is our abc7 news engineer, with the first hook at the new span. It looks like a craw, a crawl to the metering lights. It has changed going wive with the backup is substantial into the toll plaza. That backup continues all the way to the metering lights. I purged on to this stretch from the bridge parking lot which is only a couple hundred feet east of the toll plaza and from that point to where i am it has taken ten minutes and i am in the middle between the toll plaza and the metering lights. Looking up ahead on the bridge, beyond the metering lights, traffic is moving freely. The backup is caused by the metering lights. We will be on the bridge in the next report. Thank you. Pedestrians will have their first chance today to travel on the bay bridge new eastern span. A portion of the bicycle and pedestrian path will open to the public at noon and an organized bicycle ride on the new bicycle path is scheduled for 6 00 this evening the crews need to demolish a portion of the old span in order to build and connect the rest of the bicycle path to Yerba Buena Island which will extend two miles between oakland and the island. We will have were more on this historic morning on the new spokesman and how the first commute is shaping up through the morning and we want to know way thing of the new bay bridge. Other news, to the south bay, the search is continuing for the hitandrun driver would left two women dead. Carmen zavala and christina de leon were killed yesterday morning in san jose. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller joints us why the womens families say more could be done to prevent the damage didnt ought candles of flowing at the site where two women were killed 24 hours ago. Police are still looking for the hitandrun driver. The families of the victims, Carmen Zavala and christina de leon, gathered at the site. They were killed when a silver Mercedes Brad sided their toyota. C. H. P. Says they tried to pull over the mercedes moments before the crash because the driver was the families say if the officers pursued the driver, the women would be alive. Just because it was early doesnt mean that there are not citizens out and about. There are Numerous Hotels the. She could have seen the lights coming and would have phone there was a pursuit and waited to them to pass so she could turn. Christina de leon and Carmen Zavala were headed to their jobs as cooks at San Jose International airport. The driver has yet to be arrested. No word on a description. Matt, thank you. Back to the top story the new bay bridge, and here we are above the bay bridge toll plaza with a lot of volume. The metering lights with the on early. Happy you drove in four hours early, right, eric . A few good things about being on the bridge at 2 00 in the morning. It has been busy. The traffic is stacked beyond the maze to berkeley and the waze app showed someone taking a picture of the bumpertobumper traffic i80 westbound approaching 580. Be prepared and give yourself plenty of extra time. On the other side of the bay we have this report of an accident northbound 101 to 280, the connection, we have one lane blocked and we are seeing slow downs. We her it was a car that spun around and it could face the wrong direction so injuries are possible but we will watch that. Mike . We will talk about what will happen with our dry air. We talked about it not being so humid with dew point in the 60s and now they are in the 60s and that is the amount of moisture in the air and the lower that number is the better it feels. The moist areas are fremont and fairfield at 60 and 62. This is what to dress for most of us in the lowtomid 60s with upper 50s around the not bay but that is it. 67 in antioch. The week ahead, as we look into oakland, you can see temperatures are ramping up to 88 degrees friday and saturday and we will make a push at 90 and that will be the warmest days in the forecast. From our roof camera, inland, it will be near 100 on friday and midtoupper 70s along the coast. The complete sevenday forecast is ahead. Kristen and eric . President obama is making the case on syria, and the pitch he is making to Congress Today in high from file help today and high profile help he is getting. And the historic swim from cuba to florida by diana nyad covering santa clara, San Francisco, east bay, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. Good Tuesday Morning at 6 14. A shot over the toll plaza and the metering lights of the bay bridge on the oak side is a backup there very slow trying to get to the new eastern span open for business which is beautiful and moving smoothly president obama will meet with the Senate Armed Services committee, the Senate ForeignAffairs Committee and the Senate Intelligence committee discussing vote on whether to attack syria over its use of chemical weapons. Also today, secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary hagel will testify before the Senate ForeignAffairs Committee before the attack and the president will leave for the summit in russia. Israel says ballistic objects detected by russian radar were from a joint missile test israel conducted with the United States saying that test over the mediterranean was successful and comes as the United States weighs whether to take military action against syria. United states endurance swimmer diana nyad staggered on a beach on key west from cuba after 53 hours in the water the first person to make the 100 100plus mile swim with no shark cage. It was rough the first day, saturday, after the start, i just said, forget the senate, get your heels in and where your left hand, say, push cuba back, and push forward. It took her five attempts to make the swim and you can hear more from her at 7 00 on Good Morning America right after the abc7 news. We want to get you back to the new bay bridge with cell 7 and our engineer is giving us a look at the first morning on the new span approaching the beautiful new tower. Dick . It is a beautiful view, christian, particularly with the sun coming up, just very majestic. I am currently headed east from Treasure Island to the oakland toll plaza area and i am pleased to report that the traffic on the bridge deck itself eastbound and westbound into San Francisco is moving at the speed little. Obviously we have heavier commute track westbound but, how, it is still moving nicely but the exception is the toll plaza and the metering lights and sky 7 earlier showed you the backup and it is definitely a start to a good backup or heavy backup for the morning commute at the toll plaza. Again, this is a picture above the toll plaza with a backup and folks going through the tolls and to the metering lights switched on from the maze to San Francisco traveling westbound, at hayward we have a serious accident southbound 880 a report of a car fire. Part of the ground is catching on fire so it is a serious incident as you make the drive from san lorenzo at 35 Miles Per Hour for a top speed. The drive time traffic 580 is heavy an hour to head in the westbound direction highway 4 is busy and would we 101 is not too bad. From sausalito to San Francisco, you can see Clear Conditions so not too bad. Mike nicco has the forecast. Still tracking fog which has improved near the reporting station up from quarter of a mile to 2. 5 but down at Half Moon Bay at one mile. The rest of us are seeing marine layer but they will fade. You can see mount diabolo off in the distance a beautiful backdrop for highlights and it will be brighter everywhere and the dry air is here. Clouds tonight and mild but for the coast we will have more cloud cover and the big warming trend is coming for friday and saturday. You can see the greens and oranges where the deepest moisture is and intersecting the bay area yesterday so we had a few showers and beautiful rainbows showing up, also, so we will get those on facebook page. Maybe we will tweet a few. Overnight the moisture was pushed to the east where it will remain. If you are headed over to, say, Yosemite National park, today, thunderstorms are possible in the higher elevations. Lowtomid 80s for the south bay and midtoupper 80s for gilroy and santa cruz at 82 degrees. Mid70s to 80 degrees on the peninsula and warmer in los altos at 82 and 70 at Half Moon Bay is the warm spot and around 67 in pacifica and daly city and colma and near 70 in downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito is 74 and the beaches are in the upper 60s and headed inland we have temperatures in the lowtomid 80s. In the east bay shore we have temperatures in the midtoupper 70s and the east bay valley we have midtoupper 80s. Here is a look at the sevenday outlook, notice the temperatures tomorrow are about same as today and we jump up above average thursday and look at the heat for friday, saturday, and sunday, 70 at the coast and 90 for the rest of us. Notice this morning, crossing the bridge the weather was perfect for viewing the bridge with no fog. No fog this morning. Nobody to obscure the view of whatever you were looking at crossing the bay bridge. Mike, thank you. The new bay bridge coverage continues including the high would file bay area politician who says taxpayers should not be worried about the cost overruns for the multibillion dollar new span. A look outside as you can see from sky seven a backup at the toll plaza and the metering lights with the traffic situation with leyla gulen coming all right. Those are your techbytes. Make it a great day. Im john muller. Nu before William Hughes fought in vietnam. And john hughes jumped into normandy. And John Anderson hughes served in world war i. And before Robert Hughes joined the spanishamerican war, there were families connected to the belief that freedom was worth fighting for. Join us in thanking them at bankofamerica. Com troopthanks. Too small. Too soft. Too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progressos new creamy alfredo soup. Inspired by perfection. [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant back outside, to cell 7 and abc7 news engineer. Using cell7 technology and giving a look at the first morning commute on the new span of the bay bridge. Dick . Yes, good morning, kristen and eric. I am westbound on the bay bridge coming up the incline section to the new majestic tower, the spire. The traffic is starting to slow. I dont know if it is because the traffic is getting heavy or folks are just slowing down to capture the view but we have slowed down to 25 to third Miles Per Hour and i have seen two warms of how the shoulder has saved the only commute with a couple of stalls that have pulled off on the shoulder that have not impacted on the slower track. If this was the old bridge they would be stopped in the actual lanes of traffic so those shoulders will save the commute situations that are highly congested in the morning and afternoon if there are stalls. Kristen and eric, back to you on this beautiful morning. Again, we take you to sky seven over the toll plaza and heavy volume and we will find out more in a few minutes. Despite the excitement there is criticism over the cost of building the new bridge. Former San Francisco mayor willie brown was in office during the planning phase for the new span. We caught up with him yesterday and he brushed off the final price tag of 6. 5 billion. Dont ever concern yourself about any Infrastructure Project with reference to cost if known stole anything you cant predict the price. 6. 4 billion is 4 billion more than the original estimate. Construction began in 2002 and is designed to last at least 150 years. Our coverage of the bay bridge opening continues at 6 30 with a look from the Yerba Buena Island camera traffic is moving on the new span toward you. The right side of the screen is the old eastern span. In San Francisco, talking with drivers and bus riders about their first coming commute. I have heard fun and beautiful. I am leyla gulen in the Traffic Center and from sky 7 over the tolls you can see traffic is stacked up all the way out of the maze and heavy bumpertobumper traffic at 15 minutes but this gives you pause to take it in and enjoy the beauty of the brand new span of the its halloween time and disneyland is ours going down boo with haunted mansion holiday. Space mountain ghost galaxy, and wicked fun in both parks, the Disneyland Resort just got spookier visit disneyland. Com halloween trick or treat. We provide the exact individualization that your body needs. This labor day, dont invest in a mattress until you visit a sleep number store. When we actually lower the sleep number setting to get the sleep number bed to conform to them, its amazing the transition that you see with people. Oh, that feels really good. Its hugging my body. They just look at you like you cured all the problems theyve ever had. 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