New. We have Additional Units on ds caltrans wants to start work at 8 00 p. M. Sharp meaning chp will close down access as early 7 00. Some will be surprised if they wait too long. Best message su know, be patient. Plan ahead. Make sure youve got time to get to where you need to be. All east bay approaches will close, then, traffic on the eastbound 80 skyway will be diverted on to 4th street. Im leaving the city. I dont have to deal witness. We found driver was the same idea getting across the bridge early. Im making think mi way aconsiders the bridge before cinderela loses a show. Signs are everywhere. Many have commute plans in place. Thursday, and friday. A lot of breaks. You know go,ing to need to get across. I recommend staying away. Miff days of detours that begins in a few short hours. Were back live here. I just checked it out. Traffic is backed up so its a nightmare commute already. Chp suggests some people will try to be one of the last to cross the old bay bridge. Up to say dont do it fchl you pull over near toll plaza you could get a ticket. Thank you very much. A pleasanton company is supplying thousands of payments in a new eastern span of the bay bridge. Taking a look outside from sky 7 hd, and you can see well, a little bit of fog moving n you can see the new span and that new bridge expectsed to be open after labor day. Allen . Here in pleasanton supplying asphalt for the new bridge. These elevators going to take piles of rocks and sand and mix witness a tarlike substance to create that asphalt. From there its a 37mile ride. Materials are churning outzmkv asphalt in preparation for the final span. We want to get as much done as we can. Between friday and sunday, 6,000 truck roads will travel down i 580 during peak hours. We get back into night time hours traffic for the asphalt trucks will be back to 238, and 880. Roads expected to be congested so caltrans will be monitoring traffic from command centers and can reroute necessary. If give people on the ground eyes in the sky. First order of business tonight is demolition. Crews will be grinding away the old pavement. They need to grind a path creating a level path to the bridge doing the same at the tunnel. So work is starting tonight is demolition, grinding. A. Birds are nesting on the old bridge so boxes were are built and placed on the new span. We put platforms to try to entice them over to start making their home underneath the new bridge. Boxes now in place and caltrans says the new bridge is already open for the birds. On tuesday, at 5 00 they expect it to be open for car autos to get a sense of what traffic is like right now we sent our engineers out with a cell 7 okay we cant hear him. I am eastbound on 80 now. I just got on to the freeway. From 8th street. Surface streets are moving a lot better. Hes at the first and harrison on ramp there. Once getting on to the eastbound highway 80 it is bumper to bumper you can see here. I just got a warning on the waze traffic app there could be an accident ahead fchl you have a waze app i am in the red zone. Its bumper to bumper. And that is the story here, if you look, you can see another direction westbound direction is also bumper to bumper in this video. Bring your patience tonight. Thank you very much. And speaking of that waze traffic app lets get the big picture now. Ive been tracking our waze traffic app as well, just overjealous to get across the bay bridge right now. Sou just want to be careful out there. We are looking at slower traffic on our other bridges. Take a look at the skyway. San francisco skyway. If youre traveling along those would be headlights coming towards us. J just sluggish, looks like traffic moving just better all be it it is afternoon rush. So were going to be seeing heavy traffic. And is so not too bad this is going away. Last souls are making it on the old span. Going to the golden gate right now. Folks making that drive on alternate routes over next several days you can see traffic is starting to slow just a little bit. From and into san rafael. Its building youve got a little bit of low clouds and fog there to hug you along the way. Lets go to our waze app its packed on streets that flank the freeway. You can see just nothing but Single Digits here. Six Miles Per Hour. Youre down to 11 Miles Per Hour so slow traffic you want to give plenty of time and dont forget you want to down load abc 7 exclusive waze app. Now drivers may be taking advantage of the slow pace to take insights from the span one last time. Carpoolers this morning were know stallic about the old span. Many taking thursday and friday off to avoid detours and some are taking tuesday off. They dont want to be the foirs tryout the span. Im just nervous, its new. I dont know how goitsing to work out. Kind of curious to see how the intrij going to turn out to be. I dont want to go on it so im taking the day off. Sorry to see goiting down. And love the views from the bring and seeing other ones go up. Chp warning drivers to enjoy views. Its hard to know what will be the impact of the clee sure on people who relie on it. Some folks will be affected this weekend. There are about 270,000 people who use the bay bridge every day. So far course, there is going to be an impact. Here is an example. Youre going to get married. You planned months for the big day. Only to find out the bridge will be closed. Imagine getting married on Treasure Island with a 1 million view. Now, imagine the bay bridge closed. Our jaw dropped. Shocked. This wedding planner shared these pictures of ceremonies on Treasure Island despite the shut down, preparations are underway for one this sunday. Caltrans has been cooperative giving us access to the bridge from first street onramp autos a financial hair cut is in store for louie lopez, hes the barber in a hotel in union square. Some of his east bay customers have cancelled appointments this weekend. This is the end of the month. I have to pay rent. Im self employed. Not making money. San francisco chamber of commerce hopes not many Small Businesses will be hurt. Larger ones have prepared. Goodness is that notice has been given, plans have been made. Bart stopped in millbrae theyre having 43 art and Wine Festival this weekend. Organizers think people will stay closer to home. Very positive impact. Historically when bridge is closd weve seen influx of adwreends to get feed back saying its a god send. As usual its a jam packed weekend from the cal bears football game. To as baseball ask sausalito arts festival. Bay area will carry on without the bay bridge. And stay with us were going to have a quick live report once the bridge closure is complete. Were going to bring you Daily Briefing every afternoon and well be live 3 00 monday for chain cutting ceremony. Were going to have breaking news updates and abc 7 morning news begins at 4 00 tomorrow and friday morning. Be sure to tune in for the latest there. Still to come tonight were bringing you a report where firefighters are making progress and now getting realtime information on the rim fire. Plus, following up on some people who lost their homes last night. Damage is worse than first thought. Warm days coming our way. What about Labor Day Weekend . Ill give you a look at the accuweather forecast. Well continue the cover welcome back, taking a look at San Francisco skyway, traffic is at a stand still just to come away from the 280 extension into east bay its going to take you 31 minutes. Were finding fender bender as long the way. Well have all details on the bay bridge closure coming up and as we take a look now at the cell 7 technology towards Treasure Island you can see brake lights ahead of us. If news is that its still moving. We have a small grass fire that appears to be out just about now. You can see its burned quite a bit there. No word yet on how the fire started it appears cruise have it in hand, so that is good news. Firefighters today began using a predator drone to help them monitor the rim fire near yosemite. Surrounded in three weeks a reporter on the scene tonight from our abc affiliate in fresno. Smoke rose at the tree thats gave the ridge its name. Its going to continue for a few more weeks. Tom tidwell surveyed the damage and the work the firefighters are doing the fire growth clo sloeed this week, but spread like a new breed of wildfire before firefighters could get contain oomt when getting these conditions these fires are somewhat explosive what. Used to maybe take two, three weeks to be able to burn were seeing that in two, three day autos some smoke coming from backfires set by firefighters that are trying to stop fire progress. This is our group here. Firefighters are also preparing communities. The crew from san mateo acts as scouts mapping out an attack or escape for mountain residents. Our job is to go out to identify houses and location autos communities are still evacuated today including buck meadows but people here are still safe and that home, and if they look, you can tellrq theyre thankful for firefighters that are keeping it that way. Investigators trying to determine what set off yesterdays kajing fire that damaged a neighborhood many didnt find much they can salvage. We want to show you what the fire looked like. Several homes engulfed. 15 homes damaged including five left uninhabitable by tuesdays fire. I was hoping you know, maybe roof fell on my bed and my bed fell on my guitars in cases but i picked up some guitars. Theyre just burned to a crisp. That fire started along interstate 80. Residents believe the city is responsible for the rapid spread because it aloud grass and weeds to grow. Lets check on the forecast now as we approach Labor Day Weekend. As you probably know, along the coast high temperatures upper 80s in coastal locations. This pattern is going hold. Sunny skies noww nnco acrossy area but low clouds and fog along coastline and spilling throughout the golden gate and over the bay. And here is a live view looking on to the bay. You can see what we get, mainly clear viewing there. Temperatures are 65 degrees in San Francisco and 77 in san jose and los gatos 64 at half moon bay. Another live view, out over San Francisco bay. Weu cz have 78 degrees in jant rosa and nappa. Livermore, 82 degrees, one final live shot you can see low clouds moving through there. And a foggy night and later today fog will be spreading inland areas. Will be mild to warm again, tomorrow, and friday. Then, well have cooler days this weekend. Saturday and sunday into labor day, monday, radar composite shows n area of disturbed weather. Giving you a few there are showers and maybe thundershowers staying mainly to our north so starting at 7 00dv l this evening. Notice during overnight hours into tomorrow well see showers into oregon and washington state. Little change in our condition around the bay tomorrow, moving on to the area of rim fire, groveland rim fire forecast i should say, calls for sunny skies tomorrow. Afternoon thunderstorm. Warm down in the valley with highs about 95 degrees and cooler in high country. Getting back to the bay area overnight tonight areas of low clouds and fog inland. South bay highs into 80s. 87 emergencian hill, temperatures up to 80 in redwood city. And mid to upper 60s on the coast. Mid80s in the north bay valleys from sonoma. Eeflt bay highs 74 oakland. Inland east bay highs upper 80s to near 90. Here is the accuweather forecast. Warm again friday. Warmer low 90s inland. Temperatures tapering off saturday, sunday, monday. Despite the drp will be a pleasant and mild weejd drweekend. Coming up next more on the soon to open new bay bridge. And how it is becoming a shhhhh in our day, we didnt have uverse high speed internet. Yeah, our babysitter didnt have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. We had to count sheep to fall asleep. And i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. In my head. Never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. Too much . A little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. Yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . Work on a controversial caltrans freeway project came to a sudden stop today after Mendocino County revoked a permit. Right through sensitive wedlands. Crews have begun dumping filters on the site as you can see. Environmentalists sued saying the county did not do required review of the dirt and could contain toxic materials. Caltrans claims the toxics are below allowed standards. A hearing set for today but before it could happen, the county revoked the permit. Caltrans says it will start trucking dirt as soon as possible. U. S. Army core notified caltrans sit out of compliance with other regulations in this project. New eastern span of the new bay bridge has not opened yet but is becoming an iconic symbol. The huge white tower that rises from Treasure Island. Against plans to build something more like the san mateo bridge for historians recording an oral history it will make oakland shine. Idea for the new eastern span was that the east bay should get something signature. That people should be able to see the beautiful east bay hills roll out before them as theyre hedheading east. When built the original eastern span was the largest span in the world. If youd like to hear more we have a link to that project on our site abc 7 news. Com. Now, coverage closure continues in just a moment. Abc 7 news is live at the toll plaza tonight to tell us how driving the new bridge compares to the old one. And look a look from the area to look at the new bridge away from opening now just a few days away from the closure of the new bay bridge. Take a look at this time next week its going to be jammed. Were live tonight at the toll plaza how was driving on this new bridge compared to the old one . Well, i can tell you it breath taking. We want to bring you a moment to bring you up to date. So just in about the last half hour, some of the trucks pulled up and staged on the far northern side of the approach to the plaza. And are getting ready to move into action. As i was saying i have been up on the new bridge many times throughout construction. And really, i dont want to oversell it, but its a breath taking experience to be up there. This animation has palm trees on the left that will not be in place yet when it opens. On the incline the view of Treasure Island is spectacular, and on the bridge, suspender cables, the way they drape from the single cable are reminiscent of sails on a sail boat. Many people will be relieved to have s curve replaced with a straight shot into the tunnel. Eastbound will be more dramatic coming out into the light and the open right after the yerba buena tunnel no longer on a lower deck. There will be shoulders on both sides, which should reduce back ups when there is an accident or a stall. Now the old bridge will be there looking a little bit of the view. Also, chp asked us to remind people with grea that should help prevent congestion those are for emergency purposes only not stopping for sight seeing and picture taking from when the bridge opens. Thank you so much. Later tonight ama deatz will be awaiting that final car across the bridge. Checking out in traffic tonight our engineer is behind the wheel have you been back and forth on the bridge now snuck traffic so tell us about it. I have been. Im on the fifth street onramp now. Very been back and forth. The bridge moving eastboundw q backed up. It starts moving nicely. Westbound coming into the city its open but what is sluggish still are these onramps in San Francisco. Getting to the bridge. So frustrating for those folks. Hopefully theyll get there before they get into those lane autos lets check with traffic messes out there. That is right. Good evening to you. Were going to take a look at our drive time traffic. So if youre traveling out of foster city its a 25 minute commute on 101 across the golden gate. 580, 18 minutes gets you akro. S heavier traffic these are going to be your alternates to get around the bay area. Lets take a look outside. This is where transportation reporter is just stationed you can see traffic flowing well out there. So people making it across the bay bridge before it closes. Taking a look at san mateo this is going to be alternate. This is what it looks like. And out of into hayward, out of foster city those headlights moving along in the eastbound direction so thicker but were in good shape. Here is a lk at San Francisco skyway. Bumper to bumper traffic is packed out there. And its a community of commuters you can see heavy traffic out there. Folks out there helping each other around those delays. Cheryl . Carolyn . Thank you. Prosecutors in the case of joseph naso hope evidence of another possible victim will lead to the death sentence. I team learn td prosecutors think they can link naso to the murder of sharia patton. A jury already convicted naso of killing four women. Thaim hear from the children of three childrens as well as nasos exwife. Richmond police have arrested a dozen criminals they say were on the verge of committing murders. Just some of the 23 gang member as rested during a operation. Police worked with agents to conduct wire taps on members of the deep c gang. Investigators able to intercept gang members on the twi kill rival autos in several cases were in the act of going out to commit murders. We heard chilling directives to take people out as well as plans to commit other heinous crimes. And Police Searching for another gang member. The men targeted for refuse to cooperate with the ceasefire program. Just ahead at 6 00 ceremony commemorating march on washington. And local experts on how today, tens of thousands converged to march the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and Martin Luther kings legendary i have a dream speech. A belloll atd00 eastern time. Dr. King urged america to let freedom ring. The president capped the day by praising the american whos work every day to keep dr. Kings dream alive. Everyone who realizes what those glorious patrons knew on that day that change doesnt come from washington but to washington. Change has been built on our willingness, we, the people to take on citizenship. President obama and others did not shy away from challenges still in the way, including income ask inequality, stagnant wages amid growing corporate profit autos scholars say the 1963 march