Tonight thanks to this one of a kind lighting system. Take a look. As far as you can see, soring steel poles with 48,000 led lights and on each one of those lights, it is a visor, similar to what is in your car so the light can be directed any way they want it. We will give you the first look at what it will be like to drive across the eastern span at night. This system was specifically designed for this bridge to paint it with light. Reporter we wanted to make sure we controlled the spill and glare for the cars going the opposite directions. On the same day they switched the switch on the lights on the bay bridge we learned officials will green light the spans much anticipated opening at a meeting on thursday. The focus is getting the bridge open as soon as we can. That could be right after Labor Day Weekend a few weeks away. The shifting time line comes after yesterdays news that the federal Highway Administration approved a temporary fix on those busted seismic safety bolts. We feel as though this is what is necessary to get the bridge open from an engineering safety point of view. Approval of the fix installing a fix on the broken bolts to prevent movement in case of an earthquake means they can open to traffic before completing repairs. It will be earlier than december 10th. Randy will the metro did not speculate on an opening date but labor day is fast approaching. If we did it by labor day that is short notice. Can we get the right people on the job to get the work . How much and how many peoples lives are we effecting . He said today that big multimillion opening Day Celebration that was originally scheduled. He said it would be scaled back a modest event. Back out here live, no glitches tonight, the lights appear to be working just fine. Reporting live tonight on the new eastern span of the eastern bridge, back to you. More details now. Caltrans said it needs to close the bridge for 4 full days to complete construction work. The crews need to reconfigure transeugzs at the oakland transition transition at oakland. They are preparing for the closure during the Labor Day Weekend by having more officers and security patrol. An investigation is underway at San Jose CityCollege Tonight after a woman walking on a campus sidewalk was struck and killed by a front end loader. New details tonight from amber lee. She is live at the scene after speaking with the construction companys coo and others on campus, camber . Reporter we are right by the fine arts building. The accident happened beyond those barricades. Tonight, catherine, a former student came by with a small bunch of flowers to pay her respects to the victim. I had to be here. I know the rest of the college joins me right now. A horrible, horrible feeling. Shortly before noon, a construction worker struck and killed a woman walking by. He was part of a 6person crew with preston company. He was taking a load of dirt to another part of the site. Reporter he has 35 years of experience and that as far as he knows a clean record. The victim was taken to Valley Medical Center but died. They will not release her identity until family is notified. It was a tragic accident. And one that will we work closely with all investigating units to determine how it happened and how it might have been prevented. Reporter school is not in session. Some students and campus employees and teachers are on camp us to prepare for the start of classes at the end of the month. It is shocking. I can not imagine. There has been a lot of construction going on in this area. Reporter catherine said she graduated earlier this year but can can not help wondering about the life lost here. The person had a potential future and i remember walking these grounds and everything they experienced what that person was experiencing but it stopped today. Reporter the pipelines coo tells me they will regroup tomorrow to decide when to resume construction here. He wants to pay his respects to the family and offer them a viceit to the site before anything continues here. New video where investigators are working to find the cause of a fire that destroyed several units. Firecrews say they aggressively attacked the blaze and doused the outside of the building and the brush surrounding it by water. Four Apartment Units are uninhabitable. Nobody was hurt. The 10yearold anti antiyok boy killed sent us a picture of hunter. They plan to repair suffer head injuries tomorrow. Hunters mother says he was at a friends house when one pit bull knocked him down the stairs and a second pit bull attacked him. That second pit bull is now in the custody of animal control. A former Bay Area High School teacher pled no contest for molesting a 14yearold student. The 42yearold taught math in livermore. Sentenced to three years for credit for time served. They say she had a two year relationship with boys that involved text and playing words with friends. Joseph naso is expected in court tomorrow. He is accused of killing four women in the 1970 and 1990s. He is expected to be on the stand on friday. It took just 2 tweets from billionaire investor ikin to send apple shares chiming by 5 today. He tweeted his firm has a quote large position in the tech company and he believes the stock is under valued. In addition he said that he met with apples ceo, kirk, and urged him to implement a larger stock buy back. On wall street apple lifted the markets. The dow gained 31 buoyed in part by strong retail sale numbers. Nas deck gained 14. There is word tonight that the nasdaq gained 14. There is word tonight that chronicle will have a free access. Back in march they tarted charging a fee started charging a fee. Now staffers are saying they will drop it after four months. It withheld some stories and put them on a prescription only site. The u. S. Education department sent a warning letter to the commission for community and junior colleges. They found the commission violated four requirements. For example the commission allegedly did not have enough academic personnel on the team that evaluated city college. The officials gave the Commission One year to correct the problems. Librarians, 911 dispatchers and dogcatchers are among the hundreds of city workers staging a 3day strike. The Union Members want a raise. But as ktvu reports the city of hayward wants concessions. Reporter all day Union Workers stood in the heat. [everyone talking at once] reporter to put the heat on hayward city officials. I have an 80yearold mother. I have a granddaughter. It is not just me that i am supporting. Reporter she is with the hayward Water Department and says she makes just above the average union worker salary of 55,000. I just want my little tphous hayward. I just want my little job and stop taking it away from me. That is all i ask. Reporter the local represents 350 city worker miss haywards waste water, 911 operators. The city wants them to give up a scheduled 5 raise and increase worker payments to their pensions. From last year we took a 12 structural change. This this year they want another 5 . It is is just too much. This cost mean it to me 4a month which to a family of five it is a lot of money. Reporter hayward city Officials Say the economy is improving the city has a 2. 6 million projected bundleet deficit for 2014. Budget deficit for 2014. Firefighters, management and Department Heads agreed to some form of the targeted reductions. What we asked is all groups forego raises for 5 years so the proposal from the city has concessions in it for two years of wage increases in the final 3. Union workers in 911 dispatch center and the Waste Water Treatment Plant are still working during the strike. In hayward, back to you. More details now, there was a confrontation on the picket line today. A striking worker said he was hit by a white van at 9 00 a. M. Union leaders said the driver of the van might be a replacement worker but the driver told ktvu he was trying to get a building permit. An ambulance took the union worker to the hospital and the police are investigating. Fog cheering from the coast. Im tracking how much the temperatures could climb where you live tomorrow. A woman who dedicated her life to helping others killed inside of her own home. My sisters experience as an example to touch other peoples hearts. The surprising way the police discovered the crime scene. But first, suing to stop a controversial Airline Merger from getting off of the ground. Expert insight into the high spakes for bay area flights merger between American Airlines say roadblock. We are live at sf o and tells us it would limit the competition and cause the prices to go up. The airlines issued this joint statement saying they plan to fight for the proposed merger giving consumers more choices and a better travel experience. Others say it could make flying more expensive. Bring the prices down t is good with me. Reporter this frequent flyer wants to see lower fares and lower fees. I paid 35 for my bag. 12 in beer, 10 in internet. Reporter the proposed Airlines Merger would create the Worlds Largest airline. It is now challenged by the justice department. Over concerns travelers would end up paying more. The big issue is going to be the lack of competition. You have two airlines that are combining now. They are going to eliminate routes. San Francisco State professor of management says if it goes through, less competition would mean higher fares. What they are going to do, a smaller number of routes, a smaller number of planes and have fewer seats and charge higher prices. So, we saw this in the United Continental merger. Some air fairs out of sfo jumped up. Reporter the ceo of travel search start up says the merger has the bigger impact on the southeast and southwest. Neither one of the airlines has a huge number of nights into San Francisco. None of them have any roots to San Francisco that are duplicates. The biggest one will be where the airlines control a lot of the market. Reporter the airlines do not combine we could see them start new routes to better compete with each other. For example adding nights to asia. Right now american has some nights to that region and us airways has none. Live at sfo, ktvu channel 2 news. Stocks were off today afterwards of the governments actions, amr sank. Airway stock was off 13 to 1636. Foreclosure sales in the bay area rose in july following a drop in may and june. But, according to property radar foreclosure sales are still at levels lower than they were in january of 2007. That is during the housing crash. Now, notices of default, the first step in the foreclosure process were down 60 from last july. More details now, properties taken back by lenders or sold to third parties were up 32 if in contra costa, alameda, and santa clara counties from june to july. Well, here is something new. You can make a restaurant reservation using facebook. The social network is partnering with San Franciscos open table. To make a reservation search for that restaurants page on your smart phones facebook ap about p. If the restaurant is part of open table you will be able to choose the time you want to eat and the size of your party. More than 20,000 restaurants across the country use open table. New information tonight on the deadly crash involving a party van in the only passenger in the vehicle when it ran off 280 and slammed into a tree. The driver, 43yearold from daley city was arrested and charged. Today, the family of a missing investigator, sandra coke, got the news they had feared. A body found last week was that of the oakland woman. As it is reported there are still so many Unanswered Questions in her disappearance a federal investigator and a mother. The Police Confirm that sandra coke is no longer messing. God bless her family. Reporter cokes neighbors got the news this afternoon. Search teams found who they were looking for when they discovered a womans body near vacaville last week. The Coroners Office identified the woman as sandra coke. Reporter opd spokesperson, watson, took no questions after that short announcement. Her former boyfriend, still a person of interest, not a suspect. The police say he was seen with coke the night she disappeared. A convicted sex offender he was supposed to be wearing a monitor but he was arrested for violating parole two days after family members reported coke missing. The mess relied on information from alanis cell phone and not a gps signal when they decided to search for coke. Family members say coke was trying to help alani get his life back together but the neighbors say they were concerned about him even before coke vanished. My brother he comes, i dont thank is good news. He looks like a bad guy, that is what my brother was saying. Reporter sandra cokes family made no mention of alana. They thanked those who searched for her and said the coke family is devastated by the loss of our beloved sandra. All of us will miss her beautiful giving spirit. I checked back with the Coroners Office. A supervisor would not discus her cause of death saying it is all part of the ongoing investigation. In oakland, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now. Cokes coworkers issued a statement saying they are heartbroken. It reads in part, sandra was a compassionate, intelligent thorough investigator. A devoted single mother and friend to her coworkers. She dedicated her life and her work to looking for the best in people. An invitation to the public tonight from the heartbroken family of a missing 21month old toddler. The family of daphne webb is manning a walk tomorrow to demonstrate their commitment to finding the girl. Her father reported her missing on july 10th. Now, he told the police that she was taken from a car outside of a super market at 78th and international boulevard. Tomorrows walk is scheduled to start tomorrow morning and end at oakland city hall. A state state officials are urging officials not to cancel the emergency alerts. When the statewide alert went out last week some people complained it was noisy and invasive. One state lawmaker wants to convene a hearing this fall to make sure the system is working properly and explore possible modifications that could address consumer complaints. It is warmer out there today. By a good 510 degrees in some places. Livermore got to 97. That was the hot spot. Cool spot, 62 in pacificca. The temperature is cooler coast side than inland. Tomorrows temperatures, a lot like todays. No big changes, inland temperatures tomorrow will be back in the middle 90s, hot inland, cool along the coast. You knew that. Forecast highs for the microclimate, middle 70s, over the hill, in the middle 80s rapidly and low minds in walnut creek. Concord middle 90s and warm spots of the bay area. Livermore valley. Southern santa clara valley. You are in the middle 90s. Another hot day inland, cool along the coast. No fog right now along the coast. It should come back tonight. When i come back we will talk about the fog. How far inland it will go tonight and look at the forecast back here at 10 45. A young boy and his father shot and killed while they were sleeping. The new reward for information in this case. And, tonight at 10 30, an implosion on a college campus. The preparations now underway as explosives are put into place. Up first, a major drug bust. How a trail of blood led to more than 1. 5 million worth of ecstasy two men are behind bars tonight after one of the biggest drug busts. What led the police to a massive statue of an Illegal Party drug. Reporter 30,000 pills and powder. Sanfrancisco Police Showed off what they say may be a record drug bust for their department. It it is known as ecstasy or molly. The estimated street valley, 1. 5 million. Value 1. 5 million. Sometimes you get lucky. We were lucky. Reporter the bust came after witnesses say they saw a man drive,the glass window. I saw a gentleman hanging from the fire escape. When i got closer he dropped from the fire escape and fell into the grass. Responding Police Tracked the blood to an apartment. That is where they discovered the drugs and 30,000 in cash and arrested 36yearold hagerl and other man both from san fran. [music] reporter in february, ktvu investigated how molly is tied to the music scene. Sanfrancisco police are looking into if the drugs may have been missed for the lands festival. We are happy if it is just a coincidence. If it is not we are happy none of it made its way out to the fields. Reporter they are looking for more suspects and what the administration and the department of justice to review the case for possible federal charges as well. In San Francisco, stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. With no suspects and few leads the police are hoping a 30,000 reward will bring the tip investigators need to find the gunman who killed a 1year old baby and his 20yearold father. Today, the victims family members said it is time for peace. Nobody is going to feel what i feel until they go,it. That is my son and grandson. Stop the violence. Put the guns down. Melvin jackson lost his son Andrew Thomas and his grandson, drew jackson. They were shot as they slept in a relatives home six days ago. A Police Officer says the no snitch code on the streets brings about violence and urges people to come forward. 10,000 donation increased the reward. Baby drews funeral is set for friday. Consumer protection in the law is now being delayed until 2015. The president s plan limits out ofpocket costs such as copays and deductibles. Because of the loophole insurers have a 1year grace period allowing them to set higher limits or no limits at all in 2014. Critics say it is another reason the president S Health Care law will not work. The white house disagrees saying