mulberry. this woman is the creator and the one who went around that mulberry bush and tagged it. it would be fair to call her a web pioneer. she s probably best known as the creator of flickr, sold to yahoo! f35 million dollars. i want to talk about findery for a second, but i want to talk about hunch. it was acquired by e-bay. what is that like. you create this little baby and you sell it far lot of money. congratulations. and then you kind of check online and somebody threw it in the trash. that s one way to think about it. flickr was acquired by yahoo! and still is to this day known as flickr. for some companies, that s the right thing to do. the right thing to keep the name and the right thing to continue it as flickr. it s a community site. it s very difficult to rebrand it as a yahoo! site. so that s a very important thing to think about when you re doing a when you re doing an integration into a larger company. and yes, it is a sad day when no longer you go to
strike. the three-day strike could affect city service including water service and street maintenance. a slippery mess on a road in solano county this morning. tomatoes are all over pedrick near interstate 80 at dixon. the tomato spill is not affecting i-80 traffic. chp says that tomato mess if you drive through, drive with extra care. it s slippery on pedrick road inics did son. at the livermore valley westbound traffic a big rig stalled out approaching livermore so we are looking at two consecutive mornings of very long delays for 580. this is leaving the altamont pass through the livermore valley heading into dublin. so set aside extra time for that commute. we also have an accident in the clearing stages over at the bay bridge toll plaza. so this is westbound 80. they are just pulling it off to the right-hand side. you could see right here at the pay gates traffic is backed up beyond the 880 overcrossing. still looking good for the fastrak lanes. all of our local tran
of this found its way out. reporter: these drugs may have made it out to the concerts and streets if not for pure luck. in this instance we were lucky. reporter: liz good police work by the sfpd on a normal disturbance burglary call but they followed up on it: mr. hagerl cut himself on the balcony. both he and the other suspect turns out have pretty extensive arrest records for trafficking in drugs. breaking news, this thursday will be the announcements of the opening of the new span of the bay bridge. the federal highway administration signed off on the fix for those busted bolts on the bridge. now today the toll bridge oversite committee say its independent experts agree using metal shims as a temporary fix to allow the bridge to open to traffic while the permanent steel saddle is installed. opening a bridge getting the construction completed dealing with the public notice, all these things are significant logistical details that they are making sure they have all
in the shims. the shims could take as much as just a week to install. but i also heard it con take less time than that. so it will be [ inaudible ] reporter: the highway patrol has already planned on a possible labor day opening. officers are scheduled for overtime duty that weekend just in case. the bridge oversight committee plans to hold a public hearing on thursday morning in oakland at 10 a.m. they are going to show all of the engineering reports and that, allen, is the date they will announce when the bridge will finally open. and that big celebration that they had scheduled ahead of labor day opening any word on that? reporter: well, that s probably not going to happen. they say what they will probably do is just a modest celebration to just get people on the bridge, all those bridge walks, bicycle races, the big fireworks shows, that may happen at a later date. all right. linda, thanks. new at 6:00 the feds are warning public pension reforms pushed by go
the proposal would require drivers training, background checks and insurance coverage. rideshare operators are supporting the rules, by the way. cab companies are opposed. standardized tests as we know them may soon be out in california public schools. today, state schools chief tom torlakson and concord assemblywoman susan bonilla will discuss replacing the pencil and paper star tests. the new tests will be done on computers similar to common core programs used in 45 other states. president obama is now in russia where he will spend a couple of days in st. petersburg at the group 20 economic summit. he just arrived there a short time ago. the white house says the president will not meet one on one with russian president vladimir putin. that personal meeting was canceled after russia granted temporary asylum for edward snowden. while the president is overseas, more lawmakers here at home are getting behind his plan for military action against the syrian government. mo