(male announcer) this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. welcome i m john fenoglio i m vicki liviakis. the bay bridge construction getting ready to wrap up! we are now less than 40 hours away from the opening of the new eastern span of the bay bridge. the bridge has been closed since wednesday night but will open back up tuesday morning. kron 4 s j.r. stone spent the day on the new eastern span of the bay bridge and joins us live tonight. j.r., you had an up close look at the progress that has been made. any chance we ll open early? details are unfolding in the union city police involved shooting tonight. police say before they arrived on scene, the man had already fired 15 to 20 rounds just outside of his house, some of which almost hit a passing car with a child inside. as kron 4 s alecia reid reports, police tried to calm him down, but it all unfolded quickly. police were back at the home of the shooting - folowing up with family members also knock
hello, again, everyone, i ll heather holmes. we are entering the negotiations in an effort to avoid another strike between bart and the unions. we are seven hours away from the strike deadline set for midnight. both sides remain at the bargaining table trying to come up with a deal to stop workers from walking off the job. we haven t heard much today about the status of the talks, christian. reporter: there have not been alot of talk to the media. we can say there are atu members. union members inside. we saw the union president a few minutes ago out for a very brief break. earlier, a union representative indicated a scheduled news conference was canceled because negotiators were too busy for an update. we apologize for any inconvenience, but there will not be a press conference at 1:30. the parties are diligently working to attempt to get a contract. atu representative was making that statement and we saw takeout food being brought into the building. possible
less than two days before the reopening of the bay bridge. crews tell us they are still on track to make that deadline. crews on the new bay bridge are still working around the clock to make tuesday s opening happening. taking a live look at the plaza where as you can see the work continues. reporter: you can see crews out there. we have christian, woe is live, now. he was just updated by officials on the progress out there. he is here to tell us what they had to say. reporter: really, no more than 15 seconds ago, i spoke with the bay bridge spokesperson. take a look, look at some of the work ongoing, a great deal of activity on the western end as well. at this point, cal-tran said they are on track for the 5:00 am tuesday morning opening, but a lot of the major work has been done a spokesman bridge spokesman said if it came down to it, traffic could pass over the bridge as it now stands. that was said with the caveat that a lot of the safety equipment is not in pla
this. they made this announcement with the russian prime minister making clear that the chemical weapons would end. we have made a share assessment how it and we are committed to to the rapid assumption controlled by the international community of those weapons. a framework to end these weapons calls on cereal for a comprehensive plan to find the stockpiles. between now and november. and the complete elimination of all chemical warfare by 2014. we have established a standard that we want to terrify and verify. reporter: if they do not comply they could face united nations complications and consequences. this crash killed the driver, and alecia reed has the latest on the accident. reporter: this car jumped the curb and barreled into the tree before hitting the fence. after colliding they say that both occupants inside were ejected. this happened a little bit after 7:00 p.m. on hillcrest avenue near stirling drive. this 17 year-old was pronounced dead at the scene