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women s basketball team get a gold medal. matt lauer grills ryan lochte over the scandal in rio. tucson s own bernard dagat going for gold at the age of 41. simone biles getting another honor. the contrasts between the game in sochi and here in rio. monsoon 2016 blowing back into the valley with dust and rain. exclusive video of a murder suspect in court. the hunt for the serial his victims want the shooter caught. 12news at 10:00 starts right now. good evening from rio everybody. what a memorable night here tonight. team usa an women s basketball clinches the gold medal. and two of its brightest stars brittany and diana part of the phoenix mercury coming home to the valley with some major bling. i got a chance to speak with diana exclusively tonight. in women s basketball. so, about putting on the usa jersey that makes you kneel like you have a lot of people behind you. i have been lucky to do it four olympics. four gold medals. i have been really luc ....
the temporary structure that will allow to us continue work all summer long underneath van ness and install a permanent tunnel structure. reporter: a block of one of the busiest stretches of roadway seems like a lot of space to work but it s not for the construction crews, who could only bring in two drilling machines for the work. it s tight quarters but the construction is on schedule. businesses in the area are still open and van ness will re-open to normal traffic at 11:59 tomorrow night ahead of monday s rush hour. so the next scheduled closure is two weeks from now so keep that in mind but businesses are open in the area. just give yourself a little extra time to travel through san francisco. we re live in the city, abc7 news. good advice. the search is on for a trio of armed robbery suspects who hit and killed a pedestrian last night. she was standing on california street near kearny when the seem cake spieding through during a police came pleading came s ....
the general contractor is always on schedule so that s good news. you can see the intersection here at geary and van ness and it s a little bit tricky for cars to navigate the turn on to van ness, however traffic appears to be flowing as good as can be expected and that s because of the 70 or so people who are directing drivers around the closure. buses, ped yaps and first responders are allowed through the blockade but a drivers have go toe go around the closure from post street to geary. in order to bore a thumb the crews closed vans me. the first of the schedule closures to construct a pedestrian access and connecting the medical center with medical offices. the goal is installing treasure structural walls. those walls will be part of the temporary structure that will allow to us continue work all summer long underneath van ness and install a permanent tunnel structure. reporter: a block of one of the busiest stretches of roadway seems like a lot of space to work ....
i can t believe they are back. they were there for emotional support everyday. it was tough. reporter: one day, grayson will learn about his parent s quest to have a baby and their journey to bring him home. a journey that started in tabasco mexico with a surrogate. a wonderful experience until the couple was denied a birth certificate to bring grayson home after he was born. the couple spent weeks stuck in mexico. we just want to get home. reporter: we first met the couple when they were skypeing from their hotel room in mexico city. our story brought attention to the family s desperate plea for help. i was apprehensive about seeing them there. i truly, truly, thought they were going to be stuck there longer than this. and i m so glad. i am probably happier that they are home than they are and you made all the difference in the world. reporter: surrogacy is legal in tabasco, but a change in administration put a halt to birth certificate for surrogate ba ....
coming down here. you can see the toll plazas all say closed so we don t have any cars going down the san mateo bridge at this point. now that the bridge is closed the work will continue nonstop and continue through early monday morning. at 7:00 tonight. the closure began starting with a single lane east and west over the span. but this project started long before today. we actually started this back in february. reporter: caltrans spokesperson william morris says the prep work began in february with limited lane closures, the resurfacing of the elevated span begins the entire bridge to be shut down. for the past six weeks, roadsides have been warning drivers. i live in hayward so it will affect my commute. reporter: dora crossing the bridge almost every day. a bridge in need of some work. some of the lanes are really shaky. so it does need some work. reporter: kind of a shaky road. a bumpy road home. reporter: dating back to 1967, it will take two weeke ....