Our houses. Reporter the work on the new span will continue even when its open. But bridge Officials Say dont worry, when youre driving across the new span you wont see the construction, you wont see the workers and of course that ensures no distractions, keeping safety a top priority. Live on treasure island, stephanie truong, nbc bay area news. Thank you, stephanie. Caltrans says it chose the Labor Day Weekend for the bridge opening because that weekend has the lowest volume of traffic during september. Even so, b. A. R. T. Is stepping up Train Service for the week beforehand to help absorb any impact. B. A. R. T. Will offer limited roundtheclock service for the night of wednesday august 28th through the morning of monday september 2nd. It will not operate monday night into tuesday morning. So b. A. R. T. Can do mandated inspections. Just how often the trains will run still is not clear. A car crash in the south bay ends with one of the vehicles flying over the highway 85 overpass. I
Francisco where it will be more cloudy longer than the rest of us. Now the morning commute. Leyla gulen . We have a crash if live more clearing eastbound 580 at highway 4 and it is not causing delays but stubborn to clear. The rest of drive is move well with another construction project westbound dublin at the interchange with cones being picked up. You will start to see the traffic dissipate. As far as mass transit, bart, muni and ace train and caltrain all running on time. The san mateo bridge shows hayward to foster city, right at the highrise and toward the peninsula you are moving along at top speed. Eric and kristen . Ought scramble is on for commuter and those affected by a major shut down of the bay bridge in two weeks. Officials announced the bridge will be shut down for five days over Labor Day Weekend to on the new span september 3. Despite being a Holiday Weekend this will be a Significant Impact on local business. Restaurants in San Franciscos drawn area expect to see a sl
To the new eastern span of the bay bridge. City in answer is yes. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Im frank mallicoat. The new span of the bay bridge will be open for traffic on labor day weekend. Theres a lot to do between now and then. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us live outside the meeting where the big announcement was just made moment ago. Reporter now transportation officials are going from decisionmaking to planning because two weeks from tonight the bay bridge will be closed. The bay bridge as we know it. And five days later, or less, the new span of the bay bridge will be open. This was a whirlwind decision. The Oversight Committee made the call 15 minutes ago. First the federal government approved a temporary fix for the 32 bolts that snapped on the bridge in march and then we heard testimony from two independent panels who concurred that the new bridge is safer than the old bridge, even while the permanent fix, the saddle, is being installed. Theres risk to all of
Sides have called for demonstrations after fridays prayer. Egypts government has authorized the use of deadly force against protestors who target police or government buildings. The death toll from wednesdays clashes has officially surpassed 600 and it continues to rise. My brothers number here at this makeshift morgue is 261. I know at least theres 261 bodies here. Reporter theres concern among many in the world that the violence in egypt will spread. The u. N. Security council met here in new york last night and was briefed behind closed doors. There was a common desire underneath to stop violence and to advance national reconciliation. Reporter president obama condemned the governments decision to crackdown on protestors and he announced the u. S. Would cancel biannual military exercises with egypt that date back to 1981. Our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. Reporter one thing the u. S.
Will be cooler, fog or clear, mild lows, a lot of 60s on the lows. Its warm, but i feel that cooler breeze. Its nice to warm to hot. One more day, and tomorrow things change. Mid60s already. A little more sitting there, oakland 52 degrees. San jose is a balmy mild. Southwest 23, 23 out of travis. Its decent this kind of year. Well starting a cooling day starting tomorrow. A breeze at time, well be picking up as well. 60s, 70s into 90s. Heres sal. Good morning, we have a problem on the peninsula on northbound 101 university avenue. Injury crash is blocking most of the freeway north bound. The traffic is going to be slowing down from Mountain View and palo alto. Police have issued a signal alert. The best way for you to get around it is using interstate 280. That looks good going up the peninsula. This is interstate 880, that traffic continues to look good. Getting to the bay bridge toll plaza, its good going into San Francisco. Were following developing news in hayward this morning wher