Tonight that the blame is falling on the shoulders of many contractors the controversy of the rusting bolts in the single anchor suspension section of the bay bridge has finally played outas far as who is to blame and how much it will cost. The fines are in the millions of dollars and project leaders say they will be able to finally close the books on the construction project. Leah robinson it was determined that three parties were equally involved in the failure of the tower anchor rods. Those parties are the contractor, american bridge four, t. Y. Lynn moffit nickal, as well as cal trans. That will round out that 24 Million Dollars. Jeff an expensive mistake for sureall three parties will be equally responsible for their share. it came to a total of 24 million and each of the parties is going to provide eight Million Dollars so the way that will be broken out is that cal trans will get a credit from american bridge four, the contractor. Caltrans will seek a claim against t. Y. Lynn m
Of when i go home. Fire has scorched more than 73,000 a. And burned nearly 600 homes. The fire containment tonight is off fell 45 that is higher than earlier today and the fire causing overwhelming destruction for hundreds of families plus the deaths of three people. Kkr will joins us live from cost of go with house firefighters plan to tackle the fire during the week and he. It has reaction from anxious evacuees who have been without their home for almost a week now. And Charles Clifford live at a Football Game where evacuees were invited to attend. Tonight with cable. Reporter just the big news that is some evacuees will be able to return home to tonight people entwine like other areas can come home tomorrow if residents of middletown one area burned the worst by the valley fire they are able to come home at noon and at middletown tonight if these guys who have been here four days the ones who have been watching over this town while residents are evacuated. The last part of this fire
The system didnt do much south. It did from marin county north. It left behind a lot of low clouds. Thats what were dealing with here. A couple breaks in the clouds. Once the low clouds burn off a lot more sunshine today. A gradual warmup. The rainfall is what is impressive. Especially towards the russian river. Vinnie martin is along saint alena road. 1. 18. Upper lake, thank you peggy,. 80. Forestville, lake port. 5inch rain. Santa rosa. 41. Napa. 20. Sausalito. 16. System has moved out. It fell apart. It gave us good rain up to the north. A lot of low clouds and mist drizzly conditions for some. 50s, 60s on the temps. Not much of a breeze. A breeze later once the low clouds burn off. There is plenty there. The trend is for sunshine and little bit warmer today. Morning clouds or fog. Some of that fog is thick, by the way. 60s, 70s for others. Sal, slow traffic to report . You know, one of the things that we are looking at is the volume of traffic has increased a lot. Starting off wit
Threatened. We still just got an update from calfire. The valley fire is now 15 contained. We also know they added 500 firefighters to the firefight overnight. We do have continued Team Coverage for you. Well bring you the latest as well as the Recovery Efforts in just minutes here. It is a tuesday morning, september 15th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. We know its cooler up there and the weather is a big factor. Its much cooler. 40s and 50s. They will get rain tomorrow. Mendocino county, lake county. Down here could be iffy. But up there it looks like it. We do have low clouds. A lot of reports of drizzle. Measurable amounts. 03, San Francisco. 14 100ths in sausalito, even in the santa cruz mountains. Some cloud cover and cooler, cooler, upper 40s, 50. 87, 90 to 100 . Ive seen 47s, 49s. We will get a little more sun today. Its pouring in l. A. Theyve had 1. 25 around the l. A. Area. There are flood watches and warnings. Incredible rain down there. 5
George to get from here to here on westbound highway for of course the alternate you know that if you live in this area theyre hard to get to because it is too much for the to the west and will pass road hard to get to those alternate routes 26 and 28 minute drive times the nimitz freeway offer to the best one to the bay bridge this morning for the san mateo bridge ride high with 92 to the chris low 26 to 28 metric time already hitting of hayward and over toward san mateo and your east bay writer coming out of richmond is already back of beyond the richmond parkway a 6¢ to 80 minute trip into san rafael. Reporter we go to the radar and satellite picture in for the most are aware and of a clear spot some of the bridge picture that were showing you a clear we noticed else has a fairly clear all the some of the marine layers is one to focus on the north to bay and in down to the city of the greater bay area not so much to solve the you like is some good son in san jose even by noon the L