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KGO ABC7 News 400PM August 28, 2013

Tuesday morning before the commute but could happen late monday. Here is a look at new, and old bridges right now from our camera. Well be streaming this throughout the closure on our web site. Its taken 24 years to get to this point. And one more live look at the bridges. This is the view from our camera. We have bridges surrounded at this point. Caltrans and chp have a plan before the whole thing shuts down and also have a warning for drivers. Were live with more, cornell . Hey, larry. No doubt bit. Escape has begun. Folks clearly getting out of town early and over the bay bridge before it closes tonight at 8 00. But were told that will likely happen a lot earlier than that. Freeway signs are impossible to miss warning motorists of the closure of the bridge but drivers, the chp will be closing bridge access. The closure going to be well into affect before 8 00 hour. One person trying to gaet cross youre likely going to encounter closure. Extra chp will be on duty to close east bay bridge approaches. On the eastbound skyway here in San Francisco, traffic will be taken off at fourth street. A lot of hassle. Many fear more gridlock on city streets and we found many folks making a break from work early before the clock strikes 8 00. Im rapidly making my way across the bridge before, you know, kinderela loses a shoe. Lisa says shell work from home. Chp urging everyone to be patient and have plans which doesnt involve the bay bridge. Back live here at first and harrison. Traffic on eastbound skyway will be taken off first street tonight and tomorrow. Friday through monday closure happens at 7th street. As for folks who want to be the last to cross the old bay bridge, chp says people dont do it. Because you will get a ticket. People have try that had before. Chp urging everyone to move along, dont stop on the side of the road. If that happens if youre the last to cross, that will happen by circumstance and hopefully, youll be the lucky one. Fr, abc 7 news. Cornell, dont do it. I know youre tempted. Public transportation will be picking up the slack. Bart will be running on full tilt with longer trains during peak commute hours and increase service during the weekend. Ac transit adding bus with service to four stations. There will be ferries crossing the bay. Best thing to could go do go to abc 7 news. Com. Weve got tloimpkz local agency autos we want to take a look at the approach to the bay bridge this, is battery street before market. You can see crowded. Were bringing this to you to check back in throughout the newscast. Yes. I believe dick epting our technician driving the vehicle will be movering along about every few minutes to see his progress as he tries to make his way towards the bay fwroij get on it lets check in now with the latest in traffic. Good afternoon, yes. In fact doesnt look different on San Francisco skyway. Lets take a look at that right now. You can go there live. You can see bumper to bumper traffic coming into the city. Those are the headlights making it in the northbound direction. Southbound side making a get away. Well take a look at bay bridge tolls now so you can see pretty empty out there. , so far, so good. If you do plan on heading down to take the san mateo bridge youre running along at top speeds out there. Further south at dunbarton moving along at top speeds there. And taking you over to the golden gate if youre making a get away through marin county that side looking fine except starting to slow bumper to bumper through mill valley and towards 5 l 80 over to the richmond bridge. That is where things move along at tough speeds. Back toou. Another live take a look at sky 7 hd counting down less than four hours away from the closure of the bay bridge. Well have a special live report as the bridge closes. Follow us fr latest impacts. Coming up, how a wedding plan jer making arinkments for a stressed out bride getting married on Treasure Island this weekend. Then, at 5 00 last minute construction needed to usher out old bridge and bring in the new. Moving on to other news abc 7 news i team learned of a possible sixth victim of convicted serial killer joseph naso. Naso has been linked to another womans murder now, prosecutors say they found evidence connecting him to a sixth killing ofalju p06hc patton. This plan to present that evidence next month. Former walnut creek theater teacher pleaded guilty to child pornography and molestation charges. The 27yearold accepted a deal sending him to jail 90 days. Hell be required to register as a sex offender and bide by a 10 year stay away order. We want to you take a look at these men just some of the 23 gang member as rested in richmond in a major crack down on crime Police Conducted wire taps on the deep c gang. Investigator says they recorded the men planning murders. When were intercepting folks to a car all armed on their way to a location theyve identified that tells you that is a call to action that we interrupted. Police are searching for another deep c gang member considered armed and dangerous thrkts say more arrests are coming up. In Solano County fairfield crews remain on the scene of a grass fire that damaged or destroyed a dozen houses in fairfield. This fire spread quickly along marigold drive. Martin lawler lived with his motherhc z. [ loss of audio ]. All right. Were going to get back to that report on the situation in fairfield but while we get that done, lets look at the situation with the sierra fire burning outside of Yosemite National park. The rim fire burned 190 acres now. Crews built a new fire line in hopes of slowing the spread of the fire. 4500 structures are still threatened more than 100 have been lost. Today California National guard launched an unmanned drone to survey the terrain. Yes. The weather has been cooperating more in that area. Conditions are improving. They dont seem to be an impediment in the efforts. Weve got low clouds at the coast, sunny skies and warm condition as cross the area, here is a live view from our camera looking out over San Francisco. You can see low clouds beginning to drift in. 74 in oakland. 81 redwood city. 64 Half Moon Bay. Another live view towards ocean beach you can see a marine layer there gathering at the coastline. 89 in fairfield. 87 in livermore, and well take a look at the bay bridge from our exploratorium camera giving you a first forecast for the evening. Well see clear skies early with increasing areas of fog and low clouds, tomorrow, sunny, warm, mid up toer 60s on the coast. And there will be more warming coming our way. Ill give you a look at fire weather conditions over the area of the rim fire in the next forecast. Still head no ordinary rocket launch. What its carrying for u. S. Government. 50 years ago today, president s, celebrities and civil rights leaders gathered to celebrate a landmark moment in history. Also coming up Michael Finney will be here to answer questions live. You can contact michael. If youre trying to get out of San Francisco now, via bay bridge its jam packed no matter which route youre taking this, is the San Francisco skyway. You can see cars here on the left side of the screen just slammed as they try to make their way to the lower deck. Shhhhh in our day, we didnt have uverse high speed internet. Yeah, our babysitter didnt have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. We had to count sheep to fall asleep. And i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. In my head. Never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. Too much . A little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. We want to show you now our drive on first street. This is in San Francisco. This is inch by inch, slowly, i turn. Just cross market on to first street this is the approach from the bay bridge with luck, our crew will make it before 8 00 on were trying to give you an idea of what it is like right now approaching the bay bridge. You can see its just going to be slow going. Expect a long wait. There we go. Two Miles Per Hour right there. We want up to date you now on that massive grass fire Solano County. Martin lawler lived on marigold drive. He and his daughter were home, napping when fire overran the street. I turned around and i saw my palm tree on fire. At that time, i went inside and saw down to the backyard window. There is smoke. I didnt see flames, just saw smoke. I grabbed my daughter and got her out. Fire Department Red tagged the home one of five destroyed. 10 more sustained damage for total of 15. And this didnt start as a structure fire. Flames broke out in the grass along i 80 yesterday afternoon, and the fire got over a wall noorks backyards and their homes. Lawler lost everything. I picked up some guitars theyre just burned to a crisp. You know . Just metal pieces. A fairfield chief says winds fanned flames and 50 people had to evacuate quickly. Maintaining your house, defensible space, cleaning out gutters and trimming trees is not something you think about in the city. Its relative, here. Hes wearing his brothers he clothes and facing a long list of chores to get his lifr back in order like a new drivers license and Social Security are card. Just trying to ajust, taking it day by day. Just try to figure this out and try to get back on our feet. Continuing to survey gage i can tell you the fire damaged an at and t maintenance yard. Several person vehicles were damaged. The cause of the fire that started this is still under investigation. In fairfield abc 7 news. All right. Moving on to Business News a Syrian Group Claims Responsibility for New York Times hacking and facebooks mobile push is apparently working. Good afternoon, apple planning to open a store in tokyo. One of the citys upscale districts this, will be apples First New Store in the worlds 13th largest city. Since 2005. As mentioned a group known as Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility for attacks taking down New York Times web site. Twitter was also an apparent victim in tangs. Culprits posted their claims of responsibility on, you got it, twitter. Hacking into the company that registers domain names for both the times and twitter. U. S. Stocks rose today. S and p index rebounding after an eightweek low. S and p 500 up five points. Dow jones up 48 points. Bloomberg Silicon Valley higher led by shares of apple computer. Facebook making big gains in the market for mobile ads according to e marketer saying facebook should see a share of global and mobile ad revenues reaching 16 this year. E marketer says google still the king of moblg, 53 of share from pier 3 in San Francisco, im cory johnson with bloomberg west, back to you. Thank you. I r. A massive rocket launched along the Central California coast. The rockets soared carrying a satellite for National Recognizance Office on what is a highly classified mission. The delta 4 is the largest rocket in the country, 23 stories tall, last time it launched in 2011 the roar of the engines shook the nearby city of lompoc. Some people reported hearing engines from 50 miles away. Three main engines wm aw ignited one after another. I bet you can feel that. Things looking g a couple warm days but that cool down shouldnt interfere with outdoor plans for labor day weekend. Here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. Sunny skies and if youre looking towards the coast here is a beautiful view of blue skies here at abc 7. These forecast features foggy conditions tonight near the coast and bay. During overnight hours some low clouds and fog push inland and across the bay. Mild to warm thursday and friday. Well see cooler days pleasant but cooler, area of disturbed weather moving into the northwest. And well end up with sunny skies and mild to warm conditions again, tomorrow, notice how rain develops as you follow maybe thunderstorms following the time line there. Overnight into tomorrow. Let me give you a look at the rim fire forecast. Sunny skies tomorrow just a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms or two. Winds on the strong side. Southwest 25 Miles Per Hour. Higher country about 75 degrees so weather should not be a major factor. Back to the bay area tonight mention those areas of low clouds and fog pushing local lynnland overnight low temperatures pretty mild upper 50s to low 60s for the bay area. Then, tomorrow, sunny skies in afternoon and south bay highs of 80 degrees at santa clara. 81 san jose. On the peninsula, highs 80 at redwood city and mountain view. 79 palo alto mid to upper 60s on the coast. 68 in Half Moon Bay in the north bay low to mid 80s in north bay value veeys. On the east bay, oakland topping out at 74 degrees tomorrow, 78 union city. 80 fremont. And inland east bay, 88 in walnut creek and fairfield. And antioch. Here is the accuweather forecast. Well see low 90s in warmest locations on friday. But then, temperatures dropping off about six to eight degrees on saturday and sunday. And theyll hold steady mid80s into labor day inland. Mid80s monday and mid70s around the bay. Pleasant weather coming our way. Just a drop off over the weekend. Up next one of the hottest couples in hollywood splitting up. Possible reason why the marriage is on the rocks now. After 4 3011yearold about to start his freshman year of college. How this whiz kid will be navigating college live. Speaking of navigating, well in a few days were going to be navigating. Those of us who use the bay bridge will be navigating in and out of the San Francisco right now were counting it down to the closure of the old span of the bridge you can see in the background this is the newer part of the eastern span. The countdown continues an after 13 years of marriage Catherine Zetajones and Michael Douglas are taking time apart. A spokeswoman says they will evaluate and work on the marriage. The pair have two children. People magazine says the relationship crumbled while both were battling health issues. Douglas suggested his cancer may have been caused by a sexually transmitted disease. Getting back to our bridge coverage when the original bay bridge opened it was 1936 then governor marion held the blow torch to cut the chain right there raising the question who should have the honor when they dot carry moan scheduled for monday . So i put this question out and got a ton of responses on first thought was maybe tony ben yet. Bennett we have support for joe montana and the new niner quarterback collin kaepe kaepernick. East bay people jumped in saying we need an east bay person or being, i guess is getting1qusupport. Another rapper by the name of two chains, there are votes for two chains and clint eastwood, go ahead, cut my chain. All right sni believe that the way that would go. You will not be doing this. I can tell you who is not going to be cutting it. They wont let me near it. If you want to join the conversation go to our Facebook Page or hit me up on twitter. You can tweet carolyn as well. Ill pass to it larry. Still ahead at 4 00 our bay yedere iss a le bridge from our camera. Coming up well take a look at how tonights bridge closure will affect people and businesses that need to get across the bay. Also, a look at traffic conditions. Remembering the dream. President obama honors reverend Martin Luther king junior on the anniversary of the march on washington. In san jose, some of calling this city ban jose. But today, city officials shot down a controversial proposal targeted some yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . Its countdown to the closure and now, all systems go. We have a live look at sky 7 hd at bridges old and new. And in three and a half hours the old bridge will shut down. Around 7 00 chp going to roll traffic breaks on interstate 880. And once the bridge is closed tonight eastbound traffic skyway approach will be forced to get off at 4th street. We want to give you a live look from the ground right now. And our crew left the station 35 minutes ago. A driver normally taking no more than 10 taking 35 just at this point. Hes not yet to the first street on ramp to the bay bridge. You can see its jam packed. This is how it is throughout the city. People try to leave work early to get across the bridge before the shut down. Yes. Were talking about concentrating on the bridge. There is people should ab lerted if youre not there early youre not going to be there before they shut it down. How does it affect peopleiq[ and business thats ned to get across the bay . Its kind of a mixed bag. Imagine you plan to get married over there on Treasure Island. What a nightmare, perhaps. That is just one story we heard today. Sheer another. A financial hair cut for the barber in union square. Some customers cancelled appointments this weekend. Im self employed. If i dont get here, not making money. San francisco chamber of commerce hopes not many Small Businesses will be hurt. Larger ones have prepared. Goodness is that notice has been given, plans have been made. It comes down. No jitters for duncan reyes. Hes a wedding planner. And as you see from these pictures he gave us, Treasure Island nuptials are a specialty. The Catering Company setting up for one sunday that is planned months ago. If i were bride and groom i would have screamed. Which is the first reaction. Access passes from San Francisco for the wedding party. It has in the been a stressful as people would think. Theyre also looking at the upside in millbrae. The big art and Wine Festival this w

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