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We have a brand new accident on the bay bridge. The cartinez has trouble with a couple of vehicles. It look like the tolls are loading up on the bay bridge. If you are traveling in the westbound direction you will see slow and go traffic. Mass transit all run on time as is ace train. No delays out there. Here we go at look at san rafael drive coming from Santa Benicia the headlights are looking light so decent conditions and no crashes or construction out there. The latest on the bart negotiations. Talks resume this morning while the two biggest bart unions plan a public demonstration this afternoon. All the while, the clock ticks toward a potential second strike. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is at walnut creek bart. We have a few days to go but riders have little hope there will be a resolution. People here are preparing and predicting there will be a strike. We have seen the teams of people going in and out of the negotiations but they say not much is going on inside. The union says there has not been significant progress of wages, pensions, and health care. We could get notice of a strike today if negotiations continue to stall then the unions could issue the 72hour warning of a strike. They could issue that tonight. That would mean we would see bart workers back on the picket line like any were a month ago. The months say the offer on the table is the best they can do. We may adjustments so everyone sees more money in their pocket. The calculations we have run show that all employees will receive a 1 percent net gain and more if they choose a cheaper medical premium. The utility workers in our union who start out at 42,000 will be 1,4950 behind. Last month, the strike results in a long congested miserable commute for people and transportation Officials Say they are preparing to add extra options with extra buses and ferries and some officials learned a lot from the last strike and will make adjustments. The union is planning a rally today at 5 00 in front of city halt and a strike could happen on monday if negotiations do not go well today. Dug the first strike and they are readying extra ferries. Commuters are asked to travel offpeak. Before 6 30 in the morning and not travel between 5 and 7 00 p. M. That would help. There be more runs from oakland, vallejo and alameda to the ferry building. Paid parking begins at the waterfront garage if vallejo. If there is another bart strike we will put together a full rage of resources at abc7 news come with the latest status on bart talks and information on commute alternatives and you can down led our exclusive abc7 news traffic app to negotiate the freeways in one spot abc7news. Com. Right now we have breaking news Edward Snowden has received asylum for a year in russia and left the now airport where he has been holed up for a month according to the lawyer. The information coming down from reuters. Edward snowden, the u. S. Government wanted him extradicted back to the United States for leaking classified information about the n. S. A. s surveillance program. He was at the russian airport, the now airport but we are getting this breaking news that the former spy Agency Contractor has now got were the paperwork necessary to leave the airport and get the temporary one year asylum in russia. We are will getting our first look at the fix for broken bolts on the new east were span of the bay bridge. Crews are rating to get the repair project done. Abc7 News Reporter Katie Marzullo is in the newsroom. Katie . We were able to go inside the machine shop where the parts are being fabricated. Look at these models, helping you see the fix. The saddle is in purple on the broken rods and steel is threaded through the layers of the saddle and pulled type to clamp the rod. Look at the manufacturing. You can so a 3 steel slab rolled into a u shape and another machine is carving out the trough the tendons written through. The engineers explains the process. It is tight with a lost stretch and you want to relax it. So what you do is put if this fixture, heat it up, relieve the stress. Here is a look for you at the bay bridge from emeryville. The big question will the span open on time . It will be finished in middecember but this is more to it, sims are fabricated, parts that secure a tight fit and they should be done in a couple of days and they could mean opening the bridge before the saddle work is completed but that depends on the outcome of an independent review. Three suspects in a violent attack in San Francisco are now in custody. This troubling video show as woman being brutally kicked in the head after being mugged in San Francisco on pride week. It helped lead to the capture last week of 23yearold christopher porterbailey. The attack struck a chord with the suspect. Certainly when you see a robbery that is accompanied with a violent assault like that, it is disturbing when you see an assault of that nature on an innocent victim. 20yearold davis and 22yearold Julian Williams were also taken into custody and looking to see if they are linked to other robberies. Oakland Police Credit the public who helped identify three women that could is witnessed a murder. The victim took these pictures on halloween 2011 and die add few hours later after being shot at party on the only of november 1. Police believe these women may have witnessed the shooting but left before police arrived. Another womans photo is not yet identified. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a wildfire on the Lawrence Livermore laboratory property that destroyed a trailer used by laboratory security. We were there after it broke out before 4 00 in site 300 near the laboratory explosive testing area. A firefighter suffered minor injuries battling the place. 20 acres burned. A clear morning. We will check with meteorologist mike nicco. It will warm up. But it will be below average. We kind of joked, where did our summer go . It is going to. Can back. If alaska i will show you what is going on there. Look at the temperatures, 51 at barrel, and lowtomid 60s at anchorage and fairbanks is 86 degrees and they have been 80 degrees or warmer 30 days this summer tying a record average 11 day and they set a record for 12 days of 85degree heat or warmer. That is where summer when. Now what will happen back at home . It will not be a bad day we have clouds arriving late this or, and you can see the next 12 hours we will warm from 49 to 57 this morning to 58 at coast to 68 with clean air and beautiful blue sky. Breeze will build and that will keep us below average 60 to 78 at 4 00 and it will cool quickly at 58 at the cost to 72 inland. Have a good one. Leyla gulen . We do have a crash on the cartinez bridge in the westbound direction but we are looking at delays eastbound as you can see the yellow indicated on the map. From what it sounds like someone was driving at a high rate of speed and crashed into someone and a lane is blocked. Construction project will last until 7 00 and eastbound side of highway four from port chicago highway to willow pass road has a couple of lanes taken away and that is beginning to remain until 7 00 a. M. As you head along the westbound direction traffic is running smoothly as we make it over to the concord area and you continue into hercules you are maintaining a decontent speed much the drive tame traffic, 80 westbound from albany to the maze is a short fourminute drive and 880 southbound from fremont to san jose, 15 minutes, and 12 minutes headed northbound from 101 to cupertino along 280 and here is san mateo bridge, you can see the traffic is running absolutely in both directions. Eric and kristen . Next summer barbecue could take a big bite out of your wallet. Big drive to help 20,000 kids whose families can not afford school my supplies. Huge jackpot. How much the powerball is worth this weekend. Covering cupertino, concord, wine country, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. 5 13 on this thursday. And interstate 680, the tail lights southbound from north main you can see the traffic is moving along right now and we will check it out in a couple minutes. 50,000 pounds of ground beef are recalled because of possible e. Coli contamination produced by National Beef Packing Company in kansas. It was sold in 40 to 60 pound cases and has the number 208a inside the usda mark. It was produced on july 18, 2013 and sold under National Beef nature source labels. No illnesses have been reported. It is the going of august. Many families are planning for the start of school in a few minutes. Volunteers will start giving out backpacks. It is the time of year when backpacks are distributed to Young Students throughout schools and Service Organizations that help low income families. This is the way it looks in San Francisco last year. If menlo park volunteers with the family giving tree expect to hand out more than 20,000 backpacks at a warehouse today through august 23 are. Injury the grill this summer, beef highs could be about to go higher. Whole food cuts profit forecast, as competitors eat into the business. And now the Bloomberg Business report. Good morning, bad news if you think you are paying too much at the excessry store beef prices could be about to go higher. Production could hit a 21year low as ranchers continue to cut herd side to deal with high feed cost after the drought last year. Retail beef prices in june were close to records. Ground beef price could be 3. 5 percent higher next year. If you think you are cutting back on spending you could be fooling yourself. A study says that people say they cut back on drinking outside the home and vacation and leisure and entertainment and dining out in 2012 compared to the year before but spending in all categories rose. The nations schools and playgrounds could about to get more crowded. Now that the Great Recession is over, fertility rates are rising again. A report says that women who intend Weekly Religious Services appear to have more children than those would rarely or never attend. That is the news from the New York Stock Exchange from Bloomberg Business report. The Powerball Jackpot is at 2930 290 million up for grabs. 8, 24, 39, 49, 59, mega number 5. The odds of winning will 290 million jackpot are one in 175 million. You may remember the last person to win big in the powerball was a florida woman back in may, she checked the biggest single jackpot in history 590 million. Lost money. But you cannot buy a good forecast. You can rent a good forecast are, though. I will do the best i can. What do you want . Sight warm up. Slight is the key. I will show you what is going on. That is what we need to get us back where we should no one time of the year. Good morning, everyone, here is live doppler 7 hd, it is dry this morning. No drizzle. No mist. The clouds are just new coming back to the neighborhoods. When you check out the temperatures they will be cooler than yesterday because of the lack of cloud cover and blanket effect. 52 in forest hills to 55 elsewhere in San Francisco and mission and glen park and 54 is the exception. Palo alto and santa clara, 51 degrees. Saratoga is 52. San leandro is 53. Petaluma is 48. Walnut creek is 58. Pleasanton is 53 and union city is a warm spot at 58 and richmond at 356. The roof camera, you can see the clouds gathering along the east bay shore a cleaner and dry air mass and a cool sea Breeze Holding the temperatures below average again. Sitting on top of us, and we have High Pressure down over the four corners but if you look at the national it is cool in the eastern twothirds of country and they are soaked by rain with many areas well above average in the south we are seeing feast or 71 in milpitas and 79 in los gatos. 71 in san mateo and jumping to 75 in redwood city and los altos and millbrae is coolest at 58. Mid60s downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito and midtoupper 70s through the north bay valley to upper 50s at the north bay beach and in the upper 60s to low 70s along the east bay shore. The east bay valley shows not using the air conditioning, and 76 at pleasanton, and 81 at antioch and 82 in fairfield. Tomorrow, two to six degrees warmer and temperatures will plain in the midtown more 80s inland and midtoupper 70s around the bay and low 60s at coast and morning clouds giving way to afternoon sunshine, about each day. Is a go day. Leyla gulen . It sounds like the crash we reported is now a hitandrun accident and we are not sure if it is a high speed chase but it sounds like the car took off at a high rate of speed and they are in this area. Cartinez bridge, one lane is blocked in the westbound direction and now we are seeing slowing in the westbound headed over the bridge to crockett but that traffic collision was caused by someone who exited the parkway. As we heads over to the Altamont Pass, we are looking at heavy conditions to tracy over the pass and to livermore so you have 30 Miles Per Hour. And you are down to 28 when you start exiting the pass and then the speeds pick up. To the maze, we can check out the other end of 80 up to 580 to the toll, traffic is loading up. But it is still only four minutes headed away from the hoffman split to the maze. Thank you, leyla gulen at 5 20. The watch abc live stream is now available in the bay area. 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Leaker snow snow got his papers and has left the transit area of the now airport. The Attorney Says that Edward Snowden received asylum for a year and now has entered russia. Three, we are getting a first look inside the machine shop where the parks are being made to fix the new eastern span of the bay bridge with steel saddles compensating for the bolts that cracked. Korean war sergeant who will buried with full military honors today. The San Francisco native was captured if korea in 1951 and died in captivity. His remains were returned after being identified with the family d. N. A. The bed bug sniffing dog will make another circuit around the goodwill warehouse to make sure there are no traces. On friday night there was a scare if San Francisco at at warehouse where an inspection revealed evidence of bedbugs. Six, today could be the last day below average temperatures with a warming trend on the way in the weekend forecast. A look at the bay bridge toll plaza with the cashpaying lanes slowing up but the problem is the cartinez bridge with a hit and run crash blocking a lane and causing slowing. Sources say Major League Baseball is threatening to kick new york yankees star arod out of the game for life unless he agrees not to fight a plenty suspension in his role in the drug scandal the most prominent player linked to a closed floridaants aging clinic that distributed banned performance enhancing drugs. The yankees expect rodriguez to be accused of recruiting other athletes for the clinic to obstruct the investigation and not being truthful. Now to Little League baseball, petaluma captured the big excitement and this year a Peninsula Team is going for the glory. It is time for the Little League playoff and the all stars from belmont are in San Bernardino to play after defeating santa cruz last weekend. The team got a big send off yesterday morning and belmonts first game is tomorrow against the champions from arizona and you can watch it if you want to, online, at espn 3. Are they excited . Anecessity look very excited. The whole community, income, had a big rally,