We have Team Coverage beginning with debra. She is live at the toll plaza to show us the flurry of activity going on. Reporter frank, its so busy, they could turn on the metering lights here. The white pile johns were just installed. They are working on paving and striping the westbound approach to the toll plaza. This is another notch in the timeline which caltran said is right on schedule. Its the rare day you can cruise toward the city with the bay bridge this empty. The only traffic now is construction and media care vans. A tremendous amount of excitement. Everyone is feeling very confident. We are on track. Reporter on track demolishing thousand feet of the old upper deck, looking east, you can see is crumbling. By this time tomorrow, a crane will be ready to replace it with the sections of pedestrian and bypass. A straight shot in. 50miles an hour from one end of the bridge to the other. Out with the old means no more braking for the dreaded s turn. You wont have to slow down going into the tunnel or coming out of the tunnel. Reporter now, chp has a shoulder to pull people over, good for breakdowns and accidents, but if you pull into the shoulder to take a picture, you will get a ticket from chp. People will be tempted. They will be tempted and ticketed if they give into temptation. Reporter this will be a different driving experience, but first, this congestion has to clear and its a game of inches, painstaking details getting the markings just right, all signs still pointing to a tuesday, 5 00 am opening, possibly sooner, no promises. We dont want people planning travel based on some phantom opening date. No other date is out there. Reporter pave something giving way to striping. Demolition continues out night, too. The tunnel will get a scrubbing and scraping and led lighting. Tomorrow is the halfway mark on this project and so far, no snags. And what a difference two days makes from this to that. As debra mentioned, crews have been demolishing part of the old eastern span taking it apart section by section to clear the way for the first ever bike and pedestrian path on the bay bridge it has paveed the way for a ridership of bay area ridership, a spike. Yesterday was the third busiest day ever. 475,000. Golden gate ferry reports that passenger traffic is up. Alternate bridges are seeing an increase in traffic. Here on the san mat yo bridge, chp said there has been a 57 increase in eastbound traffic today. On the Golden Gate Bridge as well. The chp said northbound traffic out of the city is 13 higher than normal caltran is taking advantage of the closure of the bridge to work on the other half, the western span on the San Francisco side. We are told Structural Engineers are checking every joint and inspectors are working on seismic shock absorbers and monitoring Equipment Installed years ago after the northridge quake. This is a great savings for the taxpayers, for us, its safer. Reporter caltran calls this a real luxury. Take a step back in time. Check that out. Video from the 1930s when the bay bridge was built. Construction began in 1933 and completed three years later. In those days, building a bridge was risky business. Minimal safety gear and few regulations lead to serious injuries. Even death. In fact, 28 people died during construction of the bay bridge the closure of the bay bridges that caused many people to change their plans. In downtown San Francisco, thats costing some businesses thousands of dollars. Amber lee has more. Reporter heather, its a mixed bag when it comes to how the bay ridge closure is affecting businesses and people. Reporter the aroma usually draws a full house at ocean Thai Restaurant south of market on a friday night. Not tonight. Normally, we are packed. Yesterday and today, half of them. Reporter the manager tells me business has dropped by 50 since the bridge closed wednesday night. So she needs only half her staff here, the restaurant has three locations in the financial district. All have lost business. On friday night, thursday night and saturday night, it should be really busy. We make a lot of money. But these three days. Reporter in contrast. Ed bar at one market was full for happy hour. A manager here said the restaurants approximate imty to bart makes a difference. Have a couple of drinks, good food reporter the owner at this flower shop said he had to refer orders from customers in the east bay to florists over there. He said he will be making an exception tomorrow morning. He will personally deliver an arrangement to an cold customer. He said he will be getting up early to take the san mateo bridge. Its an inconvenience. Considering what they are didding, its historic. Reporter one woman that lived in San Francisco said she decided not to go out of town thraws there are fewer people here. I lived in the city for flee years its nice to have a break from the busyness. Merchants say Labor Day Weekend is traditionally slow for business. Everyone agrees on one thing. They hope the bay bridge will reopen monday, instead of tuesday as scheduled. Live in San Francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. Ahead at 10 30, staying put, how plans are being forced to be changed lastminute. One big event hoping to cash in on the bridge closure. Thousands of workers in santa claira county, union said that their members have a contract. Public health nurses, hospital assistants and tax assessor. The new contract two percent raise the first year, three percent the second year. Worker also share in the cost of Health Care Premiums and amount contributed for Retiree Health care is rising. Five suspected indicted on charges of murder an felony assault. All face life imprisonment if convicted. San jose saw two officer involved shootings. They happened within hours of each other. Both followed armed robberies. The first officer involved shooting ended a wild series of Events Police say started when two men robbed a woman at gun point shortly before 1 00 this morning. Cording to investigators, the men fled, but were spotted by officers in a parking lot. One man ran away. The other sped off. The driver crashed into a fence and opinioned the officer with a pinned the officer with a car. The officer shot him multiple times and he was taken to the hospital. I heard the shots and somebody hitting another car of some sort and then i came out and noticed the guy was across the street and he was screaming help me. I have been shot. Several hours laettner a separate incident. Police arrested Raymond Cardenas after he allegedly robbed a safe way store. He brandished air soft rifles that looked like real guns, but win one officer fired shots, he gave up. None of the rounds struck the suspect, but it did convince him to surrender. My place is the front unit and bullets, shotguns or whatever out here, you know, coming through my side of the building, here. I think i would just hide somewhere. I wouldnt even open the door any more. Police say the man who was shot is still being treated. Officers are on paid administrative leave while the case is being examined by the Police Department and the District Attorneys office. Reportedly investigating a San Francisco based adult film studio over a shoot involving an hivpositive active. The investigation into king studios in the citys Mission District was in response to a complaint filed by. San francisco officials debating whether to build a new county jail. The facility houses 600 inmates. Conditions that the sheriff calls deplorable. He called for a new jail during a meeting yesterday. The District Attorney argued instead for ways to cut the inmate population for first time, we are hearing about a possible cause of the rim fire. The illegal activity that may have lead to hundreds of thousands of acres being burned. A cool down on tap for your holiday weekend. Plus, im tracking a chance of a sprinkle. Monday, we warned you of thieves using the threat of slippery scam we first told you about in Alameda County has slithered around this area. Suspects posing as animal control have hit other places. Noelle walker is live where she talked to one of the latest victims. Reporter this is a Police Sketch of the suspect. They she is relying on a natural fear of snakes in order to get people to let down their guard and let her in. Somebody knocks at the door and this woman appears. Reporter sue said the woman looked very official. She had on what looked like a uniform. Reporter the uniform said animal control. The woman said there were snakes loose in the neighborhood. We watch animal planet. Are you scared of snakes in yeah and it seemed like a good idea to try to trap them. She brought us out here. Reporter sue and her partner, paul, lead the woman through their home through the backyard. She was saying what a night backyard we had. Reporter she kept the couple busy for the next 20 minutes. She started to measure the fences. Reporter she even had the couple unwittingly help her pull off the scam. She was smooth. She was very smooth. I thought she was from spca, then, she was measuring everything. Reporter and you were helping her. Paul held the other end of the tape measurer while sue wrote done dimensions. They didnt know it was a diverse. While they were in the backyard, another suspect was inside, burglarizing their home. They went straight for the jewelry box, stealing priceless items. My mothers wedding ring. Went in here and i have a little box for earrings. Reporter those were gone, too, along with cash they had stashed. Behind some papers way up there. Reporter police say all of the cases seem to be connected to the same suspect. This is a Police Sketch of her. La tina if her 30s with a stocky build. Does this look familiar . Yes, and she had a stud. Reporter now, police say if you have any Surveillance Video information about the suspect or the car, they would like to hear from you. They also want me to pass along that if someone shows up at your door that you didnt call for, call polic the family of a missing 14 yearold girl said they warned a person of interest her disappearance to leave her aloin. The family said they last saw her at 8 00 yesterday morning at their house. Sheriff essay the teen may be with a family friend. 42yearold jose ariano and they say he may be driving a late model chevy four door truck with license plate number 7710681. In sacramento, the last day for state senate and Assembly Committees to approve funding. A few of the key bills that survived. A bill that would make it a misdemeanor to buy or receive large capacity gun magazines. Another bill would loosen we choirments for citizens to get drivers license. And a thirst bill would regulate the Controversial Oil drilling practice of fracking for first time in california. A bill that could bring great relief to teens and their parents heading to the governors desk. The bill requires websites to give minors a chance to remove embarrassing information or photos after posting. It bans the Online Marketing of adult fraud act such as selling cigarettes and alcohol to minors. Now, to our continuing coverage of the rim fire in and around Yosemite National park. For the first time, authorities are suggesting that an illegal marijuana growing operation may have started that fire. The fire chief said it was caused by humans because there was no lightening in that area. Officially, the u. S. Forest service is saying the cause is under investigation. Now, here are the latest numbers. They put the fire at 213,000 acres burned, containment has inched up slightly to 35 and evacuation orders have been lifted for a city and two other communities. A strike team has just returned the communities up there were very supportive of us. That was something that we were all struck by they opened their homes to us. The welcome mat out for firefighters. They were offered food, even free hair cut. All 22 members of the strike team are volunteers that had wildlife fryer training. Tonight, we are getting our first look at video taken bidrones flying over the rim wildfire. John fowler explains why those drones are so important and how they help fire crews on the ground. Reporter this California National guard predator drone flying from this base in victorville, east of los angeles, beaming real time fire video instantly to the rim fire incident commander. Much like you would see a news helicopter. The difference is it has the ability to pick up a thermal image. Reporter it can see hot spots through smoke and clouds, firefighters and National Guard controllers direct surveillance. Covering more than 300 square miles of fire, they are digitally connected through a satellite through a drone flying at 19,000 feet clear of other aircraft. The military grade optics give firefighters unparalleled real time assistance from real time telling them what is happening on the lines. The drone is on loan, but could become a regular tool. We are constantly looking at different technologies that will help improve our ability to suppress fires. Reporter firefighters are using the aerial images and coordinates to create digital maps that are sent to field crews. Drones were briefly used on california fires in 2008 and 2009, but this is the biggest test so far. John fowler, ktvu news. It was pretty warm, today, 96 in fairfield. Morgan hill, 98. Coming up on 100 degrees. Today is the hottest day we will see for awhile, but as we head into the holiday weekend, temperatures trend down. Still warm in fair feed, 74, concorde, 74. There is fog along the coast. It will not have a big push tomorrow, when we get into sunday and monday, it will have a big push. Seeing temperatures beginning to plummet especially as we get into monday. Heres whats happening. Saturday morning, 8 00 am. We take to you 9 00 am. Clouds coming up from the south, watch this as we go into saturday evening, watch for that until sunday morning. A lot of clouds moving in and a chance of sprinkles in in the forecast as we go into the holiday weekend. Its not a rain event. Looks like sprinkles. When i come back, ill roll the model all the way through your monday. Well time it out. And talk about the hottest day of the weekend hundreds of thousands of bay area residents have colorful weekend plans. More than 70,000 people that have tracked to the desert bringing in sculptures, art cars. The event began in San Francisco in 1986 and just keeps growing. Facebook and facial recognition. The new plan to use the technology to keep track of users. A Watchdog Group raising new concerns about what the faa is not doing when it comes to air Traffic Controllers almost time to trade up. Unbelievable. 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. More now on the new bay bridge. Original span opened to traffic on november 12th 1936. Former San Francisco mayor, former president Herbert Hoover among those in attendance for a chain cutting celebration. A celebration of the new span is scheduled for next monday afternoon. Including speeches, antique cars and another chain cutting ceremony fast food workers at Oakland International airport went on strike, to day. They are concerned about losing benefits. 200 thousand workers participated in the one day strike. Saying inside, customers were complaining about garbage piling up and their employer, host international, wants to freeze wages, cut overtime, vacation and sick time and hike Monthly Health care costs. We are currently paying zero for our health care. If you are single, pay over 300. If you are family, over 600. Thats why we are fighting. Unions contract expired a year ago. Host International Said they made employees a fair offer. Consumer travel alliance said the faa is not following a its own rules and controllers are not getting long enough breaks. Rules requiring nine hours off between shifts were put in place in 2011 after report reports that controllers were falling asleep. Facebook is proposing expanding their facial technology. They want to put all profile photos of the one billion users into the facial recognition data base. This would enable facebook to use your profile picture to recognize your face anywhere it appears on the social networking site. We are told users could opt out on their settings page. Apple made it official today. It will allow trade ins for the new i phone. They say they weather offer customers store credit for older models in good working condition when they buy the new i phone. A twoyear contract is required. Credit ranges from 120 for an i phone 4 to 250 for an i phone 5. The program is seen as a response to the lucrative online market. The new i phone goes on sale september 10th. Coming up, making history. First it has taken all day for traffic to die down to this point, but for those that couldnt wait, they had a lot of tough choices to make this holiday weekend. Youre on timeout leo some things wont last 25 years. Ah woof some things will. Some things wont last 25 years. Ah woof some things will. Continuing coverage of the new bay bridge. We are now a little more than three days away from the opening of the new eastern span. As we take another live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, crews are busy, striping the westbound approach to the toll plaza. The work may be finished tonight. One of the many things crews must complete ahead of tuesdays opening. Caltran so far they are right on closure. Because drivers essentia