Sure to tune in. Here is your ride on the new span, it is still a great commute this morning although the metering lights have been activated. Light to moderate condition. It is a little sluggish on 580 and highway 4. The only slowing is around the mckee julien. The rest is still looking good. We are just hours away from the closure of the bay bridge. All lanes in both directions will close tonight at 8 00 pm. Workers will then make the transition from the old roadway to the new eastern span. Joining us from Treasure Island is kron fours mike pelton. Were now just six days away. You can say that the lights are turned on combined meat and the crews are not just quite ready to open up to traffic. They will shut down on the bay bridge tonight at 8 00 p. M. And reopen Tuesday Morning at 5 00 a. M. Here you can see the crews are working on the span. They have to do lane striping and paving. They also need to connected. It will have more scenic view and stability. The Holiday Weekend, receive less traffic so this is why they are changing forever. One woman i spoke with shared her memories. My husband and my went across singing the bridge song. Melamin this opened the back in 1936. We would love to hear from you if you have any pictures that you would like to share. We will share them on our face book page. The chp stated that it will close at 8 00 p. M. They will begin the process prior to 8 00 p. M. They stated that if you want to avoid getting stuck in use across as early as possible. Alternative Transit Services are preparing to handle the wave of commuters that are affected by the closure of the bridge. Here is what you need to know. There will be round the clock bart Service Starting tonight at 14 stations. However, between 1 00 a. M. And 4 00 a. M. There will be no Train Service because of maintenance. We did have a chance to speak with bart spokesperson and he is encouraging not to travel throughout peak hours. Thursday and friday will be very busy. We are encouraging people to either use the ferries or if they can, modify their travel times. This is between 8 00 a. M. And 830 in morning and from 5 to 5 30 p. M. And afternoon. We will keep you informed as developments happened. We will be having it live july 8th p. M. Newscast. We will also have information on our web site as well as the kron4 news app. The mass of yosemite rimfire has grown by thousands. It has now burned to the edge of the reservoir nearly 4000 firefighters are citing the fire on the west side, protecting times like a growth land and also on the east prevent the spread into some apart. The newest members from cal fire indicate, more than 184,000 a. Have now burns, and containment is still only a 20 . 31 residences and a the other structures have burned. For a thousand firefighters are fighting the fire on the west side. The fire is now prompting air quality warnings more than 100 mi. Away. A fire spared on the grassy hillside that spread quickly and fairfield. This is video of the fire yesterday afternoon from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Fire Officials Say there were 50 evacuation, a least 15 homes were damaged or destroyed they hustled like you would have never believed. It was very impressive. Look at those times. This fire spread so quickly that it jumped from property to property. 40 a. Were charred. We will continue this coverage with kron 4 urs will train at about 6 30 a. M. Still ahead on kron 4 morning news at 6 00 a. M. Israelis are preparing for the worst case, there is a another chemical attack involving syria. We will have a the very latest on the situation overseas. It has been 50 years since dr. Myrna teens delivered his i have a dream speech to join the mt. Washington. We will have a live report from the nations capital. Here is a live look outside from the Golden Gate Bridge. One of the way is to get around the bay bridge closure this week. We will be right back. A7 welcome back. Britain says it will put forward a resolution to the u. N. Security council condemning the Syrian Government for the alleged chemical attack that has killed hundreds of civilians. The decision came as momentum appeared to build for western military action against syria, with the u. S. And france saying they are in position for a military strike. The prospect of a u. S. Led intervention into syrias civil war stems from the wests assertion still not endorsed by u. N. Inspectors that president Bashar Assads government was responsible for an alleged chemical attack on civilians outside damascus on aug. 21, which assad denies. Doctors without borders says the attack killed 355 people. The New York Times experienced widespread website outages that may have been the work of syrian hackers. Yesterday visitors to the nytimes. Com website got error messages when trying to access the site. Employees were advised to not send out sensitive emails while the issue was worked on a Syrian Hacker Group is to blame for the crash. The Syrian Electronic Army has frequently targeted the us news media. This was the times second sustained website outage this month. New video in this morning. Large crowds of israelis have lined up g gas masks in case a sian attack. The Israeli Postal Service says demand for the masks has tripled in recent days. About five million israelis, roughly 60 percent of the population, now have gas masks. Some waited for hours to collect their masks, which were free. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news. It is almost time for apple to release their new iphone. This time around, there may be some unique strings attached. Around, there may be some unique [ female announcer enjoying breakfast togher is a pretty wonderful thing. But when you hav a picky eater. Wont touch th. It can be a bit of a dance wont touch is. Wont toh stop. 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Its back for a limited time fire grilled steak and golden allyoucaneat shrimp for an incredible 9. 99 it was fifty years ago today, when dr. Martin luther king, jr. Spoke at the Lincoln Memorial and talked about his dream for america. Now, half a century later, people will gather again to remember his words. Shannon travis is in washington with more about what to expect today. Good morning. It will be all about the man, Martin Luther teen a junior. This is the aukenya and junior. Ing je time that he gave this speech 50 years ago, we expect president obama, the nations first black president to give his speech. We also expect to hear from some of his relatives, his children. Caroline kennedy and john will also speak. Oprah winfrey, and jimmie foxx are also expected to make statements. Jamie fox is also exd to make statements. This will replicate the march back from 1963. They will do this today as well as throughout the cities. They will gather in different spots. You know that over the weekend, they had ebans here in washington. They did some of the same things. We can see the Lincoln Memorial behind you. In times of kraals be is, what ar wwhat are we expecting . Although, right now some of the crowd is just starting to trickle in. Anyones guess will be, how many people will be here. Again, we saw a lot of people, over the weekend. It may have numbered in to the thousands. In this day and age, we are very concerned about security. With tears going on. What kin o security what kind of security measures are being taken today . Back then, and they had 5000 Police Officers and Army Guardsmen protecting the crowds. They were trying to prevent any violence, there were no incidents, today, of course there is a lot more security just because the president , president obama will be here. The security is pretty tight as you can expect in a National Event like this. The time is 6 18 a. M. Lets turn to what the traffic. We will take a libelous outside conditions from the Golden Gate Bridge. We do have fog to deal with. There is the mist and drizzle. In terms of visibility we have about a mild for napa. You will probably deal with pretty dense fog as you work your way around highway 1 01. In terms of the visibility it will continue to be compromised as we head into the early afternoon. We are seen delays at sfo for about 15 minutes. You should keep this in mind if you are picking someone up. In terms of your afternoon high, lets start things off in the east, pittsburg will have a high of 88 degrees. 89 degrees for walnut creek. 70s and east bay shoreline, fremont have a high of 75 degrees. It will be a gorgeous day and the south bay with a good mixture of seven is. Mountain view will have a high of 77 degrees. Upper 60s for downtown San Francisco. Lets turn our attention to the north, sonoma will have a high of 84 degrees the same for san rafael. Your extended forecasts shows cooler conditions for the weekend in fact, by labor day we only have lows in the 70s. I cannot help but leave this shot up because it is a nice shot of the old, section of the bay bridge. It will go way tonight at 8 00 p. M. The traffic is moving through the s curve as you can see pretty nicely coming up the ramp. At the toll plaza, the westbound ride is not as bad back the bed was yesterday. It is just slow in the westbound lane. Your ride to the bay bridge is looking good, to the Golden Gate Bridge, there is a problem reported in the southbound direction arrive at the north. Theres a stall and it appears to be that it has been moved out of the way. The traffic has picked up. It is likely that if you will be leaving in the next few minutes you will no longer see this delay. For your ride to the san mateo bridge, the san mateo bridge highway 92, is looking good in the westbound side. It is pretty light, not as heavy today as it was yester day. Checking the traffic maps, of getting your commute around the bay. We will start with a look at your ridethe traffic maps are not cooperating so i do not need to show you that what i can tell you is that we are not tracking any hot spots currently. The ride is still looking good for most of the bay area. A powerful rocket is being prepared to carry a classified reconnaissance a light into orbit. United lunch alliancaunch alliance saya delta for heavy rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air force base later this morning. The nro is in charge of u. S. Intelligence gathering satellites. It is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and boeing to cut i have no idea whatss going on. Maybe youre the original really big chicken com, with curly fries and a drink for just 3. 99. Why the cowboyat . Youre the barbecue chicken combo with two chicken patties, bacon, cheese, and barbecue sauc you also come with curly fries and a drink for 39. Bubbles i have no idea whats going on. 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This is the expected date for them to envelop. Unfortunately, it has not been confirmed. They typically send out and buy its about a week before. I do believe that they will be holding this press even before september 20th. I believe that whenever they show off will be on the market before november in time for a holiday. The biggest iphone rumor is that they will offer a phone and gold. Apple has not confirmed this. There has also been unconfirmed pictures of an iphone with other colors. I like this more than gold. The next big this is about iphone c that will be a little bit cheaper. It is made of plastic. I love this roomer. I think this will be cool. There was so much evidence that was surfaced was also one that would have fingerprint recognition. That will also offer a trade and where you can bring your old iphone into an apple store in trading for new one. If your fund is in good enough shape than you might get the new one for free. As soon as they send it out, we will let jan know. Gabe slate, kron 4 news. We are waiting for the opening bell on wall street. The increasing possibility of u. S. Military strikes on syria raised worries on wall street. Here is a look at the close in numbers. The dow dropped 170 points. The nasdaq fell 79 points. The s p 500 lost 26 points. Coming up on kron 4 news. The bay bridge closing down to mind, we will have everything that you need to know to get around it. If youre like me, youve been working youve been working like a dog all year. But you dont need to camp out til labor day to reward yourself mattress discounters labor day sale ends monday rest those tired bones on a queen size sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497 get 48 months interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection. Not to labor the point. But this sale ends monday mattress discounters welcome back of the opening bell is now bringing. The dow was off 170. They have problems with the nasdaq freezing. They had to shut down for about three hours. Look at this company, the power company. They transferred their shares. We will follow the latest on wall street. It has been a horrible month for the dow jones industrial. They are now sitting at 14,000, 776. , 776. It was very misty this morning, the visibility was not bad. We are off to a pretty mild start with upper 50s low 60s. As we head into the afternoon you can expect low 70s. I will be tracking your holiday forecast coming up. We are encouraged by what we see at the toll plaza. The back up is not as bad as it has been the last couple of days. Perhaps, this means that was start to see the traffic taper off in the next couple of days because of the bridge being closed. It will close at 8 00 p. M. Tonight in order to get the new eastern span in place. This backup on 880 approach has been all the way over the east are lines of the toll plaza. Its looking at her san mateo bridge ride, highway 92 was the extra traffic in the next five days because the bay bridge will be shut down. If you use the san mateo bridge normally should be prepared for extra traffic. The Golden Gate Bridge, things are back to normal after a stall was clear southbound. We are just hours away from the closure of the bay bridge. All lanes in both directions will close to mind a p. M. Workers will then make the transition from old roadway to the new eastern span. We have been tracking this for weeks, months. Kron4 mike pelton is live from Treasure Island with more. Even through the fault you can see the lights behind me and they are not quite ready to open to traffic. They still need five days to finish this up. Here you concede accruals are working on the new span which cost more than six on 4 billion. Bridge officials stated that they chose this weekend because of the Holiday Weekend has a less traffic across the bridge. It will close to mind a p. M. And reopen Tuesday Morning at 5 00 a. M. Despite problems with a broken bolts. The new span is a safe. This is going to be out, especially if they turn the lights off. Are you sad to see it go . Yes, i wished that we could keep it. I guess the time has come. Gold span opened in 1936 and has become a huge part of peoples lives here in the bay area. If you have any pictures that you like to send to us you can send to our facebook page. Officials stated that the bridge will close at 8 00 p. M. Much across that way before 8 00 p. M. I just heard from the chp and they stated that they will start the process somewhere between 7 15 p. M. And 7 45 p. M. Alternative Transit Services are preparing to handle the wave of commuters. Here is what you need to know. There will be round the clock bart Service Starting tonight at 14 stations. However, between 1 and 4 00 a. M. No Train Service will be due to maintenance work. Ac transit will have a their last service at 5 00 p. M. Tonight. The San Francisco bay ferry will be on a special schedule. Ernest sanchez with the San FranciscoBay Ferry Service waited on the extra transportation. We will be providing Service Every day over the five days. As i mentioned, that is why we are on this extended schedule. If you have not figured it out, i would say now is the time. Stay with kron4 and we will keep you updated. You can also get the latest on our web site and you can also use our new mobile app. There is a special tie out the voted for the bay bridgle devoted to the bay bridge. Mode eastern span may be closing for good today but it will not be disappearing any time soon. Bay bridge Officials Say it will take on three years to take apart and remove the unsay span. Though old bridge was built in 1936 and has been slated for replacements since 1989. Bridge Officials Say that the whole span will be below very carefully due to its proximity. The 233 million removal project is part of the overall 6. 4 billion cost of the bridge. Developing story out of fairfield were a grass fire destroyed homes and forced dozens of people to evacuate. The fire started in a grassy area just off of interstate 80. Kron4 will tran is in the neighborhood this morning to show was the destruction. Some of the homes were not touched the ball. This morning firefighters are still on the scene and there are two homes that are side byside just off of the freeway and you can see it was destroyed. They had to come in and move out a hot spot. You cannot see the interstate bought hymie but you can see this wall, that is are retaining wall and that is where the fire started. This is the grassy area. This home was in the line of fire. You can see these to homes, are red tag. Here is video that we received. This is about 3 40 p. M. The industry was still open at the time and the firefighters had their hands full. They were fighting to types of fires, the aggressive buyeand grassy a fire we have learned that 15 homes were completely destroyed or partially damaged. A total of 50 people had to be evacuate. I had a chance to talk to one victim. Everybody says that things happen for a reason. I just hope, everything will be our right and the lord will provide. I am not one to worry about it. We want to show you the retaining wall, and you can get a better look. The interstate is on the other side and there is land that was also destroyed. Unfortunately no one was injured but the fire, theyre not sure what caused it. They have speculation that someone is lit a cigarette or it could of been from a car driving past. The fire department, as we move the camera over here they will remain on the scene just a monster in the high spots. That will look at the home when the sun completely comes up to see whether or not these people can return. This is lucky that it will not give much more people wear,. A lot of people were at work yesterday. Absolutely, they came home and they ran into barricades. If that were not even allowed to get to their home. We did learn that they allow some of them to return, the homes that were not touched. We just showed you to homes that were destroyed along down the street and use the barricades. They were staying at this summit is the cars coming and going. There are some that lost everything and there are some who still have everything. Some of the and just missed their homes, people who are getting up, that were allowed to stay here. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news. We are just hours away from tonights 5 day closure of the bay bridge. Complete coverage of the shutdown all morning long. The wild fire in yosemite continues to burn this morning. We will have the latest numbers. But federal Aviation Administration has now lifted a temporary land restrictions for Foreign Airlines at sfo. That story is next. 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. Had to count sheep yeah, our babysitter didnt have 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. With uverse high speed internet. Align welcome back. We are just getting new numbers and the fire that is raging in yosemite. It has now grown to 187,000 a. 292 square miles. Containment has now grown to 23 . Fire crews seem more confidence as far as getting a handle on it. The flames have reached the shores of hetch hetchy. Officials still say that the Water Quality is still safe. Right now, about 4000 firefighters are on scene working around the clock to get better control this situation. And theyre trying to fight the fire from the east. Here is a double live look from the bay bridge were we continue our top story of the day. The transition of the new span will start tonight. More on that coming up, but first was checking with erica on weather. Good morning. Take a look at this, we are starting off with a live look from our roof cam. You could see the water droplets emelines. There is plent clouds along the on the lense. Test we focus on temperatures in the south, you can expect 70s. I do not think it will seek to many 90s today. We will have a high of 88 degrees. Mostly sunny skies was typical of an average. Its downtown San Francisco will be checking in at 67 degrees. Mid 80s for napa. Again, we do have coastal clouds to deal with thea clear about midmorning. Pass that was see sunshine and a bright afternoon. Your 7 day or around the Bay Highschool weather for the weekend. Labor day we will have low 80s. The time is 6 46 a. M. It is a better ride today than what we have seen the past 2 days. Lighter traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is not as bad as what we have seen. Of course, that means that with the upcoming weekend it will be less and less traffic because people will have to seek alternates. This section, of the bridge will be very busy. The closure will come in at 8 00 p. M. And as kron 4 Jackie Sissel does this shot. This is the old section of the bridge but this is not the our original bay bridge. This was a temporary bypass that was put bed. You could see the bridge, the new bridges of to the left. This will be the area where they will connect. You see to of the righthand turn, the kay rail is up. This will go down and they will block this off. The new bay bridge will head straight into the tunnel no more s curve. This will start right at 8 00 p. M. The history of this section on was an engineering speech to get this in place. It came with a price. We lost one person, why were this opened, a truck driver actually went over the site because it was no rail. The speed limit was higher than they are right now and it went down through the bottom of this hill. He lost his life and at that point they made changes. Apparently, it has worked. That obviously had to close down traffic and this is a problem for the commute. This will go away and in fact, you can see that this is the part if your heading eastbound this is where you will come out of the tunnel is that will connect to the new span. A lot of work has to be done and a big part of this is that it will connect to make sure everything is okay. There will be quite an experience for motorist who are going east time. Eastbound. The Golden Gate Bridge may also experience heavier traffic. If you drive any of these rooms, be prepared because they will get worse. Coming up on the kron 4 morning bills. Robin will join us with the headlines on wall streetnews. 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If more republicans do not want to get on the same side as obama and his administration. We have september coming up with a lot of drama. J. P. Chase more than is being sued they have about 12 lawsuits going on. September, is not a good month. October through december we may see an earnings again. We would check back with rob at 9 15 a. M. With the winners and losers. We will have all the numbers on the december the fire. Our coverage will continue with the bay bridge closure at 8 00 p. M. We will be right back. Here is a live look s curve of we will be right back. Here is a live look s curve of the bay bridge even serhees nd supeeroe and someuperroeseed coletend bl with3 viminsnd meral puri doghow. Help kp histro. Dochowstro. [ male announcer ] wouldnt it be great if all devices had backup power . The Chevrolet Volt does. Its ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. No wonder volt is americas bestselling plugin. 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