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This is kpix 5 news. Its not what youre used to seeing outside your airplane window. The emergency that forced this flight to turn around and come back to sfo. The bay bridge checklist is getting shorter. The major progress made today and whats left to do before it reopens. And president obama says hes ready for a military strike on syria, but why hes looking to congress for the final say. Good evening. The news eastern span of the bay bridge is almost ready for its debut with just a bit more than two days until its skijed opening. Work on the bridge is on track. Tonight kpix 5s don knapp took...

This is kinds of final stretch. Its that final dash to the finish line. Caltrans updating the progress of the work on the new bay bridge. So far everything is on schedule. And taking a live look at our clock. Counting down to the opening of the new eastern span. Bridge Officials Say things are looking good for a 5 00 a. M. Tuesday morning opening if not sooner. Kpix 5s bring quan webb took brian webb took a tour of the new span. Brian . Reporter were almost to the end of day three. Crews are still hard at work over here on the oakland side. You can make them out doing some striping and some as...

Major progresses. Work continued at a fevered pitch today. Theyre trying to get the tunnel ready for the big opening. Thats one of the many projects taking place. We begin with jade hernandez who got a tour this afternoon. Reporter cantran says two things. Theyre taking little longer than normal. One of the projects behind me, this is a paying project. With a project this side there is some breathing room built in. This project is expected to be done at midnight and now it may be in the Early Morning hours. 1000 feet of the original east span approach today makes room for the span slowly emerg...

Officer involved shooting in union city. Good evening, everyone. Im heather holmes. Ken wayne is off tonight. That shooting occurred at about 2 30 this afternoon and a residential area in union city. Police there tell us a man was fire ago shotgun on firing a shotgun. Once officers arrived they confronted the gunman and opened fire. The man died there at the scene. Police did not say whether the man fired at the officers or if they were threatened. No one else was hurt. Investigators say the man was a relative of someone living in that neighborhood. More progress to report tonight on the new b...

Traffic is really near, its sort of hard to see the the top of the of the map there, oakland the macarthur maze is slowing down a little bit. Although much of it has turned to green. A little bit of slowing near the Golden Gate Bridge as well and in various other spots. Crews are hard at work around the clock. Workers are busy striping the lanes, clearing the tunnel and paving both east and westbound spans of the new bridge. Were told demolition of that 1,000foot section of the westbound approach will be complete by the end of the weekend. Even with things going smoothly of course as we mentio...