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just about 4:31 the day after memorial day. thank you for the company, i'm eric thomas. and i'm kristen sze. dumbarton bridge open. the span reopened ahead of schedule after closing through memorial day weekend for earthquake retrofiting work. amy hollyfield is live at the bridge. >> reporter: good morning. they were aiming for a 5 a.m. open, but instead got the bridge open at 3:00, it has a new seismic join. the dumbarton bridge is five inches higher than it was last week. it has a new layer of concrete and it is stronger. when the earthquake hits dumbarton is now better prepared. >> we cut across six lanes and bike and pet paths to replace the existing joint with a larger one. the larger seismic joint gives additional 18 inches of
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movement on the deck total 37 inches of movement on the deck, if needed, during a seismic event. >> reporter: the 1.6 mile long bridge closed friday night. the weekend work went well so they were able to open a little early today. you can hear a very loud truck going on to the bridge right now. they are not finished. they expect they have to do something similar to this work on the eastern side, but they believe that the hardest part is behind them. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. we have breaking news from italy. the death toll continues to grow from the second deadly earthquake in that region in nine days. katie marzullo is live in the breaking news center with the latest. >> reporter: i just checked the wires. they and the bbc reporting 10 people are dead that number is expected to rise as several
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are believed to be trapped under rubble. it was a 5.8 magnitude quake it hit northern italy around midnight, our time, that's 9 a.m. theirs, 25 norths northwest of bologna. offices were evacuated schools and other buildings evacuated as far south as florence. calls have overloaded the telephone network causing a system blackout and train services halted in some parts of northern italy. making all of this worse, the same area was hit by a 6.0 quake last week, seven people were killed. many buildings were destroyed or damaged. a lot of those that were damaged now fell today. seven thousand left homeless from last week still living in tented camps this morning when they were hit again.
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more tremors are being felt this morning of the again, 10 people dead in a 5.8 magnitude quake in northern italy. back here in san francisco, muni service in the haight is running smoothly after a fallen tree fell around 7:00 last night pulling down power lines and hitting a parked car. haight was closed between pierce and scott while crews removed the tree. the street was reopened a few hours ago, no injuries reported. good news for south bay commuters, starting tomorrow new lights along i-280 through downtown san jose will be turned on the signals whole traffic to provide space between cars merging into freeway lanes the lights will be on in time for tomorrow evening's commute. the lightsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuq
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