i'm ama daetz in for kristin, and i'm dan ashley. this is the new span of the bridge right before the center sank r anchorage, to show you a bit of backups that continues and will for some time as a result of this protest. >> on a holiday, you would want all of that to be green, but not the case today. our alan wang is live on the phone for us as we're looking at the map to tell us the situation now. you've been talking to people stuck in this? >> reporter: yes, ama and dan, almost all the lanes are open. traffic is flows except for the far two left-hand lanes which they were using to tow away the cars, the protesters that they used to get up here. also they are arresting, the last few of them, taking them off of the bridge. they say about 40 to 45 people

were arrested for unlawful assembly and disrupting traffic. about ten of those people actually chained themselves to cars and stretched themselves across all the lanes, shutting down traffic about an hour ago. this play was a parking lot. and you have westbound lanes, people were walking around, people with dogs walking, taking pictures. it was shut down. they did hand out -- there was a support group, as i mentioned for these actual people who were chained across the road. they were passing out flyers, as the mlk shut it down hours, 96 hours of direct action of course on this holiday. they were calling attention to the health issue foss african americans, along with a list of deman demands. the big issue or the delay was just getting bolt cutters up here and through all of the traffic that was just bumper to bumper, still on the bridge. once they got those bolt cutters

up there. they werible to cut the lock and chains. they were very about chains, but they did it pretty fast considering what has transpired here, and now as you can see, traffic is flowing on the westbound bridge pretty good up here. back to you guys. >> alan, thank you roche. they did responsibility quickly, and consider how big a backup and what a big me it was, people moved peacefully. you're not kidding, we saturday here watching them cull those -- they were pretty heavy gauge chains. >> you could still see some of the people sitting off the side there. another look that we take from live over the scene. traffic is still, you know, being slowed, but vic lee is actually overlooking traffic at yerba buena. we can see it behind you there,

vic. >> reporter: let me show you another look. that's the west span of the bay bridge. most of the lanes are open. as alan said, to my right of the screen, those 1, 2 lanes are occupied by it is chp and first responders who came here pretty quickly to arrest and detain protesters. as alan said, it started with about 40 of them, they unfurled a banner which read "black health matters." again this group called themselves the black seed. another group calling themselves black choir liberati-- queer li. they must be part of that collective, part of that collective of groups that wanted direct action during martin luther king holiday weekend. so presumably this is sort of the fringe, the radical fringe

of that group. they are being chained, arrested, excuse me, and detained by chp. traffic is starting to flow. some of their demands, according to a press release we received at the station, called for the -- to stop the funding of police departments with city money. they want mayor libby schaff to resign. they want the firing of the police chief in san francisco and oakland police chief. again these two groups we haven't heard from before, but they sure did a heck of a job disrupting traffic here on the bay bridge. >> vice president ic, thank you very much. chp handled this. officers williams, are you there? >> yes. >> give us a sense, a walk-through quickly of what is

going to happen to get traffic fully moving? >> right now, we actually have the right three lanes open. we have about eight to ten persons to load up in the vehicles, which is why we still have the left lanes closed, for their safety. it should be in the next ten minutes transporting them to the chp officer for processing and booking into the county jail. >> now, officer williams, from our vantage point, it appeared that the protesters were pretty calm. can you tell us a bit about what it was like down there? >> one more time, please, ma'am?

>> it doesn't seem too tense, a lot of people yelling, protesters. can you tell us what it was like for the officers, the exchanges? >> sure. when we came on scene, they had blocked all five lanes. the protesters had changed themselves to -- but fortunately -- and the -- actually didn't have any force at all to move them to the side of the freeway. they all went. for the most part they all cooperat cooperated. >> that'sy to hear. clearly it looked like the protesters cooperated. >> and certainly the police, your officers looked like they were very determined to keep things from escalating. i know after all the protests this summer, that mish a high

priority these days. >> anytime we can defuse the situation, that's obviously a preferred method of clearing the situation. in this case western fortunately able to do that. again -- >> okay. officer vu williams, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> okay. thank you, sir. >> we're continuing to take a live look. the protesters were part of a much larger and continually peaceful, like we have seen here, protest in oak learned. >> they gathered at city hall, and marched into emeryville. that's where elissa harrington is. >> reporter: it was supposed to end here in emeryville, but

quite a few continued on to the bay bridge. >> they wanted to come out here, to raise awareness, also popular mall is built on a native-american burial ground. roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered in oakland to take part in re-claim mlk, a movement to push his legacy beyond the "i have a dream" speech and focus on his global struggle for human rights. >> one thing we think is left out of the discussion oftentimes is his legacy enter nationalism. he connected with what was happening here, gent risk, racism, with what was happening abroad, just as in the war in vietnam. >> demonstrations of labor groups to third-world resistance marched in solidarity. >> we want a society that ends racism. we are far from it. >> this is the fourth day of

protest, spanning 96 hours, organizers say it's important of defending the black community especially in the bay where many are pushed out by gentrification, and many are outraged by police violence. >> she wes protester takes comfort knowing that his struggles mirror theirs. >> a lot of times some of the things he did didn't make people comfortable, and a lot of those things -- but in actuality he was faced with a lot of confrontation. >> >> reporter: traffic is moving again, but a bit earlier it was really bad. one woman who lives in the area tells me she's never seen anything like this. that's when things were happening on the bay bridge when the demonstrators were blocking lanes of traffic. it is still slow out here, but

again cars are moving. elissa harrington, abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. we wanting to back to leah robinson-leach. what is the latest now? you talk about how quickly you got things moving there, and it appears traffic is going again at this point? >> yes, that was our priority, to ensure the safety of all, and then to move that traffic as quickly as possible. we were quite pleased that had been the case. we will look at all the circumstances and facts which played out today, and examine how we can go forward to ensure protesting does not impact the -- in a way -- >> all right. leah, thanks soech. how long longer would you expect until you're able to open all lanes of traffic? >> we're looking in the next 20

minutes or so. we want to allow the chp to do their jobs and to continue to ensure the safety of all the involved. >> thank you, leah. for anybody else out there who might be watching us, and maybe you were out there, had pictures, were able to take them safely, perhaps they would get their on air. >> i just retweeted, someone sent in a couple photos on my twitter account, so we'll get them out there. it's another way to tell the story. we are streaming sky 7 hd on our news app for the latest developments on this story and any push alerts, we'll let you know when traffic is fully back to normal. but at least three lanes. >> all lanes will reopen. now we want to get on to what else is going on throughout

the bay area, and neighbors remember their friend who was killed by a tour bus in san francisco. >> love of cats, people, teaching. the death of a pedestrian and what the company is saying about the accident. also apple's power problem. the battery bug on your iphone and how to fix it. plus glory on the gridiron, the new exhibit in the south bay. and live picture, traffic still very sluggish after protesters shut

traffic for more than an hour is backed up. it was a complete stop for a while. stopped on the westbound lanes. >> and shut down all lanes of

traffic with several cars, five cars, i believe chained together under the banner "black health matters" was the reason for this protest. no violence or trouble at all. just an inconvenience for motorists stuck behind the protest, but it does result. bridge this afternoon. >> for us to get them, you have to use the #abc 7 now. you're seeing here christine tweeted mlk day protest, the protesters are using th the #96hours, talking about protests over 96 hours. and here's another tweet coming in. of course this is the national holiday to market the life and lega legacy. you see some ground pictures as

protester are being did the with. they were very cooperative. police kept things calm ago well. it was just an act of civil disobedience to make a point today. about the need to do more from the protesters' perspective in this country to support african americans. >> you can keep it turchd to the laters here on one of the before and online and with our app, the abc 7 news appear. for now we want to move on. we'll get back to that. we want to talk about the pedestrian who was killed in a fatal tour bust accident. that pedestrian has been identified as 82-year-old peter rolle. he was a longtime san francisco teacher. melanie wood row is at the intersection of

post. >> reporter: for some reasons he may have turned back around. those are details that the tour bus company's attorney are hopes that surveillance video will confirm. right now the medical building tell they've been instructed to release the video to only law enforceme enforcement. both freds of the peat killed and friends of the bus driver are devastated. 82 years old peter rolle died in the crosswalk saturday afternoon. >> a very kind spirit and soul, and he will be sorely missed. >> cassidy gaven and heather combs lived in the same house. >> in a way he was family. >> avid reader, love of cats, people, teaching. >> they say he was a teacher in san francisco's public schools. >> it's a horrific accident. for the bus driver, for the

people who had to witness it, and especially for the lost of peter himself. >> the attorney for the company says the company has never had a fatal accident before. he says he spoke with the bus driver after saturday. >> he's very distraught and upset. i think the police have offered him counseling. >> he says witnesses have reported that the driver 'lowed him to fully cross before making the turn. >> i don't understand why he came back to the bus, banged on it a couple times. that's when he was somehow run over. >> we don't understand how he would come back. >> he said the driver submitted to drug and alcohol tests. according to the california public utilities commission web side, san francisco deluxe sightseeing is properly licensed and insured. in san francisco, melly wood row, abc 7 news. apple is trying to come up

with a permanent fix with a battery problem. the glitch has been incredibilitily informing owners that the iphones have been -- have more power left than they actually do. apple has determined the issue comes up with the phone switches time zones either mannelly or automatically. if your iphone 6-s or 6s-plus is having this probable, contact apple support for help. we're tracking more rain coming our way. >> we do have another storm coming. i'll show you where we're seeing isolated showers, mainly an vacavil vacaville, some slick roadways in the area. temperatures are pretty mild, mid 50s to low 60s as we look at the rainfall totals. more than 3 inches of rain, san

francisco, santa rosa, oakland almost 2 inches livermore, you picked up more than an inch. next storm coming in will be a lot like the one thatju just passed through. next storm arrives overnight. rainy and windy, and another storm at week's end. abc 7 has ranks each store from 1 being light to 5 severe. incoming one for overnight tonight into tomorrow is 2. it's a moderate storm, wet and windy, half an inch to an inch for the lower elevations. expecting more for the higher elevations, with wind gusts 40 to 45 miles an hour, we are expecting moderate rain as we head toward friday, back to work, back to school not easley easy breezy. it will be sloppy. noontime still with widespread

rain. scattered light showers, this is when think inns will ease up a bit. rainfall totals going into tomorrow night, generally specifically just over to an inch, santa rosa, in the sierra winter weather advisories tuesday to 4:00 a.m. midnight kaer your inches. here are some of the snow totals through wednesday. you'll know about 9 inches at kirkwood. morning lows starting out in the low 50s, a very nasty morning commute with heavy rain and wind. you'll need much more time to get where you need to. afternoon, showers and windy, temperatures quite mild, upper 50s to low 60s. accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow's storm is a 2. wednesday mostly cloudy, thursday night into friday another system coming, that one is a 2.

linger showers saturday morning and after that a dry forecast for sunday and monday. >> sandhya, thank you so much. a live look outside. this is the bay bridge toll plaza trying to get back to normal. oh, my it's going to be a while. on this holiday it should be more smooth sailing than this. because of the protest it's a bit of a mess. the ribbon of tail did not lights trying to get onto the bay bridge where it's badly backed up, still even though several lanes of the westbound deck have reopened. stay with us

to pacifica where public works crews did not have the day off. instead they worked feverishly. >> they were trying to hold back the ocean to a breach. >> wayne friedman joins us live from pacifica. >> what we had is a work in

progress, one that's looking for a solution. you really can't see the hole in the seawall below it. well, they're concerned it might still get bigger. 6. >> reporter: geologists say there's only one constant -- change. they attempted to hold off that change for as long as possible. >> high surf and high swell. >> reporter: after three decades, the public works manager has seen the sea wall fail four times. it did again last saturday. today public works crews repositioned massive boulder in a breach of the seawall. ey hope to bide time, lest the street wash away with all the utilities underneath. >> i have the infrastructure, so trying to keep that intact, then

i know i'm taking care of the properties. >> on this national holiday, this became the best show in town, think public works as a form of performance art. >> what's the fascination? >> to power it away, mother nature. >> they're a continuing problem in the community where the famed pier remains closed, up the road, many of those notorious are empty and teetering, add the words climate change and ask alyssa jenkins about them. >> we're just a couple miles from san francisco. we don't think of this entire area as living on the edge. >> this spot happens to be edgier than most. in pacifica, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. from pacifica back to the bay bridge. >> traffic is still a real mist after the protest, but it is finally moving again, though it would be some time before all of the cars are

coming up tonight at 6:00, we'll continue our live coverage of the protest that shut down the westbound bay bridge. we'll update the traffic conditions, plus more on the group that pulled this off. >> also they spent big bucks on big storage tanks we'll show you the creative way to put the rainwater to use. and ensure that letter or package doesn't until mean you're covered in it gets stolen or lost. and much more at 6:00. finally here are the best pro football hall of fame has been moved to santa clara for a special exhibit. >> 5,000 square feet is packed with memories. the exhibition includes look at great moments, the science of football and the road to equality. >> how cool is that? the gridiron glory exhibit is free at santa clara's triton museum of art through april 3rd.

now to the hardwood where fire warriors have been selected for the olympics. >> stef curry, draped green, andre ig what dalea and harrison barnes, the most from any nba team. >> interim head coach luke willametten says this is a big deal. a total of 30 finalists have been selected. >> they include lebron james, kevin durant, blake griffin and james harden. the final 12th player roster will be chomp this summer, but the warriors are well represented. what a ride. the harlem globetrotters took over b.a.r.t. >> they showed off their tricks, sang songs, laugh their what to oakland's coliseum stop. >> the team was headed to oracle arena where they'll play two games on saturday. >> that would be fun if you're sitting on b.a.r.t. thank you for joining us.

>> for all of us, we appreciate your time. live once again at the bay bridge traffic moves, b breaking news tonight. taking sides. donald trump taking aim at ted cruz. >> he's a nasty guy. nobody likes him. >> but tonight, key conservatives come out with their own message for trump. and hillary clinton and bernie sanders in a fierce battle for iowa tonight. the new fallout after those unexpected moments. the dangerous commute. the chain-reaction crashes. 95 million americans from the dakotas to virginia to maine in the grips of an arctic chill. and now, the next major system moving in. at this hour, the americans coming home, held prisoner in iran. but what about the one left behind? we hear from his family, right here tonight. gas prices in america, where it's under a dollar. the line of drivers. and is it here to stay? the oscar controversy. actress jada pinkett smith and her message to hollywood.