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now from abc7 it, live breaking news. >> wow, that's crazy. that's really unsafe, you know? >> it took eight years and more than $2 billion to build. but after only a few weeks in operation, the salesforce transit center is closed tonight because of a cracked steel beam creating a huge mess for commuters. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. it was first discovered around 10:00 this morning on the third level bus deck. foys from a "san francisco chronicle" photographer show a e area.e rm natas closes and evacuated around 4:30 in the afternoon. bus service being moved to the old temporary transbay terminal at main and folsom streets only a few blocks away from where the

salesforce transit center is locked. team coverage for you on this breaking story tonight. cornell bernard has the impact on the commute. kate larsson begins with how the crack was first discovered. kate? >> reporter: larry beil, that's right. inspectors are here right now. at least through tomorrow trying to assess this cracked steel beam. you can see these metal barriers. public works set them up in the past few hours. besides the security guards, you can see the transit center is completely empty which certainly makes it feel like this is the beginning of a long investigation and potential repair. >> i need everyone to clear back outside the structure, please. >> reporter: transbay joint powers authority empty. the transit center american mb steel beam. commuters trying to catch the bus were for t learn the new $2 billion transit center has a defect. >> the millennium tower, now

this, i'm sure there has to be some issues going on with the construction people. >> it's closed. >> the beam is cracked. the behavior of the beam is unpredictable. that's why our engineers want us to close that area. >> reporter: executive director of tgpa says the cracked beam is in the ceiling of the third level bus deck near fremont beneath the rooftop park. this photo shows a worker inspecting the area in question. he says the crack was discovered around 10:00 tuesday morning while workers why were installing ceiling panels. >>'s very disappointing for us and it's very disappoint we have to inconvenience the public. >> it is a major deal. look at this down here. >> reporter: the cracked beams affected areas far outside the center. these muni workers had to dee energize bus lines in the area so contract kers can can safely work inside the building shown here by drone view 7. the large area of soma the

transit center the impacts. >> they have track blocked all over the place. they need to fix it if the building is in trouble. >> reporter: he believes and probably hopes the beam is an isolated problem. he says it will take inspect issues at least a few days to determine the cause and severity of the problem. live at the salesforce transit center, kate larsson. >> right now there's only one street closure. fremont street shut down between mission and howard. for those people coming down from fremont street, they got caught in a huge traffic jam. cars coming off the bay bridge and buses tried to navigate the closure. here's how it will impact other transit options tomorrow. b.a.r.t. is running longer trains. if you use casual carpool, your drop-off locations could be affected. for those coming into san francisco obviously you're going to want to allow extra time.

bus service is moved back to the temporary terminal. sky map 7 will show us where that is. it spans an entire city block between peel and main streets. cornell bernard has who are more on challenges commuters will be facing. >> reporter: larry beil, many commuters would like to hit the restart button on this evening's commute. it was really bad. traffic has pretty much calmed down and buses returned to the temporary transbay terminal. many were confused exactly where to go at first. >> catching a bus, temporary terminal. howard and beal. have a great evening. >> reporter: ambassadors pointed confused commuters away from the new salesforce transit center. many wondered was this happening? >> it's confusing it's closed already. >> i was confused why we had to come over here. >> reporter: thousands forced to walk several blocks to the place they thought they left behind

last month. >> back to the old. >> reporter: the old temporary transbay terminal preed back into service. buses started rolling through, commuters finding their old departure spots. >> did you ever think he would be back here? >> no, i never thought i'd see this again. >> reporter: with fremont street shut down, traffic came to a halt. it was painful to watch, let alone experience. >> are you caught in this thing? >> i am. i was just thinking i'm an idiot for coming this way. i didn't use waze today. >> reporter: adding insult to injury, the dream force convention shutting down a giants game. >> i'm going to take the green. >> reporter: many were getting used to their new diggs at the salesforce transit center. >> i hope they can find the crack and fix it soon. it's only been open a month. >> reporter: tonight the sfmta

says the temporary transbay terminal will be used again tomorrow morning or till furthee coming downtown tomorrow to please leave your cars at home if you can. and take public transportation. live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> cornell, the guy on the bike behind you had the right idea. thank you. >> the salesforce transit center opened to great fanfare august 12th. there were three days of events where huge crowds showed up and stayed for hours. just a month after the opening, problems started to show up a couple of weeks ago. the walkway in the public park that sits four stories bob street level started crumbling. chunks broke apart. workers have been patch package the holes. another wrinkle to the story is is the legal dispute between the owners of millennium tower and the transit authority. the tower is sinking and the owners blamed the nearby salesforce transit center. a judge ruled transbay power

must pick up some of the millennium's legal bills. today the executive director said he didn't think the cracked beam will anything to do with the sinking tower. the transit center's closure will likely cause major headaches for the morning commute. we have you covered at 4:30 tomorrow morning. alexis smith, track reporter, will help you get around the mess on abc 7 mornings. dream force is only adding to the traffic headache that drivers are dealing with. abc7 news was at the mosconi center as the annual event took over the neighborhood. traffic aside, there was a big announcement from the company's co-ceo marc benioff. salesforce is donating $15.5 million to the san francisco and oakland unified school districts. >> i started salesforce so i could give back to the city that i love and care for so much. and top have a company that lets me do that, that's all that

matters. >> dream force runs through friday. howard street is closed between third and fourth due to dream force. air canada pointing the finger at sfo after one of its flights almost crashed into a line of planes on a taxiway. this video shows that flight last july. an air canada report released today said it was hard for the pilots to distinguish the right runway because of bad lighting and construction at st. fo. the ntsb released findings today, among them pilot fatigue. in a statement sfo said they've already started making some changes. today a second woman accusing supreme court nominee bret cabanaugh of sexual assault said she will talk to the fbi. deborah ramirez told "the new yorker" kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party. her lawyer says she will also talk with lawmakers but first has to tell her story to the fbi. >> if we can get a meaningful investigation by the fbi, there

are all sorts of ways that our client would be willing to provide information to the senate. >> the first woman who publicly accuse kavanaugh of assault is bay area professor christine blasey ford. she will testify before a committee on thursday. emily raw has more what to expecting from that and the expected vote on kavanaugh this week. >> reporter: in his strongest defense yet of bret kavanaugh, president trump belittled the sexual assault allegations against him. >> 36 years ago? nobody ever knew about it, nobody ever heard about it. >> reporter: calling democrats con artists. >> they know he's high quality and they wichk at each other. they're winking. they know it's a con man. >> reporter: kavanaugh denying allegations from both accusers in an interview with his wife on fox news. >> i never did any such thing, never did any such thing. >> i truly, i don't understand it. i ---ive know bret. i know who he is.

>> kavanaugh will testify thursday along with professor christine blasey ford. the senate judiciary committee hiring a sex crimes prosecutor to question her into t really getting carried away. >> as many republicans direct blame toward democrats and promise to move ahead with a vote. >> i'm confidence we're going to win. confident he will be confirmed in the very fear future. >> dras continuing their calls for an fbi investigation. >> which can be performed quietly, soberly, quickly, effectively without fuss, without muss, without any circus atmosphere. >> kavanaugh is preparing to answer some tough questions on thursday including some about suggestive entries in his high school yearbook. the senate judiciary committee has now set a tentative vote for his confirmation for the very next day.

emily raw, abc news washington. >> dion lim will be in washington, d.c. on thursday when ford testifies. look for her live reports here on abc 7 and online throughout the day. big cosby, he's in prison tonight. we'll hear from a north bay woman who accused him of sexual assault. >> plus a fires in the east bay. tonight there's been an arrest. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya

tonight, america's dad is in prison. a judge sentenced is bill cosby to three to ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting a former temple university employee. a north bay woman who also

accused cosby of assault testified at the trial. abc7 news reporter carolyn tyler got her reaction to today's sentencing. >> mr. cosby, any comments sir? bill cosby said to be legally blind led away in handcuffs sentenced to spend at least three years in prison. >> it's just, ah, it's all the ridicule and the horrible things said about us. it's just -- it's all worth it. >> reporter: that's janice baker kinney, the north bay woman testified during the trial and says she was a 24-year-old bartender at harrah's in reno when cosby invited her to a party. >> i was sexually assaulted by him in may of 1982. >> reporter: her testimony helped bolster the claims of the key accuser and creeia constand which led to today's sentencing. in all, dozens of women came forward to accuse the famous

comedian. baker kinney believes they were at the forefront of the me, too movement. in our phone conversation today, she sarcastically thanked the man now classified as a sexually violent predator. >> i thank him for his arrogance and his ego because it made a group of women really pissed off. >> reporter: the outrage began, with their attorney gloria allred today called a long journey to justice. >> this is a very important day. judgment day has come. >> reporter: cosby's attorneys say they will appeal. >> they persecuted jesus and look what happened. i'm not saying mr. cosby is jesus, but we know what he this country has done to black men for centuries. >> that publicist and drew wyatt says that god is watching over bill cosby as he spends the first of what's going to be many nights in prison. in the newsroom, carolyn tyler, abc7 news.

>> coming up, tomorrow night at 10:00, the premiere of abc's highly anticipated drama called "a million little things." this show is about friends trying to deal with a buddy's suicide and realizing the danger of their culture of silence. then on abc 7 news at 11:00, meet a bay area woman who tried to kill herself and survived. how she's part of a growing movement of survivors giving hope and help to others. in the east bay, a man police say started two brush fires is now in jail. police tracked down william priest after a witness saw him running from one of the fires. the fire on monday burned six acres only yards from a fire that broke out sunday. that one burned seven acres near a subdivision. a firefighter suffered minor injuries. fire officials arrested another suspect for two fires set in the past month in san ramon and black hawk. we are staying on top of

three bay area development projects. all up for votes tonight. we'll start in the south bay. the santa clara board of supervisors voted to demolish the old city hall and next. in the east bay, the board of trustees voted to buy a 23-acre piece of land to build a high school and the commission recommended not to recommend building an ikea in that city. if you like roller coasters, we're going up and down. here's sandhya. >> we're not talking about a kiddie roller coaster. we'll see big swings. live doppler 7 showing you fog along the coastline. moved locally over the bay. right now visibility is down to about half a mile. it is definitely foggy there and it will be thick tomorrow morning for the commute. temperatures right now 50s, 60s, comfortable out there. a live look from our kgo roof

camera toward the bay lights. hot inland and mild at the coast tomorrow. another spare the air alert issued. it is going to be significantly cooler the end of the week. tomorrow morning cool enough to require an extra layer. temperatures in the mid 40s to the mid 50s. watch out for fog. the visibility will be poor. tomorrow afternoon hot in the south bay. 95 in gilroy, 90 los combat toes. warm around sunny valley, san jose 87 tomorrow afternoon. peninsula 74 in mill brae, 84 mountain view, redwood city. coast is going to be cooler than what we anticipated earlier this afternoon because the fog will hang tough. mid 60s. downtown san francisco 70 degrees and in the north bay, it's almost going to be like summer. from 63 at bow guy da bay to 88 in napa. east bay 76 berkeley. warm in castro valley, 82.

inland, it is going to be hot. unseasonably hot for some areas. 96 in fair field. 97 livermore. 9 for brentwood. i want to turn your attention to a newly formed tropical storm rosa. it is expected to intensify into a category 1 hurricane. why am i drawing your attention to this? besides the fact they'll see waves in mexico and cabo? left over moisture from this hurricane category 3 by thursday eventually weakening. next week may link up with the system bringing us a possibility of showers. let's start with the first system. nothing to do with rosa. that one's coming in from the northwest. 9:00 a.m. saturday into northern california by saturday evening. may squeeze out drizzle in the bay area sunday morning. monday the next system possibly linking up with the moisture. that means monday afternoon, evening we may see a few showers. accuweather seven-day forecast, inland sizzle tomorrow. not as hot on thursday.

a drop. temperatures on friday and for the weekend, a little drizzle feeling like late fall. low 60s to upper 70s by sunday. another chance of showers there on monday. so some major changes. >> 9 to 78 is dramatic. >> 20-degree drop. >> thank you. tomorrow on "good morning america" boy band bts takes

a milestone tonight for the san francisco asian art museum. mayor london breed was in attendance for the ground breaking ceremony. this museum is undergoing a major transformation including expansion that calls for add agoutdoor venue. all right. do not move.

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all right one more time before we go, officials are asking if you have to come into san francisco tomorrow, please do

not drive because of the closure of the salesforce transit center and road closures. it's going to be hectic. i'm larry beil. up next on jimmy kimmel, >> dicky: from hollywood, it's about "jimmy kimmel live? "tonight, sofia vergara, degree, snoop dog and music from tyga featuring offset. and now, step aside. here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everyone. welcome. hi, everyone. thank you. relax, relax. hello. i'm jimmy. i'm your host. thank you very much. thank you for coming. thank you very much. it's -- hey, i just want to mention something real quick. if you haven't already, and i'm

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