i'm the project manager for transbay. our presentation today, we're going to discuss the background for block 4 and then the existing option terms and proposed option amendment terms. jeff white will then discuss the developers' development proposal for block 4. and then we have discuss how the developer proposal fits into the trance bay affordable housing program. lastly, we'll go over the next steps. >> this slide shows you the location of block 4. we also have been there, the location of parcel f. as you will see, parcel f and block 4 are related in this transaction. this is ann an an me an ameniti. it shows you the parks and retail. some background on block 4, the current zoning is for a 450-foot residential tower, 65 and 80-foot high podium and 50-foot high townhomes. the transbay redevelopment plan requires that 35% of all new residential units in the redevelopment plan area be affordable. many projects that are planned and under construction in transbay, contain less than the 35%. so block four is always planned at

you have heard and approve many items relating to the transbay transit centre project.his is one of many that you will have before you in the coming years. i will be presenting on the bond financing related items before the committee as it relates to the special tax bond. however, if there are project related questions regarding the sales force transit center, the executive director of the transbay joint powers authority is present to address these. as i mentioned, i am before the committee today to respectfully request that the board of supervisors considered for review and approval a resolution that confirms the annexation of property into the transbay community facilities district, as well as authorizing the issuance of up to 200 million of special tax bonds. and finally, and ordinance appropriating the use of these bond proceeds. as a reminder to the board to, in 2012, the city adopted the transit center district plan. after a multiyear planning process. the comprehensive plan to support the construction of the new transbay transit center project including the downt

bruce took a big step away with transbay six, much to the delight of our partners. small inside joke. in any event, we're winding down, but i do want to just take a moment, we have a moment in all of our openings that we take a minute to hear from somebody who lives in here. adrian lived in this building and he's already made a giant step back. he seems to be a very, very active member of this neighborhood. i personally at this moment -- i don't even know what disney musical or disney show -- i went to sleep in rincon, but i woke up here in east cut. he's been a tremendous asset to the staff and to the neighborhood, and i want to bring him up now. [applause] >> hi, everybody. my name is adrian caratosa. i'm a resident of natalie gub commons. i am very lucky to be in this building. i know a lot of people have applied for this lottery. this is my 25th lottery. six years, it took me to get in. [applause] >> i used to live in a t.m.c. building in the tenderloin for five years. they were really good to me. a little bit about me, when i was nine years old, i contracted h.

the troubles continue for the transbay terminal transit center in san francisco. ( james ) we are now learning that its going to be even longer before it opens. kron 4's sara stinson is live in san francisco with the details. kron 4's sara stinson is live with the latest details on the closure. sara?take reporter: fremont street was supposed to re-open tomorrow... but now it won't be open until next wednesday.that means drivers will continue to suffer in the heavy traffic that's been backing up downtown san francisco for weeks.the transbay joint power authority announced this delay in re- opening fremont street saying they've completed the shoring on the ground level of fremont street, but the installation of a four story shoring system won't be finished until next week.there is also a shoring system in place in the transit center on first street even though no cracks were found there.officials want to make sure the shoring system supporting the bus deck is strong and secure before allowing pedestrains and vehicles through fremont at missions and howard streets. once that is done, eng

a key phase is under way to shore up the damaged transbay transit center in san francisco. details on the effort to re- open fremont street. >> the city is gearing up for the fleet week. the blue angels take flight today. good morning, it is friday, october 5th. i'm michelle griego. >> good morning. i'm kenny choi. 5:00 on the dot. let's head outside take a look at the conditions on this friday morning. as we take a live look at some of the traffic in the east bay, jaclyn dunn will have a full report coming up. she will get it "done." a live look at the "salesforce tower" in the city by the bay as this city gets ready for the big show up in the air! >> yeah! >> th sniceto actually have that sunshine yesterday for the practice run. and looking at a lot of sunshine. jaclyn, wasn't it neat to see them fly overhead? >> yeah. just to hear the big roar of them. i was always looking that way and then they would be gone! >> watch out! >> it's a delay. >> ha ha! >> it was so cool. yeah, let's show that you fleet week forecast as we are looking at great weather for blue angels taking

. >> a street in san francisco remains closed near the new transbay terminal. that's because the terminal is off limits to the public after this discovery of who cracked beams. kpix 5 phil matier on how that problem is rippling through city politics and may, in fact, have a related project. phil? >> reporter: that's right. you know, it's going to take weeks to figure out the tucks on the cracked beams inside the ball. already at city hall, we have one supervisor, a rather powerful one calling for a fix of the agency that had oversees the transit ajen -- that oversees the transit agency. >> we just spent $2.2 billion on a project that is overbuilt, that is cracking, that could have failed onto fremont street. >> reporter: as big as it is, the newly opened transbay terminal with its rooftop park is just the first part of the billion dollar project that includes spending another $9 billion to tunnel some three miles under san francisco to bring trains like this into the city. but now some at city hall say it's time to hit the brakes on any future funding until the

the transbay joint powers authority is closing off first street to reinforce the transbay transit center out of an abundance of caution while a cause for the cracks found in two steel beams on the third level bus deck at fremont street are examined. sot mark zabaneh/transbay joint powers authority// "and we can start taking the physical test of the beams take them to a lab so were able to determine from the lab what is the cause."fremont street between howard and mission has been shut down as crews work to shore up the structure by installing four steel columns.the closure has added traffic in the area during rush hour...and now drivers will now also have to reroute around the new first street closure. no cracks have been found there but the design is pretty similar to the one at fremont...so six jacks will be used to hold it up just in case...sot mark zabaneh/transbay joint powers authority// "out of prudence we've decided to also shore up first street. once these jacks are available so that we can introduce some redundancy in the first street connection." first street will be closed ov

in the new transbay transit center.s now predicted that this main downtown artery will remain closed until october 12. phase one is done but it's only a temporary solution. phase two....which is still being designed is expected to get fully underway in the next few days...incldues a shoring system which will eventually take the load of the cracked beams.... it will extend from the bottom of the roof deck down four levels. once that system is up and running....engineers will then work to determine why the cracks occured...and how to design a permenent fix. <"immediately as soon as it safely shored and we can safely have workers get in there and do a sampling and get in there and test basically that's a very important milestone. because right now we can't go in and touch it or take pieces out of that that border around it that crack so we can determine what the cause was.">(vicki) the cause was.">(vicki)the cause was.">(vicki) tests results are expected to take up to two weeks. and while buses will not be allowed to drive

. >>> well the contractor who worked on the transbay transit center is suing the transbay terminal authority for $150 million and breach of contract. the contractor claims the joint power authority caused delays, making costs balloon for the $2.2 billion project. the suit alleges they received faulty design information, and that the authority often gave them information late. now the transit center closed at the end of september after two steel support beams were found cracked.>> is is nothing the steel beams at the terminal. this has to do with the lawsuit of money owed to subcontractors that was caused by the mismanagement of transbay joint power authority. >> in may the engineering firm responsible for structural steel slapped the contractor with a lawsuit, claiming poor planning led to increase costs. >>> a suspect shot by a u.s. park police officer remains hospitalized this evening with life threatening injuries. it happened last night near san francisco's aquatic park. as you can see in this video taken around 5:30 this morning. a black sedan and a u.s. park police car were towed from

having said that, i know we are all committed to bringing rail into the transbay terminal.d we have some challenges i think we should also be having robust conversation about, including occupying that building, what can be done with that train box in the interim. i have heard some great suggestions ranging from a homeless facility to city office space. you name it. but i think we need to figure that out because right now that building is hemorrhaging money on the operating side. with that, i thought we should all have the opportunity to hear from mark about what the current challenges are and how they are going to be fixed and how it came to be passed. with that, i will turn it over to the executive director of the transbay joint powers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for your patience. i could not join you last meeting for a very good reason i shared with you and we are here today. i would like to start by giving you an update on the >> translato transit center and jump into the prop k funding. i have with me our senior construction manager, dennis. he will do p

the transbay authority releasing a statement saying it's still reviewing the lawsuit. we posted the entire statement on our website. the transit center reopened earlier this week after a forced shutdown because of a cracked beam. >>> a follow-up story, a tower fell over in fremont. one person is in critical condition. we captured this video from durham road in fremont. a 20-foot rebar tower fell, three people were taken to the hospital. cal osha says the company is called queensland builder. >>> it's an emotional night for the catholic church in san jose. the archdiocese is listening to the concerns of parishioners and wants to hear from people who've been molested by police. some critics say this is a pr move and doesn't address years of covering up abuse. nbc bay area is at the santa theresa church in san jose with the details. mary ann? >> that listening session is gong right now. it began atmosphere 3:00 and it's still going on here inside the church. about 100 people showed up today, and we listened to more than a dozen people speak. none of them said they were mo

some of those change orders weren't handled very quickly by the client, transbay joint powers authority, causing there to be approximately $150 million owed to webcor and other subcontractors that needs to be paid. >> the transbay joint power authority denies the allegations saying it says it wants to reason start as soon as safely possible and hopes that all parties will join in the effort. >>> a construction site in fremont is closed this morning after a tower weighing 1,000 pounds toppled over on workers below. it happened yesterday on durham and sabre cat roads near 680. workers were climbing the 20- foot tower when it came crashing down. three men wererushed to the hospital. one of them is in critical condition. queensland construction says each tower is made of 6 pieces of rebar and they are set into the concrete foundation. >> so as they put their cement pillars, as they put up base layers and walls, this is part of that construction. so it was probably in the most vulnerable part of its construction that these individuals were injured. >> by the way, cal/osha has an open investi

closing, with regards to phase two, i strongly support the motion, but i also believe that the new transbay connection to the east bay has to take priority over high proceed rail and lightrail and as soon as you start studying this, the sooner you'll realize that you have some serious issues about the way that you're approaching the train box by the second street alignment. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, chairman peskin and commissioners. i'm david sung, an architect, we're a small san francisco design architectural firm. in the interest of full disclosure and transparency, we are part of the d.t.x. design team and -- but the reason i'm speaking up is not so much that we're part of this team, but i'm speaking up as a citizen and as a daily commuter on caltrain, and i've seen plans for the d.t.x. extension, setting aside my personal involvement that, you know, this extension is critical infrastructure transit project that we all know is needed here in san francisco and in the region, and that you all discussed earlier today, you know, about the

commitment i get is they will open up and the underramp park and transbay open for dogs. if they are not open for another three years, what are the alternative options that you recommend to the residents for dog walking? >> excellent question and it is a real challenge in the neighborhood, with so many dogs. as you mentioned, underramp park will have a very generous dog area, an acre in space. a third of the park. in the interim, c.b.d. is exploring doing an interim dog on the now vacant temporary terminal site, a dog there -- >> block four. >> either block 3 or 4, really. but, and then essex hillside actually has a flat landing area that's only about 3,000 square feet, but o.c.i.i. has said the c.b.d. could work to get a dog space there as well. >> okay. i would like to work with on that, that's an issue coming up in the neighborhood. what do you find is the vacancy rate in the neighborhood. you mentioned pop-up activation, this is a new neighborhood, all new buildings. so, not the same as the ocean avenue c.b.d. had talked about. what has been the -- i guess the occupat

this is the crew at the transbay transit center. we still have the closure for freemont street. we'll track that. the development over the weekend and, of course, pete suratos will have a live update coming up. for now back to you. >> all right. thanks, mike. >>> developing for you, new video this morning of crews rescuing a woman three days after that powerful earthquake and tsunami. this in central indonesia. the disaster left some areas entirely cut off. video showing how strong that tsunami was as those waves up to 20 feet high hit. the 7.5 earthquake also causing those buildings to collapse, destroying homes and more than 800 confirmed deaths. the number is expected to rise into the thousands. >>> affecting the way you get your news and connect on-line. governor jerry brown just enacted one of the country's toughest protections for when you go on-line. >> uncle sam isn't going to let california's net neutrality bill become law without a fight. bob is live in san jose with more on the lawsuit filed by the u.s. government. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says california's

and bus traffic remains rerouted to the temporary transbay terminal at howard and main streets.) meanwhile... across the city... another headache for commuters has cropped up. construction began today on the "lombard street vision zero project." kron 4's sanaz tahernia joins us live from lombard street with a closer look at where you can expect delays and for how long. sanaz? direction. >the eastbound avoid that peak in before 9am to any lane closures won't be having francisco we into san traffic heading direction for eastbound similarly in the and then lane closures. experiencing the going to be day

a key phase is under way to shore up the damaged transbay transit center in san francisco. details on the effort to re- open fremont street. >> the city is gearing up for the fleet week. the blue angels take flight today. good morning, it is friday, october 5th. i'm michelle griego. >> good morning. i'm kenny choi. 5:00 on the dot. let's head outside take a look at the conditions on this friday morning. as we take a live look at some of the traffic in the east bay, jaclyn dunn will have a full report coming up. she will get it "done." a live look at the "salesforce tower" in the city by the bay as this city gets ready for bi

closures around the transbay transit center in san francisco are going to last longer than expected.e will have the details in a live report. ( lydia ) and an affordable housing project in the east bay could be delayed after yesterday's massive warehouse fire. xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, enhanced coverage, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi. simple. easy. awesome. get started with xfinity for $34.99 a month for 12 months. plus ask about xfi pods for even more coverage. click, call or visit a store today. news that breaking news we are following... clean up will begin in florida after part of that state was devastated by hurricane michael.( james ) ( james ) the storm has now been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves through georgia and the carolinas. in the overnight hours we have learned that two people have died. as the sun comes up... crews will begin surveying the damage and clean up will begin. omar jimenez is live in panama city, flo

deck down four levels.the transit center's construction manager told the board of directors of the transbay joint powers authority.....that once that's in place....workers can take a safely take a sample of the steel for testing...which help them determine why the cracks occured in the first place...and show how to design a permenent fix.test results are expected to take up to two weeks.and while buses will not be allowed to drive onto the bus deck until the permanent fix is in place....it could be possible that the roof deck could be reopened to the public in early november.the cost of all of this is still unknown....but it appears taxpayers willnot be footing the bill since the building is still under warranty. it's now predicted that this main downtown artery will remain closed until further notice.so traffic impacts will continue...fremont street has been closed since last week so drivers are still having to follow the detours.live in san francisco, sara stinson kron4 news. thanks sara. thanks sara. ( darya )(ááá2 shotááá) breaking news out of san francisco ... 23-hundred hotel workers

crews are working to repair the closed transbay transit center in downtown san francisco.. (ken) and we are learning of a new street closure... making it harder for drivers to get around the already congested streets. (pam) officials announced today.... that a portion of first street will be closed at 9- tonight... through through five- in the morning tomorrow. kron 4's dan kerman has the latest... 2 of the four steel columns designed to shore up the the salesforce transit center where two cracked support beams were discovered last week are now in place on fremont street. and installation of the other two columns is underway. similar shoring towers will be installed between the bus deck and rooftop park above... and on the two levels below the street. that should be completed by next friday october 12th, allowing the reopening of fremont street between mission and howard . sot mark zabaneh/transbay joint powers authority 29-39at that point in time we will have unloaded the load on the cracked beams and we can test the beams, take them to the lab and determine what is the ca

as crews are working to repair the closed transbay transit center in downtown san francisco.. we are learning of a new street closure... making it harder for drivers to get around the already congested streets. hello i'm grant lodes. (vicki) and i'm vicki liviakis. officials announced today that a portion of first street will now be closed. kron 4's dan kerman is live in san francisco tonight to explain when that closure will happen. dan? 2 of the four steel columns designed to shore up the the salesforce transit center where two cracked support beams were discovered last week are now in place on fremont street. and installation of the other two columns is underway. similar shoring towers will be installed between the bus deck and rooftop park above... and on the two levels below the street. that should be completed by next friday october 12th, allowing the reopening of fremont street between mission and howard . sot mark zabaneh/transbay joint powers authority 29-39at that point in time we will have unloaded the load on the cracked beams and we can test the beams, take them t

in the new transbay transit center.(vicki) it's now predicted that this main downtown artery will remain closed until october 12. our grant lodes joins us live in the studio with details on the process and a possible timeline of when we can expect the roof deck to be open... grant? (grant) the massive jacks put in to shore up cracked girders are only phase one of the temporary solution. phase two....which is still being designed is expected to get fully underway in get fully expected to designed is expected to get fully underway in the next few days...incldues a shoring system which will eventually take the load of the cracked beams.... it will extend from the bottom of the roof deck down four levels. once that system is up and running....engineers will then work to determine why the cracks occured...and how to design a permenent fix. <"immediately as soon as it safely shored and we can safely have workers get in there and do a sampling and get in there and test basically that's a very important milestone. because right

(ken)a new street closure tonight due to more repairs at the transbay transit center. (pam)cracks were found in a couple of beams.. but now another section of the transit center is being reinforced just in case. kron 4's ella sogomonian has more. out of an abundance of caution the transbay joint powers authority is closing off first street to reinforce the transit center while a cause for the cracks found in two steel beams on the third level bus deck at fremont street are examined.sot mark zabaneh/transbay joint powers authority// "we;re not going to take the beams down once the shoring system is in place and the (girders?) are loaded we'll be taking pieces of the beams the cracked section we will cut that out and take it to a lab to test it."fremont street between howard and mission has been shut down as crews work to shore up the structure by installing four steel columns.the closure has added traffic in the area during rush hour...and now drivers will now also have to reroute around the new first street closure. no cracks have been found there but the design is pre

this is the people who designed and constructed the transbay transit center which as you you are aware is shut down because of the stew steel girders cracking. over the next several days workers will replace the hydraulic jacks supporting the section of the terminal over fremont streets putting in more permanent supports installed on all four decks. zumgs the stlags passes peer review the goal to $is to have fremont street reopened for traffic on october 12th. there do still be three lanes of traffic but narrower than what kmurpts are used to. they will sample and test the metal in the gird he is to see what caused the cracking. bus service will not reassume inside the transbay transit skrernt until the girders are permanently fixed. the goal for that is weeks, not months. >> but -- it's a very unusual incident in my mind at least. after the opening of the terminal. and so it's not that i want to play the delay game. but i think members of the public will be comforted in at least we are trying to pinpoint the issue abhow to prevent it or be able to identify other pension reasons in ter

you to consider alternatives to a shutdown, such as you did with construction management of the transbay transit center, for instance, you might consider asking mohammed to have his department review invoices and task orders while you conduct your due diligence rather than shutting down the process at this point. at any rate, i very much urge you to consider how best to maintain the momentum of this project as your due diligence proceeds with minimal impact on the critical path for project delivery. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you, mr. strauss. next speaker. >> commissioners, i'm jim haas, i was a member of the r.a.b. working group, and as some of you recall, i appeared a number of times over the last decade about this project. and, of course, we were reaping what has -- what we sowed long ago by not paying attention to it. the basic problem was that the first executive director kept the project and the agency under wraps. she asserted it was not a city agency, and she did her best to keep the city out of the project, as some of you are well aware. including the mayor at the tim

this supervisor hub acknowledged this has been a rough year for the transbay power authority or pgpa. >> we're aware obviously of the cracked beams and painfully aware of the huge cost overruns and delays. >> reporter: the $2.2 billion transbay transit center found support beams cracked within days of its opening, and before the beams the project with its five-acre elevated park was six months behind schedule and 100 million over budget. today the executive director of the transbay joint powers authority was roughed up by supervisors who appeared to be gunning for his agency. >> just to be fair, it is changing. >> reporter: the director says that holding funds could cause delays which would add costs to the $6 billion project. >> a three-month pause would be approximately $50 million. a six-month pause would be roughly $100 million. >> reporter: when peskin called for the vote it was unanimous. aaron peskin wants a new agency to oversee construction of the tracks and tunnel from fourth and king to the train box that is 80 feet beneath the transbay transit center, and he's going to try

this is on the cracked beams by the transbay transit center. it's been a nightmare since cracks were found. >> workers started installing a temporary shoring system to reveal pressure on the cracked steel beam. >> reporter: architecture fan makyle wanted to get a glimpse of the transbay transit center he watched go up. he was surprised of news fractures were found in two support beams. >> it's nice to see it up but hopefully they can fix it and people will feel calm and safe walking up there. >> reporter: workers spent hours positioning each jack to make sure they were in the right spot, but even before they were put into place crews had to do prep work. >> we were thinking installing the pads in the middle of freemonteeds and start installa relieving a lot o weight on the two cracked girders that have to be repaired. thlan is to have vehicles drive around the jacks. >> we intend to open a portion of freemont street. >> reporter: the whole structure including the bus terminal and open air park will remain closed as the repair work continues for

transbay leaders plan to hold an update later this morning. they hope to have the fremont partially reopened next week. our investigative unit has been looking for the cause of these cracks. our team discovered the culprit may be unusual homes can ut through the steel beams holding that structure. to learn more, visit nbc bay area.com, click on the investigative unit tab. >>> developing now the death toll is rising in indonesia following an earthquake and tsunami. overnight, it's jumped to more than 1,200 people. search and rescue teams are working around the clock. the 7.5 magnitude quake struck friday on a central island triggering a tsunami. several roads, and buildings were destroyed. if you are checking bike delays, airport workers are planning to strike in more than 13 countries. here's a live look at sfo, where workers plan to protest this afternoon. baggage handlers say they don't own enough money they only have a few benefits. happening today at sfo a construction milestone for a newly built on site for travelers. it's built near the

the city today announced this section of fremont street under the transbay terminal would reopen on monday morning, already two days ahead of schedule. but in the last couple of minutes, we saw them take down the caution tape behind me and, in fact, workers just confirmed to us that they would be opening this stretch any minute now. and this is all because work has been completed on the system beneath the transit center. the transit terminal first closed two weeks ago. you may recall after two cracks were discovered in steel beams in the ceiling of the bus deck near fremont street here. now the transbay joint powers authority says its temporary closure of this building was a safety precaution. i just spoke to people who live and work nearby moments ago. not only are they going to start until they have a permanent fix in place. so it will be interesting to see what they could hold. >> reporter: city workers tell us any minute they will be opening this stretch of fremont street since the center closed, operations have moved to the temporary transbay terminal. but again this should be a relie

. >>> well more fallout for the closed transbay transit center today. kpix 5 wilson walker explains how the city decision could lead to a leadership change for that project. >> reporter: 28 days now since the sudden closure of this brand new $2.2 billion building. and today those cracked beams were still reverberating through san francisco's city hall. >> and i'm sorry. i find it disrespectful to that body. >> reporter: some very pointed comments and criticism today from the supervisors on the transportation authority board, which honding from the transbay joint powers authority citing mismanagement and a lack of transparency. >> wait, the only tool we have to fix this is money. >> reporter: but the real struggle here is for power. >> and we have final approval. >> reporter: that vote is an effort to block them from managing the next phase of this project. and that is the $6 billion job of getting trains into this building. >> and they are going to have to get out of the way. right now, the rule by them is not working. i mean everybody, they acknowledge

it is a good decision. >> reporter: it is unclear when the transbay terminal will reopen. officials say now that the shoring system is complete they will test the cracked beams to determine a cause. that will take a few more weeks. bus service is running out of the transbay terminal at howard and main streets. >> s a meths, thank you. -- azenith smith, thank you. >>> drivers going across the bay bridge can expect closures and delays. they are for maintenance work. workers will replace seals. the work will take place between 8:00 p.m. and 4 a.m. lane in each und and eastbound direction will remain open. the work is expected to continue through the end of the month. >>> a sheriff's deputy is recovering tonight after he crashed his patrol car into a house during a high-speed chase. he was able to get out and help the residents get out safely. shortly after the patrol car and the home caught fire. the deputy suffered injuries and was taken to the hospital h the crash happened aftea.m. this morning at home. >> the red cross is on scene with the victims that have been displaced.

. >>> an update on the reopening of san francisco's transbay transit center. a cause of the cracks and two beams could be determined in had the next couple of weeks. today officials say fremont street could reopen next friday, october 12, at the earliest. once they begin a permanent fix, reopening the park is called a "definite possibility." while the rest of the center will remain closed. right now their focus is adding additional support to the section above fremont street. >> and at that point some time we will be able to take a sample of the steel guarder, take it to a lab, and do various tests. two weeks from that point, october 12, we should be able to know what the cause is. once the cause is known, we will be able to affect a design and a fix. >> there is no exact date on when the transit center will officially reopen. buses are currently operating from the temporary transbay terminal at howard and main streets. >>> the fbi confirming what most people in san francisco already know. property crime is out of control. the city is now number one nationwide

. >>> coming up, engineers rushing to fix two cracked girders at the transbay transit terminal. but tonight, they're shutting down yet another street. >> the blue angels soars through the skies this weekend. how you can get the best view of their last shows tomorrow. >> also, ozzy osborne postponing his bay area show due to an emergency surgery. of a cliff rescue at bodega bay. deo clifened on tuesday -- when rescue at bodega bay. a petaluma man fell from the cliff into the ocean. his friend scrambled down to help him but got stuck. crews went down to rescue the man. the friend who fell into the ocean died. >>> it's packed tonight in san francisco. nearly two million people are in town for two major events. >> the bluegrass festival taking place this weekend. two of san francisco's most popular and highly attended events. katie neilson went to both to give us a taste. >> reporter: four-year-old james pettit wanted nothing to do with fleet week. >> you like planes? >> nope. >> you want to be a fighter pilot? >> no. >> reporter: but it didn't take long to win it over. >> i like it

. >>> 28 days since a cracked beam shut down the trans bay transit -- transbay transit center. san francisco's transportation authority board voted to withhold funding from transbay joint powers authority citing mismanagement and lack of trang parnsy. that ultd -- transparency. that could ultimately mean delays. we learned that test results on what caused the steel beams to fail won't be known until mid-november. >>> a call for action in danville months after a teenager drowned in the high school swim class. parents and teachers packing the school board meeting. kpix 5's andria borba reports they are demanding the district take some accountability, andria? >> well, ken, tonight was the first time we didn't hear from the curry family's attorney. but we heard from the curry family itself. ben curry's sister katrina went up and spoke to the board. >> the last time i talked to my brother was monday, may 7, 2018. the next day was the worst day of my life. the pain of losing ben has been indescribable but these pastew monowing his death was preventable have been excruciating. >> repo

there will be more road closures in san francisco as crews continue to work on the new transbay transit termianl after two cracked beams were found last month. transit center officials will shutdown first street between mission and howard from 9pm to 5 am, every night through much of this week. transit center officials have now decided to shore up the portion of the transit center which runs above first street even though no cracks have been found. work on the transit center is expected to last... at least until the end of the week. ( darya ) unusual sights in the sky overnight. these are kron 4 viewer pictures sent to our newsroom. you can see the white light. this was a spacex rocket launch and landing at vandenberg air force base. spacex successfully launched a satellite into space aboard its falcon 9 rocket and then landed part of the rocket back at the base. it was spacex's first time doing this on the west coast. ( james ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news ... a limo crash kills 20 people. now investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. ( james ) plus... fleet wee

a section has been closed ever since workers discovered cracks in steel beams at the transbay transit center. kpix 5 phil matier with what they are saying about the earliest fremont street will actually reopen. phil? >> reporter: what they're saying is they hope to have it up and running by next friday. it looks like it's going to take an additional week until october 12. and even then the lanes could have a good chance it will close for some time to come. let's take a look at the latest. >> these jacks, they were brought in to ensure the bus deck was secure. >> reporter: but just how long it might take to make the center secure again is still up in the air. and so is the day for any permanent fix to the two cracked beams that forced the closure of the $2.2 billion center last tuesday. >> we could get in there and look at what happened. you can design the fix. then you know from there to go forward. >> reporter: what we do know is it will take two weeks of testing just to determine why the beams, which were a critical part of the support system from the rooftop park cracked in the fir