>>reporter: but with those bolts already in place he says cal-trans doing the writ test. >> yes these very, very expensive. the machine probably only a dozen of those kind of machine in the nation. >>reporter: cal-trans does more testing in a lab and come out with recommendations for how to monitor and maintain the potentially brittle bolt over the life of the bridge. 8 million or more now spending could be just the beginning. state senate investigate with another hearing scheduled later this month. at the bay bridge, this is abc 7 news. >> well as you know 49ers now just one win away from going to the superbowl again they face the seattle seahawks next sunday. but now it seems there may be fewer forty-niner fans in the stadium than previously anticipated. that's because the seahawks revving to sell anyone tickets with a california address. we have that story. >> the possibility of having fewer niner fans at the next big game against the seattle seahawks has many fans seeing red. >> if that's the way they are going to be, they are going to find out on the field. >> no tickets were ava

there will be a hearing next month dealing with possible reforms for cal tran. >>> riding huge waves, some of them four stories five. chopper 5 as one of the surf finalists managed to ride one out. glen ramirez with the winner. >> reporter: it was a picture perfect day out here for the mavericks invitational. a lot of competition out there on the waves. a south african wins for the second time here. grant twiggy baker from south africa takes the title again. he also took it in 2006. now there were tens of thousands of spectators out here for the competition. a lot of people watches this. also around the world online. it was a great day of competition. a lot of other top finishing from california were in the top six including tyler fox, greg long, and anthony tashnick. reporting from pillar point harbor, glen ramirez, kpix5. >> here is one of the rides that helped twiggy take first place. waves today were up to 40 feet call and the conditions were intimidating even to the winner. >> the waves are pretty big. there were a couple of 20 feet ones. but every time you are about to get to yo

my first phone call in this project was to cal trans. in cal trans working together with the bay area with the mayor's office here in the county of san francisco and coast guard, official wild life, all of these came together to find a way when typically the system is designed to say no, people found a way to say yes to this project. the arts commission, this collusion support from the san franciscmuseum of modern art. i apologize for the folks i will be missing because this is a cast of a thousand that made this happen. we certainly love our lawyers in this process. morrison who helped it become a very established and professional way in getting the contract involved in getting this project to an amazing legal footing. the technology network in san jose who made this a crucial project. i want to call out a thanks to or tactical team. we know how to make it small, not over 150 feet in the air. we have a studio, zone engineering and i have to say thanks to hmr who has been a rock star and directly one of the reasons this is happening. an

cal trans denies the allegations. the weld issue is separate from concerns that emerged last year overs bad bolts that nearly delayed the opening of the bridge. >>> 4:39 is the time. san francisco international airport putting the final touches on the new boarding area inside terminal three. united airlines will use the venerated spouse for domestic flights. it feature a view of the runway, a work space for 375 power outlets. the new boarding area opens on tuesday. >>> the dalai lama scheduled to make a -- it is expected to visit the berkeley community theater. tickets $50 each. the 78-year-old leader won the no bill peace prize in 1989 for his nonviolent patrol test of china's occupation of tee bet. >>> 49ers responding to a rant. >>>. good morning. right now traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. as you can see highway 4 westbound is moving well. we will tell you more about where the slow traffic is beginning. >>> for some the answer has been blowing in the wind. especially yesterday. will it equal more r

let's get the latest on cal tran movements. >> as we take a look at earlier footage, that is cal tranthat fatality has cal tran sipping gelg tracking right now, this is in red wood city. there are no stops in redwood city and commuters are expected to have at least one hour of a delay in their commute this morning. >> all right. thank you. >>> first lady michelle obama will be the guest of honor at a women's lunch and reception at the fairmont hotel. she enjoyed dinner last night after two earlier fundraisers. she is raising money for the democratic is that millions of ra is that millions of people will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater financial assistance you will receive. enroll today at coveredca.com. >>> we're looking at cool temperatures up north. 36 in santa a rrosa. a lot of low to mid-60s in east bay valley, mid to upper 40s around the bay shore. let's take a look at the what will happen sunday. saturday will be dry as is today. full of sunshine. there you go. late in the morning ♪ all day i can say go

around here are contributing significant amounts and that's important to hear from the people of cal trans and as well as all the other transit agencies. another great thanks and recognition has to be the people, the men and women that are going to work on here. there is going to be 2300 construction jobs doing lead green jobs for this wonderful design building and it's going to have it's own natural air pockets and i love hearing green platinum being the goals and standards for this building. 140 units on this block and block 7, that will compliment what we'll do probably here again in the few weeks, supervisor kim. that has opened up the renÉ project that is 120 p -- units of supportive housing. we are doing it right, building this city for 100 percent. when we match 409 market rate units here, we will have contributed significantly to the affordable housing and the below market rate housing that we need in the city to keep everybody here. we had that vision with the redwopgs -- redevelopment with the transit center that we wanted all to enjoy the amenities and share the park and share t

week working with san francisco alliance and dpw and cal trans on this provide. some neighbors are willing to provide volunteer efforts to maintain the property. that's not enough. more is needed. creating a green district will put together a management structure and a source for small capital funding that will care for these areas and provide by green street skate and other green projects that will benefit the environment. thank you. >> perfect timing. very good. next speaker. >> hi, i'm alicia holloway and i'm a homeowner in dog patch. this legislation is important to me because in our neighborhood we have -- we don't have a lot of large spaces to develop traditional parks and so the legislation will be allow us to form a gbd so we can develop and maintain these smaller spaces that we've been working on and provoid a consistent -- provide a consistent framework and infrastructure and source of revenue. thanks. >> thank you alicia. next speaker, please. >> my name is bruce and i'm a dog patch property owner and as alicia is. we've met with a number of property o

. >> this is acquired by the city from cal trans under a cooperative agreement in 2001. this is about two-thirds of an acre in size. we have disposed in the budget analyst report in total including some along the way generating almost $47 million that returns back into some projects under those conditions. this project is subject to a 50-year lease with 49 years in options and those are suggest to sf usd and was held by sf usd inherent by the city of a new landlord acquired the property from cal trans. the interest in the property has been determined to be the amount noted here for 4.5$4.5 million. one is what was the rent projection to be paid for this school district lease over the parking lot and how it's discount to present value. that's $2.3 million of that value and what is the property worth at the end of the lease term in 62 years and how we revert that back into present day. so you add those two together, that's where that number comes from. the $4.584 million. the transfer would occur from the real estate department to the mayor's office of housing community de

andrea is at the santa clara cal tran station to tell us that one of the pedestrians has died. andrea? >> reporter: that's right. the train station is still closed at this point. it is tough to see behind me, but there is still a clean up crew out on the track while cal tran is reviewing surveillance camera video from the front of their train trying to figure out what happened. the northbound express train had 70 passengers on board. >> it would have gone somewhere between 40 to 45 miles per hour. folks didn't see the crash, but witnessed the aftermath. i notice that the train went by and all of a sudden there is way too many sirens. >> reporter: the fatal crash stopped all train corridors for a short time. leaving people stranded. >> it looks like i would have to stay here tonight or i don't know to taxi it in or something. >> reporter: eventually they were able to move a single track through the station, but with no stops at creating an hour plus delay system wide. it was two people and not one. >> we need to understand what went on between the two victims and whether there i

if we can get cal trans to allow us to do that, we can do that. supervisor jane kim: can at&t make that request? >> i think we have already made that request, but sometimes you in your position can foster that along. that's one of the areas where we have, if i can offer up areas of improvement. one, i would like to say that i think we have an excellent working relationship with dpw and they have been very willing and anytime that there, there have been many discrepancies and anytime that we have worked through the definitions and the sfm order there is a lot of ambiguity and backtracking and clarifying. it's not anyone's fault per say but there have been a lot of issues around what does adjacent and how is that different from affronting and those type of questions that come up. there is certainty around some of the definitions and the policy. we are working through those as we encounter them we inquire from dpw and working collaboratively in giving an answer back to those things. sometimes they don't like it and sometimes they don't like that we p

believe that there was any coercion or anything like that and bullying to make determinations. >> cal trans is sticking to their claim that the eastern span is safe and that quality was never compromised. >>> the california's crippling drought will continue to take their toll on ranchers. many are simply selling off their cattle this year because there's nothing for the farmers to eat. and some cities are already running short of water. >>> salmon population is also in trouble. this is the time of the year the fish are suppose to migrate to local streams to spawn. they wait for a surge of water to tell them it's time, but with no rain, they may be stuck in the ocean. scientists say that could cause the already endangered to disappear between the golden gate and bay. well speaking of rain, we haven't seen a drop of it in more than two weeks and the poll says we likely won't make it to three. >> thankfully we're talking about a change as we need a change, a little balance here. it's too much warm and dry and not enough rainfall. today was another day where we were warm. even though it is cool

finally, and it also shows i hope, a cooperation between cal tran and the city. and i will also say that if it helps this process, california walks can also be counted as a local support and is willing to provide a letter either our staff or our board officers are in sacramento at least once a week, and so we are also willing to help to talk to anybody in the cal transmanagement as and when you folks run into any log jams. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public that would like to comment? >> seeing none, we will close public comment. and colleagues, could we take that same house same call? >> the item passes. >> okay. >> next item. >>

>>reporter: cal-trans director strongly denies the most damaging finding of state senate report. look back at the construction of the new bay bridge. including allegations of a coverup. >> i have no evidence or no reason to believe that there was any coercion or anything like that and bullying to make determinations. >>reporter: at senate committee hearing cal-trans bridge program manager tony was mentioned most often. as being the one who regularly told staffer not to document any potential problems with the bridge. at least not in writing. >> water that unusual in your experience at cal-trans. >> not when it's about issues that concern the quality of the project. >> i did try to regularly remind staff please when you are communicating and whatever fashion you may communicating, please make sure that you are accurate. that was my message. not don't write things down. >>reporter: mike morgan an was on the foundation team for the bridge when he tried to call attention to possible defects with the concrete used in the pile plunge that the bay. >> after the falsifications were disco

finally, and it also shows i hope, a cooperation between cal tran and the city. and i will also say that if it helps this process, california walks can also be counted as a local support and is willing to provide a letter either our staff or our board officers are in sacramento at least once a week, and so we are also willing to help to talk to anybody in the cal transmanagement as and when you folks run into any log jams. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public that would like to comment? >> seeing none, we will close public comment. and colleagues, could we take that same house same call? >> the item passes. >> okay. >> next item. >> item 12.allocate $13.1 million in prop k funds, with conditions, to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for preliminary engineering and detailed design for the transit effectiveness project, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amend the bus rapid transit/muni metro network 5-year prioritization progra. this is an action item. >> commissioner breed? >> thank

another reason for the set back the article also cites cal tran saying they were not able to get the necessary demolition permits because they were getting ready for the new span. originally plans were to have the pedestrian bike path ready to be connected to the island by early 2015 but cal tran says the chronicle as well it may be now until the summer of 2015 before it is ready. the recent set back is unacceptable. back out here live there was a meeting to talk about why the bay bridge cost so much and why it is behind schedule. you'll hear more of what came out of that meeting coming up in our 7:00 hour on mornings on 2. brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. >>> time is 6:37. new report by the san francisco city attorney says the asiana plane crash was a terrible accident and the airport is not responsible. it also suggests that 16-year- old wang was already dead before she was run over by a fire truck. that contradicts the coroners findings. the report also says the girl and two other teenagers who died were most likely not wearing seat belts and it's the impact that most likely kill

this is a focus of attention for both cal trans, and the transportation authority where we are carefully and closely monitoring the out reach and the hiring practices as well as the subcontracting practices. and we have assurances repeated assurances from the contractor that they will meet those goals prior to the completing of construction. workforce development program, is going very well, comparedly speaking, the contractor committed at the beginning that at least, 50 percent of new hires would be referred through the city build program and they are on track for meeting that goal. and 72, openings have been reported to city build and city build was able to provide candidates for 60 of those 72 to date and 24 have been hired and there are additional candidates in the pipeline, expected to be hired this month. and this month, and next month, we are seeing a significant increase in positions available. and so we expect these good statistics to look even better going forward. any major construction project, will phase challenges and prosido parkway is no exception. i would say that probab

state legislators heard from both cal trans employees, managers and outside inspectors caltrans directorlm dougherty defended work on the eastern span saying quality was not compromised and he wouldn't have opened the bridge for traffic if he had concerns about safety. doughterty eventually did admit though, that there were mistakes made during the project. >> there's no excuse to build something the sec this like that. we demand quality. if we build a bridge full of defects we will never be forgiven. >> jacqueline: we are expecting some chilly temperatures out there tonight dropping and the 30 degree temperatures. we will see calmer winds and slightly warmer temperatures. by the end of the week we could be talking rain... on that in a moment. we do have a weak system off the coast of mexico brady and high clouds. that will continue until tomorrow as the temperatures will be a little chilly to start the day with 34 in that but then thirty is also poor inland valleys and 37 in sunnyvale. for the afternoon and will be slightly warmer. 71 in antioch, 70 in pleasanton and sunnyvale and porti

cal tran says they still need to assess whether bolts on the bridge are defective and may be in dangerf failing. >>> police in east palo alto are investigating a shooting that left a man recovering from being a shot in the head. this happened about 1:45 yesterday afternoon on pahl low verdie avenue. the victim was an 1-year-old man from east palo alto. police describe the wound as super official if you have any information get in contact with east palo alto police. so far no arrests have been made. >>> today a community task force is set to meet in sonoma county to discuss the use of deadly force by police. it was put together after the fatal shooting of andy lopez by a sheriffs deputy. the task force will meet once a week and come up with recommendations. they include procedures for reviewing officer involved shooting. suggestions for community policing. z this morning the two men blamed for the shooting death of an oakland girl are due back in court. she was at a friends house last summer in july when someone knocked on the front door and started shooting. darnell williams and joseph

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that has prompted cal trans to reopen their negotiations with the contractor to try to speed things ups will tell us what is causing these delays. >>> the asiana plane crash at sfo was a terrible accident and the airport is not responsible. it also suggests that 16-year- old yan wang was already dead when run over by a fire truck. that is contradicting the conclusion of the coroner. the report also offers some recommendations. it says national standards should be set to avoid rollovers and that airlines establish lines of communications for families and friends to find hospitalized passengers. report said asiana was not able to do this. >>> people in santa clara county are the latest to be asked to cut back on their water usage because of the drought. janine de la vega is joining us from san jose with why the water district asking for voluntary cuts will billion enough. >> reporter: it was drizzling here earlier in san jose. a very light rain on and off. enough to make this parking lot wet. but more rain is expected in the next 24 hours but it went be enough to help the dot situation.

cal trans will spend $10 million this year to keep an eye on the bolts.hat number is expected to grow. the bolt problem first began in march when a third of the 96 yards cracked white tightened. it still needs to assess whether bolts on the bridge are effective or in danger of failing. >>> a sophomore at san jose high school will miss a lot of school next month because she is headed to the open livrics in sochi. edmonds won the silver medal. that helped her earn a spot on the olympic team. edmonds trained at sharks ice in san jose since she was four years old. her mother from russia is one of her coaches. >> quite a delightful surprise. >>> 5:41 is the time. recovering after a major cyber attack at target. the new promise from the company's ceo and the new details we're learning about how information was stolen. >>> plus he's standing by what he wrote. robert gates responding to the critics of his new book. >>> 680 at the sunol grade. traffic is looking good at this hour. here's a live look. we'll have much more traffic straight ahead. >>> we had our weak

. >> >>> a whistle blower telling the state senate transportation committees that cal trans is tryingquiet safety concerns, the engineer and geologist covered up construction problems. they told an engineer not to document concerns on paper but to voice them instead. >> it quickly became apparent to me that the problem was being kept secret, ignored or covered up. >> i have no evidence or no reason to believe there was any coercion or anything like that and bullying to make determinations. >> cal tran still contends the eastern span is safe and quality was never compromised. >>> a trend in california's legislature has many women worried now. the number of female lawmakers has dropped in the past decade back in 2006. 120 members total, the number dropped down to 32 now, in groups promoting women running for office they say the number will drop off and that might affect policy decisions in the future. >>> okay last night in l.a., taylor's swift's hair, beyonce and jay z. >> what about the scene on the red carpet. betty was there with who stole the show before the show. >> madonna. >> re

have seen td bullet services and committed to electrifying the service to advance the addition of a cal tran station and to bring the extension to the transbay, and about that, i will conclude my remarks. we can go on to public comment, any member of the public that would like to comment come forward. >> good morning, commissioner weiner and fellow commissioners my name is jackie sacks and i am a member of the citizen's advisory committee and regarding your report, and chair avalos as we are regarding the bicycles and i have mentioned this before. and i will say it again. i feel that in the accidents that is happening in regarding the bicycles and i think that all cyclists and because they are on the street,. and between the cars and between the accidents and, you can exchange the license plates and there is no problem, and you can get settled there. but in the case of the cyclist, and they should be licensed in case there is an accident and the cyclist, whether they are at fault or whether they are the victim, they can be identified and as, and that would be generally, and the licenses for

. >> reporter: today cal tran confirmed it had video that showed schultz reaching out to a man alreadyhat man survived. >> he would endanger his life for someone else. >> reporter: that didn't surprise you at all? >> no. he's just that type of person. >> reporter: friends describe the couple as newlyweds in their seventh year of marriage and the heart of the neighborhood. >> emily waiting for him to come home for dinner, keeping dinner ready. >> reporter: this family friend says the couple was like a family to her always there to help during her husband's three year deployment to afghanistan. >> i don't know if it has hit me quite yet. i'm still working on it. >> reporter: now neighbors say it's their turn to be had for emily who tells us -- to be there for emily who tells us knowing the circumstances of her husband's death doesn't make selling the loss any easier. >> she is still definitely very much the heart of the neighborhood. >> reporter: tonight the schultz family is planning a memorial service. the community and phillip's friends will have a chance to say good-bye to a friend t

. >> reporter: the director of cal trans on friday denied that. >> i have no evidence or reason to believe that there was anything like that going on. >> reporter: he is not buying it. >> pretty cheer to me they were lying. >> reporter: he says caltranses has a pattern of it. >> they have a person who say lawyer telling an expeter in the field what is accurate and not accurate. you tell me if it sounds fishy. >> reporter: here is what the director said. >> any a surgz that the bridge is not safe when we opened it just are not true and we absolutely disagree with any of the asertions that the bridge is not safe. >> reporter: the bridge is $5 million over budget and 10 years late will cost more. >> our expert says you will have to spend money on retrofitting between five years. >> reporter: the deconstruction of the old bay bridge will end up way over budget in the end. in the news room, kpix5. >> there will be a second hearing next month that could lead to reforms in the way caltrans does business drought... but we'll at least get a chance to water dust later this week.. ...the forecast is

they couldn't go across the street because it was on cal trans property. it was dpw property. we've already assessed the place. there is pedestrian access and enough sufficient walkways for others. that's actually a preferred alternate site because it's next to a fence. graffiti report. the dpw order does state that at&t does require a quarterly report. for the report at&t has never provided a quarterly report until july 13th. each report has about 150 sites whereas i pulled the same quarterly report for dpw and it's doubled the amount. so there is a significant problem. if at&t reported in the quarterly report in 150 sites divided in 3 months, whereas if you listened to all the objections today there is more than 50 sites with significant graffiti problems. the underground report. at&t is supposed to provide information which we have never agreed with from the report in 2013. last of all, i just want to point out that the 2,000 protest that we received in 2013, that again i would like to mention to you how signature -- significant that is comparatively if we look at all the o

and we also obtained approval for the alignments for the california high speed rail and cal tran and we published a notice for the eir and eis to include the scope for the enhancement and we also completed conceptual study to be able to accommodate the future, separation project. for the effort, we completed the work within the transit center footprint and we continued the plan, to do the archaeological work for the construction and secured the plans to block 6 and 7 and eleven and the plans for them. and at this point, i would like to go over to sean to give you a status on the construction process. >> thank you, mark. >> good morning, board members. and 2013 was an active year for contracts for us. one of the main factors of the structural steel package that was advertised and open in the early part of the year were then due to the results of that one bid. it was repackaged for better competitive bidding and we did get four bidders and it was broken down into three separate buildings and an over all scope that strategy worked and we did end up with a much lower bid and our bids wer

. >> for three decades, a chartered cal tran chugged from san jose to san francisco on martin luther king, jr., day. a 1400 mile trip, the same amount of time he marched. >> this is history. this is about an icon who died fighting for our rights. >> on the cusp of the freedom train's 30th ride, a lack of interest could stop the tradition in its tracks. >> a lot of people don't know the freedom train exists. >> just another day off school. people don't pay attention to the day. the importance of it. >> the president of santa clara dr. king association says it's that attitude that has brought ridership down. last year, 1200 people boarded the train. so far, this year the freedom train only sold 500 tickets and with three days left, some of the cars will be empty. >> anything fewer than 1,000 riders would mean an end to this tradition. >> next year would be a fare well to the freedom train. if we can't reach it, it will be devastating. >> a symbol of dr. king's dream nearing the end of the line. in san jose, kristen ayers, kpix5. >> tickets for the freedom train cost $15. proceeds benef

cal tran is trying to get it removed quickly. right now we will take a look at our maps. highway 4 in antioch is all clear. 880 near the oakland coliseum you can see the traffic is moving nicely here. although my camera is shaking here. that is because there is a little bit of wind out there. finally as we head south this is a look at the san mateo bridge. traffic on the right hand side of your screen there. 4:47. steve, what is up with the wind? >> tara keep talking. >> i'm just going to talk about those niners. if you try top get to the super market after the game it was a nightmare. it was like everybody the flood gates opened. >> okay. i agree with you. i within to two of them and it was packed. >> yeah the lines were horrendous. >>> good morning. boy it was saturday it was nice we had drizzle. [ laughter ] we had a little bit of rain. kind of nice. we were out on my friends sailboat on the bay it almost felt like winter. and now we are back to dry. in fact record heat is possible. very dry forecast. the forecast models have backed off completely on what we thought mi

cal tran says they have a 300 member crew on standby to hit i- 80 and highway 50 once the first snow flakes hit the ground here at the lower elevations. though we have had a lot of rain in the sierra, it will have a small impact on the drought. we need three to four storm to bring in significant rainfall to catch up. at this point, this storm making about a 4% impact on this drought. in blue canyon, maria medina, kpix5. >> she is right. seize communities could be out of water. only on 5, we just heard from the governor and joe vasquez says he is ready to do something drastic. joe? >> reporter: for the first time, he is talking about the development of a statewide drought plan. he is looking into transporting water into areas of california that are drying up. >> make no mistake, this is a megadrought. it is serious, we don't know how long it will go on, but we have to take real precaughts going forward. >> reporter: governor jerry brown after a speaking engagement in beverly hill spoke to our sister station kcbs tonight about the growing urgency of the drought and the federal support.