it doesn't look like much but the caltrans crews said they did significant. it was found by inspectors on saturday by doing a top-to-bottom sweep. crews say they believe that it is three to six months old and unrelated to this weekend's work on that bridge. that work was slighted to be a new piece of roadway. the crews on that project joined the new steel to the old steel and expansion joints and smooth the driveway and driving around up there. still, everybody is not celebrating that just yet because they do have the crack on their mind that is compromising the safety of the bridge potentially. caltrans says an arizona steel contractor did work over the weekend overtime to create the welds they needed to do that repair. rather the welds were flown in by charter jet but again, the projected reopening time was 5:00 for tomorrow morning in time for the commute. that may not happen. the spokesman for the agency saying have a plan b. in san francisco bay area, chris sanchez. >> to put this in speaker perspective for people not familiar with that area, people from

we have to commend our caltrans workers for the fine job they are doing, but we have to remember it'sety first. they are working day and night, day and night to repair this and let's hope that it will be completed, but let's understand that we have to develop our options right away, because the safety of those traveling across the bridge has to be the priority and i know that our caltrans officials understand that and they are working diligently to get it open tomorrow morning but just know we have to have our backup plans because, in fact, the safety of those riders come first. >> congresswoman barbara lee, a democrat who represents the east bay in the san francisco/oakland bay area, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. good to be with you. >> you're welcome. >>> take a look at the damage left behind by a huge storm near seattle, washington. this is all that is left of a 92-year-old barn. a garage roof collapsed and a silo imploded. the national weather service has not confirmed it but witnesses say they spotted a tornado. thankfully nobody has hurt. >>> floo

the representatives from caltrans talking about it, in apparently 45 minutes from now.that will be perfect for the morning rush. so there you see the shots for you and pretty soon it's going to be a very, very busy place as usual. once again, that bay bridge reopening after some much-needed repairs and some work that had been done all day yesterday. so 7:00 a.m. pacific time is when it will reopen. we'll keep our eye on that for you. >>> meanwhile, the battlefield hospital. doctors working under tough conditions and saving the lives of troops and civilians in the war zone 24 hours a day. >> reporter: it is nighttime now in kandahar. you can see what's going on behind me, we have a couple helicopters about the land. very windy. we don't have a lot of information. we just know there are patients on this particular chopper. over there, look over there, two ambulances, all the medics over here, they're starting to run out to the chopper to see what's going on. they just got the all-clear signal, we're going to go with them. >>> time for a quick check of our top stories now.