hal eisner with a close-up look at the construction project and joins us live from look. it's been smooth sailing. >> reporter: absolutely, some calling it carmaheaven instead of carmageddon. tabe a look at some of the work going on. it's so interesting to look at and i if any it's just construction work and heavy- duty equipment, but you never see this on our freeways in los angeles, where all the cars were told to go somewhere else. they have shut down ten miles of the freeway, all because they have widening the freeway and to widen the freeway, you have to widen the bridge. they are taken down the south half this weekend and next year they will take down the north half and we'll go through another 53-hour period. tomorrow they will be working on bringing two of those columns that you see that are holding up the bridge down. and then hopefully, if all goes well, we'll be done monday morning. , but it's really interesting. in los angeles, we're 24/7 city of cars on freeways all the time. you never could run across a freeway and not get hit by a car, there are so many. bu

ktvu reporter hal eisner is in los angeles now with that complete freeway shutdown less than two hours away. good evening, hal. >> reporter: good evening, frank. the clock is ticking on us. they actually started taking action around 7:00 on time closing the ramps, at 10:00 started to choke off some of the lanes near the freeway. up near the 101 freeway, if you're familiar with that and as we look over my shoulder here, that is the mulholland bridge in the focus of all the attention right now. it's 51 years old built in 1959. the reason they have to do the demolition is because they're expanding the freeway underneath it, so they're taking the south half of that bridge off and the north half next year and they'll widen the south half and then widen the north half, but this has gotten so much attention and concern because the fear is it could have a huge rippling effect and could cause gridlock in los angeles. there have been some who found that laughable and others found that quite serious, a lot of politicians telling people stay home this weekend. don't get out here on the 405 freeway

ktvu reporter hal eisner is in los angeles now with that complete freeway shutdown less than two hours away. good evening, hal. >> reporter: good evening, frank. the clock is ticking on us. they actually started taking action around 7:00 on time closing the ramps, at 10:00 started to choke off some of the lanes near the freeway. up near the 101 freeway, if you're familiar with that and as we look over my shoulder here, that is the mulholland bridge in the focus of all the attention right now. it's 51 years old built in 1959. the reason they have to do the demolition is because they're expanding the freeway underneath it, so they're taking the south half of that bridge off and the north half next year and they'll widen the south half and then widen the north half, but this has gotten so much attention and concern because the fear is it could have a huge rippling effect and could cause gridlock in los angeles. there have been some who found that laughable and others found that quite serious, a lot of politicians telling people stay home this weekend. don't get out here on the 405 freeway