driving from long beach airport right now, paul vercammen. we're going to start with paul.u're on the road driving. you saw the mayor. paul, are you there? can you hear us, paul? wlets go to corinne wynter standing by patiently. what's happening? looks like the best i've ever seen on the 405 ever. >> reporter: i know. you can hear a pin drop. you sound disappointed but this is a good thing. you can't underestimate how huge this undertaking is. a $1 billion structure and all the warnings have great, we don't have the traffic nightmare some were insinuating. not that things didn't go well, they worked out well. we don't want to celebrate too early, because it is early in the weekend. we don't know what could happen tomorrow or monday morning, although things are expected to open up then. here's the short and sweet update from california transportation officials. they say things are moving ahead re well. all the construction crewing behind me, tat all day long. to put it in perspective, don, they're knocking down a portion of the bridge. not the whole thing. just the south sid