. >> that will add another $15 million to the bridge's price tag that stands at 6 plt $4 million. -- billion. caltrans is going have to close the existing bridge over a four-day period so engineers can reroute traffic to the new span. >> talking about getting around here, thousands of commuters rode bart during morning rush hour today. officials and union leaders met separately about a new contract today. two sides plan to meet with each other again, on friday. only if mediator as prove face-to-face talks. workers still way on the -- stay on the job until august 4th. >> two passenger who's died in a crash at sfo were both 16 years old part of a group heading to spend the summer in a camp in los angeles. today, the chinese consul general spoke to the rest of the group, now stranded in the bay area, in shock. >> first he came with small bags of toil yet tries, all necessary things. things i'm sure hotel had given them. then, he told them in a gentle voice i'm sorry this happened to you. you're very brave, and then, he said if you want to stay in california for the remainder of the trip

it goes all the way back to the plt's pointee. shocker. >> well, don't -- you know, the other appointee was a bush guy. i'm a little nervous here, shean. i've got karl rove and sean hannity coming at me. this is going to be a tough day for me. the fact that they briefed and talked to the general counsel was in the original general inspector report from two months ago so i didn't see what the big shocker was. >> carl rovkarl rove,s withn't original one in cincinnati? >> yes. what we learned is carl hall who served for 48 years was asked to look at the two cases, determine thad one organization should be approved, another organization should be dyisapproved and he ws told to turn the case over to general counsel and sit on them and later suggest that those organizations sit on the paperwork. we didn't know that before. it shows the pattern where the general counsel's office at the irs literally took away from a career person. we also learned they wanted him to send all the tea party groups the same letter and he objected to it, that

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