debut of the new eastern span. >> bart is running nonstop. we are live in san francisco with how busy the trains are getting. >> drivers scramble for alternate routes. there will be gridlock this morning? we have complete coverage on what to expect if you are headed out the door. >> good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us at 6:00 a.m. on thursday. >> we start with a look at the yerba buena island camera, and you can see no traffic moving on the old span. on the left side the bright shiny side is the new eastern span with no track but hopefully there will be this five days. we have coverage of the closure beginning with leyla gulen in the traffic center. leyla gulen? >>guest: it looks like traffic is building as are the accidents. we will take you over the altamont pass where we have a motorcycle crash that has blocked one lane and this is at grant line road and we are looking at slow conditions from tracy and toward livermore. it is slow until dublin/pleasanton and opens up and become up at 238 so the traffic toward the san mateo bridge

coming up on the kron 4 morning news. chool students at one bay area high school are getting a leg up on their college education. for free. we'll tell you how after the break. and the teenager kidnapped from southern california is making her first appearance after being rescued. we'll hear from her grandparents and how she is returning to normal teenage life. and an update on the deadly car bomb that has killed almost two dozen people in beirut. high school students at one school district in vacaville are getting a free leg up on their secondary education. as lonnie wong explains, school leaders hope to see more students eventually graduating from four-year colleges. kron 4 is your official back to school station. download our new kron 4 mobile app -- and check the 'back to school' section.. it includes slideshows, stories, and links to test scores. you can use the 'submit story' feature on the app. to send in your own pictures. you can also find 'back to school' information on our facebook page. and on kron4 -dot com days

. >> tonight, it is out with the old and in with the new. here is a live look at the old span of the bay bridge which goes away tonight at 8:00 p.m.. remember, you will see the bridge close live at our broadcast. be sure to tune in. here is your ride on the new span, it is still a great commute this morning although the metering lights have been activated. >> light to moderate condition. it is a little sluggish on 580 and highway 4. the only slowing is around the mckee julien. the rest is still looking good. >> we are just *hours away from the closure of the bay bridge. all lanes in both directions will close tonight at 8:00- pm. workers will then make the transition from the old roadway to the new eastern span. joining us from treasure island is kron four's mike pelton. >> we're now just six days away. you can say that the lights are turned on combined meat and the crews are not just quite ready to open up to traffic. they will shut down on the bay bridge tonight at 8:00 p.m. and reopen tuesday morning at 5:00 a.m.. here you can see the crew

ktvu has obtained a memo from the mayor outlining a new plan designed to stop the flow of departing cops. it includes hiring 141 new officers and restoring staffing to about 1,250 officers within four years. chuck reed says the city will begin to set the proposal and look for funding sources next tuesday. >> part of the plan is recruiting and hiring. part of it is slowing down the losses through retirements and resignations. >> but some are calling the plan a conview lited rhetoric -- convoluted rhetoric. robert handa will have all of the late details on the plan today on the news at 6:00 p.m. today. >>> students settled into their classes today and the people who work to keep them safe are brushing up on their skills training how to handle an active shooting situation. janine de la vega is live with more on what they are learning. >> reporter: inside thissing about, there are police officers and security experts training people on what to do in this volatile situation. while santa clara county has never had any sort of school mass shooting like what happened at sandy hook elementary, la

the worried parents and the new rules this morning. plus, lamar odom, star of both the nba and realty tv, now making headlines off court and off-camera with rumors of drug problems and marital problems with chloe kardashian. he's been arrested. and remembering princess diana. sixteen years ago today, hard to believe, she died in the car crash. we will take a look at her image through the years as new details come out about her complex life and tragic death. see you at 7:00. >> i still remember that exact day. dan, thank you. see you then. >> okay. >> sticking with royal news, the duchess of cambridge made a public appearance yesterday. first time we've seen her since she presented her newborn son last month. she surprised everyone in wales. she joined husband, prince william, who was the official starter for the three-day race. kate left a five-week-old prince george napping at home with granny middleton. her next public appearance is in two weeks at an award ceremony in london. >>> coming up next, the controversy to name the west span

watch the news. david price didn't know the bay bridge was closed so he was in for quite the ride when he left the team hotel in san francisco. he was head together oakland coliseum. he had a $202 cab ride that took an eternity before price arrived ready to take on the a's. he was not happy. parker hasn't walked since may 22nd. 16 straight starts and went seven innings. escobar with a single in the second. jennings makes it 1-0 rays. in the fifth and suzuki and welcome back to the maui boy. aloha. his first start at the coliseum and it gave him a 3-1 lead. the ray s who tie it at 3. cocoa crisp scores from second. texas loses to the a's. now two back of texas in the west. half a game up on the rays for the top wild card spot. the giants and d-backs and angel pagan. the giants needed him. scored the only run of the game. a sack fly and pagan deep to throw and 1-0 giants. tim lincecum on the mound and sandoval and that would have been a sure double. timmy goes six score less for his eighth victory. the

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning, a historic morning is underway. we will transition from the old bay bridge on the right in the dark to the long-awaited new eastern span lit up on the left of the screen. this shot is from the camera and you can see no commuters as we enter the first full day of the bridge closure. thanks positive joining us. >> we are keeping a close eye on the commute, the first since the bay bridge shut down. crews are working to get the new eastern span of the bridge ready. >> are you ready with an alternative means of getting to work? we have coverage at the tom toll. -- at the toll plaza. matt? >> the work is intense on the bay bridge. a steady stream of heavy equipment moved in moments after the bridge was closed. it is still here. crews are tearing up the old approach to the bridge and grinding away the old pavement to make way if a new path from the toll plaza. the new span will be connected to the oakland side and the island tunnel on the west side. on opening day there will be

working around the clock on the new bridge. we are four days away from opening day. elizabeth wenger has a check on the roads. >> it's strange to see no cars and demolition crews out there instead replacing the old bay bridge toll plaza. let's go out and check the alternates. san mateo bridge looks great. problem-free. you know, we know like yesterday it's likely going to get crowded a little later on. westbound 92 still holding steady around 14 minutes out of hayward but it was really the evening commute that actually took the real brunt of this. if you want to avoid being stuck that big old backup going home, use mass transit. that's other great option. golden gate bridge once again a little bit of fog this morning across southbound 101. but so far, nice drive heading towards doyle drive. that is the latest from here in the traffic center. back to you. >> nice and slow. okay, liz. >>> 48 hours agocars were still crossing the old eastern span. now it's already chewed up to make way for the new approach. the first big step in th

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it's another way we're giving you more local news, the kron 4 news app, download it today. keep it here as we monitor negotiations between bart information on our website -- kron4-dot-com. section, showing you everything from what people involved in the bargaining are tweeting, to alternative transportation options. >> pam: it has now been three weeks since 21- month- old daphne webb went missing. police say, she was taken from her father's car outside a supermarket in east oakland. tonight a vigil is being kron-4's alecia reid is live in oakland. where friends, gathered. alecia? >> reporter: it has just wrapped up. we can see daphne's mother that was inconsolable. with deep sob's and even after the vigil wrapped up. they offered another prayer to el for encouragement. she went missing as he went inside of a store and he laughter in the car. he has been charged with child endangerment. meanwhile, the family is holding a second vigil to bring awareness and bring her home. they talked about the happy be be baby. >> i was in their house and i saw how much love they had for daph

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. this is a live look at the eastern span with no commuters as we enter the first full day of the bridge closuring. good morning at 4:00, we are coming on early to keep you what is happening with the traffic. thanks for joining us. >> we are about to begin the first rush hour commute without the bay bridge shut down last night to make way for the new eastern span. that means a morning of detours and big traffic headaches with live team coverage going with matt keller. matt? >> we have several trucks picking up loads and of course they will deliver those to the bay bridge as they continue their work this morning. after the bridge was closed last night a heavy stream of equipment moved in moments after. crews will tear up the old approach to the bridge and grinding away the old pavement to make way if a new path for the toll paths. on opening day this will be two miles worth of rail to guide you while the old bridge is standing. >> they will put up 10,000' of rail to help control the flow

the project of transitioning to the new eastern span is on schedule and looking good. take a look at this construction site. we just moved our truck here to the toll plaza, got the green light from caltrans to do that. you can see, up close, the construction going on. a ton of trucks here. inside those trucks are fresh asphalt. they have been laying down the asphalt. on the ground next to it, you can see some of what has been grinded up. the goal for crews out here this afternoon and tonight, grinding away two to six inches of roadway, install new drainage here and then top it off with thousands of pounds of fresh asphalt. signs are going up. striping underway. it is almost completed. the biggest piece of construction that caltrans said needed to get down out here was work on smoothing out the connection from the deck to the tunnel on yerba buena island. >> we'll finish the work today on the top deck with a joint seal that we have to install later today. on the lower deck, we prepped it. that crew will move down onto the lower deck and finish that work. >> reporter: tal

the city has a new emergency ordinance. response to years of complaints about sonoma state university students, hold >>> a college party crackdown in rohnert park. the city has an orderrians in response to years of complaints about sonoma state university students holding loud parties. the complaints include noise, beer bottles, litter and vomit in yards and on cars. now any house that violates the ordinance will be banned from holding another party for 120 days. >> i just think it's a little overboard. actually a lot overboard. >> reporter: you like to party? >> uhm -- i like to have a good time. >> houses in violation also have to display a public nuisance notice or get a $100 fine. >>> high school students in solano county will be able to take free college courses. solano community college will open up classes to high school freshmen. they get both high school and college credit. these are hypotension students who may not have a family history of going to college. the program also covers the cost of books. >> that saves m

right now, the weak u.s. economic newsobviously, we're the largest consumer of oil in the world, so the weak u.s. economic news is still the biggest factor on the markets right now, although, still watching the conflicts in the middle east very closely. adam? adam: thank you. over to lauren on the floor of the new york stock exchange. there's a lot of stuff about sales, volume light, checking out for the long holiday, last week of summer vacation. >> that's right, adam, but i'm looking at the coal stocks right now. you have alpha natural resources, walletser energy, arch coal, all up, particularly peabody, up nearly 3.5%. it was said over the weekend that peabody is poised to benefit from coal prices to get a lift as supply and demand become balanced. demand picked up as utilities turned back from coal to natural gas so that's helping out a little bit too. coal stocks are the winner as you can see. peabody the best in the sector. adam: cliff notch rail resources up today, and there was a conversation three months ago with

paving work is well under way on both ends of the new span. and crews could start assembling the final sections of the bike path as soon as tomorrow. first, they have to get a big chunk of the old incline out of the way. they have been working on that for nearly 48 hours now. >>> people in one san francisco neighborhood are in heaven now that the bridge is closed. the empty streets resemble a ghost town. kpix 5's patrick sedillo on how neighbors are loving the peace and quiet. >> reporter: where is everybody? >> i know the day that the bridge closed it was chaos over here. i tried to go to the gym. it was literally impossible. i had to go home. now the streets are empty. feels good to be honest with you. >> reporter: because of the closure of the bay bridge over the weekend the traffic that usually clogs these streets is down to a trickle transforming it into an eerie silence. >> it's usually congested, noisy, a lot of traffic on a daily basis. >> reporter: and for those now days that silence is golden to people like rod figueroa. needed a brea

on monday to celebrate the new bridge. just go to ktvu.com for everything you need to know about the the bay bridge closure. we do have a special section dedicated to the project. just look under hot topics. >>> today as u.c. berkley students start the first day of the new exphesser, they're -- semester, they're being warned about a robbery on campus. a 20-year-old student was robbed monday night about 10:00 near the unit 2 housing complex on hey street. someone grabbed her from behind and snatched her phone as she was walking. the suspect is described as an african-american or latino teenager about 5'7", thin build and short mustache. >>> happening today, some bay area fast food workers are planning to walk off the job. at least three protests are planned in oakland this morning, part of a nationwide strike to form a union for fast food workers and to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. according to the bureau of labor and statistics, the average fast food worker makes about $8.68 an hour. many of them are working part-

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we are high above the old span right next to it the new span. a simultaneous thing that you will see. however, the work will go on simultaneously as soon as they close the old span, work beginning to open the new one and also work begins to demolish the old one. let's take a live look at the toll plaza if we can right now. it is a busy place, but given that it's wednesday, just after 5:00, it could be a whole lot busier. that is all going to change of course at 8:00 tonight with the rush to get the new bridge ready. now, as for the old one, it will take just three years to remove about 76 years of history. because of the environmental, the structural concerns, crews cannot simply just blow the thing up, blast it away, let it drop into the water. they have to actually disassemble it, take it apart, piece by piece, so they avoid a collapse and protect the bay. the first section to go, commuters probably are not going to cry here, the dreaded "s" curve goes first. some of the old bridge we're told will be kept for historic purposes. most of it will

that is the question. >> why is it significant that the "new york times" publisher felt the need to announce that "new york times" is not for sale? >> i have been wondering about that all day long. i have taken it at face value. there has been so much speculation based on nothing other than the sale of "the post " to make people wonder about whether the family could stay the course. i tend to believe that the "new york times" is not for sale because the company has worked to get rid of all the other assets. it had small, regional newspapers in florida and even one in california. now gotten rid of "the boston globe." the whole company is focused on publishing the "new york times." i tend to believe that it is not for sale, but the speculation that it could or should be is logical in light of what we have seen in the last few weeks. i guess he thought that the statement would silence speculation. but being an old-time journalist , we could rip off that and turn it into a bunch of new speculations. question.r last does this portend anything for the future of journalism, and the news industry in

do you want the old game in the new machine or the new game in the new machine. video game companies may fail to make some money because of everybody just waiting. >> the kids, way thant both. >> that is the answer. >> just do both, mom and dad. >> you know the atm thing that spits out the money? >> exactly. and that starts young. >> times three for this one. >>> let's get to the forecast. talki talking. >> temperatures are nice and comfortable, at 63 degrees. lots of little ones headed back to class for today. you want to dress them for two different parts of the day, especially novato and san francisco where we'll see a cool start, expecting the low clouds to settle in. live pictures as they come into the newsroom. take a look at -- on the map at noon, about 73 degrees at noon. 70 in san mateo. 64 degrees at lunchtime in san francisco. so another beautiful day there. right around 70 degrees headed our way. 90 for livermore and 81 right here in san jose. let's check on the drive see how we're doing on the roads with mike inouye. >> as you well know, the bay bridg

the new information discredits the information that's trying to close the college. we have the student's demands. >> the city college in san francisco is under fire. the accreditation committee decided to withdraw that earlier this summer, and close the college next year. now that kigs itself -- commission itself is under fire. >> it's a rogue stushgs -- institution. >> as we first told you on monday, the federal education officials warned them it's violated the policies. they did not have enough academic personnel on the team. the decision to close the college should be overturned, and they want the mayor to help them. >> to immediately reverse their decision, and to reverse the changes that have come with that, including the cuts of classes, and a dictator over the school. >> we contacted the office for the response, and we're waiting for a reply. the students are planning a big rally for next tuesday at city hall. they're hoping to get the mayor's attention. back to you in the studio. . >>> the activists call on wells fargo ceo to meet with them over the plan to

now let's see how scoop bezos reports the international news. upport for the syrian government. nice word bezos. you just missed a huge revenue stream. russian president putin today affirmed his support for syria's government while enjoying a ice cold moxie soda. which it turns out is not disgusting. that taste. >> john: no serious news outlet would ever engage in that kind of shameless beverage. >> have you never seen the opening sequence of morning joe brewed by starbucks. >> john: i do think my point about serious news outlets stands. this is all window dressing, hodgeman. are you going to offer the readers anything substantively new in terms of actual content? >> of course. exclusive premium content. for those selective readers willing to pay an extra fee i will also send an actual human being the a place where news is happening. and that person will look around and ask questions and write down what's going on. >> john: that's just called basic reporting. >> oh, really? i call it hodge's on prime. i said it, bezos. come at me, poopy head. why

ramarley graham's mother constance malcolm told the new york post -- the family will hold a news conference today to announce the next steps. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today with a major development for opponents of new york city police department's controversial stop and frisk row graham. in a settlement announced wednesday, the nypd agreed to stop storing the names of people who were arrested or issued a summons after being stopped and frisked -- and later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. for years police have used the database to target new yorkers for criminal investigations, even though it includes people who were victims of unjustified police stops. since 2002, the police department has conducted over 5 million stop and frisk. the vast majority of those stopped have been black and latino. according to the police department's own reports, nearly nine out of 10 new yorkers stopped and frisked have been innocent. two of the people at the center of the case spoke about what happened to

with the new kron 4 news app. n just about any mobile device; android, apple, blackberry, kindle. when you download the app, you will see we have a special section dedicated to bart. for quick and easy access. it's another way we're giving you more local news, the kron 4 news app. download it today. this video shows a pest control inspector and his bed bug sniffing dog leaving the charity's burlingame location after searching it for several hours. no trace of the bugs were found there. although the dog got worn out before checking the entire space.so another dog will be out to finish the job tomorrow. people showing up to drop off donations or shop were unnerved by the reason behind the closure. >> i think it is disgusting! >> scary. >> i hear that they are impossible to get rid of and i am not going going to risk it >> pam: bed bugs were confirmed in a section of the san francisco warehouse at 11th and mission. nearly everything inside was thrown out as a precaution. exerminators are scheduled to tent and treat th

you can see how close the new bay bridge is to opening. abc 7 news.com, you will find it on see it on tv. we have information on how to download the traffic ap to help you navigate the traffic in the bridge close are and the morning news team will be here tomorrow at 4:00 to show you the traffic hot spots. we will notify the twitter followers as soon as they are available. now for the latest on the giant wildfire burning in and around yosemite national park that scorched more than 300 square miles, larger than the combined square miles. it is now 30% contained with 4500 firefighters battling this blaze. we want to show you a perspective from high above with the california air national guard unit stationed at moffett field. they are helping with water drops ands have video provided by them. the helicopters have been dumping 500 gallons of water on the fire below. the unit has done more than 400 drops since they were called in to help out about days ago. take a look at this image of the rim fire from nasa. you can see how far the smoke has sp

here's some video of the new span. crews will first seek close down the bay bridge to traffic in both directions tonight at 8:00. the news that will open back up tuesday morning at 5:00 a.m. after more than 10 years and $6.4 billion. cruised chose ween the new span because the holiday week and sees less traffic the chp will have transition rams to the bridge are blocked off diverting traffic to the san rafeal or san mateo bridge is. officials say don't try to be the last person to cross the bridge. across the span as early as possible because even though the bridge closes at 8:00 the chp will rollout prior to that for it and you want to avoid getting stuck on either side across the span across the span as early as possible. and that news and opens up on tuesday, certainly a lot of people are looking forward to that and use it all i thought behind me. the six days away this morning. >>james: we will continue to follow this project brought the morning. a fire sparked on a grassy hillside spread quickly in fairfield. this

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>>will: here's the new eastern stand behind me. it is wide open. the ground is so new its grinning. is loud and very busy and the reason why is they have jackhammers out here to demolished this section for it that they need to remove that section because they want to establish a bike path. they already started. you see that white thing that kind of looks like a fence. well that's the bike path but that's as far as you can go for now until they remove this section of the old eastern standard critic once that's gone they will continue to work on the bike path. that goes obviously parallel to the old easter's man. seems like all the work being done so far is on time. that's the very latest. reporting from the new east unspent, will tran, kron4 news. >>mark: a real mess this morning on the san mateo bridge. an earlier accident causing problems as well. kron4's mike pelton is live at the san mateo bridge with an update. >>: we are seeing an improvement. earlier this morning this looked more like a parking lot and then a freeway priest you could see a lot commuter's making their way. quite

not many out there on the new span. that is three weeks, they have to hope to have people out there driving on it. >> reporter: the opening of the new eastern span has had many twists and turns as the temporary s-curve that they now navigate. but before the new span opens it has to close. >> it will be a tough weekend. and, it is a long time. it is a really long time. >> the 5-day closure will allow the crews to align the new tunnel at the island and tackle the larger job of rerouteing and repaving the traffic lanes connecting the new span to the toll plaza my will make the action unanimous and labor day it is. >> reporter: they voted to allow a temporary fix on the cracked bolts. allowing them to reenforce the bolt area until workers install a permanent steel. >> the existing bridge is the one folks should be worried about. that is the one they should not be trusting. >> reporter: drivers will need to take detours on other bridges. >> we might inconconvenience some drivers. >> reporter: oakland a's have games every day

span to the toll plaza. >> get people on the new safe bridge. e old bridge is the greatest risk that we all have. >> now, the three-year demolition of the current bridge starts the very minute the new ones opens. a celebration for the new bay bridge will be a lot more low key. the celebration costing more than $5.6 million. that was originally approved but because of all of the recent days, problems and -- delays and problems it's being scaled back. the ceremony will include a metal chain being cut to officially open the bridge. a bigger public event may be held later. given the faulty bolts caused a lot of headaches, some people are wondering whether the contract will still get the $20 million bonus for opening the bridge on time. we asked the question to the head of the oversight commission. >> that's an unanswered question. first of all, the contractor has to finish the work that they are required to do. we issued a report in july that indicated that we thought there were multiple responsible parties for the failure of the bolts. and that the

>> i am the son of a new york city cop, the brother of a new york city cop. lieve stop, question and frisk is a tool that was given to police officers all around the united states by the supreme court in 1968. when properly used, it can proactively be used to reduce crime. i am a firm believer in continuing the use of stop, question and frisk. we need to educate the public more about what's allowed. we also need to make sure our police officers are trained and retrained as to how to use it. >> interesting, you have the word "question" in there. how do you do the stop and frisk without the slippery slope of getting into profiling people on the street? >> it's all about suspicion. if there's suspicious activity -- the reason why i say stop, question and frisk, it was chief justice earl warren, not the most conservative member of the court who wrote an 8-1 opinion in 1968 and he called it stop, question and frisk. it's been shortened to stop and frirv frisk because of headline writers. the most important thing is one, there's suspicious activity. the court ruling

the buildings in wellington, new zealand were evacuated. the quake damaged some homes and damaged a bridge. the stock exchange was briefly shut down. a preliminary investigation has ruled out engine failure in the crash of that ups cargo plane in alabama. crews have recovered the jets flight data recorders. we're not sure if they will get information from them at this point but they should announce today. the two pilots were trying to land on a shorter runway when the plane crashed. the longer runway is closed for maintenance. investigators have not said if the runway lengths are a factor in the crash. >>> time now 6:48. let's check in with tori campbell. good morning, tori. >> reporter: good morning, dave and pam. we are learning for the first time some of the chilling items found in the burned out home and garage of james dimaggio down in san diego county. also stunning results from a study that shows people consider the brain dead basically may have a lot more mental functioning than first thought. and obviously we will keep an eye on the

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crews are working to quickly to get the new span ready for drivers. this is look at the toll plaza where we would normally see commuter traffic but right now, no vehicles. >> the cars that would have been on the bay bridge use other briggs and traffic backed up on the san mateo bridge. >> good morning, we have team coverage of the bay bridge closures and, first, traffic reporter leyla gulen has the conditions on bay area roadways. >> as we look right now a picture of the san mateo bridge is very different from early this morning and now we are starting to see space between the cars in the westbound direction from hayward to foster city. it is going to take approximately 20 minutes or throws get the westbound direction toward the peninsula. we will go to our next live shot across the macarthur maze so if you are headed along i 80 westbound you can see the tail lights pushing to 580 busier than normal. another shot shows the golden gate bridge where we have folks making it in the other direction across the richmond-san rafael bridge and through marin cou

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not many out there on the new span. that is three weeks, they have to hope to have people out there driving on it. >> reporter: the opening of the new eastern span has had many twists and turns as the temporary s-curve that they now navigate. but before the new span opens it has to close. >> it will be a tough weekend. and, it is a long time. it is a really long time. >> the 5-day closure will allow the crews to align the new tunnel at the island and tackle the larger job of rerouteing and repaving the traffic lanes connecting the new span to the toll plaza my will make the action unanimous and labor day it is. >> reporter: they voted to allow a temporary fix on the cracked bolts. allowing them to reenforce the bolt area until workers install a permanent steel. >> the existing bridge is the one folks should be worried about. that is the one they should not be trusting. >> reporter: drivers will need to take detours on other bridges. >> we might inconconvenience some drivers. >> reporter: oakland a's have games every day

the macarthur maze. eric? >> to our developing news on the rim fire in video only seen on abc7 news this is berkeley's destroyed family camp, with flames sweeping through the camp as the fire, now the size of the city of chicago, continues to grow. abc7 news is monitoring the developments from the newsroom. >> we have a look at the popular summer camp that is ravaged, now burning 203 square miles and is only 7 percent contained, more than 2,500 firefighters from around the country are battling the blaze. the strong winds pushed the monster fire closer into the northwest edge of yosemite national park and the family camp owned by the city of berkeley is now a sad site. the forest service says the camp suffered "extensive" damage. campers remain evacuated on tuesday. firefighters did their best to save it. this is one of the most ferocious fires they have ever battled. >> the fire is in the top of the trees and it is impossible to stop. the trees are 150' tall and it goes from the top of the trees and burns above the ground. >> this is w

that was the only hopeful media news the last week is that both "the new york times" and "washington post" had quarters that registered results profits in the case of the "new york times" in the news business, good results for "the washington post" that wall street loved. "the washington post" stock, my company where i work, is up 65% in the last year. so something is going right, i hope. >> you know, meacham still has ink on his fingers but it's from being fingerprinted for all that tennessee moonshining. >> the revenuing. >> did you read newspapers? do you hold -- >> i get the sunday "new york times." i read the sunday "new york times." >> for kicks. >> a paper like "the boston globe" where would we have been with the boston marathon bomber without the team of reporters they had. >> here it is, what's happened is we have -- we have newsrooms, we have magazine structures, economically set for a different era. and so david is exactly right. "the new york times" has something like 700,000 digital subscribers but that's substantially less than what its print circulation was at its heigh

connecting interstate-80 to the new span. at the same time, they're also demolishing portions of the old bridge. kron4's will tran joins us live from the oakland side where he's been following their progress. >> if this opens up possibly before to stay you will see the new pavement. we will show you the other side. on the right side of your screen this is the new eastern span. on the left side is just the contrast. this is the old span. what they're doing right now is not get out about 1,000 ft. section of the span. they built a bike path that can go as far as it could. it will run into old eastern span and they have to knock this out to extend the bike path. there is a lot going on right now and a another great thing about this shutdown is that caltran told me that because normally they will spend 34 months doing this with all of the traffic but because of the sun shalthis shutdown the able to up and get it done sooner. >> a number of people turned to mass transit for the first day of the bay bridge closure. bart ridership hi

still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. has received a letter from a man just convicted of killing 4 women. we have the details of that letter and what joseph naso wants you to know. the 9-1-1 audio gives an inside look at the standoff at an atlanta-area elementary school, as a front-office employee talks the gunman down. some frightening moments at a missouri sorority. when two explosions go off. details about the bombs used, and why they may have been used. camera's were rolling just as a sinkhole swallowed a group of trees in bayou corne. the sinkhole appeared in this assumption parish waterway last year prompting a mandatory evacuation. since then, state and federal agencies have been monitoring it. a standoff at an elementary school terrified parents and kids, as a man armed with an a-k-47-style rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition fired a few shots outside. .but police had a woman on the inside. andrew spencer reports a school employee helped convince the gunman to surrender, while on the phone with 9-1-1. suppo

john henry the new owner. i wonder if he's going to take what he's learned about sabre metrics in baseball and apply it to the "globe." >> i think both of these purchases suggest that the newspaper industry needs new approaches. i think the grahams essentially said that by saying we cannot take this newspaper into the future, we need to hand it off to somebody who does have another plan, another way of going about it. and, you know, jeff bezos may be the guy to do that. we hope so at "the washington post." >> healthy invests in reporters. what a great idea. there have been a real loss of newsroom jobs. the brand of "the post" covering washington could use some reinvigorating and use more reporting on federal agencies. that's what the paper has always had attention about. i assume you agree with me. >> we also need to cover our local city and our region. "the washington post" has always from the get-go within a local newspaper. and what's interesting here is we will have a publisher who is an absentee publisher.

watch the news. vid price didn't know the bay bridge w closed so he was in for quite the ride when he left the team hotel in san francisco. he was head together oakland coliseum. he had a $202 cab ride that took an eternity before price arrived ready to take on the a's. he was not happy. parker hasn't walked since m 22nd. straight starts and went seven innings. escobar th a single in the second. jennings makes it 1-0 rays. in the fifth and suki and welcome back to the maui boy. aloha. his first start at the coliseum and it gave him a 3-1 lead. the ray s who tie it at 3. cocoa crisp scores from second. texas loses to the a's. now two back of texas in e west. half a game up on the rays for the top wild card spot. the giants and d-backs and angel pagan. the giants needed him. scored the only run of the game. a ck fly and pagan deep to throw and 1-0 giants. tim lincecum on the mound and sandoval and that would have been a sure double. timmy goes six score less for his eighth victory. the giants somehow wi

it is an amazing bird's eye view about the massive wildfire about new about the size of new york city. >>> it is close to the hetch hetchy reservoir which supplies a good portion of the bay area with drinking water. the public utilities commission says the water is fine and still meets drinking quality standards, however, the san francisco examiner reports the real trouble could come in the next few years after the trees and vegetation around the reservoir die off. that's went land is more susceptible to erosion a little rain and landslide course send sediment into the water and that could make drinking water cloudy. >>> the smoky air is forcing many people to cancel vacation plans for this labor day weekend. yosemite national park and surrounding communities say they have seen some reservation cancellations but since yosemite valley is upwind from the fire, the sky is still clear there. and there's no hint of smoke in the area. however, it is a different story at lake tahoe, where smoke from the fire is making for poor air quality in that particular area. >>> just into our newsroom,

the new span of the bay bridge will be open for traffic on labor day weekend. there's a lot to do between now and then. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us live outside the meeting where the big announcement was just made moment ago. >> reporter: now transportation officials are going from decision-making to planning because two weeks from tonight the bay bridge will be closed. the bay bridge as we know it. and five days later, or less, the new span of the bay bridge will be open. this was a whirlwind decision. the oversight committee made the call 15 minutes ago. first the federal government approved a temporary fix for the 32 bolts that snapped on the bridge in march and then we heard testimony from two independent panels who concurred that the new bridge is safer than the old bridge, even while the permanent fix, the saddle, is being installed. >> there's risk to all of us. if we have a design level event, we want the public on the new safe bridge. >> reporter: a lot of factors went into today's decision, much of it logistics dealing with the closure which

let me show you the livermore valley. we have a newoil slick. the oil slick is right -- right here. this is right in the area. traffic is dublin and livermore will be slow. this is 238 at 880 and in the south bay, the traffic is going to be okay. for most part on the freeways. we have a minor b.a.r.t. delay reported on the fremont line. but no delays on caltrain and muni. >>> a very good morning. a very cloudy morning for most. there are a couple of areas that -- most of these low clouds and a lot of reports of drizzle. ocean temperatures are up from 56 to 60. it's tough to get very cool when we don't get the upwelling. the water temperatures are warm. a lot of moisture in the air. a lot of humidity. southwest 20 at fairfield. a little sign of a cooler pattern. also more of a westerly breeze in place for many locations. a low cloud deck. it kind of lifted a little bit. a weak system came in. this also gave us some of the moisture. the key here is because -- sometimes you need mother nature to help the firefighters. it's really close. h

the new eastern span opening on september 3. ktvu's noel walker is live now. >> reporter: that five day closure could happens a soon as two weeks from tonight, if they decide to go with the labor day opening. you see that v in the road. it's where the old and new spans meet. it will look completely different, whenever the new span opens. if the new bay bridge span was your new house, you would be planning moving day now. about up through tuesday, 5:00 a.m. >> reporter: the work flow charts are set. all we need is a date. like most new construction, the new bridge move in date is a new target. >> the old date was labor day weekend. they need to decide. >> reporter: while most roads point to labor day weekend, that decision will be made tomorrow morning. tonight, we narrow down the timing. >> no matter what weekend we do close at, people are going to be able to make arrangements. bars going to be fully functional. >> reporter: remember, b.a.r.t. is three days into a 60 day cooling off period, when workers can't strike. >> it's got

>> reporter: let's start with the good news. we just received the latest update from caltrans within the last half hour. they say so far everything is on track. five days of closure, we're one day into it. they say so far they are 20% done. >>> reporter: just 24 hours ago, it was carrying 270,000 cars, trucks and buses across the bay. but now, heavy machinery is tearing out concrete and paving is under way at both the toll plaza and at the yerba buena island transition. >> that's what's going to get cars onto the bridge. that's why we built the new east span. >> reporter: but while work is going on to connect the new span to the traffic lanes, work is also under way to remove the old cantilever section of the bridge which now sits eerily empty. environmental concerns mean it capital just be imploded and allowed to drop into the bay so engineers are going to slowly take it apart piece by piece. crews will even be building some new support structures in the process. >> right now, this is a highly strong and stressed system. and whe