take a look at the richmond san rafael bridge, at the top of your screen, and it's red and orange. that means it's pretty slow there. everything else, pretty much slow going into the city. everywhere else you're going to run into problems. >>> you can download the exclusive traffic app for your smartphone. go to abc-7 news/ways. >> here's a look at exactly what construction crews are doing on the bridge. they're making way for the new approach. the new roadway will be moved slightly to the south, but caltrans says drivers won't notice the difference. last night they start grinding up the old roadway of the upper deck, crews started demolishing part of the old structure and tonight the start triping new lanes. the last time the oakland bay bridge was shut done for construction, businesses on both ends saw fewer customers, so we sent sergio quintana to gauge out the closing is having an effect. he is live on the embarcadero right now. >> reporter: throughout the day we have been asking customers and businesses if there has been any effect so far by this part of the bridge closing, an

we have slick roads down the east shore freeway. richmond bridge to san rafael, smooth drive as well. a look at the san mateo bridge, got a lot of traffic this weekend westbound, hopefully will settle out but still have a lot of folks probably planningtake that. plan for a little bit of a different flow even if it is presidents day. might have slower spots than you expect. >> thank you very much, mike. >> the uc-berkeley graduate who lost her passport 60 years ago has it back thanks to social media and a clever student. >> the student bought the old passport as a souvenir while he was studying in paris. he wanted to find the owner, a woman named betty worther who traveled around the world after finishing studies at uc-berkeley. >> i started looking on facebook and google. i contacted people back in the united states and at berkeley and california, and i got some answers. actually i got her address. >> worther now lives in paris. she is happy to have her passport back so she can relive some of the memories. look at that. a little champagne, f

here is a live look at traffic at the richmond bridge. you can see traffic is very backed up at the toll plaza. to get through the toll plaza you can see there you go through into ma rin and many of those are headed to the golden gate bridge to try to get to san francisco. traffic is very backed up at the richmond bridge. here is the golden gate bridge. we have four lanes going southbound into san francisco, so four lanes open that way, and you can still see traffic is backed up as far as you can see there as you move into the picture on the right-hand side, traffic opens up a little bit because several toll booths are open and traffic is getting through and then backing up again once you get into san francisco and in other words traffic isn't really great around the bay area. earlier today crews began demolishing part of the old bay bridge structure to make the new approach. this is what we're talking about because the bay bridge is closed. crews spent last night grinding up the old road and major construction will start soon. caltran off

>>ichael>> i wasn't a year resef the ier richmond. -- i was an eight year resident of the inner richmond. i am familiar with this establishment. it was on the previous agenda get three different permits of extended hours. obviously, he is trying to create business. that is whata sinessperson does. but at the same time, the community has to worry about the impact it has on the community. when you have esupervisor come in, which usually does not happen, to come in and talk about a particular business, there is real concern. usually, we donot see a boar supervisor come in and talk about negation. i think it is important that the medications that have been discussed be implemented, the neighborhood concerns, the supervisors' concerns, if this is to go forward. vice chair joseph: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for sticking with us. officer moore: no problem. to thi issue of deccan the box? e policears ocncy,nofir if the police said 18ndthe fire department ai9, fire department wins. it does not matter what the they donot set occupancy in t

challenges, by the end of may, they're just outside richmond. you've all heard the anecdote about being so close when the wind is coming from the west they could hear the church bells chiming the time in richmond. not altogether certain that's right. but they were pretty close. richmond airport, seven pines along the richmond york river railroad, the station there, fair oaks station, that was in union hands. today we call it sandston. mechanicsville. the meadow bridges, they were all in union hands. by the end of may. and so joe johnston with his back to the wall so to speak said, look, i can't retreat any further. i'm at the last defensible terrain, i guess if i can't retreat, i'll just attack. so, on the 31st of may, he does just that. he attacks those federal forces that were in positions south of the river. assuming that those north of the river wouldn't be able to come to the assistance of that portion of the union army to the south. it was not a bad plan, but it was a complex plan and dealing with on-the-job training generals like pete long

the best that could be the richmond/a pile bridge. icating speeds of 35 m.p.h. from the toll plaza. that is 13 minutes from the span to stand. so far, no future delays expected. as reach the golden gate traffic is a bit heavier than usual but still, no delays as the code towards san francisco. for those coming up the nimitz freeway the best bet would be the san mateo. and it is probably the most troubled. we are seeing that band of yellow at 5:30. that is not scheduled until 11:00 p.m. -- 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. is the heaviest time scheduled. of course, public transportation is also doing its part. for those they usually take the bay bridge port will be running service 24 hours per day. just one train per hour. beyond midnight 14 of the 44 stations. trans. rich buses will be routed to smart stations for bart. with expanded ferry service. janu? >>janu: thank you. a live look with overcast conditions but it is starting to break up. we will cut too high clouds and areas of dense fog. we are expecting partly cloudy conditions with the wind p

the next time. in june down here near richmond when they came down here, of course, a federal who was captured asked who someone riding by was. they said that's stonewall jackson. he said is that devil here? betraying the attitude. an indiana soldier, a hoosier, referred to jackson as a prince of bushwhackers, kind of enviously and has outgeneralled call of our commanders. a new yorker writing in the popular press in the north in june said, oh, that the union could find someone as dashing and plucky as this stonewall jackson. one of the favorite court-martials i have ever seen among the 88,000 was of a quartermaster named simms in the fall of 1862. simms was court-martialed for treason. what he had said was, stonewall jackson has whipped us every time we fight him. and for saying such an outrageous thing, he was found guilty. a pennsylvanian, june '62, i'm sorry to say i have frequently heard our men talk as though they believe jackson could not be whipped. in fact, he has to become what might be called a bugaboo. all of this, attitudes in the south and the north, where there had been no doubt of su

if you normally take the richmond san rafael bridge, and at last check we saw a lot of yellow and bute seeing mostly green. we are still attracting some delays on highway 101 southbound approaching the golden gate fee however at last check that was running at 56 minutes, now down to 42 half but still very congested compared to the usual 32 minutes the would normally expect on a winter evening. as we take a live look over at conditions on the golden gate you will see it is still pretty slow. there little bit more shuffling at the toll plaza. this is probably the worst alternative for those of you who want to get into san francisco coming from the east bay. the san mateo bridge is a much better option. a lot of space between cars. the ride is 16 minutes from end to end. >>vicki: the bay bridge has been shut down numerous times since the beginning of the retrofit project. in 2006 these down a lower deck was shut down. both directions were shut down again the next year. the third labor day shutdown was in 2009. the bridge had to be close to an emergency repair because of a cracked high ba

sort of the farm house feeling of the richmond. >> there is a water tower with a windmill in the back right, get your water from wells. that was the early boathouses. looking at that map, sporting men would come out in the horses, have little races with their horses and carriages and the sea horse races, maybe get in a card game, have a drink of the way to the beach. >> but this was when there was county land, so there was no gambling. the move people out to county for the race track. >> they were away from intense public scrutiny out there. >> my of the state is there were four racetracks in the city. -- my understanding. can you name them? >> pioneer, union, in the side, and oceanside. >> there ago. maybe there are more. >> we have a big article on race tracks on our website. outsidelands.org. >> the ingleside, you can still see that. >> they developed where that race track was, just south of ocean avenue, they kept the oval of the race track and created urbano drive. >> i think we have some progress of that. >> that is the inner sunset. that is where >> lawrence lives > i do. >> yo

same area, but in the richmond direct -- richmond district. office moore: we do not. atays that there is a high frequency of cal regarding crimeocrrt or near jack in the box between 20 an 6:00 fficermoor that is false. vice chair joseph: i guess that is most important question. i wanted to know if that was true or false. commissioners, do you have any questions for the police on this issue? miione, froint of view, late-night food in the city is ve important. herebeen lots of mention fo made to people being drunk. -- jack in the box does not serve up a whole. peleot tbedre a night helps certainly not as strong when they get in their cars. commit -- police conditions, orpeal, ink late-itions. latight foobetwee 2:00 and 4:00 is very important, especially fo people coming out ot for them closing itation at i wntobe00. coer it would be between 4:00 and 60. certainlno 4 does anyone else have further pot of theconcentratio between 2:00 and 4:00. people are looking for an affordable.ce tot at there are many already. affole -- it is unfortunate. state, ieating there asc well. m

first he's going to improve the enforcement -- the entrenchments around richmond. second he's going to bring stonewall jackson's very effective but still rather small force from the shenandoah valley to reinforce the defenses of richmond, that he would send his young cavalry chief jeb stewart on a reconnaissance that two inform him as to the extent and location of the mcclellan's union forces and having done all that he initiated the series of pounding, direct, and very, very bloody assaults aimed at pushing the union forces away. on the 26th of june, beaver dam creek near mechanicsville, 27th of june gaines million. 29th of june, savages station. 30th of june, glendale. and finally, on the 1st of july, the terrible battle at malverne hill. in the course of one week the battle of the seven days, robert e. lee would lose 20,000 casualties. a fourth of his army. in doing so, he was somewhat disappointed that he didn't get the resounding victory that he'd planned for. he wrote his wife our success has not been as great or as complete as i could have desired, and in his

i was jammed up on the san mateo bridge yesterday and i know lisa you dealt with the richmond san russellridge can the gold -- and the golden gate bridge. how was that? >> reporter: oh my goodness just stop and go over both bridges, i didn't anticipate it would take that long bouderiers need peak some -- but drivers need to pack some patience. >> lisa washington, thank you for that. >> unhappy to say clear sailing at 6:30 this morning. >> that's the benefit of 6:30. >>> now for traffic here in the bay area, the mitch thompson with us. traffic joins us live on the telephone. >> all right, good morning man you know what clear sailing is an excellent way to describe the ride on many of the bay area freeways this morning. of course the upper deck closed as well as all of the approaches and you can't get there from north 880 or the grand avenue on ramp or west 58 #. the other point was the berkeley curve, that's shut down which means all six of the lanes heading towards the maze all have to merge over to the three left lanes and that backed up traffic all the way through richmond. late morning

the job. he was here in richmond. he had the rank. jackson would not have been considered -- he wasn't even on the long, long, long slate to consider that. his rank was not high enough. his experience was not high enough. lee was the obvious choice and jackson was not even a candidate. after he had reached lieutenant general's rank late in 1862 is when there might have been the question to which i addressed myself about commanding one of the larger armies while lee took another one. after jackson had the rank mene to that. but people were not jumped two ranks under any circumstances that i can think of. >> richard is in concord, massachusetts. thanks for joining us here on american history tv. >> thank pow hayou for having m. i'm glad someone has picked stonewall. but my question is as historians, we usually don't speculate in what could have happened, but i would like your opinion as to what you think might have happened had general jackson lived past may of 1863. >> i alluded during the formal presentation to the fact hat single que

by the end of the day, the audience here in richmond will vote on person of the year 1862.o lots ahead, all-day coverage here on c-span3 on american history tv. and during breaks in the event in richmond, we will take your phone calls, we'll talk to the historians about their selections and also give you a chance to weigh in with your vote as well. now, you can do that on the phone. you can also do that online. if you're on twitter, follow us @cspanhistory. specifically today if you want to tweet use #poty1862. on facebook we've posted the question -- who do you think was the most influential person of 1862? facebook.com/cspan. we'll look at some of those throughout the day as well. coming up next, they'll get under way shortly at the library of virginia in richmond to get the program under way. live coverage on american history tv on c-span3. >>> good morning. hello, everybody. why don't we get started. good morning, my name is matt thompson. i'm chairman of the board of the museum of the confederacy. and on behalf of the museum and the library of virginia, i welcome you t

behold how they multiply noted the richmond wig of the yankee. they multiply like the chinese and all the other pests of the animal kingdom. pull the bark from a decayed log and you'll see a mass of maggots full of vitality and eternal gyration, creeping under one another, all precisely alike, all intently engaged and preying upon one another and you have an apt illustration of yankio equality and yankee prowess. now, another reporter pointed out the obvious absurdity here. one would think live yankees must have undergone a wonderful transformation. of course, a wonderful transformation had occurred. brothers were now enemies. northerners were now infidels, invaders, and pests. david really embided this spirit and passed it on to his subordina subordinates, one of whom was henry werts, executed for war crimes. according to prisoners, todd took personal delight in human blood and suffering. werts was his ever willing pupil. there was something in todd's voice and manner, recalled another, that always indicated a desire to commit some cruel wrong.

about $60 million impact on the city's economy with much of that going to the richmond district, many of from experience the busiest days of the year. there are estimated 693 full- time positions in the city, and there is a report from the san francisco state university researchers who will identify some of these points later. i imagine that each of the other events from the marathon to of a large events bring in similar economic impact of a very positive to the neighborhood. the rec and park department and others know for commonly 45 years or more, large events i am thinking the human being. golden gate park has been host to these events, large cultural events, and have learned from trial and error to manage them as a matter of balancing the impact of the event on the part. each year, i personally have worked with the recreation and parks department. the police station, i'm glad to see a number of police departments of the often are involved in part events are here. community and event producers have been wonderful to work with to address the various public safety traffic and noise t

[laughter] though this item impacts the richmond district, is also part of district 2 as well. i will ask for your support. it is a measure that would allow 5-foot height increases to create more attractive store fronts in the neighborhood commercial districts. it would really help us revitalize our richmond district. it will also help the storefronts to be more attractive for our neighborhood. it is consistent, as emery rogers and others have pointed out, the urban design standard, it is great policy to have higher, more livable storefronts for people in our neighborhoods. i have met with and had really great conversations with a number of neighbors who live in and jordan heights, north of geary from palm to parker. palm is where the post offices and carper is where the roosevelt middle school is. i am asking for a small amendment today. you have a letter in front of view that is asking for the stretch of geary boulevard from palm to parker, 1062-1065, to be removed from the legislation. it is at the urging of supervisor mar and supervisor farrell. also from the activists in th

on the richmond san rafael we do not see any major problems. cassettes are francis drake, minor backups in that area. zahara there are no problems to speak up at the golden gate bridge ride see. the san mateo bridge is another alternate route for those of the coming down or up the nimitz. no delays at the toll plaza. traffic is moving pretty well in the northbound direction. you can take public transit to get into san francisco. bark is running extended service, it looks like this series will be providing extended service as well. >>ysabel: our team coverage continues this morning, terisa estacio will talk about how the closure affects the other bay area bridges. >> >>terisa: >> this is what it was like at the san ramon richmond bridge on saturday evening. as you can see, it was very slow going. drivers moved along at a snail's pace. this was the scene about 5 mi. back from the tall club agreed heavy traffic. kron 101 north headed to san francisco, a steady stream of the brake lights as the driver's face a rough loaded to the golden gate. on thi

and so that's why after the failure to take richmond in 1862, mcclellan was ordered to begin shipping his army back up to the washington area and was not reinforced for a second try in richmond. it wouldn't be until grant came in 1864 that richmond would hear cannons just outside its gates once again. >> john mountcastle thank you for taking time and spending with our viewers here on "american history tv." >> i appreciate it. and i appreciate the great questions. >> john mountcastle's nomination once again was george b. mcclellan. he's the fourth out of five historians who will nominate person of the year 1862 here at the library of virginia in richmond, and we will go back in just a moment to hear from emery thomas, professor of history emeritus from the university of georgia. the nominees are frederick douglass, stonewall jackson, admiral david farragut and george mcclellan. you're watching live all-day coverage on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> ladies and gentlemen, if you could return to your seats and let us get restarted. is the mike not on yet? okay, good. the mike's on?

she was very generous to the people of the richmond district as well. president chiu: i would like to ask if we could adjourn the meeting in her memory. the rest of will submit. supervisor elsbernd: i will submit my items, save one. that is an in memoriam for diane perez. for five years, before she retired in 2004, was the executive assistant of gloria young. diana worked in the clerk's office, transitioning the board from an at-large board to a district board. i think i only had one week with her as a supervisor. otherwise, i was aboard a. she treated everybody the same, which is just the way you want it. she was a wonderful human being. i know her friends and colleagues have mr. since her retirement, and will miss her even more so now. she is survived by her husband, two children, and a grandchild. if we could adjourn in her memory, and of the family would very much appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor elsbernd. president chiu: did you ask this on behalf of the full board? we can do that without objection. supervisor campos: submit. super

i lived in the inner richmond. i get notices from the bottom a call it -- the group that sends it out. it has gotten a lot better management. i think that these are great things. i grew up going to music festivals all my life. i think that to stop that would be terrible. one other thing that i would like to say, supervisor colin, i have lived out in that district and it is -- supervisor: -- supervisor cohen, i have lived out there and it is a hidden gem. my biggest complaint is i might have to wait to get a table in a restaurant, which does not bother me. these are my neighbors, they support me, and i have to support them. thank you very much. supervisor mar: i will call more with my last remaining cards. [reads names] those are the remaining cards that i have. >> hello, i own a restaurant that is often mistaken for outside lands. it is the historical nickname of this city that we live in, which has a big leak in friends, though it does maintain some sort of extent right now. i have lived there for most 10 years. my

and we are going to have a town hall at the richmond public library. we will begin at 5:30, and everyone here is invited, and we want to thank everyone here. >> what is the topic? >> the town hall is on public safety. we want to invite sfpd. the commissioners are invited. we are going to discuss issues that are ongoing, and we want the public to have a chance to give some feedback you're a good >> are there members of the public who would like to address this issue? thank you for coming. >> i own and dirty tricks, the neighboring business. from the police reports, there has been an escalating pattern of violence over the last two years, particularly on reggae tuesday night, but that is only the half of it. from october, 2009, gay bashing show to the most recent headliner, filthy rich, when booking shows, the record room has ignorance for the well-being of merchants and residents alike. several police reports have been filed with regard to property damage over the last two years, including the cost of replacement of the front window when a standing ashtr

no traffic delays for 580 on the richmond and then recovered. >>brian: we have some a chance of off and on this body light rain of the morning hours. a a quarter of an inch of rain in the wettest spot at the highest elevations. for tuesday, things changed. we will see a lot of sunshine returning with warmer temperatures and it will stay warm for most of this week with highs in the '70s when it agreed will run for the libyan your 7 day around the bay is coming to report injuries when a small helicopter collided in salon in this there is no word on what caused the crash. the crews instead francisco are working to remove a massive storage box dangling above city streets. it is estimated the box contains 6 t of steel. a crane malfunctioned while lifting of the box office, police closed off several blocks while crews worked to remove it unfair is a look at the latest being pes ee perhaps a couple at bat and rack and assess above some us and our support on this extreme its >>brian: there is a plane headed toward the bay area for tomorrow. we also warme

between california and cornwall street, fifth avenue and fourth avenue in the richmond district. he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to replace it. it really was the 1906 earthquake and fire that sort of spelled the end of carville. you have these hundreds of thousands of people looking for new homes, suddenly displaced. now they might listen to these men and say, look, you were renting before. you don't want to live there. i've got this lot out here, sand dune. but it's $100. you can build a house here for cheap. suddenly, more

the richmond daily whig has been smaning how the war should have been run in hair view, they knew how to run it in the valerie and everywhere else, they had made a lot of fun of jackson and his eccentrici eccentricities. they had the good grace to spoof their earlier instances with a lengthy foe wanted circular. a liberal reward will be given for the apprehension of a confirmed lunatic who escaped from the asylum early in the spring. a nice metaphor for what was going on. he thinks he's an officer in the confederate army. he was offering personal indignity to an aged ex-senator of the united states. all of this alluding to banks and free month and the rest and so on. the entire efforts of the united and confederate states governments have failed to arrest him. the georgia newspaper had been doing harm to jackson early, but they came away. they similarly reverse field and acknowledged that they had been wrong. jackson's recent victories give us a delight the georgia paper said, we hope he will keep on and give us an ap-poe lexie before he stops. so this quite lunatic had become mighty

this is down in the richmond way. snow in the morning melting off in the february sunshine. just a little snow left in the richmond way tonight. snow melting away pretty rapidly now. no snow left in maryland now. of course we never had it in baltimore but we did have a crystal-clear kind of day and a really nice-looking start to the day tomorrow shaping up. the radar is showing all clear, absolutely no weather locally. temperature wise, getting cold quickly under the clear sky. we have -- when we have a crystal-clear sky, it tends to make things cool off more rapidly. a high temperature today did make it to near 50. not quite getting there in central maryland but washington dc hit 50. i think we will add two or 3 degrees tomorrow. we will see some additional cloud cover. but also, we are not going to have the northwest breeze tomorrow. we may at three or 4 degrees and end up in the low 50s tomorrow. the trend is close -- crystal-clear tonight. not a cloud in the sky. as we go into the day tomorrow, high pressure stays in control and we will see some cloud cover. but i think

i am the commanding officer of the richmond station. i want to thank officer moore, he has been doing an excellent job tracking the incidents. he gave you a small snapshot of many of the crimes and quality of life issues that have been focused around the rockit room. i deal with many community groups in my neighborhood. i go to several meetings a week. i hear the neighborhood concerns and i hear the complaints about the rockit room, the crime it attracts, the quality of life issues, the noise. i also speak regularly to my officers, might lieutenants and sergeants, who work that i watch. i know how taxing it is on our limited resources to police the rockit room when they have events, especially thursday, friday, and saturday night. it is taxing our resources. oftentimes i wish i had enough resources to vote a squad to set up and be a fixed post in front of the rockit room. i do not have those types of resources so we need your help. i reviewed the recommendations and i feel they are fair and promote public safety. i endorse them 100%. i t

the -- event. i am also a richmond district neighbor. while i am not working on the other events in the park, i get to experience them from my apartment. which i consider a benefit. touching back on hardly strictly, we have through our neighborhood outreach increased our sign image and printed sign it on just about all of the entrances to the park about two weeks before my load in date. it is usually built -- about one week before the event goes on. those signs talk about closures, road closures that are happening so that neighbors can be alerted. people that drive through the area, about one week before the event they put up signs, digital signs that lets the 19th avenue traffic know as well. another important thing to talk about is controlling traffic. we have increased the muni on the north and south side of the park over the years, as well as increasing our bike parking. many people have seen the videos of how many bikes actually come and we have just about every bicycle off of a tree that was on a tree. [tone] supervisor mar: thank y

in the east bay, moderate rain near richmond. we have rain continuing to push off to the north and east. temperatures right now are still in the 50's and '40's. 56 for hayward, mountain view and fremont. we will max out around 57-58 in the east bay. but once the rain clears out tonight, pretty nice conditions for the rest of the week. >>george: we are continuing to track the east shore freeway as a hot spot. we have seen some improvement but it has been over 30 minutes. slow and go conditions beginning well before highway 4, especially on low lower east shore freeway, the westbound 580 ride is backed up. 32 minutes from hercules to berkeley. that is a good 8-12 minutes above what you might expect for this time of morning. your ride to the north bay on the 101 southbound is still have the tried to get out of central san rafael. your drive time is still running over 40 minutes to get to the golden gate bridge from novato for southbound 101. on the bay bridge we have been backed up to west grand ave. we're looking at an 18-20 minute

and there's yellow and rid on the richmond san rafael bridge and the san mateo bridge. the golden gate bridge, we've got the live pictures on the toll plaza, traffic opens up with all available toll booths open right now and the bridge is letting four lanes into the city, still,is's it's bumper to bumper into marin. crews started demolishing old parts of the bay area bridge. >> we've got some of the predemolition that needed to be done for the big demo effort that will start sometime around 6:00 tonight. completed and we've started knocking off some of those extra things that we're trying to do for maintenance on the bay bridge. caltrans said the westbound lanes will open weather permitting. if crews stay ahead of schedule it could open before that. b.a.r.t. will run overnight service at select stations and there will be extended ferry service, the three-day closure will cost the toll authority about $1.5 million in uncollected tolls. >>> well getting around the entire bay area is a little more difficult this weekend. reaching treasure island is a whole different story

more than 200 were in and around the richmond area. icy roads made it tough. several vehicles actually slid off the road. >>> now we're taking a look at some of the stories that affect you and your money. gas prices have been rising in recent weeks and it's only february. jamie costello has more. it's getting out of control. >> reporter: why is it so high? back on january 22nd, we were paying $3.38. now on february 20th, we're shelling out $3.59. global oil prices have hit a new high, about $105 a barrel. partly because iran has stopped exporting. at this rate we could see an average of $4.25 by late april. when gas prices rise, so do prices on everything else, especially deliveries. >> no more dinners, no more movies. if we get a movie, it's once a month. >> reporter: environmental advocates are hoping higher prices at the pumps mean more people carpooling. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich promised that if you elect him, the cost of the gas will be twee -- $2.50 a gallon. just head to abc2news.com/traffic and click on the gas prices tab. you'll

this is a live look at the approach to one of the alternate routes the richmond satisfy rafael bridge been backed up all day long. traveling across the span is as you can see, slow going. >>> meanwhile the reason for the closure, the construction of a detour for a westbound approach to the bridge is preceding the slant. don knapp is in oakland where officials hope the work can be finished ahead of schedule. >> reporter: no doubt, cal trans built in extra time into their schedule because it is winter and you get bad weather in winter, bad weather cold and rain would slow down two of the major things they're doing this weekend, pave exppg painting but we've had great weather. things are moving swimmingly so they may be ahead of schedule. >> here the main focus of the work this weekend. the place where the new bridge meets the oakland shore. cal trans closed the westbound lanes to move the existing roadway on the oakland side. the detour allows room for work on the new westbound approach to the new bridge. it will stay in effect until the new bridge is opened. if as has become usual with