, he is go to get a lot more treasure island to serve the that you saws of small residents that a part of it and so we are seeking more fault and please step forward and represent our communities proudly and i'm very willing to work with all of you and on behalf of our city and on behalf of this wonderful celebration that we have, i call upon on our coaches for the arab heritage celebration, jeff who's here as well as l u b n a to please come on up and receive and just again, thank you very much for your work in the film festival and l u b n a for the wonderful leader ship that you have and devise that you are giving to he to run a vibrant culture center and i hopey that you are able to get a larger cultural center is because the population is going and i hopey that we are able to get you a larger cultural center and get you the resources that you need to run the cultural and art programs and so on behalf of the city l u b n a and jeff this is our arab heritage month celebration proclimation. (applause). and go giants: enjoy everybody.. >> thank you mr. mayor. (applause). . >> y

of course we're here on treasure island. we're live on treasure island. >> for latest conditions down load our wazeapp on the smart phone. >> this fire in sonoma county keeping firefighters busy. it broke out in a grove of trees around 1:45. cal fire reports the fire burned 80 acres so far. >> a woman was in court today charged with manslaughter in connection with a crash in may that killed her 5-year-old daughter. >> it was very emotional today. family members of the rl woman were crying and heart broken. markia myers pleaded not guilty. the 30-year-old mother from pinole made her fairs peer yens since being arrested for the traffic accident that killed her daughter. >> she's been charged with manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment. >> investigateors say the girl died after being eject frtd suv. she, as well as two teenagers and a 7-year-old also inside of the vehicle were not wearing seat belts when the suv overturned. prosecutors say myers was driving with out a license, speeding when she served to a -

on treasure island, we have a report of a stalled vehicle traveling along westbound bay bridge at treasure island we have a stalled car blocking one lane so we could have done without that and we have an accident in fremont southbound long 680 blocking one lane and it sounds like there are injuries involved and you are looking at slowing southbound 680 coming from the sunol grade to fremont so we will rack that. i will show you the san mateo bridge with more traffic but it is moving. there are quite a few extra cars from hayward to foster city. >> day three of the bart strike. the negotiations are in a "pause" after a marathon session that lasted until almost 3:00 a.m. >> the workers do not hear what going on with the negotiations so we rushed over here to tell them what happened overnight and they say they think it is a good sign. we saw a sign that it was going to be a long night at 9:00 p.m. when food was brought in for the negotiators. both sides came to the table when the governor sent two high-level mediators. they will be back at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. when we heard that we ca

. >> item 18 resolution between the city through the treasure island authority and the san francisco transportation authority yerba buena island ramps for a total of $81,700,000. >> thank you. mr. beck. >> thank you supervisor farrell, members of the committee. we have before you two memorandum of agreements between the transportation authority and tida and the city and county of san francisco for services to reconstruct the westbound on rampos the east side of yerba buena island. the first is for right-of-way services to accept from transfer from the navy through us through tida the property which the rachs are constructed and after that transfer the properties to caltrans. the second is for the construction much the ramps itself and i have a powerpoint and we have the transportation authority also here. i would point out that the transportation authority board yesterday did approve these moa's on behalf of the transportation authority. [inaudible] between tida and transportation authority and the ramps project we're going to construct and i will take any questions you may have. tid

i i know many kelly is here and treasure islands wants to go first. terror island first? okay >> good morning supervisor director of violence operations. as you know the mission of treasure i'd like to to manage the base and through that development process to create housing and job opportunities. including assuring job opportunities for the disadvantaged. annoy during u during this period tied is also responsible for the municipal services. to pay for the costs associated with development and operations we generate money including housing and commercial space now before i review this. i would like to discuss how the sources of income has changed. as supervisor bred knows our primary source of income has changed. indeed consider my first budget. we had the commercial at the $350,000 next year we plan to exceed this by 3 million. we focused our attentions to the reuse of vacant property. we have more start ups that call treasure island their home. made in san francisco is certainly happening on ti. also . we also created bike baselines we had thirty near graduates and we na

kpix 5's linda yee is live on treasure island with where the plan goes now. linda. >> reporter: well, ken, maybe, just maybe, the new portion of the bridge might be open well before december. that's because the engineers have found a way to strengthen the bridge while that repair work on those faulty bolts continues. >>> reporter: it's a temporary fix, crews placing shims in to help stabilize seismic safety devices under the bridge. >> these green shims prevent the bearing from sliding back and forth this way. >> reporter: the shims provide the strength to hold down the bridge that was lost when the bolts broke. crews will still continue to install the permanent saddles around the broken bolts. but if the shims work the new bridge could open sooner than december. >> these wedges are going in to protect the bearings while this permanent fix is going on. but there are some out there who believe that that would give us enough stability to open the bridge sooner and not wait until the permanent fix is completed. >> reporter: no new opening date is set. the toll b

, and when you pass treasure island, 54 miles per hour is the top speed moving into san francisco, and the drive along westbound 80 through san pablo and richmond is where we are seeing top speeds and a look at the drive along 880 at 680 at top speeds despite the possible drizzle affecting the drive in milpitas and fremont but we are still in go shape and a look at the bay bridge toll plaza so metering lights turned on and that is causing slowing but it will start to pick up west of treasure island. eric and kristen? >> thank you, leyla gulen. >> kids expect a toy when they visit fast food restaurants, right? well, a popular chain is getting rid of them. >> coming up first, a major star power president obama hopes to draw on to promote his health care reform law. >> caught on camera, mama bear trying to free her cub. >> and another look at london near the tower of london. they have been fireing off salutes to the new baby. >> covering santa clara, san francisco, east bay, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> at 6:15, check this out new video showing a mother bear trying to get

the travel time along the bay bridge, 11 minutes gets you away from treasure island and into san francisco. kristen? >>guest: thanks you, breaking news the search is on for a robber who got away during a late night hold up at a grocery store. the partner in crime is dead. our reporter tells us an off-duty deputy was in the middle of the holdup. amy? >> yes, kristen, they are interviewing witnesses right now. the sheriff deputy and the to clerks who were working at time. miss say they got the call at 10:30 last night of shots fired inside the born air market in alameda on high street. it turns out it was an off duty sheriff deputy who had don't firing and the sheriff deputy was shopping in the store when the two armed men came in and tried to problem the place. he killed one of them and the other got away, possibly on foot. >> it is possible that the second suspect was also shot and we conducted an extensive area check throughout the residential neighborhood with the assistance of the police department from the regional park and alameda sheriff and our officers and we used k-9 and did door-

jodi hernandez is live at treasure island. you were at today's meeting. what needs to be done to make before december? >> reporter: a lot will need to be done. bridge officials say this is the first time that they learned that the fix is anything more than a concept. they say their team is going to have to fully vet out the plan and that is going to take time. they say they are not yet ready to shift gears. >> the old bridge is on wood piles in the mud. the new bridge is on sturdy concrete and steel foundations. >> reporter: bridge officials reiterated they need until december to fix broken bolts on the new eastern span of the bay bridge before they open the structure. >> the current plan we have for fabrication and installation is targeted at december 10. >> we have a difference of opinion. >> reporter: now an independent team of bridge experts says there is no need to wait. >> this is what needs to be put in. >> reporter: engineers with the seismic safety review committee say they have come up with a temporary fix that involves inserting wedges to stabi

we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island.for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantasti

they got word of a suspicious device of a treasure island off- ramp. this is the bomb squad robot to making contact. it was immediately called and the bomb squad was called in. >> they arrived on scene shortly after with the ruling traffic patrol. making sure that it did not get into contact with the off ramp. and also allow us to do of our investigation. >> reporter: eventually, the east bound was shut down for at least five minutes and westbound was closed at the toll plaza for about 30 minutes. >> when the san francisco police to for current are right on the scene they isolated the incident. and made sure that it was safe and was never harm to public safety. since, they have collected some items and we are about to clear the scene. >> reporter: 4 a good. of time if you're coming from san francisco, for a quick. of--time. and also, for a quick. of time. they were pushing pushi and forcing people to go to oakland. what turned out to be nothing but it would rather be safe that is why they s shut down the bridge for a short amount of time. dan kerman, k

that drive time to 280 all the way to treasure island's treasure island you are looking at a 30 minute wait. and once you get off the bridge it is nasty. we have an accident on ashen blocking things off on 80 east. another accident on alameda so very sluggish on all three of those freeways. also we have the disabled vehicle before to mom boulevard. just across richmond bill bridge it will take you about 15 mis. right now under drug time to get to the airport or from the airport i should say across the cemetery bridge is about 45 minutes. traffic moving ok and either direction. >> pam: we are about 28 hours away from san francisco's annual fireworks show. one you can see in person or right here on kron 4. >> pam: today preparations are underway at the municipal pier at aquatic park. that's one of two locations the fireworks will be shot off from. the other is a barge off pier 39. you're looking a the mortar tubes that will hold the individual pyrotechnics. they vary in size, and today crews were assembling the containers for the tubes to get the best effect possible. >> you want some go

and that was the fireworks show from treasure island. it was a spectacular sight in san francisco last night. thousands of fireworks lit up the sky. the fireworks were launched from the municipal pier at aquatic park, and a barge off pier 39. please take fireworks vo from treasure island in today's stories illegal fireworks could be seen going off in a number of cities around the bay area last night. this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news over oakland where spurts of fireworks could be seen throughout the evening. earlier in the week police around the bay warned the public of plans to jail anyone caught using illegal fireworks. they said they were going to use the 'shotspotter' technology to help track the locations. no word on if any arrests were made. an accidental detonation during a july fourth fireworks show in southern california has injured at least 28 people. the blast happened as thousands gathered for the fireworks show at a park in simi valley. investigators say many of those hurt were hit by flying debr

this shot from treasure island. a live look. this is our mount tam view..and today the sutro tower is 40 years old today janu? today, we are expecting another warm day with a hot afternoon. 66 degrees and san francisco. already in the 80s and livermore. it is going to be another hot one with the excessive heat warning remains in effect. it is also going to be a pretty warm evening but it is going to expire. if you are waiting for some relief that could possibly happen later tonight. and definitely, tomorrow and the stthe freeway at the nimitz. some drivers have been reporting that to the c h p. and nothing, at the bay bridge toll plaza. for the westbound with light traffic you will see smooth conditions. weather you are in the north or south bay. and even interstate 580. and our big story today is the bart strike will tran finally, thankfully, shorter lines. >> because of monday, tuesday, wednesday, many of which read com commuters. weary. we have been here all week and that bus stop took people from oakland to san

it was found on the treasure island offramp on eastbound 80. you can see the bomb squad robot picking up the suspicious device. they determined that that device was harmless and the bridge and onramp were reopened. no word yet on what that device was. an investigation is underway. >>> with only 9 days left until a second potential bart strike, tonight there are new allegations against bart's lead contracted negotiate. the unions say that thomas hock profited from the bart strike earlier in july. he is an executive with a company. the unions say bart management used the buses to shuttle bart passengers. want unions say the use of his company's buses is a conflict of interest. and they now expect a thorough investigation by bart's board of directors. >> we are extremely concerned about these allegations. we do expect the board of directors it investigate. and we also are dismayed at the fact, although we have been at the table. we have made no significant movement with regard to the economic package. >> the unions say invoices show the bill for t

people in the proximity of that subway and exactly where we should be putting new housing and treasure island and the development at peas 30 and 32 and hunter's point and mission bay and pier 70, et cetera we have development going on in the eastern part of the city so the muni that we have day, a muni that is struggling because of deferred maintenance and under investment for years and struggle to meet the needs of the current population is a system that 10-20 years from now is going to be that much older and expect to meet a larger passenger load and it's critical that we as a city plan carefully how we're going to stabilize and bolster the muni that we have and how we're going to grow service capacity to meet the growing needs of the population. it's something we should have focused on 10-20 years ago but need to be focused on it like a laser now and move forward so the purpose of the hearing is hear from the mta office and the mayor's office and for growth and not just planning because it's not good to have the plans on the shelf but how to acknowledge that growth and we have a task force

in the southern part of the city as well as the sunset portions of the richmond and mission, treasure island and as well as areas in the western edition and north of market. the second map shows census tracks that are low income which means they have more households than the 31% city wide average. again we see the southeast corridor emerge as well as the outer sunset, the mission and portions of north and south of market in addition to treasure island. the way that we use the census data is by looking at the -- for every census block group we determine what percentage of the population is majority as a percent of the total population. then this is the route here. we look at every stop and we draw a quarter mile radius around our surface stops and half mile radius around the subway stops. then we look at every census block group that intersects that radius, whether wholly or partially included in it. we add up all of the demographics of those particular block groups and that gives us the demographics of the route. in san francisco our routes -- particularly the cross town routes tend to be ve

once you're on the freeway, is going to take to 30 minutes all the with a treasure island. and after that, it is kind of smooth sailing. . . the approach, it is not quite as bad. from the south. going across the bridge, it is a bit sluggish with the drive times of about 20 minutes. batter but now, it is a bit more stop an go. -- a bit better >> the last part strike was 1977. this, is just of the first day of the bay bridge strike. from bart. wheat are still dealing with with the commuters are dealing with the commuters. scott rates is live. traffic certainly has not gotten any better. a few moments that i've gotten here, let me show you the on-ramp. this is getting on to the lower-ramp. and all the way down for a street. this is the financial they are just trying to move this as best as they. i spoke to people as they were waiting. and there is some frustration. . just to try to get here on time. . >> it has been really bad. i just wish they were done with these negotiations. >> what has it been it out on and the roads?. >> hell. >> it sucks. >> unbearable. >> i get here ar

so it does start to pick up just east of treasure island. you're looking at 30-40 minutes to the east bay. sheer look at the drive this, is about an hour and 40 minute drive coming up to the bridge. so drive along northbound 101 pack add cross the bridge just until you get to tolls then starts to free up. so if you're going to be seeing a's versus cubs tonight 27 miles per hour is your top speed down to o dot co. taking a look at the bridge it's very slow getting worse by the minute. 34 miles per hour is the top speed into hayward. and get your drive time traffic here at 80 coming away from the maze 3035 minutes heading away from hercules to antioch. dan, carolyn? >> thank you very much. stand by we'll come back. we have our cell 7 camera on the streets tonight. ken i know you've had an adventure out there today. >> i am at battery and washington street here in san francisco. earlier things were moving much, much slower than here which isn't saying much. it took me two hours to get to the bay bridge. about one car per light getting out of sa

on treasure island j.r. stone kron 4 news. ha >> jacqueline: it is to the low clouds already making their way to the bay area. here's a concurrent temperature still warm with a decrease in antioch. 77 and 69 in san jose. so here is with chicken expect tonight the fault returned nearly but the bay shore spirit fall through the north to that in our inland valleys and south bay. warmer conditions for inland valleys. cooler temperatures are ahead by the end of the week wound up in store with ericsson forecast coming up. >> pam: , next + the jurors some of trial continues today in florida with a look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. thos

so it does start to pick up just east of treasure island. you're looking at 30-40 minutes to the east bay. sheer look at the drive this, is about an hour and 40 minute drive coming up to the bridge. so drive along northbound 101 pack add cross the bridge just until you get to tolls then starts to free up. so if you're going to be seeing a's versus cubs tonight 27 miles per hour is your top speed down to o dot co.t the bre it's very slow getting worse by the minute. 34 miles per hour is the top speed into hayward. and get your drive time traffic here at 80 coming away from the maze 3035 minutes heading away from hercules to antioch. dan, carolyn? >> thank you very much. stand by we'll come back. ave h our cell 7 camera on the streets tonight. ken i know you've had an adventure out there today. >> i am at battery and washington street here in san francisco. earlier things were moving much, much slower than here which isn't saying mu me two hoo the bay bridge. about one car per light getting out of san francisco. >> several instances of this ha

the device was spotted just after 12 p-m by the treasure island offramp.raffic from both sides of of the bridge was stopped for about half and hour before police allowed drivers to make their way across groups at a time. that's when the bomb squad gave the all clear and reopened the bridge. but that backup caused some major headaches as commuters were left to deal with the traffic! these are some images of the back up on the bridge and near the on ramps. that traffic not expected to let up soon as several events tonight are making the bay area a commuting nightmare. there are two home baseball games plus three concerts all which just got underway within the last hour. stay with kron 4 news as we continue our coverage on a second possible bart strike. it has now been 16 days,,, >> we are extremely concerned about these allegations. we are expected a further investigation and the fact that although we have been invoices show that the bill = $16,000, however, partly paid $5,000. bart does not see this as a conflict of interest. and as of now, he is still the

. >> that was the fireworks show from treasure island. it was a spectacular sight in san francisco last night. up the sky. the fireworks were launched from the municipal pier at aquatic park, and a barge off pier 39. please take fireworks vo from treasure island in >> illegal fireworks could be seen going off in a number of cities around the bay area last night. this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news over oakland where spurts of fireworks could be seen throughout the evening. >> >> economists say there were steady job gains in june-- but not enough to change the unemployment rate of seven-point-six percent. predictions show that some 165-thousand jobs were added to the economy last month. that's roughly in line with may's increase. >> we will take a quick break on the kron 4 morning news on this friday morning. it is a little cooler out side. here is a live look from mount tam cam. otherwise, of the bart strike is over for now and the trains will resume at 3:00 p.m.. we will have more news on that when we return. th

community and started working for the mayor's office of neighborhood services, and worked on treasure islandd eventually became the executive director of the african-american art and culture complex located in the western addition, a place i participated in programs in the arts as a kid. so, it was really an honor to be able to work directly in the community, to impact so many lives. and i really thoroughly enjoyed that experience. >> you've lived most of your life in san francisco. why did you choose to live in the city? >> i chose because it's my home. it's just a place i love the most. i pretty much only lived outside the city when i went to college and i came home almost every weekend on the greyhound bus. and i just love san francisco. it's an amazing place, it's a beautiful city. it's nothing like coming across that bridge and seeing the city and feeling like, i'm home, or coming from any part of anywhere, whether you're on a plane, whether you're on a bus, whether you're in a car, just to see the skyline of the city, it's just always made me feel at peace. and, so, i can't imagine mys

from news chopper 2, the treasure island off ramp where a passer by found a suspicious object and called 911 this afternoon. chp couldn't tell what it was. so san francisco police responded with their bomb squad. >> it was something that looked very suspiciously of an explosive dice. - - device. it looked very suspicious. >> reporter: gray and about the size of a nerf football. laying on the side of the road. fearing the worse, chp ordered ramps in both directions closed tpáers then the entire bridge for about 20 minutes -- closed first then the entire bridge for about 20 minutes. 20 long minutes. the back up to san francisco spanned for miles. and those people on the freeway could do nothing else but sit. >> i took it from two blocks, like fremont, it took me like an hour to get to here. >> reporter: the bomb detecting robot was able to determine it was not a threat. >> they rendered it safe. and it was apparent after we were able to investigate further that it was not anything that would be harmful. >> reporter: it wasn't anything immediately identifiable like a car part either. chp wi

when it was set that is a 10 hour day that's fourteen percent in staffing and prior to taking on treasure island and our domestic violence unit. so getting the civilians to do what their best at and to do the officers back on the shifts and then adding in the technology that i think will be efficient to keep people in patrol i'm trying to get back to the 21 years ago slot. i'm not just trying to - like how do we make sure theirs 53 officers is that an estimate or - and a if that's an estimate i would have gone with 65 or more. >> for the police departments the controllers office does a audit and they add the certification. >> that's what i was asking about the certification. >> if it's i can add briefly. chef ben rosen field. it was a charter measure proposed that creates a process for the 1971 that 6 in the chart can be reduced and that's if so civilians are hired and added to the budget then officers can be sent to the streets and if the chief certifies as i recall it's appropriate as measured by the chief >> my questions is not about lowering the 1971 authorized strength but do we actually ce

we have more start ups that call treasure island their home. made in san francisco is certainly happening on ti. also . we also created bike baselines we had thirty near graduates and we naturally electric stations. and we have direct sponsorship programs. now to next year's budget the focus on the coming months is the agreement with the navy. and, of course, oversight of the navy's organization is priority. that he continue to focus on the services for our residents. we project 8.7 million from our housing and 3 pointed 1 from housing. on the cost side our expenses are working order driven. our contracts includes professional services with landscaping services and janitoral services. each of which provide employment opportunity to disadvantaged san franciscans. on our contract they include the operation of our give him managed by ymca. and we have a childcare development center. we have culturally sensitive services. the operations and development work orders to the city for administration services. we have great street paving. our fire depart