it started late june and it closed westportal station. riders are rerouted to shuttle buses instead. this affects the kl and m lines. some students that i talk to be also confused where to go. >> i'm out here earlier because it is the first day of school. but i wasn't thinking about it at all. and then when i got here, i was shocked. >> reporter: was it a little confusing today? >> yes, for sure. >> do i leave earlier because i worry that i won't get there in time. but sometime doe run to the bus because it comes earlier or i'll sit there forever because it comes later than expected. but usually it is on time. >> reporter: san francisco unified school district posted a message on their website. a spokeswoman told me said they will see how things will go today and work with the schools and students that are impacted. they are in process of hiring more drivers. they will have part-time to full-time. >> we do a lot to help accommodate students getting to school every day. we have our school drifters. they meet the schools and merge into our

. >> wayne freedman joins us live from westport tall. wayne? >> we don't have a lot of information yet, but what we do here appears to have been tragic in nature. i'm going to back out of the camera, lennox way and westport tall boulevard. it happened inside the 100-year-old twin peaks tunnel. muni has been replacing the infrastructure inside, working around the clock. roughly 4:45 this afternoon, it appears a steel beam fell on top of a workman, injuring him severely. police and fire went in to rescue him. they performed cpr. they pulled him out. they took him to the hospital, and that's about all we know. we don't have any details on the injuries except for the fact that they were severe. in the words of one man on the scene, they were crushing. and the looks on this faces of his fellow workers would confirm that. they are not talking. they are not leaving. they're just hanging around right now, looking stunned. we do not have the name of a workman involved, nor do we know where inside this tunnel this happened. all we know is roughly 4:45 th

abc7 news was at muni's westportal station after a steel beam fell on a worker inside the tunnel.mmediately shutdown the job site. he was rushed to a trauma center. he worked for an oakland based company. both san francisco police and cal osha are investigating yesterday's tragedy. >> crews are making good progress in their battle against a wildfire in the fairfield area. crews have now stopped the fires forward progress. flames destroyed a home in paradise valley and 1,000 acres. all eye vak wags orders have been liftd. >>> the largest wildfire in state history mendocino complex has burned more than 320,000 acres and is 67% contaund. it tore through areas of redding and scorched nearly 191,000 acres and is now 57% contained. near yosemite, the ferguson fire is up to 82% containment and just more than 95,500 acres. yosemite valley is expected to open to visitors on tuesday. >> the giants immortalized home run king by retiring barry bonds number 25. he has too many records to name including 762 career home runs. love him or hate him, he's one of the greatest baseball players of all

service resumes at muni's twin peaks tunnel and the tunnel provides service between castro and westportal station. the project has not been without fault. a worker died on the job. >> the mayor cited the accident in a scathing letter questioning muni's leadership earlier this week. >> bart is reminding passengers trains will not be running between west oakland and lake merritt. to get to san francisco from the east bay you'll have to ride the free bus bridge to link up between those stations. this is part of an ongoing maintenance on the system. bart will close the stations again labor day weekend. >>> approaching 5:11. lisa arjen is here and good to see you, friend. >> thanks. it's been a while. we've had subtle changes in the weather, changes i think you'll like because you're looking at clearing and it should push it out to the east later today and that means we'll get more in the way of sun, but we haven't talked about the temperatures. they have been awfully cool. we'll talk about if we'll see a warm up in the next seven days. >> also ahead, john mccain is stopping treatment for brai

service resumes today at muni's twin peaks tunnel.tunnel provides subway service between castro and westportal station. the project has not been without fault. a worker died on the job and mayor london breed cited the accident in a scathing letter questioning muni's leadership this week. >> bart is reminding passengers and train will not be running between west oakland and 19th street stations. that means to get to san francisco from the east bay, you'll have to ride the free bus bridge to link up the stations and this is part of ongoing maybe the nance in the system. bart will close the stations again labor day weekend. time is 8:10. lisa argen has been tracking the rain for sxus us and the air is cooling. >> temperatures will be on the cool side for most of you and a live look outside from the east bay hills camera and danville and livermore. numbers will come up here today about 3 to 4 degrees and we shall see sunshine sooner today. the air quality, moderate for most, but those east and southerly winds should help us out today. we'll talk about the details and the look ahead in a few minute

the tunnel provides subway service between castro and westportal station. the project has not been without fault. a worker died on the job. the mayor cited the accident in a scathing letter questioning muni's leadership earlier this week. bart is reminding passengers this weekend trains will not be running between the west oakland and lake merit and west oakland and 19th street stations. that means to get to san francisco from the east bay you'll have to ride the free bus bridge to link up between those stations. this is part of an ongoing maintenance on the system. bart will close these stations again labor day weekend. time now 6 time 10 on this saturday morning and meteorologist lisa argen is here tracking the accuweather forecast for us. >> santa rosa and livermore and this nice-looking shot from mount tam where the numbers are in the mid-50s and also the air quality is not good and that's why we have such a colorful sunrise and it should be getting better throughout the afternoon and we'll talk about slightly warmer numbers when we return. >> we'll see

abc 7 news was there when emergency crews responded to the westportal muni tunnel job yesterday after a steel beam hit a worker. it happened at 5:00 p.m. and work had to be stopped. the worker was transported to san francisco general with serious injuries. >> community groups hope a proposed plan in one of the neighborhoods will employ local residents for terns of thousands of jobs. >> the central plan will create 8,000 more homes and more than 33,000 jobs over the next 20 years. those jobs include security guards, custodians, engineers and the board of supervisors will discuss the proposal next month when it returns from summer recess. >>> happening today the public can get its first look inside san francisco's new sales force transit center as officials get readyir bvi. one, yay! congratulations, everybody! >> yesterday san francisco dignitaries took part in an official ribbon cutting ceremony and mayor london breed says she expects the $2.3 billion facility to become a worldwide destination. >> with its beautiful public art, beautiful rooftop park with free advance activity, shoppi

-- i want to be thank half that we have installed quite a few of them on several roads, and on westportal, what i have seen is not everybody pushes the button and they're crossing anyways and they are running into the same situation as we did have before. so is there a reason that we don't have system? >> i guess that there's two ways toac activate such a device. and one is the pedestrian pushes the button and the other is a passive device that picks up the presence of a pedestrian. the passive devices are more experimental so there's a concern if it did not pick up the pedestrian there would be a liability concern on the part of the city that a pedestrian thought they would be picked up. so it's a technology issue and we want to make sure if we're going to a device that would automatically pick up the presence of a pedestrian and it would be reliable and not pick up other things so that the device is on and it loses its effectiveness. i think that it's a technical issue that the profession is working on and as we get closer to a situation where passive detection works reliably that it is

and there is the twin peaks tunnel project t shut down the westport tall station and the forest hillpacts the metro lines. riders are directed to the shuttle buses instead. i contacted muny to see how they're handling the shortage now that tens of thousands of kids will depend on the service every day. they are in the process of hiring more operators. and there are no major delays to report. >>> in addition to san francisco students, many other districts are going back to class today, including the following. to the students, teachers and families, have a great school year. >>> when almeda students go back to school, they have a new dress code. tube tops, pjs are acceptable attire under the new rules adopted over the summer break. the new policy allows students and family to decide if such clothing creates a distraction in the classroom and the school board hopes it will reduce bullying and body shaming on campus. >>> a professor at berkley is now suspend following and alleged pattern of alleged sexual harass. he is suspended for three years without pay. it said that the professor se