Bay Bridge Update: NBC Bay Area: Working Weekend for Caltrans

FROM NBC BAY AREA:

Caltrans workers will not be ready to open the Bay Bridge by the Friday evening commute. Word came Friday afternoon that crews will be working into the weekend to get the span ready for traffic.

There's no estimated to for reopening the bridge. "There's still a lot of work going on," Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney said.

Engineers have been trying to repair the bridge so that the 280,000 commuters who use it each day would not have to spend a third day without the vital connection between Oakland and San Francisco.

The emergency work comes after a 5,000-pound piece of steel plummeted onto the span during rush hour traffic on Tuesday