New Bay Bridge headache: Demolition could harm threatened smelt

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A cormorant roosts below the old Bay Bridge span where demolition work continues in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2015. Caltrans says it has come up with a plan how to deal with the protected cormorants that have become so fond of the old eastern span that they have refused to leave.

A cormorant roosts below the old Bay Bridge span where demolition...

A crew uses a blow torch to remove a section of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which has been beset by cost overruns.

A crew uses a blow torch to remove a section of the old eastern...

Access is restricted to the area where demolition of the old Bay Bridge span continues.

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New Bay Bridge headache: Demolition could harm threatened smelt