Steel plates covered a nearly 15-foot-deep hole Sunday that swallowed a van driving down an alley in Kansas City’s Northeast area a day earlier.

Engineering experts tell NBC Bay Area the cracks found in the Transbay Terminal superstructure appear to have started at the sharp corners of holes cut into vital steel beams during construction ...

The metal plate that all the cars and trucks are running over is covering a hole dug up by Peoples Gas crews in July. Powers says it's even worse at night.