Saw it, hundreds of lightning strikes late this afternoon and continues right now. Among the many concerns a strike on the taxi way of sfo. Right near one of the grounds crew members there. No injuries right now but they are dangerous conditions. We have more information with our meteorologist and whats happening with the lightning strikes. Were going to answer all that for you. You can see 80 lightning strikes that last round that pummelled San Francisco. Right here from fremont, starting at 8 00 tonight. Also noted can you see these areas of purple on the radar, that was hail imped in the thunderstorms. A current view shows just a few areas of scattered showers. You should know the heavyiest of it has started to move out towards the pacific at least at this point. So why all of the thunderstorms across the bay area with at least a thousand lightning strikes . Weve told you about the area of low pressure since last week. That brought the instability throughout the bay area, but also heat and humidity moving up from the south gave rise to the thunderstorms tonight and thats why it was able to hit the bay area this evening. Were joined by ian coal, and we had what could have been deadly cloud to ground lightning tonight. We hear youre hearing from the too close to home this evening. Absolutely jeff. Just a few feet from their front door really. Were in front of their home, they say around 4 45 today lightning struck the palm tree in front of their home there. They say it caught fire and luckily its out now. The lightning strike, the storm caught them and many people throughout the bay area completecomplet completely of you guard. Reporter tonight another round of lightning illuminating the night sky in san jose and the evening commute. Cancelling swimminglesssons and tennis matches. We dont mind. Others werent so lucky. There was a loud explosion noise. Familys palm tree and caught fire, which firefighters quickly extinguished. I could smell the fire. Strikes like these near sfo diverted 16 flights to san jose international. They said its extremely rare, passengers waiting till airlines took them to their latest destination. Reporter once again, this fire was quickly extinguished. Ers firefighters were busy across the area. Firefighters will be remaining overnight in south san jose. We havent sean said this maybe ever, pli ball at 10 50 p. M. The giants game started 10 minutes ago after a rain delay. Were joined from at m t park. Is anyone still there. Yes. There are still fans. Tens of thousands did leave, they were there waiting for the game to start, rains came down, tarps come out, rain comes again. The game kept getting pushed later and later. A very unusual sight in San Francisco. Look at the ground crews putting tarps on the field. They did it tonight several times. Very uncommon sight. Just a handful of sights have been cancelled here at at t. Going on now is the first inning. People couldnt stick around from a game they were looking forward to. Came from the east bay, wanted to check out the giants, dodgers. It started raining and lightning, never got to my seat. Did you enjoy the tarp being pulled out. Ya. Reporter were you kind of disappointed . Yeah. Reporter were in the first inning here, a little bit after 11 00 p. M. You have to give credit to the fan who is stayed and also the ones who waited and waited. Some of the fans you saw there were leaving after 10 00 at night. The question is if this game goes to extra innings, this is going to be going to the dawn of the day. If you want results you have to watch today in the bay starting at 4 30, right now they lead 20. Im off working the game there. Itll work nicely for terry at the ballpark. Right now on the peninsula some serious issues here. This is in san mateo. People are told to shelter in place or stay off the roads. The Police Department and p g e are working to clear the lines as we speak. We have great pictures. This one sent to us from south San Francisco. We have it over the the stadium. And the chp sent us this lightning in the sky with the pink hue. We want to see your photos and videos as well. Send them to ic nbc bay area. Com. The s. W. A. T. Team have surrounded the kfc. Employees heard a bang inside the bathroom and called the police. S. W. A. T. Teams have responded. At this point we cannot confirm if a shooter is there and inside that restaurant. Well give you any updates when we get them inside the news room. From hurricane to tropical depression, irma has not lost her bluster. Today she pounded South Carolina some spots saw 5 inches of rainfall in five hours. There are now three u. S. Death confirms and that number could rise. Florida is dealing with widespread flooding, damage, and power out acknowledges. The keys are specifically devastated. Bad. Bad. Could take months or years to get it cleaned up. Power could be tricky, it could take weeks to get t it back up. While its too early for a total, officials estimate recovery will cost in the tens of billions of dollars. The problem now getting the people back home. Of course, as we mentioned cleaning up. The military has be called in to help with the relief efforts. Ultimately miami did dodge a blelt bl bullet, this could have been much worse. Were joined from miami tonight. Reporter this is the scene that weve been seeing over and over again as weve been driving through miami. You can see this tree completely uprooted, now blocking fully the street here. Were seeing a lot of debris on the roads. Im going to get close to the area but im going to be careful because we have seen downed power lines they advise we dont step in water. You can see its flowing, there maybe a bipipe broken, a system there is still the strict curfew of 7 00 p. M. To 7 00 a. M. And as of right now theyre not letting anybody over the bridge to miami beach, the general public that is until tomorrow morning. So as of right now were still seeing a lot of debris out here. I want to make a quick reference to some of the impressive video we saw of these exact streets completely flooded yesterday by that storm surge once Hurricane Irma hit. And as you can see now left behind we have a lot of sand along the beach, dirt and debris. Thank you. You can stay with us for our continuing coverage from south florida. You can follow her on facebook and twitter. Im chief meteorologist jeff va nerry. A lot of the storms have started to move out but were looking at a brand new chance of full thunderstorms. A look at the time line of when they could hit. A string of fires, why investigators say theyre suspicious and the message they have for the community tonight. Its more than the new iphone. The big unveil tomorrow morning at apple headquarters that has a lot of people buzzing around the world. Microclimate weather alert take vo at this hour as we mentioned earlier, we remain in a microclimate weather alert. You can see all the green on our radar, along with the lightning strikes. We have new pictures and videos from across the bay area. Our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri will join us in less than five minutes with whats happening as we go late into tonight. Is there an arson lose again . There have been several suspicious fires lately. A few months ago there were arrests made for other car fires. Reporter at this points Authorities Say they have no surveillance tapes only a dangerous pattern that leads them to believe that one person could be responsible. I looked out our balcony window and i saw a huge fire, and i told the whole family and they ran out the house as fast as we can. 14yearold shane davis recorded that fire on his cell phone. It burned down half of the church. Investigators say it started out as a vegetation fire starting at the tree then going to the second floor of this church. Fire Marshall Robert marshall says investigators are trying to figure out if the fire is related to other suspicious fires in the area. Intuition says yes but this isnt like some of the other ones we had, where we had cameras that picked somebody up and had a suspect description or anything like that. They have a pattern starting as vegetation fires and spreading to trees and then in some cases buildings. It started on this side and spread to the tree here. Ladell jones jr. Tried to put out the fire next to his home sunday night. The good thing there was no wind. There f there was wind it could have been catastrophic. 16 years ago this country changed forever. Tonight a chance to remember what happened and to be grateful for the First Responders of the terror attacks. A trib tribute in light, this happens from sun set on september 9 11 until sun rise on september 12th. A way to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died that day. There was also a deep and painful bay area to the attacks. There were vigils and multiface peace picnic and prayer services. Members of the Muslim Service paid their respects. One man who lost his father shared what he learned from this tragedy. Gatherings like this for me demonstrates the change that i wish to see in the world were really all more connected than we are separated. Among the planes that crashed united flight 93 which was headed to San Francisco but crashed in a field in shanksville pa. The attorney general is taking on the Trump Administration over the daca program. All brought the d. R. E. A. M. Ers brought to the u. S. As undocumented minors. A new spaceship headquarters and phone, and a new steve jobs theatre. Its dedicated to the apple cofounder and where the event is going to take place tomorrow morning. Construction crews touched up around apples new home and there will be an anniversary home with a facial Recognition Software to make sure nobody else is pretending to be you. They wont be able to unlock it or use the elements. Its expected to unveil a new investigation of its wash. Well be there live starting at 5 00 a. M. Jeff is excited about the phone. Im excited about the space ship. I want to go to the steve jobs theatre. Its underground. You dont get to go. No. Scott gets to go. Im excited about the phone because you can see our nbc bay area apps better. If you got pummelled by the thunderstorms like a lot of people did our app would come in handy. If you dont have it, check it out at the app store. You get informed when lightning is five miles away. Speaking of lightning strikes we had 1,000 of them in the bay area due to the area of low pressure. Thats what brought the instability. And then we had heat and stability moving in from the south that added this extra layer to get these thunderstorms to fire off. So without this area of low pressure offshore we wouldnt have had the thunderstorms. In terms of the hardest hit it was fremont to San Francisco. If you missed it you can see the complex of storms from 8 00 to 10 00 this evening. Also notice the purple i showed you earlier, that was about dime sized hail. Very, very wild weather here across the bay area that shook homes and did produce lightning strikes that caught trees on fire. Inside when we get thunderstorms. If you can hear the under thor youre close enough to get struck by lightning. Weve seen the worst of it move out. I think tomorrow morning we keep a slight chance of a spotty shower. South bay 67, trivally, 72. San francisco 62 with maybe spotty rainfall and the roadways still wet so take it cloe slow on the commute. Tomorrow temperatures do start to cool off, down to 85 in san jose, for the east bay youre down to 91 and back to hayward, 81. Oakland 82. Peninsula comes in with 83. And 71 up to daily city. So i think well get some sunshine here into tomorrows forecast. And for the north bay, 86. Back to napa 87. Were mentioning were not done with the chance of thunderstorms. Look at that next. We could see another round of instability by wednesday morning. As we talked about the pressure offshore moves it, it could bring in the rain. Were going to follow the models on this. Slight chance tomorrow morning but better wednesday. Also temperatures warm up saturday and sunday in the low 70s. No 100s and were out of the 90s at this point. Down to 79 thursday, and mid to upper 80s this upcoming weekend. Amazing to go outside and see the lightning. I talked a lot of weather in my 20something years of doing weather, that was wild for whatever standard you are on the map, that was intense tonight. Thank you, jeff. The action against the Uc Berkley Police officer who cited this hot dog vender and the angry reaction from the community. We have jimmy. Seth myers is my guest, plus we have russell westbrook. Our web site, signists are going to do work to identified more than 1000 victims of the 9 11 attacks. Its been 16 years, and the team is still trying to finish that job. Back with more news in a moment. What our nbc bay area crew is seeing on the ground while assessing the damage in florida. Laura 2shot plus traffic apps are annoying one east bay city. Only on today in the bay the reason one person tells us they feel like a hostage in their own home. Marcus gfxfull tomorrow morning starting at 4 30. Have you seen the video . It s gone viral. The community is rallying around a Street Vendor selling hot. Have you seen this video . Its gone viral. The community is now rallying around this Street Vendor who was selling hot dogs over the weekend during the cal football game. He was ticketed for not having the proper business permit to sell on the street. The officers then took his money as evidence, which is standard procedure. Students and members of the Community Say its wrong. Even if you do your best youre still regarded as a second class citi citizen. Its here to enforce racism and racial profiling. The university has launched an investigation. If you text hold talk while you walk, you could be busted. Tomorrow san mateo supervisors have a pro po sal for de i did tracted walking. You may have to bail me out of jail. I might get busted for that. Were back in a moment. Well take you back to the ballpark where the rain has stopped. Because everyone likes easy. Sure do. Because everyone is on the go. Because we all like to save energy, but sometimes we slip up. Reaching up. Ssssh because sometimes we want it cool at night, then toasty in the mornings. 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When the game began, the giants struck quickly, first inning at 11 00, a splash hit, thats a two run homer. The giants lead 30 over the slumping dodgers in the third inning. Adding injury to insult, a rough opening day for the 49ers got rougher. Rue ban foster sprained his ankle in the opening quarter of yesterdays loss. Today Kyle Shanahan says theres no timetable for his return. The niners next game is in seattle on sunday. Star power in San Francisco today. The group took part in a friendly gocart competition and mark the 16th anniversary of september 11th. This competition was fierce. To have the athletes out here, we might be retired but it never goes away. I was the only female in a allmale team so i can hold my own. Yes, she can. The event raised money for the families of fallen navy seals. She is awesome. Were going to give you an update on the wild weather were seeing right now. Well well well, what have we here . A whole new place thats lookin to get scared with bats. And ghouls. And cars in disguise. Ive cast quite a spell now. You wont believe your eyes laughter the spell is cast. Now halloween time is more spooktacular than ever because its in disneyland and disney california Adventure Parks in milpitas. Take vo swat teams. Have surrounded a kfc. We want to give you an update on the breaking news we told you about, this is a s. W. A. T. Situation thats happening at a kfc. Our crew on the ground just told us the robot was sent into the restaurant. They have been for a while asking whoever was in, if there was someone in there come out, weve heard flash bangs being deployed. They have sent a robot in to the kfc, there is investigation of potential gun shots being fired. Employees say they heard a bang from inside the bathroom. Before we go, we want to now. This odd weather we could see ling erg for a little while longer. We may see overnight activity. The better round of thunderstorms would be wednesday morning. Nearly 1,000 lightning strikes, caught a few tree osfire. Doppler radar right now, a little quiteter but were tracking more. Good night. Rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests seth meyers, russell westbrook, musical guest,