Accidental, and yes, they are trying to determine whether smoke detectors were in working order. Ive seen the fire, like, i guess the smoke coming out of the windows. Reporter jose rosa heard noise and checked the apartment next door. Neighbor richard reid heard banging at his front door. Yelling get out, get out, fire, fire, fire. We got out. Its thats it. Reporter he ran out and saw the unit upstairs on fire. It was pretty scary. Pretty scary. I dont know, the flames were just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Ive never seen anything like that. Reporter this woman lives on south ninth street and tried to help. Neighbors say a family of four stayed in the apartment, including a teen daughter and young adult son. The nicest people. Should not happen to the nicest people. Reporter san jose firefighters did not describe the relationship with the victims, but say four people were rescued. The Coroners Office said three people have died. They believe there are 14yearold girl, a 28yearold man and another man is still hospitalized. Investigators believe the origin of the fire may be the kichten. I did hear there were smoke detectors in other parts of the building. But i havent determined if the ones in the room were functioning yet. Reporter now neighbors are dealing with the heartbreaking loss and wanting answers too. Its terrible that it happened. I dont even know what to say. Im kinda shocked right now. Reporter now, again, one man, we are told, is still in Critical Condition tonight. And firefighters tell me that the red cross was out here earlier today, helping those from this Apartment Building that were displaced. Reporting live in san jose, christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you very much. We are following breaking news out of the east way. Alameda county sheriffs deputies say theyre investigating a homicide near the bay fair mall in san leandro. Happened around 1 15, could be a robbery gone wrong. We have a crew getting more information and well update the investigation as soon as we get in touch. A followup now to the deadly crash on 101. This story was breaking news yesterday at 5 00. The San Francisco medical Examiners Office has identified the driver of the dump truck. 38yearold Caesar Gonzalez of san pablo was killed yesterday when the truck he was driving overturned, pinning him. It happened on southbound 101 at hospital curve. A Community Bus was also involved in the crash. Five passengers were injured, but all are expected to be okay. The community of red bluff is coming together for a pray vigil for the victims of rancho tehama. A gunman killed people on tuesday, targeting an Elementary School and several children are among the injured. He was eventually killed in a shootout with police. Tonights vigil is being held from 6 00 to 7 00, at red bluff vineyard. Continuing to push ahead in the north bay fire zone, cal fire posted these photos today of a briefing in santa rosa. Congressman ken calvert, Mike Thompson on hand to discuss the rebuilding process. Cal fire says its going to take everyone working together to help these communities rebuild. Yesterday, state conservation members were in the fire zone, removing debris from streams and installing Flood Control measures. Meantime, peak fire season is coming to a close. Cal fire said recent rains and cooler temperatures have lowered the threat of wildfires in the bay area. Heres a list of the counties that will no longer be in peak fire season as of monday. Santa clara, almeeta, contra costa and the western portions of stanislaus and san joaquin counties. People are urged to remain vigilant about preventing wildfire. Puerto rico still in desperate need of basic supplies in the wake of hurricane maria. The organizers are trying to make it easy for every neighborhood in san jose to donate supplies. Nearly a dozen fire stations across the city collecting donations, basics supplies, water, baby food, flashlights. Organizers say much of puerto rico is without power and struggling to recover. The need for water, for food, of course theyre handling the issues around electricity. And so anything that we can do in san jose and anything we can do throughout the United States and the world, would be of benefit. The donation drive ends tomorrow at 4 00 p. M. It will be a night of politics and humor. Alec baldwin takes the stage at the kern theater in San Francisco. Hes creating a book based on his role on saturday night live as President Trump. Sergio, this could be wild. Reporter terry, hes going to be doing a booksigning event, and then hes going to be joined on stage for a conversation along with the books coauthor, curt anderson. The title of the book is a silly sendup of baldwin as president donald trump. The book is called, you cant spell america without me. Like his saturday night live character, the book is a parody. People got an opportunity to mix and mingle during a prebook signing event. I loved watching alec baldwin on snl, and when i gave him a wave, he gave me a head nod. I really like the satire of him being trump. Its lightened the whole political spectrum and made some of these Different Things that have been going on in our country, a little easier to handle. Reporter alec baldwin has won meultiple acting awards, including an emmy last year for his role as President Trump on saturday night live. Unfortunately, he will not be donning his donald trump costume for tonights event. Theyll be taking the stage for a question and answer event in about an hour. Saturday night live right here on nbc tonight. Maybe hell don the donald trump outfit at that point. Sergio, thank you very much. Still to come, helping kids succeed in the east bay. How the city of oakland is helping hundreds of kids, starting with their very first birthday. And a dry, pleasant evening right now, 56 in san jose, 55 in San Francisco. As we see high clouds for now, and were tracking the rain on approach ahead of the sevenday forecast and the rest of your weekend when we come right back. And lending a hand to the community. Nbc bay areas monthlong food drive in full gear, kicked off today. Well show you the outpouring of support. Keep it here. Born with a coll account. Oakland s mayor libby schaaf launched the city sbrilliant born with a College Savings account. Oakland a mayor libby schaaf launched the Baby Initiative today. That Program Gives 500 children a 500 saving account at birth. The mayor said she wants all kids to feel like college is a birth right. This is the city of oakland wrapping our arms around families and supporting them in their most ambitious dreams for their children. The Brilliant Baby Program aims to offer College Savings accounts to every single child born into lowincome backgrounds in oakland by the year 2025. Well, the holiday tree has arrived at 555 california in San Francisco. This years white fir comes down from mt. Shasta. Its 80 feet tall. Going to be covered with more than 196,000 lights. The 11th annual treelighting ceremony and concert benefitting ronnie lott allstar Kids Organization takes place wednesday, november 29th, and raj mathai will be one of the emcees. Were asking for to you help feed the need. Ros has more on that. Shes in santa clara. Reporter folks have been very generous today so far. The latest number weve got is 16393 bags of groceries bought so far. Its easy to do and the need is great. Were glad that i have a meal on my table. Hopefully this can help somebody else as well. Reporter its a small donation that will have a big impact. Our nbc bay area news team spreading the word about the desperate need for donations. Ten dollars will feed a family. Reporter to livermore and even to fairfield, more than 160 safer way stores are taking part in our feed the need drive. Generous shoppers can take the coupons to the register to get them scanned. A 10 donation will help feed a family of four. Earlier today, we were there for the annual turkey run for the san jose chapter of the lane splitters. Its challenging, loading up a bunch of harleys with turkeys, but we do everything we can. Reporter what they can do, turned out to be donating turkey after turkey after turkey. All tallied up, more than 900 pounds worth. Everyone is pitching in here at the Second Harvest food bank, including ara who is almost 8. He and his friends passed out flyers in their neighborhood and rounded up more than 300 pounds of food. We collected them and brought them here. Im so proud of you. Give me a highfive. You have helped us feed so many people. Reporter Food Bank Workers say the need is overwhelming. They will help more than 250,000 people this month in santa clara and san mateo counties alone. Heartbreaking to see families needing to come to us that maybe never needed the food bank before. Reporter last year, your generosity helped us buy more than 360,000 bags of food. If youve not gotten a chance to participate, go to a safeway in any of the nine bay area counties. You still have time over the next month. Thank you in advance. Ros plater, nbc bay area news. I had the chance to be over there at the mill valley on camino alto, the safeway there. They were doing all the work. And they did a fantastic job. And you were in . Ki wannas there. Similar story, theyre doing all the hard work. Theyre carolling to the people coming there. Cool. Which is very nice. And the weather was great. You arranged that. As a weather person there, beautiful weather, sunny skies, and more of that in the sevenday forecast. I think youll be surprised where temperatures are headed mid week. Show you the temperatures right now. Still in the 50s from San Francisco to oakland, 55 degrees. In dublin, trivalley, down to 52. San jose still hanging on the mid 50s. By tomorrow morning, around the bay, well drop into the mid 40s, including San Francisco. Check out oakland, 43 for the morning opinion morning. Inland valleys, a chance of patchy frost to start things off. Clear skies to start and high clouds later in the afternoon. Highs tomorrow, mid to upper 60s. South of downtown san jose, mid 60s for the trivalley, and lower 60s back towards oakland and the peninsula. 58 degrees in half moon bay, close to 60 for San Francisco, with the increasing clouds late in the day. For the north bay, highs in the upper 50s to low 60s. The next rain chance likely will not arrive until just after the weekend. Lot of clouds by 7 00 tomorrow evening and then by midnight, towards the north bay, chance of a few showers, maybe for the monday morning commute for san rafael north ward. Chance on monday afternoon for scattered showers. Notice the rain projection here through tuesday around noon. Measurable rain just from about north of San Francisco and north of livermore, nothing in the south bay. Fast forward past thanksgiving, and friday theres a Second System that passes by but the rain gauging really dont see much. As we have a battle between strong systems moving by to the north, and a relatively strong area of High Pressure for this time of year, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Notice how it takes any rain chances generally to the north of the north bay. Thursday, thanksgiving day, sonoma county. May have some showers. Friday looks clear and dry. Saturday, next weekend, increasing clouds and our best chance for rain, likely to be next sunday as the system moves in and High Pressure clears out of the way. So the sevenday forecast, interesting ahead. For San Francisco, that means temperatures could be approaching 70. Tuesday, wednesday, even thanksgiving day, chances of north bay showers will likely stick around midday monday. Chance of showers north of the trivalley on monday and then thursday likely north of marin county. Look at the numbers. Mid 70s. Meantime, the east coast is going to be dealing with some very stormy weather. Travel plans to the east coast will have problems. Here though, probably not even much in the way of fog. Beautiful as we start thanksgiving weekend. Thank you very much. Just ahead, disobeying the commander in chief. A top general is ready to defy the president in a certain nuclear situation. The top u. S. Nuclear commander says he would resist what he sees as an illegal order from the president , to launch nuclear weapons. New at 6 00, the top Nuclear Commander said he would resist what he sees as an illegal order from the president to launch nuclear weapons. He made the comment in nova scotia, canada. He explained how its his job to give President Trump strike options, if the commander in chief wanted to launch a nuclear attack. While he said he would not carry out an illegal order, he didnt say what he would consider illegal. This comes amid very high tensions between the u. S. And north korea. On twitter, President Trump took credit for the release of three ucla basketball players accused of shoplifting in china. The high profile father one of the players is not praising the president for his intervention. The freshmen were detained a day before mr. Trump arrived in china during his tour of asia. After they were released, the president tweeted, youre welcome. Go out and give a big thank you to president xi jinping. Later he wrote, have a great life, be careful, there are many pitfalls on a long, winding road of life. On espn today, lavar ball, the outspoken father of liangelo ball said the president has no business telling him or his son how to live their lives. He also downplayed his sons alleged crime. Important to keep your eyes on the road while driving, but spotting willie mays on the bay bridge is pretty distracting. Even so this driver did his best while posing. Pretty cool stuff right there. For more sports, lets go to mindi bach. Well, the raiders are ready for their showdown with the patriots in mexico city. The team has some special gear to honor their time in mexico. Thats next in sports. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. When carr walks up this sunday, the goal remains the same, get into [ speaking Foreign Language ] the raiders are embracing the mexican culture. The team posted this photo of a raiders helmet decorated in the folk art style of the area. The fans love it and are asking where they can get one. But no information was given. Just the title raiders in mexico. And Marshawn Lynch gave his approval to this raiders cap, calling it en fuego. The raiders are currently out of the playoff picture, tied with two other teams for the seventh spot in the standings. Aaron dell gets a start in net as the sharks get ready for the bruins at the tank. The backup shutout the canucks, stopping a career best 41 shots on goal. That kind of performance gives peter deboer options when it comes to resting the starters. I think especially out here with our travel and the fatigue and the stress that is put on the individual player out here, compared to, you know, when i was in new jersey, maybe, and the travel we dealt with there. You know, the games are condensed as it is. You throw in olympics on certain years, world cups, it gets more condensed, and you throw in being one of the most traveled teams in the league, i think its critical. So we have great luxury here with both guys and i think we feel comfortable playing deller some more games this year. A winning streak and a National Championship on the line for miami. Down to virginia they go. Third quarter, curt banker finds daniel hamm for the 26yard score. Miami not done. Ja quan johnson with the pick, turns it and takes it to the house. Miami ties it up at 28. Yep, you know what that means. You have to bring out the turnover chain. Its a chain thing. And here it is. Thats one big necklace. In the fourth, miami seals it. Miami goes on to win this one, and finish off their biggest comeback win in five years. They also extend their National Leading winning streak to 15 games. Number 5 wisconsin hosts the 19th michigan. Both defenses solid in the first half. Jim harbaugh hoping to pull it out. Scoreless in the first quarter, michigan punting on their own goal line. The punt bounces, picks it up and hes off 50 yards for the easy score. Third quarter, badgers leading by four. Kendrick pryor with the end around. No one is going to catch him. 32 yards, pay dirt, badgers win 2410. They remain perfect this season at 110. And of course the 120th big game is under way down on the farm between stanford and cal. All of those highlights and warriors highlights in philadelphia, they are not off to a great start. More news after the break. Thanksgiving. But people couldn t wait to get into the Christmas Spirit. Victorianstyle. The annual gre we are days away from thanksgiving, but some people wanted to get into the Christmas Spirit today, victorian style. The annual great Dickens Christmas fair back in daily city. You can see the cow palace transformed pretty much into 19th century london, english pubs, hundreds of actors dressed in their best victorian costumes, and dancing in that era. It continues each weekend until december 17th. Finally tonight, we had a chance to get out there and help with the feed the need drive. This is me with the girl scouts from San Francisco troops 62761. Madeleine and taylor, thank you. Great posters, girls. Fantastic job. And rob, what were you up to . The kiwanis at the danville safeway. Again, all the food going to the Contra Costa County food bank. All of these events really helping supply the regional food banks across the bay area. Its easy to do. 10 donation goes a long way to feeding those who need the food. Visit our website, nbc bay area. Com for more information. Youre talking about summer coming back this week. We really need to take another look at this. Are you sure . Chance was north bay showers, but temperatures close to 70. Thats wild. Tuesday through thanksgiving day looks like mid 70s and the shower chances staying in the north bay. Thank you very much. Thanks for watching. Well be back tonight at 11 00. Have a great night. Garvin thomas youre watching an nbc bay area news special, bay area proud. Caroline lowe and just, jodis missing, and i still feel that sense of unfinished business. Garvin shes a reporter whos covered thousands of stories in her career, but the number she has left to finish is down to just one. Caroline you would hope that somebody would do it for your family. Maren lane they all said, yes. Garvin the show goes on in the south bay, a show of respect for a mentor and friend, and a show of support for those she left behind. Brendan mccall thank god. Charlotte luther thank you for how you found my bike. Officer dan fachner well, youre very welcome. Garvin an east bay officer does so much more than just return a disabled girls stolen tricycle. He restores her faith in law enforcement. Charlotte she garvin but first Marty Brounstein this is a story ive stumbled into by accident, not by design. Garvin a story of heroism during one of historys darkest times. And one mans very personal mission to make sure the world hears it. Marty i always say, its the most difficult thing ive ever done, but its probably the most important thing ive ever done. Male announcer heres nbc bay areas garvin thomas. Garvin thank you so much for joining us. When it comes to stories of rescue and courage during the holocaust, there are a few that are well known, schindlers list perhaps the most famous. But Marty Brounstein has another one to tell not as well known, but very personal to him