Relationship. As i understand it, there was an informant for sfpd who was contacted and Alameda County , and that informants cell phone was reviewed by Law Enforcement. Reporter because of the nature of this allocation, Defense Attorneys say, the cases integrity has been. , making her an unreliable witness in court, leading prosecutors to dismiss 82 cases in San Francisco and 9 and Alameda County. Dozens more, under review because of mr. Hayes, according to the das office. I was surprised. Reporter andrew goal of an, representing three in the cases, says, he does know the extent of the investigation because the dismissal was so sudden. I dont know why. As time goes on, we can find out. The reason is, hayes is basically unavailable as a witness. Reporter one of his defendants, jose rivera, facing up to 15 years in prison for possession for selling a controlled substance, among other charges. At the time of his arrest, dhs indicated police had seized 10 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill 2 million people. Member that the case started with officer hayes offering an affidavit for a warrant. Meaning, the whole case starts with a search based on the credibility of after officer hayes. Reporter San Francisco police are also allegedly looking into whether hayes divulged and impeded and an allegation from the defense counsel in the federal drug case pending in oakland. I think its heartbreaking, to most of us working in this space. Reporter supervisor matt dorsey, who was also a recovered drug addict, called the Police Scandal a cautionary tale for Law Enforcement officers, but says, he stands with the das decision to assist. We cant tolerate the situation with ethical questions being raised about the integrity of the case because of an inappropriate relationship. So his attorney says, the dismissals are irresponsible, given her clients decorated and credible reputation. , i think that it rings hollow and desperate. I think its disingenuous for christinas circumstances strapped to these legitimate drug prosecutions. Reporter under california law, information that may impact an officer my secret ability will be considered expository. Hayes has been reassigned to the federation bureau, but according to her attorney, has not yet been interviewed about the allegation by the police department. With the investigator unit, and helga rivera. We are continuing our commission with the wildfire in maui. Within the past hour, the death toll has now climbed to 67, but the number is expected to rise with rescue efforts continuing. At this. , its unclear just how many people are missing. We know dozens more are hurt, and tourists are being told to leave the island, as fires still burned. Nearly 15,000 on our yesterday. The wildfire is the second deadliest in modern u. S. History. First responders in the bay area are among those descending on maui to try and help. Onceacting assistant chief for californias task force, one of the teams test by fema on the island. Nbc bay area newss Christine Smith explains what they do, and about the training they got here that will help in their mission. Reporter calvary is coming to help maui recover from the early wildfires, including elite firstresponders from here, in california. My role is really to get the orders from the fema National Urban search and rescue branch, determine what resources they need, and ensure that we can deploy them safely and effectively. Reporter kris landry is opens acting assistant fire chief, and Program Manager for California Task force 4, which sent one number as part of a 30 person Rapid Response team. Theyre arriving today. Theyre working with the firstresponders there to determine what the needs are of that home agency. Reporter landry understands whats at stake. He is deployed to disasters all over, including florida, for the deadly condo collapse in 2021. In that disaster, his job was ensuring the respondent firefighters were operating safely, and that no one got hurt. This can be very dangerous, especially when we will working long, 12, 13, 14 hours a day, making sure theyre getting proper rotation, because crews in there didnt want to split. They wanted to keep digging and make sure they dont original persons loved ones. Reporter meantime, in the east bay, more than 100 firefighters from different agencies come together to hose out what might help when the next fire breaks out. The Fire District hosted a wildland Fire Training burn, removing hazardous fuels and offered teams a chance to write this before the next crisis. Were helping them out with this training exercise, which is also a benefit to our firefighters, because we get to practice our wildland Fire Suppression skills. Its important for us to be up to work with the neighbors. When we do have a large sample, those of the people we are going to be responding with. Reporter christina smith, nbc bay area news. With each passing day, we were learning more and more about just how many people are impacted by the fires. First, the fire broke out, emergency crews on the island were packed. One e. R. Doctor has, when he has seen so far in Emergency Rooms when we first got through and got there, it was devastating. It felt like a war zone. It was still fresh. I could see trees burning. I could feel the smoke i could feel the heat, and it was basically like another pandemic, to explain it. It was a ghost town, very apocalyptic. Coming up on nightly news, questions about what happened with mauis Emergency Alert system and evacuations coming up at 6 30. The investigation into hunter biden is ramping up. U. S. Attorney general Merrick Garland announced today hes appointing a special counsel to investigate the president s son. You may remember, it seemed like it was over when the prosecutors reached a plea deal with Hunter Bidens legal counsel. However, that deal fell apart earlier this month. Now, garland is asking deliver attorney david white with digging deeper. The appointment of mr. Weiss reinforces, for the most people, the department commitment to both independence and accountability and, particularly in sensitive matters. Republicans slammed the decision, saying, its an effort to stonewall congressional oversight. Hunter bidens attorneys expressed confidence, saying, quote, we expect a fair resolution on behalf of our client. It looks like President Biden may have an unexcited opponent in the 2024 president ial race. Senator joe manchin of west virginia, once signed, this according to political analysts, that President Biden is having his elevation at the white house. In the oneday anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act next week. Senator was a major name in the legislature, but senator manchin said, he might change his Party Affiliation with democratic to independent. This would mean he would run as a thirdparty candidate in 2024. A judge today what former President Donald Trump not to make, quote, inflammatory statements for that ruling, in the case against trump over his efforts to overturn an election result from the 2020 election. It happened at a hearing in federal court in washington, d. C. Today. At issue, whether trump and his legal team will be blocked from speaking publicly about the case. The judge only agreed on a limit protected order that will only cover sensitive material and not all the evidence in the case. The judge told trump, like any american, he has the right to free speech, which he said, that right is not absolute. A prisoner swap is underway in iran, involving five americans. Them, irans longest held american prisoner. He was rested back in 2015 while on a business trip. Business have been freed from there, the person, and are now under house arrest in iran. If they are released, the United States says, iran will be allowed to access 6 billion in funds blocked by u. S. Sanctions the iranians can only use that money, though, to buy food and merit hearing aid. The National Security counsel says, it is a positive step, but prisoners should have been arrested in the first place. Up next, with School Starting with again, were wrapping up our backpack drive many of you, so generously, contributing to kris kamara , joining us with that story. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Travel trouble spots to watch out for if youre going anywhere here across the map all right, garvin, we have been hoping with this backto School Backpack drive. We are so grateful for you. We are taking to the finish line, but still one more lap to go. Getting them excited for tomorrow. Reporter these are the ones big smiles are letting up grant elementary in san jose. Pint sized, beaming with gallons of smiles because theyre picking up a free backpack full of new supplies for the new school year. Its your happiness. During an otherwise tough Financial Times at home. This is bad and hard for families are now. Reporter parents like hodges can attest. Prices are up across the board. Looking at someone, but 70 or 80 just to go back to school supplies. Most people dont have it. You know . Reporter at the same time my husband lost his job. Reporter life is throwing folks curveballs that push basics like a backtoSchool Backpack out of reach. Really expensive right now. Reporter into the bay area nonprofit family giving tree. From its sunnyvale warehouse and beyond, sgt volunteers have been collecting donated supplies all summer long. Companies like landry service, seth q, r power company, comcast, and the earthquakes, helping to stuff backpacks and bulk. I think its more than a backpack. I think its a statement of the communitys commitment that we care about the kids of san jose. Reporter your telemundo 48 and nbc bay area news families pitched in too. As a parent in the classroom and a volunteer, i know what its like to volunteer for kids who dont have the supplies they need. You can tell if other kids cant tell. Reporter all the donations, aimed to deliver a level Playing Field for academic success. And for that were so grateful you guys are donating all this to the school. Reporter grant elementary parents express depreciation. Thank you. Its amazing. I dont have to worry about the stuff i have to buy, or if i can afford it at the moment. Reporter students like ava have one final thing to say. Thank you reporter her backpack will take her miles, but this years donation drive still has a distance to go family giving tree says donations are off the mark. It still hasnt hit its goal of 28,000 donated backpacks for 2023. Really, really, really want to make sure that we were going to keep our promise to all of the students, whether the get there for help. Reporter you can help out too. Heres how. Scan the qr code on your screen right now. Itll take you to nbcbayarea. Com schools. When youre there, you can make a cash contribution from the comfort of your home. We thank you, in advance, for supporting our schools. Have a great weekend. Thats so cute. Kris, looks good on the spider man backpack. Well see him here at work with more. Dont worry. We got this. All right. Friday , its here. Its here. I know a lot of folks have some plans when it comes to the weather forecast. We were going to have everything from 50s to 90s across the bay area one of those weekends. I will see the live sky cam or network it live in San Francisco. Heading to outside lands, we do have the fog rolling back in. So, it is cool out there tonight. Even just downtown right now, 69 degrees with end from the southwest at 20. Going pretty fast here, in the low60s, certainly, 7 00, and then right through tonight, that fong will stay with us. Across the inland valleys, as you look up towards the distance, you may have noticed some of the cloud cover. You can see it right here, feeling a little bit tropical, a little bit humid. Thats from some thunderstorm activity thats off towards the east. Right now, 79 degrees, not too bad temperaturewise in san jose. Then down here, to the 60s at 9 00 and 10 00. Initially the thunderstorm activity again going pretty strong here through the sierra from the system to the south so, heres the deal about this. Its going to sit and linger all the way into tuesday and next week. Im going to keep some on and off the rain chances through northern california, and also that fog in the coastland, even a little bit of humidity here. So, current radar scan shows a couple areas broken over the last few hours. We are tracking some of this, getting into the sacramento area, possibly holding up, right here, through placerville at 6 00, maybe even Citrus Heights by 6 30. Anything of concern to watch closely, this zone here if it were to hold up, we might be talking about rain in the north bay within a couple of hours. Again, ill have my eyes on that. Overall, though, as we move it into tomorrow mornings forecast, were going to started off with fog and spotty drizzle. Then, through the afternoon, sunshine returns for us. As we talked about, well continue to watch for the forms here, off to the east for tomorrow. So, morning temperatures are going to begin like this. 60 for the south bay, dry valley, 61. A mix of upper50s and low60s for the east bay to San Francisco, right across the north bay. Daytime high for tomorrow, heading into your saturday, warming up a few degrees, still going to be enjoyable here across the south bay. I will have a set 88 in san jose, 90 and morgan help her across the east bay, 93 in concord, 92, dan gilbert 80 in hayward. Peninsula, 66. Daly city, into redwood city, 85. San francisco, 60s for the most part, but again, if youre headed outside lands, nature to bring that jacket, because that will all kind of linger as we head through tomorrow, with some sun breaks moving on in. Then, maybe its not outside lands, its wine country. 88 here, in sonoma. 86 in napa. You might even possibly be getting on a plane heading somewhere. I did want to show you some of the travel trouble spots were looking at. Thunderstorms, louisville, detroit, new york city, even orlando. Look at this heat. 98 in orlando. Heat index is over 100 degrees. 99, new orleans. Low100s, oklahoma city, dallas. Right back here, San Francisco, no 100s, but we will gonna do some 70s monday, tuesday, wednesday, and for the inland valleys, we go to 95 sunday, 97 monday, and then well gradually drop it off as we roll through next weekend. So, not too hot. Just a little bit there as we roll through the next couple of days. Okay. Thats the wewe can. Thank you very much. So, what do you do . If you go into early labor, at a concert . To Great Lengths one soon to be mom went to deliver her baby. It is a race to the moon. Russia lost his First Mission to the moon today in almost 50 years. However, india also lost a spacecraft a month ago. The russian spacecraft, lunar lander, expected to reach the moon august 23rd. Thats the very same day as the indian craft. India and russia are the first country to try and land on the moons south pole, of perceptual particular interest to scientists. They believe craters there may contain water. If that turns out to be true, it could be seen for for explores. Russians last mission to the moon was 1976, when he was part of the soviet union. Making a multimillion dollar delivery, amazon style to the maui relief fund, jeff bezos and sanches announced today theyre donating 100 million to the relief effort in maui. That donation comes as bezels wraps up a purchase of the mansion off the coast of miami in indian creek village. Hes paying 60 million for it 3bedroom home that sits on 3 acres of waterfront property in an area known as billionaire bunker. It is a manmade island, packed with celebrities. His new neighbor is tom brady. Its one of the most anticipated moments of having a baby, the rest of the hospital. One the women in boston, she walked there for the woman, her mom and sister inlaw, traveled from new york to boston for pinks concert at fenway park she would just 31 weeks pregnant, but she started having contractions during the concert. Traffic around fenway made it hard to find a ride, so she walked to a hospital instead. 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The bears had a lively practice on day eight of fall camp. Im pleased with the progress and is looking for more of that moving forward. Reporter the spirit of the Cal Football Program is being tested after oregon and washington announced last week theyre joining ucla and usc by moving to the big ten starting next year. The pac12 is also losing arizona, arizona state, colorado, and utah to the big 12, even the oncepowerful conference with only four members. You know thats really disappointing and sad that its come to this. Its a huge deal. To act like its not, i dont think would be appropriate. Theres just been an arrogance at too many levels that led us to this point in College Football. Obviously, money is a huge factor, or what matters right now, what we can control, is preparing for our first week. Reporter cal and stanford have been mentioned as candidates in the possible expansion of the acc but right now, everything is up in the air. Many are working behind the scenes to explore cals options. As far as the players, sophomore sam jackson, who transferred from tcu, says, hes keeping his focus on the field. Hes competing for the starting quarterback job and hoping to lead the bears to a balance back season after a 48 record last year. I feel like the sense of urgency is definitely up there. Its a privilege to have pressure. Weve come up short. Too many close games the last two years. No denying that. Weve got to concern ourselves with winning, what it takes to win. Thats improving, competing on field. We were always thinking that got to have a great season. Much of the success will have will help translate down the road again, but im focused on the moment for now. Reporter the golden bears kick off their shes in september 2nd at north texas. In berkeley, anthony flores, nbc bay area news. There is so much there. Yeah. In the College Football world, particularly with these cal and stanford who knows where else. Okay. Gia vang stretches now with whats coming up next. Hey, guys. They have the green light. So, what happens next . After years of having intimate, San Francisco could leave the country on driverless taxis. Take a look at the Company Behind that tech could roll out the services. , how hurricane victims have been helped in the past, now helping the people maui. People in the south they are teaming up to bring relief to the island. And what is going on with the air . The questions facing a northbay refinery after years of violations. My air quality washouts are raising concerns. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Under scuderi. Im gia vang. They were polluting the air, and the city did nothing about it. The new taxes levied against the area in venetia. The bay area mandatory requirement for the refinery to take immediate steps to take what it describes as further toxins from polluting the air. A damning accusation with air quality regulator saying, toxic, cancercausing refineries, coming out of this oil companys valero factory the new frontiers but did nothing about it. Valero knew all along what was coming out. Reporter the bay area air Quality Management district determined they released 165 tons of air pollution over finish across the last decade. The district also claims that venetia could have suspended with proper safety agreement in place. They are required to report to us whenever they have for the admissions event, and he did not report to us thats why these violations never come to light until we started investigating. Reporter now, valero has been ordered to install pollution control, implemented immediately, and they do not respond to a request for comment. Nearby residents say, they tried to think about pollutants from the refinery, but they cant avoid selling it. You today, i smelled a strong smell. I went, maybe something was burning, and it turns out we thought that it was the refinery. It doesnt happen very often. Reporter this father, too, worries about the impacts of the refinery may have on his familys health. I worry about the city, and we are not safe. We want Water Testing as well. Reporter now, valero also corrected a number of safety violations. Last year, mandated by the air