Not far from yosemite 25,000 acres burned and no end in sight. The Massive Wildfires burns along highway 140. And 5,000 people told to evacuate, many in the town of mariposa which tonight is a virtual ghost town. Nbc bay area Terry Mcsweeney joins us. And terry, the fiercest of the fire is the past wet winter man in the drought years before is compounding now. Reporter yeah, cal fire telling me that the winter of 2017, all that rain made the grass tall now bone dry. Burning right up to the trees sickened by the years of drought. Here in march passow electricity is out. Everybody has been chased out of town. Thousands of people looking for a place to stay. The flames lighting up the night sky on highway 140 in march passow county. The aerial attempt was nonstop. The cal fire stays this fire goes anywhere it wants pb deb by philips is an evacuee. Im praying my house is okay. She is watch her home. The landlord stayed to fight the fire along with it. So im just hoping and praying he made it. Asking god to spare what she didnt take with her. I got my clothes. And pictures of my grandchildren. Thats what was important. The fire started sunday and raced in several directions running along highway 49 now both side of 140. Hundreds of structures threatened be 8 destroyed, 5,000 evacuation ordereds issue processed. The dry grass and trees weakened by the previously draut. The fire has several fingers around the town. And right now its not behaving at erratically as this afternoon when the winds. Reporter with conditions so favor to believe fire were told the debt whiler fire is burning almost the same pace day and night. And just to give you an idea what the firefighters are up against, a cal fire spokeman tells me an ember from in fire blown forward has a 100 chance of starting another fire. From an evacuated mariposa Terry Mcsweeney nbc bay area. Terrie chilling scenes hip you. Nottious people look at this wildlife on the run. The deer trying to escape. Also several farms with horses and livestock being shuttled to safety. Terry was mentions hot dry and windy. We know this is a dangerous mix. Jeff is with us now the chief meteorologist jeff what do you expect. Wind will be variable anywhere from 0 to 20 miles an hourmileperhour and because the fire has grown so large it creates its own wind opinion a lot of the urgency say came because the fire part started to the north appear west of mariposa then we saw the southerly spread of the fire closer to downtown which may completely block off 49 appear 140. Thats why they wanted to make sure everybody got out safely. Tomorrow in is what is going to hinder the fire fight. A hot 96 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Dangerously low humidity at 20 . It does for the get better over the next seven days. In fact low 100s through the week. And at least upper 90s the next seven days. Well have a new look coming up in 15 minutes. Jeff well see you shortly. We did mention its near yosemite about 40 miles away. Look on the lester side of the screen. Half dome right at yosemite by 10 00 a. M. By 2 00 p. M. You can see the smoke and haze come barrelling through. Yosemite remains open. A as you can see the air quality is poor. Terry has been tweeting from the fire lines including this picture of the hills on fire. For breaking and dweflgs updates you can follow us on twirt. Also following breaking news on the peninsula where police say a man shot standing in his own garage at 7 30 on south delaware street not far from the elementary school. The suspect who said in a car and took off. The man who was shot is expected to be okay. And they do think those people in the car, the suspects knew the victim. San mateo p. D. Warning people to avoid the area as they investigate. And we have breaking news in the north bay. The desperate search continues for a wellknown businessman, the owner of the tomales bay oifter company is missing. Last seen on his boat right on tomales bay. Bay areas jean elle is there with more on the search. Jean. Reporter raj, the certain is scaled back but continues marin county rescuers will stay out on boats until 2 00 a. M. Using son ar quietly equipment. Hoping to find the owner of the oifter company. From the aaron the water and by foot. A massive search on tomales bay for a 70yearold captain. Rescuers arent identifying him but friends in the Community Say theyre looking for the owner of the tomales bay oifter company. Todd friend. He was last seen just after 3 00, motoring back to shore, along with another oifter company boat after a day of work on oifter beds. Notified that there was a may day. And a potential victim in the water. The second boat the captain onboard was not on boeder and the boat was doing circles under power. Thats when a full search was launched. The Sheriffs Department and others fanned out searching a fivemile area. But the wind made it hard to see. We have about 30 miles an hour sustained winds does make it difficult for the aircraft to see. Even if someone is two feet below water its difficult. The jet keys are great platform to find someone above water. Officials say the captain wasnt wearing a life jacket they say he is an experienced water man who worked on the water daily and knew the bay well. Rescuers say the community is doing its part to help find him. An incident like this affects the whole community and brings the whole community together. A lot the of the members from the Oyster Company are out searching. The Maritime Community comes together in a time of need. Reporter and Emergency Responders say they plan to ramp search efforts back up first thing tomorrow morning at 6 00 a. M. Reporting live in marshal jean elle nbc bay area. New at 11 00 tonight it has been 20 years but tonight a missing person case has been solved. The man youre lag at 37yearold richard samens reported missing back in august of 1998. He vanished without a trace. Tonight though, Police Believe they have answers to his disappearance. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd joins us live with the details. Cheryl. Reporter well police here in margot and laugh yit have been wondering about this for decades but it took a hike ner the spring to help solve the mystery. When a hiker discovered human bones under a treel over this hill. The police chief says the detectives first thought of ha two decade old case the disappearance of this man Richard Allen salmons. That was a case we were looking at from the beginning. Samens was reported missing about hi his family on august 2nd wallet and identification left behind. He was at home. And decided he needed to go for a walk and lestft his home with a mile of where he was found. On march 16th of this year the break investigators needed thanks to the hiker who found the remains were turned over to a Dna Laboratory in richmond process. After four months of testing the remains were identified at samens. Police are arent sure how he died but autopsy results show no signs of foul play. A person inside the home had no comment. I hope were able to bring enemy closure so that they can move forward also. Cheryl hurd, nbc bay area nuss. A crime surgeon b. A. R. T. Has the agency under pressure. Riders want security beefed up. Easier said than down. In recent months mob attacks sexual assaults and robberies are some of the crimes on b. A. R. T. On the platform and trains. B. A. R. T. Acknowledges violent ime is up 41 so far this year. But at the same time recruiting new Police Officers for b. A. R. T. Has become a challenge. The number of officer politics has plunged. Not only do we have 40 vacate positions already budgeted for. Our agency should have a lot more Police Officers than we have budgeted for. A b. A. R. T. Police chief says he is working on recruiting and strategies to make bafrt safes. The continuing coverage of the effort to repeal and replace obamacare this is a live look at the capitol where more wheeling and deal something slated for oem tomorrow. President trump has invited Senate Republicans for a lunch, the the meeting for ways to move forward on the health care. The attempt to repeal or replace obamacare died when neither hospitalization had enough votes. More controversy for President Trump its been disclosed he had a previously undisclosed conversation with russian president vladimir putin. White house spokesperson confirming mr. Trump and President Trump talked at a inner for World Leaders during a dinner in germany. President trump tweeted fake news story secret din we are put isnt tick. All g20 leaders and spousesy invited by the chancellor of germany and the press knew. The newest probably more the troubled high rise in sfwlies unrafrl a mystery in Mountain View who is dumping the google bikes into the local creek . Meteorologist jeff ranieri fog continues to roll into frist and a chilly 58 degrees ill let you know how much cooler tomorrow. Plus an astonishing look at how far the smoke is traveling from the fire near mariposa. Francisco. Is getting worse. The troubled Millennium Tower has tilted two and a the Leaning Tower of San Francisco is getting worse. The troubled Millennium Tower has tilted two and a half more inches this year alone. Investigative reporter jacksonen verkden recording on the problem of this sky scraper. Good morning everyone. Owners of units in the leaning and sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco packed a hearing before the city assessment appeals board. They are pressing for property tax relief. Saying they are stuck with worthless condos. But there wouldnt be relief any time soon from the building sinking and tilting problems. New monitoring data reviewed from nbc bay area shows that tilting problem has gotten worse. Based on roof top measurements done in june the tower tilted 2 and a half inches more to the west in the First Six Months of the year. Data kbield by engineers working for the Public Transit terminal project next door, cmos the structure is tilting twice as fast as had been previously documented. It is now listing more than a foot towards the massive sales force building going up nearby. The latest measurement cmos the millennium sunk a schoettle of 17 inches at the low point and the sinking rate has not slowed. That news has residents like Theresa Strickland on edge. This is one more piece of stress on the owners of which i just want to see none of us were good people none ever us signed up for this. Jerry dodsonen at the paelts hearing atop. Dodsonen an engineer around attorneys worries about the unpredictability. Its very alarming that the build can go move like that and its a sign that the building is not only sinking and tilting but its staunl. Whomowner Association Attorney release add statement saying in this accelerated movement highlights the need to retrofit the foundation as soon as possible. The Millennium Tower association will request early trial in the ongoing lawsuit to hold the responsible parties accountable. Somebody needs to go into the ground with a fix. Supervisor aaron peskin is frustrated after multiple marryings the city appears no closer to a fix. I will continue to have hearings until in problem is resolved one way or another. But i do feel like, you know im just yelling into the wind. Jacksonen vaneder beckon, nbc bay area. Jacksonen was first to break the news on this sinking tower. If youd like to see the exclusive investigation we have posted the story at nbcbayarea. Com. A story broke on the 6 00 newscasts. You may not have received all the post you were expected. There were four apostle vehicles breakins in san jose. In fact the motivate recent happened in willow glenns. Neighbors say the crime here is unexpected. I think of the neighborhood as a very safe and comfortable area where people sort of look out for each other. To have someone steal mail from the postal truck is disturbing. Dozens of commerce received a letter from the postoffice alerting them the mail may have been stole opinion the post office is offering a 10,000 reward. A high tech highly skilled crime a verizon story wrobd from the roof. 41yearold tan win and mark tren disabled the Security System then cut a hole in the roof, lowered themselves into the store and then climbed out with more than 100 cell phones. The neighbors businesses are thinking about beefing up security as a result too. New at 11 00 august has been designated the first ever muslim appreciation and Awareness Month in fremont. The proclamation made at city hall. Dedicated to honors Muslim Americans communities members say they are grateful to be recognized. Heart warming to all of us especially in time we might otherwise only be feeling motivately the hate incidents or the islamaphobia or the negative rhetoric toward the community. Fremont has a sizable Muslim Population and home it the first Muslim High School in the bay area. Well no drones in a fire zone the owner of a drone may face charges after the owner forced a hokt to be grounded during a fire fight. The drone here caused the problem at the saratoga hills fire last night they tracked the drone back to the fire. A cal fire helicopter had had to be turned way from dropping water so it wouldnt run into the drone. To keep our citizens safe safe wsh firefighters safe let us do our progressional job you go got to stay out of the area. Fire flying a drone in the zone is a misdemeanors. The fire is now 75 contain. The breaking news out of yosemite talking about the Massive Wildfire there. 5,000 people forced out of homes in the town of mariposa. Very anxious tonight. These people live not far from the park. At least eight structures destroyed, some 150 oh others are threatened at this hour. And 25,000 acres scorched. And the bad news is that that fire is just 5 contained at this point. Lets bring in meteorologist jeff ranieri, talk about tonight a little cooler. But tomorrow some hot temperatures and the wind could prove a problem again. Definitely temperatures in the morning 80s. Winds vashl 10 to 20 miles an hour process and the fire grows minute by minute with all the fuel. Thats what i want to show you is how far the smoke plume is traveling through satellite data we are able to track this. Its hard to see but you can see the grayer image down near the fire you can see it traveling caught up in the upper level the jet stream and moving all the way towards boise people in boise impact fourdoor the fire in california. As raj and jess kwa mentioning another tough day for firefighters tomorrow. Here is what we have in the forecasts. 96 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Appear humidity 20 . And winds vashl 10 to 20mileperhour opinion. And the fire creates its own wint. We do have full coverage at nbcbayarea. Com. Lets get you back to weather at home. Its been all about the reversal of fortunes from us from a hot 106 inland this weekend to cooler weather with fog building at the immediate coastline. Filtering throughout the bay thats dropping us down 9 degrees cooler in concord and four in san jose. This sets us up with one of the best mornings we had in a while. Maybe even leave the windows open in tri valley start wg 6 degrees peninsula areas of fog and 58. Fog returns to San Francisco and 55. And some crisp cool air in the north bay down to 56 degrees. So on that microclimate forecast as we head throughout wednesday, beautiful here for a lot of the south bay. 83 in san jose. 82 couper tin o. Still warm side towards gilroy and 88. The east bay, we go back up to 90 in antioch. But at least its not low 100s closer to bay its 77 in hayward. Peninsula, anywhere from 61 in half moon to 77 in belmont n winds in San Francisco up to 19mileperhour. Cooler wind out of the west keeps everyone in the 60s. Throughout the north bay 86 in sonoma. 79 in mill valley and 59 in the point reyes. Extended forecast, San Francisco stays with the 60s throughout the next seven days. Really some beautiful weather for the inland valleys temperatures start to warm back up once we hit this we could. 94 saturday, 95 sunday. Got to watch the forecast closely we may have to edge it back up into the 100degree raining right now being a little bit more optimistic. Well know more as we get through tomorrow. Its not a heat wave at this point. But its been a long hot summer im ready for winter. We have three more months of this probably. Well at least a month and a half for sure. Not a heat wave but hot nonetheless. Thanks jeff. 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Well show you how it ended. Whoa youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Raj 2shot okay. There hasnt been a lot to smile about for the giants this season. But tonight a different story. Well said and the giants colors as well. Great pitching tonight and a walk off win. We havent said that in like forren pch giants and indians from china basin. Ty hasnt pitched in a while. Seven strong innings. He allowed just one run. As for the drama we advance to the bottom of the 10th inning Eduardo Nunez his first walk off the career. Delivers the game winning run. The giants beat the indian 2. Heart attack for the as all they needed with us was one more out but couldnt debt it Santiago Casilla below the save. They score two runs as lose it 43. Back in a moment with the latest on the wildfire near yosemite. Wildfire. More than 700 firefighters are working to get it under still on the breaking news near yosemite. The Massive Wildfire marches closer to town of mariposa. More than 800 firefighters worth to get it uncontrol. 5,000 people forced to evacuate from the town of mariposa. It really isnt that far from the park. And there are reys that have been closed down. At least eight structures have been destroyed. At this hour cal fire tells us 1500 others in jeopardy. The fire after all this just 5 contained. The governor has declared a state of emergency in march passow county. And jeff as we talked to you the temperatures tomorrow even starting early in the morning going to be 80 degrees. They are its hard to imagine how theyre going to get a handle on this in the next week. 80 at 10 00 p. M. 963. Winds at 10, 20mileperhour. The extended forecasts holds know hope over the action next seven i days for cooler trumpets. Its all about crews air attacks also on wand to try and battle this weather. Its a long few days or longer thanks for joining us here at 11 00 have a good day tomorrow. Byebye. [ cheers and applause ] steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests jada pinkett smith. Dane dehaan