Had been much later, he might have never woken up, he tells me when he hopped out of bed, the smoke in his room had already extended from the ceiling down to his niece, making the upper half of the room unbreathable and impossible to see through. He called 911, escaped okay, so did his uncle, treated for smoke inhalation, however, he is very concerned about his grandmother, who was stuck inside for several minutes more waiting for san jose fire to arrive and perform the rescue. Firefighters entered the backside of the structure where the fire was and they were able to pull out one of the resident he is from the burning structure. That person is now in critical condition, transported to a nearby hospital. Reporter she was unconscious, was not alert, not awake when she was pulled out of their home here on commodore drive. They arrived within six minutes of that first 911 call. They called for a second alarm for backup a minute after that. A minute later, they were able to rescue the grandmother, so, within two minutes of arrival, they were able to enter that very smoky house and retrieve her. Once they did pull her out and made sure no one else was inside, firefighters retreated from the house to avoid the heavy roof tiles that were falling inside. Instead of relying just on a leader hose and line set up around the perimeter to extinguish the fire. An arson investigator is looking into the cause, not because this fire is suspicious. It isnt according to the fire department. Its just that an arson investigator inspects all fires that involve a significant injury. Again, three people inside, a man, his uncle, his grandmother. The man and the uncle, they are okay. The grandmother in critical condition. Reporting live in san jose, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Thank you, bob. Also happening in san jose, police are investigating two shootings. Both cases, an officer fired at a robbery suspect them happened within four hours of each other on different sides of town. The first happened around 1 00 this morning at homes along balboa avenue, king road, alum rock avenue in east san jose. The second near west san carlos street and meridian avenue. The first incident, the officer shot a robbery suspect who police say tried to run him over with his car. The suspect and accomplice robbed a woman overnight in downtown san jose. That suspect is now in the hospital with at least one bullet wound. In midtown, police fired upon a man who held up the safe way at san carlos and meridian at gunpoint. They found him a couple blocks away the middle of the road. The officer fired his gun at the man when he refused to give up the weapon. The shots missed. The man surrendered and is now in custody. We have numbers from the front lines of that rim fire burping in yosemite. Since last nights update, the fire has grown by a few Hundred Acres to almost 202,000. However, crews have kept containment at just 32 . 5500 structures are still threatened. The good news is evacuation orders in Tuolumne City have been lifted. Almost 5,000 firefighters are on the ground battling this beast it has already destroyed 111 buildings and that includes 11 homes. Meanwhile, we are getting a new perspective of the fire from the air. Check out these new images. These are sent to us by u. S. Airways pilots that were flying over the fire. You can see just the massive plumes of smoke billowing high into the sky. It is an amazing birds eye view about the Massive Wildfire about new about the size of new york city. It is close to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir which supplies a good portion of the bay area with Drinking Water. The Public UtilitiesCommission Says the water is fine and still meets drinking quality standards, however, the San Francisco examiner reports the real trouble could come in the next few years after the trees and vegetation around the reservoir die off. Thats went land is more susceptible to erosion a little rain and landslide course send sediment into the water and that could make Drinking Water cloudy. The smoky air is forcing many people to cancel vacation plans for this Labor Day Weekend. Yosemite National Park and surrounding communities say they have seen some reservation cancellations but since Yosemite Valley is upwind from the fire, the sky is still clear there. And theres no hint of smoke in the area. However, it is a different story at lake tahoe, where smoke from the fire is making for poor air quality in that particular area. Just into our newsroom, secretary of state john kerry has just outlined the evidence the u. S. Has gathered on last weeks alleged chemical attack by the Syrian Government. Kerry says the u. S. Has high confidence the Syrian Government carried out this deadly attack. Its findings are as clear as they are compelling. Im not asking you to take my word for it. Read for yourself, everyone, those listening, all of you, read for yourselves the evidence from thousands of sources, evidence that is already publicly available. Kerry says the Syrian Regime was preparing for weapons use three days before the attack. He also says more than 1400 people were killed, including more than 400 children. The president , he is still discussing plans for military action against syria. He plans to speak on that situation within the next 30 minutes. Meanwhile, a new nbc news poll shows what americans think about the syrian conflict. 50 of americans say they oppose the u. S. Taking military action. 42 believe the u. S. Should be militarily involved. 79 of americans believe the president should be required to receive congressional approval before taking any action. Meanwhile, only 35 approve of how the president is handling the syrian conflict. Happening now, crews working hard to get the bay bridge back open after this Holiday Weekend. Here is a live look at the toll plaza. Todays you huge task, paving the west bound rains of the new eastern span. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith is live on the bay bridge with how they are doing so far. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Big changes in just 24 hours, basically, the paving work leading um to the toll plaza, that is eventually done. Crews working on it this morning. We were able to take a drive across the new eastern span and really starting to see it come together on the connectors, both in oakland and at yorba buena island. This morning, crews were out at the toll plaza, finishing up some of that paving work that they had been starting just yesterday. They are even starting to mark where the lanes will be put into place, that is the striping work that still needs to be done. Up on the west bound approach, where the bike path will eventually go in, a huge section in the way, that is knocked down this morning, 90 of the concrete roadway on the thousandfoot section is gone. The entire section will be out of the way, they say, by sunday. On the 6. 4 billion dollar span, parts of the old bridge go awake the sweeping views are becoming more and more pronounced. One major change that drivers will see when the new span opens up, that will be at both ends, instead of an s curve, more of a straight shot. Pretty much a straight shot into the tunnel, clearly not on the s curve. So, again, throughout the corridor, from the toll plaza all the way into San Francisco, and the reverse route you its 50 miles an hour. The only reason you have to slow down on the s curve was because of the sharp turns, that was 35 miles an hour. Here it is 50 miles an hour all the way across. Now, at the entrance to the yorba buena island tunnel, they are using this as a chance to get a lot of Maintenance Work done and Maintenance Work also going on on the west side as well. They are doing things like changing out lights, they are Power Washing the front of t they tell me that the paving work there on the upper deck is complete. They want the lower deck paving area to be done today. And again, the whole project, they say, still on time. Reporting live in oakland, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. That is great news for commuters. Christie, thanks so much. Another busy morning for b. A. R. T. But not quite as busy as yesterday. We have new news our newsroom from the agency. Spokesman jim allison telling us yesterday was one of the busiest days in the history of b. A. R. T. Thursday was b. A. R. T. s third busiest day ever. We had 475,015 riders. So, that beat the old number by about 30,000. And the only two busier days we had were the two giants world series victory parades. Too early for exact numbers for this mornings commute but allison, who crammed into a crowded train himself, says it appeared lighter than yesterday. That is a combination of the usual friday light and people starting the Holiday Weekend a little early. For everything that you need to know about the bay bridge closure, go to nbcbayarea. Com. We put a link on the top lefthand corner of our homepage. Thats where you will find our bay bridge closure guide. Thats complete with traffic maps and other transit options. A former south bay substitute teacher is behind bars, accused of possessing child porn. San jose police say they found 2,000 images of child porn inside the home of this man, brian westfall. Westfall worked as sub in the Oak Grove School district for several years and previously worked with kids at the ymca. The Oak Grove School district released a statement it reads, in part, as part of the investigation, police are interviewing former students. Still to come, first, rather, sentencing day for a former south bay youth sports referee. 50yearold scott domnauer was convicted last month of committing lewd acts and sending porn to three teenage girls. The Monterey CountySheriffs Office began investigating domnauer last year when he contacted a 14yearold girl on social media. He was later arrested at his home in san jose, he now faces more than 14 years in prison. Coming up, same scam, different city. Why investigators are warning people to be wary of people looking for snakes. Plus, a different take on texting and driving laws. The court case that could set a new precedent for who is responsible for a crash. Plus, money for your old apple iphone. We will tell you how it works, coming up. And we are seeing temperatures outside already climbing into the 80s, but for the weekend ahead, we are tracking cooler changes and possibly some mountain showers as well. Have a look that the when we come back with the full forecast in just a few minutes. Welcome back. The so called snake scam suspect strikes again. This morning, directives on both sides bay area are trying to figure out if they are looking for the same woman. So far there are reports of this type of crime in several cities allowing the peninsula and the east bay. Homeowner san mateo says a woman who looks similar to the suspect in this sketch from Union City Police knocked on her door sunday. The suspect is said she was from animal control and she needed to go inside to check for snakes so the woman let her in, but the homeowner says she became suspicious when the scammer told the family to go into the backyard. They refused and the suspect eventually left without any problem. In this case, nothing was stolen. But in the first case reported, the homeowner lost some cash and also some jewelry. A new bill focusing on limousine safety following that tragic fair on the san mateo bridge faces a critical vote in sacramento today. The state Assembly Appropriations committee is considering the bill authored by local state senator, jared hill. It would require all limos to have two fire extinguishers and pass an annual inspection by the chp. Right now, only limos that seat ten or more people myrust meet those requirements. The limo that caught fire in may was licensed to carry eight passengers, therefore foreno fire extinguisher was on board. Five women died in that fire. Fema is launching a new campaign this Labor Day Weekend to get and you your family ready for an emergency. The agency is embracing a little sarcasm to get you to listen. I will have the dead batteries. Great. I will only put what i dont need into a duffel bag. Perfect thats totally unhelpful. No problem. The ad campaign mocks a family ill prepared for any sort of an emergency. Femas tim manning says that ad aims to take advantage of a reality, the fact that parents may not listen to fema but will listen to their kids. A Successful Online retailer is making a rather oldfashioned move. Balsam hill, a highend artificial christmas treemaker is opening up its first store today. It is located in burlingame on adrian road, just off of 1 101, not far from s. If o. The store, part warehouse, part show room, will give people the opportunity to see and touch the trees in person instead of choosing one on a computer. The redwood citybased Internet Company has been extremely successful for the past seven years, growing some 200 . Keeping with the business and tech theme, you can now trade in your old iphone for a brand new one at apple stores. Scott mcgrew, the program is launching this morning . Yeah, good morning. Lots of us have upgraded a phone with our carriers but this is different. In the apple pro, you surrender your old phone in exchange for a new apple iphone at a reduced price. This should help apple sell more phones because even people who arent eligible for upgrades can. Cnbcs john fort first to report this, that its going live this morning. There is nothing about the program on apples website or in stores, but we trust john all the way. Unfortunately, with this brand new news, we cant give you any figures, like how much your iphone 4 will fetch you, but we are guessing its at least more than 100. You can certainly walk into an apple store and find out as the Program Ramps up. Speaking of apple phones, you dont want to have missed our gadget friday this morning. Its on nbcbayarea. Com, if you want to check it out. Truly one of the most shocking iphone cases you will want to see. Back to you. He is not like. You should check it out. The iphone turns into a weapon, a stun gun, pretty cool. California law says texting and driving is illegal, but texting someone you know is driving can soon be illegal as well. A new jersey court recently ruled a person who knowingly texts a driver can share lie guilt that driver causes an accident. New jersey couple injured by a teen driver was texting sued the driver and his girlfriend who was texting him a new Jersey Appeals Court cleared the girlfriend of wrongdoing in this case but said if someone texts a person they know is driving, they can be held liable. Mendle park is giving the green light to more red light cameras. This week, the city approved new fiveyear contract agreement with the operating company red flicks. There are four red light cameras the three intersections. Police bay is 40 fewer crashes those areas since the cameras were installed. The city plans to add another near bayfront expressway and chillco streets. Many people heading out on this friday, ready for the Holiday Weekend and doing so with warmer temperatures. It is nice outside. San francisco, right now, there you see it. Clear skies, fog lingering around the brandnew eastern approach there the bay bridge, they are still working on. Now, sunshine in San Francisco, san jose, same. Got the sunny skies and temperatures warming up, sunshine breaking through earlier in the morning. So our numbers now starting to climb into the 70s and 80s. Take a look at that map. You can see the east bay, low to middle 80s around concord and livermore, 76, san jose, look at San Francisco now, up to 73 degrees, nice, warm start to the day, should see 70s and 80s from San Francisco to oakland, havent seen much of that recently, today looks five to ten degrees warmer, especially inland locations, seabreeze not much of a factor today, you can see the humidity is sticky outside. Get those humidity levels 40 to 50 . Satellite view shows you the matches of low clouds remaining october coastline, we will see some of that try to spill inland hard to evening and see this hour by hour, low clouds moving down the coast at times and filling in again heading into tomorrow morning. Things may turn interesting sunday night into monday, watching moisture here coming up out of the south. That will drop into the bay area sunday, notice this on the hill tops, now sunday, startsing ing see things in the east bay and south bay hills. Ing to watch for this Labor Day Weekend. See the 90s inland, the trivalley. Upper 80s into the north bay. Today probably the warmest day of this Labor Day Weekend, some cooling, the seabreeze strengthens saturday into sunday, sunday to monday, stay tuned, watch your weekend bot r forecast, see if we have a chance of showers. Monday morning, cooler temperatures moving into next week. Marla . Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Still to come, cal says thanks but no thanks. One school refusing to hold the big game at the soontobe open levis stadium. [ horn honks ] kevin toaster strudel, yah . Warm, flaky, gooey toaster strudel. Faster than kenny can dodge a question. Honey, howd that test go . [ female announcer ] in just 60 seconds, youve got snackdefying, satisfying mmmm. Totinos pizza rolls. Mmm hmmm. Mmmm. [ female announcer ] zero to pizza. Pronto. Giants will start rebuilding for a 2014 pump. This weekend, team roasters expand on sunday, and when they do manager bruce bochy plans to pull up some prospects who could prove their worth for next season. The giants are out of the playoff race this season. So, they are looking at what they can do to improve for the next one. By the way, the giants play in arizona tonight at 6 30, right here on nbc bay area. 49ers wrapped up their preseason with a strong showing against the chargers. Colin kaepernick played one series during a td pass, clinton patten. Nice, i watched that. After that backup colt mccoy took over. I love his little dance here, i love you t leading the team to a 416 win. They start the season at home against the packers a week from this sunday. Cal fans have spoken and it looks like the 2014 big game against stanford is staying at memorial stadium. Cals athletic director, sandy barber, made the announcement in the letter to fans and supporters that the big game would not be moving to the 49ers new home, levis stadium. They did listen to alumni you students, donors and Ticket Holders feedback. The proposal, which surfaced late last week, prompted angry responses from fans. Still to come, hard to ride a unicycle, let alone say it, let alone go up a flight of stairs on one. How many this guy did to break a record, coming up. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing good for me around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around barbara i finally found the right snack i finally found the right snack 90calorie fiber one lemon bar. A czech man has broke an record, making up a tv tower on a unicycle. He beat his own record of jumping upstates without touching you the ground ever, he went all the way up pragues tv tower made up of 736 stairs. His former record was jumping up just 299. His official record will be marked in the czech book of records. He says he actually did much better during training. Where was that . 736 steps . Maybe 1,000. Who knows. I looked up how long it took him. Couldnt find the information out. We investigate. Thanks so much for being with us. Next newscast at 5 00. Also get the latest information all day long online, nbcbayarea. Com. Have a great Labor Day Weekend, everybody, thanks for being with us. [sighs] oh. Now, remind me, did you just do the philadelphia cotillion, or did you also debut internationally . Im happy to say that i dont even get that. How was your trip . Terrible. I had to give up my window seat to some sevenyearold who had to sit next to her precious mommy. What about the actual purpose of your trip . How is the search for the new cast member going . Okay. I saw a few Good Alternative comics in San Francisco. San francisco . I asked you to find an actor from middle america, a real person. Youre not going to find him in the peoples gaypublic of drugifornia. Jeez, relax. Im also setting up auditions in toronto. Canada . [chuckling] why not just go to iraq . The Television Audience doesnt want your elitist east coast, alternative, intellectual, leftwing jack, just say jewish. This is taking forever. Stop trying to amuse yourself