City of San Francisco. Well give any assistance in any manner to help to control or contain this fire. Reporter were back here live where you can see the plume of smoke signaling where that fire is burning out of control tonight. We have been told the fire has made its way to the outer edges of Yosemite Park but the firefighters are doing all they can to keep it from making any progress there. If we can pan out you can see what the fire did when it pads through this hillside. This hillside is just char and blackened. The fire continues to burn out of control. 16 structures have burned and four of them houses. People out here are on pins and needles, very nervous as firefighters continue to make very little progress. Reporting live, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. More details. Your water is safe. Thats the message to people concerned about the rim fires impact on San Franciscos water supply. The San Francisco public utilitys Commission Says even if ash falls in the reservoir, that water ends up in the bay area and is piped from so far below the surface theres little worry of particulate Party Getting too high. Its about 5. 50. Right now its at. 2 so its well below the federal and state standards. If it was to creep up woenld switch over to local water supply both in Alameda County and san mateo county. The supplies have a filter at their plant. The reservoir sits in the middle of the county where that fire is raging. The fire is putting up a tremendous amount of smoke. Look at this. This video was shot from the cockpit of an Air National Guard c130 airplane before making a drop. We have chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Were talking about a lot of smoke. Which way is the smoke travel something. Off to the north from the location of the fire and the good news yaet again on the doppler radar, no lightning strikes. All the activity to spark the fire earlier this week has pushed out. Again, great news for firefighters. We have two marked changes for us when it comes to the weather. Drier air moving in. Humidity that will drop 10 to 25 over the next 24 hours. And also, a wind shift. A drying eastnortheast wind coming their way as we head throughout the next 24 hours. The smoke plumes traveling as far as north as nevada. Heading to lake tahoe this weekend, youll be impacted by the smoke. A quick look at video. Once again from the east bay looking back toward the smoke plumes some 150 miles away its visible no some of the higher hilltops here in the bay area because the clouds are lifting up with the hot air. The buoyancy of the air is some pa,000 feet into the atmosphere and thats 35,000 feet into the atmosphere. When you get the airlifting up you guys, that air has to go somewhere and it just sinks down right on to the surface and creates these dry, hot, unpredictable winds that brush up against a lot of these canyons. Thats what theyre facing right now, not the best conditions. Jeff, thank you very much. More fallout from the rim fire forcing the cancellation of a big Music Festival. The strawberry Music Festival wont happen this year. It takes place every Labor Day Weekend at yosemite. It tee sures some of the top acoustic music action from across the country. The bay area band, hot buttered rum was supposed to perform but the leader says his first concern was for the people affected from the fire. That land is where our band got started so our hearts go out. We have Close Friends that live out there that were really worried about. Several touring bands that booked tours ended up cannes lin west coast dates as a result. So far the fire has not reached the festival grounds. We continue the coverage of the rim fire on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Ill find many photos from the fire lines and rhee video of the c130 video of the fire. Its on the front page and you cant my it. A south bay connection to an alleged do messic terror plot. Police in nevada arrested two people who they say are members of sovereign extremists, an organization labeled do messic terrorists. One of those men once lived in san jose. Damian is live at the jail. Reporter Court Records show he spent time here in jail behind me. He also spent some time in prison. Police say he was a registered sex offender. Tonight, he sits in a nevada jail charged with randomly trying to Kill Police Officers in nevada. David bruchet stood in front of a nevada judge and said he didnt recognize the judges authority to keep him in jail. The 42yearold is charged with plotting with this woman, to randomly kidnap a police officer, kill him and then do the same to another officer. As the investigation progressed we became aware these two individuals were extreme uses in their beliefs and were actively plotting to kidnap and kill at least one Southern Nevada police officer. Reporter police say the gripe, the sovereign citizen, is an antigovernment organization. He lived off and on, in the bay area feather last 20 years. Court records show he was arrested for child molestation and other sex charmings in Santa Clara County in 1993 and 2001. He lived in this San Jose Motel on monterrey road in freight and the following year in a stand ji jafoff. And two years ago he lived ago at this homeless shelter for recovering addicts on north forest street in san jose. Tonight hes facing domestic terrorism charges. They would be compelled to keep repeating their actions, kidnapping and kimming multiple officers. Reporter police say their fourmonth undercover work thwarted a major deadly plot. No one here in san jose was able to recognize him from the mug shot we were showing them. He is due back in the nevada courtroom on september 9th. Live in san jose, im damian. A mug shot of a man facing murder and child endangerment charges after a bizarre crash in san jose last week. Investigators say that the 55yearold man was driving drunk with two small children in the car when he hit and killed a man walking behind the car and they say he stopped, reversed and then ran the victim over on leeward drive. The victim is 43yearold willie omali and pronounced dead the next day. New details in the search for a missing 22monthold girl from oakland. Oakland police say they have new information so tomorrow they will conduct a massive search for daphne web. The police Wont Disclose the information and say the search will take place in, opened space. Also, the fbi and oakland pd announced a reward for any information leading directly to the where abouts of theed to 8e of the toddler. Shes been seen on july 10th. Even though shes been missing for more than a month police have not given up hope of finding her alive. Somebody in our community knees something. Somebody in our community has heard something and we need that information to come forward to bring closure to the family. To bring closure to our community we need to find her and we need to find her and were hoping, safely. In that search tomorrow, Oakland Police say theyll have more than 50 people involved. And have you seen this man . Tonight police are on the lookout for george davis, last week investigators say davis committed a robbery on the uc Berkeley Campus and then he escaped from an Alameda County facility. Hes 59 black male. If you have information call uc police. The Ground Breaking of memorial underpass honoring an officer killed in the line of duty. The project is named after officer Bradley Moody who died in 2008. He lost control of his car on the way to an emergency. The new underpass will go under tran tracks to correct richmond to the Marina Bay Community and the construction will take at least 18 months. Moody was remembered today by his brother, james moody. On brads last day, he saved lives. A man who got a lifesaving Lung Transplant from officer moody was there as well along with 150 other people. A major announcement rocked microsoft. Still to come, whats going on with the man that is replacing bill gates. And celebrity chef paula deen is off the hook. The law suite filed against her has been dropped. It turns out its pretty common. Common and dreaded. Still ahead, the Silicon Valley company thabs studying the genetics of stretch marks and what researchers are hoping to find out. The Army Psychiatrist was found guilty of the killing at fort hood. Convicted of premeditated murder for the 2009 shooting rampage and is now eligible for the debt penalty. Hasaan acts as his own attorney but did not testify nor call witnesses. He questioned only three of the prosecutors nearly 90 witnesses. Hasaan killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others at the military base. The americanborn muslim said he believed the attack wasoffed as a way to protect islamic and taliban leaders from u. S. Forces in iraq and afghanistan. The army sole jaer that massacred 16 civilians will spend the rest of his life in prison without a chance of parole. A military jury sentencing staff saer jent robert bails today. He pled guilty in june to avoid the death penalty. Bails apologized to the court for his actions while on the witness stand. In health matters, an extreme surgery is proving to be helpful for children who suffer from severe epilepsy. Surgeons remove half of the patients brain, the diseased portion. Experts say that helped to stop the seizures and the brain learns to work without the areas that were remooefd. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic say of nearly 200 patients they found more than half were see jairfree after the surgery. Remaining patients saw a significant drop in seizure activity. They are hated but not very well understood. Talking about stretch marks and a Silicon Valley company is studying why we get them. Our business and tech reporter scott budman has the story at 5 00. New details, i should say, a company thats working on trying to find out why stretch marks are praef bref fref lent preval so must have much of the population. Stretch mercuries. Do we know what causes them and who among us would be more likely to get them . 23 and me has some ideas. The mountainview Genetic Testing Company recently wrapped a study with 34,000 people to find out why some are more likely to get stretch marks. Joyce tongue is 23 and mes director of research. A strong genetic marker is elasten. It helps to keep youre skin stretchy. Maybe your skin is less stretchy perhaps more prone to damage, should there be a period of extreme growth. Not surprisingly, the study showed that women are twice as likely to get stretch marks. As for the multibillion dollar industry built around trying to get rid of them, the jury on that is still out. This is something that happens. Nobody really understands why it happens and so learning more is exciting. With more work to be done you can say the research is a bit elastic. It occurs between 50 and 80 of the population. One of the goals of Genetic Research is to get closer to finding out why they happen. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much, scott. New details in the paula deen discrimination and Sexual Harassment case. Lawyer signed a deal to drop the law sunt against the celebrity chef. The document filed in quart said both sides agreed to drop the lawsuit without no award of attorneys fees. Lisa jackson who worked at the restaurant owned by deen and her brother filed a lawsuit saying Sexual Harassment. And a company that needs a new ceo. Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer is retiring. He says hell retire within the next 12 months. A successor has not been named but the company is planning to form a Search Committee for their fwlooimpx leader. 57yearold met gates in 1973 while they were living in the same dorm at harvard. Next tuesday, marks the annual holiday for sports video game fans, the release date of the new madden game from redwood city Electronic Arts and we have the first look. Scott brings us the latest for a new season of madden kicks off. For two and a half decades, football fans have been getting an early fix before the regular season gets under way with each addition of the madden nfl series from ea sports. Now madden 25 enters the game with two waichs planned. The august edition for the current edition, xbox 360 and then another later in the fall with the next Edition Console the xbox 1 and ps 4 are released, john maddens name is open the game but his voice hadnt been part of the game now for a while. Theres not a whole lot of leave for this field today. Reporter of all the features one new mode gives you the chance to go beyond the field and channel youre inner bhierk davis, running your own franchise in owner mode. Advisers walk you through financing, marketing and staffing. Sounds like too much work. Theres still plenty of action on the field. For the series that prides themselves on the details that brierngs nfl sunday to life, worth notie coach harbaugh is nt wearing his gold but after a 9er touch down plenty of kaepernick to be had. All in all this is the grandaddy of them all. Since 1989, a force that grew in popularity alongside the nfl angst it emulates. On the game console, im lawrence scott. Looks like a good game. You have yiesh calendar circled for thursday . Circled. Heres jeff. The 9ers are in town. I can see jessica getting into the game. I can, sitting at home with popcorn and a nice drink. Very competitive. Heres a live look at the winds across the bay area. Stronger than this time yesterday. 15 to 30 miles an hour. Thats going to keep that fog in the forecast as we head throughout the first part of your weekend. Heres a first look at saturday starting off cool with temperatures in the midtoupper 50s at 5 00 a. M. , everyone has cloud cover. By 11 00 a. M. All in the clear from the east bay down to southbound. Sunny skies and mid 70s. Cloud cover lingering at the bay and upper 60s. Outside on this friday, our cameras are pointed toward the north ands. What youre noticing in san jose, some mid to high level cloud cover and its not from the fire thats way off to the south. Its partly, in part, due to the marine layer offshore. Good air quality at this hour. Again, smoke from the fire near yosemite traveling 200plus miles. If online heading to lake tahoe youll be impacted. The nothing factor forecast as we head to the the fog factor forecast, the coastline tomorrow, the thick fog returning and also for marin, sonoma and back to contra costa county, no widespread low cloud cover for the east bay or south bay. Throughout the afternoon hours, while we had some sun on the coast today looks like fog will hold steady all the way through the afternoon hours down to half moon bay. You know the drill. Take your jacket. Temperatures will not get out of the 50s and also, the 60s. For saturday, if this is too warm for you hold on. That sevenday forecast goes even cooler. 79 at palo alto. Down to gilroy, thats the hottest spot on the board as we look at saturday. 89. 87 in pleasanton. 86 in liver more and 86 in walnut creek. Half moon bay, 63. 61 up toward the bay and over toward sn toward sonoma, mid 80s. The jet stream will take a dip to the south and as it sits the next four to five days it will be dropping the temperatures and one thing here might be on your mind, thats fall. 29 days away. Beginning officially on september 22nd, with some peak colors coming as we head throughout mid october and early november. The sevenday forecast, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday generally mid inland and no rain or crazy lightning. Thats going to be great news for the fire danger. Well track more at nbcbayarea. Com. Thank you very much, jeff. Well be back. Rain isnt stopping the setup 06 a major event in the nations capital. Tens of thousands of people are expect to attend an event tomorrow commemorating the 50th anniversary of the mark on washington and dr. Martin luther king, jrs i have a dream speech. Another marching ceremony will take place and president obama will speak from the steps of the lincoln memorial. Three days before his historic march on washington, back in 1963, dr. Martin luther king jr. Appeared on nbcs meet the press. I dont think our society h rise to its full maturity until we come to see that men are made to live together as brothers and that we can have again win intergroup and interpersonal living and still be in the kind of society which we all long to achieve. This sunday, 50 years after that interview, nbc will air a special edition of meet the press remembering the dream. I spoke. Moderator David Gregory about the special and he says its a look back and a look forward. It is referencing and seeing this appearance on meet the press and then 50 years later talking about what the American Dream means now. Not just in terms of civil rights and equality for africanamericans, but for all americans since the American Dream and the promise of the country. Thats what i think the resonance is about and understanding the extent to which americans were grappling with what democracy meant back in 19 63. During the special you can watch the meet the press interview with dr. King unedited and in its entirety. Thats sunday morning at 7 30. You can find some incredible content on our website including historic video and photos from the march as well as events commemorating the 50th anniversary. The yooirnts Postal Service unveiled a new stamp in on near of the march on washington. The limited edition zamp unveiled today and it features an image of oil painting of marchers carrying signs demanding equal rights in jobs. The new stamp is a forever stamp and now available for purchase. The royal family says thank you to all their wellwishers. Do you see the 10 back in points, aw baby, im seeing triple again. Plus another 10 , plus Free Shipping . Yeah. Youre good. This is the member triple play deal. This is sears. Prince william and princess kate sent carding to everyone that congratulated them on the birth of prince george. They are in front of st. Theyre ins hospital and the back says, the roilt hi they send their warmest thanks and best wishes. They were sent to everyone that included their address on letters sent to the duke and duchess. Last month the San Francisco zoo welcomed a baby gorilla hand now she needs a name. The zoo is holding a naming contest for the baby. Shes so cute. Email submissions to name the baby from now until september 17th. Top three and then you can vote on your favorite name with dollars. Donate online or put money in special boxes at the zoo. You can vote as often as you want. Every dollar helps the gorillas and the winning name will get to 50,000 and the debut is in. I heap mama gorilla doesnt get ahold of you. Every baby is beautiful. It goes without saying. Every baby is beautiful. Jeff ranieri how you doing . Good. I offer up the name sunny. It seems like it might fit. Because it ties in with your forecast. Had to be a weatherrelated name. More sun on your sevenday forecast as we head throughout next week but temperatures that are not going to be too hot with mid 80s through next wednesday and also, thursday. All right, one last look at the rim fire. Thanks for joining us. The nightly news is next. Byebye, see you at 6 00. Ready to strike . The big debate at the white house over what to do about syria. Plus, an nbc news exclusive. A doctor on the front lines there telling us what he says is really going on. State of emergency. In california, tonight an outofcontrol wildfire the size of denver now raging inside of yosemite. Plus, a freak hailstorm and now the threat of flash floods. A wild weekend ahead for millions. Judgment day for the army major accused of a massacre at ft. Hood. The deadliest mass murder on a base in u. S. History. And gift of time. Theres never enough of it. 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