Here are latest numbers. This is the town of lower lake. Homes decimated, demolished, burned to the ground. Firefighters are making great progress on this fire. 4,000 acres have burned. Thats the same number as yesterday. Crews now say the fire is 20 contained. That up from 5 yesterday. More than 175 structures destroyed, including many of these homes that you see below from our chopper. Thats the same number as yesterday and more than 1500 structures are still threatened. We are learning more about the man suspect of starting this destructive fire, 40yearold damin pashlik is no stranger to law enforcement. The lake county resident has been convicted of numerous crimes including evading a police officers, possession of meth, and firearms charges. He has had experience fighting fires. The California Department of corrections said he was trained and served as an inmate firefighter in 2007. People impacted by this fire are outraged. Its scary. He awful. But its also really reassuring that they have got him. Hopefully that means these fires are over. We feel like we have been burning for a year. Neighbors describe pashlik as a good person and cant belief he is accused of starting this fire. The suspected arsonist is in custody. But that doesnt help those whos homes and business have been damaged. Tonight residents are being allowed back into their neighborhoods. For some, a relief. For many others, the their first chance to see the damage. Mark matthews is on westchester street in lower lake, where so many homes i can see behind are you burned to the ground. What do you see there . This community is now just a few scattered houses with what you see behind me, mostly dech station. Street after street after street. This house belonged to a 25yearold, where he lived with his wife and two children. We have talked to him today just outside of the police pa barricades. My tools are there. My kids toys are there. Everything i have got was there. Reporter and now its gone. Joses house burned up while he was driving home wednesday night from his construction job in San Francisco. From that point i was expecting to have the house still standing. But we went in there, and everythings gone. Everythings gone. Reporter the 1800 square foot house and garage that he had just purchased two months ago. We just bought it. I tell you ma, that was my savings from since i was 18. Ive been saving. Reporter when alvarado says he lost everything, he means it. He paid cash for this home in june and did not yet have it insured. About a mile south a very different homecoming. Jessica harrison coming back to her home, still standing. Though fire got within a stones throw. Mean, eye im thank fl. Im beyond thank fl i still have a house, especially when the day it started the flames were literally out in that field, 50, 100 yards. Reporter for everyone, the clayton fire left a scar on this county, that was still recovering from last years fire season. This is host alvarados house. Let me show you his neighbors house. And the one beyond that. And the one beyond that. And as far as you can see, houses burned down in this neighborhood. Coming up at 6 00, well go out with rescue crews who have been out here trying to find the pets that were abandoned when this neighborhood was evacuated. Reporting from lower lake, mark matthews, cbs bay area news. Mark, hopefully the animals will be recovered. Back out to lake county, and more pictures from our helicopter of the destructive fire. Of course were going to continue to follow this story and continue to bring you updates on air and on our nbc bay area app. Other headlines arc suspected kidnapper in san leandro may be linked to more kidnapping case. This is a release of the sketch Police Released just today. Police believe the man attempted to kidnap an ain asian woman on washington avenue on july 17th made similar attempts with two other womens on the days after that attack. All three attempts were in broad daylight. Tonight also police are hoping another look at the suspect will trigger new leads. We know that the person who attempted this kidnapping is still out there. And we really need to get this person identified and get him into Police Custody before he does this to somebody else and is successful. This could be a key clue here, the man was driving a silver 2014 Nissan Sentra sr similar to this one. The women are gray object gunmetal colored. If you are information, you are asked to assault san leandro police. A deadly ending to a bizarre discovery. State fish and wildlife wardens killed a alligator marin favre re was there as officials trakds the gator down and has details on why they had to kill it. Reporter the alligator was found just a quarter mile past the gate that you see here. A fish and wildlife captain says the gator posed a risk to the kids and hikers who use this trail and thats why they had to kill it. Gabby torrez and two others were hiking in freemont today when they heard a gun shot. State fish and wildlife wardens shot and killed this four foot long al gator in almeida creek. Thats scary. Anything could have happened if we were with the water snoor snoob somebody reported seeing the al gator yesterday. Wardens say he was more than likely an illegal pet abandoned in the creek. It may have been there for months. Someone reported seeing an alligator in the same area a year ago. They searched two days but never found it. Today neighbors questioned why they had to kill the gator. Only four foot. Not that big. Reporter fish and wildlife Officials Say they had to shoot the alligator because he was a Public Safety threat. Its considered a Public Safety issue. Alligators are not native to california. People use this creek for walking and hiking and swimming. And they are not expecting an alligator to be there. Reporter fish and wildlife Officials Say if only the person who owned the alligator had turned it in to them they would not have had to kill it. Reporting live in freemont, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Its our coverage of the rio olympics. 17 davis these games. We are at day 11. No shortage of olympians from the bay area. Some of them on the verge of a medal. Here is jessica aguiraguirre. Who is still going for gold . There is still a lot of gold to be had here in rio. Sadly the olympic journey has ended for some of our bay area athletes. The synchronized Swimming Team wanted to medal and wanted to move up in the ranks. They did their best, didnt medal but boy did they put on a good duet. They had hoped for a spot on the podium but the gold medal dreams for the synchronizing swimming duo finished in ninth place today. The reigning sink row champions from russia captured a second consecutive gold medal. We are happy with how we did. Reporter in volleyball it is a trip to the semifinals for a former stanford pair. This marks the u. S. Teams Third Straight appearance in an olympic semifinal. On copacabana beach its two more games to go for carry Walsh Jennings and her partner, april ross. They will take on the brazil in the semifinals. Walsh jennings celebrated her 30th birthday during last nights watch. And simone biles and aly raisman will compete in the floor exercise. The last event finals in the olympic games. Raisman has already won doled in the competitions but is looking to add to her collection. Biles has her sights set on a fourth gold in rio. As you know, raisman won that floor exercise in 2012. She is looking to do that again, but she is going to have really tough competition from simone biles, who is considered to have the best floor exercise ever. So that is going to be exciting tonight. Then now for all my equestrian friends out there, i want to let you know that the u. S. A. Team is tied for first going into the finals in team show jumping. They are getting their horses to just jump over those fences. So thats really exciting as well. And we have diving as well tonight, too. Lots of good stuff. You notice jessica lights up when she talks about equest treens. Know. U. S. A. Could definitely get more golds tonight. Thanks so much, jessica. Social work remembers speaking out tonight. They are concerned about a local child abuse hotline. Senior Investigative Reporter vicky nguyen spoke exclusively with two social services employees. Reporter these workers are risking their jobs by going on the record after seeing our report in october. They say there is even more to expose about how the calls to the hotline are handled. They have 26 years of combined experience working for the department of family and Childrens Services in santa clara county. They say manage remembers reporting high percentages of calls answered but they dont agree with the number being put out to the public. I feel very powerless because we are not meeting the need of the community. Are the numbers being manipulated to make the agency look better in the eyes of the public . Yes. I feel so, yeah. Tonight at 11 00, we investigate claims that the hotline calls arent being answered by the right people, and how that could be putting children at risk. Thanks vicky. Still the come, gay rights activist and San Francisco leader harvey milk honored. The thing the navy did today that has never been done before. It was love that was oozing out of the decorations. You can tell it wasnt just any other memorial. Plus, the way a fathers memory will be preserved forever. Its part of our bay area proud series. And good afternoon, im meteorologist jeff ranieri. Cooling fog on the coastline at ocean beach. Well let you know when everybodys temperatures will be cooling down a few degrees coming up in the micro climate forecast. Announcer you are watching nbc bay area news, with the Investigative Unit holding the powerful accountable. Nbc bay area, we investigate. A new state law requiring children to be vaccinated is adding a new layer of stress as the school year starts. We are hearing reports of students being turned away from sacramento to san diego for not having proof of immunization. Robert is live in san jose. Will the vaccine law be a disruption here . Reporter it is positive its a debate thats been raging before and after the law passed in june of last year. Now the south bays Largest School district is preparing for the first day of school. And many vaccine opponents are preparing to stay home. Tina, the mother of olivia and four other children is a mom who decided to home school her kids rather than vaccinate. Knowing how healthy my children are and knowing what i know because ive researched vaccines and the ingredients and the side effects for over eight years now. Im not going to subject my children to something i dont believe in. It is a basic human right to decide what we put in our bodies. Reporter the School Districts head nurse is dealing with many families turning in immunization forms. Of the districts 32,000 students, only 30 families have sought medical waivers or turned in personal belief waivers before the start of the year. Lando says students who cant prove immunization or acceptable reason not to will be turned a way. It has nothing do with where we land on either side of the issue. Its the law. Reporter the Public Health department agrees. If there is one of us that isnt, that person is susceptible to the disease and bring to it others. Reporter olivias point of view. Im upset that i cant go to school with my friends. And i know im healthy and dont get why i cant go to school. At this point, the School District says only two families have left the School System because of this decision. Reporter politicians and Oil Companies often generate negative headlines. Not tonight. According to one grieving father who is local. Heres Garvin Thomas with our bay area proud. Reporter as president of his neighborhood council, see czar is something of a watchdog for richmonds hilltop district. Truth be told there is one spot in the neighborhood that he has never had to walk. For the past 12 years. This little white thing here thats an angel. Someone else will clearly be doing that. Bring flowers. A roadside memorial along san pablo avenue to an unknown victim maintained by an anonymous caretaker. Somebody kept coming back. Lights at night. Something different all the time. Reporter the memorial might have remained just a neighborhood curiosity, except self ron who graciously allowed to it exist on its property more than a decade said it needed to use the land. After all those years, a you will that work, see czar couldnt bear to think of the memorial being destroyed. It was love that was oozing out of the decorations. You could tell it wasnt just any other memorial. Reporter but who did it belong to . Who had been sneaking in in the middle of the night night after night to work on it . Chevron agreed the leave a note asking for that person to call them. I just ignored it, you know, because i knew what was coming. At least i thought i did. Reporter that person was raymond olson. This is one of my favorites. Reporter his 22yearold only son, also named raymond, was killed by a drunk driver on the spot in 2003. You know, its like a whole other dimension of pain that you just dont think it exists. They just bring back memories. Reporter raymond poured all that pain into the memorial, haunted by the fact that one day when both he and it were gone, his son would be forgotten. But that day is not coming. Where do i start . Thanks to this one. Im wondering where im going to start. Reporter see czar and chevron got together to erelkt a permanent memorial, a bench and a plaque at a nearby park. I cant find the words to thank thank you all enough, all of you. Reporter raymond says he now thistle be able to start living his own life once again, one thats been on pause for the past dozen years. Still, hell need a little time to think about what that life will be like. But he knows just where hell be sitting to figure that out. In richmond, Garvin Thomas, nbc bay area news. Nice to have a permanent memorial there. Hopefully provide some comfort to that father into definitely. Our chief meteorologist jeff ran erie is here. I have got a second grader starting school today. How can you put that into the forecast. Peninsula is good tomorrow. Perfect micro climate zone. Not too hot, not too cool. Just right, kids. More on the forecast in just a minute. I want to get to the top weather story. That involves the clayton fire in lake county. Over the next 24 hours well see recovery for the firefighters in the Morning Hours as humidities increase and temperatures drop to the 70s. Another hot day on the way, 92 opted at 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. And eventually 97 degrees. More updates on that on the website. Right now the highest fire danger across the east bay, walnut creek 92 degrees and a very dry 15 in the atmosphere. As we get you right now to the morning forecast, fall comes back to San Francisco, 54 for the north bay. 55 and partly cloudy. Peninsula, 56, thick fog at the immediate coastline. South bay at 59 degrees. We have hot High Pressure situated out across the pacific and through california. But we have this small area of low pressure thats sneaking in. Thats whats happening to keep the fog at the immediate coastline so robust. So, with the fog at the coastline and all of the hot weather inland we will see widespread temperature extremes. San francisco, 60s return tomorrow. For the peninsula, there is that awesome forecast, sunny skies and 80 degrees. Palo alto, lass al toes, athey areton, upper 70s. For the south bay, hottest, morgan hill, 90. San jose, 87. 96 in livermore tomorrow. East bay, oakland, 73, very comfortable. In the north bay we have 87 in napa. And 76 in mill valley. San franciscos sevenday forecast, very, very, you know, nice. What were used to. Temperatures in the 60s. For the inland valleys, 90 tomorrow. By this weekend we will drop down into the 80s saturday and also on sunday. You know, we always have San Francisco. We can complain so much but you can just go there and enjoy that nice weather. You know, nice. Nice, simple. Glad you like that. Thank you. Coming up here at 5 00, up close and personal, a Mountain Lion spotted on camera. Well show you where and what this cats doing. Dont miss a goal, a stroke or a spike from the 2016 rio olympic games. 5 to watch is your inside track to local athletes and exclusive coverage. The action may be live from rio but you can stay up to date wherever you are. Reveal ford is now developing Driverless Cars. And its happening at its office in palo alto. Happening now, ford is now developing Driverless Cars and its happening at its office in palo alto. The idea is to use the Driverless Cars for ride sharing. We have posted the story to our website. Gold medallist simone biles met up with her crush, actor zach efron met up with the athlete in rio. More news after this break. A Mountain Lion caught leaping over a sixfoot fence. Youre looking at video recently a Mountain Lion caught leaping over a six foot fence. You are looking at video recently captured from a home surveillance cammia in santa cruz. Before the leap the Mountain Lion can be seen searching for a way out. This cat has a monitoring collar which means he is monitored by the puma project, the group collects data from the cats to learn more about their travels and behavior. An unprecedented honor for a gay activist. Harvey milk becomes the first activist to have a naval ship named in his honor. The naming ceremony was held on treasure island. At love familiar faces were on hand, member of milks family, House Minority leader nancy pelosi and ed lee. The secretary used the event to make an announcement for former gay military members dishonored for being gay. If you are interested, come back and let the navy take another look at that discharge. Milk was a onetime navy diver before becoming one of the first openly gay people elected to public office. He was assassinated in 1978. When we return, were going to go back out to rio. One of the questions we have, is that pool still green . Well check in with Jessica Aguirre. Tonight at six the flame is among the biggest attractions for tourists and locals in rio. But it will soon coming up tonight at 6 00, the flame is among the biggest attractions for tourists and locals in rio. But it will soon be extinguished. Well take you up close at 6 00. Our Jessica Aguirre had a busy day to rio. She made to it two competitions and is going to show us a picture. I went out to if Aquatics Center to see christian up send compete in the mens three meter springboard diving. It was very exciting to see that. I know you asked about the pool. The pool looks pretty good. It isnt that deep green color anymore. I also made to it the ladies gymnastics. I have two words for you. Mind blowing. You have to watch. Thats a good tease. Well watch tonight in primetime. Thanks, jessica. Thanks for watching us here at 5 00. Lester holt joins us next, also from rio. Hope to see you back here at 6 00. Jessica will be back, too. Good night, folks. Tonight, racing to escape. A frantic turn in the worst Flood Disaster since superstorm sandy. Now 30,000 rescued as more communities scramble to get out of the way. Arson arrest. A man is charged with setting an explosive california wildfire that burned over 100 homes and buildings to the ground. And trump and ailes . A bombshell report that the former fox news chief is now he helping the gop nominee. Plus what we have learned about trumps first classified intelligence briefing. Inside the fbi interview, what Hillary Clinton told the feds and why they recommended against charging her. And crossing the line, a photo finish for the ages, an american cio
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