Active use. To morgan hill, our chopper bringing live pictures from over the scene. You can see a lot of smoke generated this fire burning near the coyote creek golf course. At least 100 acres have been burned. Weve seen several homter water drops in the past half hour. Good news, the fire is now 50 contained and cal fire says no structures are being threatened. The danger and evacuations continue in Southern California. Right now, zero containment of the socalled blue cut fire. This was about 60 miles east of l. A. Its in San Bernardino county. Now, this fire is about the size of San Francisco. More than 80,000 people are evacuating as smoke and ash smother entire neighborhoods. An unknown number of homes have been destroyed and this could be obl the beginning. Many bay area fire crews are being reassigned to help battle flames. A man and woman drove through the heart of this fire on highway 38 capturing cell phone video. Authorities have since closed the highway and also, interstate 15 is closed, the main route between l. A. And las vegas. In lake county tonight, more progress in the battle against the clayton fire and more evacuations lifted. Meantime, the man accused of setting the devastating fire made his first appearance in court. Charged with multiple counts of arson. Jodi hernandez is live in lake port with more and you obtained documents detailing what led to his arrest. Thats right. Investigators wouldnt talk about the evidence theyve collected except to say its strong, but its all spelled out in in development. In it, police say they have surv surveillance and more that prove hes a sere rall arsonist. He kept his head down as he came to cameras where he was charged with the clayton fire. A fire that caused mass destruction in this fire. Pashook was also charged with attempting to start other fires t. Car he was known to drive was caught on surveillance camera time and time again at the scenes of fires, starting in july of last year. In one case b, a witness saw a driver throw an object out the window where flames then erupteded. We are confident this is our guy, a serial arsonist. Investigators eventually outed his car with a gps device which recorded t ate the orgin of the clayton fire. According to investigators, he could not explain being at the ignition sites of the fires. Those impacted are outraged. How could you . If hes presumed innocent until Proven Guilty and its important the public remember that during the course of these proceeding proceedings. Before court started, we heard a loud rumble outside the doors. Later, his attorney said he had pennsylvaniaed out just before court. He was offered a dplasz of water. He did not enter a plea today, but will be back in Court Next Month to do that. Hes being held on 5 million bail. Thank you. In the town of lower lake, some people are being allowed back to their homes. Less than an hour ago, cal fire announcing that evacuations are being lifted for portions of that devastated community. This fire is now 40 contain ed which is a big increase from yesterday. Fire crews have lowered the acreage burned to about 3900 and so far, 175 structures have been destroyed. 380 structures are still in the fires path. Bay area firefighters remain on the front lines. This video was posted by the redwood city fire department. This is their strike team. Watch in the background here. Gallon container, something was in there, that exploded into that huge fire ball. Its now heading to Southern California to pat l that fire. Gunfire erupts on a busy street in emoryville today after two men chased down another car. Now, take a look at this video of one of the Gunmen Police say another shooter was not photographed, also in that white sedan. This was on add line street between 45th and 47th street. Witnesses say they appeared to be following another car when they sprayed a number of bullets into the b neighborhood. Right now, were looking for a person in a white vehicle. Appears to be a black male adult. Second black male adult is the shooter, also. Police say no one was hurt during the shooting. Theyre asking for help identifying these men. An investigation is underway after an Early Morning crash left a pregnant teenager dead. Tonight, lots of kes about the strange circumstances. Robert has more. Well, we are here at valley method cal center where we have just been told that the Young Pregnant woman brought here after the accident, we did report earlier she died, but sources say the baby is still alive. But im told just barely. Its a series of events that has investigators puzzled and sad. Theres not much shoulder room on southbound highway 101 and not for vehicles at once in the dark. Pu thats what investigators say happenedly this morning around 2 00 when the driver of a honda civic with a pregnant 18yearold passenger causing a fiery crash with a bmw parked there. Despite the scene, officers having suffered minor injuries including the pregnant woman, who complained of leg pains. She was taken to valley medical center. The male driver in her car and the man inside the parks bmw were taken to Regional Medical center, but things changed rapidly. There were further internal injuries and she died of those this morning. Was her being a a factor . Im not sure. Chp says it has to figure out why the driver of the civic veered on to the shoulder of 101 and dont know why the bmw was parked there, though the driver was according to the chp, intoxicated and in twist, was arrested for driving under the influence even though he wasnt driving. Well wait for medicine carol toxicology reports. Now, the chp says that it does not appear the honda civic driver was driving under the influence. Chp is examining the bmw to see if there were mechanical failures. Well have an update on the babes condition at 11 00. Thank you. A traffic mess for most of the day, but right now, it is clear up. A pothole shut down several lanes of highway 85. It opened up on a 85 in sunnyvale. The exposed rebarb flattened several tires. This really exposes a deep er problem with our crumbling roadways. It really does. Cal trance reopened the lanes here on 85 just over an hour ago. But today, a National Research group says california and the bay area need to move fast to fix their roads because thing rs getting worse. The rebar was showing inside the pothole on highway 85. There were a few vehicles that had flat tires as a result of driving over this area. Ironically, the same thing happened last year, just a few inches from todays pothole. Now, trip, a National Research group, says the state has been neglecting its roads and bridges for so long, its cost i costing drivers thousands each year. More than onethird of californians major roads are in Poor Condition and here in the san jose area, 79 are in poor or mediocre condition. The agency says the average driver in the south bay losing 2500 per year in car repairs and delays as a result of the regions decaying infrastructure. The local leaders are pushing measure b on the november ballot, a county wide half cent sales tax increase. Dig into our own pogts and put more dollars to work. Again, cal trance finally reopened the lanes here before 4 00 tont. Nbc bay area news. Turning to the olympics and the comeback continues for the u. S. Mens volleyball team. They got off to a sluggish start, but now, are the on fire. Stanford alums helped team usa defeat poland today. The men have been on a streak after struggling in pool play. On the beach, Kerri Walsh Jennings will try to salvage a bronze in Beach Volleyball tonight. Comes a day after her first ever olympic loss. She and her partner april ross, will face off against brazils second team and congratto the u. S. Equestrian team. They secured a silver in show jumping after entering the competition in a fourway tie. U. S. Side by side. Four goals. A golden opportunity for maggie after defeating hungary today. Shell lead team usa water polo to the finals. The u. S. Is looking to become the first Womens Water Polo Team to win backtoback gold medals. Jessica is in rio and caught up with her after the victory. The grumble in rio continues right in there inside the aquatic center. Moments ago, the womens team usa Water Polo Team and team captain said she stepd out of postepped out of the pool and ss they are ready to go for gold next. You know, a lot of emotion, but i would say the biggest one is pride. This team come along way. Weve worked really hard. Weve been dreaming of this. For four years and more. But together as a unit, we have one more opportunity to play. Together. And we are really looking forward to the opportunity and have fun doing it. At the end of the day, were playing for a gold. Nothing really gets better than that. What would it mean to you and to the team and to stanford and the whole community, that you guys come back again with the gold . I think you know, and ive been saying theres so much proud with the word olympian and with representing your country. But its not calling yourself that. Its opportunity that youre given with the title, the way you play, the way you act and represent yourself and we hope to be that way when were in the water and out of the water and just represent ourselves, our friends and family who have been cheering us on back home and kids in schools. So, to me, it would mean representing them. Representing our home. Our country. Maggie says they have experience. The team won gold in 2012. Theyve got the right mental attitude and they are ready the to show the world how valuable womens water polo is. Its a sport they want more women an young girls to get into. Thank you. Our rio coverage continues online. You can follow jessica on twitter for a look behind the scenes. We are continuing to follow several breaking news stories including fires in the south bay. This is the live picture of one in morgan hill. The fire has charred sempb acres ne. Also it only takes seconds. Thieves stealing wallets from a popular east bay restaurant. Live tonight ahead, a warning from police in an area thats known for being safe. And good afternoon. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. Were tracking conditions at the wildfires. Plus, hot temperatures tomorrow will bring a spare the air al t alert. Only on nbc bay area watch closely. Two women caught on camera stealing wallets at a popular walnut creek watch closely. Youre seeing there two women caught on camera stealing wallets at a popular walnut creek restaurant. The booming downtown corridor is attracting more than just visitors. Its bringing the thieves as well and there are other problems. Elise is there in walnut creek this evening and this is really the downside of a booming business. How are they fight back . Thats right. This whole area has change d so draically in the last couple of years, you look behind me, you can see the 250 million renovation to broadway plaza. You can see all of the new stores that have opened here. Plus, youre seeing a lot more restaurants throughout the area and its already say some thieves are trying to cash in. It only takes a second at the wallet is gone. At a popular restaurant on locust street, video shows a woman pretending to be on the phone while the other female suspect casually leans over to grab b the victims wallet from inside her purse, then takes off. The victims are still eating and they get an a alert saying their card is being used at sun valley mall. Police say they did the same thing at three other restaurants on august 5th. Its shocking. Also surprising, looking at crime data, weve learned shoplifting spiked by 47 . From 2014 to 2015. And continues rise this year. Its like a nice area, so i dont know why that would be. The mall has been minimized and under construction for the last two years and now that its coming back up, weve got a lot more people coming to town. And youre looking at a look at one of the surveillance cameras installeded on top of the roof here along the newly renovated broadway plaza. Its part of the efforts to precrime. Thank you. In the murder trial of sierra lamar, theres a bitter fight over where her accused killer will be tried. Attorneys argued that pretrial Media Coverage will make it impossible to find an impartial jury and the trial should be moved. Today, the judge accepted a new defense expert. Theres also a bitter battle over evidence. The judge still decide whether to throw out Garcia Torres made to sheriffs deputies when questioned. Both sides will be back in court tomorrow. Large scale layoffs of some legendary silicon bay companies. Cisco systems announced it will cut about 5500 employees. Thats a big part of ciscos workforce. They say its part of cost kuin. No word yet on how many of the cuts will impact local cisco employees. Cisco not the only Silicon Valley Company Announcing cutbacks. Solarcity says it will be laying people off. The Solar Panel Maker did not say how many employees will be cut. The company is currently in the process of being bought by tesla. Both companies founded by elon mu musk. Its wednesday and its a nice day. Getting armer. For most of the bay area, it was very comfortable. For the valleys though, were still tracking the hot weather. With the firefighters throughout the bay area. As we look at our forecasts, youre going to be able to see the fire which we have been covering for the past hour or so, which is in south san jose. Firefighters are dealing with a hot 90 degrees. Humidity, 30 and we have winds right now into the northwest at 10. That humidity, 36 . Well see temperatures drop by 7 00 tonight and then 60s by 10 00 p. M. We hear theyre getting a good handle on that, so thats great news. The clayton fire continues. Still 99 degrees, humidity at 21 . Numbers will get down into the 70s by 10 00 tonight. Its going to be a hot day again on the clayton fire with temperatures in the mid90s by 3 00 p. M. Tomorrow. As we get you into the rest of the forecast for tomorrow, we have partly cloudy skies. 56 degrees, San Francisco, your fog coming back at 55. For the peninsula, 54 degrees. Mild 61 with mostly clear skies. Tomorrow,s theres not too many major changes in temperatures. In the south bay, 90. So the peninsula, a chilly 59 at Half Moon Bay and toward palo alto, 69 and similar temperatures expected in the mission like 65. For the north bay, bay and trivalley, a hot 95 degrees in livermore. Then over towards pleasonton 91. Fantastic day in oakland and 73 degrees. You get the breeze off the water and thats why your temperatures will be cooler. As we head into friday and saturday though, were going to start to see changes. Weve been trusting this area of low pressure thats been getting close to ra kra, but once we get friday and saturday specifically, that area of low pressure is going to dig in more across california. Its going to do two things for us. The first thing is its going to produce some showers and thunderstorms sierra. Im going to monitor that for any activity and well continue to see the fog at the coastline and a little bit of a stronger breeze. Our temperatures friday, s saturday and sunday. You can see San Francisco, the result will continue to keep 60s here across San Francisco in our extended forecast and what about the inland valleys. Not a major cooldown, but something thats noticeable. We go from an average of 94 for your thursday forecast down to 87 by sunday. I think th87 lot of people wille a lot happier with. Thanks, jeff. Nice cooldown. A burglary caught on camera at a local community center. Where and what was taken. Other School Supplies to oakland schools today. It took about 80 pink mustache toting cars to complete the job. You can read the full lift drivers delivered 450 obama packs and School Supplies to schools today. Took about 18 cars to complete the job and you can read the full story on our website and on facebook, its back. This weekend, slurpie lovers can fill up whatever cup they bring. Sp a year later and we know the cause. The illegal marijuana growing operation sparked the destructive rocky fire last year. Investigators are pinpointing a faulty water heater. Now, the fire was the sec most directive in lake county area year, right behind the valley fire. It destroyed 43 homes last august. The fire burned about 108 square miles. Investigators are looking for two suspects who are believed to have fled the country. A robbery caught on camera. Youre looking at a burglar yanking a computer right off the table of a south san jose Apartment Community center. Police say the burglar forced his way into the building in may use ago pry tool. He was last seen wear ago hoodie with the letter b on the front. If you recognize heim, call police. Back in a moment with the latest whats happening in Southern California with the fire about 60 miles east of l. A. Stay with us. Janelle chopper cal fire calling it one of the most destructive keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life most destructive back to Southern California where cal fire is fighting one of the most destructive fires they say they have ever seen. This is the blue cut fire. You can see cal fire making water drops right now. Its burning in San Bernardino county about 60 miles east of l. A. This fire grew so fast. Its out of control right now. Its grown to about the size of San Francisco. Containment as zero. 80,000 people forced to evacuate and an unknown number of homes destroyed. Well have another update at 6 00. Up next, lester holt coming to you from rio. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news tonight. Olympic bombshell, questions swirling around ryan lochte and the 19 u. S. Swimmers who say they were robbed at gunpoint in rio. 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