And only 5 contained. Likely will see temperatures in the upper 90s to 100s over the next sevendays this weekend. We will have a look at our own forecast in ten minutes. We sent out a push alert about the fire less than ten minutes ago. Our top story tonight bart under growing pressure to beef up security. A crime surge. The number of people applying to join the bart police force is low. Just yesterday the chief was saying it was a concern how much crime was on the rise. Reporter it is a concern. Last night a rider said he was jumped and kicked by teenagers who stole his iphone and laptop. Something naeds to be done to stop it. It is sad. It is scarey and if we dont all stand up and start making a change, it is going to be worse. Staff and his stamly were attacked and robbed board a bart train months ago. He urged the board of directors to take crime seriously. You have a disease going on right now and you prevent the disease or it is going to proliferated. Reporter bart acknowledged crime is up 41 this year. Recruiting new Police Officers has become a challenge. The number of officer applicants has plunged. Our agency should have a lot more Police Officers than we have budgeted for. Reporter the chief says he is working on recruitment and other strategies to make bart safer. We do cover four counties. We are looking at ways to mitigate that and hopefully eliminate it. Reporter again, the chief says he is working on improving recruitment efforts. Bart has started going past stations when they see mischievous kids. You may want to follow jodi she has been tweeting out the story all day. You can follow her on twitter or us at nbcbayarea. The story line is constantly changing. Mr. Trump met privately with russian president for a second time. The first conversation between the two was highly publicized. It lasted two hours. And the two leaders met again that same night during dinner. Today, four new senators came out against the bill. Blayne alexander has more from washington. Reporter after another Health Care Defeat from republican frustration. For seven years i have been hearing repeal and replace. Congress needs to do their job and Congress Needs to do their job now. Reporter and now a scramble for plan b. We will now try a different way to bring the people relief. Reporter that different way is repeal now, replace later. Three leaders rejected the idea. To repale it kmaetly with no idea what it is going to be replaced with is no right choice. Reporter Mitch Mcconnell says he may push from a repeal only vote even knowing it might fail. I am not going to own it. The republicans are not going to own it. We will let obamacare fail and then the democrats are going to come to us and say how do we fix it. Reporter a political battle with nancy pelosi said it was the average americans who made the difference. When senators went home and heard from their constituents. The town halls worked. The outside groups weighed in with the story telling of people and what Affordable Care act means in their lives. Senator Kamala Harris from the bay area echoed that statement. Keep up the pressure. Health care isnt the only thing on the president s agenda that sta stalled last night. Lester holt will join us at 5 30. Mission impossible cupertino style. A Verizon Store robbed from above. The thieves cut a hole on the roof of this store and stole electronics. The rooftop and the orange area surrounded by orange stones. Michelle roberts joins us in cupertino. Reporter the thieves are driving around san jose with hundreds of cell phones in the back seat. They used power tools to cut a hole directly over a storage area. It sounds like something they do in mission impossible. Reporter many employs who work in the strip mall were stunned to hear how thieves got into this store. They disabled the surveillance camera and alarms. 40yearold tan nguyen and tran cut a hole in the roof. The Sheriffs Department showed this picture of stolen merchandise. Seeing these devices in the back seat we were able to follow this case. Reporter other Verizon Stores have been targeted in the same way. The owner of this metro pcs tells us he was targeted. Some neighborhood businesses are thinking about beefing up security. We should upgrade our security. Reporter verizon didnt comment on how many times their stores were targeted buct they are working with local authorities. Follow up on that fire. Santa clara located in the saratoga hills, now it has not impacted the winery. No one has been hurt and no structures threatened. The winery twitter account posted tonights concert will go on as scheduled. Bikes disappearing but ending up dumped where they dont belong. I am chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Cooling breeze came back tonight. We will talk more about the cooler trend in my forecast in eight minutes. We continue to monitor our breaking news. The fire in mariposa county. This is about 40 miles away from yosmite. Back to our breaking news we have been following now. The fire in mari posa county, you can see the flames there and the smoke. This is about 40 miles away from yosemite. The park remains open this evening but the entire town of mariposa has been evacuated so far. New at 5 00, they are cute and colorful but now causing a problem. Google bikes have been been dumped in a creek. Reporter google provides these for their employees. More than a dozen bikes have been found in the water here in less than two weeks. Aaron growsman keeps his eyes on the path here. This has become a common sight. They have seen google bikes left along the creek before and one or two might end up in the creek. But recently something changed. I pulled out six bikes saturday a week ago and pulled them up by the trail. I went by the next day and three of them have been thrown down by the creek. Reporter this woman has noticed an increase too. I always call the number when i find the google bikes. Reporter grossman has been calling google as well. Google admits there has been a spike of missing bikes this summer. It is bad for the bikes. It is bad for the creeks. Reporter google is considering placing gps trackers on the bike. The best way to contact google is an email address lost google bikes. Com. The phrase the show must go on. The show went on in san jose recently. A touching tribute in bay area proud. His daughter says he was the blood that ran through that place for more than 40 years. In the end though, she didnt want just to tell people, that she wanted to show them. When marin lane calls the theater her home, she doesnt mean that it is the place that she feels comfortable, but it is where she spent a good chunk of her childhood. That is if she wanted to spend time completely her dad. He would include me and that was super great. Reporter for more than 30 years, tom or ta as his students called him led the shows. Marin began helping her dad on behind the scene production herself. They worked on many shows together including toms latest. Until tom died that is. Two weeks before rehearsals began to start. Definitely sudden. Reporter she knew she still wanted to put on the show and she turned to cast and crew for help. They all said yeah. Reporter now a theater professional himself brendon took on the task of directing swift justice in addition to acting in it. I wonder do they have Unfinished Business and in this case, there is actually a concrete thing that i know t. A. Wants to do. He wanted to do this show. Reporter and for four nights this month, this is what they did. They put on not just a performance but a show. A show of respect from a mentor and friend. And a show of support for those he left behind. It was emotional. So touching. This is a big deal in the south bay theater community. Yeah. And the people who took part in it, one of the things they said is they could have grieved at home by themselves, but this helped them to get together and have something to do and something concrete that they can contribute to his legacy. Nice story. Thank you. The fourth of july may be over but in big sur you can still hear the explosions. Caltrans crews used explosives to get rid of those boulders. The slide is mostly cleared and highway 1 is now open south of big sur. However it is still slow in that direction. Crews are still trying to rebuild that bridge and that will take longer probably into late fall. Jeff ranieri is back completely us. Two forecast as we go into the summer our own forecast and the fire forecast. We continue to have sky ranger out and getting us live view of this fire. It is currently off towards the north of west of mariposa. You can see how high the smoke plumes are going in the atmosphere. It is creating its own wind pattern and you know, storm affect if you will the way they get these up drafts and downdrafts and making it unpredictable for firefighters and it has an easy time tonight completely flames that are growing and could be getting closer to mariposa as we head into tomorrow. The thing firefighters are fearing tomorrow is a much dryer wind coming out of the east northeast that could drive the embers, the flames possibly closer to mariposa where there are evacuation orders in effect. Humidity 20 and temperatures in the upper 90s. We will have more coverage of this at nbcbayarea. Com. Lets get you back into our own forecast. Much cooler today. 77 in downtown san jose and 60s as we head into later on this evening. Cooler weather. Check it out, 13 degrees cooler in concord. And down ten in san jose. This means we are setting ourselves up for one of the best mornings in a long time. Comfortable in the trivalley. Still tomorrow, down in the south bay looks good. 83 in san jose. Breezy for the east bay. 77 in hay ward and 88 in pleasanton. San francisco 60s. Winds out of the west at 18 miles per hour. So hold on to your hats if you are headed to the city and up into the north bay 79 in mill valley. The only problem in the forecast will be the pollen that will be kicking up especially in San Francisco but the trend of 60s. For the inland valleys back to the mid90s. Common sense stuff here. Three things to think about while camping. Fully extinguish fire, backyard debris burning. And look for sparks. You can see temperatures again, back up to the mid90s once we hit this up coming weekend forecast. So many times we hear about brush fires being ignited by someone in a lawn mower or even a car. Good information. Up next, calling 911 completely your fingerprint. Apple has just filed a patent for this new technology. Chipotle is temporarily closing down one of its stores in virginia. Customers say they got the stomach flu after eating the food. Just 2 years ago, chipotle temporarily closed down 40 chipotle temporarily closing down one store in virginia. Two years ago they temporarily closed down 40 stores after an e. Coli outbreak. Command to its phones. It will automatically dial 911. Apple apparently wants to help you get out of trouble by adding a panic command to phones that will automatically dial 911. A fingerprint combined with a swipe or other movement will connect it to emergency responders. The panic command will provide your location or live stream video. It is supposed to be subtle and hide your actions from any potential attackers. Frontier was a casualty of the bad economy a few years back ending its service at sjc but now it is back. There it is flights from the Silicon Valley to denver, us stin and las vegas. Austin and San Antonio Service begins next spring. Lets do it now. One last check of the fire in yosemite in just a moment. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Breaking news. The fire in mariposa county. This is about 40 miles away from we are continuing to monitor the breaking news the fire of mara posa county. 700 firefighters that have been fighting this. The entire town has been evacuated. And 20,000 acres burned so far. And also continuing to be threatened is power lines. Still working on this. Lots of retardant and lots of flames still out there. We will bring you more at 6 00. Also new at 6 00. Instead of focusing on porches, they are robbing bay area mail trucks. Our exclusive story coming up. We hope to see you then. That does it for us at 5 00. 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