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Their parents told to come pick them up. The flames continued to grow. Nearby residents told us there was a lot of black smoke. And a strange smell. As i came outside and i saw the plumes of smoke everywhere, i was like, oh, man, whats going on, is the school on fire . Like oh, no. I ran out here, saw everybody standing in front and taking pictures stuff like that and could see the whole bridge fully in flames 10 to 15 feet up in the air. Reporter did it smell bad, any chemical you could definitely smell, like the chemicals, like, from whatever it was. It wasnt a natural smell. Reporter now the good news is the flames have been put out. No more smell in the neighborhood. No more evacuations and the kids are accounted for. Were told that the fire is still under investigation and they do not have a cause. The train tracks, by the way, have not been in use for some time. Again, things getting back to normal in the neighborhood. Still a lot of traffic as people were scared and left their apartments and drove away then theyre starting to come back and clean things up. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Okay. A nice ending there. Again, thats at 101 and mckee road. Thank you, scott. The other fire burning now in morgan hill. Our nbc chopper overhead. This is near the popular coyote creek golf course. That smoke you can see, see the helicopters going down below. Very visible from 101. At least 100 acres have been burned. Now weve seen several helicopter water drops in the past 30 minutes. This fire is now 50 contained. Thankfully, no structures are being threatened. And down to Southern California, where an explosive fire is devouring parts of San Bernardino county. The blue cut fire burning out of control right now. Its burning about 60 miles east of l. A. Containment at zero. High heat, gusty winds, fueling these flames. 30,000 acres have burned so far. Thats about the size of San Francisco. More than 80,000 people forced to evacuate. Cal fire says an unknown number of homes have also been destroyed and this is just the beginning. They say this is one of the most destructive fires theyve ever seen. Tonight a man who was trying to protect his home from the flames is safe thanks to his cousi cousin who lives in the bay area. Nbc bay areas michelle roberts, how he was able to help from hundreds of miles away. It was a team effort. Ron snow lives ace long the peninsula. He was watching this live feed from Southern California when he spotted his cousins house right there and the flames dangerously close. He called for help. Everyone was concerned. Reporter ron snow describes his 84yearold cousin, john, as a fighter. A resident. Reporter he wasnt surprised to hear john refused to evacuate when flames started tearing through the hills near his home in San Bernardino county. We tried to make sure that he was making safety first. But he did want to save the town, thats his life basically. Reporter when ron couldnt get in touch with his cousin, he started to panic looking for more information, he pulled up the live stream from nbc in l. A. You pan out and i could see it was his house. Reporter he called 911 after seeing his cousins truck go up in flames. We couldnt get the right kind of response back from emergency response. Reporter so he called a reporter in our sister station, knbc, who reached out to fire officials. Within the hour, firefighters navigated the rugged terrain and rescued john from his front yard. Today, john admits hes exhausted and still worried the fire will burn his home. Starts flying. Reporter covered in ash and getting around with help from a walker. John continues to prove to his family and himself that hes a fighter. Thanks the lord incredible story there. Johns shed and outhouse burned yesterday but his home built in 1928 is still standing. Tonight the Evacuation Order is still in place but he refuses to leave saying he will protect his home. Raj, back to you. That is an incredible story indeed. Thank you, michelle. Now to lake county. Damon pashik was charged with starting the fire that gutted sp 175 homes, businesses and other structures this woke. Sheriffs deputies say hed been under surveillance for a while and tonight were getting the better idea of exactly how they tracked him. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez got a look at the documents that explain what led to his arrest. Jodi . Reporter raj, for the first time were getting a look at the evidence investigators gathered over the past year. This Law Enforcement document spells it all out. Surveillance video, witness accounts and a burned matchbook all helped lead to the suspects arrest. Disgust. How could you . Reporter thats how some folks felt as they watched 40yearold damon come to court hiding his face from the cameras as he was formally charged with lighting the destructive clayton fire. Youve done all of this to these people. Thousands of people. You just turned their lives upsidedown and animals and everything. Face the people. Set a fire that caused mass destruction in this county. Reporter he was also charged with starting or attempting to start 12 other fires. According to the probable cause statement obtained by nbc bay area, the 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, a witness saw the driver throw an object out the window where flames then erupted. We are very confident that this is our guy. A serial arsonist. Reporter investigators eventually outfitted his car with a gps device which recorded it at the origin of the clayton fire. According to investigators, he could not explain being at the ignition site of the fires. I would just remind them that hes presumed innocent until proven guilty. Reporter while he was under surveillance for the past year, investigators insist they didnt have the solid case they needed until this week. Get one shot at this. If you take your shot too soon, you jeopardize bringing somebody to justice who truly needs to be brought to justice. Reporter now before court, we heard a loud rumble just outside the courtroom doors. His attorney later told the court that his client had passed out right before court. Now despite all of the evidence, we are told that he is denying any involvement in the fires. Hell be back in court here next month to enter a plea. Reporting live inhernandez, nbc news. In the town of lower lake, hundreds of evacuees are being let back into the burn zone this evening. Less than an hour ago cal fire announcing evacuation are being lifted for portions of this devastated community. The fire is now 40 contained. Which is a big increase from yesterday. At least 380 structures are still being threatened by this fire. Well bay area fire crews remain on the front lines. This video posted by the redwoo. Thats the strike team. Watch the background. 55 gallon barrel of some sort of liquid explodes into a huge fireball. This strike team is now on the move yet again. Theyre assigned reassigned to that blue cut fire near los angeles. In the east bay, police are searching for two men who opened fire from a car at people in another car. This happened on a busy street in emeryville. Nbc bay area is live in emeryville where someone caught the shooting on camera and kim, these were some frightening moments. Reporter they certainly were, janelle. Having a recording of the shooting is a huge help to investigators. This is a very dangerous situation with a number of shots fired by at least two different shooters. A picture captured from Surveillance Video clearly shows one of the suspects hanging out of a car with his gun drawn. This happened at 11 30 this morning on adeline street. Witnesses say a group of people in a gray car were being followed then shot at by two men in a white car. When officers got out there, they found numerous shell casings on the ground along adeline street there. They found one parked car had been hit by gunfire. Reporter one car hit by gunfire but thankfully no people hit in this mostly residential area. Investigators are trying to determine a motive and arent sure if this was road rage or something else. Theyre hoping more Surveillance Video will provide those answers and lead them to the suspect. Now at this point in the investigation, police arent saying what type of guns were used in the shooting or how many bullets were actually fired. They are also holding on to the full Surveillance Video for now. Reporting live in emeryville, kim yonenaka, nbc bay area news. Okay. Lets get to all the good news from brazil. One game away from a medal. The u. S. Womens Water Polo Team advanced to the finals today. On this team, five bay area athletes including k. K. Clark who graduated from sacred heart prep in atherton. You could hear the cheers all the way from the peninsula today. Live on the peninsula, live in atherton with more. They must be so proud of her. Reporter they are immensely proud of her. K. K. Clark is from menlo park and trained in this pool. She fwr graduated back in 2008 but shes been back several times to help coach these players. There was no doubt who these girls were watching for as the u. S. Womens olympic team took on hungary in rio. Good luck reporter caroline clark, better known as k. K. , was a star water polo here at sacred heart prep in atherton. She graduated in 2008. Definitely one of the hardest working and conscientious players ive ever coached. Shes very team oriented. Reporter he was right. She is now on the u. S. Womens olympic Water Polo Team and her fellow gators couldnt be more proud. Its amazing to see that, like, she came from where we are and that she can go on and be in the olympics and just it makes you think that you can do the same. Usa usa reporter she recently returned to her alma mater to coach them. She gave us a lot of experience into what it was like to play for a National Team or higher level water polo which is really unique. Reporter k. K. Isnt the only local competing on the olympic team. Maggie stephens is from danfield. And all current or former stanford students. The bay area muscle helping propel team usa toward gold. The u. S. Womens team will now take on italy in the gold medal match. You can watch it on friday. Reporting live in atherton, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. A great story. No doubt there will be watch parties across the bay area on friday as well. Our own Jessica Aguirre spoke to the womens Water Polo Team after that big win today. You can see that interview, we posted it in our rio section on the front page of our website at nbcbayarea. Com. A fiery accident on a south bay highway today led to a Young Pregnant womans death. Im robert handa live in san jose. Coming up the late st on the bay that somehow survived and how its doing now. Good evening, im mom meteorologist jeff ranieri. Hot temperatures inland tomorrow. Brings us a spare the air alert. Details on how warm its going to get and when well get a little bit of relief coming up in just a few minutes. Surrounding a horrific Early Morning Traffic Accident in the a lot of questions tonight surrounding a horrific Early Morning Traffic Accident in the south bay. A pregnant teenager was killed. Tonight were hearing her baby is still alive. Nbc bay areas robert handa broke the story earlier for us today and joins us this evening in san jose with the very latest. Robert . Reporter well, raj, were here at Valley Medical Center where the Young Pregnant woman was brought in shortly after the accident and died. Sources tell me the baby is now listed in Critical Condition and sounded more optimistic about the babys survival since our 5 00 report. They did not disclose the babys gender. As for the accident, investigators say they believe they know how it happened, but so far, not why. Theres not much shoulder room on southbound highway 101 near tully road and certainly not for two vehicles at once in the dark. Thats what investigators happened early this morning around 2 00 when the troodrivera honda civic with a pregnant 18yearold teenager swerved into the shoulder causing a fiery crash with an occupied bmw parked there. Despite the scary scene, officers classify the people as having suffered only minor injuries including the pregnant woman who complained of leg pains. She was taken to Valley Medical Center. The male driver inside her car and man inside the parked bmw were taken to Regional Medical center. Things changed rapidly after she was taken away. There were further internal injuries and she succumbed to those injuries this morning. Reporter was her being pregnant a factor . Im not sure. Reporter the chp says it still hasnt figured out why the driver of the honda civic 20yearold hernandez suddenly veered onto the shoulder of 101 and dont know why the bmw was parked there though the bmw driver 22yearold hung tran was according to the chw intoxicated and in a twist was arrested for driving under the influence even though he wasnt driving. We will await for any available medical or toxicology reports. Reporter now, the chp says it is also examining the vehicles for any possible mechanical problems. The medical Examiners Office says it is not releasing the womans name at this time. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Heartbreaking story, robert, thank you. Tonight a warning from police about the growing problem of pickpocketers in an upscale east bay community. Take a look at this Surveillance Video. Two women working together to steal a wallet from a third woman at a popular downtown restaurant in walnut creek. Police believe these two suspects did the same thing at least three other times post recently on august 5th. Nbc bay area analysis of walnut creek crime data shows the city has also seen an increase in shop lifting over the last three years. Our populations expanding. The mall has been minimized and under construction the last two years and now that its coming back up, weve got a lot more people coming to town. Police say theyve installed cameras throughout the downtown area and have stepped up patrols in hopes of cushing the uptick in crime. One year later we know the cause of the destructive rocky fire. Investigators say it was an illegal marijuana growing operation. They are pinpointing a faulty water heater near where 100 pop plants were growing last year. The rocky fire in lake county was the second most destructive fire in that area last year. Right behind the valley fire. The rocky fire tdestroyed 43 homes in august 2014 and been under 100 square miling. Officials are looking for two suspects who have believed to have fled the country. Cisco, the silicon sally tech giant announcing late today it will cut 5,500 employees. The San Jose Based Company says its part of cost cutting as it continues to transition its business away from hardware like internet routers and move toward software. Cisco is silicon valleys largest employer. No word on how many of the job cuts will be here in the bay area. Some good news for silicon valleys Largest School district as kids head back to class. San jose is fully staffed. It is the first time thats happened in a few years. District leaders say one reason for the full staff is a new 7 bonus offered to all staff. A spokesperson says the district was neglective in its recruitment efforts, going to job fairs and staying in touch with applicants. Jeff ranieri, chief meteorologist, as we head toward the weekend, i see people around the bay area tired staying up for the olympics every night. Yeah. A little bit of weather to energize us this week. Its going to be much more comfortable across the bay area. Lets get a look at the forecast. And what were seeing right now. At least when it comes to our weather. Of course, that high fire danger. Weve been following the bay leaf fire this afternoon. More at nbcbayarea. Com on the fire specifics but when it comes to weather, we are right now still at a very warm 89 degrees. Humidity 36 . Temperatures dropping into the 70s by 9 00 and 10 00. So its going to be a slow go there tonight with plenty of hot spots. The other big fire, of course, is the clayton fire in lake county. Hot, 99 degrees. And it will continue to stay warm all the way through 9 00 p. M. Expecting temperatures to stay in the 80s. As we get you into tomorrows forecast, we are expecting more warm to hot weather for the interior valleys, east bay at t93 degrees. Coastline, fog, keep it at 66 and right back here toward the south bay, anticipated 88 degrees. Now, we do have changes coming our way once we hit friday and saturdays friday. See this area of low pressure dig in a little bit more across california. Not a strong storm but enough to fire up some thunderstorms right across the sierra. Were going to track it closely because some these storms will be moving off toward the west and getting close to the central valley. So, again, ill have the Doppler Radar up. Well be watching for stray showers that may get near our Eastern Hills then at the coastline well continue to see the fog and eventually some cooler temperatures. But how much cooler . Full details and how much those temperatures drop in about 25 minutes. Okay. See you soon. Thank you, jeff. A pothole causes a cig alert on highway 85. Im Damian Trujillo. Coming up, why a National Research group say the state and bay area need to act fast to fix the crumbling roads. Homemade olympics. Happening now, french comedian decides to have his own homemade olympics. Cart wheels in the street and spins on handrails and videos that have been viewed over 135 million times. Watch those videos on or website. Twitter, more on the skyrocketing cost of lifesaving epi pens. They now cost about 500. Eight years ago the medication only cost about 100 bucks. Thats a 400 increase. More news after the break clearing up. A pothole shut down several lanes of highwayin a traffic mess for most of the day in the south bay is finally clearing up. A pothole shut down several lanes of highway 85 in sunnyvale. Nbc chopper see over the scene. The exposed rebar flattened several tires. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo joins us in sunnyvale. This is part of a much larger and costly problem for many of us. Reporter yeah, it really is. Cal trans reopened these lanes before 4 00 this afternoon. Local leaders say this is happening way too often and the time to act is now. The pothole forced cal trans crews to close two lanes of highway 85 while they made repairs. The hole exposed the rebar in the concrete. It also exposed a decaying roads and bridges in california. T. R. I. P. , a National Research group, warns state infrastructure is in serious trouble. More than onethird of californias major roads are in poor condition. And here in the san jose area, 79 of major roads are in poor or mediocre condition. T. R. I. P. Says drivers are footing a lot of the bill for the bad roads. The agency says the average driver in the south bay loses roughly 2,500 per year in car repairs and commute delays as a result of the regions decaying infrastructure. It doesnt pull any punches about the need for more transportation funding. Reporter chair of the metropolitan Transportation Commission says the region cant wait any longer to plug the holes. The sichintuations gone fro serious to critical. We cant afford to wait for the state or federal government to ride to the rescue. We need to dig into our own pockets now and put more local dollars to work. Here in Santa Clara County, one critical solution is measure b and voters will have an opportunity in november to make the investment. Reporter measure b is a county wide half cent sale increase to fix roads and other transportation systems. Otherwise local leaders say expect more car repairs and traffic jams because of incidents like this. Now cal trans uses special compound on the pothole, one that allows it to bend with the concrete. Not crack. Live along highway 85 in sunnyvale, nbc bay area news. Still to come, ryan lochtes olympics are over but hes still making headlines in rio. Why brazilian authorities want to keep the star swimmer in the country. Our whole aim as being social workers is to help out children and families and its made impossible for us. Social workers speaking out to reveal concerns about the chide abuse hotline. Im Senior Investigative reporter vicki nguyen. Why the calls arent being answered by the right people. Workers on the front lines. Many of them help protect the most vulnerable in our communi we rarely hear from social workers on the front lines. Many of them help protect the most Vulnerable People in our community. The children. Tonight, Senior Investigative reporter vicki nguyen talks exclusively with two social Services Employees who expose the working conditions inside the agency. Vicki, this is having a big impact on the kid they serve. Reporter and thats why theyre speaking out. These are current social workers risking their jobs going on the record to reveal what they call a crisis. They call this after seeing our reports last october and they say theres even more to expose about the child abuse hotline. I feel very powerless. Because we are not meeting the needs of the community. People are having to go on antidepressants, having to take. Reporter these social workers have worked 26 years with family and children services. They say never has it been so bad. Its bad. Reporter conditions inside the agency have made it even more difficult to do the work out in the community. Your call has been forwarded. Our whole aim of being social workers is to help out children and families and its made impossible for us. Reporter they called the Investigative Unit after seeing our first reports last october. Detailing the failures of the agencys answered calls to its child abuse and neglect hotline. Workers directly answer only about 59 of calls made to the center. Two years later, it was 89 . These are 911 calls for children. Reporter after our reports aired county leaders gave the agency money to hire seven additional staffers for the hotline. I absolutely believe the 100 was achievable. Reporter the following month the agency raised its rate to 9 9 the agency raised its rate to 9 9 2 or so it said. Theyre going to voicemail or a clerical is answering them. And so it looks like we have a higher percentage of answering calls when we dont. Are the numbers being manipulated to make the agency look better in the eyes of the public . Yes. I feel so. Reporter while the county doesnt require hotline calls to be answered by a social worker, jean and don think they should. Theyre trained to recognize when a child needs immediate help. Reporter it matters because that depends on whether we call the police and have them go checking on that child, whether we snd out a social worker within two hours or ten days. Reporter based on her experience, dawn doesnt think social workers are answering as many calls. Is not available. Reporter as managers are reporting. 20 of those are just calls that the name has been taken and passed on. Reporter no one from the department would sit down for an oncamera interview. Jean, dawn, and four other social workers who asked to remain anonymous spoke for hours with the Investigative Unit about what they call mismanagement and harassment in the agency. And we have social workers who are leaving because of the management. Reporter they say its led to high turnover and higher case loads. Retaliation and toxic and hostile workplace that they sent to department and county leaders. This is about making sure every kid that needs help gets help. Reporter supervisor cindy chavez is investigating concerns raised by the workers but she is not aware of the claims about the call center numbers. Theyre saying their managers are going back to you, the board of supervisors, and saying look, were answering 98 of the calls. They dont think those numbers are real. Well check on it. I will say that we went from, you know, being in the low 80s to now to 98. So i feel like were making very important progress. They say these numbers are being manipulated because they include the calls that are answered by clerical workers. Taking those into account. Thats an excellent question. I dont know. Id have to look into it. Reporter the workers claims about a hostile working environment prompted an internal personnel investigation last july but the agency refused to provide a copy of the report citing privacy laws. Jean and dawn hope going public with their concerns will make a difference. Were going to investigate all of their claims every single one of them. I want it to be a great place for them to work. I want to respond to every kid in need. We need to know theyre taking it seriously. Please record your message. Supervisor chavez ordered the call center to use new technology to track call data. She says if the statistics show calls are not being handled by social workers, in a timely fashion, she will take further action. Guy, back to you. Thanks, vicki. If you have a tip for the Investigative Unit call 888996tips. Send an email to theunit nbcbayarea. Com. Back to our olympics coverage. Knocked out of rio. A number of boxing referees and judges have been sent home from the olympics after several controversial bouts. The International Boxing Association Says the judges did not meet the organizations standards. The exact number of judges and their names are not being released. Were told that all of the decisions they made during the matches in rio will remain final. Now a live look at the olympics flame in rio where its 10 35 p. M. The competition is getting outstaged by the continuing saga of swimmer ryan lochte, an alleged Armed Robbery involving lochte and teammates. Brian, always drama when it comes to lochte. Theres been breaking developments in the last hour or so. What do you have . Reporter janelle, raj, this graduated into full blown international incident. Let me throw that out there. They were getting on a plane to head home to the United States from rio and these two olympian swimmers who were among the four who were supposedly held up at gunpoint in rio sunday were pulled off the plane. Rio authorities will not let them leave. They say they want to question them. U. S. State department is going to be involved in this. They are among the three swimmers still here. Ryan lochte who is of course the one who sort of told the news to the world is apparently back in the United States. He has gone home but the drama is very much alive here. While other american swimmers are returning to heros welcomes, its a bizarre twist in rio for ryan lochtlochte. These guys came out with a badge, a police badge. Reporter lochte told today billy bush he and three fellow swimmers were robbed at gunpoint but they gave conflicting accounts and ordered their passports seized while the investigation continued. The u. S. Olympic Committee Says it is cooperating but the swim team left the athletes village after competition ended this weekend. Lochtes lawyer says hes already back in the states and rio officials are trying to save face. In competition headlines, even earned team usa a rare silver in steeple chase. Equestrian won a silver of its own. Ashten e ashton eaton defended. And after missing out in a fourth gold medal in her first ever olympic loss, Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross are trying to salvage bronze in beach volleyball. So inevitably back to lochte, he is back on u. S. Soil. The last apparently under the eyes if not in the actual custody of police authorities. Trying to get to the bottom of this. Janelle and raj, it begs the question what are the folks in rio thinking . What are they trying to prove . What is in it for them to press this issue in such a bizarre way . Welcome to rio. Thank you very much. Yeah. Brian, i think you said it best, the state department and other agencies will get involved because this is an international incident. If youre pulling american at t athletes off flights. Reporter its a dangerous precedent. Lochte will not be going back to reare you any time soon. Im not going to say you can bet on that but go ahead and bet on that. Thanks. Brian mooar with very compe compelling updates from brazil. Michael phelps is back in the United States. No problems for him. He arrived to phoenix. How do you adjust to life after olympic glory . Natalie coghlan has insight to this, she joins us in studio just ahead. Were back in a moment. Wall, by a brazen thief. And it was all caught on camera. A computer ripped from a wall by a brazen thief and it was caught on camera. San jose police hope they can get some help identifying the suspect. Looking at the security footage here of the burglar yanking his computer from a Community Room at a south san jose apartment complex. This happened back in may but police are just now releasing the footage in hopes that someone recognizes this man. A big move that could save countless lives. Santa clara county leaders approved a suicide resistant redesign for two south bay jails. This is one of the changes the sheriff is making after the deadly beating of an inmate in san jose. 1. 4 million project is approved for the Santa Clara County jail in san jose and elmwood correctional facility in milpitas. No more upper bunk beds or sealed doors. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is with us as we inch toward the weekend. I know. It felt like a friday today but its wednesday. I know. Were going to get you closer to that, though, in our extended forecast. Some of the hottest weather here in Alameda County with livermore, a high of 96 today. Down to 91 right now. And eventually down to the 60s by 10 00 p. M. Were tracking some cooler changes. Ill have details on that in just a few minutes. Pet owners upset about their vets and bills that exceeded 15,000. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. Crystal geyser Alpine Spring water from here to there to you crystal geyser. Always bottled at the mountain source. Foster kid black immigrant cancer patient small muslim the only label that matters is olympian. Crystal geyser Alpine Spring water to you from us crystal geyser. Always bottled at the mountain source. Extremely sick pets to uc davis next bay area responds to pet owners who took their extremely sick pets to uc davis veterinary hospital for Critical Care and when they left, they say their pets were even in worse shape. Our consumer investigator chris cmura is working on the story for tonight after the olympics but has some details right now. Chris, what do you have . Six pet owners reached out to our Consumer Investigative Center to share stories about davis. One oakland man says davis kept giving him hope about his sick cat. So he kept paying the bills. But 17,000 later, he said davis had no answers for him. Needed the reporter a San Francisco man says he can prove davis diagnosis of his sick dog was wrong. He believes if davis had listened to his input, it might have extended his dogs life. They feel like since theyre number one that whos this guy questioning us . You know, hes not a vet. He doesnt have a medical degree. You know, thats just the wrong attitude to have. Reporter davis wouldnt discuss the pet owners who contacted us due to client confidentiality. Davis pet hospital has a very long reputation of outstanding care. Its part of davis renowned Veterinary School which is ranked number one in the country and in the world. Davis said it treats more than 41,000 small animals every year. And responds to fewer than 20 written complaints. But pet owners who do have complaints might not have much luck if they turn to californias veterinary board for help. Tonight after the olympics, well explain why. And how one lawmaker is trying to make changes. If you have a Consumer Complaint, please call us 888996tips or visit nbcbayarea. Com responds. Once youre there, click the yellow submit tips bar for our Consumer Complaint form. Share information, photos, videos so we can investigate your case. Okay, well look for you in our midnight newscast. Thanks so much, chris. Jeff ranieri rejoins us. Were talking obviously our regular forecast but also what firefighters are dealing with and all those people looking to get back to their homes in lake county. Yeah, definitely is very hot. As you know with those low humidities. Were going to see temperatures change a little bit for tomorrow. Its not as cool as i would like. But definitely going down. We also want to get you the latest here on the bayly fire in south san jose. We have full coverage at nbcbayarea. Com. You want to check that out. When it comes to the weather where theyre still monitoring plenty of hot spots, we currently have 86 degrees. Winds not too gusty out of the northwest at 10. Humidity at 36 . Well see temperatures drop into the 70s by 9 00 p. M. Tonight. The lake county fire which is called the clayton fire, currently 96 degrees. Down from 99 just this past hour. Low humidity at 20 . And we will see numbers dipping down into the 80s by 8 00 and also 9 00. As we get a look at the trend for tomorrow, you an see it still will be very warm at the 595 degrees. Across the north bay, 56 degrees. Clouds early on. You still have sun mixing in. San francisco, a little bit of fog and also drizzle. For the east bay, 63. Well look at a comfortable 54 throughout the peninsula. As you have some thick fog at the immediate coastline. Your microclimate forecast on thursday, really doesnt change too much. See the south bay this puts san jose at 87 and the hottest weather in morgan hill at 90. Peninsula, 74 in san mateo. San francisco, 63 in the marina and 65 for the mission. Kn north bay, eastbay, and trivalley, humidity in the teens with 95 degrees. East bay, 85 in fremont. 93 walnut creek. Oakland expecting 73. Friday and saturdays forecast, we will begin to see changes. Weve been monitoring this area of low pressure to the knonorth. Friday afternoon and saturday,thy area of low pressure is going to dig in stronger and do two things. Produce showers and thunderstorms across the sierra. Some of those showers and thunderstorms will be moving off toward the west. And getting close to the bay area. So were going to be monitoring that real close for any potential activity in our Eastern Hills. The other thing the low pressure will do is keep fog at the immediate coastline. Which will drop our temperatures a few degrees by this weekend. So lets go ahead and get a look at the extended forecast. See in San Francisco, smooth sailing. We have the 60s continuing all way throughout the next seven days. For the interior valleys this is where well begin to see changes. Its not as cool as id like to see it with our most recent fire danger. Average of 94 degrees tomorrow down to 90 by friday. Saturday 89. Sunday 87. Well likely stay with the 80s into next monday, tuesday and also for wednesday. I think next week certainly looks a lot better than this week for that fire danger. Thats going to be good news for us. Okay. Thank you for those updates. Still to come the olympic moment of the day and whats the future for bay area product Kerri Walsh Jennings. Were joined by our olympics analyst Natalie Coghlan next. You hear that . Thats the sound of our summer sale firing up its engines with fares as low as 69 dollars oneway. So get ready to take off. Because sale prices as low as these dont happen every day book your low fare now at southwest. Com. Low fares. Nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. clap, clap, ding final 3 games in group play by a welcome back. Im colin resch. After winning the final three games in group play by a total of 16 points a little concern creeping in for the u. S. Mens Basketball Team and gold medal chances. Kevin durant put that concern to rest with his best performance in rio today. They had captain america on their side today rooting in the stands. The americans actually trail ee ginobili 199. Klay thompson, two of his four. New wteammate kevin durant dropped 27. Seventh and final three of the game. Americans win 10578. We tend to think, you know, its going to be a little easier than we thought. We came out here you know, its a wakeup call for us. So we got to use this game and try to build on it. Next up, spain and the semis on friday. A rematch of last two gold medal games won by the United States. Equally impressive quarterfinal win for the u. S. Mens volleyball team. They sweep a highpowered poland squad to advance to fridays semifinal where they will meet italy. Golf back in the olympics for the women for the first time in 116 years. A good start for the americans. Stacey y lewis three off the pa. After one round of play. Olympics analyst Natalie Coghlan joins us on the desk with raj and janelle. Thank you, colin. I think natalie is so good, you can probably golf and play basketball as well. No. I think youre one of those people. Any sport you really love . I played volleyball a couple years. I do golf once a year at the charity event. Im terrible. I played in ballet flats. Its a lot of fun im sure to get out there. It is. Natalie has been our olympics analyst throughout these games. So great to have you in studio. All these olympics you did, you were so successful from athens to beijing to london. Uhhuh. Do you ever get sick of us following you around every step of the way . No, i dont get sick of you guys at all. Youre so nice. Friendly faces. Michael phelps is coming home. Arrived in phoenix today. Correct. The past few days have been a whirlwind tour for him. He got 23 gold medals to add to, like, hes just had such a crazy, crazy rear and he has been done for three days but its been nonstop. Sponsor obligation, media obligation. Its nice to see him back in the water. Not actually training. Spending time with his family. Boomer and nicole. Just loving the water and getting to spend downtime with his family without everyone present. When he got off the plane he didnt want to deal with the media. He was like im done. Do you get to that point . Youve been talking to the media nonstop, right . Right. Michael, ive traveled with him so many times. We have the same agency. And people everywhere he goes, everyones staring at him, Everyone Wants something. So im sure he just really wanted a chance just to take a breath, enjoy and just relax for once. He needs to decompress now. He does. Another superstar along those levels Kerri Walsh Jennings being from sar toeg fatoga and stanford. She didnt win gold. Shes not used to losing. This is last night. She has to be were going to say this like its a downgrade. Shes going to be playing for the bronze. When do you know its time and perhaps youre going through this, yourself, as a swimmer, when do you know its time kind of set it aside . Its definitely a difficult thing when you love the sport you do so, so much. There are athletes when they havent had a great competition or great performance that theyre like, you know what, i need time to step away or theyre like, im done. Kerri is one of the people who clearly loves the sport so, so much. I thichnk its going to be toug for her to make that decision. Tonight shes competing for the bronze medal. Im wishing her and april all the best. Yep. Okay. Do we want to show this argentine sailor . The olympic moment of the day. 64yearold gold medal winner. This awesome. He wins the gold at 54. Survived cancer. His sons swim out to greet him in the water. I think this is so, so special. Not only does he get to share this moment with his family, they literally jump out of their boat, swim to his boat to congratulate him. His family also competed and also understand what the sport is like. I cant imagine if my parents were in the lane next to me or my sister was in the lane next to me, how special that must be to share that moment together. It is incredible. Special to you here. Youll be back tomorrow. Ill be back tomorrow. Thanks, natalie. Hi to natalies mom. Lights, access, rio. You remember that . Well, that is just some delicious icing on the cake for simone. Im natalie morales. Years after her perfect 10 changed everything nothing like Nadia Comaneci to put it in perspective. Shed just kick my behipd. Come on, get up. Were here to finish this. The ultimate act of sportsmanship is resonating around the world. Im kit hoover. Weve got nikki and abbey sharing the whole story together. This is what were all about as humans