Of hours but firefighters finally got the better of this fire but not before it burned a big section on the south side of San Bruno Mountain behind me and fire crews are still up over the edge digging the firelines back there to protect the areas that did not burn today. The fire sparked after 2 p. M. Residents say they heard a loud pop. Some of them thought it was fireworks. Some say it was a transformer. Power went out for an hour. It is back on now. And fire crews tell us they still dont to exactly what caused the fire but they believe it started along hillside boulevard where im standing now. Nobody was evacuated they tell me, but about 100 homes were threatened. Thankfully, things didnt get that far. It was kind of scary because i never seen flames that big, you know, in person. You see them on the news, but to have them right there across the street and really just feel that i guess what is the infrared radiation like against your face, its kind of it is a little unnerving. Reporter so there were about 10 firefighters working this fire today including from the air in a helicopter. Again about 40 acres burned. Its pretty windy now, but they say it wasnt as windy earlier and that helped. Also, were fairly close to sfo. But were told no flights were delayed because of the fire. Brian webb, thank you very much. Lets now go to what everyone is talking about, the heat. We found these people walking their dogs and enjoying the lack of fog and wind on the hiking trail at fourth funston in San Francisco. Its near the ocean and one of the cooler spots in the bay area today at fort funston. Absolutely perfect. Its a nice day officially here because its not as warm as where i live. Where do you live . Simon heights. We were at ocean beach. Nice. There was a business pod of dolphins out there earlier. Reporter oh, really . Yeah. Theres about 20 dolphins. Reporter wow. They are probably around the cliff house right now. Today was the warmest day so far this year in San Francisco. And its turning out to be the perfect weekend for a number of events happening around the bay. We have racing on the bay, the americas cup of course. The San Francisco giants are in town all weekend limping towards the end of the season. The oakland as are at the coliseum hopefully sprinting towards a playoff berth and the San Francisco 49ers kicking off their season against the Green Bay Packers tomorrow. Not to mention all the people curious about driving for the first time on the eastern span of the bay bridge. And this is the view from chopper 5. You can see its been busy all day long in both directions but no major problems are reported. This is a live look at the toll plaza as people head to San Francisco for a nice night out on the town and you can see its backed up. Its slow going. Its been a lot like this all day long. Many drivers could still be getting used to the new lane configurations getting on to the new span. Meteorologist paul deanno shows us how hot it got today. Pretty warm. Our typically warm locations were certainly hot. Widespread 90s away from the water with a couple of 100s. Pittsburg 102 degrees today. Livermore straight up 100. Sunnyvale almost got there at 99. Los gatos 97 degrees. Now lets look at the areas that typically are not hot but were today. Hayward hit 90. Richmond up to 86. Sausalito 81. Bodega 71. The heat furnace if you will the big ridge of High Pressure over the Desert Southwest thats moving closer to us, thats the source of our hot air. Thats going to stay tomorrow. So for most of us, the heat is going to stay, with one exception. See this low cloud cover and fog . This kind of sneaking into monterey bay up toward capitola and the city of monterey. That will be a weather player for some of you tomorrow inducing a cooldown. So depending on where you are, either the heat wave is over or the heat wave is only halfway down. Well talk about who gets what for the next several days coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. The americas cup is officially under way. Emirates Team New Zealand is on top beating Oracle Team Usa in their first two races today on San Francisco bay. New zealand needs 7 more wins to take the trophy. Large crowds gathered on the waterfront for todays races and the same is expected tomorrow. Kpix 5s don knapp is at marina green where excited fans watched the competition today. Hi, don. Reporter hi,ann. If the americas cup promoters were looking for something other than the races to bring out the fans today, they got it with the weather. It was terrific. And it seemed to work. After a summer of americas cup sailing doldrums it looks like the winds of enthusiasm have finally picked up. The sailing faithful never doubted. They say they as you knew the competition between the most advanced racing boats in the world would eventually catch on. Its it just started. This is the first day, the first race. Everything else has been just a warmup. Here we go. It looks to me like you are an oracle fan. You bet. Reporter but youre on a bike. Doesnt look like youre paying much attention. Im trying really hard to get to a focal point so that i can watch. Reporter super bowl of yacht racing might be playing before their very eyes. Some folks on the green seemed interested in other things. Its a hot day. One of the perfect San Francisco days that we always wish for. So were just, uhm, hanging out. We kind of are trying to figure out exactly whats going on. Reporter thats the kind of indifference americas cup promoters never seemed able to overcome and why the estimate of 1. 4 billion in Economic Impact to the bay area was revised to less than a billion. Ben cloud dressed in sailing attire right down to the bubble pipe enjoyed watching he said but was not convinced the regatta benefits San Francisco significantly. Never seen quite as much infrastructure for a sport so little watched. Reporter what brought out the crowds today . Was it the event or the weather . Perhaps a bit of both. You guys still arent sitting down and watching it. Youre talking to me and riding your bike. We love to watch the bike. We saw them coming around the curve and it was phenomenal. We want to see them get into the meat of it. Reporter so if you can just watch them coming around a curve apparently thats enough. Oracle and the kiwis will be back around tomorrow for another showdown. If you would like to watch its free. The problem is, theres not many places to park so come early. Thank you, don knapp. The games of the 32nd olympiad in 2020 are awarded to the city of tokyo. [ applause and cheers ] tokyo celebrating after being named a host for the 2020 summer olympics. The city beat out istanbul and madrid. They last hosted the summer olympics in 1964. It has been three weeks since the rim fire started burning near yosemite and its now the Third Largest wildfire in state history. More than 252,000 acres have burned. The fire is 80 contained but full containment isnt expected for another two weeks. And this weekends forecast is calling for high temperatures and low humidity, which could help the fire spread. Highway 120 the main road from the bay area to yosemite has reopened. Two weeks after firefighters were forced to close it. Andrea menniti tells us Business Owners were hoping to make up for lost time. Reporter first time in three weeks table at buck meadows restaurant are filled with customers. We are very pleased to be open again. Reporter the rim fire forced evacuations for the entire community of buck meadows. Flames came close to destroying the restaurant and neighboring resort that sit along highway 120. The firefighters were just amazing, to stand there with 150foot flames and protected our property, it was wonderful. Reporter even when evacuations were lifted, the stretch of highway 120 remains closed. The popular tourist stop on the way to Yosemite National park is still tallying its financial losses. Its substantial. Its close to 100,000. We missed labor day weekend. Its our third biggest weekend of the year. Reporter while some businesses along highway 120 have reopened, down the road Yosemite Lakes resort looks like a ghost town, the manager picking up the pieces since being forced out by flames. Its not clear when the campgrounds will reopen. Got to clean out some of the perishables and stuff. When they evacuated us, it was like i say sheriff rolled in at 7 30 at night and said its time to go. And so we just locked the doors, shut everything down and left. Reporter led by yosemite tour bus, drivers gathered as caltrans removed roadblocks. We are definitely looking forward to being able to go this way. Andrea mineti reporting. The chp is warning drivers to not pull over and take pictures. They could get in the way of emergency vehicles. For and against attack syria. People in the bay area speak their minds. How House Minority leader nancy pelosi weighed in during a stop in the bay area. Wonder woman attacked what happened that had superman coming to her rescue during a scuffle on hollywood boulevard . ,, at farmers we make you smarter about insurance, because what you dont know can hurt you. What if you didnt know that its smart to replace washingmachine hoses every five years . What if you didnt know that you might need extra coverage for more expensive items . And what if you didnt know that teen drivers are four times more likely to get into an accident . sup the more you know, the better you can plan for whats ahead. Talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. We are farmers bum pa dum, bum bum bum bum that this is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter. This is not the time to send a message where doing nothing is far more risky than responding. Secretary of state john kerry in paris making a case for an International Military strike against syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people. Earlier kerry was in lithuania where he did get support from european Foreign Ministers who are calling for a clear and strong response. Here in the u. S. , some people are marching today calling on congress to vote against military intervention in syria. No way the people say no way no war a loud crowd marched down Market Street in downtown San Francisco this afternoon. They say they want to stop a war against syria before it starts. Protests were also held in washington, d. C. , new york city and atlanta. The Northern California chapter of the Syrian American council held a counter rally in union square this afternoon. They support u. S. Intervention and say allowing the conflict in syria to continue will result in more deaths and destruction. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi agrees. She spoke about syria at an event in San Francisco today. Stopping the use of weapons of mass destruction is a pillar of our national security. The assad regime used them. That cannot continue. Pelosi sent her fifth letter to democratic colleagues this week trying to get support for a measure to authorize the u. S. Strike. President obama will speak to the nation on tuesday and pelosi says the president will lay out his case to the american people. [ singing ] tens of thousands filled st. Peters square tonight to pray for peace in syria. The vatican estimates 100,000 people took part and that makes it one of the largest rallies against proposed military against against syria. Meteorologist paul deanno talking about how hot it was today. The good news is you will cool off tonight. Its not going to be as warm as last night. Still mild widespread 60s. Live look outside, plenty of sunshine. But when does the change come . When do we cool down . I have the answer for you coming up. Excuse me, sir im gonnhave to ask you to popower down your little word game. Think your friends will understand. Oh. No, its actually my geico app. See . I just uh paid my bill. Did you really . Fr the plane . Yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside aistance, pretty much access geico 24 7. Sounds a a little too good to be true sir. Ill believe that wh pigs fly. Ok, did she seriously just say tha 3, 2, 1, 0, ignition, and liftoff of as you can see, the skies lit up in virginia last night as an unmanned rocket blasted off for the moon. The rocket is carrying a robotic explorer that will examine the moons atmosphere and dust. Once its finished it will then crashland on the moons surface. Scientists at ames designed the project which cost about 280 million. A man portraying superman on hollywood boulevard lived up to his alter ego after wonder woman was attacked. She jumped up and came running after us. Got in my face and she flipped my lip and then punched me in the face. Well, the two character impersonators were taping an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday. Wonder woman says the transit woman attacked her and she and superman fought her off. Thank you, wonder woman, for inspiring me to do the right thing and not hit that girl back. What would wonder woman do . She wouldnt hit the crazy lady. They say theyre not sure if they want to press charges. I dont know, paul, how do you feel about following that story . Only in los angeles. That doesnt happen anywhere else aside from l. A. Not like that. We have had some super warm temperatures today. We have. 100 degrees inland which is not too uncommon but its about 15 degrees above average so certainly its out of our come ford zone. We have so many days right at normal and then all we need to do is changing the wind direction and we did. The offshore wind warmed up, up and cleared us out like windex not atmosphere. Look at that Clear Blue Sky at the golden gate bridge. When we get weather as good as this, people get outside. Heres another perspective of that same bridge a national treasure. Look at all the boats. Youre lucky if you own the boats or know somebody who does. A lot of people said its a beautiful day. Lets go out on the water. Folks walking across the bridge, just enjoying a spectacular day out there because as you know, we typically do not get warm like this in the city aside from maybe five or ten times a year. Todays one of those days. Down in the south bay its a little hazy. Air quality was poor today. A spare the air day. San jose youre at 90 right now. Santa rosa currently 92. Livermore down to 98. Concord 94. And we are getting a little bit of a sea breeze if the evening. San francisco off of a high of 80. 74 degrees currently. The two warmest days of the entire summer in the city were yesterday and today. You will see a little bit of a cooldown tomorrow. Lets talk about oakland close to normal tuesday through thursday. Yesterday you shot it up to 87. Today was actually warmer than yesterday with a high of 88. There are some changes coming. High pressure still off to our west. Still going to give us an offshore wind for most of us but i showed you about 10 minutes ago the cloud cover working its way up the coastline some of you at the coast will be 10 degrees cooler tomorrow. Aside from that another warm tohot day tomorrow. It will take several days but heres what the atmosphere will look like by about wednesday of next week. Low pressure developing to our south. We all get an onshore flow. An onshore flow is all it will take to take our temperatures from above normal back to where they should be. Cooling at the coast tomorrow, gradual cooldown elsewhere, most of us another hot day tomorrow. Were all back to normal middle of next week. Tomorrow livermore 100, san jose 90s. 95 morgan hill. 89 los altos. San mateo 84. Widespread upper 90s for concord, walnut creek and danville. In the city a little cooler but still warm, San Francisco 75. San rafael tomorrow 90 degrees. Heres your extended forecast. We cool down a few more degrees on monday, couple more on tuesday. By the middle of next week, go back to normal 70s near the bay, 80s inland. But if you thought it was hot today, chances are you will think it is hot coming up tomorrow. Its going to be toasty for the next several days, cooling down by the middle of next week. Thank you. Vern is here. A lot of spectacular pitching from our bay area athletes. Absolutely. On a day after what paul we were here on this very set last night with the giants and almost history. We are still talking about him today. We have that and baseball, yeah, on a College Football saturday afternoon. Plus yoenis cespedes. Man. When gets going, look out. They love the way i walk cuz i walk with a vengeance i can be bad if i want i can go slow all night long im a grown woman beyonce embrace your past, but live for now. Now betcha i run this cuz i put it. To the local play off contenders. In oakland. Chris carter, as teammate baseball. I know. I know. Baseball on a College Football saturday . Got to give the local playoff contenders some love. In oakland, cris carter from as teammate a year ago to strikeout victim of dan straily carter and the astros here in the second. Scoreless in the third. Until yoenis cespedes, oh, man he struck loudly. Left field bleachers backed away and even ann is impressed. As lead 10. Then theres a long drive by jed lowrie. That one isnt coming back. 20. His 11th. Straily getting the nice strikeout there. Straily went 7 strong innings. Doolittle to catch barne stealing a base. Do little stayed in. Got the flyout to end it. Doolittles first save of the season. As win 21. Up a full game over texas they play later on tonight. Pence is going to dye and it falls in front of pens for a base hit. Just one foot separating Yusmeiro Petit from becoming the 24th player in Major League History to throw a perfect game. Hunter pence almost made that grab. Petit a 29yearold journeyman has bounced up and down from the minors this year but with that performance last night, 8 2 3 perfect, he is in serious condition of cracking the giants 2014 rotation. It felt like when it was hit it was like one of those dreams where you just cant run fast enough because off the bad it was a little too far. And like i said i gave it my best effort and just a little bit shy. Its special for me because its the first shutout win, Something Special. So i never forgot that feeling. Its moments like those that every day when youre coming to the park theres an opportunity for Something Special to happen and tonight it did. U. S. Open number one seed Novak Djokovic looking to get back to the finals for the fourth straight year. And hands full with number stan wawrinka. They split the first four sets. In the fifth Novak Djokovic wins the point. And the white clad djokovic on match point, ace right down the middle at 121 miles per hour. He advances and he is going to face rafael nidal and raffi took out Richard Gasquet in straight sets. It will be the third time in four years that nidal and djokovic faced off at the u. S. Open in the fines. The cal bears have just gone final with a Portland State vikings look at the score, hey, vikings made them work for it. 3730 cal wins their first game of the year. Freshman jared goff just completed his second straight 400yard game. Tennessee rough for western kentucky. Late first call ball batted in the air and the ball comes down in the interception in the late of the 1st quarter but it goes on and on four straight possessions, four turnovers, Brandon Doughty another turnover three turnovers on three plays and then it happens again. Anyway. Thats how it went. Theres a fifth interception. Five times in six plays. They wreak havoc and win 5220. Feel bad for them. All right. Thats it for us. See you in a half hour. Good night. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com ,,,,,,,, axelrod tonight, making the case for a strike on syria. This is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter. Axelrod secretary kerry tries to rally europe while the president readies aenously court press here at home. The Olympic Committee picks the host city for the 20ed 20 summer games, and the winner is. Tokyo. 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