With general kelly . Reporter it certainly doesnt seem that way, especially if today is any indication, it seems general kelly has the president s ear, and the white house says he has full authority to operate within the white house, by the way, all staffers now will report directly to him rather than the president. Interesting. Weijia jang, thank you. Bart is giving thousands of its employees a 500 bonus this year. It is called a ridership bonus. But bart ridership is way down. Kpix 5 reporter phil matier broke the story and went to ask, why do employees deserve any bonus this year . Phil . Reporter that is right, ridership has gone down, but the bart deficit is continuing to be a problem. They are not even bringing in enough money to run the system you would be surprised some even some bart directorerize scratching their directors are scratching their head about the bonuses. The state of the system is not such that anyone deserves any kind of performance bonus at this point. Reporter the reaction of bart board member, deba allen, to the 500 bonuses handed out to some 3600 bart employees. But as allen says, a deal is a deal. Up to a point. They are entitled to it, it is in their contract. Reporter even though bart ridership is down 3 from last year, the average weekday ridership is still about 1 above what bart predicted it would be. So, no matter what the final outcome, workers still get the bonuses. What we are talking about is paying a lump sum payment now based on projections that were made in 2011. Reporter the bonus deal part of a lastminute negotiation to end the 2013 strikes that crippled the bart system. A way to get bart worker more money . Negotiateed as their compensation package. Reporter a dozen top bart executives wont get the bonus but some 470 mid managers and supervisors will. I am not happy about that decision, i dont think that the managers deserve that extra 500. Reporter we came to bart headquarters in oakland to ask about the bonus policy, but were told all the managers were tied up in meeting today and wouldnt be available to go on camera. But bart riders had some ideas of where they would like to see the 1. 8 million in bonus money go. Some of the stations kind of need cleaning. Reporter other stations could use more police, that is a common thing we are hearing about from bart riders, also the question of homeless, the reason why some managers, about a does if it is a raise, call it a raise, when you say bonus it is like bart is saying, hey, you are doing a great job. Reporter that is not the case, because bart says they got a lot of work to do. One, on making the system safer, two controlling the homeless, three people on skipping out on fares and four, overall performance when it comes to handling the situation. I will tell you, it is not something i think they are smiling about. That is why i thing it is kind of cut out there quietly right now. We didnt see a press Conference Announcing this. In Pleasant Hill, phil matier, kpix 5, back to you. Thanks. A number of fires broke out along highway 101 in sugnomey county south sonoma counties south of geyserville, residents reported them 11 00 this morning, flames trapped people in a home at one point until firefighters cleared a path out. Crews say there are as many as six separate fires burning now, relatively small and crews have them 60 containment. Firefighters still arent sure how these fires started. Paul, is there potential for fire danger up with this heat . Absolutely. Temperature increases, almost always the fire danger will increase as well. There is a heat advisory in effect right now for the next two days, but only for the bay area hills. You may be wondering why the hills and why not all inland locations . Inland locations will be hot during the day but will cool at night, above the marine layer in the hills, the overnight lows, next two nights in the 70s and 80s for lows. How about highs tomorrow . Triple digits return to inland locations like livermore and concord, antioch, 102. Oakland, though, 82. Pacifica, only 68. The hot stuff will remain inland. Tomorrow is another spare the air day, east bay and Santa Clara Valley with unhealthy air qualities, take bart or car pool because the air quality will take a dive. How long the heat lasts, in a few minutes. See you then. Other bay area headlines tonight, San Francisco neighborhood under lock down all night and most of the day today while police and a shooting suspect were in a 15hour standoff. The man was in a home on 15th street at beaver in corona heights, started last night about 11 45 when neighbors called 911 after hearing gunfire. Police found a woman shot inside that house. She later died at the hospital. A man, possibly the womans son, also inside. But he refused to leave. Officers told neighbors stay put. Stay inside. All night and for most of the day today, while they negotiate would the man. That man is now in custody. Palo alto Police Arrested the suspect in a series of fires last week, 23yearold terry lee hill, jr. Is accused of setting four separate fires early friday morning. One of the fires was near the cal train station on urban lane, one car was severely damaged, a Security Camera captured footage of a person of interest who police say strongly resembled hill. He is booked into the Santa Clara County main jail. Kids carnival train that was swiped from Pleasant Hill over the weekend has been found. Somebody actually dragged away a trailer with the train inside, sometime on saturday night. This morning a woman found it in the parking lot of a walnut creek yoga studio. One tire was missing, but otherwise it was in good shape. The owner of the train hopes to get it fixed by the weekend. He has parties with the train booked through october. More than 50,000 americans died of drug overdoses last year, a new bill that cleared the state assembly would allow california drug users to shoot up in supervised settings. If the bill passes it would be legal in eight counties in california, including San Francisco, alameda, and santa cruz. That is where we find kpix 5s maria medina where she is asking experts if the law would help or hurt addicts. Maria . Reporter liz, one expert says we need this law because he sees drug use on these streets every day. Really tragic, it is disturbing. Reporter for the last 16 years, nicholas helped his dad run derog and alcohol treatment centers, they soon plan to open one in santa cruz. Even in broad daylight, you could walk by somebody having a full body convulsion with a needle sticking out of their arm. Reporter their mission to help addicts began 16 years ago when nicholas lost his brother in a crash, nicholas says his brother was drunk. I am grateful that something is being done about this. Reporter they are learning of a bill making its way through the state assembly that would allow users to inject Illegal Drugs in controlled health facilities. The goal, to reduce public drug use, syringes on streets, and infections and overdose death. This is going to allow Health Professionals to seek thout drug user and out the drug users and offer treatment in one location. Reporter the county spokesperson said they had no comment on the bill because they had no idea santa cruz would be included. The bills author says the county has a high opioid overdose rate. I would rather they do it in a supervised space, and get them off of the streets. Reporter nicholas says he knows addicts need all the help they can get because he witnesses the drug use every day. You know, you see that everywhere you look, every park, every street, every side street, every back alley way. Reporter the county spokesperson says they have no position on the bill. Maria medina, kpix 5. With uber in term oil these days, lyfts ridership is up, surpassing all of 2016. The Ride Hailing Service carried more passengers through june of this year than it did in all of last year,. The San Franciscobased company also says it has added 160 cities this year around the u. S. Some riders have shunned uber lately, after reports of Sexual Harassment within the ranks and other problems that forced the ceo to step down. The city of san jose is making it easier for residents to voice their complaints with the new app, it is called my san jose, the state of the art app allows people to report common complains and Service Requests drekly to city crews directly to city crews, you with report pot holes, graffiti, street light outages. The mayor hopeathize app will help the city better serve the community. This is just a Building Block for us, we expect to add other services and hopefully introduce a new dynamic, of not simply reporting from customer to city hall, back to customer, but also engaging our residents with one another. The city will add more Service Requests and features in future releases of the my san jose app. It is the most comprehensive climate study to date. Coming up, why am scientists believe tens of thousands of lives are at risk if something isnt done to curb air pollution. Plus this isnt what you would expect to see on your visit to the majestic Niagara Falls, what caused these murky waters below. From fantasy to realty, how the game of throwns craze may be linkd to the number of huskies filling up shelters. My name is jamir dixon and im a locate and Mark Fieldman for pg e. Most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg e. My truck is something new. Its an 811 truck. When you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you dont hit them when youre digging. 811 is a free service. Im passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. Theyre the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then ill drive it every day of the week. Together, were building a better california. Of dirty air. A big new study on Climate Change, Scientists Say more people around the world could die because of dirty air. Kpix 5 anchor veronica de la cruz has specifics. Reporter the new research comes from university of North Carolina at chapel hill, the numbers are staggering. As Climate Change affects air pollution, scientists estimate 60,000 people could die in the year 2030 if not addressed. By 2100 it could jump to 260,000 people. Study author, dr. Jason west and colleagues looked at several climate models to get their estimates. Air pollution affects things like heart attack, stroke, cardiopullmerary disease cardio pulmonary disease and lung cancer, it has a big effect on health. Reporter dr. West says slowing down Climate Change could make a big difference for our future. Reducing Green House Gas emissions has a really big benefit for air pollution and therefore for human health. Reporter previous studies suggest Climate Change could also lead to more heat related illness and spread infectious diseases. Two more studies say the earth Global Temperatures will rise 2 degrees celsius by the end of the century, one of the studies looked at past Green House Gas emissions and found even if humans suddenly stopped burning fossil huls, earth will continue fuels, earth will heat up 2 more degrees by 2100. If emissions continue for 15 years, the rise could be as much as 3 degrees. Scientists say the global temperature rise could trigger rising sea levels, mas extinction, super drought, wildlifes, hurricanes, and more melting of inarctic ice. Liz . Thank you. Tourists at Niagara Falls saw something they werent expecting the water near the base of the falls turned black. After a foul smelling discharge from a waste Water Treatment plan. You can see the black water here, the Niagara Falls water board insists this was part of routine maintenance. Officials say the black water contained accumulated solids and carbon residue but all within permitted limits. The smell, when we were on the observation deck, it was smelled like raw sewage. You could see it being brought back in this direction by the current and not necessarily being taken down by the river but it was so dark you couldnt see to lower down in the river. Reporter the black water did dissipate by sunday. The maintenance is done twice a year. A health alert in contracasta county where officials announced the first report of west nile virus this year. Contra costa district confirmed two dead birds in walnut creek and a group of mosquitos from Discovery Bay tested positive for the virus. Experts say you can reduce the risk of getting west nile by dumping or draining standing water around your home using bug repellent and avoiding the outdoors when mosquitos are present. The district is also urging the public to report dead birds because it is often the first sign of disease transmission. The 2028 olympicerize coming to california olympics are coming to california, los angeles to host the summer game for the third time. Vying for the 2024 games but paris was selected to host that year. The city hopes to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, but the committee estimateatize wail cost more estimates more than 5 billion. Trading sunny gray to the yankees hours before the deadline, gray broke in with oakland in 2013, quickly became the teams best starting pitcher, a 27yearold had some injuries but bounced back lately with pretty strong outings. The yankees are sending three top prospects to oakland, a pitcher, a short stop, and an outfielder who just made his major league debut. The popular netflix show 13 reasons why may have triggered a spike in online searches for suicide, the series is about a high school teenager who ends her life. In a study researchers found almost three weeks after the show was released there were at least 900,000 google searches, including the word suicide. Searches also include how to do it, suicide hot lines and prevention, the study doesnt prove a link or connection with actual suicides or attempts. New at 5 00, the bay area Animal Shelter seeking a or seeing a spike in huskies being returned. Kpix 5 reporter john john explains, it may have to deal with the popular hbo series game of throwns. Most who visit the Peninsula Humane Society shelter do so because they love animals. But lately some have come here for love of a tv show. Reporter game of throwns is a wildly popular fantasy series about warring families in a dark medieval world. One of the clans maintains a pack of hunl vicious wolvess huge vicious wolves, known as dire wolves. Now life is trying to imitate art. People are wanting to get dogs that look like the dire wolves and huskies for a wolflike appearance. Reporter they have seen a surge in huskies, twice as many in january as the past three years sh they had three and they had three this weekend, known as dalmatian effect, when people want animals because they see them on tv or movies. It is a fantasy, people like the fantasy without looking into what the realty of owning one of these dogs is like. Reporter patty with the bay area siberian hucky club says the animals husky club says the animals may have a cool appearance but can be a handful for owners. They are very high energy. They are not super trainable, because they get very board with training. Reporter it takes commitment to own a husky and that is why so many are ending up in shelters. It is a sad reminder that the pets will still be here even after people move on to the next hot show. This is a match for life, not just for a short term. Reporter in burling game, john ramose, kpix 5. Excuse the transition but the dog days of summer are returning to parts of the bay area as soon as tomorrow. Coming up, how long tripledigit heat will last, and will you, San Francisco, ever warm up . Coming up all new at 6 00 tonight, it is the endangered species of the bay area housing market. Homes for under a half million dollars, rapidly disappearing. We take a look at what you can still find for under 500k. But first, the market closed mixed today, here is a look at closing numbers from wall street. You can find this on yelp. And even one of these. Now you can book a table on yelp. Find the perfect spot, and make it for tonight or anytime at restaurants you can book only on yelp. Reservations on yelp. We know just the place. Ers took on their the ggest big crowds and some big waves for day three of the u. S. Open. Surf competition going on in Orange County at huntington beach, surfer took on the biggest yet. Plenty of shots of the large swell coming out of the south. About as good as you can hope for. It is a hurricane swell that came in, hillary, called hillary, so it is pretty good sized for huntington beach. Storms in the pacific churching undangers for the coast, some making its way to the bay area, the hazards are larger breaks, rip currents, some sneaker waves, watch out. For the faint of heart or people not experienced. Southern california, the worst of it. Tropical systems a thousand miles away, amazing how they can have a direct impact on our beaches. We can use the ocean influence away from the water because we will lose it sdp warm up. Tomorrow and warm up. Tomorrow a return to hundred degrees inland. Today in the neents, the contrast with the blanket of cloud cover and fog over San Francisco where it is 62, we are talking about 102 in ifsh more in liver more tomorrow. Concord, 93. San jose in the 90s, currently in the 80s. Oakland, 68 degrees. The forecast unfortunately is no longer sunny for the asx we told you about sun as, we told you about sunny gray leaving. The as taking on giants, 2 in oakland, 2 in San Francisco. Patchy clouds, nice nice for baseball, 65 degrees your first pitch temperature for the week worth of baseball. Vallejo 61. Above 60 degrees overnight tonight. Cooler spoterize the sparts likely seeing low cloud cover and fog including oakland and San Francisco, most the night mid 50s, there is a lot going on this week, even though the weather will seem benign, it is not from a scientific perspective. There are numerous areas of High Pressure off to our west, all of that is the reason why the is going to get warm away from the water. Since the ridge is off to the west, we still will have the lightest onshore flow, near the bay and into theicose, you are not going to warm the coast, you are not going to warm up. Over baja california, the low pulling up tropical moisture and will continue to do such. Some of the moisture may give us increased humidity and increase cloud cover late in the week, that is why we think the 100degree temperatures will end after wednesday, it will get more humid but it wont be as warm by the end of the week. Low cloud cover at the coast, yes, fog pushing inland through the golden gate, yes, tomorrow morning. Really status quo, not much is changing near the bay. And at the coastline. But inland without the ocean influence you will get quite warm and quite sunny tomorrow. Back to triple digits. As for when all the heat ends, the answer is this weekend. An area of low pressure will dive to the north, it will return onshore flow and remember, it is only 57 degrees, the ocean temperature now. As soon as we get the breeze from the ocean back, we are going to cool down. It is mother natures air conditioning, pretty strong this year. 100degree temperatures, yes, tomorrow and wednesday. Humidity increase means we will not hit a hundred thursday and friday. Near the water, dont worry, the warming is not for you. Concord, 98 tomorrow. Triple digits, fairfield and liver more, 90s santa rosa and san jose. Stickier thursday and friday. Cloudier and not as hot. Mid tupeer 90s inland, low 70s near the bay. Everybody begins to cool by saturday and sunday under mostly sunny skies. 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Mason the medal of honor for a hero who repeatedly risked his life to save a comrade. Reporter did somebody tell you to go get him . No, sir. I saw him go down, and i jumped up and went and got him