Estuary. Mostly cloudy skies. Rosemary will be here with the weather in just a moment. But in is the big week for the democrats. They are opening up in philadelphia. Getting off to a rocky start. Havent seen started yesterday. Yes, gasia mikaelian, mike mcqueary, im sal castaneda. Hundreds of firefighters are in Monterey County. They are trying to control a wildfire near carmel that has now burned through about 15,000 acres. Ktvus janine de la vega joining us from Monterey County with the update. Reporter yeah, mike, we were in salinas at the base camp where the firefighters were. In the last hour they were all dispatched out here. Into the field, so we followed them on highway 1. We are in Carmel Highlands. This is an area that is threatened. We are tilting up to where you can see thats a combination of a marine layer, fog, and possibly smoke, and thats one of the things that theyre concerned about, is that people will get confused and think the fire is not next to me. Thats just fog.
Bart station was shut down today after a small fire broke out on the tracks. Lee martinez is there with how passengers are dealing with the closure. Reporter they do have one track up and running right now, floor gonna be delays there are gonna be delays. We do have one track up and running. Crews on the westbound lanes are taking a look at third rail. This is where the fire was. And theyll assess how long its gonna take to get that up and running. Earlier the Train Service was shut down for about an hour. Reporter fire crews saw smoke coming from the west end of the station right in the middle of the tracks. The fire was in the instituting material insulating material surrounding the third rail. Anybody whos been in a bart station and has seen the third rail, and they see the fiberglass cover that goes over the rail, thats what was on fire in this particular case. Reporter there is some damage to the east tracks as well. Bart shut down all of the trains out of the walnut creek station
500,000 per count, so thats up to 3 million. The judge has not yet set a date for his announcement, frank, julie . Amber lee in San Francisco tonight, thank you. Now two developing news out of oakland where police say a stolen car with five women and girls inside slammed into a cement mixer this afternoon. Police say it all began at 88th avenue and international boulevard with a report of a fight. They say the driver of the stolen chevy impala rammed the police car that lead to a chase that wound up at 98th and eves where the car collided with the cement mixer. Police say there were at least two children inside that stolen car. Still no word on their conditions. Its not clear if anyone is in custody. We spoke with the woman who is with her son when she saw the speeding car smash into that cement truck. Me and my son were literally right at the intersection. So i would try to pull him back. And he starts trying because i almost didnt make it to him, but they kept going though. It wasnt
Reinspected to make sure there are not any other problems. In the meantime the park is back open leaving people looking out for their kids. It would be nice to make sure that the trees are in healthy condition and our kids are not in harms way. The department does about 2 3 assessments over the year. They said six years is not unusual to go between three assessment. And Statement Today the mayor said the state city is still investigating the incident. He added that thank those who responded and assisted the woman and her children during the accident. A driver who the fed who fled the scene. You can see the medal fence pole pierced through the car and into the passenger side. One responder said it was one of the most horrific crashes they had seen. A neighbor heard it happened and rush to help. I asked if somebody else was in the car and i pulled the door open and there was a girl pinned upside down and impaled in the car with the fence pipe going through her in the car. By the time i l
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer the Democratic National convention. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Their partys chairman off the program, an apparent russian email hack and now a revolt among Bernie Sanders supporters. Welcome to day one of the Democratic National convention. There was chaos on the floor below us this afternoon. Just minutes after the opening session was gavelled to order, sanders supporters began screaming his name, disrupting the program and shattering any illusions of party unity. It all testimonies stems from the suspected russian leak of dnc emails. Party chair Debbie Wasserman schultz off the speakers platform. Andrea mitchell starts our coverage. Reporter tonight the Convention Theme is united together. But plenty of signs thats not happening. A stunning scene, at breakfast, embattled party share, Debbie Wasserman schultz, booed by Bernie Sanders supporters. In her home state florida delegati