Vehicle. Reporter police say the suspect ran a red light three miles away on lawrence expressway and slammed into a rideshare car. In that car was 28yearold carol major and the male passenger. Carol died at a local hospital. The other passenger and the Rideshare Driver have serious injuries. Youve got one person, young person who has lost their life and two other people whose lives will never be the same, innocent people, who did absolutely nothing wrong, and this person who has just no care in the world for them. Reporter Police Arrested 32yearold Claudio Perez of san jose. Before the crash Sunnyvale Police put spike strips under a stolen car at this Shopping Mall and watched it until perez got inside and drove off. The strips didnt work for some reason. Then the crash. Oh, its a terrible tragedy. Reporter her Facebook Page shows carol major was from san diego, attended cal and was a Technical Program manager at apple. Tonight neighbors in san diego tell us carols griefstricken family is in the south bay looking for answers. And as of late this afternoon, the d. A. s office had said Santa Clara Police have not run that file on perez over to them so he has not been officially charged. The suspect declined our request for a jail house interview. Were live in sunnyvale. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Such a senseless loss. Thank you, damian. A peninsula man accused of sexually abusing numerous children is trying to get his bail reduced so he can get out of jail. Randolph haldeman is being held on 5 million bail. He is accused of sexually assaulting kids ranging from ages 4 to 16 when he was a photographer for a menlo park swim team. He was able to bail out after the first arrest, the judge increased his bail when more victims came forward and Police Arrested him. There is a homeless camp right by a school and the principal says his students cant walk to school safely. That principal is now fighting back. Nbc bay areas melissa colorado is at city hall in oakland with the details. Melissa. Reporter yeah, raj, this issue sparking some some action here. The councilmember says this east oakland homeless camp is more than just an eyesore. Its a liable for the city of oakland. And heres why. He said if the city refuses to move this homeless camp from where it currently is, which is right behind a middle school, the city of oakland is breaking a state law that ensures safe school zones. I just want to make sure that, you know, our kids are safe. Reporter principal lucas cala her is in charge of 250 curious minds at Oakland Charter academy. But how do you explain to middle schoolers the situation unfolding on the sidewalk behind their school . Kids have seen fights break out. Kids have seen a lot of just very bizarre events. I dont prostitute. I dont see that around here at all. Reporter what started out as two tents on bond street has ballooned into this. Latoya jackson says she moved in six months ago. The landlord put the rent up like a thousand more dollars. I couldnt afford that. Reporter principal cala her sympathizes with people like latoya but says the city needs to put students first. We have a huge traffic problem in the morning because parents are so concerned about that on bond street that they want to physically drop off their kids. Reporter and then theres the complaints from the other side. Homeowners whose back yards butt up against the tents. I cant have dinner parties any more. I cant have barbecues any more. Reporter this mother of two did not want her face on camera for fear of retribution. She says Homeless People peek into her windows and some have snuck into her backyard. Theyve gone up to our children in our backyard and theyve asked for money. Reporter she says shes been told that the city will soon set up portapotties on bond street. Theyre not listening to the lawabiding citizens who are paying taxes. It would be a lot better if they had low Income Housing because i cant afford the rent. Reporter and minutes ago we just received a statement from the mayors office. A spokesperson says the city is aware of the encampment. The frustration of the neighbors, and is working to find a sustainable resolution for all residents. Thats the latist here in oakland. Im melissa, colorado, nbc bay area news. Okay, thank you, melissa. 18 states have now joined californias lawsuit against the white house over the detainment of immigrant children. State attorney general Xavier Becerra is leading that lawsuit. He says the president s move to change the flores agreement will put children at risk. The flores agreement mandates that children be kept in the least restrictive setting and for no more than 20 days. The administration, though, is ending its socalled catch and release program and planning to indefinitely hold undocumented immigrants. Governor gavin newsom commented on that news today on twitter saying they fought against providing children soap, toothbrushes, medical care, now the Trump Administration is trying to hold children in jaillike conditions indefinitely. Adding, this is sick and we wont allow it. An off duty San FranciscoPolice Officer shot a man outside of his apartment complex in elle cerrito. The man he shot is in trouble. Nbc bay areas mark mathews is in elle ce are, rito for us with the very latest, mark. Reporter in the last hour, the police announced the arrest of a 44yearold transient for assault with a deadly weapon. Thats the charge. And he is the same man who was shot by that off duty officer. This is Thomas Vincent waylon, shot last night after police say he assaulted an offduty San FranciscoPolice Officer with a rock. It happened around 10 00 p. M. Police say they found whelan wounded by a gunshot. The shooter identified only as an offduty San FranciscoPolice Officer. A neighbor who asked not to be identified said he heard the shots. There was a loud banging on this gate right here which does make a lot of noise. Yelling for a couple seconds then a couple gunshots. Reporter a check of the address came back to roderick sugatan. Sources say he goes by erik and is a veteran Police Officer in San Franciscos ingles side department. Today we saw a man wearing a mexican wrestling mask leaving the apartment. A woman seen leaving with him returned later and told reporters she could not comment. El cerrito police say they are investigating. They have not identified sugatan by name. We traced a phone number and he replied this is a Police Investigation and could not talk about it. San Francisco Police issued a statement saying their internal Affairs Department is conducting an administrative investigation, and that the officer has been placed on leave. Thats paid administrative leave, to be more accurate. Within the last half hour i received an email from a lawyer representing roderick sugatan. She says that he did what he needed to do to survive a violent encounter. Reporting from el cerrito, mark mathews, nbc bay area news. Mark, thank you. There is a search for a missing boater in contra costa county. Two men were on board an inflatable raft on Discovery Bay and that raft popped. You can see the coast guard helicopter there. One of the men made it to shore. The other, efrain cws presubly drowned. They covered 500 nautical miles before suspending its search. A teen has a painful but rare story to tell. He survived a rattlesnake bite over the weekend. Now, the teen was bitten in a likely location, not while hiking, but while walking into a friends house. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is live in walnut creek where the teen is telling his story and telling people, be careful. Jodi. Reporter thats right, jessica. The teenager says this walnut creek neighborhood is the last place he expected to have a Close Encounter with a rattlesnake. He says he didnt even see the snake before it bit him. I never would expect this to ever happen in my life. Reporter but 15yearold cayden zingg has been recovering in the hospital after surviving a rattlesnake bite. It felt like something zapped me, like kind of like a, like a kind of of like someone was electrocuting me. It was really weird. Reporter cayden said he and his buddy were playing football. They stopped at a friends house to get some water when a baby rattler bit him at the entrance to the home. My friend said its a rattlesnake. I said no way. I turn around and see it rattling, i freak out. I run inside and i was like, im gonna die, im dead. Reporter the boys called 911 as caydens body started going numb. And i started to feel it in my fingers and i was feeling it in my like tongue, in my nose. Ive never felt that in my life before. Reporter animal control officers say its rattlesnake season. When the weather warms up, the snakes 2e7tend to slither aroun. They responded to a rattlesnake call in martinez today. It turned out to just be a gopher snake, but they say theyve seen plenty of rattlers across the county. Rattlesnakes can definitely be part of your environment so we always recommend to people is not assume theyre not there. Reporter tonight cayden is feeling much better after doctors gave him antivenom medication. He wants others to be alert and aware. It definitely it did sting. It was painful. I dont wish it for anyone. Reporter animal control officers say if you live anywhere near open space, a hillside or vegetation, you could very well have rattlesnakes nearby. The snake that bit the teenager slithered away and hasnt been seen from hasnt been seen ever since. Reporting live in walnut creek, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Jodi, thank you. In the south bay now, still a concern but a popular park in the cupertino hills has partially reopened. We told you about this last week. The trails at Rancho San Antonio park, right there cupertino and los altos, hikers spotted a family of mountain lions right on the trails. Well, today rangers reopened about eight miles of trails. Mountain lions are still in the area, so rangers a warning to be very alert. Well, from alternate rock to sports talk, a big for matt change for a legendary bay area radio station. In the surprise move, Cumulus Media announced today 104. 5 kfog pm will switch from playing music to sports talk. Kfog is out, sister station knbr is in. The switch starts september 6. Kfog has been a favorite bay area favorite for alternative rock since 1982. Up next here at 6 00, were the warnings ignored . Our Investigative Team looks at a former pg e employee hired to look for problems who then was shown the door after he found some problems. Plus the reason that toll cheaters are rapidly fading away on bay area bridges and the dramatic amount of money thats being saved. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Rain, its off to the south. Well show what you this brings our forecast tomorrow. My new update in about 8 minutes. More trouble for pg e. We have uncovered documents that show pg e did not act to prevent a disaster. Disaster that one of its own officials predicted the same year that the san bruno gas line exploded. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has the exclusive story. Almost everything is broken, overbroad, assessment, need to triage. Reporter in this civil deposition, ed describes what he found when he joined pg e as an outsider from the telecommunications industry. He was soon tasked to find where the utility was most vulnerable to a catastrophe. One nightmare scenario he told top executives about was an aged gas line exploding in a highly populated area. Just two months later, in september 2010, one of those old pipelines blew up in san bruno. Killing eight people and leveling a neighborhood. Salas soon left the company telling top executives he was being scapegoated for identifying threats and for making strong recommendations on how they can and should be addressed. Were you a disgruntled employee when you wrote this letter . I was a frustrated employee when i wrote that letter. Reporter but those executives soon also left, leaving others to inherit a second nightmare scenario salas had warned of. Old high voltage transmission wires sparking wildfires. The danger, he said in this document, was from aged equipment that pg e had not taken timely action to replace. Eight years later, a worn hook snapped on a tower the company said it hadnt climbed to inspect in at least a decade. Starting the worst wildfire in date history, the camp fire. It was a terrible risk. Reporter robert kagan is a retired regulatory attorney for the state Public Utilities commission. They should have heeded their own warning and they did not. Reporter one executive there at the time of salass warning, geisha williams stayed on. It was one of our biggest risks. Reporter that was her assessment of the wildfire i. During her continue youre as head of the company, documents show it only called for minimum required maintenance and didnt beef up inspections for its oldest, most atrisk electrical towers. Kagan says hes convinced the camp fire could have been avoided if pg e had heeded all the warning bells about safety. And their failure to hear those bells . It cost the people of paradise 85 lives. Reporter if pg e recently told the federal judge that despite age, its transmission lines accounted for just a tiny fraction of wildfires in the years before the camp fire disaster. And although it did do some climbing inspections of its towers before the fire, the checks did not include the structure blamed for the calamity. Jaxon van derbeken, nbc bay area news. Now, just minutes ago, pg e sent us a written statement. It says, in part, the age of equipment is just one factor pg e uses to prioritize to repair and replacement of transmission assets. While there has been a dramatic drop in toll evaders over bay area bridges in the past decade, a Million Dollars was reportedly lost a month to drivers not paying tolls on local bridges. That number reduced by 75 . In fact, in may, 250,000 was lost. The main reason for the drop, new cars now have temporary plates, so drivers can be identified. Tolls will increase, by the way, by another dollar in 2022, and then again in 2025. Its an attempt to prevent a disastrous situation. A major Fire Prevention project began near los gatos today. Cal fire is working on a 6 1 2 mile fire break along highway 17 from los gatos to the summit. The idea is to create an escape route in the event of fire evacuations and to stop any potential fire from reaching the roadway. Its especially needed after the 2016 loma fire. That scorched more than 4,000 acres and destroyed 12 homes. Look at paradise and what happened up there, and really and truly, at the end of the day, their problem is because nobody has cleared the woods upped there in 50, 75 years. And we have the same problem here. The evacuation routes are paramount. The project will take several months in sections of highway 17 may have to be shutdown while some of the work is being done. The world is protesting as the amazon rain forest continues to burn. Outrage growing over brazils reaction, this is whats left in one of the areas that burned. The fire set for the purpose of clearing out the land for farming. It is a primary source of renewing oxygen for the entire planet. Without that lush plant life, weather patterns will be impacted across the globe including here in the u. S. Sat to see that. Jeff ranieri is here to talk about our hot weather that could lead to fire concern around here as well. Fire danger will be up as we continue through tomorrow with some of these hot temperatures. Well bring in the microclimate forecast right now. And youll see in San Francisco, the good news at this point, we do have the fog Building Back into San Francisco. And if youre in the inland valleys, in contra costa, alameda or santa clara today, lots of widespread 90s, so im sure youre happy to see that fog rolling on in. Well take you out here to the east bay. One of the hottest as we look back towards concord with a high of 99 today. Right now were dropping down to 94. Its going to be slow going, but with that fog at the coast and the ocean breeze starting to move in, eventually well get down to some 70s here through 9 00, 10 00 and 11 00 this evening. Hang on and soon well get to a bit of breeze moving in on your way. There is Something Else working on the forecast today. You may have no, sired a touch of humidity. Well see more humidity as we head to the next few days, a high clouds streaming across. Some rainfall off to the south, but i see best rain chances moving off towards the east and a little bit of a chance here to the east of the bay area and also to the west. Were going to pinpoint that here coming up later on this hour. But i do want to focus in on the temperatures as we hit tomorrow. Still going to be hot back here for the inland valleys. Up to 98 in antioch, 97 in concord. Morgan hill 95. San jose 92. To oakland and San Francisco, it will be in the 70s. Going to Half Moon Bay a nice cool refreshing 66 degrees. So the cool down will start once we enter into wednesdays forecast. Youll notice livermore here down to 92 degrees on wednesday. 80s, thats going to feel really good by thursday, friday and saturday. Well talk more about the rain chance for california from that tropical moisture to our south. Thats coming up at 6 48 tonight. We will see you shortly. Thanks, jeff. Up here at 6 00, nasa celebration with a group of some powerful women wh