Place at this very moment. The fire broke out in this twostory, fivebedroom home shortly after 2 30 this afternoon. Many were away shopping, but they called them to let them know to come home. The fire spread to another home. She described her reaction when she saw her house on fire. It was pretty awful. Reporter video shot by a san jose firefighter showed how much smoke billowed from the two houses. There was immediate concern it would spread house to house, not just on hampshire place but to the houses behind them. Were all safe and thats the important thing. Reporter the fire was raised to a fivealarm response, bringing in units from surrounding agencies. Firefighters were concerned that it would set off additional embers and soon became a reality. It started fires on the left and the right. We were able to gain control of the house on the righthand side, but it gained control of the home on the lefthand side, so that home is partially damaged. Reporter the occupants and the owner of the rented house where the fire began would not talk to us. Investigators have not determined the cause of the fire. No residents or firefighters were injured, however, residents have been told they will have to wait until tomorrow to see if any valuables can be salvaged. Monica said the fire had her valuables previously. I didnt have many, anyway, and the others, if they do go, they go. A fire destroyed one home and seriously damaged another. The fire broke out on a house on melrose avenue near 46th avenue and quickly spread next door. Downed power lines made an added danger for firefighters, and pg e had to shut down the power. The homes burned for more than an hour. It was so big, like all these houses was on fire and then it caught up to the house. Look at it. Theres nothing left. My husband and i, we started our marriage there 25 years ago. Devastating. 18 people are displaced, eight of them children. No one was injured. Raymond shrimp boy chow was back in court today. The Chinatown Association leader pleaded not guilty this morning to new charges of racketeering. He is accused of using the town for a wide range of criminal activities. They said they are merely repackaging a bunch of old charges. This is old stuff. Just aid bunch of counts and maybe well get him on sgch something. The charges also went to gee. He is accused of charging for political favors. An environmental scientist tells the Sacramento Bee that up to 20 dead birds were collected yesterday in the pocket canal. The disease can spread quickly when the birds overpopulate ponds and wetlands. Another outbreak has been reported in San Bernardino county. We look at the chances of an asian bochulism breakout here in the area. Its another hot day inland. Feeling nice and breezy in San Francisco, but its a different story inland. You can see we have some clouds offshore contributing, no doubt, to the cool breeze that were feeling here close to the coast. Meanwhi meanwhile, look over to the sierra where we have a widespread outbreak of thunderstorms from susanville south down to blue king and lake tahoe and points south of tahoe. And as a result of those storms, we do have a flash flood in effect in that area east of tahoe over to nevada until 10 00 this evening. Up to our north, there is still that flag warning in effect in parts of Southern Oregon until 8 00 today. The concern is that fires may be triggered by lightning strikes. At the moment were not seeing lightning strikes in the immediate red flag area. Back to the bay area, we see low clouds near the coast, 65 degrees in San Francisco right now. 73, san jose, 61 half moon bay. Heres some low clouds over the golden gate bridge. 79 in napa and 96 degrees at fairfield, concord and livermore. One more live view for you from our rooftop camera looking in the direction im looking. This is the first forecast, partly cloudy, mild this evening, mostly sunny. Early tomorrow morning mild and hot with highs reaching into the upper 90s. Ill have more a little later. In los angeles, the cleanup is under way with that massive water main break that spewed 8 million gallons of water all over campus. Heres what it looked like yesterday and now today. The repairs will take a lot longer than originally expected. This is a live look at the broken pipe. The university is asking people to stay away as they try to pump out all the water. Kirk hawkins joins us live at the ucla campus with more now. Kirk . Reporter larry, right now there are still some detours and closures in place, and city officials wrapped up a News Conference a short time ago. They are now saying it could take at least 48 hours until this neighborhood and the campus of ucla returns to normal. The streets of los angeles transformed into a raging river. That sinkhole is getting bigger and bigger, its only getting worrors. Reporter a central water main burst, creating a 15foot hole and sending gallons and gallons of water into a busy street at a rate of 35,000 gallons per minute. All of this coming at the height of a historic california drought. When you have this amount of water, its like a flash flood. You never know whats going to happen. Reporter ucla legendary Pauley Pavilion recently renovated. Crews will survey the extent of the damage after working around the clock. The flood of water also trapping hundreds of cars in uclas underground parking lot, firefighters even having to rescue five people. Outside the campus resembling a water park, the staircase a wading pool, this woman taking a friend down the sidewalk. Now, fixing the location of that leak is a very complex process. Thats because Officials Say two very large pipes broke, and thats adding to the delays associated with this whole cleanup and repair process. Live in los angeles, kirk hawkins, abc news. Back to you. Kirk, thank you so much. We have found millions of gallons of water leaking into the bay because of a broken pipe. Coming up at 4 30, well show you how much is being lost and why there is no rush to fix it. A member of San Franciscos Fire Department is credited for tackling a car thief because of chaos on the city streets. Police say a man stole his construction truck, hit several cars as he drove across the city. Police spotted the man driving the wrong way on 11th street. He jumped out of the truck and started running, officers chasing, until a Department Staff member happened to see the ruk us and stopped the man. The Transportation Agency board has approved a new contract with the muni operators union. Todays vote ends a labor dispute that ended with a threeday stickout that created a mess for commuters last month. The new contract gives operators a 4. 25 raise over three years and requires workers pay into their pension plans. The pay raise goes into effect in october. Golden gate bridge drivers can expect lane closures for several days starting tonight. The bridge is being prepared for the installation of a movable median barrier in january. The bridge district says various lanes will be shut down beginning at 9 00 p. M. Until 5 00 tomorrow morning to allow for new lane striping leading up to the toll plaza. Drivers will see a number of available lanes at the toll plaza reduced from eight down to six and those closures may continue next week when the modifications of the toll plaza will then begin. Still ahead at abc news at 4 00, playing possum to help raise two baby critters. Also, the Home Invasion robbers, they chose the wrong house. They were not prepared for exactly who lifrd theved there. New at 4 30, medical experts warn about the Ebola Outbreak happening right now in west africa. Michael finney taking your questions as always. You can contact michae michael michaelfinney. A little bit heavier traffic heading heading to berkeley and around a man put his own life on the line to protect his family. Four Home Invasion robbers broke into a home in an upper neighborhood. The glass broke, he heard his mother scream and he came running. The former College Wrestler attacked the first guy he saw, put him on the ground, went after the others and they ran off. I think they saw an opportunity to come in the house and establish a dominance, but they walked into the wrong house. I went to go chase him and i got about almost to the door where i saw my leg go limp. I looked down and theres blood everywhere and i got shot in the leg. He did get shot, but he is going to be okay. The bullet went in and out without hitting the bone. Carlos said he would do it again if he has to protect his family. Incredible. For a few hours, california hays its first openly gay governor. Governor jerry brown, gavin newsom and steinberg are all out of state leaving Assembly Speaker tony atkins is in charge. Tony is the first elected gay speaker. He is left in charge until he returns. He tweeted this photo, one of my first responsibilities today as acting governors was to make sure the dogs got their morning walk. He is on Jimmy Kimmel Live and that airs tonight. People keihn ind of on edgey after a fastmoving fire burned about a dozen acres yesterday. Theyre now putting restrictions on park goers. Heres the story in san jose. Reporter Mother Nature is showing all the obvious signs fire danger is high. But if thats not clear enough, there are also manmade signs all throughout the park. Today an additional warning from rangers. Thank you for calling. Fires of any kind are not allowed in the park on wednesday, july 30. Reporter the danger became very real yesterday when a threealarm grass fire started near the park on sierra road. This wasnt a careless hiker but a car accident that sparked the flames. People who live in the area are very a ware of the dry conditions. I live right here, so yeah, we always try to be careful, and when we smell something burning, we look around. Alan rock park will be hot today with temperatures reaching in the mid80s, but the humidity will be high. The weather conditions are not so extreme that the city feels compelled to close the gate, which they do from time to time in the summer. They see other park workers around, so they know they have a responsibility to protect it. It gets hot here, and they just dont have the manpower to watch people and make sure people are behaving properly. If i saw somebody putting their cigarette out on the ground or something, i would be mad because i love this park. Reporter you can always call city of san jose or check out the website to find out if allen rock park will be closed for the day because of fire danger. Its going to be a real problem throughout the rest of the summer because of the high temperatures. Lets go to christian now with the latest on the forecast. We have some high temperatures around bathe bay right now, mainly inland temperatures. In embarcadero, we have sunny skies with high temperatures. Lets move on and take a live view from our fso camera. You can see the clouds near the coast stacking up rather high, as a matter of fact. Partly cloudy and mild tonight. Hot inland for the next two days, highs in the upper 90s to near 100 in some spots with slightly cooler weather coming in this weekend, but just a slight cooldown. Were still looking at remnants from what was Tropical Storm arnon, and another Little Development were watching here, a little cluster of clouds and moisture offshore that may or may not, depending on what happens with this area, play into our forecast over the next few days, so well just keep watching it to see what develops. Right now were looking at mainly clear skies inland tonight with fog in patches near the coast and some areas of fog pushing locally inland. It will be mild again but not quite so mild as a couple nights ago. Well see low temperatures tonight mainly in the upper 50s to right around or just about 60. Hitting mid60s in places like antioch. A little bit less warm than the last few nights. Tomorrow wont be less warm that happen today. Well see high temperatures in the south ranging from the upper 80s to mid90s. 98 santa clara. On the peninsula it will be nice a and warm as well with temperatures in the 80s. 68 in pacifica, 70 at half moon bay. 73 in south San Francisco, 69 in the sunset. North bay along the coast, look for the 60s in Stinson Beach and upper 80s to santa rosa to c calestoga. Over in the east bay, well see high temperatures of 78, 86 fremont, and the inland east bay once again will be our warmest region in the bay area tomorrow with highs in the upper 90s. At walnut creek, antioch, livermore 89. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast, well not see much change before friday. Monday will probably be the coolest day or the least hot day inland with highs reaching only 90 degrees, but well see temperatures rebound a couple degrees tuesday and wednesday, but certainly a more seasonal and more comfortable range of highs will grace us beginning on saturday. The next two days are going to sizzle inland. Thank you so much, spencer. Two baby possums are growing up strong thanks to the care at the san jose rehabilitation. This video is from wild care. The brother and sister were found on the side of the road in marin county. Their mother had been hit and killed by a car, and the two babies were found alive and well in their mothers pouch. The threemonthold Little Critters are being cared for at wild care, a Rehabilitation Center in san la salle. They will be fostered for a few more weeks before being transferred to an outdoor facility. They are kind of cute. Do you know a young person making a difference in the bay area . Kids 5 to 18 have until tomorrow to win 1,000 at the place where they volunteer. People like 10yearold alexander collected more than 2200 books to donate to other kids. He spent his summer installing and maintaining free libraries. Up next on news at 4 on00, hes been a superstar as captain torpedo. The special food menu that allowed some people to go to the ballpark today for the first time. New at 4 30, women in one country having a big laugh after a politicians controversial remarks. And checking your traffic in walnut creek, this is at 680, and traffic on the lefthand side coming toward us is going north toward concord, and its a little heavier that direction, a little better if youre headed to the so we now know what 49ers star vernon daifrs is talking about when he tweeted this movie poster of himself when he said, with acting comes great responsibility. Im captain torpedo. Heres the new film with the title character. Tied up. You killed torpedo boy. Oh. Intense. Straight to dvd. Davis bleeped a clip on his twitter account. Word is captain torpedo is a short superhero action comedy made by the Company French mustache. Thats a comedy production company. Its kind of outrageous. You can see it on our website, abc6. Com. We have a link there. Theres nothing more linked to baseball than peanuts and cracker jacks, but to kids with peanut allergies, that can be a harmful combination. Pnc park made part of their stadium a peanutfree zone. This made fans with peanut allergies like anna dorsey to finally attend a ball game. Because we knew about her allergies, we had to avoid situations that were dangerous. This is my first time to be able to come here with my daughter. Theres Nothing Better than a baseball game. Families that have peanut allergies were able to go into the sweet lobby entrance to avoid contact with the residue. They have had two peanut free days this season. Today in the fourth inning, jody mercer of the pirates hit a ball that went right into a womans beer. She was startled for a few moments but did not appear to be injured. Notice shes wearing a 12 jersey. Or is it 42 . I dont know, but its blue. I thought it was the seahawks, they wear the 12. No, its 42 so it would be in honor of jackie robinson. 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Thats because workers are almost done with the bay tunnel project. You can see one of the tunnels behind me. Once its complete, that old leaking cast iron pipe will no longer be used. Video from sky 7 shows where the pipeline is leaking, just east of palo alto, pum