College in maraga witnessed history. Its one of those things you have such anticipation and such expectation, when you actually see the man it does bring tears to your eyes. Theres something about this person. It was a moving afternoon. President James Donahue was a former theology teacher at Georgetown University right there in washington, d. C. Congressman who represents Contra Costa County invuded donahue to todays event. Washington, d. C. , wasnt the only place to watch the popes address. How about san jose . Dozens of students you see here gathering at Presentation High School this morning. The allgirls Catholic School had breakfast with the pope so to speak even taking selfies with a life sized cardboard cutout of the pontiff. We have more coverage of the popes u. S. Visit online. Get the latest on our website, nbcbayarea. Com or simply download our free nbc app. Also follow us on facebook and twitter. Well, this might make your skin crawl. A Popular Library is closed in palo alto after bedbugs were found crawling on a couple of chairs. Exterminators are inspecting the library and books to figure out how to clean up the creepy crawlers. Nbc bay areas Michelle Roberts is live outside the library in palo alto where people had to be turned away today. Reporter it is closed and the city doesnt know how long the bedbugs have been in inside or how they got there in the first place. So far no bugs have been found inside of books but if you have any at home, you might want to take a close look. The front doors are shut. We do have a reporter librarians at the Mitchell Park library in palo alto spent the day directing people to the socalled Popup Library next year. They said they found some tests so theyre doing spraying. Reporter spraying to kill bedbugs. I wuonder how that happened. Weird. Reporter the city said the bedbugs were found on two chairs yesterday afternoon. We have no reason to think that theres any bedbugs that have traveled to books. Reporter palo alto Spokes Person Claudia Keith says bedbug sniffing dogs will sniff the libraries in other town next week. Rudy is an exterminator with planet orange. His company isnt working on the library but said if there is bedbugs in the chair, theres a good chance the pests are also hiding in books. They like to go someplace where other people will be around so they can come back out and take a bite. Reporter the thought has many library regulars wondering how close they were sitting to the creepy crawlers. Ive probably been on those chairs. Reporter Library Employees say if youre worried one of your books is infested, put it in a plastic bag and return it. Now that i know it, i probably will check. Reporter exterminators do say if you are home and have one of the books, shake it out and leave it out in the sun because the bedbugs do not like heat. As for the library, it is expected to open on sunday. Reporting live in palo alto, Michelle Roberts, nbc bay area news. Thanks, michelle. New at 5 00 the search is on for two men who police say sexually assaulted a uc berkeley student. They were escorting home. Campus police say it happened overnight near frank schlessinger way and oxford street. Police say the woman ran into a man she knew along with his friend while heading home. The two men offered to walk the woman to her apartment and thats when police say they assaulted her. A milestone today with the valley fire. The Calistoga Evacuation Center officially closed. That means hundreds of evacuees are on a move to a new shelter closer to home. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is in middletown this evening. This isnt a onemonth process here. It will take more than a wrayea for a lot of people to get back on their feet. What happens now . Reporter its going to take a long time. Evacuees are transitioning today moving on to a new phase in the recovery and rebuilding process. Now, in one hour from now, a special meeting will take place here at Middletown High School to help guide them through that process, but for many, today was all about transitioning from a makeshift community in calistoga back here to middletown. After nearly two weeks camped out at the fairgrounds in calistoga, fire evacuees had to pack up and head out today. They took us in. Gave us tents. Put the tents up for us. Reporter Calistoga Evacuation Center officially closed this morning, but the friendships and bonds made there arent going anywhere. The determination to rebuild is strong. Were hanging in there. Yes. You cant not be inspired to hang in there when youve got people around you that we have. So youre inspired to hang in there with the rest of them. Reporter bob coleman boarded a charter bus with a few things he escaped from the valley fire with. Clothes on his back, and his guitar. He says hell forever be grateful to the calistoga volunteers. I hope one day that i can show how grateful i am to these people because they were just a blessing. Red cross, everybody. Reporter as coleman and the others head to the red cross shelter in middletown or to other temporary homes, volunteers in calistoga say theyre forever changed as well. To see the last one go is just a little emotional. They take a little piece of your heart with them. Reporter we are back here live where federal, state and local officials have begun to gather. Families are starting to stream in for a special community meeting. Its going to take a long time for this community to recover, but theyres an awful lot of support here. Reporting live in middletown, Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Here are the latest numbers for you. Tonight this valley fire is 85 contained. The death toll remains at four. Now, you can get the latest any time on our digital platforms or on our nbc bay area app. A venetia neighborhood is concerned tonight waiting for news on their neighbors. A family that vanished weeks ago. Police are working around the clock to find this mom, dad and son from venetia. Their vacation cabin mysterio mysteriously went up in flames. The remains of three people have been inside. Were live with more on this disturbing discovery. Pete . Are. Reporter yes, you knows, the missing father were talki inin about, adam beau cuuchanan was f their construction company. We have a letter up that theyre still open for business. I spoke to residents in the venetia neighborhood, describing the neighborhood as having a sense of restlessness like they never had before. Residents in this quiet suburban neighborhood are are wondering the same thing. Oh, did you hear about the family that lived on cambridge . Reporter adam bbuchanan, molly mcafee and their 7yearold son, gavin, went missing september 11th after a fire destroyed their cabin on a weekend getaway. The Sheriffs Department says the remains of two people and possibly a third have now been found inside of that cabin, all the while the familys teen son who didnt go on the trip can only wait for answers. Investigators are still running dna tests and have yet to identify the victims. Adam is the president and chief operating officer of buchanan construction sons, a Family Business based in venetia. I know adam, he did some work for us and hes a real hes a great guy. Reporter the familys headquarter tells me its been a tough few weeks and all they can do is prepare for the worst. They are grateful for the respect theyve had in safeguarding the privacy and the support theyve had as they continue to await what can only be tragic news. Reporter now, the Eldorado County Sheriffs Department cannot confirm if the remains in that cabin matches that of the venetia family but theyre treating this has a homicide and arson investigation. Reporting from venetia, nbc bay area news. So troubling. Thank you, pete. Overseas now where the death toll continues to rise after a religious pilgrimage gets out of control. More than 700 people were killed in a stampede near the muslim holy city of mecca in saudi arabia. Authorities say its the worst disaster to strike the annual pilgrimage in 25 years. They say it happened when two large groups of pilgrims arrived at the same time at a cross roads. An estimated 2 Million People are taking part in this years journey which began on tuesday. Tonight, a major bridge in seattle remains closed. Theres an active investigation on that bridge as we speak following a deadly crash involving a duck boat and a charter bus. Four people are dead and a dozen more have been critically injured. It happened this morning on seattles aurora bridge. Most of the victims were on the charter bus. Witnesses say they saw a duck boat usually filled with tourists swerving. Just before crashing into two other vehicles then ultimately into that bus. No word yet on the exact cause of this crash. The number of whales washed ashore in Northern California is rising, and the latest one was found far inside San Francisco bay. What brought a california gray whale to the shallow waters of fremont . The story coming up. I just love the way it all connects and geography is really a fundamental aspect of our daytoday lives. Also tonight, the students become the teacher. In tonights bay area proud, the High School Junior whos using his love of geography to change lives. Good afternoon, im meteorologist jeff ranieri. With the lack of fog today temperatures warmed up anywhere from 5 to 14 degrees. Were talking about a hotter day on friday and what this means for your weekend in my microclimate forecast. An update now on the deadly gym crash in livermore earlier this week. Rorted last night the 80 we have an update now on the deadly gym crash in livermore earlier this week. We reported last night the 80yearold female driver that rammed into an exercise class had a prior issue on her driving record. Shed actually jumped a curb about a year ago. Tonight were learning that curb she jumped was in front of the same gym. Livermore police say no one was hurt in the prior accident. However, this weeks crash killed a cfo of Lawrence Livermore labs, seen right here, 49yearold cathie baker. A dead whale washed ashore in the bay area, this time in fremont. The whale is badly decomposes, a Young California gray whale. It was spotted near the dumbarton bridge. Thats quite a distance from the ocean. Nbc bay areas Chuck Coppola joins us there. They havent seen a dead whale there in this part of the bay for the last 14 years. Reporter thats right. Salt pods along highway 84, the marshlands in southern San Francisco bay hardly whale territory, but Authorities Say the dead whale was found along a bike path just north of the dumbarton bridge approach on the east side. It appears to have been a weaned calf that may have become disoriented sometime. Thats according to specialists. The beached juvenile california gray whale was found near the fremont side of the dumbarton bridge more than 30 miles into the bay. Now rotting, its skin peeling back, pecked away by turkey vultures, its spotted by bicyclers and hikers near the alameda bike path near coyote hills regional park. I just passed by and felt really sad because its a beautiful animal, a whale. I just wonder whats happening to our oceans. Reporter now more than a dozen whales have washed ashore between monterey and mendocino this year. Wildlife biologists think this one died about two weeks ago but not necessarily here. Well, its only this far down. Im pretty sure because the tide brought it down here. Reporter the California Academy of scientists and Marine Mammal center sense teams of specialists to take tissue samples. Warmer coastal waters have increased algae growth which can affect whales sense of direction. When theres a large algae bloom it produces this toxin and when the animals ingest the fish up the food chain, they have issues with seizures and navigational problems. Reporter navigational problems traced to high algae levels have been traced, they say, to sea lions and at least one of the 12 whales beached earlier this year. This carcass in this instance is a long way from any housing or business development. The u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service may choose to leave it there to decompose or may tow it out to deeper water. Reporting live along highway 84, Chuck Coppola, nbc bay area news. Well, talk of a strike tonight on the 23 cal state campuses. These pictures are from 2012 when the csu faculty last authorized a strike. The result was rolling twoday walkouts at different campuses. Administrators and the teachers managed to agree on a are the so they avoided a systemwide strike. Now contract talks are stalling again and faculty members today announced a new strike authorization vote. That vote will take place over anyo nine days next month. You cant understand whats going on in the world if you dont understand the world, seems pretty straightforward. Theres a south bay teenager who thinks children arent being taught the basics in school. Garvin thomas is here with what hes doing about it in tonights bay area proud. A student said he fell in love with geography in the second grade, there was something about it that fascinated him. He says it wasnt until he got a bit older that he understood that geography meant a lot more than just maps and globes. Hed love for everyone else to understand that, too. He says this is the category, the highest natural law. Reporter at san joses bellerman college prep, mustnt service is a required part of the curriculum. Everyone does it. But staff there say one student, arvin, has truly gone the extra mile. Gone around the world, you could say. And hed love to tell you about it. The geography of it, that is. Geographys really a fundamental aspect of our daytoday life. Reporter from migrants flooding into europe, to the drought in california, from relations with cuba, to business with china. You and really understand any of them, arvin believes, without understanding the geography surrounding them. And arvin thinks not enough kids do these days. So in the Public School education system, theres very little geography involved and as we can see, this has a big impact on, i guess the different proficiency levels that kids have in geography. Specific time limits for each activity that we would like to do. Reporter so arvin has made it his mission to change all that. He started geography for tomorrow to fulfill his Community Service requirement, but has since turned it into its own nonprofit. Now were going to have a little activity for you guys. Reporter arvin and a team of 20 volunteer tutors regularly visit schools and on a recent weekend worked with the sunday friends nonprofit to help low income children. Lets say we have someone in china, right . Right here. Reporter to do it, arvin developed his own curriculum, reached out and gotten support from National Groups and local politicians. What state are you in . Utah. Reporter his plans ultimately are to grow this thing, geographically, of course. My goal is we can eventually reach that level, we can work toward having geography, solidifying a place for geography in our curriculum. Can i share a personal note . Yeah. Nothing makes me happier in this job than when bay area proud stories collide. I went to do the story about arvin, he said were tutoring at sunday friends which is a nonprofit we did in bay area proud a couple months ago. I love it when those things come together. Thats me personally. Hes doing a great job, really passionate about what he does. At bellerman there are a lot of kids who do great Community Service and there they pointed to arvin and said he went the extra mile. Definitely makes learning fun. Bring out the maps, the globe, the atlas. Janelle loved that story. I want to play. Thanks, garvin. If you have an idea or story idea for garvin thomas, reach out to us on our website, see bayareaproud. Com bayareaproud. Did i say that right . Yes. Its up there on the graphic. You can also go to our website to check it out. Lets get a check of our forecast now. Its warming up, jeff ranieri. Its been all over the place. Lately we had super hot temperatures last weekend then cooler temperatures earlier in the week and now today its going back up. I know its been annoying every other day youre pulling out the shorts then get the jacket back out again. Were going to eventually get to stabler weather here. Youll see that in the scrolling sevenday forecast. The Sky Camera Network right now, 9 0 degrees in south bay. Hottest weather in the east bay at 96 degrees. San frcisco at 78. And for the north bay, currently checking in at 93. What a lot of you experienced today were these beautiful high clouds moving across. You can see from our Weather Underground camera here, that was subtropical moisture that also imported a little bit of humidity. I think well have a little bit of humidity for tomorrow. Were not going to get rainfall unfortunately from the clouds. Lets bring you into the forecast as we head throughout your friday. Start with cloud cover. The good news were not going t see a super foggy start in the morning hours. The north bay, 55 degrees. San francisco, 59. Across the south bay, 60. The forecast will gradually start to change for tomorrow but its still going to mean at least one more hot day in the forecast. The slight change comes in with this area of High Pressure. Well start to move off toward the east. Thats going to signal an eventual weakening of that area of High Pressure to get those temperatures down. Again, for friday, it stays hot inland with the mild weather at the coastline. Sunny skies all around. Well start to get that cooling as we head throughout this weekend. High pressure weakens. It will allow this cold front to move across. Were thinking at this point about a 4 to 8 degree drop in temperatures so its not going to get extremely cold this weekend but definitely a lot more comfortable. Now, with the heat weve been dealing with at least yesterday and also today, we have been tracking that air quality. It does look like over the next 24 hours, it will be the worst air quality over the next five days, expected right here across the south bay approaching the unhealthy levels. Also not looking good in the north bay and peninsula as well. The microclimate forecast as we head throughout friday. Again, we will have warm temperatures with us that puts san jose at 70 9 90 degrees. On the car drive, see the thermometer going up as high as 95 in morgan hill, also mid 90s in gilroy. The peninsula, 89 in palo alto. More beach weather squeezed out there in pacifica with 73 degrees. San francisco, come in with 76 across the financial district, possibly as warm as 79 degrees throughout the mission. Lets take you to the north bay, east bay, also for the tri valley. Per normal when we get a heating event, hottest weather expe pep for the tri valley. 95 in walnut creek. 10 degree drop in oakland with 85 degrees. We will have marked cooling by this weekend, most notable once we get to sundays forecast. Well see temperatures drop in the south bay from 92 on friday down to 85 on sunday. And for the north bay well go from 93 to also 84. Look, if youre looking for an excuse to throw a party this weekend, here is the reason why. We have a super moon Lunar Eclipse happening and you can catch that this sunday any time from about 7 00 to just after 8 00 at night. Its a super moon because its on its closest track to earth and its a Lunar Eclipse because the moons going to be passing through the earths shadow. So this is your reason to have a party this weekend. Just saying. And its happening earlier. Usually like its in the middle of the night. I miss it. Yeah. You dont have to catch this one. Dont lose any sleep. Did he just invite us to his house for a party . Oh. Still ahead, a special delivery in oakland. How police turned a big disapointment into a delight. 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. Turning a negative into a positive. A nice gesture by the Oakland Police department its all about bikes and made a lot of kids smile. Officers delivered ten bikes to replace those stolen from the east Bay Innovation Academy last weekend. The students had been tuning up those bikes and were planning to donate them to charities around oakland. I think its really cool that we got, like, people would come and help support us and replace the bikes that were stolen. Nicholas was fired up. Some of the newly donated bikes only from the Oakland Police departments bicycle recovery unit. Others were personal bikes donated by the officers themselves. Thats nice to see. Still to come, an Animal Adventure for the young victims of the valley fire. Well be right back. Two big tech rivals, expanding in san jose, just blocks away well tonight at 6 00, two big tech rivals expanding in san jose just blocks away from each other. Its good for jobs, not so good for traffic. Thats coming up on our 6 00 newscast. Well, a moment of joy for dozens of children who survived the destructive valley fire. Today, 50 children from middletown got a free trip to the San Francisco zoo. The towns schools are still closed to a School Director organized a week of opportunities for students. The goal is to keep the kids entertained and give parents a chance to gather information on rebuilding their lives and homes. They were smiling and waving and enjoying the day. They deserve this so much. They want to come to the studio and get the tour of the weather center, i have it open. Really generous. Thats a great idea. Thanks for joining us. Lester holt joins us next with nightly news. Breaking news tonight pope francis arrives in new york city. Crowds lining the streets and heavy security as the pope delivers a prayer to the faithful at st. Patricks cathedral after his historic address to a joint meeting of congress. Tonight the striking message he delivered. So developing news of a fatal collision on a bridge in seattle. A violent crash involving a packed charter bus and amphibious tour boat. We have late details. Stampede horror. Staggering toll, at least 700 dead, 800 injured as disaster strikes again in one of the worlds holiest places. Breaking a scandal. The small teen from an American University that discovered a shocking secret and brought the Worlds Largest automaker to its knees
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