Reeling from the start of the blue cut fire. A tornado full of embers torched homes, more than 80,000 people were ordered to get out, and 32,000 acres burned, but eric swanson decided to stay. Wrightwood kind of sits in a bowl, so when it burns on the ridges normally fire does not do real welcoming downhill against the wind. In the back of his mind he knows anything is possible. This is very important to me so, yes, i kept my helmet. Reporter he has his car packed with a few valuables just in case he has to escape a wall of fire. Ive just been around here for a very long time, and when i felt threatened ill leave, and i have only left one time. Reporter thats something firefighters dont want to hear. When people say ive lived here forever, ive seen fires, it is not the same. If youre asked to get out, you need to do so and you need to do so early. Reporter now, thats what firefighters are telling me tonight. They say it just takes one gust of wind and one ember to start a wildland fire. By the way, they say they still dont know how many homes were burned to the ground. Reporting live in San Bernardino county, im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. K up trul thank you. In the bay area, a scary lied. This is video from our nbc chopper. Shis happened about two hours ago. And ckup truck crashed into the t hool bus. She was paid to be a caregiver to the elderly, but a technician is accused of violating their trust. It might have been caught on camera. Elise is in san ramon with the inside story. Reporter raj, this started with a 95yearold man at a local Senior Living center noticed his items started missing, so that senior and his son installed surveillance cameras, and police say the thief was caught on camera. From there investigators just followed the money. At her home in tracey. No one wanted to answer questions about beryl levy. A medical technician seen here on her Facebook Page is accused of stealing from those she was paid to care for. Since 2014 levy has worked as Villa San Ramon in san ramon. You cant trust anybody anymore. Reporter police say a 95yearold man living there started seeing his things disappear like this ring. So the son and victim set up a Surveillance Video inside his residence. Reporter and on august 7th police say 61yearold levy was caught on the camera. Showed the suspect walking into the residence, going into a drawer, removing property from the drawer and leaving. Reporter from there detectives started little and not far from a pawn shop. I wandered where the jewelry came from. The owner of real cash for gold pawn shop claims levy sold him all kinds of jewelry. She would bring necklaces, different types of jewelry, coins. And seemed to be coming straight from work. He was in her uniform, yes, always dressed in a gown. Reporter he says he wasnt surprised when Police Showed up. It is awful what someone can do to someone thats needing care. Reporter and police say they were able to recover those items found at the pawn shop. They say the challenge now will be identifying who owns that jewelry because many of the seniors dont even know theyve been victimized. Reporting live in san ramon tonight, ee liesh kirchner, nbc bay area news. A huge loss at home after triumph in rio. , days ember of the u. S. Fencing arm is a victim of the clayton fire. Flames destroyed the lower lake home of matthew porter. He moved into the house days before heading to rio. He is the armorer for the fencing team, it is his job to provide and care for all of the equipment. Sand dolsee him in the middle of this photo. A gofundme page has been created meanelp this family, and so far nte tally is more than 11,000 raised so far. Ainmwhile, relief is on the way for people in lake county. Cal fire says the clayton wild fire is now 55 contained. Full containment is expected by sunday. Flames broke out saturday off highway 29 south of lower lake and quickly spread. The fire destroyed more than 200 structures including at least 175 homes. Sa. Uspected serial arsonist has. Or arrested for starting that fire. Well, the headlines out of rio at this hour, controversial and embarrassing for team usa. Id ryan lochte lie or embellish his story . What really happened in the wee hours at that rio gas station . Whatever the case, this has ballooned into a Major International story. You have been hearing lochte claims they were robbed at gun point, but rio police say that appearie and false. Michelle roberts joins us live with what we have learned today. Michelle. The Surveillance Video shows what appears to be a Security Guard with a gun, but according to police in rio the guard responded after the swimmers vandalized a gas station. Several members of team usa were booed and surrounded by reporters outside the rio police department. They were investigated by authorities after investigators ob taend this Surveillance Video. It shows ryan lochte and his three teammates the night they claimed they were robbed at gun point. At a News Conference this morning, brazilian authorities said the swimmers were confronted by Security Guards after they trashed a gas station bathroom. Police say they were forced to pay for the damage, not threatened and assaulted as lochte claimed earlier this week. And the guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, get down. Reporter this morning, lochte, who is already back in the u. S. , seemed to change his story saying the gun was pointed in his direction. Today the u. S. State department encouraged the swimmers to cooperate in the investigation but stopped short of saying lochte should return to rio. We encourage all parties to work with brazilian Law Enforcement in their investigation of the incident. Reporter while police in brazil continue to ask questions, athletes at the Olympic Village have mixed reactions about the controversy. I dont know what happened to him and i dont really care. The biggest honor i can think of, to wear usa across your chest and compete, and to have somebody make up a blatant lie fals something is pretty shameful. Reporter the ap is reporting two swimmers are leaving rio tonight. Police there could potentially charge the swimmers with giving false testimony as well as vand lifrm. Back to you. Thanks, michelle. What now for ryan lochte . E ted he be suspended from team usa swimming or just clarify what really happened . E gr in the news cast we will be joined by our own olympic analyst natalie coglin. Someow to girl power in brazil. From winning gold to shattering world records, female athletes have been dominating. Jessica aguirre joins us from rio. You spent time with these golden girls today. How are they feeling . Fan. Reporter fantastic. With all of the hard work behind them and medals and their neck, theyre feeling good. Today they took a victory lap right past me. Victory was shining briets on the sands of copea ka ban as a 2006 winning olympians celebrated. Among them kerri walshjennings who took a bronze with new partner april ross on that very beach. Despite the heartbreaking loss that cost her what would have been her fourth gold, kerri says bronze is not a bad word. It used to be a dirty word, but now it is a beautiful word. April and i fought with everything we had. Reporter has it sunk it that you guys are the absolute bs, best ever in the world right now . I honestly dont think its sunk in yet. I know we both know the accomplishments us and our team have achieved, but were just trying to take it all in. Reporter it is also a lot to take home for simone biles and her final five squad, the team usa gymnastics proving they could not be denied their place in history with a backtoback all around team win as well as their own collection of olympic finery. Watching everything you are doing to really go ut out there and represent not only yourself but your. Reporter sanfords lucy davis jumped her way into a silver medal. The california gal happy to Showcase Team show jumping to a whole new crowd. It is huge for the u. S. Like i said, we had a big turnout all days including qualifiers. Big crowds and a lot of people energetic about the sport. It is great for us riders. Reporter you know, im happy about that. Now, the final five told me theyre going to do a little sight seeing before heading back to the u. S. If you wonder what the athletes do after they win the gold medals, they go to the usa house. It is a private venue only for athletes. Raj and janell, im taking you inside at 6 30 to give you a sneak peek at how the athletes live. A vip with Jessica Aguirre. We cant wait to take a look. Up, unks, jess. Were another step closer to a driverless future. I im scott budman. Coming up, ubers plan just to send a car to pick you up. Plus, what is keeping tigers away from this bridge in the south bay . The answer, pretty slick. And good evening, im meteorologist. Extremely hazy skies from Mount Hamilton looking across the south bachlt we have air quality forecast tomorrow. Where it is worst and changes for the weekend in a few minutes. One day, history was made. The greatest olympic career of all time. A dog, talked. Were decedent from the mighty wolf. A voice was heard. If you build it, he will come. A girl discovered magic. A revolution began. Welcome, to the wonders that happen, everyday. Welcome, to it all. Comcast. While. A san jose train bridge popular to taggers is finally clean and has been for quite a while. So whats the secret to keep those taggers away . A story youll see only on nbc bay area, damien joins us with a unique tactic. When is the last time you saw the bridge over highway 280 this clean . It seems someone may have figured out the secret. Most every train bridge in san jose is littered with graffiti. I dont know what kind of harness or equipment they use, but apparently they put a lot of effort into a pretty poor use of time. Reporter then theres a highway 280 train overpass. This has always been a popular canvas for taggers. Not anymore. The overpass has been taggedfree for months. The bashed wire and razor wire havent been a deterrent. Sources tell me the property owners, a railroad company, are trying something new, greez. You can see the black grease on polls and steel plates welded on to the bridge. Thats a great idea. You know, weve got to try Different Things and something might work. Reporter the grease apparently is too slippery for taggers to climb on to the bridge. Im told no other bridge in the south bay has the grease. The zit of san jose pays an average of 1. 5 million a year for antigraffiti program. There may no longer be a need. Instead, the secret to keeping it clean might be something thats really messy. Reporter we are still trying to confirm who actually put the grease on the bridge. Union pacific said they would call us back this afternoon. We are still waiting for that phone call. Live in san jose im damion trujillo, nbc bay area news. After a popular restaurant learns it has escaped an eviction order at least for now. Aft after more than 20 years in business, they received an eviction notice. After the Community Rallied and additional fixes were made, the owner withdrew the order saying she is giving them one more chance. The restaurants owner is still uneasy. I dont understand what does mean one more chance, like little girl. I dont understand, one more chance, what this means. Still im what is that . Reporter salute does not have a longterm lease agreement. Until it does many supporters say the fight is far from over. Late today a u. S. Judge rejected ubers 100 million settlement with its drivers calling the amount inadequate. It is the latest dust up between uber and its drivers. It comes on the same day as the San Francisco ride Company Announced phasing out drivers. Were talking about driverless cars. What this could mean for riders and drivers, scott budman. Reporter yeah, janell and raj. We have all gotten used to opening up our smart phones, tapping on the uber app and meeting a driver. But the company has plans to change that up a bit. Soon youll order an uber and just meet a car. Even with the car industry aiming towards a high tech future it has shifted here to silicon valley. Reporter we here in the center of technology arent yet sure were ready for cars that drive themselves. Sounds scary. Reporter sounds scary . Yeah. Reporter so you wouldnt trust a car without a driver . Probably not. Reporter but ridesharing giant uber is ready. The San Francisco company says it will within the next few weeks launch a test program where Autonomous Vehicles pick you up when you call for an uber. Starting in pittsburg, it will jump ahead of other autonomous carmakers by driving people, some who are skeptical. The cars arent proven to be safe yet. Reporter but carmakers say the Technology Inside is there for safety reasons. And if these cars are architected and designed to be this intelligent, to have these kind of crash avoidance issues in, they will be safer. Reporter safe enough to farm a field maybe, but to drive people . Well soon find out. And when it comes to jobs, consider this. There are close to a million uber drivers out there, and something near 3. 5 million Truck Drivers in the u. S. , all of whom might be wondering if theyll have a job in the next five to ten years. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. It is a brave new world. Thank you, scott. It is. Lets get a check of the forecast, if it is a beautiful day. A cool down expected soon. A few degrees. Going to make a big difference for interior valleys by this weekend. It will be dropping into the 80s. Always we get a look outside at our Sky Camera Network right now, you will be able to see it has been very, very haze throughout a lot of the southbound today. This is our Weather Underground camera from Mount Hamilton looking across the santa clara valley. That haze being imported from the soboros fire. The humidity at 59 . Temperatures dropping into the 60s rather quickly here once we hit 8 00 and 9 00. As we get you to the east bay youll notice here from wall nut creek looking towards mt. Diablo the skies are haze. Right now were backing off to 89 and well see temperatures into the 70s by 8 00 and 9 00 tonight. As we get a look at tomorrows forecast, it is still going to be warm here for the interior valleys, but instead of mid 90s well go to an average of 90 degrees. Forth north bay 85, San Francisco 64, right across the south bay anticipating 86 degrees. Now, the thing that were tracking thats helping to produce this smoke moving in from the soboronis fire is this trough of low pressure. We anticipate more smoke throughout the south and east bay primarily. Fire is 60 contained but a 40 chunk of that fire theyre trying to put out. Expect smoke and poor air quality certainly for the next 48 hours. For tomorrow, the worst air quality will be across the east and also the south bay with a sparetheair alert in effect. Thank you, jeff. Coming up, statues of a naked donald trump pop up in five cities including San Francisco. Live here with more on the group behind this stunt and how long this trump is going to stick around. S analysts say more than 40. Happening now, the number of homes sold here in california fell last month. Analysts sayer more than 40,000 homes were sold, which is about 10 less than last year. You can get the full story on our website. Also, a famed tiger from india has died at the age of 19. She is said to be the most photographed and oldest female tiger living in the world. It is on our Facebook Page. Stay connected to our world wherever the world takes you. Get the nbc bay area app. Her name was carol king. Her story is beautiful. The tony and grammy Award Winning musical beautiful, the carol king musical. Now playing. Poppingup today in several cities including San Francisco. Donald trump nake a rather a revealing political statement popping up today in several cities including San Francisco, donald trump naked. Thats right, the naked truth. Statues of the president ial nominee were created by a protest group. The statue has been drawing crowds all day. We see behind you, stephanie, just dont show us too much. Take it away. Reporter trying not to, raj and janell, trying really hard. This is actually the busiest time i think weve seen. The crowds have grown. There have been dozens of people at every moment, and thats why this statue will be gone around midnight. The department of public works told me it is a Public Safety concern now with crowds this size and the traffic going up and down castro and market. They say art is in the eye of the beholder. And these eyes, whoa, had plenty to behold. Life like, orange, accurate. Hilarious. Silly. But it does have better hair than the real one. Reporter the name of this socalled art installation is a play on an old tale about a vein emperor with no clothes. This time the emperor is missing something else, which is also behind a highprofile black lives matter protest in march where they covered hollywood walk of fame names with those killed by police. It gets covered up by mockery like this. Reporter some out here says this stunt drives a deeper wedge between polarized votes. Others say theyre reporter some parents brought their kids down to learn a lesson on politics and public art. What would you change if you were the artist . Just make the head a lot bigger. Reporter now, the Group Spokesperson tells nbc bay area the statues were put into place at 8 00 our time with the help of six people in each city, and the group chose a Las Vegasbased artist saying they chose him because he specializes in designing and creating monsters and they believe trump is a monster. Quite a talker. San franciscos newest tourest attraction for a few