Accounts about a robbery surrounding ryan lochte and other u. S. Swimmers. The overnight developments from brazil coming up right now on today in the bay. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Im kris sanchez in for laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. Some good news for folks have been dealing with a lot of heat here the last few days and weeks. A cooldown head into the weekend. Temperatures will come out of the 90s into the 80s for the trivalley. That has been baking. And the good news, air quality will start to improve. Today not so much p. It is the spare the air alert day. You may want to carpool or use mass transit. Bike into work. Heres a shot from san jose. Beautiful sun rise over the mountains. There are the clouds off across the foothills. We have some clouds in parts of the bay area and the inner bay and the coastline. 50s and 60s to get going this morning. Later on this afternoon, good mix of 60s and 70s for the coastline. 70s around the inner bay and 80s and 90s today for the inland valley. Lets toss things over to mike. Its looking standard except for the south bay where we have a shift. Maybe that Ripple Effect going on right now. Well show you the south bay, northbound route starting to build for san jose. And at mckee we had the earlier dereported and flat tire. Over on the shoulder. That distraction causes a little slowing. No lanes blocked. Look at the backup starting at tully road. Clearing by the time you get to oakland road. King is an option for you. You cant get back on until that same oakland road onramp. That may cause folks to shift over for 280 and 87 or 680. Well watch so far the standard traffic flow here. And bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights are on. Back to you, kris. We are tracking the latest developments out of Southern California. This is a live look from the chopper overhead. That fire, the blue cut fire which is raging out of control. And the flames are so fierce that fchs say it is unlike anything that they have ever seen before. Today in the bays cheryl hurd is live near the fire lines not far from San Bernardino. Cheryl, how is it looking at this hour . We see a lot of smoke behind you. There is a lot of smoke behind me. But right now, kris i want to show you that the trucks are lined up right here. Truck drivers tell me if they have dirt inside of these trucks because theyre going to go up the road on highway 15 and repair a bridge that was burned in this fire. Now, last night the blue cut fire sliced through parts of San Bernardino county, reducing hills and homes to ash. It was an unbelievable sight. The fire is still, as you can see from the chopper shots, going strong. And whats even more scary, no word yet on how many homes have been destroyed. 82,000 people evacuated. 5,000 from the right wood communi community. Its out of control. You know . Its just hot spot here, hot spot and then taking off. Reporter it is still going strop strong. Over my shoulder you can see the smoke coming from the fire. The fire hop scotched all over this area. You might be able to see the burned out hills here and you saw the smoke coming from over there. Now, this fire is making rapid pace throughout the hills. And its really unbelievable that they have no idea how many homes have been destroyed so far. As far as we know its only 4 contained. Well have an update on this fire coming up later in the newscast. Reporting live in San Bernardino county, im cheryl hurd. Back to you guys in the studio. Cheryl, thank you. Those firefighters no doubt doing the best job they can to contain the fire and there have been firing all over the state of california. Now back home to Northern California where the clayton fire is 50 contained. As for the man accuse of setting it, Damin Pashilk was in court yesterday to be charged. Dpart withes have Surveillance Footage that puts pashilk near the clayton fire and several other fires. Firefighters are helping to clean up downtown lower lake and bri bringing the towns fire chief to tears in the process. Sweeping with brooms and shovels and washing things down and i couldnt believe it. I was so impressed, man. I was so impressed and thankful. All those folks in from cal fire helping rally that community. Emotional time for lower lake. That fire has destroyed 175 homes. New this morning, five people are out of their homes in concord after a fire ripped through their duplex. Not a wild fire, just house fire which started before 3 00 this morning on glen brook court. Firefighters say it started in the kitchen of one of the unit theres. Everyone did make it out safely. While investigators know where the fire started, theyre still looking to find out why and how. And now to much sunnier news, the Olympic Games where competitions are captivating but still the world is talking about possible scandal and questions surrounding several team usa swimmers. We did learn late last night two of them were taken off of a plane heading to the u. S. And detained. All of this stemming from an alleged robbery they say happened last weekend. Nbc bay area anchor Jessica Aguirre is in rio where Authorities Say the athletes stories just dont add up. Kris an sam im here at copacabana beach. Behind me is the today show set. Matt lauer spoke to ryan lochte. While lochte is sticking to his story they were robbed, he has tweaked some of the details. Telling lawyer that they werent stopped by a group of men but rather they were robbed at a gas station. And also saying that the robbers didnt actually point a gun to his head but rather in his direction. Either way, brazilian authorities want to know more. Were you guys robbed . After being pulled home american swimmers jack conger and gunnar bentz is expected to answer more questions later today. Teammate jimmy feigen also cooperating with investigators who say their inconsistencies in the swimmers stories about being robbed at gun point by men posing as police early sunday morning in rio. Police hoped to also talk with ryan lochte who was involved in that incident. Buts hes already back in the u. S. Lochte is denying that theres any sort of a coverup. He told matt lauer that Brazilian Police are not questioning his truthfulness at all, rather that they congratulated him on his performance in the pool and thanked him for being part of that investigation. Kris and sam . Thanks, jess. The investigation is causing plenty of distractions in rio but there were some very important competitions for bay area athletes last night as well. Like south bays own kerri Walsh Jennings. She and her teammate april ross beat out the brazilian duo of larissa and talita to bring out the bronze medal for team usa. This is Walsh Jennings fourth olympic medal. Our own Jessica Aguirre just spoke where the bay area olympian just moments ago. Shes going to bring us her exclusive interview coming up at 6 45. Just wanted to hit the hard news first. Her gold medal streak might be unbroken but still bringing Home Hardware from rio. New this morning, one person is in custody after a car smashed into a store in san mateo. You see the result there. Glass everywhere. This was the scene just after 3 00 this morning at the precoc home fitness store. The car smashed through the window spending ellipticals flying into the air. Police say the driver of that car suffered only minor injuries. Officers later arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence. A middle schoolteacher is behind bars accuse of having an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. Today in the bays pete suratos is live at Taylor Middle School in millbrae with the details. Pete, this comes just before the start of the school year. The kids do not need this distraction as they head back to class next week. Reporter yes, kris, you know School Starts here a week from today. Its Heather Amanda butts. Shes a teacher here at taylor middle. She has been arrested for what authorities are calling inappropriate relationship with a minor. We can pull up that mug shot picture when she was booked yesterday. It all started on monday when San Bruno Police got a call about butts and minor having an inappropriate relationship in a parked car and after further investigation they determined that this relationship had been ongoing. An arrest warrant was issued and arrested at her millbrae home. She faces lewd acts with a mine. Narrator . Now School Starts a week from today as this investigation continues. If you have any information that can help with in case, contact San Bruno Police. Live in millbrae, pete suratos for today in the bay. Weve been talking a lot about the wildfires, the skies behind us though are reflecting some of that smoke thats coming into the area. Air quality an issue today, anthony. We do have a spare the air aler alert. Keep that in mind. You can see from san jose waking up to sunshine. Fog out there as well. Some low clouds across the foothills. 62 degrees right now. In San Francisco, theres the fog. Mostly cloudy skies right now at 58 degrees. We are expecting this fog to burn off rather quickly today as these winds out of the south will continue to bring in a lot of that smoke sprt soberanes fire and the rest of the smoke in the air is just going to make our air quality unhealthy through the rest of the day. Air quality does improve but heres your forecast for today. Again, still hot for the inland valleys. 93 for the trivalley. 88 for the south bay. Comfortable a and cool at the coastline. 65 degrees for San Francisco. Well talk about that weekend forecast coming up in a bit. But mike, youre concerned about the south bay. Whats going on . Right about now is when we start to see a lot more Traffic Volume around the south bay freeways. Seeing additional slowing because of that crash we talked about 101 down here. Look, the rest of your bay moves well except for out of antioch and in toward pittsburg. Westbound highway 4 jammed as well. North 101 at mckee. This crash addressing flat tires on the shoulder. Thats enough of a distraction. It looks like traffic is starting to move better. Backing up just before you get to story road. Still tracking that and asking chp for the latest update. The live camera shows us quite a bit of traffic jamming up 680. Havent seen this live shot show improvement but again, the sensors do show traffic is starting to improve south of here. Well track this trend, guys. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 11. Up next on today in the bay, a major step forward for the lgbtq community. The changes happening today at thousands of Federal Buildings across the country. Epi pen well tell what changes there, too. Absolutely. Also talk about the cuts at cisco. Not as bad as we thought in the south bay but still bad. Well take a look coming up. Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life coming up on 6 15 on your thursday morning. Every Federal Building in United States must allow transgender employees to use bathrooms that match their gender identity. The agency that overseas thousands of the buildings issued a notice on that yesterday. This applies to 9,000 buildings and offices in more than 2,000 different cities. The agency says the discrimination on the basis of gender identity is prohibited. Lawmakers this week approved a bill to eliminate sales tax on diapers. This is a measure that applies to diapers size 3 and under. It is now sitting on governor browns desk awaiting approval. A similar bill to eliminate tax for Feminine Hygiene Products is also working its way through legislature. A device doctor say can save a childs life now costs five times as much as it did just seven years ago. That has parents outraged with some saying they can no longer afford to buy those epi pens. The epi pen can stop a potentially deadly aler jek reaction in its track. In 2009 it cost 100. Now its about 600. The high cost has some cash strapped parents opting out and just rolling the dice. Mylan says the cost has changed over time because it reflects product changes. Another medical cost that has spiktd recently. The drugs youded by aids patients has been disinvited from speaking at a conference. He had been invited, kris, to speak at a Life Sciences shkrel. While he was ceo he raised the price from 13. 50 a pill to 750. I dont know why hes moving so fast. But he was arrested on securities fraud charges. Scientists at the conference asked that he be uninvited. You recall elizabeth holmes, ceo of theranos. Some scientists were so incensed by her presence they quit their membership of the American Association for clinical chemistry. Cisco says it will cut 5500 employees, far fewer than the 14,000 we wering looking at this time yesterday. But one important point, cisco based in san jose can announce more layoffs any time it wants. Theres nothing stopping it from adding to that number later this year. That said, rather, it does look like 5500. Cisco makes the stuff that makes the internet go. The servers and switchers and other hardware. The problem is American Business is moving away from making stuff in favor of services and software. Stuff is a difficult business. Kris and sam, the poster child for not making stuff is gopro. It makes a camera. Its a marvelous camera. Everybody likes a gopro. But its easily copyable. Anybody can make it. Probably cheaper than gopro can. Analysts roger kay told reuter, quote, hardware engineers are now probably the least attractive skill set manageable in the valley. Thats got to be hard to wake up to if youre a hardware engineer. No kidding. If you have kids going to college and youre trying to help them pick their major, no, dont be an engineer. Dont be a hardware. Dont make stuff. Dont make stuff thats in a box. Make ideas. Thats a good sell. Innovation. Thank you, scott. The Childrens Discovery Museum planted a one of a kind tree this week. Thats not actually the tree yet. But thats what it will look like. Its a genetically modified tree that its creator believes may one day grow up to 40 different socalled stone fruit or frights with seeds. Ive got your attention. The museum is showing off a picture of what its expected to hook like at some point in the future. A lot of colors there. We had a grass of two stone fruits in our yard at one point. Apricot and neck maritarine. Im a serious gardener, sort of serious. My husband does the gardening. Serious truth shall set you free. Very serious about the school date forecast here. A lot of kids going back to the first day today. The first full week for most as we get into the next week its going to cool down. While its been hot over the past couple of days we are on the cooling end tr side as we get into the next few days. Today you will notice temperatures a little bit cooler but not by much. You will feel it probably by this weekend. You can see clouds rolling in to san jose this morning. Thats indicative of a cooler day for again most of us. 58 in San Francisco. As we get going through the day, another warm day as highs climb back into the 80s and 90s. Look at our winds today. Directly out of the south blowing to the north so this soberanes fire to our south is going to bring smoke into the bay area across the south bay and the east bay. So we have moderate to unhealthy air quality for the next 24 hours. It is the spare the air alert day. Keep that in mind if you can carpool or use mass transit. Cool in San Francisco. A good mix of low to mid 60s. Napa, you will be up to 84 this afternoon. Santa rosa, 83. Concord, 93. Pleasanton, mid 90s for the trivalley. Look at ur winds around it. Coming out of the east, directly out of the east. That is an off shore wind. What thats going to mean is warm temperatures and fire concern over the next couple days as that trough slides down the coastline. We will cool off by saturday and sunday back in the 80s and same for next week looking nice and cool. 60s staying put at the coastline. Mike, how is that morning commute shaping up . I got better news for the south bay. We should see improvement. Sensors are showing a plitt bit of that in san jose. The rest of the bay looks good for this thursday. As schools come online and especially in san jose state, San Francisco state, cal berkeley, as they all come online were going the see more commuting at different times. Well track those changes. 101 with improvement as all activity now cleared from 101 north at mckee. Some slowing for 87 and some folks may have shifted over ksexpressway. Watch this trend here. The live look shows you we do see that the headlights are moving much better than ten minutes ago. San mateo bridge westbound 92 moves slower with as more volume of traffic. No major problems. 880 getting here. Slow off of 238. Hayward and down past hayward in toward tennison and union city and fremont. Thats the trend. Back to you. Coming up next, we are joined with another one of our viewers problems solved. Yes, we like it when theyre solved. Good morning. The cable bill suddenly spikes in this case at a cost of nearly two grand over the next two years. So we got to tackle this one. Nbc bay area responds next. Good morning from rio. Coming up on a thursday here on today , four u. S. Swimmers including ryan lochte. Two of his teammates detained at the airport overnight. What lochte had to say in a conversation we had on the phone. Also ahead, kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross stop by after their big win in beach volleyball, bronze medal match. A hard fought one there. And the most dominant womens Gymnastics Team ever. Whats next for the final five after taking rio by storm . Well find out when t