where bolts are lighting up bay area tonight. this is kpix5 news. a show in the skies where bolts are lighting up the bay area tonight. good evening. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. brian hackney is here with a look at where the lightning will be most intense in the coming hours. >> you bet, liz. boy, theist a different kind of strike at at&t park tonight -- they saw a different kind of strike at at&t park tonight. viewers sent in from about 6:45 tonight there was amazing shots of lightning over the bay area. that's from south san francisco. if you were out of the fog and had a good view toward the west and the ocean, you saw some of it. there's a little more on the way tonight, even more tomorrow, hi-def doppler showing pretty good cells extending about 100 nautical miles offshore, but the heat of the sun is gone. that means a lot of the energy is taken out of the thunderstorms. if you look towards the south bay, right around cupertino on 280 west of san jose there's a really good cell there. there's some building in the mount hamilton range east of san jose, all that heading west in the next few hours. we'll have a forecast on what's going to happen tonight and what will unfold tomorrow because we're not out of this yet. forecast is straight ahead. investigators say a mechanil that deadly limo fire on the san mateo bridge has been ruled an accident. investigators say a mechanical issue sparked that may 4th fire. it trapped nine friends on their way to celebrate a wedding. five people died including the bride, but no one will face any criminal charges. tonight joe vazquez on the newly released 911 calls that shed a chilling new light on why those women could not get out. arellano. she was still trapped inside. 16:38:36 "i cannot make it out!" butt to 16 >> hello? >> hello. we need help. the car is burning! >> the first 911 call came from surviving passenger nelia arellano still trapped inside. >> i cannot get out. oh, my god. we can't open the doors! >> reporter: nelia and three others crawled out through the small front partition window as driver orville brown made his own anguished call. >> can you tell me how many people were in the vehicle? >> i don't know, ma'am, i don't know, ma'am. i don't know. >> i understand. you don't know. >> oh, my god. >> we're on the way. they're right before the high rise westbound on the bridge, correct? >> yes. >> investigators say the fire was caused by a catastrophic failure in the limo's rear suspension system. metal on metal contact underneath the car created enough friction to set the floorboards on fire. by the time chp arrived on scene the flames were out of control. >> the people are telling me there's five more people trapped inside. the doors are locked. i can't get inside the car. >> rescuers eventually got the rear doors open, but by then it was too late. >> is there anything else you need me to do? >> no. i don't think there's anything we can do. >> we're learning more now about why those women were trapped inside. the investigation finds the child safety lock was engaged on the left rear door. the right rear door was too badly burned to tell. joe vazquez, kpix5. >> the limo operator will be fined $7,500 balls the car was overloaded -- because the car was overloaded, too many people inside. as for the driver, orville brown, his estranged wife had accused orville of talking on his cell phone when that fire started, but a check of his phone records showed that he was not. yes, the new bay bridge will indeed open as scheduled despite all those headaches about the bad bolts, but tonight the question says should the contractor be rewarded for on time opening? tonight that's the $20 million question. >> reporter: it's one of the final steps before the eastern span of the bay bridge will open the tuesday after labor day. engineers installed a series of wedges called shims to reinforce the cracked bolts, the temporary fix clearing the way for the bridge to open by labor day and for the lead contractor, american bridge floor, to collect a controversial $20 million bonus for finishing the bridge on time. >> to give out a $20 million bonus on a project that is $5,000,000,000.10 years over budget i think is outrageous. >> reporter: his issue, a state audit found american bridge floor was at least partly to blame for the busted bolts. >> also in the contract were the assumptions that the bridge would be constructed correctly. also in the contract were the assumption that bolts wouldn't break as soon as you put them under tension. >> reporter: the cost to permanently fix the bolts? about the same as the bonus, $23 million. caltrans will ultimately make the decision about the bonus. some of the questions they'll have to ask, did the contractor earn the bonus and should the contractor's culpability concerning the bolts affect the bonus? >> that's going to be my goal to make sure that bonuses aren't awarded until we understand what went wrong and who is responsible for the problems with this bridge. >> reporter: caltrans did not return my call this evening. they have not made final decision yet about this issue and it's unclear when they will. reporting from treasure island kristin ayers, kpix5. >> the eastern span is about ready for traffic. crews are wrapping up work on the lighting and lane striping. of course, the last big projects comes next week when the bridge -- project comes next week when the bridge closes for question. we're now over eight days away. crews will spend five days getting the bridge ready for its scheduled opening on tuesday, september 3rd. breaking news now out of east san jose, three men shot and wounded at a restaurant in alan rock avenue. the restaurant is called wong hong. one of the victims has life threatening injuries. this happened about an hour ago. police still don't know who opened fire or why. the shooter is still on the loose. we'll keep you updated as more developments come forward. in the wake of the asiana plane crash a clarification about the use of cameras on firefighters' helmets. these images raise some questions as to whether the chaos that day contributed to the death of a crash survivor on the tarmac. told the fire department set the record -- today the fire department set the record straight on its helmet recording device policies. >> the policy specifically says that recording devices of any kind, any type of recording device, is prohibited without the permission of the chief of the department. >> authorities say if they allowed firefighters to wear helmet cameras, they would be city issued cameras. we're just months away from the dead line for every american to buy health insurance, part of obamacare. starting january 1st you'll pay a penalty if you don't have health coverage. tonight according to a local nonprofit insurance premiums have gone up 170% in the last decade. new field poll out finds 50% of californians already are having difficulty affording healthcare. also tonight kiet do tells us a popular clothing store has cut some employees' hours making them part timers so they will no longer get health coverage. >> reporter: some of forever 21's workers got the bad news last week. hours are getting cut, no more vacation time and they're losing medical, dental and vision coverage. emilio garza says they're being hypocrites, especially since they have the biblical reference john 3:16 on their shopping bags. >> i don't think that's fair for them to be a christian organization and then doing something like that, it just doesn't seem right. >> reporter: according to a leaked memo, the cutbacks are coming after the company recently audited its staffing levels, staffing needs and payroll in conjunction with reviewing its overall operating budget and a part-time employee will not exceed 29.5 hours which happens to be just short of the 30 hour per week definition of a full-time employee under obamacare. >> that's not right to do that to them because they work really hard. >> reporter: the company has forecasted a slowdown in the coming months and wrote on facebook forever 21 like all retailers staffs its stores based on projected store sales completely independent of the affordable care act. nonetheless customers posted hundreds of mostly negatives comments like this is a blatant attempt to circumvent obamacare. amazing how far corporations will go to save a buck even at the expense of their own people. at the great mall in milpitas sandra garcia said it's unfortunate. >> it's sad what they're doing, but -- >> reporter: you're going to keep shopping? >> yeah. if i need, something i'll run in there and get it, but hope it changes. >> reporter: at first jackie wing said she didn't care either but then changed her mind. >> treat their workers right and it doesn't matter all about the money like you just need to be fair to other people. >> reporter: kiet do, kpix5. >> forever 21 is claiming tonight the change only impacts about 196 employees. that is less than 1% of their workforce. weren't part of dr. king we've all heard these iconic words. >> i have a dream. >> but did you know those words remember not part of dr. king's -- were not part of dr. king's original speech. we hear from the bay area man who wrote that speech and find out why dr. king went off script. >> he kind of wriggled around a lot. >> prince william opens up about the joys of fatherhood, what he admits had he to practice before showing off his new baby boy. >> and a rare chevy disappears from a car show, what makes it so valuable? ,, could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? 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"i have a dream." the man who wrote that speech livesn ea, and tonight he t next week marks 50 years since martin luther king, jr. said those famous words, i have a dream. the man who wrote that speech lives here in the bay area and tonight he tells sharon chin dr. king almost didn't say those words. it was a woman on stage who helped him make history. martin luther king jr. gave t . >> i have a dream. >> reporter: dr. clarence jones stood 50 feet behind and remembers vividly how martin luther king, jr. gave the speech of his life august 28th, 1963. >> it is as if there was some cosmic force that came down and took over this physical form of a body. >> reporter: today dr. jones teaches at university of san francisco. he wrote a book about being king's political advisor, lawyer and speechwriter. in 1960 king visited jones at his home near l.a. and asked him to join his legal team. jones' wife viewed king as a superstar. >> an almalgamation of george clooney, michael jackson, denzel washington, matt damon all combined. >> reporter: but jones didn't want to move to alabama from california and refused the request of cheng. >> she turned to me and she said -- king. >> she turned to me and she said what do you think you are doing that's so important that you can't help this man that came all this distance to ask for your help? >> i have a dream. >> reporter: but then jones heard king's powerful preaching in person and agreed to move. in 1963 jones wrote the first seven paragraphs of king's famous speech at the lincoln memorial before a record crowd of a quarter million people and broadcast live on tv. when dr. jones drafted the original i have a dream speech, dr. king made some changes, but the words i have a dream were never part of the text. jones said after king read the script a gospel singer on the stage spoke out. >> she shouted to him tell him about the dream, martin! tell him about the dream. >> i have a dream. >> the rest of the speech that has become such a celebrated speech. >> my poor little children. >> that's all extemporaneous. >> i have a dream. >> you could hear people shouting to him well, preach it, martin! oh, praise the lord, speak it. he got the audience feedback. >> free at last, free at least, thank god almighty, we are free at last! [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: jones got the speech copyrighted and while the words fueled the civil rights movement jones said back then no one realized their enduring legacy. >> he was america's moral compass pointing us to the north star of our decency. >> an event tomorrow night at usf will honor dr. jones who is now 82 years old. it will also mark the 50th anniversary of the speech in washington d.c. next week and an event that president obama is set to attend. >> an amazing story. i've never heard that parted of it before. i have heard that he had -- part of it before. i have heard that he had used the phrase i have a dream in prior speeches, but he didn't plan on using it that time. >> absolutely. it was a huge audience and before that few people nationwide had heard him speak. so some of his advisors actually said don't use i have a dream. it's too cliche, but he made the decision in the end on the podium. >> thanks to a woman in part. thank you. eports well, for the very first time we are hearing from prince william talking about being a new dad. alfonso van marsh reports from london the legacy the prince wants to pass on to his son. >> reporter: prince william and his wife kate are sharing these new family photos with their new baby prince. kate's father took the photos amount his home outside london. -- at his home outside london. prince william said he and his wife katherine are settling into parenthood but were full of nerves when they introduced their new baby boy to the world. >> it's nice people want to see george. i'm just glad he wasn't screaming his head off the whole way through. >> reporter: in his first interview since becoming a father william told cnn prince george is growing fast and doesn't like to sleep much. >> he's a little built of a rascal. he reminds -- bit of a rascal. he reminds me of my brother or me. i'm not sure. >> reporter: while he seemed like a pro securing his son's car seat leaving the hospital, prince william admits he had to rehearse. >> i was terrified i was going to do something. it was going to fall off or the door wasn't going to close properly. i had actually practiced. >> reporter: prince william says at the moment the only legacy he wants to pass on to his son is this. sleep more and slow down the diaper changes. alfonso van marsh, cbs news, london. >> prince william admitted he's anxious to get back to work. he works as a search and rescue helicopter pilot in wales. tonight an apb, all points bulletin, out for a chevy impala convertible. someone stole this beautiful red 1961 supersport, a 409 from a parking lot during monterey car week between friday night and saturday morning. it is valued at about $220,000 because it's the only known supersport, an ss, with all original parts, the 409 in that particular year. it's also a convertible it looks like. the car was on the auction block but it did not sell. >> those cars are so beautiful. >> what do you do with that car? you can't leave it out on a lightning filled night leak this. >> not a good day for a convertible. >> it would certainly get attention, like the weather did tonight. we had a lot of thunder bumpers around the area, lightning strikes coming in at almost one per second in the bay area as you look at this video shot down around san bruno i think. it was really coming just gales of wind out from those down bursts and you could see on the hi-def doppler we still got some thunderstorms extending out from the peninsula now, but most of them now are over open water except this one that is right over pigeon point. you ever been to the lighthouse down there on highway 1? it is right on top of the lighthouse and at this moment it must be making a spectacular sight. also we're tracking another very strong impulse that's right around the hills right now. once we get the sun tomorrow contributing to the heat and updrafts, we'll get anotherness that thunderstorms tomorrow. that's why -- another chance at thunderstorms tomorrow. that's why red flag warnings are posted throughout the bay area. there's hazards for dry lightning strikes and that could ignite a lot of fuel around the bay area. we did record almost 3,000 lightning strikes between 6:45 and 7:45 tonight. thunderstorm chances extend through wednesday. there's about 100 lightning strikes a second globally, the air temperature near those bolts is about 50,000 degrees fahrenheit, hotter than the surface of the sun. that's why we get the thunder. the compressed air and heat blows out and you get the thunder and there's about 1,000 thunderstorms underway now. ours are underway due to low pressure that's just meeting the shoreline and that's creating a perfect funnel to bring up warm subtropical air and that thunderstorm chance continues right through wednesday the next 48 hours or so, some of those showers extending up into northern california. the next couple days looks like there could be a light show or two in the bay area. it will be in the south bay chances tomorrow morning and we won't begin to dry out until thursday. so there's the potential for humidity and also for variable clouds and also there's going to be fog and low clouds around the shoreline which is the most stable weather on earth, fog and low clouds, thunderstorms the most unstable. we're getting both in the next two days. >> we see it in the mountains this time of year but never down here. >> it's rare down here. look out the next couple days. let's hope none of them trigger fires. speaking of fireworks. >> yeah. we got ourselves a good old- fashioned division race with the a's and the rangers and the a's trying to make it fun to watch. >> meantime the giants not so much. ,, ,,,,,,,, the critics agree, build your own pancakes part 2 is a hit! i put caramel and bacon, says bobby. i like it when syrup goes down the side, says jenna. and michael was left speechless. build your own pancakes are back for a limited run, only at denny's. the end of these highlights. 's... ...having baseball up top, you got to go back to 2004 to dig up a stat i'm about to deliver at the end of these highlights. story is the a's having to win a half game back of the rangers, robbie thompson, interim manager of the mariners, 11,112. watch jarrett parker pitch a gem, delivered eight strikeouts in nine innings, the man had some mass. look at him go! all tied up 1-1. pitcher >> a possible walkoff. >> brandon moss backed away and gone, winds it in a walkoff for -- wins it in a walkoff for jarrett barker, the last a's starting pitcher to win in a walkoff? mark molder in 2004. 2-1 the final. david ortiz the red sox in at&t park, tim lincecum at second and stumbles. that's a bump. runs scored. 5th inning lincecum taken to the wall by stephen drew. he gave up five runs, 5 innings, 28 losses the start of 2012. jon lester gets a double play ball here. hey, i want to come out for the 9th. i want to finish this game. the red sox said no, have a seat. they win 7-0. be as the 4 go on record. a.j. is going to be an outstanding football player. >> yeah, he still could be but just for another team as the 49ers traded their 2012 1st round pick to the chiefs in exchange for 2011 1st rounder wide receiver jon baldwin who also hasn't lived up to expectations with kansas city. jenkins did not catch a single ball last season. even jerry rice offered to help him and jenkins declined. so on this 1st round list it worked out for three of the five, not ra'shon woods and not a.j. jenkins. >> let us speak from personal experience. i was ejected by a team, sent to another team and, you know, then with the next team my signature years came. no. 5, harrison barnes table tennis with san francisco mayor ed lee, yeah, happened in chinatown. morales...he gone! number no. 4, when you run on josh reddick, please slide. ask seattle's kennedy morales. he gone. no. 3, redskin wideout leonard hankerson, a one-handed grab, the redskins beat the pittsburgh steelers. no. 2, i'll paraphrase the song by ludacris. ma'am, get out the way. yeah, just, ma'am, ma'am, get out the way. you have to look up and see what the real title is. all right. we go from that to the honorable mention no. 1 because we like it. colt wide receiver reggie wayne sunday incredible catch. may already be the catch of the year and the regular season is two weeks away! >> a good year. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ superfan ] we're hitting the road to help america discover the new helper. you've got to try this sweet & sour chicken helper. i didn't know they made chicken. crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna? can i get another one of those actually? [ superfan ] hey, america, we're here to help. ♪ too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. female announcer: female announcer: closed captioning brought to you by sleep train, wishing you and your family a relaxing labor day. >> closed captioning brought to you by sleeptrain wishing you and your family a relaxing labor day. a san jose man set a new world record over the weekend in competitive eating. >> at a competition in l.a. matt mega toad stoney 8282 pot stickers beating joey chestnut who ate a measly 251. a few weeks ago we caught up with the 21-year-old stoney. he showed us how he ate everything fast and even gave our kiet do some pointers on eating pot stickers. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, goodnight. thanks, olivia. thank you. so you can make a payment from your cell to almost anyone's phone or email. 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