and missing in america. after seeing our report, one family s 30-year-old mystery finally solved announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. the american west is scorching tonight under a smooth ring heat dome that won t giving producing temperatures never before seen in september. breaking records by as much as 5 degrees. sacramento no stranger to summer heat reaching a record high of 114 yesterday at 104, salt lake city topping its september record for the third time this month. and now a deadly emergency playing out in southern california where two people died in a fast moving labor day fire the region now a week into a dangerous heatwave the brutal conditions are also threatening california s power grid which remains on the brink of rolling blackouts to cope with demand miguel almaguer is in hemet, california, where firefighters are still battling that deadly and lightning fast wildfire. reporter: it exploded out of control so quickly, autho
Blackouts is serious with so much of california still in the triple digits, the demand for power to run the a/c units is high you can see that substation behind me, just behind it is the wildfire still burning out of control. miguel almaguer, thank you. heartbreaking news tonight in memphis where police announced they found the remains of a missing teacher who was abducted while jogging last week as the man accused of killing eliza fletcher appeared in court. jesse kirsch was there. reporter: more than four days after eliza fletcher vanished tonight the desperate seven for the memphis mother of two ending this tragedy police finding fletcher s body late monday behind an empty home roughly half a mile from where court documents say her alleged killer tried to cover up the crime. standing before a judge this morning, 38-year-old cleotha abston faced multiple charges, including especially aggravated kidnapping tomorrow he will be arraigned on two more charges, including