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but they say people shouldn t be alarmed, just aware and prepared. reporting live in oakland, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. qu thank you, jodi. e new at 5:00 tonight, in oolroy, quick work by firefighters kept a stubborn hire from getting worse. d oeo from a viewer. hur chopper flew over head. within minutes, it spread to a second house. mn remote area is in the shadow ir mt. la donna county park. twf cause of the fire not released. two families are looking for temporary housing. the heat has firefighters on alert and is also one of the isasons the spare the air alert is in effect. this is san jose right now. nd you can see far off in the distance, the foothills look a sittle hazy. and this is the view of oakland. he heat plus smoke from the nurrounding is making for very lnhealthy air. nbc bay area s chief eteorologist jeff ranieri is iracking it all. a lot of people are wondering when we re going to get a break ngom the heat. > over the next 12 to 18 hours. it ....
as devin said, today was the first day of classes. the 84th anniversary of the school at this location. no damage reported on campus. many people captured the quake on surveillance camera. brian hackney shows us two videos that stand out not only for what they show but what they can teach us. reporter: two sleeping dogs and one sleeping baby were about to give us a lesson in seismic waves. first we have the dogs who seemingly react before the shaking. the baby, however, is jolted by the moving of the house. so that first wave was this primary wave that moves very quickly. it s a higher frequency wave and it s the initial jolt we feel. then the quake is followed by a secondary wave that moves about half as fast. that s a more rolling motion moving from side to side. that s the quake that does the damage. is it possible that the animals detect that primary wave better than we do? maybe. in general, animals do have different sort of perceptions, censors than people d ....
already one of the highest in the country? revenues are already being paid by motorists and make sure that s nailed down before we talk about taxes. reporter: republicans want guarantees the gas tax money won t get siphoned off for other programs. so the voters have confidence that that money will actually be going the way it s intended and not borrowed. we re getting close. we re within a few votes. of 12 cents a gallon? yes . reporter: as for the voters either we re going to pay it or they re going to stick it to us anyway. she has a point there. the recent study shows if you resurface the road, you spend $1. if you leave it alone and it continues to crumble, it can cost up to $20 to fix. that s what california has been doing. using the money for the roads for other programs during their budget crunch years and that s why republicans want assurances. drivers do to. this time if the tax goes up, it actually does go where they say it s going to go. i ....
berkeley with the latest. henry. julie, the family mourns the loss of roger and valerie the police hope the autopsy will solve the mystery of their death. 35 year-old roger morass and his wife valerie were found dead. roger was a video game producer and former software engineer. 32 year-old valerie seen in a photo from her web site was eye researcher in san francisco with her own lab who earned advanced degrees from berkeley and mit where they met. u c berkeley optometry professor was her advisor when she got her ph.d. in psychology from cal. she was a very happy person that was in a launching point in her career. things were going well and what i knew of her husband, he, too, was a bright energetic and fun guy. a woman who knows the couple called police about one monday afternoon after finding roger and his cats unresponsive. and then police found valerie s body. authorities have ruled out radiation or carbon monoxide leak and no signs of violence or foul play. ....
100 years to life. we re told the families of the victims were involved in the decision to make a deal in this case. the third defendant involved in those murders had made a deal with prosecutors earlier to testify against the other two. we have a crew now in marin talking to the district attorney there right now. we will have much more on this case and the outcome throughout the evening. now to our other breaking news and the new development in the legal fight over the ban on immigrants from seven muslim- majority countries. several groups lining up calling that ban b unconstitutional. the trump administration filed a new legal brief. ktvu is following the latest on this for us. reporter: the government filed a 15-page brief. this is it right here. the white house is calling the lower court s injunction vastly overbroad and is reasserting the president s authority to impose rules on immigration. california has joined 15 other states filing a friend of the court ....