rosa. we've been talking air tankers, helicopters. what's the plan for tonight? well, the plan is more air attack. good evening to both of you. and we have seen the wind pick up a lot lately. the winds are just whipping the flags here. we'vn, four different helicopters on the air attack and two different retardant bombers. and then this grumman g-73 used for recon over the fire with some of the fire incident commanders or their staff, they flew a mission just a short time ago. we were hoping to get updated numbers. like you said, a roughly 1200 acres and about 20% contained. they're telling us now that we won't get any new numbers later on tonight. the helicopters have really been on the attack, and they've been picking up water from two different lakes in the area. three of the choppers have the ability to work both during the day and night, and they have been doing just that. a break in the winds last night and early today helped firefighters

contain about 20% of the fire, but this afternoon the winds picked up. you can hear him picking up again right now, making it a more difficult to contain this blaze. earlier today we talked to a resident who's been watching the firefight since it started sunday afternoon. he decided not to evacuate from one of the evacuation order zones in dry creek valley, saying his home surrounded by a vineyard and has a wide, defensible space. unfortunately, he says, some of his neighbors are not as prepared, and he says he watched two homes burn from his front yard yesterday. two of them were right together, that's sad to see your neighbor's home go up. yeah, it's sad because they keep coming and talking to us about you know, hey, keep the brush away from the house, do this and that, and, and you can see up there, there's homes, you know, look how close the brush. don't have defensible spaces. no cal fire, the sonoma county sheriff and local fire agencies are

still asking people to evacuate if they're in the active fire zones or if they see fire moving towards their homes. it's also a good reminder to have an evacuation pack ready to go packed up, in case you have to make a quick exit from your home. and as far as the air attack goes tonight, a no retardant drops. of course, at night we expect more on the helicopter attack, more of those sounds of helicopters going to work on the fire in wine country here near healdsburg, we're live in santa rosa. thom jensen nbc, bay area news. tom. thank you. this could be really just the beginning stages of a busy fire season. now, the smoke from this fire has led to a spare the air alert across parts of the bay area. that smoke could be felt as far away as san francisco. air quality officials say. if you smell it, take precautions. nbc's jodi hernandez reports from vallejo. parts of vallejo are in the moderate air quality range. it's a little h ren mare nd, but the closer you get to that sonoma county fire, the smokier it

gets. and if you have chronic health conditions like asthma, you're definitely feeling the impact. so we can definitely feel it. there's a tightness in my chest and a kind of likthat burning that happens when you're smelling smoke. michelle novotny describes what it's been like the past two days as smoke from the point fire has made its way to her home in petaluma. novotny has chronic asthma and is very sensitive to smoke. i'm not able to go out and walk my dogs when it's like this, and get outside or, you know, we kind of try to avoid it, as best that we can. the entire bay area is under a spare. the air alert today. the point fire has now burned more than 1000 acres. there's very breathe in that go into n lungs as well as other things that are burning. you know, other ingredients to that, the burning object, the bay area air quality management district says the smoke is starting to dissipate as firefighters

increase their containment of the fire. but they say children, the elderly and those with health conditions should take precautions. if you're smelling smoke, you're probably breathing it in, which means you should sort of get out of the area, you know, go indoors, shut your windows and doors behind you, put on the air conditioning to recirculate. if you're using air conditioning, that's precisely what novotny is doing. she's staying indoors, using her inhaler and trying to wait it out. she worries that such a big fire this early in the season may signal a busy and smoky summer is on tap. you expect this in august and september. october, but generally not june in the north bay. jodi hernandez nbc, bay area news now the point fire in sonoma county is just one of several wildfires burning across the state. the biggest is actually the post fire, which is burning in gorman, which is north of la. air quality impacted in la and ventura

counties. that fire has burned more than 15,000 acres, and it's only 8% contained. officials are considering a power shut off in gorman amid a lot of high wind warnings, and there is very low humidity there today. much of the state is seeing these severe weather warnings and dangerous fire conditions. take a look. this map shows the active fires there is a lot of them there across our state. strong winds and high heat. that's a dangerous combination. jeff ranieri picks up our coverage here locally and statewide. and you know, seeing that map with all of those fires throughout the state, the way that the overall weather pattern is blowing the smoke from all of those fires would help to shift that smoke away from the immediate bay area. so we're not expecting fires in southern california to bring smoke our way. however, we have, of coue , the point fire we are dealing with here locally. so let's go ahead and get you the latest on these conditions. we just saw thom jensen out there in the north bay talking about how the wind was picking up a little bit. we saw it go really calm

through through the midday hours. we're seeing oucal afternoon sea bree of coming back right now. so wind gusts up to about 25 through tonight, 83 right now, tomorrow we still could see wind gusts up and 87 with low humidity. so there's lake sonoma. this is where the fire really started to pick up. they're trying to keep this fire from moving over dry creek road. it's right there at bradford mountain. so incredible amount of, you know effort put on this keeping it at around a thousand acres, 20% containment. so hopefully they'll be able to keep those containment numbers increasing into tomorrow with not expecting any major wind events. we stillave a red flag fire warning unt 8 p.m. here, though throughout lake county and also parts of napa and sonoma for the mountains around saint helena, yountville, napa and sonoma. and those fire warnings extend here throughout the state. real quick air quality issues we could see into tomorrow. it's just in the immediate area of the fire in the north bay, with the smoke advisory that's based on the current fire conditions. we've

got more looks at the weather forecast through this upcoming weekend and back. with that in about 12 minutes. okay. see you then. thank you jeff. and we are streaming 24/7. all the latest updates on that point. fire you can use the qr code to get to our how to page on streaming. you can search nbc bay area on roku, pluto or any other streaming platform that will get you the info you need. a major break tonight in the case of several arson fires at uc berkeley within the past 30 minutes, cal fire has announced an arrest. the latest arson happened just yesterday afternoon. a small fire was set at the dwinelle annex construction site. after the fire, an anonymous group posted online that that group was responsible last week, a group called student intifada claimed responsibility for two other fires, one outside koshland hall and another that burned a uc police cruiser last month. in each case, the groups referred to the fires as retaliation and protest over how uc police had handled the israel-hamas protests at other campuses, like

ucla. i wonder how effective committing arson is to that cause i just wouldn't do arson. yeah, i'm sure there's other ways to protest. i think the greater this the more this continues, the greater likelihood someone could be harmed. beca again, i would just prefer everyone to be safe tonight. cal fire says casey goonan of oakland, has been arn connecon with a total of four fires on campus. he's currently being held on $1 millio bail, is expected to face multiple felony charges, including arson and possession of a firebomb. san jose police looking for several people who vandaliz a police cruiser, with the police officer still inside the patrol car, happened saturday evening i san jose. police say an officer was injured pe at a sideshowf a near santana row. you can check out the video right now. you can e people mping the patrol car, sshg the fnt windield. the officer stayed inside the car, used his

loudspeaker to try and get rid of the people that were vandalizing the cruiser. mayor matt mahan says that officer was hurt by broken glass. today, a retired san jose officer says he would have handled it differently. point the windshield collapsed. i believe that that officer's life was in danger. i would have accelerated with or without the mob on top of the car behind the car. that officer needed to get to a position of safety. detectives were back at the intersection of oakland and winchester, talking with nearby business owners about that sideshow. people taking part in a sideshow can have their cars impounded for 30 days, fined up to ten grand. and then there's a newer law that also says spectators can be fined too. well, it can feel that homes across the bay area get snatched up as soon as they hit the market. but that's not always the case. about 55% of home listings in san francisco have been on the market for more than a mth. that's according to redfin. while they that may appear high, it's actually down

from 58% a year earlier and lower than the national rate of 62, bay area real estate agents said. it's the newly renovated or otherwise highly desirable homes that are bought. other properties, such as fixer uppers and downtown condos, can take much longer to sell. well, happening tomorrow, the biden administration plans to announce a new executive action, and it could impact a half a million immigrants living in the united states. the new policy aims to protect undocumented people who are married to us citizens from deportation. those undocumented spouses would be allowed to obtain work permits on a case by case basis. the program, known as parole in place, would also make it easier for some undocumented immigrants to get a green card and a path to citizenship. these plans come after immigration advocates and democratic lawmakers urged the biden administration to prioritize long term undocumented immigrants is expected to be announced

tomorrow. up next, preferential treatment for college applicants related to big donors. the barry assemblymember trying to put an end to so-called legacy admissions at schools across the state, an extreme heat and wildfire smoke, major disasters here. there's a new petition out that wants fema to recoider its classifinsca

and legacy admissions practices. the state legislature wants california to join a handful of other states who have banned that practice. yeah, the state run ucs and csus already have ruled out preferential treatment for children of alumni and donors. but now the bill is focused on private campuses, and it's making its way through the california senate. here's nbc bay area's emma goss. we're not saying that you can't admit alumni or children of donors. what we're saying is you just can't offer them preferential

treatment. we think that it's time to really make sure we're evening the playing field for everybody. san francisco assembly member phil ting has been working on a plan to end legacy admissions since the varsity blues scandal of 2019, when wealthy and famous parents were found to have paid bribes and falsified credentials to get their children into top universities. he also led a study bill which found, through self reported data in fall 2022, that the university of southern california, santa clara university and stanford led the state with the largest portion of legacy students in their incoming freshman classes between 13 and 14. it's about 13 to 14% is almost twice as large as african americans in their class, and it's almost as large as a number of latinos in their class. so this is not an insignificant number of, applicants as well as admissions. this is a very, very sizable portion of their class. the assembly bill calls for

penalizing california's private schools if they choose to coinue prerential admissions for the applicants of donors and alumni. his bill would make them forfeit their cal grants funding. ultimately, this is just about fairness. we want we want to have a fair, meritocratic process, in every admissions process. and what we don't want is we don't want people buying their way into universities. that's really not fair to become law. the bill has until the end of august to pass the senate after that, it will need the governor's signature. emma goss, nbc, bay area news a call today for the federal government to recognize extreme heat as a major disaster. and it comes from labor, environmental and health care groups. groups including the labo unions, afl-cio and seiu, filed a petition with fema today. petition says the growing cost of climate change is straining state and local governments. now, if approved, the petition would unlock fema funds to help towns prepare for heat waves and

wildfires to smoke. some of the actions would include building cooling centers or installing airin hools. federal agency could also hp during emergencies by paying for water distribution. health screenings for people that are vulnerable, and also increase electricityse as a result of the treme heat. all right, crews are busy at work at san francisco's ocean beach. take a look. they're moving 30,000yd■!t of sand. public wors crews do this every year to redistribute the sand so it doesn't blow onto the great highway when it gets windy, which it often does. they're using heavy machinery you see there to shrink the sand dunes and then move the sand away from the road and toward the ocean. this is expected to take a couple of weeks. some southbound lanes of the great highway will be closed. we've seen this so many times throughout the years. it's just always you see those sand dunes going right there on the great highway? yes. crazy to see. all right, let's talk about our our heat and especially the situation up in napa. well temperatures. yeah they are going to continue to go down

overall through this week. i do think once we hit this weekend temperatures are going to be getting hotr. wind is also going to start to increase here as we move through the next 12 to 24 hours. let me take it into that microclimate forecast, and we're going to take a look here across the state. and you'll see the red flag. fire warnings extend here not only from parts of the bay area, but all the way up to redding, way down to southern california. most of these inffect until 8 p.m. tonight. and then we should start toraut of the red flag fire warning win conditions through tomorrow for a lot ofifnia. so it's been aough go the past couple of days. that fire we're acki want to g on this again just in case you missed our earlier updates, we know a lot of you in sonoma county are watching, and you want the latest on really what's happening with those weather conditions. and it's right here between clordale and healdsburg, just off towards the west of 101. so as you get in closer here, you'll see the location of the fire. there's lake sonoma. it started just to the south of lake sonoma and

also off to the west. yesterday afternoon really exploded here off towards the south and the east. but firefighters have managed to keep this at about 1000 acres, 20% contained and really holding it back here from dry creek road. this is right around bradford mountain. so the task at hand tomorrow for firefighters with a win that still could get up to 25, is keeping this from crossing over dry creek road, because the wind is going to want to push it this way eventually towards highway 101. we hope, we hope not. but that is the way the wind direction is blowing. so wind still looks to be overall better tomorrow than what we've dealt with. and we're looking at 87 degrees. so when it comes to the overall wind forecast here tonight, we're starting to see it calm down throughout the bay area. i don't see any big wind issues tomorrow morning, but then by the afternoon really not only tomorrow afternoon but on and off all week, we're going to get back into our typical afternoon sea breeze. so it will be this window in the afternoon, early evening where we get these

wind gusts coming out of the northwest 15 to 35. it's not the driest of our winds, so it will kind of hamper efforts a little bit there in the afternoon. but then we get into those breaks certainly throughout the mornings. this week. so as we head through tomorrow's forecast, the weather pattern that's helping to keep the hot 100 away is the storm track. that's moving closer and closer to us. so that's going to give us some better temperatures. we're going to start it off here with 50s across the bay area down to 56 for the east bay san francisco, 50 for daytime highs for tomorrow. again not too hot. we're going up to 85 here in napa. 86 livermore and 80 right there in palo alto. okay. real quickly, if you're doing any traveling, i want to get you this. what could be our first tropical depression and or tropical storm trying to gather strength around cancun. winds of 40mph. this is going to be moving off to the south of texas, the center of this. but look at the rain. it's going to be moving up into texas. 2 to 8in flash flooding. so expect delays if you have any connecting flights in texas next couple of days. really

throughout this week, it's going to be a lot of water coming down on the lone star state and temperatures back here at home looking in the 80s next couple of days. we like this so intense around the country, but so much more mild here. yeah. temperature wise yeah. thank you jeff okay. let's give you a look outside. this is a live look at sfo. we're going to take you to the newly completed harvey milk terminal on its first official day

labels like cigarets and alcohol. that's what the u.s. surgeon general is calling for. vivek murthy says he and other doctors are concerned about young people spending hours a day on social media. we've reported previously on the research about the dangers of social media when it comes to pre-teens and teenagers, those who spend more than three hours a day face double the risk for anxiety and depression. bay area ctors tell us the proposal could be an important first step in raising awareness about the excessive screen time, the risks of it, doctors bradley zuckerman at stanford children's hospital says it could also help raise awareness among the doctors treating children and teens. i think clinicians will just take this more seriously. they're still clinicians out there that might not really grasp or believe that there's real tremendous harm with social media, and especially with something like body dysmorphic disorder. a spokesperson for meta, which owns facebook and

instagram and is based in menlo park, says the company will not respond to this recommendation from the surgeon general in order for the recommendation to become a law. by the way, congress would have to step in even with bipartisan support for child protections on social media. it's not clear how quickly any legislation would pass on about face by apple when it comes to customers using pay later loans to shop later this year, apple says it will stop offering buy now, pay later loans in the u.s. through apple pay. later company launched that program last year to allow customers to buy products online and then pay for interest free installments. now, apple says users worldwide will have to access installment loans offered by credit or debit card companies and other lenders. apple says users with existing loans can still use apple pay later features to manage and pay off their loans. okay, ready for takeoff? the harvey milk terminal at sfo is complete, and it had an official unveiling today, san francisco mayor london breed and other local dignitaries cut the ribbon on

the $2.5 billion upgrade to terminal one project. decade in the making, named after harvey milk, san francisco supervisor and gay civil rights leader who was assassinated by a disgruntled supervisor at city hall in the 1970s. upgrades include new ticket counter area, new security checkpoint, two new gates, and a museum gallery. there's also a walkway that connects every terminal at sfo. mayor breed spoke about the first time she saw the project. what an amazing airport. what a great place to arrive. there were some incredible images of harvey milk and it really told just the story of our lgbtq community in san francisco, but it told a story of san francisco . other additions include new concessions, retail stores, additional baggage claim areas, and five more automated screening lanes. okay, the schedule is out for the sixth annual california classic. this is part of the warriors summer league at chase center and then to las vegas. also, let's take

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here. summer league. i like the way that sounds. warriors announced the schedule today. 12 games across sacramento and san francisco, including three games at chase center from july six to july 10th. now, in keeping with tradition, the summer league teams will include rookie players, second year players and players competing for nba or g-league roster spots. tonight at seven, we are on the front lines. we'll update you about that fire burning right now in sonoma county. plus the sharks introducing their new head coach. what got him choked up and tearful during today's event . that's coming up on our 7:00 news. up next on nightly news. the u.s. summer set to be a brutal one. it's already started. extreme heat, intense storms, fast moving wildfires that we've been telling you about, nbc's steve patterson reports from the fire zone of the largest wildfire burning in california right now, just near los angeles, lester holt anchors nightly news next.

tonight, the historic heat wave threatening hundreds of millions of americans as wildfires rage in the west. the record heat expanding from the midwest to the mid-atlantic and up into the northeast. some 270 million people set to experience temperatures 90 degrees or above. while in california nearly a dozen wildfires burning. homes under threat. the new tropical system we're tracking. al roker has it all. also tonight, new details in the apparent random shooting at a michigan splash park. nine wounded including an 8-year-old boy. the news on his condition. just ten days to the first debate. the biden campaign launching a new ad blitz labeling donald trump a convicted criminal. while at mar-a-lago mr. trump taking a meeting with speaker