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from the air and on the ground firecrews work through the night to stop the advance of a mammoth forest fire in the sierra. >> the area is remote, but the evacuations have been ordered. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. they have spent the last several hours battling this wildfire. the fire broke out in placer county between colfax and foresthill about 3:30 this afternoon. so far it forced residents to evacuate the shirt tale canyon area. someone reported seeing men shooting off fireworks about the time it began. they are still trying to pinpoint the exact cause of the fire. it is hot there and triple digit temperatures in parts of the bay area made life uncomfortable for a lot of

people. in walnut creek temperatures peaked at 100 degrees. itment trying to cool off at the clark memorial swim center. they did the best they could trying to stay cool. it hit 104 degrees in livermore and 102 in cloverdale. a surging demand for power forced pg&e to declare an emergency -- an emergency -- an energy emergency asking people to conserve. if you were looking for someplace cool it was a delightful 59 degrees today in half moon bay. what a contrast. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with more on today's sweltering heat, sandhya. >> dan, it was simmering inland. look at the temperatures. 104 degrees in livermore. got up to 104 in ukiah and 103 antioch, fairfield. concord at 99 degrees. 87 in san jose. it was a warmer day, but not quite the heat the inland areas had. 92 in napa and 91 in santa rosa. 102 in cloverdale. san francisco comforted by the

fog. as you just mentioned, 59 in half moon bay. so relatively cool. we are going to see the heat backing off a little bit. but when will we actually lose the steamy weather? i will be back to let you know in a few minutes. carolyn? >> see you then. a strange case of assault in the east bay. a san pablo city councilman says he was attacked in richmond while doing his job as a property manager, an attack that left him unconscious he woke up at golden gate fields with a concussion. nick smith is live from the richmond police station where officers are investigating this. nick? >> absolutely. carolyn, richmond police confirm they are actively investigating the alleged attack against san pablo city councilman paul morris. tonight morris is at home recovering from his injuries. san pablo city councilman paul more rirks the alleged victim of a july 3rd attack did not want to speak with us today. >> councilman morris? >> morris is president of this

company and served as a san pab bloi councilman since 2. he says on july 3rd he went to a home to interviews himself to the tenant of a home his company recently acquired. morris told them he was on the doorstep when a man suddenly ran out yelling get out! get out! and punched him in the chest. he fell backwards and the last thing he remembers is hitting his head on the concrete. >> there is no reason to believe he was attacked because he was a council person. i don't even think he had time to tell the person he was the new property manager. >> it was then they say things took a bizarre turn. morris told police he was driven in his car unconscious and left inside near the entrance to the golden gate racetrack in albany. that's when he woke up alone in the car and seated on the passenger side. windows open and car key and smart phone within reach. he would then push the alert but done in his car sending an emergency call to first responders. >> from everything we have at this point, we are

investigating and seeing if we could come up with the suspect from that. >> after the unprovoked attack he was left alone suffering from injuries that caused him to be hospitalized for two days. neighbors are shocked. >> oh my god. i can't believe that. >> for the fact i know it was one of my neighbors, it is even worse. >> police would only say their investigation is on going. they do have a person of interest, but they have not named a suspect. they expect to make an arrest soon. they do say, however, there is no immediate threat to the community. in richmond, nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you. napa police arrested a substitute teachers and who is a football coach at vintage high school on charges he had sex with two teenage girls. brock james daniels is in jail. his bail set at $1 million. detectives claim daniels met the girls through a social networking site between november of 2010 and this past

june. they also suspect he had sex with a girl inside his home. fro moppet police need help finding a man who followed a teenage girl and grabbed her along stevenson boulevard. it took place around 4:25 after the girl walked home at stevenson and fremont boulevard yesterday afternoon. the girl says the man grabbed her around the neck, choked her after he asked for directions to the nearest atm. the girl escaped. she suffered minor injuries. her attacker was last seen running eastbound on stevenson. governor jerry brown furloughed 11,000 workers today forcing them to take off one unpaid day per month. most of them are state engineers working for cal trans. the furloughs effectively cut their pay by 5%. this move is expected to save the state about $400 million for the year. up a creek and looking for a way home. tonight a way ward dolphin is still trapped. it has been stuck since this morning in south san

francisco. so far the bottle nosed dolphin has not been able to find its waits back to the bay. ama dates is there live. ama, when was the last time you spotted it? >> the last time i saw that dorsal fin it was about 9:00. my video exextraordinary their spotted it around 9:40, and it has gotten dark. it is hard to see if the dolphin is still in here, but earlier we got a good look at. it -- at it. >> this is the money shot as the dolphin nose dolphin -- as the bottle nosed dolphin showed up. he was spotted a quarter mile up koll ma creek near the cost-co. >> the animal is swimming in circles. >> reporter: he is a volunteer with the marine mammal center that is working with other agencies to figure out if the dolphin needs help. >> honestly the best thing is if it just resolves itself. >> according to golden gate

citation research they will strand themselves for fish. >> they will push them on the beach, and they will actually go on to the beach and strand themselves and take the fish. so the fact that they are in very shallow water is not necessarily a concern, but something like this, it is out of the ordinary. >> which is why the way ward dolphin drew a crowd. >> they said, there is a dolphin at cost-co. let's get on the bikes and let's come here. >> i took some video and i am hoping the video came out better than the snap shots. >> and everyone is hoping for a happy ending. >> hopefully it will find its bearing and work its way out to the open sea. >> and again since there is nothing obviously wrong with the dolphin, they are not going to go in and do anything and cause undo stress to it, the problem was at low tide here, it is only about four to five feet deep. they are hoping when it came in at 7:00 the dolphin would make its way out of the

creek. i guess we will have to wait until tomorrow morning to see if that dolphin comes back to the surface. in south san francisco, ama dates, abc7 news. >> pretty impressive. thanks very much. next, we will take you to the fire lines with the latest on the forest fire burning in the sierra. >> that include os bough ma care, and i am going to work to reform and save -- >> also here tonight, he knew it would be a tough crowd from the start. mitt romney is defending his remarks before the naacp. >> and a new report shows a shake up in the wake we use computers. and then late other "nightline." >> i'm cynthia mcfaden. carolyn and dan, coming up, an american epidemic of babies hooked at birth on prescription painkillers. we meet one tiny infant in rehab and the heros fighting to save him. and how one model turned the tables on the man she calls her on-line stalker.

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between sacramento and lake tahoe. he is live from the fire lines tonight in placer sun co. placer county. dave, what is the word? >> you can see lonely out posts like this one. cal fire folks staged along the american river and the southern edge of shirt tale creek just west of foresthill. this fire could boil up anytime tomorrow or even later tonight, and they are watching for it. so far remarkably good luck. the up canyon winds didn't come up the way they normally do tonight, but tomorrow could be another tough day. the fire explodes up a mountain side by day. you can see flame fronts at times over a hundred feet as high trees explode into flames. and the fronts reach up toward the top of the cliff. along this extremely steep stretch of the fire, the vertical is about 60%. that means that shale is clatterring down as firefighters listen from the far side. it also means snags can come crashing down on top of you.

and another issue is simply falling. >> what happens if a guy is down there and a piece of shale or one of those trees comes down? >> it is a pretty good chance that something will hit you and hurt you. that's why we don't have crews up on the side of the mountain. >> this is the west flank of the fire on the far side of shirt tale creek. you can see the flames, six, seven, eight feet tall in places even at night, and considering it is a 400-foot rise and below it is almost straight down, that means there is is about 700 feet they are dealing with. >> the temperatures in the hundredses, that humidity is way down, and the burning conditions are prime to be extreme. >> did you see that piece of shale just then? >> i did. >> that's what you don't want hitting you? >> not at all. very dangerous. >> now, of course, that's some of the issues the firefighters are facing, and they are putting crews in there remarkably enough, but not what they want to get back tomorrow. the big issue are the winds are coming up and the temperatures are expected to

be over a hundred degrees, and that's a little comawnt called iowa hill is right in the path of the fire. they have everybody ready to evacuate. some folks are out of the canyon. we just have to wait and see how the fire fight goes tomorrow. cal fire is stretched a bit thin with a lot of blazes burning across california. they have restaged a lot of resources up from southern california, but of course what will be crucial is the conditions tomorrow. if the conditions turn bad, this fire could turn into a very, very serious one. back to you. >> thank you, dave. at a fundraiser tonight in montana, mitt romney told supporters he thought he did a pretty good job at the naacp convention in houston. the republican presidential candidate said he proved for one he does president change his message -- he does president change his message -- doesn't change his message for the audience. he was booed for 15 second when's he told the audience he knew they didn't want to hear. >> i will eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care. i am going to work to reform

and save -- >> [boo]. >> if you want a president that will make things better in the african-american community, you are looking at him. >> romney faces an uphill battle getting votes in the black community. according to an abc news poll they support obama over romney 96-3%. a dog owner is accusing menlo park police of being trigger-happy because they shot and wounded her pittbull puppy. she says her dog is not vicious. a neighbor called police saying the dog chased her. two officers approached mister, and one said the dog lunged at him. both opened fire and a bullet passed through mister's skull near his eye. >> why do you have tasers, or why do you have your clubs or why do you have any of your other gadgets if you are going to pull for your gun and shoot first? >> now, it is not clear if mister will be able to -- will end up being blind in that

eye. niece happens to be the same who was nicknamed strawberry short cake who was on the jury who convicted scott peterson of killing his wife, laci. sales of pc's and laptops dropped between 6% to 11% in the second quarter compared to a year ago. it is the seventh consecutive quarter personal computer sales were down. hp took the biggest hit, down 12.5%. del slumped 9%. worldwide, pc sales fell less than 1%. analysts are predicting that tablet computers will begin out selling pc's by 2016. the temperatures tomorrow will exceed 100, but what about here in the bay area? >> absolutely carolyn and dan. as we head into tomorrow, the coast and the bay temperatures will come down. the numbers will back off a few degrees, and then bay

friday the inland will really drop off. i want to show thank you photo. this was sun -- submitted and it is the weather in vacaville. look at the exter national temperature. it is 106 degrees. the official high for vacaville today was 104 degrees. take a look at the changing weather from our high definition roof camera looking toward the financial district. fog is rolling in not just over the coast, but over the bayside communities. as you look at live doppler 7hd you will see it. it is at the coast and over the bay. the marine layer is beginning to deepen 1200 feet tonight and that is signaling some change. we also have clouds moving in, and you will see more high clouds for the next two days. the temperatures right now, you can see it still pretty warm. inland areas in the 70s and 80s, but notice how much cooler it is compared to the inland areas. the coastal areas are in the low 50s where the fog is sitting. here is the visibility. this is what i am talking

about as far as the fog being possibly a problem. i have been tweeting this. half moon bay is reporting visibility down to three quarters of a mile. you will possibly run into problems during the morning commute. give yourself a little extra time. another hot day inland thursday. spare the air day, and cooling begins for the coast and the bay for your thursday afternoon. here is the upper level high, and we will go with one more day of hot conditions in land. although not the 104 we saw today. we are going only up to 100 degrees. the circulation around the high will draw up some more high clouds. we are seeing those. do count on them as we head into your thursday. this is a trough that is starting to impact our weather as it is deepening our marine layer. cooler days expected starting tomorrow at the coast and the bay, and it is spreading into the inland communities for your friday afternoon. tomorrow morning 49 in half moon bay. possibly dense fog. 50s across the rest of the bay area. low 60s and clear in our inland east bay. and it is another spare the air day.

poor air quality in the inland east bay. moderate air quality for the north bay and santa clara valley. good air quality for the rest of the bay area. air quality will improve as the sea breeze strengthens heading into your friday and the marine layer deepens. tomorrow afternoon it is warm in the south bay, but not as warm as today. 87 campbell and 86 for san jose. 82 in redwood city and 80 for palo alto. a cool day there. downtown san francisco, 66 degrees. it gets you up into the north bay. ukiah 99 tomorrow. 88 santa rosa and 82 san rafael. oakland san leandro and head inland and still steamy, 100 in brentwood and 97 in livermore and 93 for dublin and 77 degrees in santa cruz. hot inland tomorrow, but the heat is really starting to back off. friday only low 90s inland. cooling continues for the weekend. mid80s inland. midto upper 50s coast side. and we will keep it in that comfortable range as we head

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news where a fire is burning near a construction site in a mobile home park off monterey highway. this video was shot just moments ago. a power line was also brought down here. firefighters are getting a handle on it. no one has been hurt. a would be entrepreneur from southern california says the only way he can afford to live in palo alto is by showering at the gym, cooking at work and living in his car. kurt moved to the peninsula from los angeles in march to start an internet company, but instead of renting an apartment, the 25-year-old has been staying in a different kind of home, his car. kurt made this video and posted it on youtube. palo alto, by the way, is one of the few cities in silicon valley where it is legal to live in your vehicle. you can do it. well, a small town mayor in germany is courting controversey with a new parking plan. he is putting his town on the map, not far from france and

switzerland. the town garage offers male and female symbols designated specialized parking spaces. women get wide and well lit ones and men have to make do with tight corners and concrete pillars. some find this sexist. the mayor says ambitious drivers will find the tight spaces an attraction. the mayor also hoping that this parking plan will be a tourist attraction. >> oh yes, that will bring them in big. >> especially the women. >> they will love that. larry beil is off and mike shumann is here. >> tennis anyone? serena williams in town to defend her title at stanford. advancing at her first match. pete sampras was there playing michael chang in an exhibition, and it it didn't end well. we'll explain why ne

the bank of the west tennis classic at stanford is the oldest women's only tournament in the nation.

tonight they added a few good men with pete sampras and michael chang in an exhibition. sampras took the first set in a tie breaker and was leading in the second. that's where we pick it up. good to see both of them back on the court. but then father time catches up. he gears up for the backhand. a tweak of the calf and might be an achilles. the returning serve and he know he's can't continue. he was supposed to play tomorrow night. tournament officials have yet to decide what they will do. earlier today serena faces the stanford junior who won the singles title. serena was not impressed. a forehand winner and serena's serve was dominating at wimbledon. the record 102 aces. she serves up two in a row in game two. she did win a few points including this winner. she was just not ready for prime time. up the line, and she will advance with a 6-2, 6-1 victory. as we reported yesterday, the

warriors have traded wright to the 76ers in a three-way deal with new orleans. they get jarod jack. he had six assists last season. he will be backing up both guard positions in case curry's ankle is not healed. that's a good pick up as they get the draft right. the european player and clear about $4 million in cap space for the warriors. the 20th annual espy awards in l.a. it is an event where every sport is together in the same room. the red carpet one of the highlights and giants' brian wilson was center stage and gave as you call to arms. >> people want to know especially giants fans when do you start throwing again? >> i will be throwing mid-october. but have i been throwing -- but i have been throwing lefty in case. >> he brought sasquash as his date, the only man that does not fear the beard.

davis and willis are accepting along with jimmy. a young man battling cystic fibrosis. he got the breakthrough athlete for his linsanity. tim tebow presenting and was the butt of the best joke award. >> need anything else? >> no, i'm good, thank you very much. >> i'm here. >> i appreciate it. head on out. >> cool. >> thanks, tim. >> someone will show you where to go. >> that guy has been shadowing me all week. hey, sanchez. good luck with that all season. >> he says of course the jets' quarterback tim tebow is now flying behind him. this report is brought to you by river rock casino. >> very fun. thank you. "nightline" is next. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm carolyn johnson. set for iphone alarm clock app set for iphone alarm clock app to wake up to i'll have the $4 everyday value slam with... bacon.

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