thank you, chinese trampolinist dong-dong for allowing me to watch two dongs flopping around without having to clear my internet history. >> that was good. >> you're still playing. >> yeah, yeah. >> fantastic how you do that. >> yeah. >> here we go. thank you, silver medals, for being worse than bronze. because at a dark bar in the olympic village at 4:00 a.m. you know bronze medalists are saying, check it out, ladies, gold. this is the last one right here. thank you, beach volleyball keri walsh for having the nickname "six feet of sunshine."

thank you dong-dong for not having that nickname. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thanks, jimmy. >> fantastic job. bob costas, a talented man. >> jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] how thieves are targeting travelers at bay area apartmeir

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unit investigates the airports and we will tell you what thieves are looking for, the air quality management district made a mistake, why the air was not as safe as first reported and fishing off the coast, fishermen make unexpected friends. we begin with breaking news, after months of speculation, mitt romney has chosen his running mate, sources tell us that it's wisconsin congressman, paul ryan, if two -- the two will make their first appearance six hours from now, when they kick off a four-state bus tour from virginia. we will have the latest on this on today in the bay. he was coming home soon

after four tours of dutiy, he dodged death but could not do it twice. he was just killed before dawn friday in afghanistan, a insurgent shot and killed a captain and two others after sharing a meal with those men. we are live in mountain view. >> he was hurt in a last, from an explosive device, despite being injured, he saved the life of one of his men and received a purple heart for that, this time he was killed in action, his friends and family are taking it quite hard. >> i had to call my son, not easy to let him know. >> kevin is not only the long-time president of saint francis high school, he knew the captain and as a student and as

a family friend, the decorated marine's death breaks his heart. >> this is as devastating of news that anyone could get. >> the marine and two other marines were shot and killed, n insurgents targeted the marines. >> it's hard, he was a student here, and a leader type. >> he graduated from saint francis in 2001, he was a star defensive lineman. he never forgot his routes, returning to his high school many times to say hello. >> that was the kind of young man he was. you do not find these kids with this kind of character, you do not find them very often. >> the on f two judges was head to law school with hopes of

becoming a lawyer next year. >> saint francis high will be holding a memorial service for the marine soon, and they will honor him at the first home football game. okay, george, thank you. this last stretch of summer vacation has bay area airports busy and when airports are busy, so are the thieves. from missing luggage to ripped off cars, r and r for you means a lot of stolen goods for crooks. we look at what is happening at the bay area airports. >> we requested crime data and a decade of the data, what we found may have you keeping on closer eye on your bags. >> it's a feeling no traveller wants to have. >> nothing came out.

>> after a long plane ride from london, becky arrived at san francisco international airport without her luggage. >> it's an invasion of privacy for sure. >> she never found out the fate of her belongings. she is like thousands of other travelers at bay area airports, who had their bags and luggage disappear in the last decade. >> we looked at years of data from the three major airports and the most reported crime is theft. >> sfo the bay area's busiest airport in terms of passenger boarding had the most. san jose recorded nearly 300 thefts, and oakland had half that. >> when you break it down by travelers, sfo only reported three thefts per 100,000

passengers, san jose 1-1/2. >> the challenge is the size of the campus and people accessing it. >> with 1500 cameras throughout the airport, their on the lookout for suspects. >> in most cases it's another passenger, or someone who had lawful business to be here. and a lot of times it's a crime of opportunity. >> where does tsa leave off and you pick up? >> tsa is the check point, their job is to search the passengers and carry-0s and luggages. >> they post a database of lost and missing items on its websites, everything from sunglasses to laptops. over the last decade, oakland had the biggest problems with 1500 items lost. even with around three times fewer travels annually than sfo,

at sjc, 1200 items went missing, items most likely to vanish from your luggage? clothing, digital cameras and jewelry. >> we have full time, 24/7 coverage here at the oakland airport. >> alameda county sheriffs said that at oakland airports, one of the most recent calls, the passengers who have had a few too many and are disturbing the peace. >> you have people that drink too much because of flight anxiety or things of that nature. records show that since 2007, oakland had eight incidents per 100,000 passengers compare it to seven at san jose. >> from the point you let go of your luggage, you have no control. >> randy cook said you are safer in an airport than on city

streets. >> you have security cameras and people monitoring the ti activities. >> does it make you feel better? >> statistics do not help me at this stage, i've been a victim of theft. >> despite the cameras and security, becky knows all too well that things can go wrong. >> have you given up to fact that you will get it back? >> unfortunately yeah. there's been a few tears along the way. >> another thing to keep an eye on, your car, during the last five years, sfo had 350 stolen, and oakland around 100. give you perspective, more than 750 cars were stolen from b.a.r.t. parking lots in the last year. okay, good tips. thank you. and if you have a tip for investigative units, give us a

call at 888-966-tips. or send us an e-mail. the mission is to protect and serve the public but lately police in san jose have been busy protecting themselves. seven officers ended up in the hospital last week after confrontations with suspects. officers blame city hall for police cut backs saying staff reductions are jeopardizing the safety, they say they are simply outmanned and out gunned to streets. >> you can be left in a fight for your life for a long time without any help. >> it's a demonstration of the fact that police work is a difficult and dangerous job and we appreciate the work of our officers. >> the mayor said the city needs to save money from pension reform to be able to hire more police officers. >> coming up, the fishing buddies behind this amazing video. they tell us how they got up close and personal with those dolphins.

and i'm raj, in london, the most famous crosswalk in the world, it's a saturday morning here. stay with us. >> i can't wait, raj, and right now we are talking about all the heat we had, temporaries in the upper 90s and near 100. and 95 in the valley. but a cool down is on the way, we will let you know what temperatures will drop 10 to 15 degrees. >> what do you get an inmate for his birthday? a sledge hammer jail break. what is next for the famous prisoner. still ahead. .

>> a deadly two-mile trip, we are learning more about a plane that crashed near the ucla campus, the pilot of the single engine plane declared an emergency just after leaving the airport. a plane that was registered to a yet to be named pilot crashed, and the pilot died, we do not know what led to the emergency in the air though. clearing the air in the wake of the fire in richmond, it is said there was a misunderstanding. all eight air samples taken during the fire were within state standards but one chemical was above the safe standard,

it's a toxic chemical. >> we were just trying to get the information out as quickly as possible to the public. we knew there was a lot of concern, people wanted to know what we had found in our grab samples in the night of the fire. in our haste to get it out, we just -- we didn't tighten up our message. >> meantime, a help center for those effected by the fire will be open tomorrow, hundreds waited in line at the community center to speak with a claims adjuster, because chevron will pay for medical costs and property damage. it will be a hot one, with the triple digits comes a triple threat, potential heat stroke, bad air and dehydration. a weather warning for the weekend. how to keep your cool this weekend. >> unhealthy air for some team means staying inside, but for

isabel and her husband and dog, it means waiting until the sun goes down to come outside. >> sometimes it's dark before we walk out at night. >> the bay area quality air management issued another spare the air a letter. the old and young should stay inside to avoid getting sick. >> i have asthma, and we are worried about that. >> most of it is hiydration and sun stroke. >> the air district recommends that people avoid outside activities and drive less during the day. but staying cool is important. >> going in the pool and staying inside with the air conditioning. >> ice cream? >> yes. >> ice cream. >> definitely. >> choosing the right flavor of ice cream is the up side of

staying cool. nbc bay area news. >> don't worry, we are tracking temperatures. and they are big ones. we will have more information on that in a few minutes. we can see the finish line, the london olympics are nearly over, but we never get raj mathai back. he is loving it, he is in one of the most famous locations in music history. raj, that's a biggie. >> it's a biggie. good morning to you, good saturday morning to you here from london. people come here and go to the tower bridge and big ben and they come to the most famous crosswalk in the world. we are at abby road, the crosswalk the beetles made so famous, if you need a refresher, let's look at the picture taken 43 years ago this week. yes, john lennon, ringo star, sir paul mccartney, and he is

walking across the road bare foot. they gave the photographer ten minutes to take the photo and from there it was rock and roll history. here is abby road and the crosswalk. later on this afternoon, there will be hundreds if not thousands of people streaming through here, it's so popular here, that there's two cameras. we have the nbc ground crew and we have, you want to take a look? the live webcam, i'm waving to you. it's live, and broadcast around the world. >> the interesting thing about the beetles, the last beetles' concert ever was at candlestick. paul mccartney was a part of that, and he will have a role in the closing ceremony on sunday. cold play, the spice girls and george michael will also have a

role in the closing ceremonies. and as we come back to the sidewalk camera, we have olympic headlines. team usa, a gold medal, the women's relay. the 4 by 100, a gold medal and a world record. here is the bay area connection, a bay area athlete was part of the team. she grew up in san jose, and went to mount pleasant high school. she was part of the preliminaries and got a gold medal for the women's 4 by 100. what is coming up later on? we will keep an eye on another bay area athlete. she trains at uc berkley, and you will recognize her to track because she has a flower in her air. there's a good chance she can medal. so we talked about musicians, and the olympians and now let's talk about the london night life. yes, it's saturday morning here in london, people are slow to

wake up because they were out pretty late enjoying the pubs. now the pubs here in london are a lot different than you may imagine. tonight we go behind the scenes and going pubbing. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to the paradise. >> dark and dingy, filled with old men? no way. >> originally, 25 years ago, the idea was going to the pub and having a beer. maybe you have a sausage role or toad in a hole. toad in a hole has been replaced with this, and this, and this. all created and cooked at the direction of the award-winning chef. >> it's not the in and out pubs where you go in and know it's going to be rubbish. >> people want great food and listen to a great band and drink

great wine and enjoy a nice atmosphere. that is what more and more pubs are doing, all across town, especially in the glow of the olympics. >> they know how the have a good time here in london, and we have been enjoying ourselves, mostly work but we are squeezing in a trip or two to a local pub. guys, shall i do it? shall we put down a microphone across the street? >> yeah, and take off your shoes. >> okay, here we go. >> let's see it. here he goes. >> oh, it's on a little delay. okay, he is going across. >> careful. >> look both ways before you kroz the road. oh, there he goes, good job, raj. >> will be singing hey jude, niles do nicely done. very nicely done. >> he did a lot of work and a

little bit of partying? i say rubbish, weekend is beautiful though, let's check in. >> plenty of heat coming our way, get across there safely raj. gilroy 100 and livermore 100, and numbers down 30 to 40 from the daytime highs. 54 in san francisco currently. let's go live. and we had the fog rolling in earlier this afternoon and it's still hanging around here in the san francisco, may even have drizzle on the coast line. that will eventually help to cool us off as we go through the weekend. we have been tracking high pressure here for six, maybe seven days sitting out in the southwest, it's been an unusual way for the hot air to get here, but it's been stubborn in

staying in place. as we head into sunday and monday, hot air will scoot to the east and that will make way for cooler weather, not only for the coast line but the interior valleys. the interiorly valleys, i wanted to do it, but we could not take it out of the 100 degree category. we will find 90s to 100s and the cooling fog in combination with the hot air sliding off to the east should help to drop the interior valleys to 80s and 90s. with more weather still up there on saturday, we do have another spare the air alert here for the first part of the weekend with unhealthy levels of the o zone. take temperatures down a bit, not too bad, trying to get out of the triple digits, 100 walnut creek, and 100 in concord, and 80s back here from castro

valley. you do not have to go far to find different temperatures. 92 in santa rosa. a day and a half left to competition, sailing will be happening here, mostly sunny skies, great weather with mid 70s, a slight chance of a shower for the closi ceremony and for monday and tuesday, anyone left at the olympics. we will have a few more showers. and you know, when it comes to sailing, it debuted way back in 1900 and great britain has been the most successful in the last three olympics, taking home the most gold. the temperatures go down, but by sunday, upper 90s, and monday, tuesday and wednesday, and temperatures gradually cooling off. so, it's a hot saturday, probably as hot as it was in the club with raj, raising the roof. i wanted to see that. >> we need more behind the scenes footage. >> coming up, a teenage that are

is in juvenile hall, accused of a high profile crime.

it sounds like something out of a movie, early this morning, someone tried to break into a juvenile detention facility, they believe they were trying to break out a high profile suspect, charged with murder. someone cut through two chain link fences around 4:30 this morning and tried to smash a cell wall and window with a sledge hammer. the break in did not work and the suspects managed the to get away. deputies say they were trying to break into the cell occupied by max wade who turned 18 today. he was transferred to the adult jail as previously scheduled. the 49ers kicked off their preseason tonight, see how they looked, next in sports.

i'm dave benz, the long off-season almost over for the 49ers, who kicked off their exhibition season friday night, let's go to the stick and the 49ers down early to the vikings 3-0 in the first, that is when alex smith hits swain for the touchdown, niners have a lead, and the second drive of the game, scary moment for the 49ers, toby gerhardt a short run. and jim harbaugh said afterwards, the reports look good. 49ers win 17-6. on the diamonds, rockies taking on the giants, matt cain honored before the game for throwing a perfecto last year. and the rockies had an early 1-0 lead, to the top of the fourth,

1-0 colorado, tyler colvin, rbi single, and rosario comes around to score, rockies up 2-0, they add another and win it by a final of 3-0, that does it for now, but i have to remind you that the a's lose 4-3 in chicago. back with more news after this quick time-out. ♪

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>> dolphins caught on video by bay area fishermen. the crew was 20 miles off the coast, when they spotted the dolphins, and he basically took his go-pro video camera and lowered it four feet below the surface and then they slowed down and let the dolphins swim up to the camera. >> you can tell in the video they are right up next to it within inches of it, they were curious and were coming up and checking it out.

he posted a video and got 180,000 hits in one week. and raj, you are a trend setter. we just lost him live. this is what happened. there it is. that's the video, he is standing there. what you see behind him is a crew of rowers from australia, reenacting the abby road photo taken there right now. iconic for raj and the beetles and for the rowers. they have done it a few times to get the perfect shot. raj needs three fellow anchors, and who could we get? three? three js. here is the video of earlier when they did this first couple of times. here we go. >> and they are all bare