preseason right now. trying to get it into the end zone for the first time. tebow. slinging it. one hopping it. and that took five seconds off the clock. 17 ticks left. second down. >> cris: now you've got to be -- you got to start throwing this thing towards the end zone, because now, even if you get a completed pass, you may not be able to run up there and get the next one off, probably won't be able to, so now it is time to take your shots. you have to understand where you are right now with no time-outs remaining. >> al: and tebow slinging it inside the 5 and that is incomplete. trying to get it into the corner to jordan white and that would

have left some time on the clock. instead, with nine seconds, the ball comes back out to the 22 yard line. third down. from the 27 yard line. third down. nine seconds remaining. and tebow firing to the end zone! and incomplete. wouldn't that have been something? still has two seconds left and one play. intended for jordan white. >> cris: just going with four verticals and the wide receiver trying to get inside the safety and tebow throwing a bullet in there. pretty nice play, though, to

break that thing up. leaned on that one hard, but reggie smith there to make the play. >> al: barring a defensive penalty, the game ends here. tebow. buying time. avoids the sack. throws it end zone. and a little too high. going up to try to get it and bring it in was hayden smith, but he couldn't. miracle finishes don't count anyway in preseason, cris. >> cris: it doesn't. and the bottom line is another preseason game and another game with no touchdowns for the new york jets and their new offense under tony sparano certainly not the end of the world, but not what they were hoping for here tonight. so they need to come up with some answers here pretty quic y quickly. >> al: four field goals. carolina wins it by a score of 17-12. remember, a week from wednesday, regular season kicking off. performances from mariah carey

and no doubt. then the giants and the cowboys at 7:00 -- 7:30 eastern here on nbc. your local news, except on the west coast, coming up. midnight eastern, it's an all-new "dateline." al michaels and cris collinsworth and michele tafoya. from our entire crew, good night from the medicine low lands.

nbc bay area news starts now. >> it is an eerie site. tonight, tropical storm isaac is huge and on course to make land fall somewhere on the gulf coast this coming wednesday. that is also the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. good evening. let's go straight to the meteorologist right now who's been tracking that storm since it first formed in the atlantic? >> there's a little bit of good news. the storm is strengthening very slowly.

it is still officially with the top wind gust that is 67 miles per hour with the national hurricane center just in five minutes ago, as the winds at 65 miles per hour. it does take it towards new orleans and over the next 48 hours, it's going to encounter very warm temperatures. that's the high ok tan. that's a period of strengtsenning. it's the path you see there in blue. a big difference in intensity. katrina did get up to category four strength. it's the same in reaching new orleans as a category 3 hurricane. so the current path for isaac wednesday morning would be a category one storm. but that path does take it right to the louisiana gulf coast. it's possible that isaac could

strengthen quite a bit more and bringing storm surge of 10 feet. this is a situation that will be changing rapidly in the next few days. >> all right, thanks a lot, rob. emergency officials are urging people in the path of that storm to make sure they have an evacuation plan in place. nbc's jay grey is in port myers, florida tonight. >> reporter: isaac continues to wreck the caribbean. at least four were killed as high wind and rain ripped apart shelters. >> everybody coming through louisiana over through fla fla needs to be watching this carefully. in ft. myers, that includes sandbags. >> this storm surge is what we're concerned with. we're very anxious about this. >> nerves are on end where preparations continue. but events are scheduled for monday where the first national convention has been pushed back

until tuesday because of the storm. >> i think if the chairman thinks it's better, i'm all in favor of it. >> emergency teams are ready to move in when isaac moves through. >> there are over 100 red cross workers in the state of florida right now. as the storm decides where to go, we're mobile and able to move those resources as quickly as possible. the current track shows the storm growing to a category 2 hurricane with 100 mile an hour winds before entering florida. >> there's a lot of fuel out there for the hurricane and it could easily intensify, holding things together. >> holding things together could become increasingly difficult as conditions take a turn for the worse. jay grey, nbc news, ft. myers. >> forcing republicans to change their plans for the national

convention in florida this coming week. they're releasing a new, shortened, three-day schedule starting on tuesday. presidential candidate mitt romney will now be officially nominated tuesday instead of monday. governor romney will speak on thursday, the last day of the suspension. officials say there could be more changes to the schedule fending on the palt of that storm. >> 25-year-old ricky gill is going for elected speaker. >> hello, dianne. not only is ricky gill the soul candidate from the west, he is also the youngest of the speakers. the candidates of the 9th congressional district feels honored and is kpieted to

address the thousands in tampa this week. gill says he plans to use the two minutes he's allowed to talk about the place he was born and raised and to draw attention to an area he says has long been forgotten by washington. >> i would like to let you know that i care immensely about this community. the reason there's so much urgency is that the people are more under represented than any people in america. there was not a single state or representative who lived in this seat. so we're going to restore these people's place in politics. >> the ninth district includes mounta mountain housz, the majority of sa snr san joquin county. he is, at last check, scheduled to speak on tuesday.

dianne? >> all right, thank you, kimberly. on the other side of the aisle, the democratic national convention is scheduled to begin on september 4th in charlotte, north carolina. this weekend, thousands of people lined up outside campaign offices to get a ticket to that event. she looks happy. tens of thousands of people are expected to attend this convention. the list of speakers include chicago mayor, caroline kennedy, eva longoria and, of course, president obama himself. and new tonight, last night they reported san francisco is the highest median home price in the country? well, they also happen to have the highest-paid police officer in america. he earned more than $321,000 last year. the chief in los angeles made about $307,000. several cities have a higher

crime rate than san francisco, as well. he says he is not surprised his pay is the highest given san francisco's reputation for generous compensation and the higher cost of living. speaking of san jose, neighbors are joining in a fight gens a recent surge in violence there. the homicide rate is on pace to beat a 15-year high and police have responded by putting more officers on the street. nbc bay area's francis joins us with what some are doing? montey? >> police say that much of this violence is gang-related. they're also boosting the overtime budget. but the community is responding in its own way. there have been eight homicides in just the past two weeks in a city that was once long

considered the safest in the nation. many of the church members are ex-gang members and so are two of the senior gang members into the highest crime areas of san jose and trying to reach those gang members with a spiritual message. >> i think our experience of being there at one time is able to relate to them and being able to say, look, i know what it's like. i know what you feel. >> the police department is spending $800,000 for overtime. that rally for peace is set to take place tomorrow in front of san jose city hall at 6:30, p.m. live in san hoe sajose, nbc bay

news. >> a quake shakes southern california and cameras were rolling. >> the world series is now over, but not before a thrilling finish on the bay. and the boys went out in style. they played the final game of the little league world series today. we'll show you how they did and when they're expected to be back in the bay. ♪ ♪

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the pedaluma little league team will be returning home tomorrow for a little league's welcome. but, today, after that heart wrenching loss, the team was actually back on the field. >> bradly smith, nice. >> pedaluma took on panama in the consolation game. they scored early and often cruising to a 12-4 win to take third place.

again, the little leaguers and their families are scheduled to fly tomorrow morning at 11:00. there's a parade planned for the team next sunday at walnut park. as for the little league world series title game, japan beat tennessee 12-2. another world series, this one on the water also wrapped up today in the san francisco bay. and thou sans of fans were treated to a thrilling finish. nbc bay area's lauren scott will look at all of the action on the water. >> it was a great experience all around here. especially on this championship sunday. >> round one is in the books and on super sunday, it was a thriller between both oracle teams. battling to the finish where koosk takes victory. >> they may have forgotten them.

>> and in a thrilling final with a dramatic ending, jimmy's second place finished with or kal team to win the week. >> it's fantastic. it's a pretty nice result to win the first world series. it's the first time in front of our fans to be able to reward them with that. >> the day also saw two olympic gold medals between them. >> the speed is incredible, but just how close they get to them. they're able to ma noour between the boats and they're pretty big boats, as well. it's pretty impressive. >> for the spectators by the bay, the chance to get up close and personal made for quite a memorable week. >> that's it. it's been so close to them. you think it's something that

happens three or four miles offshore. learning about the history of the america cup while watching some world class racing. it all starts again in just a matter of weeks. the first week in october, the racing returns here to san francisco. if you'd like to see more, we'll be airing again just after this newscast. also, again, dozens of earthquakes give southern california a good shake. look at that, a beautiful night in san tran sis koe.

. hundreds of small to moderate earthquakes have been

rattling southern california today. the usgs says 5.5 and happened just before 2:00 this afternoon near the emperial valley town of raleigh. it started at about 10:00 this afternoon and then kept on going throughout the day. that's more than a hundred miles east of san diego. they shook some bodies off the shelves and several older books offered some cosmetic damage. there were no reports of injuries, so. >> firefighters batling a fire south of reading have a new challenge. strong winds are threatening a fire to jump its containment line. they issued a red-flag warning because of the wind and the warning time was just after firefighters were able to gain about 75% containment. the fire has destroyed 64 homes so far and another 300 are still threatened.

we do want to check in on the weather. it actually helped to break up the low cloud. some of the dry air mixed down to the marine layer. got us through the sunshine. let's take another look at that. world series at the sunshine. gorgeous condition. windy and cool across the bay. they did improve a bit because we had more sunshine. 64 degrees. but look at san jose. only 71. how about livermoore, you don't see that too much in august. we've got 60s pretty much across the board. you're seeing that in oakland. west wind up to 20 miles per hour. so that trigger for the winds is just here off to the north and is cranking up the breeze across

northern california in the bay area. we're going to see high pressure building closer to northern california. we're going to see temperatures starting to warm up. so we'll see 70s to mid 80s. inland come tomorrow. despite the fact that we'll have lots of low clouds. look at the low clouds all the way into stockton tomorrow morning. temperatures are trending a bit warmer as we head towards the afternoon. but by this time, we'll see more low clouds filling locally inland across the bay. dress is layers tomorrow. you can see by lunchtime, warmer than today's high temperatures. right around 1:00 tomorrow. 'eel see 80s coming back. 80s for the south. you'll see the morning temperatures coming on up for your monday. >> temperatures turning warmer.

it looks like wednesday through thursday will be the warmest. we seem to be in a sea breeze pattern here. we're going to have warm temperatures for the middle part of the week. and then cooling off as we look at the low clouds come back. cooling off for the weekend, but overall, not too bad. just not nearly as chilly as the weekend we just went through. >> all right, thank you, rob. we'll be back right after the break with why jimmy fallon will not be hosting this year.

jimmy fallon will not host the oscars in february. instead, the two producers at the nbc show "smash" had locked up the show's producer. they also produced the movie versions of chicago. so who' on the short list?

they're seen here in drag who they cast in the film version of hair spray, which is pretty funny, i have to say. thanks for choosing nbc bay area news. coming up, we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. we'll be tracking tropical storm isaac. until then, good night. we're going to leave you with a live look at beautiful san francisco sun set. ♪

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