across the bay area. high pressure getting firmly in place, and also those winds starting to turn offshore as well, a sign of the warming today. look at this. at 9:41 we had is 71 degrees, and a 20 degree warm up in two hours. that's the most warmup you see in a typical city in an average day. and we had that much heat in two hours time. plenty of mid to upper 80s down in the south bay. so it's not overly hot, at least today, but with these winds continuing out of the north and also the east over the next 48 hours, fire danger will increase, and those temperatures will get even hotter for tomorrow. we'll start in the 70s, and as we head throughout 10:00 and 11:00. before lunchtime we will have 80s, widespread 80s. we're talking about fire

danger and water issues. state water leaders say prepare for a drought. next year's shaping up to be the third dry year in a row. it likely will held into winter with little to no surplus water in our reservoirs. another agency who tracks water research, says most of california is also dealing withy veer drought. this hot weather means fire danger, let's bring in jodi hernandez from one of the hotspots in walnut creek. >> reporter: good evening. it is hot here in walnut creek. the temperature gauge has been creeping up near the century mark. it's been hovering at about 96 to 97 degrees this afternoon, which means fire danger is at its peak. firefighters know all too well how devastating one spark can be. the east bay regional

firefighters just returned from two weeks battling the rim fire near yosemite. >> the rhyme fire is now at 246,000 acres, third largest fire in california history, and we definitely don't want that here in the bay area. >>. >> reporter: and this weekend's bay area forecast has them worried. triple digit temperatures coupled with all our dry vegetation means high fire danger. he this say everyone needs to be on guard. >> anything from a campfire to -- >> reporter: we found plenty of people trying to beat the heat, including taking a rice cream break. >> looking forward to going to the pool a lot. that's fun. cooling down, but the heat is sort of hard to deal with. >> it's pretty uncomfortable.

>> reporter: meantime, firefighters plan to spend the weekend on patrol, after experiencing the rim fire. they don't want a similar disaster to happen here. >> it's just a reminder again that we have a lot of dead fuels and a lot of fuels out there that are ready to burn. and that's a heads up for everyone. >> reporter: and we're back here live in walnut creek where it is 6:03. it is also 96 degree, and it's only going to get hotter this weekend. firefighters are urging everyone to take precautions so we don't have a major fire here. reporting live in walnut creek, jodi hernandez. on the subject of the rim fire, the route that was closed is now reopened again. 120 is reopened. it is the main entrance to yosemite from the bay area.

it is now 80% contained. as you heard jodi mention, it was started at an illegal campfire by a hunter. now to new details of a deadly hit-and-run. we're learning more about the driver. this picture just came into our newsroom. police say this man, a city rec. and mark worker ran over the mom as she sunbathed with her baby. he's in jail on charges of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run. nbc spoke to his family today. >> reporter: good evening. a tragedy that's hit many people here. there have been many people coming to this memorial today. this is one of the rare times there isn't a crowd circling the flowers here. but ha happened here has shattered the lives of not just one family but two. at 19 years old, jonathan has

already lost one family member this year in a tragic car accident, and now he feels like he's lost another. his father tom is behind bars accused of running over and killing a woman as she lay beneath this tree. the 57 year old has been working for san francisco's rec. and park department since 2006. now he's on paid administrative leave. his loved ones say they are hurting but not just for themselves. >> i feel for the child and what happened to the woman. like i understand like her family is going through. >> reporter: the victim worked for new ventures west, a life coach training company. the company released a statement saying in part the central joy of her life was her family, her 11 month old baby and her husband. in addition to her family, her legacy resides in the thousands

of people that she came in contact with and the hundreds who benefitted from her friendship, guidance and love. the driver's family feels for the family. >> we've been trying to stick together and pick up those pieces. and that's what he does every day, going to work, working hard for the family, taking care of each one of us. >> reporter: now we just got an upstate from the rec. and park department which confirms there have been two complaints filed here at holly park about safety this year. one was in february about workers who were cleaning bathrooms, driving too fast and sometimes in the dark. the second complaint was actually just filed last week about workers driving on pedestrian paths and over sprinklers. the safety complaints are going to be looked into and followed

up on. thank you. now to a nbc bay area follow up. sunnyvale police say the officers who shot and killed a man outside of that restaurant on wednesday briefed he was reaching for a gun. however, no weapon was found. police say 34 year old juan was the subject of a long drug investigation. he allegedly sold a pound of meth to undercover officers the day he was shot. one he verbally threatened one of the officers before reaching for something police thought was a gun. today lawyers for the city filed new arguments in federal court. they say the actions prevented san jose's efforts from bringing the a's.

the a's have been trying to move to downtown san jose since 2009 and are still awaiting the league's approval. major league baseball has asked the suit to be dismissed. now the next step in this process, both sides will be in court on october 4th. the man suspected of killing a beloved schoolworker was in court today facing murder charges. the woman was found in her mini van with her throat slashed not far from the school she worked and not far from the home of her suspected killer. marianne, prosecutors aren't revealing how they knew each other? >> reporter: that's right. in fact, court documents have been sealed while police continue investigating this case. so we are getting very little details about this murder, but police are confirming that the suspect and the victim knew each other but they still will not tell us how. the 43 year old shuffled into a

santa clara courtroom today wearing shackles and looking down. >> he's charged with one count of murder. he faces a potential of 25 years in prison. >> reporter: he allegedly killed a san jose mother of two. her body was found inside her mini van parked on east san antonio street. her husband was the first to have found her and it appeared her throat had been slashed. they liv they, the two knew each other, but they won't say how. court documents for the case have been sealed while police continue to investigate the murder. as the woman's family prepares to bury her in her native mexico, they say they can't imagine why any one would want to harm her. >> she was caring.

she loved her, she loved us, her family. she loved my dad, my little brother. and she was strong, very, very independent woman. and she's just an amazing mother that no one can ever replace her. >> reporter: her second family, the students at the school where she worked are also mourning the loss of a dear friend. police are asking for help in the investigation. they say if you happen to see the man, contact san jose police department. they say the man is 300 pounds and stands 6'8". reporting live, marianne favro, nbc bay area news.

a real life lesson of water conservation. a car crashed into the water pipe heine outside of turrell elementary this morning. the school had to go without water for several hours. the pipe was fixed by around 9:30 this morning, but the district brought in bottled water to keep the kids hydrated. frts on hold, facebook has a new policy, concerns that led the social network to hit the pause button. and a revised plan that has dog owners outraged. tons of toxic waste from shredded cars ends up in landfills. why is it happening more than a decade later.

are they being cautious, or are they a dysfunctional department? it's been more than a decade and

regulators are still trying to figure out how to handle the waste from shredded cars. >> there is more than 700,000 tons of toxic materials. and it could affect your health. >> back in the late '80s, basically, the state's seven biggest shredders were given a pass to treat the metal and scraps left over so they could take the metal to regular land fills. but by 2002, state regulator were told by their own scientists the treatments weren't enough. they said they would pull the exemption for the industry but in 2013 that still hasn't happened. >> reporter: this is where cars and appliances go to die. california's seven biggest metal 14 redders, including this one in redwood city and this one in oakland crush the junction cars

into small chunks of metal to be recycled for profit. the industry is a big one, bringing in $500 million a year. but what happens to the left overs? including plastics, engine fluids and tainted metal? the shredded waste, also called fluff is tweeted with a cement coating and trucked to dumps across the state including a landfill in livermore. but critics say that the treatment that's supposed to make this fluff safe does not last. >> we had no idea that this was a potential hazardous industry in our community. >> reporter: jessy is president of the coalition of for a safe environment. he lives near a metal shredder in southern california. >> you have gas tanks that will have residual gas in it. motor oil that will be on parts. brake fluid. metal parts will be painted. and it is toxic. because we have now identified lead and other materials that

are part of that scrap metaling process. >> reporter: peter wood found that treated fluff from at least two facilities exceeded the state's threshold for zinc and cadmium. he recommended they stop declassifying this waste as nonhazardous. >> we had determined that the waste needed to be treated as a hazardous waste. >> reporter: six years later, the department's director took action. in 2008, she september a letter to the shredder industry saying they would stop allowing treated fluff to be treated as nonhazardous. and then what happened? >> i don't know. everything i tried to to to fix the department was basically tossed out. >> reporter: they backed off. it still hasn't reclassified the treated fluff as hazardous. >> there's no accountability for

an end to end plo ses in making conclusions. >> reporter: today the current director says the issue is still under review. do they consider it to be a haz orderous material? >> the issue of shredder residue has been on my radar since very early on. >> reporter: is it hazardous? >> that's actually not a simple question to answer. once it's been treated we believe it is no longer hazardous. >> reporter: why aren't they taking back those exemptions? >> those exempt,s are old and out of date and we need to revisit them. >> reporter: will you take them away? >> i don't know yet, but what i can promise is i have some of my best people working on this who are going to be coming back to me with a recommendation. they need to be able to make decisions. >> reporter: and industry lobbyists fought the changes. just look at the money. the seven shredders collectively pay about $35,000 a year in generation fees. if the waste was considered

hazardous, those fees would jump to more than half a million dollars. industry representatives declined our request to speak on camera, but in letters to the state they say if the rules were changed recyclers would ship the waste out of state. they insist that treated fluff does not create a threat to human health or the environment. >> i did my best, i tried. >> reporter: meanwhile, the former director says the only way to address the failure to act on issues like shredder waste is for ha maker does step in and restructure the department. >> nobody's responsible. it's like a giant assembly line with no beginning and no end and people are just assigned to a spot on it other oh, i just hammer like this or i put in the screw. and it's like what are we doing here, you know? it's a fundamental organitional management problem. >> reporter: they have ordered another review of this shredder waste issue. she expects results in october

of 2014. now if and when that decision comes in, we will have it for you. but really, now this issue going on its 12th year of study, and they call it an analysis paralysis situation. >> and dysfunctional in many ways. >> reporter: right. she's hoping the legislature steps in. >> if you have a tip for our investigative group, give us a call or send us an e-mail. it's friday, and we've made it to the weekend. >> let's not let this whole hot weather thing keep us from enjoying a weekend. with this hot air across the bay, it's not going to be the typical situation where it's just the east bay getting warm. we're going to see the off shore winds cranking up in a lot of places that already started to see those temperatures surge. like in san francisco, 98 in san

rafael. and plenty of 90s back for the east bay. let's get you back outside to the high-definition view. in san francisco, the winds turning offshore, it's blowing around the camera a little bit. that's going to be a drying offshore wind. in foster city, absolutely no fog at this hour. and you can see in san jose, the air's becoming a little bit hazy as air quality will suffer the most in the santa clara valley as we head throughout the most 24 hours. the thing in our first look forecast for saturday is this time of year we usually have some sort of cloud cover somewhere. at the coast, by the bay and also inland, it's absolutely clear. from 11:00 rightly 5:00. all the way through 11:00 tomorrow, getting in on the 70s, upper 70s by the bay and inland temperatures in the low 80s before lunchtime. so we are talking about record-setting heat. here is where some of the hotst

weather will be. we bumped up some of these temperatures based on some of those daytime highs. today, 99, san jose 94, and oakland at 91 degrees. we could get close to the hottest day ever on september 7th with 94 degrees. so we're getting very close to record-setting highs. air quality the most unhealthy in the south bay. on that three-day forecast we are seeing the temperatures friend hot not only for this weekend but right into the first part of next week. it's going to be great at the beaches, but do remember if you're spending a lot of time outside to drink plenty of water. it is at dangerous levels. >> and wear your sunscreen. >> yes. an important warning on the peninsula, the new phone scam, and how people can avoid becoming a victim. also coming up, the plan for the first piece of debris to wash ashore from the tsunami in

japan. and police looking for a stolen puppy. the details in a few minutes.

burl game police are asking for the public's help in finding a stolen puppy. it's a five month old french bulldog. he wandered away from home, maybe with a pair of girls who took a liking to him. the girls who had long blonde hair were leading the dog away. when questioned, they said they owned roscoe. today the national park service finally released its final draft on new dog leash rule force the golden gate rec. area. some dog owners are not happy and say they won't be rolling over on this issue. >> reporter: it's only fitting that in and around the city named for st. francis people love their animals. so two years ago, when the

national park service slated new regulations, dog owners weighed in. >> we got over 8,000 comments on our last draft in 2011 from over 4700 people. >> reporter: the park service took those comments and released an updated draft version of the proposed rules. they'll eventually become a set of laws governing where dogs can run unleashed or not on parkland. >> we did make a few changes to this plan. and some of them are substantial changes. >> reporter: the park service says among the changes, popular areas will now include some additional areas for dogs. >> in our original plan in 2011, we proposed that there be no dogs on the beach. in this plan that we issued today, we propose that it be open to dogs on leash. >> reporter: but so far, dog own hers aren't impressed. >> we had the initial read, and it's an extremely disappointing

what the park service has put together. what they've proposed so far. >> reporter: some say the regulations aren't much different from what the park service proposed two years ago. >> it's completely unenforceable. baker beach, same thing. no dogs offleash. >> reporter: she says she and her group will now begin rallying other dog owners to fight the regulations. >> we'll be holding workshops about how to write effective letters to the park service and getting the message out that off leash is in jeopardy. >> reporter: they will hold a series of public meetings to get public input. a new set of laws is set to be issued in 2015. until then, it's safe to say there will be plenty more discussions about dogs in and around the city of st. francis. joe risotto junior, nbc bay area news. >> it's a fun place to be with

your dog. a local city moves forward with plans for a september 11 memorial. and an exclusive video of ariel castro's interview. are we primed for a war with syria? in tonight's reality check we examine ha makers' claim that no boots on the ground policy means no extended involvement in syria. is that true? story's next. unbelievable.

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let's turn your attention to the crisis in syria. president obama continue does make his case for u.s. military strikes in that war-torn country. the president says he'll address the nation in prime time on tuesday, hoping to change the minds of americans and lawmakers. lawmakers say they've received hundreds of calls from the public many who oppose any military strike. >> you've got to make some decisions about what you believe is right for america. >> the president says he wants to use limited air strikes to attack the syrian regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons against its people. as of right now, it appears that the president does not have enough votes. the public dreads the possibility of all