hillary clinton becomes a major party's first female presidential nominee history mid at the democratic national convention as hillary clinton becomes the major party's first female presidential nominee. more big names steps up and profess their confidence in the candidates. it is a state of emergency as wildfires continue ravages areas just to our south and pushing the firefighters trying to battle them to the limits. plus, questions brewing this morning after a chase suspect dies in police custody. "today in the bay" starts right now. a very good wednesday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. we begin this morning with breaking news on 880. mike inouye is tracking the latest. >> the we froo ways themselves is moving well except for over here in hayward as you're

traveling -- sam leandro out of hayward, davis street. overnight a big rig rammed into the side of the roadway and for a period of time they had all lanes of the nimitz freeway of the northbound close and reopened all but your far right lane. the rig ran into the side at the davis street off-ramp. the off-ramp and slow lane are closed because that big rig is fully on fire. it's engulfed in flames. this is a distraction causing a slowdown. here's marina boulevard. one of your options. the other is 98 just shy of the coliseum. and that's where you also exit and come back through city streets if you need to. otherwise, know that you're going to have this big distraction. it is a spectacle. we have a crew headed out to the scene. we'll bring you the live pictures as well as the update, chp trying to get the handle on the situation. just the slow lane blocked by this big rig fire now over there in san leandro. back to kari with a look at the forecast. >> we're in for another hot day. even a couple degrees hotter in some spots yesterdaynd the

hottest temperature we had, 110 degrees in fairfield. right now it's 55 degrees in san francisco. and it's 66 degrees in the south bay. hazy conditions once again. that smoke drifting in and will be up to 100 degrees in the north bay. 102 in the tri-valley and san francisco at 78 degrees. i'll have a look at the complete mike you climate forecast coming up in a few minutes. sam and laura? >> thank you, kari. a political accomplishment we had never seen before. division 2016, history at high drama in philadelphia. hillary clinton shatters the so-called glass ceiling becoming the first woman to ever represent a major political party in a presidential election. president obama tonight will speak at the democratic convention. tracie potts is at wells fargo arena this morning. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party as president of the united states. >> reporter: bernie sanders makes a last-minute decision to nominate hillary clinton

himself. >> the ayes have it. >> reporter: former president bill clinton and his folksy style -- >> in the spring of 1971 i met a girl. >> reporter: compared to 40 years in public service to donald trump. >> a real change maker represents a real threat. good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one. ♪ >> i can't believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> reporter: speaking tonight, vice president biden, vp nom they tim kaine and president obama. >> i think that president obama can just stand up and chair how powerful of a secretary of state hillary was. >> where are my bernie people at? >> reporter: dozens of sanders

supporters walked out. >> there are many, many of them will not support hillary. under any circumstance and under any amount of time. >> reporter: democrats slowly uniting with two days left. today's speakers focus on issues important to democrats. the flint, michigan, water crisis, climate change, and gun violence. tracie potts, nbc news, in philadelphia. >> okay, thank you. donald trump was active on twitter before mr. clinton spoke. he tweeted out, quote, no matter what bill clinton says and no matter how well he says it, the phone my media will exclaim it to be incredible. highly rated. political heavyweights from california had a big role at the convention last night. among them, retiring senator barbara boxer. >> the right wing has thrown everything at hillary. not only the kitchen sink, not only the stove, but the refrigerator and the toaster, too. and you mknow what?

she's still standing. >> in addition to boxer, house minority leader nancy pelosi also spoke last night. governor brown pledged california's delegates during the nomination process. the dnc continues tonight at wells fargo center. a live look. kind of a bird's-eye view from above. preparations are still getting under way for wednesday's night's address. president obama and vice president joe biden are on deck tonight. we'll have full coverage on the convention throughout the week. later this morning the "today" show is going to be airing live from philadelphia, our coverage begins at 7:00 a.m., an evolving story, the fight sentence fiing this morning in monterrey county. 20 homes destroyed. state of emergency is now in effect. learning about rescue that was too close for comfort for a group of hikers. look at this video. this is on the south side of the fire. showing members of a group of ith hikers emerging from the smoke. the men say they were stranded for five days. they ran out of food and water.

once back to safety the hikers applauded their rescuers. >> air tank did locate them initial by once we found that we gave a global positioning unit. got a latitude and longitude and at the time sent the dozer in to find them. >> the fires burned more than 23,000 acres north of big sur. 2,000 homes are threatened. the firefighters say containment is likely still at least one week away. now just to give you an idea of how fast this fire is spreading, take a look at this time-lapse showing the flames over the course of a day along one section of that hillside alone. sadly as families evacuate there are some pets being left behind. specially trained workers are going behind the fire lines to rescue more than 30 animals. the pets are now staying at shelters while owners wait for word of their we own home. the third day in a row that we're going to be experiencing a

spare the pair alert in the bay area as we take a live look outside at a pretty clear shot of the bay bridge. where it's hoped that more people are going to be carpooling or taking public transit. smoke from the soberanes fire are making poor air quality. kari hall has been tracking the conditions for us this morning. her forecast is coming up in the next ten minutes. san francisco police officer has been arrested for possession of an illegal assault rifle. sspd says 50-year-old thomas abramsen has been under sgags tort past year. he's a berkeley rest sent charge with manufacturing his own ar-15 assault rifle and other accessories. those are felonies in california. 18-year veteran has been put on unpaid administrative leaf. coming up, the poor air quality as part of the problem of extreme heat as potential digits are looming. kari hall has a preview of the forecast. sam and laura, we are looking at triple digits for those inland areas even up to

111 degrees today. unbearable and dangerous heat continues in the microclimate forecast coming up. we're looking at 880 headsing down towards san leandro where there is a closure of an off ramp and lane and a deadly crash involved. there's a big fire as well. talk about the details and get you around that coming up. and the first step in what many oakland residents hope will become a permanent plan for police accountability. the wholesale reform set to go before voters.

department plagued by criminal investigations--- accountable? that question...was on the agenda last night at who is holing a police department plagued by criminal investigationing accountable? that question was an the oi jend da last night at oakland city hall as the kuns criminal wes weighing whether or not to form a police commission to help oversee the department struggling in the midst of a sex scandal.

4:42. staying on top of breaking news this morning. a fiery crash on 880. just getting our first video in in the scene. a live report coming up in just two minutes.

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let's bring in today in the s a deadly fiery crash involving a big rig on i-880 in san leandro. >> let's bring in pete who just arrived on the scene. it is quite the scene out there, pete. >> yes, quite the scene. i just spoke to chp and the details are very minimal but saying this accident with this big rig that may have hit an embankment happened around 20 minutes ago. you have alameda county, fire, and chp on the scene dealing with the aftermath of that accident. i believe we still have video where you see that this big rig was engulfed in flames. really taking over this embankment area of the freeway. now, we are at the davis street exit heading 880 northbound. so far because of this accident you see that lane four is blocked off. you have three more lanes where the traffic is still going but we're still working to get more information on exactly what led

to the accident. we can confirm it is fatal and you can see traffic is starting to get slowed down a little bit by this. and right now we're going to toss it over to mike with more detapes on what's going on here in the traffic, guys. >> that's right. you heard from pete over there that lane four is closed. what that means is the center divide out to the edge. that would be the slow lane. there are four lanes here. that's the only incident that's causing any real slowing in the bay area for traffic going on northbound 880. at marina boulevard we're now seeing the slow down. we have seen it build up a quarter mile to a half mile from the landfall time we took that report. a slower drive and davis street off-ramp was closed because of the big fire a a death as a result of that crash. that investigation, it must continue over there. possible hazmat situation because of likely the fluids and the fuel that is in the area as well. so we're letting everything take care of over there. we're going to watch the marina boulevard for more off-ramps there and looking at 98 as another option for you to get over to san leandro boulevard

and san leandro street that changes its name. as your heading on the bay bridge, no backup at the toll plaza. i do want to show you oakland. traffic heading south of the area aft coliseum and over toward the area. just outside of that shot we should be able to see the flashing lights. we'll check on that. i'll move that camera and see how things are shaming up. over at the golden gate bridge. and i want to show this as well because we have fog just like yesterday. but kari, i don't want to get into your territory. we're going to head it off with a smooth flow of traffic. watch out for the fog and the rest of the weather is yours. >> we are seeing the low clouds and fog near san francisco. in the south bay it is all clear. so as you head out the door this morning this is what to expect. it's going to be into the mid 90s today in the south bay. and moderate to poor air quality with that sweltering heat. highs topping out at 100 degrees. the air quality continues to stay very poor for the next couple of days as the heat

continues. and then this weekend it's slowly backs off. we'll have some highs in the mid 80s. right now it's 63 degrees in concord. in palo alto it's 58 degrees and 59 degrees heading out in oakland. and the poor air quality due to the wildfire farther to the south and monterrey county also we have high levels of ozone with this heat being trapped, especially in the valleys. and the east bay and the south bay is where it will be most unhealthy. so "spare the air" alert means that you shouldn't be -- take public transportation into the next couple of days to try to reduce the amount of ozone levels. and then we'll see how things go as far as the fire containment farther to the south. but with the winds rushing in from south to north, that brings us right into the bay area today. even though it won't be a very strong wind, that is part of the problem and it doesn't help mix out some of that smoke. as it drifts in today expect poor visibility maybe the burning eyes and the itchy

throat and may be a problem for the next couple days as our winds pretty much stay the same bringing in some hot and dry air. as we look at the forecast for san francisco, it will be in the upper 70s today in the next couple of days. and we're looking at heat up to 100 degrees today. even a little bit more in some spots and staying hot into the start of the weekend. now back to you, sam and laura. >> thank you have been must have, kari. apple shares are the ones to watch today. >> the apple watch doing the company no favors. for that and the rest of your news before the bell we turn to landon dowdy who joins it us at cnbc's world headquarters. it's 4:49. good morning, landon. >> good morning to you both. wall street could rebound from a mixed session on tuesday. futures are highing. the dow falling for a second straight day as investors digested several earnings including disappointing results from mcdonald's. demand for durable goods, pending home sales and boeing, coca-cola, comcast, and

facebook. the fed wraps up two-day meeting this afternoon but is not expected to hike interest rates. the dow dropping 19 points. the nasdaq eedging up 12 to 541. there was 7% in late trading on tuesday. the company reporting another quarter of falling profits and revenues. but things weren't as bad as investors had feared. apple sold more iphones than expected soothing some concerns the demand for the company's most important product has hit a wall. and the netflix of china is making a big push in the united states. a video streaming company is vying visio for $2 billion. it's number two smart tv brand in north america. the company was started in california. one of the cofounders had to mortgage his home to finance it and it made its name on the shelves of walmart and costco. sam and laura, back over to you. >> interesting back story. thanks a lot, landon. a live look right now at oracle arena this morning where last night we got a sneak peak

of the newest member of the golden state warriors. he wasn't wearing golden state colors though. kevin durant and team usa were in oakland to take on team china. kd and crew put on quite a show dominating their opponents doubling up the chinese, 107-57. durant ended up with a bakers dozen, 13 points. carmelo anthony netted 20. demarcus cousins led with fwun points and 11 board. red, white, and blue with gold in their sights. >> it was cool, man. it was different. obviously it's going to be different. but you know, vibes are great. everybody showed me major love. showed the team major love. so it was fun. >> it's going to be a fun year. we had this journey we got to endure first but it's easy to say, it's exciting, man. i'm so happy. first possession he touched it, let it fly. got the crowd going. >> and from the no one is surprised department, kevin durant's warriors jersey is the best-selling nba jersey in 30

states this month. normally talking about steph curry but he's been burched by his known new teammate. >> everybody is complaining about the news and then buying his jersey. vandals targeted a popular parking lot. driverses in bay area left stranded after nearly a dozen car tires are slashed. happening right now. we're following breaking news out of the east bay where a fiery fatal crash on i-880 in san leandro is causing problems this morning. we do have a crew on the scene collecting information. mike inouye is also sending out twitter updates. and for realtime traffic information, be sure to download our nbc bay area app to get information sent directly to your smartphone. ul e

standoff between san francisco police officers and a 13-year-old boy with ausm hours of tensions ends peacefully after a 17-long standoff between san francisco police officers and 13-year-old boy with autism. it happened at a home near deloris park. teen had an argument with his family and then barricaded himself in the garage with a knife. more than 20 officers stayed up all night trying to help the boy. finally a robot was sent in. the boy came out but refused to drop his knife. a bean bag gun was used twice on the boy to bring the ordeal to an end. neighbors we spoke with are glad that this all ended peacefully. >> the reason we're all here is nobody wants to, you know, get hurt. nobody wants to die. all of us here in the neighborhood are well wishes are with them. >> and that teen was taken to the hospital as a precaution. authorities are looking for the vandals who went on a tire slashing bing in the parking lot. someone slashed tires on seven

cars sometime between monday at 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. b.a.r.t. police are stepping up patrols. also reviewing footage from surveillance cameras. b.a.r.t. riders who use the parking lot are worried. >> not nice to come home late at night and find your car with a problem like that. >> you expect to come home and your car to be intact the way you left it. the way you would leave other people's property alone. >> b.a.r.t. officials insists tire slashing attacking lots is very unusual and they say overall crime at b.a.r.t. is down 10% from last year. coming up next, topic all week, intense heat continuing across the bay, especially inland. any relief in sight, kari? >> at least right now we are taking a bit of a break with temperatures in the 60s inland and 50s a long the coast. high heat coming up in the microclimate forecast. and a quick look at the peninsula side of the san mateo bridge show you eastbound now we have the typical road work

blocking lane. closure of one lane on the nimitz freeway and closure of davis street off-ramp. and the fire and the complications. i'll give you a reroute as well. history made at the democratic

convention. hillary clinton becomes the first woman to ever represent a m. for the first woman president of the united states of america. >> hillary clinton backs the first woman to ever represent a major political party in a major presidential election. celebration hupd of years in the making coming up. plus, homes torched and hikers trapped. the dramatic turn of echts as the fight to contain flames in monterrey county continues. a fiery big rig crash affecting traffic on 880 in san leandro. details coming up in a live report. "today in the bay" starts now. >> and good morning. thank you for joining us on this wednesday. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's get to that breaking news on northbound 880 this morning. it's a mess out there. >> that's right, laura. right there in that particular spot the rest of the bay moves as you would expect. take you to this breaking news we've been following over here in the san leandro area. look at the jam. speeds below 20 miles pen hour.

basically crawling anywhere north of marina boulevard and davis street where the off-ramp is crolosed. earlier fire. looking at 98 which is one of your alternate it is you want to pass the exit and get off at 98th and take san leandro street or boulevard. we did have a stalled vehicle as well. that just cleared from 98 but things were getting complicated in the area. looks like this will be closed for most of the day. but let's get a look at our live camera pra from oakland coliseum. turn it south. southbound traffic going around the bend. and i believe those flashing lights are the activity over there at davis street where our own pete is there. he got on the scene early there. pete, what's going on? what's the latest? >> reporter: yes, guys, yes, that area is still blocked off here at 880 northbound on davis street. i want to show you what we have here. the flashing light lights, alameda county fire petting out that fire earlier that happened when they're saying this big rig hit an imbankment and then tipped over in this field area right there.