progress in the fight against the loma fire. i'm bob redell. we'll take you live to the command center for the latest numbers. that story coming up. renewed hope of finding the person responsible for killing a man playing pokemon go in san francisco. critical evidence coming out including a sketch of the suspect. >> hands up, don't shoot! >> the fury over an officer-involved shooting in california only grows after we find out what this man is actually pointing at police officers, and it's not a gun. "today in the bay" starts right now. very good thursday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock.

>> we want to get you a hit in the ground running this morning or hitting the road running, very smooth start. >> unfortunately hitting is what we want to talk about. very light traffic flow over in the east bay. southbound 880 around the 92 interchange, a crash happened a short time ago. i have not seen any slowing. the lanes should be clear though chp has yet to confirm that. a live look out there will show you the san mateo bridge, traffic moving lightly. how clear is it out there? >> we're seeing the marine layer up to about 2,000 feet this morning, patchy low clouds and cooling temperatures. again, the big story moving forward of highs today running in the 80s around san jose, 60s around san francisco. big change from ned, 70 degrees in the hills yesterday, today in the mid 60s. today looks pretty good but

watching closely changes coming friday. notice the humidity levels going down, wind speeds picking up for friday. what are the changes in the forecast we'll be watching as we approach the weekend. laura? >> we'll certainly have to watch those winds. a developing story in the south bay connected to the fire burning in the santa cruz mountains. the danger with the loma fire is very real. "today in the bay's" bob redell, do we know how the situation is going so far? >> reporter: good morning. we know cal fire lifted the evacuation order for the people living on the santa cruz county side of the loma fire while the orders still remain in effect for the folks on the santa clara side of the fire. there will be a 7:00 a.m. briefing for captains and fire chiefs that will take place at the command kamd in gilroy.

barring any surprises, we do expect cal fire to announce they have gotten better containment on the loma fire that right now is burning in the santa cruz mountains. the latest numbers, the numbers we receive from yesterday indicate that the fire is 22% contained, has burned 2,865 acres, more than 1,000 men and women working those fire lines in exhaustive 24-hour shifts. part of the challenges for firefighters, the santa cruz mountains are dry because of the california drought, so dry the fire is burning through some areas twice. >> on this fire, this slope is burning a second time and completely burning out the second amount of fuel. we're having to almost deal with the fire twice in some places. >> reporter: the loma fire has destroyed one home, damaged another and also destroyed six out buildings, about 325 homes are still threatened. coming up in the next half hour we'll hear from one south bay

resident on how he's dealing with the bad air caused by the smoke. bob redell, "today in the bay." protesters want their message heard. overnight demonstrators taking to the strip mall where a black man was killed, about 50 miles east of san diego. >> black live matters. >> as they take to the streets with their arms raised, we're learning more details about the shooting. police say the object the victim pulled from his pocket was not a weapon, it was a vape-smoking device. investigators say the officers shot that man after only one minute of arriving on scene. we are learning the victim's name is alfred olango, a refugee from uganda. in a few hours the suspect at the center of a bizarre kidnapping case in vallejo is expected to plead guilty. police first thought the case

was a hoax. matthew muller is expected to take a plea deal today. muller is accused of kidnapping deni denise huskins and tieing up her and her boyfriend. >> if you give him an opportunity to get back out on the street, he's not going to change his stripes. he's a psychopath. >> matthew muller is also a former lawyer. the harvard university trained attorney has been disbarred. new clue to bring a killer to justice. authorities have released a sketch of the man they believe shot and killed a college student as the victim played pokemon go. police are looking for a man fitting this image seen leaving the area where calvin riley was shot on august 6th. police also released a photo of a white four-door toyota avalon. authorities believe a woman may

have been driving the car. police say she was last seen on the morning of saturday, september 17th near black diamond middle school. police say there's no evidence of foul play but they say the number of days lomax has been missing is extremely concerned. a local theme park gearing up for halloween without the latest attraction. it offended some in the mental health community because it takes place in a hospital. within days of opening, great america closed that ride. coming up next, cooling temperatures continue, but unfortunately for firefighters, wind speeds are picking up, rob. >> watching the wind speeds on the increase with low clouds right now in san francisco. that is the big story moving forward and rain becoming more of a probability in your weekend forecast. a look at that coming up. maybe not a big story, but happening right here in front of our camera, looks like chp found someone to occupy that officer's time.

we'll show you what else might be affecting your drive in the south bay. wells fargo ceo will be grilled over millions of fake accounts. the penalties the banking giant is already facing here in california. that's next. wells fargo's c-e-o will be in

the hot seat today. again. "john stumpf" will go before co wells fargo ceo will be on the hot seat again today. john stumpf is going before congress. last week it was the senate, now it's the house. lawmakers are expected to grill him on the bank's aggression sive sales practices.

all this comes after california leaders took action against the banking giant. the state treasure announced yesterday that california is suspending all business with wells fargo. penalties accuse them of -- >> just as lehman brothers and bear stearns learned the hardware that no bank is too big to fail, those banks that survived the great recession must now learn they are not so powerful as to be untouchable. >> that move is estimated to cost wells fargo millions of dollars. is someone targeting some of the most vul neeshl people in san jose. at least three homeless people have been stabbed to death this year. officers are questioning people after the body of a man found stabbed to death on tuesday. there are two others who died the same way in san jose. now police are investigating whether they're connected. crime stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leetsads to an arrest. funeral plans well under way

for shimon peres. his body laying in state right now. more on that coming up when "today in the bay" continues.

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battling the zika vie ruz. the body of shimon peres is lying in state. ch thousands of people lining up to pay their respects. peres died at 93 years old yesterday after suffering a stroke. president obama will lead the u.s. delegation at tomorrow's funeral. >> saying good-bye to a passionate and talented baseball player. the entire miami marlins baseball team gathered outside the ball park to send off the hers of pitcher jose fernandez. the procession left the stadium at 2:16 p.m. the 16 in honor of his jersey number. he was killed early sunday morning when a boat carrying him and two friends crashed off miami beach. >> awfully emotional day there. a developing story abroad, an intense search right now in china. at least 27 people are missing

after a massive landslide was triggered by typhoon meghi. the landslide happened yesterday afternoon destroying several buildings. heavy rain forced more than 18,000 people from their homes. want to check with weather and traffic right now. it is a busy thursday morning. the weather certainly changing. >> we saw about 20 degrees of cooling over the last couple days, that trend is going to continue. but wind will be an issue, especially tomorrow as a couple of weather systems aim in o n the bay area, the first bringing us wind and rain in your sunday forecast. low clouds and again smoke as the winds aloft are out of the west-northwest that is pushing smoke from the loma fire in the areas around san jose and morgan hill. 50s across the board with overcast skies. right now in san francisco, 56 degrees. also 50s into san jose where you have hazy conditions from the smoke and humidity levels have come way up. that's good news for the firefighting efforts in the

santa cruz mountains. 56 in livermore. partly cloudy skies. look at the wind speeds, southwest up to 31 miles per hour, gusts up to 40. very blustery in solano county. numbers near 80 at the warmest spots. low 60s in san francisco, from the north bay to the tri-valley. numbers more comfortable than we saw a few days ago. upper 70s to low 80s around the tri-valley. the first system tomorrow not bringing us rain, but it will crank up the wind speeds as it goes on buy. we'll see gusty northwester li dry winds. here you go, saturday night into sunday, looks like we could have rain for 49ers taking on the cowboys on sunday. monday, still lingering showers and a chance of having our first rain of fall coming up for the second half of the weekend, about .1 or maybe more in the north bay. seven kay forecast, cooler for

san francisco with rain possible sunday into monday and valley temperatures and inland temperatures, 60s on sunday. that looks a lot more like fall around the bay area. mike? >> so much better, rob. looking over here. the traffic is slow, moving well. the crash in hayward, 880 at 92. in los gatos we have a crash affecting the freeway, not on highway 17 but affecting the on-ramp will. it is there for the south bay. no slowing over the santa cruz mountains. the earlier issue 101 southbound at 680, it has cleared. chp is done with whatever work they were doing there. the bay bridge toll plaza, the work just getting started, we should see cash lanes backing up over the next 20 minutes. right now easy in towards san francisco. the activity around moss coney center, howard between 3rd and 4th. the problems for samsung are

not just limited to smart phones catching fire. now there are safety concerns with its washing machines. citibank making it easy to send money through your smart for. for more on that let's check in with landon dowdy live at cnbc world headquarters. >> good morning to you both. oil prices are retreating today. that comes after they hit a six-week high. traders are waiting for more details on opec's deal to cut production in an attempt to stabilize the market. goldman sachs says it will add ten dollars to prices next year. it is skeptical that opec numbers will stick to their quotas. watching unemployment, housing and gdp today. the dow rallying onds wednesday up 110 points to 18,339. samsung is in talks with the consumer product safety commission to address potential problems with some of its washing machines following reports that they could explode. samsung says in rare cases heavy

vibrations in the top loading machines could cause injuries or property damage when washing bedding or bulky items. scitigroup is the last to allow them using payments by mobile phone. it's competing with the lab which is of course especially popular among millennials. citi will start offering the service early next year. >> thanks a lot, landon. as we're talking about safety concerns, how about driver and passenger safety. who is behind the wheel of your ride share car? california is forcing uber and lift to conduct stiffer background checks on all drivers. starting next year, both uber and lift will not be able to employ drivers who are registered sex offenders, violent felons or terrorists. if the companies don't comply, they'll be fined up to $5,000

per banned driver. the company that brought the smart phone into the world is shifting its focus. blackberry won't be making its smart phones anymore. instead the company will focus on software development. blackberry used to dominate the market. last quarter blackberry sold only 400,000 smart phones, that's only about 1% of iphone sales. coming up, 2,000 cars stolen from san francisco every year. for one bay area woman, it's practically a new strange way of life. >> sorry, i'm going to be a couple hours late because my car got tell len. >> and again and again and again. you actually won't believe how many times thieves have stolen just one car. happening right now, a california father of three is battling terminal cancer and is dire need of a bone marrow transplant. on nbcbayarea.com, how bay area residents are coming together to help him out. don't call the teacher mom or dad because you might get extra homework. on our facebook page, tips for a

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could psibly hpen ts much to one car o i when it comes to many happy returns, you wouldn't think it could possibly happen this much to one car owner in san francisco. >> i don't know how happy she was when it was stolen, but happy when she gets it back. micah nickel son has a 1997 honda civic, she's named the car boomerang. it was returned four separate times after being stolen. might as well make that five now. it happened again this week. this time she tracked the thief with an app on her smart phone. >> actually moved to another place about four blocks away. i figured the guy was still

actively driving around. >> when she finally got her car back again, nicholson says the thief left items including glasses and a sweatshirt inside of boomerang. police have told her to get either a steering wheelock or a new car if she really wants to prevent number six from happening. >> looks like she got a steering wheelock. now they're giving her things. a big push forward, congressman eric fall well says more than a million in funding has been approved to complete environment work to extend b.a.r.t. to isabel avenue in livermore. the mtc also approving the a train connection to b.a.r.t. train. the summer camp experience still going on for some. some adults that is. instead of kids. >> several locations around the united states including the mountains of western north

carolina. the camp is a digital detox for adults. a long fall weekend disconnected from very connected lives. >> we're definitely a beautiful combination of serious and silly. >> and bubbles and games and tug of war. >> beer maybe, too? >> more than a million adults a year are indulging in these camps. according to the american camp association attendees pay from $500 to $1500 for a four-day stay. >> i would imagine adult camp is a little different. >> you can also spend $1500 and go to an all-inclusive resort. one indiana woman proving it's never too late to have kids. >> 60 years old and she's given birth to twits. claudette cook gave birth on sunday night. isaac and isaiah were delivered via c section. they eechd weighed five pounds.

cook and her husband turned to ivf and used a donor's eggs. they say anything is possible with the power of pray. >> age is a number. i was healthy and in good shape. no matter how hard it was, it was like, he brought me through it all. >> good luck to her. it will be a couple weeks before they can take their bundles home and get adjusted to life. >> two blessings there. do you want to brie mrs. doubt glooet fire's house. >> asking price, what do you think? it's more than $4 million. this is the set for the movie which starred robin williams. fans often visit that house and leave honors at the front porch to honor the late actor. it's right there in pacific heights. >> paying for the name but probably not everything around there is multimillion.

4:56. rob, we saw a dip in the temperatures but still concerning conditions for firefighters. >> we'll be watching the wind moving forward, right now 57 degrees, hazy skies more smoke around san jose. look at the temperature trend today, through 1:00 staying in the 70s. a good chance of rain in your weekend forecast coming up. a pretty easy breezy commute. look at the flag at the bottom of the screen, not moving much, but the cars are. we'll talk about what's stild going on for the same freeway a little farther north in hayward. hundreds of homes in the path of flames. firefighters working through the night to keep them safe. a live report as the loma fire keeps homeowners concerned. we'll be right back. got a tip for the bay area's biggest investigative unit. call 1-888-996-tips or e-mail theunit@nbcbayarea.com. nbc bay area, we investigate.

as firefighters continue to fight the loma fire, some evacuees are allowed to return back home. i'm bob redell. we'll take you live to the command camp in gilroy for the latest. renewed hope of finding the person responsible for killing a man playing pokemon go in san francisco. why this sketch could be critical. >> hands up, don't shoot!

>> and the fury over an officer-involved shooting in california only grows after we find out what this man is actually pointing at police officers. it's not a gun. "today in the bay" starts right now. a very good thursday morning to you. inching closer to the weekend. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. we hope that that commute is not going to be inching forward. at least things are moving pretty well. >> feet, yards, miles per hour. we're looking at the roadways right now. it's a good flow of traffic. we'll take you to the maps. i do have my eyes on one crash in hayward. this happened much earlier this morning, southbound 880 just before you get to 92. one of the cars involved was in the center divide. they've moved to the right shoulder. chp will update approaching the san mateo bridge. a clear look, rob. it feels much cooler than a couple days ago. >> seeing the cool ons