so i'm glad we finished the job. >> what was it like having an opportunity to avenge your first loss of group play. you had guys flying in. you mentioned the adversity and getting win here in the gold medal game. >> a lot. especially this team. france is a good team. they don't quit. they play hard every minute, they are on the floor. big team. so they present a.d. nice challenge again but but we wanted them again. just like we wanted australia again and we were able to finish this game off and everybody just, you know, they sacrificed day 1, put the team first and we were able to come here and get the gold. >> i love the team first. but your stats in gold medal games. 30, 30 and 29 points. pretty impressive. what about this stage that makes you bring out the best part of you offensively. >> it is winning time. one game and go home. no series. i got to give it my all every second. just got to go out and trust the

work. i was able to knock down some shots and keep us a afloat and fourth quarter dame took over the guys made plays in the end. >> you did it welfare i want to see it again. one more timeout. let's do it. get it. >> booyah! >> congratulations. and now we're welcoming in jayson tatum. one of the questions was who was going to be that person that continues to step up? and it was certainly you off the bench offensively. how would you describe your mental health coming into the gold medal game? ? >> do whatever it takes. this is what we came for. it was win or go home. and, you know, for all the marbles. so everybody had to do whatever it took. we know it is going to be different guys each and every night. and we figured it out. >> how would you describe this feeling? >> incredible feeling. something you always dream about. i can remember being in high

school watching these guys win a gold medal and to play alongside them and win one, in a climate like this. >> yeah. >> everything that we went through not being able to bring our family. i know deuce watching. so this is an amazing feel. >> shout out to deuce. dad is bringing home oo

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jigsaw puzzle of thousands of hours of coverage across all of our networks and now streaming apps. his himself try of the olympics goes back to 1972. over the years since, peter has hired much of our olympic staff and some of the most successful people in our industry. as much as anything else, the olympics are about dedicating your life to what you love. peter diamond personifies that. as you look at him in our control room right now, we wish you the best. one of the all-time great people. thank you, peter, on behalf of all us. and peter's schedule tells us we are coming back in a half hour for the men's gold medal game in beach volleyball as we roll on this final week of the olympics in tokyo. we'll see you shortly as we say a thank you to peter.

right now, dealing with the delta variant. tonight we're learning our latest surge could last until at least september. one of our infectious disease experts explains why. >> wild fires raging more communities in the sear yeah. a look at how bad the destruction is tonight and how long the smoke from these wild fires will hover over the bay area. and a deliberate element by the criminal element to work around california gun laws. >> not just the criminal element, now possibly terrorists and extremists getting their hands on ghost ones. we go undercover to see how

popular ghost guns are to get. you just saw it right here on nbc bay area, team usa and france battling it out one more time. team usa walking away with gold just minutes ago. thanks for joining us for this special edition of nbc bay area news. a thrilling and on the court team usa led by kevin durant and draymond green beating france 88-82. >> raj is live in tokyo and he was right inside to witness it all. i hear you have draymond by your side right now. hi, raj? hello. good evening to you guys. what an amazing performance by team usa. it was close. the rest of the world has caught up in terms of basketball caliber, but the americans pulled through. you saw it just saw. 87-82. one of the stars of this team and one of the stars for

everyone back home is draymond green. congratulations, man. >> thank you. thank you. this is sweet, man. this is my second gold medal. this one feels a lot better than the first one. it is sweet. >> draymond, you are always very thoughtful and well spoken and passionate. not just basketball. what does this trip, what does this gold medal mean for you? >> it is everything. guys sacrifice so much for such a long season, covid testing every day. you know, i'm so thankful, you know, to my wife for, you know, i had to talk to her like, hey, i want to go to the olympics. and she's like, for sure you go. you know, to sacrifice our entire summer after the crazy year, it is special. i told her i would bring back the gold. i made that promise. you know, my little boy, i'm putting him on a plane from vegas to go back home. you know, before -- the night before he left, he's looking at me about to cry like, daddy, i want to go to your games. i always go to your games.

i was like, you can't go to this one. but he's accustomed to the travel. my six-year-old is accustomed to the travel. but leaving my ten-month-old was nearly impossible. i brought diapers with me to be able to smell something that she wears. they're clean diapers. but it's an incredible sacrifice. we had three guys come here the night after the nba finals. they arrived the night before the first game at midnight, 1:00 a.m. a lot of sacrifice went into this. a lot of people said the world has caught up to usa. they gave us a tough run, but this is still our game. >> last question for you. you are such the soul of the bay area, the soul of the warriors. are you also the soul of team usa? because a lot of guys look to you as leader here? >> that was my goal on this team, to come in and be a leader. you got these guys who are great.

they score. they do what they do. the last thing i need them worrying about is trying to lead the next guy. you do what you do. i'll handle that. i will try to lock in on the defensive end. i will make the dirty work plays. i think i'm great in that role. so i want to come here and be great. >> hey, you got a lot more time on the basketball court in th nba with the warriors, but after your career, do you want to be a governor, president, senator? what do you want to do? >> i'm not sure. i want to do something great. i'm not sure what that is yet. you know, i'll continue to do things outside of basketball to see what that is. but i want to do something great and we'll figure it out when it's time. >> say hi to the bay area. >> bay area, i love you all. thank you for the support. love you all. >> congratulations, draymond. pretty amazing. that is about as emotional as you will see him. it's all about his family and being the soul of the warriors,

team usa and now his second gold medal in tokyo. we just saw a lot with team usa basketball, but we're not done. coming up tonight, it's not just draymond green but it is also some bay area stars. team usa water polo takes on spain. you want to stay up late for this one 12:30 tonight. one of the big pitchers for team usa baseball, they take on japan in the gold medal game. that's at 3:00 a.m. bay area time. so a lot happening here, guys. let's send it back to you. draymond green is going to make me cry because now i'm missing my family and my kids. >> we know he's an emotional guy. we know he's a passionate guy because we see him on the court when he's angry, but to see him that reflective and that, you know, emotional about his family, i mean, we were all tearing up here, too. you know, with the diapers and he's got a diaper. it was just really great to see

them and to see what he hopes to do later on. though, he doesn't know what it's going to be, but he knows it will be great. we know it will be great. >> the family man, it was nice to see that side. >> yeah. and you can see, guys, that's what he does to a basketball team. if he can do that the bay area and us on tv, that's what he does inside the locker room. he brings guys together. this is about a global event. this is about team work and chemistry. it means so much. >> yeah. team usa couldn't have done it without him. so fun. thanks, raj. all right. another big headline tonight. you can see it. maybe you could even smell it. poor air across the bay area. here's what it looked like at sunset from some of our traffic cameras. the haze coming from a few wild fires burning in northern california. that includes the dixie fire which is now the largest fire in the country. jeff ranieri tracking the air quality. it was really kind of a little dense today. >> well, we have started to take

a turn on this, as expected. the fog built back up at the coastline. that is hoping to push a lot of this smoke now off towards the east. as we take a look at that air quality, it is moderate here in the north bay. the coast is good because of that fog. the bay also moderate. for the east bay, we're still unhealthy for sensitive groups. you still want to limit your exposure tonight. for the south bay, we're moderate. for a closer look at the smoke forecasting, you will see up the north bay, east bay, south bay and peninsula, we're in this blue color so it is just hazy, which is much better than what we went through today. the other warning, if you are going up to lake tahoe, looks like we will have unhealthy air saturday and sunday, so you may want to think about your traveling plans up to tahoe. >> we'll see you then. thank you. as you can imagine, firefighters are stretched thin because of this dixie fire we mentioned. it is the largest fire in the country and the third largest in

california history. the fire burning over the past few days, that fire just exploded, burning through several small sierra counties. that includes most of the town of greenville. dozens of homes, businesses levelled. some people who live there say they just barely made it out. >> we watched it swirling and burning trees. getting closer. >> like an inferno. cal fire says at least 400 structures have burned in the dixie fire and hundreds more are still threatened. we want to show you how destructive that fire is. the map that you are looking at over here shows the entire area burned by this fire. and you can see that it includes greenville, where that woman was from, indian falls, canyon dam and then firefighters so far have been able to save most of the town of chester on the north on the other side of the lake.

another small picture being celebrated tonight, might not look like much, but firefighters were able to use a bulldozer to same a home. the garage was on fire so crews tore that down before the flames could spread to the home. tonight the dixie fire is only 35% contained. now to the pandemic, one of the worst days we have seen since a surge in january. overnight california reported more than 14,000 new cases of covid. and take a look at the statewide curve. you can see no signs of slowing down. this is our winter surge, how bad it is. you can see this spike and it's consistently going up. some infectious disease experts say it might not level out until september of the earliest. >> some infectious disease doctors are looking at england for the future. the u.k. lifted restrictions last month while the delta vaas spreading widely. but now cases and hospitalizations are falling. >> they have been about six to

seven weeks ahead of us in multiple ways including starting vaccinations earlier and the delta wave hitting them earlier. >> 88% of adults there have one dose and the virus moved through the others quickly. >> the horrible news is that it goes so fast and then the silver lining of that is it seems so come down quickly. >> when does she expect to see cases and hospital numbers level off in the u.s.? >> another model was performed here at ucsf has given it at mid-september when the cases will start plumeting. >> reporter: many states have higher vaccination rates similar to the u.k. studies show that the unvaccinated make up 99% of people in the hospital with covid. >> that in places of high vaccination, you can get outbreaks and the severe disease is kept profoundly low. the supplemental covid shots

some people are getting in san tran sisco appears to be going fast. this sign was posted at zuckerberg san francisco general today saying they ran out. the hospital has been offering a pfizer or moderna vaccine. right now the cdc says extra shots are not necessary. today the director of public health reinforced that saying a supplemental shot is not recommended at that time. no background check needed. coming up in 60 seconds, california is getting their hands on guns perfectly legal. our investigative unit goes undercover. and we still have some haze from those fires off to the north as you move into tomorrow morning. and on top of that some fog near the coast and also near the bay. we will take you all the way through your weekend forecast and a look at that toke again coming up in about ten minutes.

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number of untraceable guns has law enforcement scrambling to react. >> steven and his team went undercover to find out just how popular they have become. >> we went undercover to several local gun shows to hear exactly what people are saying about the popularity of ghost guns. separately, our nonprofit journalism partners obtained this document from federal law enforcement officials warning about the explosive growth of ghost guns and how they could be used by terrorists both foreign and domestic. from gun shows throughout california. >> what do these come with here. >> reporter: to dozens of sites on the worldwide web. from ar style rifles to this package dubbed the john wick special. >> this is the same one he used in the movie? >> he used a lot of them. some of them are similar. >> reporter: going undercover, we discovered that for less than

$100, we could buy the main component of a handgun, what's called an 80% completed pistol frame or 80% lower. there is no background check, no registration, no tracing for it is perfectly legal to build the gun if you are not a fellen or someone else prohibited from owning a gun. if you apply for a serial number through the department of justice. but listen to what this gun show vendor had to say about that. >> do you have to put a serial number on it? >> i wouldn't take it down there. you might not get it back. >> reporter: but not getting that serial number is what turns a privately made firearm into a ghost gun. >> ghost guns are illegal in california once they are assembled. >> reporter: marissa is a supervising deputy district attorney in santa clara county, now seeing an explosion of ghost guns in the streets. >> it is a deliberate effort by

the criminal to work around california handguns. but if you can get your hands on one of these guns, you are in business. >> reporter: at one gun show, we ran into this guy who told us he turned to ghost guns after his girlfriend accused him of domestic violence, which he denies and police seized his other guns. >> i mean, i built mine because. >> it shows you when to drill. >> reporter: they sometimes end up here at the santa clary county crime lab, run by ian fitch. >> you can purchase this. it arrives in your house. nobody knows that you have it. >> reporter: and if nobody knows you have it, that makes it appealing this criminals. take a look at just how appealing across the bay area. this graph shows the number of ghost guns seized. look at how it grows especially over the last two years. >> it is a major concern for everyone. >> reporter: the director of the northern california regional

intelligence center. his office trains law enforcement about how to identify and combat those guns. >> sergeant is accused of killing a federal officer. >> fired those shots with a homemade ar-15 type weapon. >> reporter: counter terrorism officials recently circulated this document not meant for public distribution, but obtained by the trace and confirmed by our sources. the document shows the number of ghost guns recovered doubled from 2018 to 2019 and almost 24,000 of them were recovered from crime scenes from the last four years. >> their go to is try to get a hold of a private buyer because of the belief that, hey, they will never be able to figure out where this weapon came from. >> reporter: while several gun rights groups declined our offer for an interview, the sacramento based firearms policy coalition pushed back any attempt to regulate ghost guns saying

america has a long history and tradition of individuals making and assembling their own arms. and indeed such practices have always been lawful. law-abiding people have a right to self-manufacture firearms for their own lawful use. but it's not the law-abiing people who keep him up at night. it is more likely people like this guy. >> how do we stop this? >> laws are only as good as they are enforced. so it is requiring prosecutors and police officers across the state to understand how to regulate privately made firearms. >> though the biden administration has proposed new rules, many law enforcement officials tell me it will take congress to actually change the law in order to truly change this troubling trend. i'm steven stock, nbc bay area news. >> thank you.

if you have a story for anyone in the investigative unit call 888-996-tips or visit our website. what a complicated, you know, situation to be in with those ghost guns. >> for sure. we will switch gears and go to smokey. because it is hazy, hot, jeff, i'm not liking this forecast right now. >> this weekend, thankfully it will not be a reply police station of what we had today. we will see some improvements saturday into sunday. let's get you ready to go for that weekend. we will start it off with that look out in walnut creek. if you look close enough, you can see the haze into the distance that's lingering throughout the east bay. overall, we have started to see it get better because of the fog at the coastline. it will push the fog off towards the east. the coast is looking good. the bay also moderate. the east bay unhealthy for sensitive groups. so if you have any respiratory

problems, you need to limit your exposure tonight and for the south bay we're also in moderate. as we head through tomorrow morning, there is a lot of colors on this. look at the key at the top. the blue and the green is hazy. the red around purple is unhealthy. so it will be hazy as we start off the morning, and i definitely think we'll stay with a similar picture here as we head through tomorrow afternoon. now as we roll through sunday's forecast also, the worst of that smoke stays away, but we'll continue to see that haze here through the bay area. as we started off tomorrow morning, along with that fog, along with that smoke, we will see some fog here at the coastline, some low clouds for the north bay, east bay and the south bay, so everything kind of mixing together, not the pretty of starts as you look over the distance, but better than what we went through today. temperatures to start, it will be on the chilly side to start.

peninsula 58 and the tri valley at 60. it was also hot today. mid and upper 90s inland. tomorrow more enjoyable outside on that temperature front. you can see down here in the san jose, 83 degrees. maybe you are headed up to napa. 84 degrees. and 60s right there in san francisco. my seven day forecast, we continue with this trend of 60s with some morning fog, afternoon sun and we go into 90 tomorrow, 87 sunday and plenty of 80s to low 90s next week. overall nice temperatures moving in. >> like it. thanks, jeff. still to come, united airlines now the latest big company to require vaccines and what it means for your next flight. and happening now, u.s. track and field runner allyson

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a memorial tonight for the family of a 20-year-old killed five years ago as he was playing pokemon go. no arrest has ever been made in the murder of calvin riley. his father and friends are trying to refocus attention on this crime. the father said his son's death has torn the family apart. he says he's still looking for clues for the arrest for the person that shot his son.

>> i feel like authorities have basically abandoned my family. i felt like when the sfpd got on the case initially, they gave up the case on saturday night. i feel like, you know, i feel like i need help. >> police have a person of interest and a security camera image of a car the person was riding in the night of his murder. several rewards have been offered for any information leading to an arrest. you will soon be available to fly the vaccinated skies. one of the nation's largest skies says it will implement a vaccine mandate. u.s. airlines will soon require all employees to be vaccinated for covid-19. the rule takes effect five weeks after the fda fully approves a covid vaccine or five weeks after september 20th, whichever comes first. the united executive says the airline has no plans to require passengers be vaccinated, calling that a government decision. we're back in a moment.

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in tokyo. the men's basketball team, u.s. beat france 87-82. >> raj is in tokyo. he caught up with coach steve kerr as soon as the game ended and he talked about everything from the future of the sport to k.d. and draymond. >> you look at all those guys on the floor for france, they're all basically nba players and, you know, all stars. i mean, you got gobert out there causing all kinds of halve only defensively. it is not easy. it is not like it used to be. so that's a good thing, you know, for the health of the game globally, but it makes it a lot tougher for us these days for sure. >> k.d. and then draymond. >> k.d. was amazing. you know, just an incredible force offensively and draymond, you know, the guy is a champion. he wins no matter where, high school, you know, college, nba, olympian. he's a hall of famer. he's just a champion and an

incredible human