right now at 3:00, the olympic flame extinguished, but you can still watch the closing ceremony in a couple of hours right here on the nbc bay area. spectacular and we will take you to tokyo as the team usa wraps up a dominant olympics. and the dixie fire rages on and now the largest wildfire in california. how that wildfire is impacting the quality of fire here. and also, shots ringing out in sunnyvale here as a large house fire is turning deadly. we are scene with the latest.

a special edition of nbc bay area news starts right now. good afternoon, i'm terry mcsweeney and we are starting outside with the air quality. the dixie fire and other fires burning in california producing so much smoke, you can see it there. here in the bay area, it is in the air, and looking at live in walnut creek, you are seeing it hazy, and you said it would start that way, and you were right, rob mayeda. >> yes, these two same locations were starting in the orange and red, and the same sensitive groups, and still in the green, and good air quality and except up in the solano county except in the smoke, and the seakrees into the ground level and inland to the east tomorrow morning and

waking up to the hazy skies and into the sea breeze tomorrow afternoon to clear the skies once again, and the ocean air conditioning is helping us out with the air quality, and as we are moving forward, the temperatures ahead to dixie fire, and talking about the temperatures in 100 degrees, and the valleys for another concern for fire danger could be thunderstorms moving back to sierra, and the closer changes to the forecast coming up in 10 minutes. and coming up, rob, and monitor up to the minute conditions of the air quality on the bay area app free to download. the dixie fire is the second largest in history, and the fire grew to 463,000 acres in all burning more than 700 square miles in several counties near the nevada border, and thousands of homes have remained at risk while it is growing rapidly, and

at least 400 structures have been destroyed including hundreds of homes and businesses in greenville which is what you are looking at there. the fire which is 35% contained friday is now 21% contained today. in the south bay, one man is dead and another is in the hospital after a shooting in a large house party. this happened in a normally quiet neighborhood in sunnyvale and that is nbc bay area tom jenson is saying it is a rental neighborhood, and they are hoping that the city takes notice. >> some neighbors are startled after a loud partying after some said is rapid gun fire and others responding to police sirens. deluca said that he bou his sunnyvale home because it was quiet, but he woke up today finding out that two were killed down the street. >> it is sobering to learn that

two people were killed. >> it was in a short-term rental home, and liquor had been advertised. >> it is too much. >> and he is not alone. one of the members is a city council member, and he takes pride in the low violence crime rate. >> it is a new experience for the neighborhood. i have been living here for a long time. >> and he says that he wonders what the council can do to regulate the short term rental areas. >> from the city perspective, i want the know what is legally possible to restrict and require what is required of the vendors. >> the second victim is recovering after undergoing surgery and asking for witnesses to step forward. in jenson from nbc bay area news. turning to the pandemic with

only half of americans fully vaccinated. dr. anthony fauci says that he is fearing a new mutation, and he if others don't get vaccinated and made the comment on "meet the press." >> if you allow the virus to mutate, it will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate, so if you allow it to freely circulate and you don't try to stop it, there is sooner or later likely to get another variant that could and i am not saying itwill, but it could be more problematic than delta. the vaccines right now do pretty good to protect you against the disease. >> he is also concerned about the sturgis mot south dakota to be a super even

you will have to mask up if you want to go to see the new broadway shows such as "hamilton" and ticket holders will have to prove they are vaccinated. and also tests that have been taken within 72 hours and pcr tests are negative. and children are not allowed in the auditorium. and masks are mandatory. and also, tomorrow, the first day of in-person learning will be celebrated in oakland. the superintendent will go to horace mann elementary and take part in the backpack give away. we told you last night that a small group of teachers will be called for remote learning options to keep the students and the staff safe. the district maintains they have appropriate measures in place now. and now the end of the olympic games is here, and coming up on primetime and marking the end of the world's

sporting event. liz mclaughlin is in tokyo. >> reporter: the u.s. women's volleyball team grabbed gold for the first time with straight sets over brazil. >> it is the goal to come home with a gold medal and to make history has meant so much. >> reporter: history has made history beating japan for the second time in basketball. >> given covid and everything that has taken place, being here with the gold around our neck is special. >> reporter: and jennifer valente making cycling history. and women's water polo scoring gold, and in boxing, scoring silver after a drought.

and it is history for allyson felix leaving with a total of a career 11 gold medals. tv viewers around the world marking the end of the olympics like no other, and now looking forward to the next games in paris. liz mclaughlin, nbc news, tokyo. the olympic organizers are saying that 11 athletes were unable to participate because of the positive covid tests, and three people were hospitalized because of the virus, and since recovered. the good-byes are happening in tokyo and here in the bay area, and here at the nbc bay area, they are commemorating the tokyo 2020 ceremony, and the oldest of the three japan towns in the united states held a

celebration. that is robert handa who emceed the event, and they came to celebrate japanese heritage, and we caught up with one family who said that the event today holds special meaning. >> we have been to japan andleyed in japan, and this is the end of the olympics, and this is a great time to be here. >> you can catch the closing ceremony right here on nbc bay area starting at 5:00 p.m. we told you about the wild animals possibly spreading the virus to humans and now how about humans spreading the virus to pets. that is coming up. and now, what the public transportation is offering to students coming up. it is 79 degrees right now, and who could be seeing some sierra thunderstorms coming up. and we are closing out the

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people in the east bay now have more options for public transportation starting today. the east bay transit is expanding the services system-wide, and during the year and a half, and the next year and a half, ac transit is expanding to schools and early bird transit, and in the pandemic, the ridership plummeted from 190,000 to 44,000 riders per weekday, and the public health restrictions forced reductions, but now that the ridership is making a comeback, so will the service. and now, this week, the house will continue to try to agree on the additional amendments in the senate for the

1 trillion bill for roads and bridges and transit, and majority leader chuck schumer says they will continue to be ready to vote. >> i repeat, the house is ready to vote on the amendments which will require the cooperation of the republican colleagues. i hope they will cooperate so we can move more quickly, and otherwise, we will proceed by the book and finish the bill. >> president biden has called it a historic investment comparing it to the transcontinental railroad or the highway system. some are wondering if the pet can give you covid. researchers are wondering about the role pets play in spreading viruses. >> reporter: last year we told you that covid-19 could have started with a bat, and then

jumping on to another animal and spread that way. but what about the pet in your home? we investigate. >> reporter: they are cute, and snugly and they have given us much needed company in the pandemic. but can your pet get infected and spread covid-19? to find out, we visited uc davis veterinarian medicine teaching hospital. here, 125 vets treat more than 60,000 animals each year. everything from dogs to horses and even fish. >> we do know now that dogs and cats can be infected with the sars coronavirus, too. >> reporter: dr. jane sykes tracks the animals infected with covid. and data through mid-july shows that 217 cases in the u.s. so far and more than 40% of those were cats. researchers believe that is

because the cats have closer contact with humans than other pets. >> they are closer to people's faces when sleeping with people's faces. >> they cuddle with pets. >> yes, one cat was euthanized because it was so sick from covid. and a majority of the infected cats and dogs exhibited mild symptoms or none. the main thing is that it is spread from people to animals and not back to people from the animals. we also told you about the researchers seeing it from wild bats and peng lynns. when the virus gets into wild populations, the researchers say it is impossible to control. and as the infection spreads, the virus mutates forming new variants which can come back to humans, but when the house pets catch the virus, the infection

is more limited and it has more chances to create a mutation to pose a threat to people. >> it is not a lot of reason to vaccinate the dogs and cats, because they are not important in spreading the infection back to the people. >> reporter: but since they mutate quickly, a new variant coming from animals or people can change everything. the delta variant, how is that changing the research right now as we speak? >> the concern is if a variant arises that is more infectious for people's companion animal and then transmitted back to people. >> reporter: right now, no evidence that it can infect pets and then back to humans, but dr. sykes says it is crucial to keep an eye on any potential variant and could potentially impact us. back to you. >> yes, across the bay is the

fog. >> yes. a strip there. >> perfect weather. >> yes. >> thank you very much. i will be right back. >> and right now in san francisco, the sea breeze that you are about to see is incredibly how this is making a big impact on our air quality coming up. right now in san jose, you have hazy skies and on our way to seeing the mid-80s towards the middle part of the week, and the warming trend to the santa clara, and to livermore and to the middle part of the week, to mid-and upper 90s making a comeback to the tri valley, and also higher 80s to walnut creek, and currently at 87. as we showed you, san francisco, low clouds, and as terry mentioned, west wind at 15 miles per hour, and the air quality for tomorrown, and higher for l county or the higher hilltop above 2,500 feet, and literally

the top of mount diablo or the peaks seeing the smoke, and look at the impact that the sea breeze is having in terms of clearing out the smoke today and how fortunately we are in the bay area, and look at this island of the better air quality thanks to the strong sea breeze, and most of the interior california having air quality problems and here comes the marine air push, and that is going to clear away the smoke from the bay area, and the morning is going to begin with the hazy skies at times, and we should be okay with the denser smoke staying off of the east. and the morning temperatures in the upper 60s to start, and the highs tomorrow, close to what we had today, the low 80s around san jose and lower 90s in concord and livermore, and martinez about 89, and in oakland the low 70s, but from here, we will begin to see the valley temperatures in north bay

and east bay climbing into the mid-90s. what is more interesting is wednesday and thursday and friday, and the green band is passing over, and some of it is monsoon moisture which is bottled over for a while in the southwest, and it may be drifting to the southwest heading tone the middle part of the week, and why that is a concern is the dixie fire, and we could see more lightning strikes going closer to sierra, and what we will watch closer for the bay area is if it is drifting farther to the west, and what we are seeing is a main impact, and what it should produce is rain and lightning chances and that is a change, because things have been calm around the sierra, and things are going to be more active to the middle part of the week. and in san francisco, the temperatures in the upper 60s and 70s as you approach next weekend. a change to the inland temperatures, and toward the end of the week, we will watch

thursday's forecast to thunderstorms that could be over the sierra, and next week, the chiefs and the 49ers and preseason football coming to levi's stadium. and of course, it is going to be better news to keep the air quality better around the stadium. >> i would say that any weather is good for football. >> but baseball, and that season is in full swing, and i can't believe what is going on with the giants. >> red hot, and the last three games extra innings, and today in milwaukee, no extra in, but it was close. no need for extra innings, but they put on the rally caps against the brewers, and who was the hero in today's comeback victory? stick around. and look it, they are down, and that only ties it. but who wins it? find out next in sports.

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i'm anthony flores and they did it again. the giants get late game heroics to beat the brewers. they were down and then a man on and brandon belt steps to the plate. the giants' first baseman bells one to straight away center and the fourth home run in the past four games to knot the score 4-4, and with the runner on the base, and then tommy la stella scores the eventual winning run. >> it is one of the more challenging periods of the year. i think that in many ways especially in the last game, we were a little bit on fumes. we are understanding that our pitchers have thrown a lot of innings, and the bullpen has really been grinding. and so, we kind of have had all of those things in mind as we enter the last game of the series, and so that has been a gratifying take. >> all right.

at the coliseum the a's and the rangers and watch it, bottom of one, and tied 1-1 and lowrie is just jogging in, and the ump says he is out, but the replay tells a different story, and check it out after the review, he is called safe, and the a's take a 3-1 lead, and right now they are leading the rangers 6-2 in the seventh. this is the hurry-up. after the practice, kyle shanahan hopped a plan to go to canton, ohio, to celebrate with jim lynch for the hall of fame, and then he hopped back on the plane to get back for training camp that is dedication. the 49ers are wrapping up training camp. they practiced in front of fans at levy stadium, and so the

coach was worried about the drop of energy for today's workout. >> i was worried about a bad practice and people being tired and stuff, but i was pleasantly surprised that. i did not take a practice off or change with the pads off and they went hard and had a good practice. >> the voice was scratchy, so i think that he had a good time. so now, from solid gold to red and gold, gm john lynch spilled a glass of red wine on his jacket when one of the former broadcast colleagues bumped into him, and so the pro safety had to take the jacket to the cleaners before he is inducted into the night's hall of fame in canton, ohio. and we will have that tonight at 11:00, and i am sure that he is not happy, but they got it cleaned just in time for the

ceremony. >> and tonight, time is flying by. they are playing next weekend. >> it is coming up, and everybody is watching the quarterback position. >> and the linebackers. >> today, jimmy garoppolo looked great in practice if you cared. >> i care. >> and jimmy shined the best in practice today. >> we are going to be seeing some trey. >> a lot of it, and you don't draft the number three overall to see him sit on the bench. >> thank you, anthony. well, farewell, tokyo and hello paris. so we will show you how france is getting ready for the 2024 games. whew!

mclaughlin is hammering it home. >> look at muhammad here as they break it open. allyson felix is going to have a 11th gold record. >> the olympics are brought to you locally by prudential. millions of people rely on prudential for rock solid investing an financial planning. every one of us is connected. everyone. everywhere. where everyone is included. where everyone has access to information, education, opportunity.

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the tokyo olympics with team usa winning the overall count with 113. and the u.s. is bringing home the most gold as well, and the most silver and bronze from these game, and china came in second, and the russian olympic committee came in in three years in paris, and today, the handed off the olympics to paris, and this took place, a celebration as jets flew over paris with colored smoke, and representing the french flag, and you can watch the closing ceremony right here from paris in 2024. and people from the station say they are the ones who should be covering the summer olympics from paris. >> i volunteer. >> are you going?

>> well, apparently not. >> jessica gary assures me she is going. that is our news for tonight, and we will see you at a special time, 11:30. see you then. nbc nightly news is next. fina olympic celebration and the hard-earned victories. the united states on top of the medal count with historic golds for women's basketball and volleyball and the closing ceremonies that celebrates the world coming together to defy the odds. state of emergency. hospitals pushed t the brink by covid cases. austin activating its emergency alert system. new mask mandates in big cities, and some hospitals seeing more children now than ever before. new covid rules for schools. texas will not inform parents about classroom outbreaks