i would say i was a little bit scared. >> now at 11:00, fast-moving flames burned right up to their backyards. that was scary, but it is what these napa neighbors heard just before that made the angry. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello, i am sara donchey. this was the definition of a close count for a nap neighborhood today. this fire burned about 8.5 acres near collinsville road, and at last check it was about 80% contained. as andrea nakano

reports, what people heard righ before the fire started makes them pretty certain what happened. >> reporter: i talked with the incident commander on the scene and he said he felt both nervou and proud of the work that his crews were doing. firefighters and residents say this fire could have been much worse. >> this was the first time that i would say i was a little bit scared just to get out of here and get the family loaded into the truck and out. >> reporter: ken spickler live right near where the fire started. he said it came within about 100 feet of his home. >> as soon as i saw the flames jumped on the tractor and was dialing 911. so i was driving the tractor and talking with dispatch and they were here within a couple minutes. >> reporter: the napa fire department and other agencies including cal fire responded to the blaze. crews were stationed at each home in the path of the fire. although napa fire has not released a cause to the

fire, neighbors reported hearin a loud sound before they saw th flames. >> i was on a job and i heard a bang of a firework. me and my boss saw smoke. >> they might have set off an mad or some other big firework. i was three or four miles away and i heard it. >> reporter: residents say they have had problems with firework in the area during the fourth o july week. wednesday the fire force about 30 families to evacuate from their homes. ther were also about 30 students at silverado middle school for a summer program that had to evacuate as well. the quick response from firefighters and residents taking steps to creat defensible space helped to keep the fire from burning down any homes. >> you have wind and one spark and it can go a little bit too fast. >> reporter: the residents were able to return home within a fe hours and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

when we were flying yesterday over the bay area skyline, there was a lot to see illegal fireworks almost everywhere. it seemed like an impossible job for firefighters and police to crack down. every year a few people pay a tragic price for the bad decisions of others. illegal fireworks burne down paul thatcher's antioch home and ruined his classic car his next-door neighbor also los something irreplaceable when he dog ran away in terror. today she got a heartbreaking call. >> she had been hit by a car an we lost her. you know, i don't care about the house, i don't care about the car, i don't car about any of that. i just want my dog. >> you can hear the pain in her voice. just awful. fireworks also caused one serious injury to a person in contra costa county. a 66-year-old man had one explode while he was holdin it in his hand.

take a look at this. this looks like something you would see in miami, but this 50 story over ocean beach. this is our first look at the proposed cond tower in the sunset. it would b two blocks away from the beach and more than 100 of the 680 units would be designated as affordable , but the size has gotten a lot of pushback. this is actually the fourth draft of the project in the last few years. now we turn to another blow to san francisco's tourism industry. two tech conferences that were set to bring thousand to moscone he center have now been canceled. red hat is movin its conference to denver and meta has canceled its summit. they say san francisco is only expected to do about 60% of its average convention business nex year. speaking of meta, it is

upping the ante in its rivalry with twitter. they are giving users an alternative with their new app called threads. it is supposed to be a place for real-time conversations online at assange's will have a 500 character limit. mark zuckerber said that over 500 million user signed up in the first four hours. he also sent this tweet, the first one he has sent in th last decades. it is a picture o two identical spider-man facing off . you might remember that a while back elon musk actually challenged zuckerberg to a cage fight. it has been a chaotic week for twitter to say the least, which dealt with technical difficulties after limiting the number of tweets that users can see. imagine no more awkward icebreaking on first dates or even high-stakes job interviews. the new tech tool that could one day help you see exactly what you should say. >> it provides charisma as a

service to ease up who you are talking to. >> we put that to the test, coming up next. tahoe tourists leave a mountain of trash for sierra locals to deal with. the tool they are using to clear the beaches. we have low cloud cover and fog hanging out over downtown san francisco. temperatures today more reminiscent of early may than early july. details coming up in our first alert forecast. ahead in sports, we have hyped her up enough! rose zhang on the eve of her first u.s. open as a professional playing pebble beach, where she has the women's course record! a lot of us like a good slo jam, but do you like them enoug to start your own micro nation in their honor? one guy in california does, kind of.

you know when you go on a date and then comes the awkward silence? you don't know what to say, they don't know what to say. imagine putting on a pair

of glasses and the glasses feed you a line to keep the conversation flowing! sounds kind of like a black mirror episode, but it is what one stanford graduate is working towards. he has invented rizzgpt. he showed our shawn chitnis how it could one day deliver charisma on demand. >> reporter: brian cheung knows how people his age have become very dependent on technology to go about their daily life. >> my generation is among the terminally online. >> reporter: so he started playing around with what might be possible and he came up with rizzgpt . rizz, as in charisma, which is a concept a little bit older than gpt. right now he is

using a monocle to display the responses on top of a pair of sunglasses. >> rizzgpt will listen to your conversation and use a.i. to tell you what to say next. >> reporter: brian is already thinking of real-life scenarios where the invention could help. >> let's say you are in a difficult situation like on a date or in a job interview and you don't know what to say next >> reporter: we decided to put it to the test. first, a question about where brian lives. while it processes, bria has to hold the monocle to make sure he can read it. >> the best places to visit in palo alto are probably the stanford campus, the cantor art center, and the palo alto bay lands. >> reporter: then we asked for directions. >> if i need to travel north from san francisco to palo alto what is the best way to get there? >> reporter: it takes a few minutes before we get a respons but actually gives us a very

helpful answer. >> you should take the caltrain which is a quick and convenient way to get to san francisco. >> reporter: if we zoom in you can see what it looks like on the monocle. later i tried it o and could see the words clearly once i held it myself. >> i can take the caltrain whic is a quick and convenient way t get to san francisco. it only takes an hour. >> you can see and hear and interact with physical content like it is in your space. >> reporter: this comes as appl jumps into the headset market. the apple vision pro is coming early next year, but it needs apps. >> they ultimately need to buil the applications and use cases. this is really the appetizer before the main entr÷e. >> reporter: ryan wants to be one of these developers. >> i am excited about the futur of virtual reality and how it will integrate with our lives.

>> reporter: he imagines what the next generation of this invention can do, like when you enter a restaurant but cannot decide what to order. >> the camera can also look at the menu, read the menu and using generative a.i., help you figure out what to get. >> reporter: brian hopes this will help people return to more face-to-face interactions. >> socialization is a huge part of how people stay happy and have driving lifestyles outside of work. that has been missing for a huge chunk of this generation. >> this is called the rizz, after all. theoretically when someone was at the grocery stor and saw somebody and thought hey, i want to talk to this person and don't know what to say, could they use this for that? >> reporter: somebody is eager to raise people up, and that's great, but as we saw, this technology is not that

well-developed yet, so people would leave the grocery store before you came up with the response. he still has to hold it. he is working a laptop. so there is a delay and he is excited to improve the delay, but you might have to wait a little while before you can use it in the real world. >> i never said it was me! all right, shawn, thank you for giving us that information for real-world purchases. a solar-powered trash robot has work to do after this weekend. look at the disgusting mess that holiday tourists left the locals to clean up with at zephyr cove. two nonprofits, eco-clean and save lake tahoe teamed up to fund the beach cleaning robot, and they plan t hit as many beaches as they can >> the back part of it which is actually the sand-sifting mechanism attaches, and by moving the track forward it pushes sand over the grade and

the grid shakes up and down and it takes that material and deposits it into a hopper, then this is where the human power comes back. we take that material and we sort it. >> the robot can sort up to fou inches into the sand. anything that is natural to the beach will be returned, but i have even more incredible technology it is called picking up the trash and putting it in a trash can! >> read the menu and decide for your own self! yeah. >> i knew you were going to lik the idea of that. >> this is the point at which just tipped over into cranky ol man territory. >> that's okay. i am fine with not using a monocle on a date a a point of preference. >> waiting for the narrator to chime in. little did she know! that is going to explain a lot. cool weather pattern has se in across the bay area and it

will continue even as we head into the weekend. a parade of ripples in the upper atmosphere will keep the onshore breeze going and keep the marine layer very deep over the next few days. we will start with blue skies but it also means that ou air quality is improving. we ha a few yellow dots and we will b in the green across the board tomorrow with good air quality for the entire bay area. this cooler weather is not going to last forever. the 10-day outloo for livermore shows a continuation of the below average temperatures through th weekend and then a sharp climb monday and tuesday before we settle into mid-to-upper 90s fo these inland spots for the latter half of next week and even into the following weekend that is a ways down the line. right now it is foggy, cool, lo of low cloud cover even if it i not right at ground level. temperatures are still in the mid-50s and still holding onto 61 degrees. the fog will spread out as we head towards early tomorrow morning. gray skies

overhead for everybody to begin the day. inland the fog will retreat quickly, out of the inland valleys by 9:00 at the latest. it will be a day a lot like today where you have gray skies in san francisco until past noon, then sunshine breaks through. along the coast you will not see much sunshine not just tomorrow, but all the way through the weekend. temperatures tonight drop down to the low to mid 50s. highs tomorrow warm-up to only about five to 10 degrees below averag near the water, closer to 10 to 15 degrees further inland. uppe 50s on the coast, low to mid 60 around the bay and low 70s dow the peninsula. low to mid 70s for most of us with the warmest spots reaching upper 70s. this temperature map in general is almost exactly where we should be on may 6th, not july 6th. so that is how out of the ordinary we are about two months behind schedule in terms of what the map should look like. we will see that bounce back to near normal temperatures for monday and tuesday of next week around the bay was slightly above normal temperatures in san francisco and oakland a week from today with close to 80

degrees and oakland. the warm-u will be a little bit earlier fo inland parts of the bay area, returning to upper 70s and low 80s on monday , then further into the 80s by tuesday and wednesday with hotter spots eve approaching 90 degrees by the middle of next week, especially inland and in the east bay. eve along the coast, the no sky jul will be replaced by sunshine an temperatures warming up into th low to mid 60s. not exactly a heat wave, but it is along the coast for the month of july. vern? straight ahead in sports, a oakland a's player has broken a team record? this fellow deserves a shout out. something you don't see every day in a big league game! yeah, that! stick around!

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season. sometimes i'm like oh, the ticket prices will be so expensive, but then i am like oh, they are not doing so great maybe they will say relatively affordable! >> so long as they have one run better than the other guy, that is all they care about! they have been leaking oil, but no more! not after tonight! after four straight losses, they said that's enough! youngest fan in the house? that would be a good guess! bring that baby to work on friday. alex cobb absolutely had good stuff. he worked fast. six innings of scoreless ball with seven strikeouts and no walks! as for the bats, sometimes it goes your way! whe was the last time you saw this? julio rodriguez back and droppe the ball! that is off the bat o lamonte wade jr. in the fifth. second run scored. giants won the game and stopped a four-gam losing streak. the giants host colorado on friday and are nine and one in carr's last start!

a is making history in the first. esteury ruiz broke the team record with his third stolen base! beginning for the a's. they put three on the boar and ryan noda had a big blow! a two-run blast! three a's home runs left the park in a 12-3 route. oakland has won four of its last five. u.s. women's open is open for business for the first time at pebble beach tomorrow. betting favorite rose zhang here, stanford star turned pro, played a practice round with former teammates and annika sorenstam today. zhang enjoyed final walk with her posse! thursday morning it gets real! >> it is incredible to see how far we have come as teammates, as people. for us to be at this

venue, at pebble, be together for this final practice round, it is something that i have always dreamt of. >> i am so glad that these ladies finally get to play thes a-list courses! it is long overdue. zhang holds the women's course record at pebble with nine under 63. she tees of at 2: 35 tomorrow, and get this the winners' check? $2 million! >> how much? >> $2 million for the winter! they walk off with a big oversized check! $2 million! >> that is enough to convince m that maybe i should have taken golf more seriously! >> get out to the range and hit that ball! >> i have a long way to go before i catch up with rose. thank you so much, vern. we appreciate it. it was a pitstop the cost

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tonight we get our first look at the aftermath of a california jewelry heist that might be one of the biggest ever. it actually happened a year ago when an armored brinks truck hauling goods from a bay area tradeshow to pasadena made a pitstop in kern county. the two brinks employees admitted that one of them was sleeping i the truck when the other went inside to get food. he came out 20 minutes later to find the back walk is sawed off and millions of dollars worth of jewelry done. the jewelers are now suing brinks. >> they had armored transport and even filed a lawsuit saying

that this loss occurred on an armored tractor-trailer. as we have now learned, this trailer is a regular big rig. it was no armored. it is basically no different from the goods that are hauled like groceries to vons. >> there is a dispute here. brinks claims the losses were under $10 million. the vendors say no way. try $150 million. this would make it one of the biggest jewel heists in u.s. history. imagine driving down the vegas strip in the back of an uber or after a few drinks and seeing this! yeah! so far no reports of anybody crashing or walking into a post, but sometimes it would not surprise us. . this is rereal! the exos wentnt live yesterday with 580, square feet of fufully programmable lighting. . it is largest l.e.d. screen on earth.

ththat is jujust the outsidide can gogo inside the sphere starting on the 29th but only i you have a ticket to the first of 25 sold-out shows you two is doing there. this nation has a lot of foot -related laws and the national animal is something we usually try to scurry off. why one man says he has created his own dictatorsh

thanks for reviving with us at this late hour! you are watching the late news with sar donchey! >> i love it! i love that! >> that was the smooth, jazzy stylings of meteorologist darre peck! so he was trying to set the mood for this next story about a man who loves slow jams so much that he decided to establish his own micro nation, and he has crowned himself its sultan. >> okay. >> there he is! he has the outfit and everything. randy williams is a dj in san diego. he says he has created the republic of slow jam -istan, which is a few acres in the desert. he has his own, quote unquote, laws. he has outlawed anyone wearing crocs. and that is not all. it is forbidden to reply all to a staff email.

>> i can get behind that. >> you also cannot put your fee on a dashboard or take your shoes off on a plane going through slow jam -istan airspace. a lot of foot-related rules. so is it a real republic? williams says he has been emailing the biden administration, and so far his messages have been unreturned. >> i can't imagine why! >> i mean, hello? hey, do not disrespect the animal of slow jam -istan! >> it is like sir, this guy keeps emailing about raccoons and feet. >> sounds like a regular day a the inbox! >> probably not the strangest thing they get! >> vern will be going there for his latest