by a taxi driver he didn't know and dropped off at home unattended. it happened in oakland and the oakland unified school district provided the transportation. nicole walker spoke with the boy's mother. >> the school district hired a new bus company, first student. that was supposed to be better than the last company. but that's not the experience for anthony jones. >> the yellow bus is one of those iconic school memories, the beginning of the school year had false starts and stops. oak rand unified school district anionsed her special- needs son a taxi. >> i was worried. my 10-year-old in the back of a taxi. >> on september ninth the taxi

driver picked anthony up in west oakland and pulled him out of class an hour early. >> watch this shot. dropping anthony off at his house unattended. jones didn't know until a neighbor messaged her. >> i got a text message "i have your son." >> who was that from? >> that was from a neighbor. >> we realize there's been bumps in the road. >> the district changed bus vendors and contracted with cabs because there weren't enough drivers and the old driver didn't stare student information. >> some drivers not accustomed to transporting students with special needs were put in the role and didn't handle it well. an e-mail said it unacceptable

for the cab company to operate in this manner. >> we have to get through to growing pains. >> jones who is a special education teacher can't understand why the school let anyone pick up her son early without permission. >> i don't know. i don't know. that's what i want to figure out. >> you want to see me make a layup. >> she didn't want her son's face shown. today he was back on the bus. >> he's a totally different kid. he loves the friends on the bus. >> now the cab company responded to ktvu saying it is sorry for the mix up. the driver that pulled anthony out of class was a fill-in and

confused about the schedule. some evacuations are lifted as the firefighters battle that massive and fast moving king wildfire. 18,000-acres have burned inel door ato -- el dorado county. mike is in the area and has the latest on the battle to surround the flames. >> flames meet choppers and planes. >> this is the battle to tame the king fire. >> it's amazing, it's really sad too. >> five days in, 5% contained. 20,000-acres torched and 1600 homes threatened. it has sparked evacuations. >> nasty, nasty. out of control. flaring up in the afternoon because of the wind, you see

big time flames. a full day of air attacks pounded the king fire. steep canyons, gusty winds and flames blowing in three directions. >> it's driven by wind and topography. it the number 1 priority in our state right now, we're getting all available resources on it, a really strong response. >> once again, mike was reporting from el dorado county. 25 hub fire personel are fighting that fire, that includes some firefighters from all over the bay area, highway 50 was closed but is open, a good sign that firefighters are hopefully winning the battle. at this hour some san francisco firefighters are arriving on the frontlines. a strike team left this morning and met with other bay area

firefighters before heading to placerville. bay area firefighters have been deployed to help fight the wildfires. >> fire -- firefighters in syskiyou county are fighting the fire around weed. it has burned 400-acres. 150 structures including a hundred homes have been destroyed. a couple whose home burned to the ground. they found a note from firefighters in the mailbox. >> i grabbed the note and it said that so sorry about your house, we couldn't save it. >> that was the first time i cried. it was special they cared enough to do that. >> about a thousand firefighters are working on the boles fire. it is 25% contained. bill martin is tracking the changes conditions that could help in the firefighter.

>> great news in terms of weather, we're getting showers, rain showers in the bay area as we head to tomorrow. northern california will see cooler daytime highs. wet weather and increased humidity. 90 degrees, 15% humidity. there's numerous fires in northern and central california. as the front passes through tomorrow morning. temperature will drop by 20 degrees. you will get wet on the ground. it will be a huge impact. a huge impact on the morning commute. not a lot of rain we're expecting. wet roadways for the commute. when i come back that's what i will talk about. firefighters catching a big break with this weather forecast. our coverage continues on line at ktvu.com, we've created a intersection with the latest information, we've put together

a video slide show with pictures of how massive the flames are. a san jose mother pleaded not guilty to felony child endangerment after leaving her children in a car while she went into a casino. she was arrested june 30th at the resort and casino. a sheriff deputy found her 10- year-old daughter and 1-year- old son alone in the car. the mother said she was only in the casino for a few minutes. police are asking the public to look at a new police sketch of a man who's armed and dangerous. a man resembles this sketch shot and wounded a pedestrian following an argument on august 31st. asian, in his 20s who speaks english without an accent. it happened at golden gate

avenue and broderick street. the driver almost hit the pedestrian triggering a verbal altercation and gunfire. a neighbor saw the whole thing. >> i was looking out the window and saw the guy laying on the ground. >> the victim and the suspect got in a verbal altercation. the suspect drove away a short distance and began shooting. the gunman was driving a newer two door dark silver honda civic or accord. and may have been wearing a ball cap turned backward that may have been red in color. looters in mexico have targeted local shops and many areas were leveled by the storm. aid is being brought in while thousands wait to leave. a group of coworkers from the bay area are some of those

stranded with limited communication. ann rubin with more on the efforts to get home. >> supplies are scarce in the hotel santa fe and guests are desperate. >> people are trying to break into the kitchen, try to get what we can. the hotel is trying to provide fruit. >> terry fong and 11 of his friends are stuck in cabo san lucas. >> there's no water or plumbing. >> the mexican military is evacuating travelers, and hotels are posting online to get travelers there. fong's hotel has no shuttles. >> it's frustrating trying to get answers. >> his brother has been making calls from the bay area to get the state department orem bassey -- or embassy to intervene.

>> once they get to the airport hopefully they can hop on a military plane to tijuana to come home. >> they are trying to keep their spirits up. >> nobody is hurt, it is a harrowing experience. >> one they hope is over soon. >> a new arrest involving an nfl player. arizona cardinals running back jonathan dwyer, involved in two incidents in july with a woman and a 18-month-old baby. the cardinals management took acts announcing dwyer will not play this weekend. there's a fro-ing -- growing call for the nfl to take a tougher stance on athletes accused of domestic violence. >> when a player is arrested for domestic violence the nfl

should immediately suspend the player, continue to pay them until a opinion -- preponderance of the evidence terms their guilt or innocence. this is what zero tolerance looks like. >> that was jackie spears call from capitol hill. he was joined by nancy pelosi. she said ray mcdonald should not have played after being arrested on domestic abuse last month. after that ray rice was suspended indefinitely after video shows him knocking out his wife in an elevator in atlantic city. a 17-year-old girl killed 48 years ago. now a focus to find the person who did it. >> we talked to the officer who found catty nolan's body and

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. >> a 17-year-old girl murdered and her killer has never been found. now her family and the police officer who discovered her body are hoping any new evidence could lead to an arrest. it's been 48 years since kathy nolan was killed. it's never too what late to find a killer. >> this quiet street is where the body was discovered in 1966. this is uc berkeley today.

different than in 1966. that year it was in the middle of the free speech movement and robert kennedy came to speak at cal. on september 18th, 1966, police made a shocking discovery. >> i went there and there she was in the passenger seat. >> i talked with the former berkeley police officer who found the body. >> it was a pistol shot, and we later assumed that the shot had been fired by someone standing outside the drivers door. >> the person who kept nolan's memory alive was her cousin pam. >> she was a beautiful 17-year- old girl, she looked like ann margaret. >> newspapers described kathy as a pretty auburn haired girl

and spent time in coffee houses. >> i miss her terribly. i think someone took her and took her away from my life in the police never found her killer but it may take kuhn one piece of information to solve the case. >> it could be astronomical for us in terms of us trying to garner a new lead or new direction. >> there has been expectations that kathy nolan was an additional victim of the zodiac killer. we have new information involving the mass school shooting more than two years ago. grand jury transcripts state the gunman barged into a classroom where nursing students were taking a test. he was clutching the school's receptionist as he ordered

everyone to the front of the room. he was targeting the schools director who no longer worked there. and people seven people were killed in that mass school shooting, they were 21 to 53- year-old. one victim was a single mother studying to be a nurse. another was a janitor at the school. health care workers at the laclint can de la rosa staged a protest today. workers say staffing levels are low despite a increasing patient level. the issue is bad in the medical records and registration and the quality of patient service is suffering. >> when a patient comes to register the wait is horrendous. they have to wait two or three weeks or more.

>> workers are willing to sit down with management to resolve the issue. management says cautiously we are posting new positions and move toward an undated care model. west nile virus activity is the strong it's been in california. 311 californians have contracted the virus. that's double of last year. 12 people have died. the number of infected mosquito has reached a record high. the extreme heat and the drought are playing a big role in the record season. >> you would think we would have fewer mosquito and less west nile virus activity. when there's less standing water they come into closer proximity. >> the best protection is to wear insect repellent and get rid of standing water.

we're talking about the fires all over northern california, look at the king fire earlier today. the clouds, it's different than the kind we get when we get rain. this cloud you can see a hundred miles away, you can see it's going to 25,000 feet in the air. big cloud, the air will change a lot as we head into the weekend. the smoke will be lingering, let's talk about the morning commute. we'll get showers in there, wet weather for the morning commute on thursday, maybe .2, that's significant, it has not rained in a while, the roads will be slick. here is the radar imagery, it is picking up the particulate and showing it as rain. it's not. it's the wood chunks that are lifted into the air. when you can see fair from

radar that's significant of the these are big fires. this is the driest year in california. we're seeing the results of that. the great thing as the system moves in, it will provide relief for northern california. we're seeing showers and rain around yreka. a lot of moisture moving into weaverville. getting close to weed. in six hours humidity will triple and temperature plummeting. for us we'll see sprinkles. the big impact for us will be the morning commute. it won't do much to change our drought concerns, it will be enough to slow the morning commute. it drops in here tomorrow morning, late, 2:00, 3:00 in the mornings pushes through by 8:00 a.m., light rain and

drusesel. cooler in -- drizzle. you couldn't ask for a better scenario. here we are tomorrow morning on the commute. oakland in the hills. widely scattered. a massive moisture pushing in continue to keep things wet. in northern california, that's the big story, they will get a big time break with the weather pattern, i'm not a firefighter, i know a lot of guys that fight fires, they will say it's about the weather. and this system will help. 76 in santa clara. forecast high 45 in sunnyvale. five-day forecast, looks like a good one. plenty of sunshine and warmer for the weekend. the giants are in colorado trying to catch the dodgers. >> and the 49ers quarterback,

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. the giants are in arizona and she won.

everything counts now. >> down to 10 games or so. the dodgers have to say we can't shake these guys. the giants on their tails. 2 games behind, a tough win against the d-backs. crawford had a tough day. four for four. the tweener in the left center. it's 1-1 in the fifth. blanco with a nice bunt. scores a run. they take a 2-1 lead. 2-2. hunter pence with a good luck tap of the rookie. and there's a shot into center for the rookie, matt duffy a 2 run clutch single and the giants win 4-2. hunter says that's tough work. you have to have the mojo rolling. it's the dodgers turn to get humiliated. they beat the giants 17-0.

today they lose 16-2. meanwhile, colin kaepernick said he did not say anything that warranted a fine in sunday night's loss to the bears. the nfl fined him for $11,000 after this interception supposedly kaepernick as he was coming off the field uttered a slur that got him a penalty, and the fine, colin paper nick -- kaepernick said this. >> i didn't say anything, lamar huston said i didn't say anything. we're going to leave it at that. the player that i supposedly said something to has been quoted saying i didn't say anything. i don't know him. not like he would have a reason

to randomly stick up for me. >> i'm sure the nfl will respond. i don't think he said anything, colin kaepernick never seems to say anything to anyone. that's the longest sentence i've heard tonight. >> tonight at 10:00 we're tracking wet weather. the timing of when it will hit, how much it will help firefighters on the frontline. we'll see you tonight at 10:00. good night.

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