. >> we are on the edge of the mojave desert, the significance is this was the major route to the west, in the early years there wasn't anybody out in the desert. the settlement was down below along the coast. in 1859 the first permanent resident came to this spot and his name was aaron g. lane. he was so well known, the fact that newspaper started calling him the pioneer of the mojave which i call my book, and aaron g. lane is the pioneer of the mojave and he came because of health reasons. 45 or 50 miles out of san bernardino that would have been the exit, the closest spot from here. coming out here everybody around this area, this far, their wagons broke down, blacksmith shop, feed their horses, feed themselves, this came to be what was called a way station in those days. in this area there were hardly anybody. and talk to the couple, and the 1860 census by the name -- and other people coming, the indians are used to going through. and the colony, and keeping his life. march 18, '69, was an outlaw that had been chased from the la area. 18 wade helm - this fellow named wade helm had

but the most fun time is when you travel yourself on trails like this in mojave, utah. approaching this gnarly downhill. nice and shiny. trying to make his way down this rather narrow trail. >> because i'm not familiar with this, shouldn't he get off -- >> no. where's the challenge in that? let's see how jim does. >> oh, no. >> see. take it easy and his bike would still be here. it's very inti my dating. when you're out there for the first time you'll fall. >> good thing he had the helmet on. >> he does get up a little bit slow. >> i believe his nose is bruised more than anything else. i'm sure he wanted to make it down on his own. that's a downhill challenge. this next one an uphill challenge but somehow gravity works in these situations. a guy off in the days tans. comes racing dhoinl and starts working his way to the bottom of that little quarry there to build up a little bit of speed. charging across. >> no, no, no. >> oh! ? >> he got off the bike. he didn't want to go down with the bike. he jumped off. tried to save it. it goes rolling down. he goes rolling down. h

. >>> firefighters now expect full containment of this fire in mojave valley, arizona, later today.uated are now returning to their homes. it's believed the brushfire was started by an trek call transformer explosion >>> watch out for rain and snow in the northwest. some flood in the midsection from the gulf of mexico to the canadian border and some rain in parts of the northeast. >>> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis, kansas city, and washington, d.c. >>> mosquitos carrying the zika virus are expected to infect the u.s. in the next week or so. >> a doctor said critical of preventing further of the virus here in the u.s. about 500 americans are already sick with zika but all travel related>>> a camper who came face to face with a full-grown brown bear. he said the brown bear came charging at him so fast that he had to fight back. that was a moment kenny he rebs in vivid detail. >> i remember the sound of it breathing and i remember, you know, the sound of it snarling. i remember, this thing is going to kill me. >> now for some reason the bear finally d

. >>> crossed mojave desert.ulse 2 took off from northern california shortly after 5:00 a.m. monday for the 16 hour flight to phoenix. the plan landed in arizona just shy of 9:00 p.m. local time. the wings have 17,000 solar cells that power the batteries. the plane will make two more stops in the u.s. before it crosses the atlantic. >>> time to start -- is it tuesday? >> it is tuesday. at 4:30 wife another weather alert. >> let's take a look. this is live radar and all of that you see moving across. light showers and more headed into our area right now. when will we start to dry out? that's the question all ve >> i'm mike hydeck. larry miller will have time saver traffic momentarily. we had trees down on cars in some places but first the yellow alert and allyson rae. >> yes, yellow weather alert. another round of showers for the evening commute. we are not talking about big time thunderstorms but showers around the region that will impact the drive home. yesterday's storms are still impacting your drive in. the r

. >>> a fire at the world's largest solar thermal power plant located in the mojave desert was likely caused by miss aligned marors. the mirrors focus sun beams on the wrong part of the plant's tower igniting some electrical cables. the fire also scorched some theme ducts and water pipes. official s say it's too early t comment on the cause of the fire. the plant is currently running at only a third of its compassesty. >>> an exciting edition to a san jose neighborhood. today folks in the neighborhood came together to celebrate a new housing complement. chris woonguyen explains why it such a big deal. >> reporter: in america's oldest japantown, the grand opening of the japantown senior apartments in san jose. some members of the japanese-american community helped welcome new residents to the neighborhood. >> we are a jewel, and we are proud of japantown. >> reporter: at a cost of more than $27 million, the housing project took nearly eight years to finish, a 75-unit community made possibl possible by the lo tax credit. >> the rent has been skyrocketing and people i've normally seen, s

. >>> here at home in arizona's mojave valley, wild winds are fueling fierce wildfires.ou can see right there the thick smoke billowing across the desert, evacuations ordered. officials blamed a downed power line or a transformer for that blaze that has now devoured 400 acres and counting. >>> next to the severe weather. a tornado watch in three states at this hour, and now the threat of thunderstorms in the plains, too. take a look at this, up to eight inches of hail falling, that's in the black hills of south dakota. some tough driving there. abc meteorologist indra petersons is here tracking it all. that didn't look like spring and you're watching even more. >> yeah, it actually almost looked like snow, all thanks to this weather pattern we're looking at now. the jet stream has dropped far south in the west. that means that cool air is banking against the heat in the plains and that clash is causing all that instability. tonight looking at tornado watches. focusing on eastern colorado as well as the texas panhandle. as we go through this evening and tomorrow, look at

first reference in the mojave desert before hitting san bernardino valley.t has a tremendous impact on route 66. many towns were small to begin with. a man named michael wallace area a book about route 66 it is a wonderful book. this helped trigger his renaissance. really everybody from the east coast to the west coast. the wagon roads coming across the country. by 19 tennis when they come up with the idea of connecting wagon roads to bring people from the east coast out to california. route thethis national old trails route. they were herky-jerky. that is what brought the first through. a clean root. basically near chicago, illinois to santa monica california. as they are traveling through miles and miles of desert, there are not a lot of talents. motel.s station and a then you go to barstow, which is bigger. victorville was small at the time. >> we followed route 66 along mount vernon avenue. we are at the border between san bernardino and -- all along the route from illinois to california, there are numerous mom and pop cap eight -- mom and pop cafes. the

the first restaurant you would come to after crossing the mojave desert before going into the san bernardino valley. when the freeway came through, it had a tremendous impact on route 66 in a negative way. and also for many towns that were small to begin with that would thrive on route 66 emma people stopping by. it killed them. destroyed the town's. around 1990, a man named michael wallace wrote a book about route 66, the mother road. it is a wonderful book. i think that book triggered this renaissance of route 66. established,66 was really everybody from the east , the to the west coast winding roads coming across the country. about 1910 was when they started coming up with the idea of connecting wagon roads to bring people from the east coast out to california. route4, they called this the national old trails road. basically, it was a connection of old wagon roads that weren't always great. they were herky-jerky. they're the ones that brought the first people through. then when written 66 came up in 1926, it became more of a straighter route. it was a cleaner route. it extended from basic

. >> bondi: there is not an acre of preserved mojave desert in the city limits of las vegas. unless there's a lot of technology supporting our presence. and so, you know, there's a sense of the city versus nature. this is not our friend. >> anthony: you'd think looking at the vast lakes, the canals, the fountains of vegas, in the middle of a desert, the flush of a hundred thousand toilets at the casinos and what they bring, would constitute an obscene waste of water. and indeed, water is an ever more desperate premium as the water levels in the colorado river reservoir at lake mead decrease at an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water-efficiency and conservation. main culprit? the all-american lawn, a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets, looking for evidence of water violations. >> robert: there's finally some water in the gutter, actually on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering. yet there's water here. so that'

. >>> but the more than 60 families evacuated from this fire in mojave valley, arizona, are now beingback into their homes and firefighters are started by an electrical transformer explosion. no buildings were damaged. >>> mosquitos carrying the zika virus are expected to begin infesting americans in the u.s. in the next month or so. dr. anthony fallacy says about 500 americans already have the virus but all those cases are travel related meaning the individuals were either infected while outside the u.s. or contracted it from someone who had traveled. >>> turning now to another growing health concern. the chronic lack of donor organs. >> it's opened the door to the illegal practice of buying and selling those life-saving organs. >> a controversial plan would be turn financial incentives into a legal practice in hopes of attracting more donors. here's abc's gloria riviera. >> this game is rigged. >> reporter: the radical new proposal that kyle mckinney says could save his life. >> i personally think it would be a great idea. >> reporter: mckinney's kidneys started failing him at age 1

i'm from the mojave so i know me some rattlesnakes. all right. okay.s animal weather out there this morning! you want to know change? this is change. this is a blanket of low clouds and fog that's seeping in now over the golden gate bridge. this is going to dramatically drop our temperatures along the coast. you won't notice the difference inland. number-wise we are in the 50s and 60s. very mild slow to cool down in the overnight hours. but our temperatures today will cool along the coast into the 60s. 80s pleasant around the peninsula swinging across the santa clara valley and 88 in san jose down from 89 yesterday. in fact, it was 94 in brentwood down to 93 there in discovery bay. 84 degrees in dublin today t you will barely notice a difference in livermore down know 90 to 8 degrees. 87 in santa rosa. with the full sunshine various winds to 20. 87 in livermore. 90 cloverdale. bigger weekend changes. details coming up. >>> let's jump to the roads right now. eastshore freeway you have the usual slow-and-go conditions on that westbound side with stop- an

. >>> some dramatic video of a wild fire sweeping across hundreds of acres in arizona's mojave valley have been sparked by a transformer explosion. >>> the san diego padres are apologizing to the local gay men's choir for quote mishandling their performance of the national anthem. just as they started to sing they were drowned out by a railroading of a woman singing the anthem. the padres said it wasn't a malicious act but an employee has been disciplined. >>> a shocker in the nba playoffs, the thunder unleashing fury on steph curry and the warriors. 133-1005 win. >>> finally, we all know you shouldn't text while driving but what about texting while marching. check out this video. west point cadets marching to their graduation ceremony. look closely, one of the cadets texting while marching. looking down while texting. stop texts while walking. it's not safe. it's really sad and dangerous. >>> how about last night? >> so special, right. lots of great memories from the billboard music awards. abc's jesse palmer is in las vegas with moments that have all of us talking this morning. hey,

heres the first restaurant in the mohammed deficit -- in the mojave desert.t onremendous route 66 in a negative way and for many towns that were small to begin with. it really destroyed the town. -- in 1990, aing man named michael wallace wrote a book. it is a wonderful book. that book helped trigger the renaissance of route 66. both iraq and afghanistan, i helped build countries with their constitutions being sort of the facilitator of agreement on issues among the iraqis and afghans. influence is considerable, as heads of state were very anxious to meet with you. >> tonight on q&a, former ambassador of iraq and the united nations, discusses his memoir. >> we saw the extremists exploited. although we corrected it towards the end of the period i was there by the surge, by reaching out to the sunnis, by building up iraqi forces and establishing unity government, to bring about the security. violence was weighed down. when we left, the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers pulling in iraq apart, the violence escalated in we have isis now. >> tonight at 8:0