christie smith, it wasn't a big quake, but was it enough to rattle some nerves? >> we spoke with people here in pacifica and some of them said it sounded like a car hitting the building and some of them went out and figured out it was what they thought, an earthquake. >> i thought first of all, you know, someone hit my store. >> at this liquor store in pacifica, the store made a quick exit after the shaking. >> i was just scared and i see other people went out, you know, and they're asking each other what's going on. >> bottles waddled, but nothing broke. a magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit west of colma at 8:41 this morning. ity shakithe shaking was felt iy pa parts of the bay area. >> it was near the san andre as. he says they usually expect this type of activity further inland. ? it was a little unusual for us. it was what we would expect and it's near enough to the san andre as that it does make sense maria torres was home getting ready for work at a flower shop. >> i was expecting to find glass, but nothing moved. >> they found the town was not affected, but nerv

christie smith is in the city with the latest on this major problem. christie? >> reporter: supervisor matt haney stumbled on a big pile of trash on the sidewalk and twreettwree tweeted out a photo expressing his frustration. he wanted the city to do more, including adding more trash cans in this particular neighborhood, but some shop owners we spoke with say that's exactly what they don't want. >> i want my neighbor toe nice and clean. >> reporter: this man runs a market in the tenderloin. he spends more time than he wants to cleaning up trash near the trash can outside. he says people have turned the area into a dumping ground. >> with a big bag or shopping bags full of trash. they just dump in, and they leave. >> reporter: he doesn't want trash cans out front because he thinks it will attract more dumping. as we spoke with him, the bags were picked up. last night he cleaned up this mess. supervisor matt haney tweeted a picture of it. >> it's disrespectful. it's dehumanizing for us to have trash strewn all over the sidewalks. >> reporter: he thinks more needs

christie smith spoke in light of the power shutoff. >> they remember that day like it was yesterday. they shared stories of loss and rebuilding. there was talk about updates on community preparedness and some pointed out challenges that are still ahead. >> in oakland, they remembered the disastrous and deadly fire that swept through the hills 28 years ago. >> i would ask that we give a moment of silence and the preparedness center. her home burned in 1991 and many of her neighbors are new. >> some of them don't know about trimming the trees or keeping the brush back on the house and all of that basic stuff that i was not aware of. >> she learned all about the disaster preparedness after the fire, but her planning was tested this month when pg&e turned off power to help prevent wildfires. >> what i gained from this power outage was how -- what an island i was. i couldn't communicate. >> council member believes the shutoff plan was not well sought out. the utility has said it will improve communications. the city keeps working on its plan. >>. >> we'll look for more money as well to cl

christie smith was saying it's calmer where she is. taking a turn for the better as far as the firefighters are concerned. >> the lower elevations is where we're seeing a difference. a lot of locations are 20 miles and lower. higher elevations have seen a decrease from 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts and higher elevations near the kincade fire. now down to 45 miles an hour. that's still very dangerous. i want to start off with this map. you've been evacuated in geyersville, healdsburg or windsor. it's now 50,000 acres and containment has been reduced down to 5% with that north wind, it really pushed this growth down to the southern side with lots of hot spots moving towards healdsburg and windsor. today we have crews there reporting as those embers started fires in those locations. i want you to be on alert in calistoga. flames are off to the north. here's why. i think in this location, this area, we could still see 30 to 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts blowing embers to the south-southwest. think about that and have your plan ready. so, where

nbc's christie smith is in the bay with the details. christie, what do we know? >> reporter: the alleged victim wasn't here at the hall of justice but his mother was. they want answers. they say this man was severely beaten, handcuffed, and then hit some more, but he wasn't arrested. >> what happened to my son should nltd have happened. >> reporter: tyra mathis stood near photos of her son and she was clearly upset. >> somebody has to tell me, why does he have a plate in his leg, pins in his arm, why he can't walk, why he needs therapy. >> they say he was on a date and her wallet went mushing. >> police pulled up, pushed him down in the bushes, began yelling him and beating him. >> reporter: attorneys say they handcuffed him and continued to hit him. they say he was not arrested and officers later showed up at the hospital. >> it was an unprovoked attack. there was never a threat to anyone. there was never a crime committed. >> today his attorney called on incoming interim d.a. suzie loftis to prosecute the officers. the statement read in part the sfpd and the sa

christie smith reports. >> 2017 i left when it is voluntary evacuation. >> reporter: you can see thels from her property. she's trying to take more steps to protect her home from this wildfires. >> it is really dry. how do we keep anything coming through from getting up to the house. >> reporter: the green valley highland areas had sill side homes with large lots. >> some of the questions she had about how to best reduce fire risks in areas like this and even about evacuation route were addressed today by first responders. >> the hillside to the west, that was two years ago. >> reporter: including action plans. moneta monitoring social media and carjacking families and setting up a safe town. >> to prevent in the event of a catastrophic wildfire. >> i don't think i was prepared. >> reporter: mary beth says if there is a next time, she will be prepared. >> what to do with the trees and what to do and make sure there is no dead debris. >> reporter: in solano county, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> you can get weather alert on the go. make sure you download our app. you can get we

and just being so strong for other women, young women like me, i think that was inspiring. >> christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> speaker of the house, nancy pelosi is dealing with the loss of her brother tonight. he passed away today at his home in baltimore. he was 90 years old. he was baltimore's mayor during the 1968 riots after the assassination of martin luther king jr. he watched his sister rise to prominence in washington, and she released a statement today saying tommy was the finest public servant i have known, and he worked on the side of angels and now he is with them. >>> ft. stewart, the army says there was an exercise wh an armored car and three soldiers were killed. three injured soldiers are expected to be okay. >>> demolition in new orleans, there it goes. a little more than a week ago the upper floors of the hard rock hotel collapsed and crews feared more damage would be done if the cranes did not come down, and work crews say they now hope to safely recover the two bodies that are still missing. >>> are you willing to be on a flight that lasts more than 19 hours? the c

christie smith is in the tenderloin with the details. christie. >> reporter: supervisor matt haney stumbled on a big pile of trash and tooa picture and tweeted about how frustrating it keeps happening in his district, in the tenderloin. we checked in with the department of public works and they're saying they're absolutely doing their part to keep the neighborhoods clean, but some of this comes down to people's behavior and some of the neighborhood agrees. >> if we haveore cans, does that mean we have more bottles? >> he watched the trash bags left outside of a trash can picked up near the market. he says people dig through for recycling or dump their junk here. >> a big bag or shopping bag full of trash. they just dump it and leave. >> last night he picked up this mess. the photo was tweeted by supervisor matt haney. >> it's disrespectful, dehumazing to have trash strewn all over the sidewalks. >> he says the city needs to do more to keep the neighborhood clean. >> i need to see a plan from them, an urgency to make sure that there's not

reporting live, christy smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. a terrifying attack. a dublin woman told police that on entertaining night she woke up to a man touching her up appropriately. she screamed. he left. it's believed he got in through an unlocked back door. he was a trabz yent. they arrested him at the memorial park yesterday. four have been arrested in connection with a laptop robbery. police arrested these two men, 18-year-old and 24-year-old as well as two teenage girls. they all worked together, ran into the coffee shop, stole a laptop, jumped into the car. the get-away car ended up crashing nearby. the suspects hopped out, tried to escape. >> a recovery effort this morning at around 8:30 a coast guard helicopter crew discovered a body matching the description of the missing 24-year-old. a boat crew recovered the body, turned it over to the coroner. friends say the yuck woman went for a swim last night and never came pack. her name has not been released. >> fans are celebrating the first game at the new rp. we're live at chase center. how are the fans r

reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, christie. >>> just a shortwe had that pg&e news conference who said at some point winds were clocked at 70 miles an hour during part of the shutoff and they speculate this wind event could be the biggest they've seen in like 15 years. are we going to see those same kind of winds or even higher? >> i think sunday it is possible we could get the 60 to 70 mile-per-hour raining in the higher elevations. the word of warning for everybodyll r there as well. so we are looking at a wind event as we move through this weekend. that's why that fire spread so fast. we had those 60-plus mile-per-hour winds right near the geysers and it raced this fire really, really close here towards geyserville. good news, wind has dropped down to 15 to 20 miles per hour. another check on this but it's hot. 90 degrees, humidity at 10%. warm tomorrow, 93. then once again the wind event coming our way by sunday. i want to take it out to the other issue that we are following. it's this next effect that we are now just waiting on. we have all

reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> christie, thank you very much. >>> pg&e says it is monitoring the potential for increased fire danger later this week or next week i should say. so far they have not ordered any power shut-offs as we had last week but that might change. you are talking maybe mid week it's going to get kind of bad. >> that's right. right now high pressure will begin to build starting with the warmup as erlas tomorrow. but it is heading into wednesday night where the concern really kicks in. here's what we know as of now for next week. dry, offshore northeasterly winds. wednesday night gusts 10 to 25 miles per hour but right now with the highest gusts according to the models 2:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. upwards of 40 miles per hour which means fire warnings are likely. this is worthy of mention if you're heading out to southern california or you have family in southern california. there is a red flag warning for the ventura hills, the mountains and the l.a. mountains through tomorrow. the reason is they have relatively low humidity tonight and a

reporting live in san jose, christie smith nbc bay area news. >> hopefully she is found thank you. >> the case is now closed even though know cause found in a massive construction site fire in the south bay. you may remember this happened in june when the site burst in flames near scott's blchd in el camino real in santa cla. nearby residents forced to evacuate. hours ago firefighters say the cause is undetermined. investigators thought construction work inside the building could be the cause but no conclusive information could be found. foul play not suspected. >>> a bay area convicted in the college admissions cheating scandal sentenced today and becomes the first person to avoid jail time. peter jan ton sonar to mental o park. admitted to paying $15,000 to rig his daut's sat in 2007. today sentenced to 250 hours of community service, probation, with a $9,000 fine. his attorneys argued for leniency because he is genuinely rest mothersful and the first parent to plead guilty. one of 25 poirnts pleading guilty including desperate housewives star. felicity huffman. he lones a food comp

another community where they're watching and waiting, hillsburg, that's where we find christie smith. she is there. what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: terry, we stopped here on chalk hill road because this is where some of the air attack was happening just five, ten minutes ago. i checked my google map. there was a small pond just on the other side of the hills there. we saw helicopters going in, picking up water, and what they were doing was heading over to this end where there is smoke. and they were doing multiple drops. in fact, we lost count of how many. they just took off and started heading a little bit north of first responders go lights ande speaking with you, we'll go ahead and eout. teionf windsor. and i have to tell you we couldn't even get through. there were flames on the side of the road and smoke very, very thick. so, this is kind of the situation that we're dealing with. i have to say the one bright spot in all of this, we have seen firefighters doing quite a bit of structure protection where we've been today at least in this area we have not seen homes burne

nbc bay area christy smith spoke with businesses and she joins us with more on what they had to say andy are preparing. >> reporter: business ordinary reason and prudence on this street have been busy all afternoon juggling their workers schedule and even their products trying to get information on when pg&e might cut the power and it hasn't been easy. >> we'll open tomorrow as usual. as soon as the power goes out, we'll close. we'll take care of our k customers. >> reporter: they told one employee not to come in. sunday is typically a busy day but he thinks they might not open. >> starting them at 2:00, working their way down south to get to us by possibly 7:00, possibly 10:00. it sounds like no later than 10:00 when the wind really picks up but it could be earlier. >> reporter: next door at sip and scoop the ordinary reason is ma -- owner is nak making plans for her shop. >> the frustrating part is how much work will it take to take the precautions to keep my products in good standing so.net have a huge loss. >> reporter: under a thousands customers in brent wood may lose power. >> an

reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> so much focus in the bay area, but the epicenter was near santa cruz. tonight a moment of silence in santa cruz at 5:04 p.m.ment it changed that city radically. downtown's historic pacific garden mall was levelled and across the county about 4,000 people could not stay in their homes on this night and subsequent nights. power was out for days and much of the area had no water. rebuilding santa cruz continues all these years later. >>> there's also concern for inmates. today mayor breed said all inmates will be moved out of san francisco's jail within two years because it's not earthquake safe. mayor breed called it an inhumane facility. the new building with house court, the d.a.'s office, and rehab programs. inmates will move by 2021. just a couple years from now. where they'll go hasn't been determined yet. the inmates could be moved out of the county to neighboring jails. >>> san francisco mayor breed joins students for the great california shake out earthquake drill earlier today. >> stop, drop, and cover. >> o

christy smith explains. >> in 2017 i left when it was voluntary evacuation. >> reporter: mary beth took no chance in the atlas fire. you can see the burn hills from her property. she's trying to take more steps to protect her home from wildfires. >> it's really dry. so how do we keep anything coming through from getting up to the house? >> reporter: the green valley highlands area has hill side homes with large lots. >> some of the questions she had today about to best reduce fire risk in areas like this and even about evacuation routes were addressed today by first responders. >> the hill side furns to the west that burden almost two years ago -- >> reporter: cal fire came to talk fire preparedness. >> it allows them access to get grant funds to prevent in the event of a catastrophic wildfire. >> i don't think i was prepared. >> reporter: mary beth says if there is a next time she'll be prepared. >> what to do with the trees large or small, what to do with the limbs. >>> a drone played a vital role in a police search in santa rosa this weekend. a man confronted two men spraying gan rel

. >> reporter: in san francisco christy smith, nbc bay area news. >>> a part of highway 12 in fairfield was briefly closed because of a brush fire. these pictures show the fairfield fire department fighting that blaze. happened around 3:40 this afternoon at red top road near the highway 80 on-ramp. it took crews about 20 minutes to knock out those flames. >>> an electrical tower could be the ignition point of a fire. a husband and wife said they'd just finished their nightly prayer when they looked out the window and saw flames at the base of a tall electrical transmission tower. minutes later surveillance video captured the husband running from his backyard to the front as those winds shifted. firefighters also unprepared for that running away from the wall of flames. arson investigators now looking to the nearby transmission tower. the fire 42% contained. so far 8,000 acres have burned. several homes are damaged or destroyed. >> a few small earthquakes through the south bay this afternoon. it was a magnitude 2.9 off highway 101 down near morgan hill. two hours after that an after shoc

smith, nbc bay area news. >> that'sious mind blowing. okay, thank you christie. tense moments at a school in vacaville. a woman tried to kidnap a boy. this is the accused woman pl aileen he grabbed the hand of a 4-year-old appear asked if he was ready to go to school. she called the boy brine pretended to be his teacher and started walking away. the father tomd police his son's name isn't brine and doesn't go to the skoom. he quickly took the boy from the woman and called police. police rushed to the school and arrested her. >>. >>> for the second day santa clara workers are walking picket lients. >> do you stand up for the most vulnerable children in our community? >> yes, we do. >> congressman row chan an to support the striking members of the seiu members. they say the centerens of the strike the primary reason is because they want more money is what president county says. >> their pack on on the table is two to three times as much as we can afford. >> the county has 12,000 employees but view you fewer than 300 picket at a time so county services are available. >> okay. better bring the student id g

linford christie was the last briton to win a global sprint title until now. dina has just told me it still doesn't feel real. dina asher—smitht favourite. she had claimed championships are unpredictable but for dina asher—smith, this final was as close to a shoo—in as a medal could be. a force to be reckoned with regardless, but with all her major rivals out, the 100 metres silver medallist was left as the sharpest and fastest woman in town. she has got to control into the home straight. it is dina asher—smith. and with her trademark brilliant bend, she left the rest for dust. the gold medal! it is dina asher—smith! she is the champion! and this was the moment it started to sink in. dina has done it! britain had never before had a female global sprint gold medallist but it is amazing how quickly things can change. very quickly, if you are dina. a cuddle from mum and the tears flowed. you're the favourite or whatever but you've still got to go and do it, you're only the favourite if you perform how everybody expects you to, you know? i wasjust really focused on putting together a good race. i dreamt of this but now it's real.

linford christie was the last briton to win a global sprint title until now. dina has just told me it still doesn't feel real. dina asher—smith