the victim and his girlfriend were visiting from austria and were hiking from donner summit to squawfield. the man was hiking ahead of the group when they heard a large crack and saw a flash...and that's when the man was hit. a cal-fire helicopter was called to rescue him. he suffered major burns throughout his body. authorities say, it is important to check the weather prior to hiking in the mountains. if lightening is expected, you should stay off the granite boulders and peaks... since you have a high probability of being hit by lightening. ( mark ) happening today... it is the 101st birthday of the national park services. and to celebrate national parks all across the country are offering free admissions. that includes muir woods as well as yosemite. the free admission is only for today. (darya) coming up on the kron four morning news... the big fight before the fight. we will take you to detroit for the base brawl then vegas for the boxing. and we will see what kevin durant has to say about some fans behaving badly. and something something disgusting he would do because he loves

.>>> a man from austria is recovering after being hit by lightning near donner summit. mathias steinhuber was on a hiking trip with two others on the pacific crest trail when a lightning storm moved through tuesday and a bolt of lightning went through his body knocking him down and exiting through his foot. he was in such a remote location the chp had to rescue him by helicopter.>> it was an amazing amount of power, it burns close and knocks them out of their shoes.>> he suffered burns and hearing damage and is currently recovering at uc davis. >>> a rare sighting, >> i've seen a harbor seal. >> we talked to experts about what's sending these creatures into other waterways. n:3:3:3 >>> oakland may see an increase in number of mammals in the city's lakes. two daughters were recently seen . river otters are not unusual but a harbor seal is.>> christina rendon tells us some find us exciting.>>reporter: if you stroll in oakland you might see more than ducks.>> i thought it was trash. as we got closer, we saw its eyes and nose. it was just skimming. >>reporter: she took this

. >> go check with alpine, donner, carson as well.ere set in prior to this. >> donner got canceled. >> everything has to be done before we can even -- >> hey, the longer we take doing this, the longer we take -- >>> next on "lockup," the search for missing inmates hits the streets. >> it's a very, very serious deal. >> and the search for dee dee's file hits a wall. >> like a domino effect. it's just getting worse and worse and worse. >>> after a phone call from a local citizen about a possible escaped inmate, the c.o.s of san quentin have snapped into action. >> take your ass upstairs. >> inside the prison, all inmates have been locked up and the officers have done a prison-wide recount. prison officials have also been dispatched to canvass the area around san quentin. >> it's possible that the citizen saw what they saw, could have maybe been two teenagers or something that live on grounds, prison grounds that were hopping the fence and a citizen passing by thought it was worth calling us, probably better safe than sorry. we're going

(pam) a hiker is recovering after being struck by lightning near donner sommit.e) this happened on the summit of tinkers knob on tuesday afternoon. the victim and his girlfriend were visiting from austria and were hiking from donner summit to squaw valley with a friend from fairfield. the man was hiking ahead of the group when they heard a large crack and saw a flash...and that's when the man was struck.(pam) take a look at the damage to the man's shoe. a cal-fire helicopter was called to rescue him. he suffered major burns throughout his body. authorities say, it is important to check the weather prior to hiking in the mountains. if lightening is expected, you should stay off the granite boulders and peaks... since you have a high probability of being hit by lightening. (steve) turning now to our four zone forecast kron-4's chief meteorologist brittney shipp is here with a look at the warmer weather heading our way a building ridge of high pressure will lead to a substantialwarming trend especially for locations away from the coast.widespread upper 80s to lower

the donner party was a group of immigrants who set up from independence, missouri took the california cutoff, were partway up the sierra nevada mountains when a very, very severe blizzard snowed them in. they weren't capable of going forward any further, but neither could they get down the mountains because the snow was too thick, many of them died, and the survivors ate the bodies of their relatives who died in order to survive. and news of this traveled quickly, and those who go over the donner route, you still take this way, they knew this is the kind of territory they were crossing. and so, very, very rapidly, between the first discovers between early 1848 and early 1849, thousands of people poured into this area, the area of sacramento and the migration carried on for the next five or six years. here's the thing that's easy to forget. it was only in 1848 that california became part of the republic. most americans didn't know where it was. and suddenly it becomes part of america. and then this gold had been discovered. how galling for the mexicans, they hadn't known that they were

also at donner and north shore they had some and i think we will see that happening again so watch out in the sierra. watch out some of these collapse and see this moisture streaming back toward us from modesto and eastern santa clara county and the contra costa county along with solano county as well. this entire mess will filter over us today. the best scenario is to get some breaks in the clouds to allow the lift to develop. but lake havasu and over the palm springs, it is lit up for this time of the morning. the muggy and humid conditions are in place with the possibility of isolated showers and i would think later today we get more heat and later tomorrow. today is focused to the south and east tomorrow to the north but through the next two days before cooler weather. we also have fog with thick fog at the golden gate dancing around. we have a combination of a few things today. >> what about water temperatures? >> going up to 58 to 60. >> that is balmy. you make to put your light wetsuit on. >>> it is 4:52 am. >>> why not try another professional sport, and steph curry playing in

to her right is daniel donner. daniel is from portland, oregon. and dan, dan's focus is maps, charts, and graphs of all kinds. dan just loves to visualize the data. dan has been working on a lot of visualizations of the special elections we have seen since trump was elected where democrats have been far outperforming all of the trends. we will talk about that later today. finally david jarman, who is an instructional designer from seattle, washington. david has been working with the daily kos election team since 2008. among his many specialties, he loves to take deep dives into demographic big pictures and in particular, he has been looking at the role education plays in defining the electorate in 2016 and what that will mean going forward. so that is enough from us. now we will turn it over to you. we have a microphone here. if you cannot get to the microphone, it is fine. just stand up and speak loudly. i will repeat the questions for the audience on the livestream. >> i have a question about the topic. i am ashamed i do not look up very much or

tourist is being recovered after being struck by lightning in the sierras tuesday after afternoon near donner's summit. the man sustained major burns all over his body. this is a picture of one of his shoes. a chp helicopter took him to the uc davis burn center for treatment. the good news is he is expected to survive. >> that is good. time to check on our weather. we are getting close to the weekend. >> i don't want to talk about it. sandy putell is here with the forecast. >> yes, we are getting closer to the weekend and we're seeing changes underway. this is from our explore torrium camera and the it marine layer tried to make its way across the bay this afternoon, into the early evening hours and then it began to compress. so it hasn't gone very far. as a matter of fact, it is primarily limited to the coastline as you check out live doppler 7 and a few patches near the bay. this marine layer compressing is a sign that things are going to be heating up in the bay area. here's a live look from our south beach camera and you can see a beautiful view as we look owards san francisco. your tempera

he was hit by lightning on tuesday near donner summit.he area was a remote, a chp helicopter had to rescue him. he was on a hiking trip with his girlfriend and another person. the lightning went through his body and out through his left foot. his clothing was singed. there was a hole in his shoe. >> that's a crazy story but i think he's going to be okay. what a story. >>> let's check in with sal for traffic this morning. we've talked about noticing more cars on the roadway early. ben sometimes on friday it's a little lighter. this morning on the freeways in san jose he will start there. it's a little lighter on northbound 280 up to highway 17. you can see a live picture here. traffic is moving well into the valley. traffic continues to look good into san jose. here is a map of the freeway system. it is a little lighter at 6:15 pm -- 6:15 am. on 10th street at east allman avenue in san jose, a single car accident that has flipped upside down. we are not sure of the extent of the injuries or how many were inside but a police investigation i

on the north shore it went around donner with moisture streaming off the central sierra and coming back addis toward merced and in parts of the santa clara valley and east bay. that is the source of the cloud cover and down to the south we have that tropical moisture pumping in from southern california. a lot of this is dragging northward toward us. today and tomorrow we will have this circulation of this high pressure system. i think i will go down to palm springs but it is raining. a lot of cloud cover today so look for cloudy to mostly cloudy today. isolated thundershowers possible later and more toward san jose, santa clara valley and the santa cruz mountains today. i won't pinpoint it. by tonight and tomorrow it will begin drifting northward. we actually have some decent parameters for convection but not until later today. today and tomorrow a lot of clouds with isolated dry lightning but we don't want that. cooler weather taking his into the weekend and next week looks average which i have not said much.>>> it is 5:19 am. >>> it looks like a burger, cooks like a burger but not gro

to her right is daniel donner. he is from portland, oregon. is maps, charts, and graphs of all kinds. he likes to visualize the data. he has been working on the visualizations of the special election we have seen since trump was elected where democrats have been outperforming trends. i am sure he will want to talk about it later today. finally, david german is an instructional designer from seattle, washington. with the been working team since 2008. among his many specialties, he loves to take deep dives into -- he is looking at the role education plays in defining the electorate in 2016 and what it will mean going forward. that is enough for us. we will turn it over to you your it looks like have a microphone here. if you cannot get up, it is fine. just stand up and speak loudly. i will repeat the questions. >> i wanted to ask a question on a topic -- i am ashamed i do not look up very much or look up. omaha, what happened to the candidate in omaha? what happened? >> the question is about the election in omaha. i presume you are talking about

before, i was working in donner section. >> when we first met c.o.nmates and it's only me. it's like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if you're always watching, you can tell when something's starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of drugs down here. partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm about three days ago. so you got the drugs, you got the inmate-manufactured alcohol, you got the gangs, you got the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. i got to do three searches a day. so we just pick them randomly. this guy i haven't did yet since i been down here so it's his lucky day. i'm going to get this guy, get him to unlock his locker. >> okay, you guys got me in trouble. >> go ahead and unlock your locker, man. >> lock it? >> unlock it. >> my locker's unlocked. >> that's yours right there? >> no. >> is he around? >> no. can i move something out of mine real

mountain, lightning and thunder, brown lake tahoe, donner lake, that's occurring now. can put that in motion and you can see the last six hours, it starts to build up around 4:00. and then boom, boom, boom. and that is atypical for this time of year, the monsoonal moisture is typical to see as we head in the month of august and in to september. the moisture from the gulf of mexico gets pulled north. and it's, you know, back to school. it's that time of year and things are starting to change now in to a fall pattern. couple indications of that. 78 fairfield. 75 concord. temperatures a little cooler than yesterday. the overall it's flat. and you know what, tomorrow, just like today. not a big change. there's that fog out there. now, some clearing in oakland, a little too late, too little too late for those wanting to view the eclipse. breeze out there. tomorrow will be a lot like today. but the trend this week will be for a bit of a warm up. we'll stair step up, quality will go down. in the meantime, your forecast. this is for tuesday, your forecast highs, winds are 90.

the last question which was asked in the press conference and asked by our field producer, jason donnernstructed him how to phrase the question. this is what we have heard. here's the question he asked. we have heard from a senior law enforcement officer that in a briefing conducted here for law enforcement friday night or saturday morning that officers were instructed to make no arrests without the explicit approval of the charlottesville mayor. our law enforcement source said he was outraged by that instruction. you heard that question posed to the police chief. he said in response to it, and i'm paraphrasing here, he said i would like to know who that source is because it's fundamentally not true. it's categorically not true. he denied it. so we have a conflict of opinion here. i can say having been in emancipation park from early on that morning that what i saw with my own two eyes confirmed what this law enforcement source told us. it leads to all visible appearances. we saw people coming out of the park with head wounds, bleeding from the head. we saw people walking into the park

the victim and his girlfriend were visiting from austria and were hiking from donner summit to squawey with a friend from fairfield. the man was hiking ahead of the group when they heard a large crack and saw a flash...and that's when the man was hit. a cal-fire helicopter was called to rescue him. he suffered major burns throughout his body. authorities say, it is important to check the weather prior to hiking in the mountains. if lightening is expected, you should stay off the granite boulders and peaks... since you have a high probability of being hit by lightening. ( mark ) happening today... it is the 101st birthday of the national park services. and to celebrate national parks all across the country are offering free admissions. that includes muir woods as well as yosemite. the free admission is only for today. ( tiffany ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... the bay area is bracing for two white nationalist rallies and counter protests. i will show you what the cities are doing to prepare for possible violence.( dave ) your bay area forecast is next. (dave)turning it up f

. >>> a story of survival up next, the wild story one hiker lived to tell while hiking near donner summit> things are looking really warm into the weekend but we will have fog. >>> mountain view police are investigating a crash that injured three people yesterday afternoon. three cars were involved, one woman suffered major injuries and two others were treated for minor injuries. investigators believe the crash may be dui related. >>> a man in southern california got very lucky after he fell out of his boat near long beach. the small boat was seen going in circles yesterday off the coast of long beach with no one on board. the boater was seen treading water five miles off the coast. the coast guard was able to pull them to safety. he says he hit a wave and fell off the boat that is when he used his flip-flops to tread water for 20 minutes. >>> a man from austria is recovering at uc davis medical center after being hit by lightning. the area was so remote a chp helicopter had to rescue him. he was hiking when the lightning hit him and exited his left foot. >>> city officials in oroville se