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garvin thomas is here with what he's doing about it in tonight's "bay area proud." >> a student saide fell in love with geography in the second grade, there was something about it that fascinated him. he says it wasn't until he got a bit older that he understood that geography meant a lot more than just maps and globes. he'd love for everyone else to understand that, too. >> he says this is the category, the highest natural law. >> reporter: at san jose's bellerman college prep, mustn't service is a required part of the curriculum. everyone does it. but staff there say one student, arvin, has truly gone the extra mile. gone around the world, you could say. and he'd love to tell you about it. the geography of it, that is. >> geography's really a fundamental aspect of our day-to-day life. >> reporter: from migrants flooding into europe, to the drought in california, from relations with cuba, to business with china. you and really understand any of them, arvin believes, without understanding the geography surrounding them. and arvin thinks not enough kids do these days. >> so in the pub

garvin thomas has the story in this morning's bay area proud. >> steve always assumed his story would dying young. you'll understand why in a moment. but then a few years ago, his first child was born, steve decided he needed to write a different story. how he's doing it is our next bay area proud. >> everyone got snacks before we jump into it. a great conversation last week. >> as a youth pastor, steve is, as you can expect, a big believer in following god's plan. >> you kind of are in control of all those things. >> as for his doctor's plan, not always. >> because my doctors did say, hey, you should stop. >> stop doing triathlons is what they advised. steve should stop trying to push his body to its limits because he now has some unique limitations, namely not having a stomach. it was surgically removed last year. >> yeah. it was like changeing a story. >> that story starts when steve was a young boy. within the span of just a few years, he lost both his father and his sister to a rare form of stomach cancer, one that runs in the family but can't be detected until it's too late. >>

today in the bay's garvin thomas has today's bay area proud. >> shaughnessy mcgee could take up days telling you about the great things about frontier village. the stage coach, the gun fight, the antique car rides, but for the past two decades he's decided to show instead of tell. it's a show, it turns out, that's about to close. if shaughnessy mcgee ever builds a time machine -- >> this is one of the maps that they had. >> reporter: there are two things of which we are quite sure. first, is where he would go. >> the main entrance is here. >> reporter: second is that it would have to seat more than one. >> here i've got a replica of the silver dollar saloon. >> reporter: because what good is having a passion, shaughnessy believes, if you just keep it to yourself. >> the biggest thing is, i wanted to share it with people. yeah, it's my backyard, but i feel like a caretaker. i wanted to replicate the suspension bridge that they had, so i went ahead and made my own. >> reporter: what shaughnessy is caretaking are his and thousands of others childhood memories of frontier village. a san

nbc bay area's garvin thomas is here with this morning's bay proud. >> he could take up days tellingou about all the great things about frontier village, the stagecoach, the gunfights, the antique car rides. but for the past two decades he's decided to show instead of tell. it's a show it turns out that's about to close. if he ever builds a time machine, there are two things of which we are quite sure. first, is where he would go. second, is that it would have to seat more than one. >> here i've got a replica of the silver dollar saloon. >> reporter: because what good is having a passion if you just keep it to yourself? >> the biggest thing i wanted to share it with people. yeah, it's my backyard. but i feel like a caretaker. i wanted to replicate the suspension bridge that they had, so i went ahead and made my own. >> reporter: what he's care taking are his and thousands of others childhood memories of frontier village. san jose amusement park that closed in 1980. while he figures as a kid he visited fewer than ten times, it made a powerful impression. >> you know, i used to spend i

today in the bay's garvin thomas shows us what he's doing about it in this morning's "bay area proud.orter: arvin says he fell in love with geography in the second grade. there was just something about it that fascinated him. he says it wasn't until he got a bit older, though, he understood that geography meant a lot more than just maps and globes. he'd love for everyone else to understand that, too. >> he says this is the categorical imperative in the highest natural -- >> reporter: community service is a required part of the curriculum. everyone does it. but staff there say one student, arvin, has truly gone the extra mile. gone around the world, you could say. and he'd love to tell you about it. the geography of it, that is. >> geography is really a fundamental aspect of our day-to-day lives. >> reporter: from migrants flooding into europe to the drought in california, from relations with cuba to business with china, you can't really understand any of them, arvin believes, without understanding the geography surrounding them. and arvin thinks not enough kids do these days. >> so in

garvin thomas has what he's doing about it in this morning's bay area proud. >> he fell in love with geography in the second grade. there was just something about it that fascinated him. he says it wasn't until he got a bit older though he understood that geography meant a lot more than just maps and globes. he'd love for everyone else to understand that too. >> this is the category imperative is the highest natural law -- >> reporter: at san jose's community prep community service is a required part of curriculum. everyone does it. but staff there say one student, arvin, has truly gone the extra mile. gone around the world you could say. and he'd love to tell you about it. the geography of it that is. >> geography's really a fundamental aspect of our day-to-day lives. >> reporter: from migrants flooding into europe, to the drought in california, from relations with cuba to business with china, you can't really understand any of them, he believes, without understanding the geography surrounding them. and arvin thinks not enough kids do these days. >> so in the public school education

garvin thomas is here with bay area proud. >> he assumed his story would end with him dying young.ou'll understand why in a moment. but then a few years ago, his first child was born. steve decided he needed to write a different story. how is he doing it is tonight's "bay area proud." >> everyone has got their stacks before we jump into it tonight? great conversation in the last week. >> reporter: as a youth pastor, steve dang is, as you would expect, a big believer in following god's plan. >> you know, you kind of are in control of all those things. >> reporter: as for his doctors' plans, well, not always. >> my doctors did say, hey, like, you should stop. >> reporter: stop doing triathlons, is what they advised. steve should stop trying to push his body to its limits, because he now has some unique limitations. namely, not having a stomach. it was surgically removed last year. >> yeah. it was like changing a story. >> reporter: that story starts when steve was a young boy. within the span of just a few years, he lost both his father and his sister to a rare form of stomach cancer

garvin thomas is here with tonight's bay area proud and the man behind their success. >> about a decade ago brad blake sat in a room filled with richmond high school students. he asked how many wanted to go to college. he says about 30 raised their hands. he asked how many thought they would go. only two kept them up. it was a powerful moment that he has turned into a powerful response. there's a field, an empty lot really, that is about to be transformed by brad blake. >> it's going to have about 30,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, and services. >> reporter: it's not the first project this real estate t developer has overseen, it's not the only kind of thing brad has been involved in lately. that part of his story it turns out also starts with a field. the richmond high school soccer field, one night ten years ago. >> winter of 2005, monta vista high school played richmond high school in an ncs boys soccer playoff game. >> reporter: danville's monta vista, the underdog, won the match on what some called a fluke goal. the visiting fans knowing of richmond's tough reputation were w

. >> garvin thomas is here with the heartwarming story in tonight's bay area proud. >> santa clara count fire captain says medical privacy laws being what they are, he rarely knows what becomes of people he rescues once he drops them off at the hospital. they are left to wonder what becomes of the people they work on, often, but not always. you would think after 20 years on the job, fire captain brent would know a little bit about what to expect from a day's work. not so. no two calls, he says, are ever the same. some, though, are better. and more memorable than others. >> i have been on great calls i have been a part of. this cleary makes the top of my list. >> brent is talking about a call to a campbell home last september. working at the engine's paramedic that day, brent was rushed to a pregnant woman passed out. >> she was great. she was so pale, i couldn't believe it. i looked at her and i go, that lady is -- >> he correctly recognized it as a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. the baby, he knew, was lost, but the mom could be saved if his team got her to the hospital fast. >> once we wer

. >>> garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >>> garvin would love to hear from you, just go to our website area proud. >>> a silicon valley start-up just notched an out-of-the-world idea. >> nbc bay area has a first look at what it all means. >> remember the hoefr board? high magnetic fields can elevate us. now that company will work with nasa it to apply its technology to move satellites. >> you can imagine it interacting with another object, being can't to manipulate it, rotate it, push it or pull it. >> reporter: almost like a tractor beam, sort of. former nasa aerospace engineer can explain it better. >> right now you need propuls n propulsion. to do that you need fuel. that's a limited resource, and it's expensive to get that in space, whereas if you have our technology, it can convert solar energy into a force. >> reporter: saving fuel and thereby saving money, giving nasa more options when can comes to explore action. >> the coolest people in the world doing the coolest stuff in the world. it's a great honor to be working with this team. >> scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> i'm ju

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garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> if you know someone doing something nice for others garvin woulde to hear from you. go to our website nbcbayarea.com and search bay area proud. >>> well, a human problem is effecting a sea otter. a 1-year-old otter from the seattle aquarium has asthma. she's learning to use an inhaler. experts say she's the first of her kind to be diagnosed with asthma. she started having trouble breathing from the smoke recent wildfires. experts say this could be a sign we need to take care of our environment. >> more and more there starts to be this concept of what we're calling one health, which is really there's a connection between the health of people and the health of other species. and that sometimes those species can be telling us that there's a problem in the environment. >> researchers say human cases of asthma are up about 25% over the last decade. and air quality could be to blame. >> just push their snoot up to get the inhaler. we'll be right back. look who's on the kiss cam. former president jimmy carter giving a big >>> well, look who's on the kiss

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> sometimes it's just the second that you're there. meteorologist kari hall is here with a look at the forecast. that is some hurricane. >> oh, my goodness. there's a lot going on as we look at this forecast. and of course this making big headlines for the east coast. hurricane joaquin. and it is a large storm. it continues to gain strength. now with wind speeds at 85 miles an hour. and the reason why it's making big headlines, because this could be heading directly for the new york city area and then farther off towards the mid-atlantic coast as a category one hurricane over the next few days. here in the bay area it has been so dry. and looking at the calendar i put a yellow box around the days that we were warmer than average and blues on days we were cooler than average. and you really can't tell just by looking at the map here, but on days when it was warmer than average, it was way above average by at least like ten degrees in some days. so when you average things out, we were over a degree warmer than the normal temperatures thr