we'll give it to groves. groves ran with the ball. he never wanted to bother secretary marshal -- secretary simpson or general marshal. the only went to them only had he had to get something -- he had to get something to break the logjam or to get this and to get that. so he visited their office very infrequently. and they just let him run with it. and the whole country was run -- the whole war was run this way. the degree to which -- we live in such a changed situation where, you know, everybody's looking over everybody's shoulder here. the press knew nothing about. this the congress knew nothing about this. to go back to the question about whether we could replicate it, i get asked this question all the time. i don't think it can be done again. it was highly secret. there was unlimited money. and, you know, there's a sentence that one of groves' classmates made that overwhelms me. he says no person ever had as much power as groves. you know, he is talking about eisenhower marshal, anybody else? i mean the core of that question is so

we can hear from o the restaurant. >> because you are both defending the appeal by the grove residence and filed your own appeal you have 14 minutes. >> thank you to the board of appeals for hearing our appeal today, i'm george angle architect i've been engaged by the restaurant to assist in the progressing of the permit for the outdoor seats if i may i'm going to paraphrase some of the things i'm assuming you read the appellants brief but basically, i have an additional document that i thought to share that i can give you now. >> preferring show should is on the overhead. >> shall i put it here. >> face up. >> face up? let me see how this does - see how that does it didn't read that well but we'll make due >> when i first went and combroersz the outdoor seating i went to the planning department and spoke with a planner originally the restaurant approached me saying they wanted to have outdoor seats outside of their existing covered patio it is in fact mechanics garage that was converted when the garage carriers are opened it is the nomenclature it stuck for the time being but basicall

she had her funeral there in spiegel grove. she was laid out in the front hallway, and thousands of people came through. one of the great stories of her funeral was as the procession went back behind the home and past the fenced-in area where the cows were assembled, they lined up like soldiers, they said, and gave her a salute as she left. susan swain: for her love of animals. i want to go back to that photograph that we just saw in the video of lucy hayes in her post-white house years with the pigeons. thomas culbertson: yes, they had those holes drilled in the steps right outside their bedroom, which must have been pretty annoying, or perhaps they got up early in the day, but she fed them daily and went out and milked the cows, gathered the eggs, churned the butter. susan swain: did the president share her love of animals or did he tolerate lucy's love of them? thomas culbertson: rutherford did not love as much, but he was an avid horseman, as was she. susan swain: and how long did he live after her death? thomas culbertson:

. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is tina a resident on the 13 hundred block of grove between broadway wick a nature san franciscan my family's lives in the neighborhood since 1959 in the neighborhood for 44 years almost my entire life i'm a circumstantial mom and my daughter is here in college and another daughter in high school i've seen many changes that have occurred in the neighborhood as time going on we have to expect change will happen when the construction began i thought it would be a good change for the neighborhood i was wrong i've seen that space from a mechanic shop to bars and stools shop and a pawnshop but never since i've been living in that neighborhood has our particular block by invaded by the noise from those businesses my apartment is a facade of the building my bedroom and living room my children are studying and kids they'll have final examines what have you it effects my children's ability to containment trait if i'm looking to the sounds for music it filters through i've scompland and gone down in person 6 times from january of this year i more recent

just to remind you one of the areas frovnt the garage has a flat fronting the routine e restaurant on grove street one it makes the presence of outdoor seating for comfortable and two as an architect has done a lot of public accommodations retail stores accessibility plays that factor and the facilitation is important for restaurant restaurants are target for litigation cases for excessive ability issues i want to point out i don't know if it read well, the grades in front of the garage doors is within somewhere around 20 percent of the maximum grade i can have assessable use of public areas areas the scope in front of the the restaurant along grove street are significantly steeper while it didn't impede the eye by tables it presents a challenge in terms of people with disabilities enjoying the outdoor seats and the obvious concern with controlling the patrons of the restaurant the observance vicarious connection between the restaurant which has staff members and the virtual connection to the outdoor seating makes that a logical blast for outdoor seating we understanding the impact i'll let

street not divisadero street as pointed out that is far down into grove street this building used as changed it used to be a garage and store those operations shut down added 5:00 p.m. we have to adjust to the fact they use the garage for a restaurant but at least it is tucked inside the patio to the noise is at least inside that can have earn if you move it on the street it will radiate more you can hear from the 28 people that sent in opposition to the original permit as well as us we're pass national trying to maintain some quiet enjoyment of our neighborhood so you know, i ask that you do not allow those tables outside right next door to my bedroom window. >> any other public comment? >> my name is fernando i'm san francisco residents for over thirty years went to school here i own the building with my wife next door to the restaurant and while we welcome on divisadero is terrific we're patrons there but we're concerned with the noise and this is on its way to becoming the french quarter the building was - and that's concerning to us as owners of a place next to the restaurant we

i've been to spiegel grove many, many times. how many descendants does president hayes have living right now? i got to meet a lot of them several years ago when they were at a gathering in spiegel grove. thank you. susan swain: thanks so much. he wasn't listening earlier, i think, when -- thomas culbertson: well, we have more than 100 in our database, so -- susan swain: are any of them in politics? thomas culbertson: there aren't any at the national level. there is a mayor in california republican and a woman. susan swain: and we've been looking at quotes from lucy, but let's show you a quote from rutherford hayes, the president, about lucy, who said of her, "i don't know how much influence mrs. hayes has with congress but she has great influence with me." what was her approach like? some of the first ladies actually would sit in the

in front of the the restaurant along grove street are significantly steeper impede the eye by tables it presents a challenge in terms of people with disabilities enjoying the outdoor seats and the obvious concern with controlling the patrons of the restaurant the observance vicarious connection between the restaurant which has staff members and the virtual connection to the outdoor seating makes that a logical blast for outdoor seating we understanding the impact i'll let the owner speak to that and talk here but i don't believe that the noise factor is mitigate by pushing the tables a few feats away 9 residents explained that as well i think i can understand why they want the one thing they wanted from the beginning i wondered if we didn't sort of had the other tables how it flushed out so that's really the long and short of it i think it is the issue of the grade being flat in front of the of the restaurant i know that the dpw actually stated in their brief the grade is consistent along grove street and mapped out the grade in front of of of the restaurant i can demonstrate that is

sixty-seven in willow grove and in pottstown at this hour. here's is what happening on storm scan three nothing. clear skies. you can see a full moon which is call a blue moon, second full moon that we are dealing with this month. that makes it a blue moon. it happens every two or three years. the front is off shore keeping it nice and dry finishing off workweek and head in the weekend. breaking down temperatures hour by hour mid 70's through 8:00. by 11:00 we are dealing with temperatures in the mid 80's, by two 88 degrees, a

arve we had a quarter million dollar of vandalism inflicted on the grove. we came together and continued to work and look at the future and how we continue to take the foundation of that relationship. what it does is highlight a couple things called out in the plan and hope the commission will look at. first and formost we have the crown jewel of park systems in the country, but if we don't create a space in which the visitors and tor rks ist can am and be assure td is safe and secure, they are not worth having. i can personally say i feel the investment in our park patrol and park ranger system is inadequately fundsed. we have billions of dollars of infruc structureture unprotected so i hope you'll look seriously at that. i avail myself to work with phil and other park partners to replicate what it means for the sit zin tooz get vaufed. it is easy to look at the government to say fix it do it, make it. on behalf of the grove board of director i encourage the commission to not only approve the plan but work with it going forward. thank you >> thank you >> m

he'll talk about how groves took the -- made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. and yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. >> boomer:. we -- bomb. we have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. set the stage. >> thank you cindy. is this microphone on? way in the back? well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. i think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the manhattan project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and we're still living with today. we're talking about compartmentalization, which was the bedrock way that he organized things. you only needed to know what you needed to know and nothing else. so that kept everyone limited to a certain spot. and i characterized it as a kind of pyramid. it was down at the bottom people hardly knew what they

you're at speed and don't have anything to worry about. 270 at shady grove road. remember we had that nasty day on 270 northbound through germantown yesterday. everything cleared out of the way from that situation here this morning. and again, this is the one thing that's still sticking around naylor road between branch and good hope. back in ten minutes. weather and traffic on the 1s, see you at 5:21. >>> new poll about same-sex marriage is out this morning. but even though it's now legal does the public support it? >>> it is a historic day. getting under way right here in the u.s. as well as in cuba. what we can expect in the day ahead as the two countries open embassies. 5:10. >>> new details about an explosion that sent thee people to the hospital in ohio. we have some pictures we want to show you now. jagged pieces of shrapnel flying into cars and into homes and into people. three people hurt because of this. it's some sort of makeshift cannon that someone brought to a cookout of all places and it exploded into a pipe bomb. so far, no one has been charged but

one day a man approached him and offered to buy a part of the grove. >> i said what are you going to do with it? he says i'm going time-share it. i said what's that. he explain the concept to me. i fell in love with the concept. i didn't sell the property and i decided to do it myself. >> did you know what a time-share was at that time. >> no, sir no. i built 16 villas in the back of the orange grove. >> those 16 villas turned into the largest time-share company in the world. two decades later his time-share empire was still standing n. 2004, david and his wife jackie decided to take on another project, building themselves the largest home in america: most people would say why? why? >> why build this home or -- >> why build this home -- i don't think 24e8d call it a home. >> it's really a palace, right? >> why build this palace? >> we wanted a large home. we were planning on maybe a 15,000 square foot but by the time on paper that i got what i wanted like a huge ballroom and we started having more kids and we needed extra bedrooms, it just became the largest home in america. we weren

chopper 4 eastbound shady grove road. at crabbs branch way, we're shut down.ll the vehicles kind of turning around. penn line south 511 slow here. and then penn line 16 minutes behind. northbound looking slow as well. 35 minutes. 66 inbound getting close to 17 minutes southbound and beltway going to take eye 17 minutes remember to listen to wtop 105 fm when you hop in the car. >>> it is a story that seems like from a hollywood blockbuster. someone hacking a car and taking control. it's not that far-fetched. >> reporter: live on the scene of a police-involved shooting. the suspect's vehicle still behind me. iran keeps their nuclear facilities. military sites can go uninspected. restrictions end after 10 years. then iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. iran has violated 20 international agreements and is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. >>> breaking news at 6:45. road, closed in northwest d.c. right now. >> d.c. police are investigating a shooting on the george washington university campus. and we learned an officer fired the gun. news4's mole

sixty-seven in willow grove and in pottstown at this hour. here's is what happening on storm scan three, nothing. clear skies. you can see a full moon which is call a blue moon, second full moon that we are dealing with this month. that makes it a blue moon. it happens every two or three years. the front is off shore, keeping it nice and dry finishing off workweek and head in the weekend. breaking down temperatures hour by hour mid 70's through 8:00. by 11:00 we are dealing with temperatures in the mid 80's, by two, 88 degrees, a and at 5:00 should reach daytime high of 90 degrees for philadelphia in the sunshine at the shore looking good, and nice off shore win. 84 degrees. poconos nice and comfortable. sunshine. eighty-two. we will talk about hotter temperatures in the weekend. we will show thaw in a few minutes but first lets check on the roads with meisha, good morning. >> good morning, to all of you at home. we know it will be warm but who can complain about that sunshine especially on a friday. here's the platt bridge we are looking at

westbound construction on the turnpike approaching willow grove. delaware memorial bridge construction southbound has wrapped up. we don't expect the huge delays we've seen the last couple of mornings. edgemore road is closed by 495 for on going construction use 12 street to get to 49 instead. the ben franklin bridge shows that on going westbound construction, but no delays just yet on this friday morning tam. >> thank you matt. we're starting with developing news, a mother was found shot to death in her own home and her 2-year-old was home at the time of the crime. eva pilgrim is live on the 3000 block of aramingo avenue in port richmond where this all took place. >> reporter: good morning, tam a young mother was found murdered in her home in port richmond. her 2-year-old daughter was home at the time. now, police are searching for the shooter. a single shot rang out around 11:20 on aramingo avenue. >> neighbors heard one loud bang. they want to investigate and they found a 22-year-old mother dead shot once in the head up in the bedroom along with

in pens grove salem county, 130 both ways, construction blocking a lane until 6:00.e memorial bridge, construction blocks one lane there, david murphy. >> reporter: ms always gave me trouble, too. we're showing sunshine coming up over the horizon shortly. we'll have clouds mixing at times. a warm summer afternoon 81 degrees by noon. high 85 degrees by 3:00 p.m. 83 by 6:00 p.m. comfortable not as breezy as yesterday. checking the situation across the country we have a fairly big ribbon of potentially severe weather from atlanta to florida over toward the coral -- carolinas toward the coast and across the country into the dakotas did you're flying into these spots you may have a problem in particular. in our part of the country there's no problems. >> teenagers are having less sex. the report of cdc show decades of educating teens on preventing pregnancy is paying off. teenage sexual activity has dropped by 14% in girls and # #% in boys -- 22% in boys, and high percentage using contraception. >> what's in your almond milk and steaks from the dollar store, here's more i

i want to take you to shady grove road at crabs branch way.have what appears to be a dump truck versus an suv. that accident blocking the eastbound side of shady grove road. so commuters heading out in that direction will need to use some caution. police are on the scene. not sure of any injuries at this point. we did see at least one ambulance that was there but not sure if anyone was taken or taken to the hospital. of course, once we get more information on that we'll be sure to send it along you to. if you're going to be traveling inbound on i-66 expect volume as you approach fairfax. we're starting to see a lot of it build up mainly in the centreville area but nothing major to slow you down. just volume as you approach the capital beltway. another update we'll have now coming up in roughly ten minutes. over to you. >>> sharknado three is coming to your living room tonight. sounds almost like a threat. whale that type of shark a-- while that type of shark attack may not be a threat, we >>> they say -- [indiscernible] -- the shark attacks we

and single-tracking between shady grove and twinbrook. a nice rolling shot of the beltway here headed up to the american legion bridge. no problems there. quantico to the beltway 26 minutes. 66 inbound to the beltway, 13 minutes. taking a look at 270 no issues. top of the beltway looking quite good. remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car. >>> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured okay? >> those words triggering a lot of backlash for donald trump this morning. what he is saying about the reaction. >>> developing story out of california. severe weather has left a busy interstate closed a >>> right now, a new era for u.s.-cuban relations is unfolding on embassy row in northwest washington as they re-establish diplomatic ties for first time in decades. >> a big day there. >>> it is one of many stories with we're working on to get you up to the minute. the minute you're up. we begin though with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with what you need to know about t

work krause still out here on the pennsylvania turnpike near willow grove. there is a work crew between the bristol interchange and the philly bensalem interchange. and there is also a crew working here as i mentioned near willow grove and again at ft. washington. all of the bridges looking fine and mass transit no delays. chris, back over to you. >> bob kelly thank you will, sir. 4:20, authorities in texas release more footage of sandra bland during three days in jail. now the video shows bland arriving at the jail, being questioned making phonecalls, getting her mugshot taken and then sleeping in her cell. now, she appears calm except for when she is on the phone. video does not have audio. county officials say that they want to dispel and show sandra bland was alive and well. >> the reason we are doing this is because of the mis-information that's been put out both through social media and even through main stream media that has led to the rumors that sandra bland was in some way deceased or harmed or not well when she was brought in to the walter county

least two urgent care locations in pennsylvania including reading and scranton and another in willow grove was shut you down today. we are live now at the facility tonight with more on that. >> reporter: monica dea agents showed up at 11:30 this morning, they were turning away patients and employees throughout the day, they connected of boxes of evidence and left little more than this sign advising the office is now closed. agents spend the afternoon packing and carrying out dozens of boxes from advanced urgent care in winfield. vest getters from the dea and department of health and human services raided seven of the centers toe including this facility in willow grove the sign said the office was closed because of electrical issues but the feds are looking into whether the centers illegally sold prescriptions. at the center on roosevelt boulevard you can see dea boxes trod be filled with evidence, and they raid the the urgent care in scranton today too the main doctor was taken into custody by dea agents and employees were questioned. and now patients of advanced urge an care will have to

to i am not from van ness to grove street to get the parking and if you eliminate those left turns is the reason i bring that up i'm seeing the environmental impact report it is not accurate i'm barely making minimum wage as a caregiver mile minimum wage has dropped that's on a good night thank god for pride sunday was the best sunday in 7 or 8 years the point i'm trying to make the gridlock by eliminating those left turns and i don't know if the eir addressed that very well and if i had a lawyer i would challenge that in court considering the data has changed over the last two years with the influx of tmcs from outlying barrier cities that help to treating create this gridlock make my warning and let me tell you i told you so later. >> members of the board. >> sienna motion from the board. >> motioning move to approve>> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> >> ms. bloomer. >> presentation and possible action regarding the f i quality group and directors this is the last item on your agenda today. >> all right tom nolan aim the chief informational officer this the the first time for the quali

thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music they hear it. i walked into the meadow several times and they don't even care. we do have literally events going on day and night. the concert association has kids days during the week. the performers come out for hundred 200 kids. now, the truckadero truck house gets rented out for weddings and retirement. the croquet clubs and horse shoes. 2 play grounds, tennis courts. we have from 25 to a hundred dogs here. it's like bisons going across the mid west. there are so many dogs they are covering the ground cht it's a get together. all the dog walkers know each other. if you go to pine lake day camp now, you will see 50 kids there. the rec directors are wonder. >> the pine lake is natural. they take of the area around the lake. they plant natives that are drou

it extends into pitts grove. so don't be surprised if you run into some flooded roads to start with this morning. this area is to be avoided at this hour. there's more on the way, scattered showers at 10:00. look at the heavy down pours in central delaware and jersey. the storm threat in they of noon and into emergency emergency. heavy showers just outside the trenton at that hour. we could see storms pop up this afternoon in the reading and allentown area. that's 2:00 this afternoon. enough breaks in the cloud cover to give us temperatures in the upper 80s today. today is not the only day you'll see the strong storms develop. neighborhood by neighborhood forecast, 70s with the pocono mountains, occasional showers for reading, allentown and quakertown. we've seen rainfall with the possibility of thunderstorms for cape may and delaware beaches. rehoboth, up to 83. look at dover, 88 degrees as we break out into sunshine this afternoon while philadelphia and swedesboro top out at 86 degrees. the seven-day forecast t

. >>> well, an unusual protest to save a grove of trees. a group of environmentalists gathered with plans to strip naked to save hundreds of eucalpytus trees in the oakland hills. the city plans to clear cut them to protect the area from fire. they insist the eucalpytus are tire resistant and cutting them down will make the area more vulnerable. >>> saving the dwindling population of pond turtles got a big boost today. dozens were reintroduced to mountain lake and presidio today. each has a tiny transmitter to track their movements and help measure their stress levels. >> it is possible we can restore areas and put them back the way they should be and provide homes for these animals that are not doing well in the wild. >> they are the only fresh water aquatic turtles native to northern california. >>> first place for zero effort. why a bay area neighborhood is celebrating its ugly yard. and mud slides and lightning closed beaches and stranded hikers. the california hot spot for wild weather. >> out the door tomorrow, a few clouds around the

thousands of miles away, in elk grove, the same battle flag came down at this gun shop. only here, owners didn't do it willingly. >> i took it down because of safety reasons. >> reporter: jacob of wild bill's said he removed the flag after receiving death threats. a sign hanging next to the american flag out front points the finger at liberals. >> a lot of them were just watch the building, it's going to come down. take that flag down. you guys are racist. you guys are intolerant. >> reporter: this was the scene at his shop last week angry protestors demanding the shop remove the flag. it was displayed after the massacre of nine black people at a south carolina church last month. >> there is no room for that here. >> reporter: the founder of the group, insight insight, says she is under attack, too. >> threats from across the country from groups like people that are affiliated with the kkk, or with the neo-nazi groups. >> reporter: she received harassing facebook message like this one relating, document a peaceful protest at -- do you want a peaceful protest at your job

looks neat but it's not very functional with a set of stairs and the fact they're using lines -- groves instead of the warning line it makes it very hard and yet a lot of architects still think that is okay. >> [inaudible] >> one of the -- this is commissioner dolim and the textbook and the examples that we all have in our career come up and i was trying to explain to a client with a strip mall and why they needed identification for the suites. we were arguing and no other way to see it and we're in a vacant suite. i can't afford this and i have to go to the bankruptcy judge and get money because the property was in foreclosure and this isn't going to help anybody and right then the door was swung open and a lady that was blind and threw the door open and said "is this the hair salon and i am late and is this suite 204" and like i prompted that but unfortunately it was really a situation -- >> you were talking about the signage. >> we were talking about the tactile signage that would identify the suites in a long door to different suites and low and behold the argument ended with the cl

also we have some construction, pennsylvania turnpike, in the westbound between bensalem and willow grovethe right and center lane is blocked. i will let you know when this clears. just use caution. give yourself some extra minutes. we were dealing with this yesterday and it did clear in the 5:00 o'clock hour. hopefully that is the case. for those who like hip-hop we have a jcole concert tonight. it starts at 6:30 susquehanna bank center so make sure to hit that up, i'm not going i will in the be there but let me necessity how it is on twitter. we will have phillies verse braves game at 7:05. nicole, over to you. >>> a worker at west chester university has come down with a case of legionnaires disease. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live at the school with how officials are taking action jan good morning. >> reporter: nicole, good morning. there are no students here at west chester university right now so risk for exposure is limited, and school officials have already brought in experts to deal with the contaminated areas what they are doing right now is monitoring these areas

we have construction on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound between bensalem and willow grove. right and center lanes block no major problems for mass transit but people will be calling ahead at the airport. >> absolutely, at least for now we have very heavy rain falling, one generally large cluster across the delaware valley. not everyone is getting hit but i have a a lot of reports who got woken up by these then are storms and letting us necessity on twitter. thank you for ground reports. we love to hear them from you. you can see how much lightening, but rainfall intensity coming with these storms thankfully, now are severe then are storm warning has since expired. so that is some good news. we will zero in on this we have seen not just the numerous lightening strikes in the last couple minutes but still that leading edge of wind driven heavy rain. do you see that pocket of red moving in bucks county that is where we have got very, very strong wind gusts and in combination with intense torrential downpours. so that is our biggest issue right new but still you'll see flashes

that's over 4 inches of rain that has fallen near pitts grove. that's up to this point and they have heavy rain on top of that right now. so we'll keep monitoring this and projecting where it's going to go with the rest of the seven-day in a few minutes. >>> let's hope things don't get this severe. at least one person was killed and 11 are still missing in flash flooding brought on by heavy rain in parts of kentucky. fast-moving water swept cars away. one was left damaging over a creek while others were partially submerged. >> lostwashed a lot of people's homes away and people, too. >> wind and rain brought down trees and damaged homes and cars there. flooding forced thousands of people to leave their homes. >>> heavy rain there pelting parts of indiana overnight. strong winds caused trees to topple over. at least 35,000 customers lost power as crews scrambled to fix downed power lines and repair traffic signals. and more severe weather is expected to roll through that area this afternoon. >>> it is 11:33. happening today, president obama will de

stern grove festival, a little cooler. 63. and a mix of sun and clouds. and boy, 19th avenue, from the construction, plus, the tern grove thing. the ocean temperature is 63 degrees. nasa little warmer than usual. so that is keeping things on the mild side. so tomorrow looks okay. the low pressure is then allowed to rebound by midweek. we have a distinct warming trend coming in wednesday and thursday. partly cloudy sunday, stratus quo through tuesday. a midweek warmup. let me just see if i can switch it over to the golden gate bridge camera through the magic of ... >> okay look at that! [ applause ] >> you will notice the traffic is coming in from marin to san francisco as, down to one lane. here is how we look for the travel weather forecast. if you are headed out of the bay area. 88, sacramento. 93 fresno. in lake tahoe, 73 degrees and 72 at yosemite. partly cloudy skies at eureka. here is how we look tomorrow. san francisco, right on average. 67 degrees. concord, cooler than average. oakland, about where we should be this time of the year, 72 degrees. d

the company okanagan specialty fruits would not reveal the exact location of the grove, but they did provide this footage. the apple is called the artic apple. the company also gave us this time lapse footage demonstrating the attributes of the fruit. the apple on the right has been genetically modified so despite the passage of time, it doesn't brown when it's been cut open. after 18 years of testing, the apple got the stamp of approval from the fda, usda and epa. >> are these apples safe to eat? >> yes they are safe to eat. they've been rigorously tested by fda, really to a fault. >> the apple was created by engineering it's own dna so it produces less of an enzyme called ppo, which causes browning. by silencing or turning off genes that control production of ppo, scientists have essentially created a non-browning apple. sounds like a neat party trick but it could also help reduce food waste the big question is: will consumers bite? >> the arctic apple is important because it goes to the consumer rather than to the farmer. and i think this is the first wave of products that we'll s

. >> reporter: barbara comfort showed us her families' century-old olive grove now in the danger zone. she can't stand the thought of lutsing it. >> it's part of my heritage very important. i'm in great pain. we take good care of this grove, and i'm very proud of the oil it produces. >> reporter: we're back here live. you can see what things look like tonight. a lot of smoke, and it is black, but there are not any flames. i'll tell you, it is very hot out here. 106 degrees. of course also very dry. despite all this firefighters appear to have made a lot of progress today. reporting live in solano county jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> jodi thank you. >>> it seems like every day we have a new fire. this one, be an eight-acre brushfire in lafayette. you see the flames forcing one family out of its home. this was in the hills above highway 24 along deer valley road. it was contained in three hours. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, tracking temperatures. will firefighters see any relief any time soon? >> i think as we head throughout friday we'll have humidities