. >> reporter: they're everywhere on oahu: on the roofs of businesses, libraries, and one house after another. the amount of rooftop solar now accounts for 12% of the electric utility's users. that's more than 20 times the national average. it's by far the highest penetration of individual rooftop solar in the country. but in this tropical state, where the combination of sky- high energy prices, abundant sunshine, and federal and state tax credits makes going solar a no-brainer, the very popularity of these panels has become a problem... >> so we drive up, and you have these lovely solar panels on your roof. how's that working out for you? >> it's not. >> reporter: not working out because by the time aircraft mechanic carlton ho joined the rooftop solar parade in september 2013, there were so many people in his area that had installed panels that the local utility company told him, "don't turn on that switch yet." so, it's just a question of turning the switch on and you have juice. >> yeah. >> reporter: from your own roof. >> and everything's awesome! [laughs] >> reporter: but it's n

kerry sanders, nbc news, oahu. >>> that will do it for us on this wednesday night. i'm lester holt.or all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. thatreang ws theasba weu >>> our break news in the east bay. you see the flames and snow. we first saw the pictures an hour ago and no sign that the flames are slowing down. >> it is black and it is smokey, and it can be seen for miles. we're talking about this brush fire that's in the livermore area and now moving towards tracy. it broke out around 3:00 this afternoon and it's burning on both sides and near cole hollow road east of livermore near tracy and then east and just south of 580. that's the direction that the wind is moving from here as well. now it's burned 500 acres and it is moving fast. the fire now burning near some structures that we've been able to show you from our live nbc bay area chopper. right now we're hearing from cal fire that the carnegie motorcycle party and motor mart in tracy has been evacuated as a precaution. that's a popular dirt bike park where people go to use their motorcycles. that area

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. >>> 35 feet down off the east end of oahu in hawaii. why are we here? well, look at that. it looks beautiful but actually that's a coral that's dying and they're trying to track them all over the world. it's an immense task. we'll have that story coming up on "today." now back to you. >>> in sports, twins, yankees back at i again. and he retired the first 13 batters he faced. and yankees down. alex rodriguez launches a ball deep to center for a grand slam. and yankees win it 8-4. and last night, they had 15, ending their six game losing streak. nats win big. and michael jordan returns to hitz court to testify over the use of his image. and he's suing a defunct grocery store chain for using his image without his permission. he says that his image has been meticulously protected so young people will know of his achievements. now they need to decide how much the owners should pay for the wrong doing. and sean mccoy hurt his hamstring. it's not looking good for the bills. in les than three weeks, all running backs have sustained injuries. we've seen j.j. watt jump, tackle and

likely some downpours, some rough surf, into thursday evening know oahu.rsday. future wind gusts mid-week 5:00 winds generally between 20 miles-per-hour and 30 miles-per-hour, and thursday morning, winds strengthen a bit between 30 and 40 miles-per-hour. as guillermo pulls away thursday and friday, the winds weaken but it will be a rainy and windy setup for hawai'i. tonight, upper 60s. highs for monday pretty nice day. sunshine in the afternoon. 68 san francisco. 70 oakland. 78, san jose, the accuweather seven-day forecast shows you we're nice tomorrow. through tuesday. the heat temporarily spikes wednesday to above normal on thursday, then all eyes are on saturday and sunday. we're looking nice and seasonal both days next weekend. >> well-time. thank you, drew. over to shu now. got some giants info? >> we got our first look at giants new pitcher mike lee today, and he pitched well. with only this mistake and was the difference. baseball is a cruel game. we'll show you why >>> yesterday in the giants cole hamels lane jerries debut and now texas looking for

by thursday, it looks like it will be in between maui and oha with you you had and -- oahu. if you are heading here, be prepared because it is still on track to move across the hawaii yub islands. it will be weakening as it does. that's good news. it will be weakening over the next few days. giving you a live look with the fog, the last three hours, it's peeled back. at this time hugging the coast. but the rest of us, mostly sunny. areas like suz, partly to mostly sunny. the onshore breeze continues. it's quite robust. travis reporting 30-mile-an- hour gusts. the cool pacific air continues to push into the inland communities. 76 right now in livermore. we have 77 in fairfield. widespread slow 7 o. mid- to upper 70s for napa. along the peninsula, upper 70s at this time. as we get into the second half of your day, notice the color coding on this very mild weather. 60s at the coast. upper 60s, low 70s around the bay. no red in the area. that means everybody gonna stay below 90 degrees even under mid- 80s for most of us. 85 for clearlake. 75 for san ralph fell today. to the east

. >> the coast guard immediately searched 40 miles off oahu shore to find three people and their dog on an orange lieft raft and the boat almost completely emerged. the people hosted on to a life raft. >> dottie fisher was sleeping when her normally standoffish yorky jumped on her lap and started judging her chest. she felt a pain in her arm and decided to go to the hospital. that's when doctors found a possible deadly blood clot. she needed surgery and she is now home with the hero dog. >> what a story. >> what a dog. >> look out for your monday motivator. in a similar topic he may be very sick but the 6-year-old still knows how to inspire. >> be brave, be positive, have a heart. go cats. >> look at that little guy and all of those big men applauding. that is bray lynn stepping in as head coach for the carolina panthers. he is a first grader he signed a one-day contract with the team for the make a wish foundation. he is under going treatment for cancer on his optic nerve. he took time to hang out with his favorite team. >> he also started a danceoff in front of more than 55,000 fan

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flash flood warnings are out for honolulu, oahu, including the big island.s is associated with an area of low pressure. that will be digging down off the coast. it might tap into some of that moisture. will it stay off the coast or swing inland? if it swings inland, there's a possibility of rain this weekend. we will get the clouds. they will start to roll in. right there, pretty good signature of cloudy skies. some of that rain might make it to mendocino county, lake county. too soon to say. it's possible unless that low stays off the coast which could happen as well. 60s, 70s, 80s, to a few upper 80s and low 90s. but temperatures only coming up a maybe a couple of degrees for the inland areas. coast and bay, those warm ocean temps have a lot to do with that. 80s through most of the interior, 60s, 70s, around the bay. it looks like a lot of cloud cover comes in. late thursday, friday and maybe some rain on the weekend to the north. >> for our friends and firefighters -- >> lake county could use a lot of rain. >>> speaking of firefighters, they are making pr

after that it takes a dive to the south, missing maui, kauai and oahu.tem is moving, takes that fog bank and gives us more than yesterday, that's for sure. low on its way out, allowing high pressure to kick in. 60s, 70s, 80s today, but then that high says i've been working out and i'm coming in and it's going to get hot for about two days and then starts to cool down. morning clouds, a little breeze once that fog bank burns off. a lot more fog than we had. 80s through the interior, upper 70s and with the warm ocean temps, pretty mild on the coast as well. temperatures there 70s to 80s. looks like temperatures have been kind of holding steady tore a few days. start a warmup on friday and then kick it into warmer gear on the weekend. >> we got it. >> you'll get it. >> we're gonna get it. >> that could be tough for fires. >> there has been good nurz on the jerusalem fire, 33% contained. >> but the weekend could be rough. >> yeah. >>> 6:52. convicted national security leaker chelsea manning facing indefinite solitary con phoenixment. the items that -- confin

we start to see an increase but a greater increase to the system that gave torrential rain to oahu. there might be more scattered showers but yesterday it was heavy duty rain. a lot of that moisture is moving north and look at this a bona fide cold front. low clouds sunshine and mild by the coast. 80s and 90s now through the inland areas and then 70s and 80s closer to the water. but we get a pretty good jump on the afternoon temps. remember still the weekend warmup here. 80s to low 90s for some. 70s on the coast. lots of sunshine. about the same tomorrow and then it looks like a lot of cloud cover on the way. we will cloud it up saturday and sunday. >> sunday looks cool and breezy. >>> the renovation of san francisco's dolores park may be suffering a set back. but first a problem potentially effecting tens of thousands of suvs. >>> safety regulators are investigating complaints from jeep owners after they had been put in park. the investigation covers 408,000 jeep grand cherokees from the 2014 and 2015 model years. the national highway traffic safety administration working complaint

they are, just south of maui and oahu, 29 celsius. they're very warm.ory 4 and category 3, that's kilo which was way west. a lot of this moisture will recurve back up as it goes north. the tracks, both of these look to be just north of the island. let's hope that maintains its course. have to keep an eye on the moisture. certainly very active. sunshine, nice to warm. 80s on the temps or 90s. 70s, closer to the water. maybe a few 60s but a lot of 70s and 80s to low 90s. not much change here over the next few days except a lean toward cooler as we head toward wednesday. then after that it looks like we'll rebound slowly and see temperatures getting back to near average, maybe slightly above as we head toward the weekend. but pretty quiet except for the cooling trend this first week in august coming up. >> that water temperature in the 80s, that's like bath water. >> that's about 5 degrees above normal. i saw a tweet i believe from a gentleman who said he studies the hawaiian islands, the warmest since 1948 i believe is what i saw. it's amazingly warm. >>>

from the big island all the way past honolulu and oahu here and kauai off to the west.storm packing a lot of rain. something we will watch for the middle part of the week. for us seeing closer to home. just a slight warm-up. you see it there at the bottom of the screen. nothing like the heat we saw last week but you will notice temperatures climbing inland especially for north bay and tri-valley locations and south of san jose. mid to upper 80s returning and closer to the 90 inland by thursday. take you through the wokrk week and temperatures below normal and numbers rebound for wednesday and thursday. san jose similar trend. and we will see temperatures at their warmest towards thursday and turning cooler towards friday and san francisco more or less missing out on this warm-up. you will see upper 60s. low 70s by thursday. but the real warm-up looks like for some of the interior valleys thursday. cooling friday into saturday and just in case you make weekend plans right now. sunday looking to be the warmer of the two days with 80s inland and temperatures overall this w

really parallel the island chain oahu on thursday. pick up rain showers a breeze. tropical storm watches out for hawaii and high surf advisory issued for the north and eastern shore of hawaii as the storm gets close but the main affect really stay north of the island chain fortunately. in the bay area upper 50's to low 60's. lots of cloud moving n.on tuesday includes early on sunshine in the afternoon 78 san jose. 77 sunny vaichlt 81 morgan hill. peninsula 66 pvbing cam. same in mount view. 74 in millbrae. downtown san francisco tomorrow afternoon sunshine skype downtown, skev 66 upset district. that the north bay 79 santa rosa. 78 nap a.we good to 70 sausalito. sniv vallejo. oakland tomorrow 7572 richmond up to 79 in fremont and inland we mainly in the 80's so we are cool for tuesday 80's so we are cool for tuesday. 82 pittsburgh. 91 river more. 80 in pleasanton and walnut creek up 81 degrees tomorrow with afternoon sunshine. here's the accu-weather 7 day sun and high cloud tomorrow. then we turn warmer wednesday especially into thursday wool back down friday into

but notice the cone is just touching maui oahu and kauai. possibility that if this tracks farther south and to the west, that it could make landfall in the islands so this will be watched very closely over the next 24 to 48 hours. now, here's a look at fog tracker for tomorrow. low clouds into the bay in the south bay. we should see clearing through about 9 to 10:00. and as a result of the fog and the low clouds in the morning we'll see another mild day with afternoon highs into the 70s bayside. oakland up to 76 degrees. close to 80 for the south bay and mid- to upper 80s for the inland valleys. victim. >>> police are looking for a missing person in pacifica. officers interviewed family members who said that they are mentally disabled -- their mentally disabled 18-year-old son walk away from their house on heather court. the person was last seen wearing bluejeans and a blue jacket. he is considered at risk. he is described as a 5'11", 170- pound filipino male. >>> a man who bought a california lottery ticket with money he just happened to fi

the 70-foot cat at a marran caused for help after the vessel started taking on water yesterday near oahuboat was singing so fast the people on board and the dog had to abandon ship and waited for help in life raft. the coast guard quickly through over rescued everybody from the water and flew them to dry land. nobody was seriously hurt. >>> the families of two florida boys who disappeared at sea say they've called off their search. the coast guard spent a full week looking for perry cohen and austin is he fan notice. 14-year-old boys were last seen on a fishing trip july 24th. the family called off the private search this weekend saying there was no new credible evidence or clues to guide the search. the family say they're starting a foundation in honor of the teens that they hope will promote youth boating education. >>> criticism tonight facing the governor of new york for the way he handled the legionnaires' outbreak. governor coup mow center about 150 state workers to test cooling towers on buildings across the bronx for legionella. that's the bacteria that causes legionnaires' disea

that is the system that produced the heavy rain over toward oahu. that is starting to get drawn up.t will make a move toward us but not until starting tomorrow and into friday. it looks cloudy friday. possibility of some rain sweeping in saturday. i think mendocino county and lake county north would be the line. we'll have a lot of cloud cover over us. and then the system rolls through on sunday. maybe our first fall like feel would be sunday or monday. low clouds sunny and warmer although many people says it feels like fall. clear lake 96. vacaville 96. 76 richmond but 97 brentwood. 96 antioch. 90 concord. 77 oakland. 97 for gilroy. morgan hill 94. ten better than san jose. 60 ann 70s -- 60s and 70s on the coast. warm to hot. maybe some rain to the north on saturday. much cooler an sunday. >> i agree with some of our viewers it feels like fall. especially at night. >> i would agree in the morning. even though it's getting near 90. the lows are getting down to 56, 57. >> that is when we have the nice warm, you to dress differently. layers. because it's cool and hot and then cool aga

. >> modjeska and his hercules c-130 are dispatched from barbara's point on hawaii's oahu island.rch-and-rescue plane is equipped with state-of-the-art cameras housed in this dome attached below the nose of the airplane. operators from inside the plane can zoom in and track vessels and planes for miles around. once modjeska reaches the distressed pilot, they are still 350 miles off the coast. >> we followed him for about an hour and a half. >> and it's still unclear if the cessna will make it to land. >> i did not think that he was going to make it based on what he was telling us with the amount of fuel that was in his tanks and the speed he was getting. i knew it was going to be close. >> after flying side by side for 90 minutes, it becomes obvious he's not going to make it. but will the pilot survive the crash into the open seas? >> it's a very dangerous scenario. luckily, his type of airplane is capable of flying very slow, it's very light, it really is the ideal type of airplane to ditch into the water. >> modjeska gives the cessna pilot instructions on how best to prepare to

this track might be changing a lot, especially oahu and kawhi. i have a family from kawhi and my sister was telling me the people are talking about this storm already, preparing, and they are checking each update from the hurricane center. >> real quick, what causes that big hook? >> that's a very good question. i was reading about that. there's an area of high pressure. you think of high pressure with a counterclockwise circulation. that storm is sneaking underneath that high, so it's being pushed around that high. what's going to happen, that high is going to weaken and that's responsible for the hook. as the high weakens, we're going to have general motion in this direction. that's what's forecasted to happen. it's a lot of domino effects. they need one thing to happen before another thing happens. >> all right. thanks for answering the question. let's get back locally. >> locally, we have lots of low clouds and fog to talk about. this is our bay point camera toward the marine layer, toward the west. lots of low clouds and fog out there right

we ran the 14th district on our island of oahu. i think, for me, i can't say there was a pattern. i just was alone for a long time in vietnam before i was married, reporting alone, and things kind of fell together. then i always kept working when i was married. i don't know how i did it. it wasn't really a conflict. it just kind of fell along, fell together as i went along. >> i think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. i knew i didn't want to be someone who went from one war to the next, and be kind of a war groupie. i couldn't make a life. i wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. and at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasn't sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that. but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time, and i travelled with a small group, all the way through the country. i was in saigon, and i did the memory walk of the places i had lived. i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me, i thought of my daug

we ran the 14th district on our island of oahu. i think, for me, i can't say there was a pattern. i just was alone for a long time in vietnam before i was married, reporting alone, and things kind of fell together. then i always kept working when i was married. i don't know how i did it. it wasn't really a conflict. it just kind of fell along, fell together as i went along. >> i think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. i knew i didn't want to be someone who went from one war to the next, and be kind of a war groupie. i couldn't make a life. i wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. and at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasn't sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that. but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time, and i travelled with a small group, all the way through the country. i was in saigon, and i did the memory walk of the places i had lived. i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me, i thought of my daug

it looks like maui, kauai and oahu are okay. the pacific has been bubbling ovaller.here are now signs of maybe two super typhoons flying here while the atlantic is absolutely quiet. nothing going on. that's a huge el nino signature. the key is one of these mate move north and recurve as it goes extra tropical. don't want to get too tropical. but ten, 15 days without could be it interesting developments. we'll see what happens. a long way out. there are hints of it. there's hints this one is moving today. as it does, that will give us a bigger fog bank, once it novs and -- moves and departs, high pressure in the desert southwest will kick in. it will warm things up. inland, 90s to 100s. won't last long because next week looks cooler but the next couple of days after today, we'll start a warmup. temperatures again, kind of held down a little bit today. they will start a bump up tomorrow and then a bigger jump on the weekend. looks hot. looks hot out there. >> we've been warned. >> thank you. >>> back-to-school day for a lot of children. students in three bay area distr

. >> oahu has a tropical storm watch and they may get some the effects going forward. >>> redwood cityalto 76. upper 60s to near 70 on the coast. cupertino 79. looks like 77 for mountain view and evergreen at about 80. i did talk about a little fluctuation in the seven-day forecast. yes, we get to friday and saturday. hope you have off and head to the beach. 90 expected by saturday and keep up. this is always at kron 4.com. >> thank you, dave of the. >>> oakland homeowner is getting called out by neighbors for wasting water during california's historic drought. >> stanley roberts went to the home for answers and what he saw was interesting. you are about to see it in this edition of people behaving badly. >> this is a mistake. i have had my gartner look at it twice. >> you will shoot it off for good now. >> it is shut off right now. >> this is the owner of the home in oakland hills. >> this is water spraying from the very same home. if you are thinking, stanley, you just showed us this. this is new video after they turned off the sprinklers. yes, the sprinklers were reactivated by the

we have a few days to worry about but right now it takes you through maui, oahu and oh akuaui.s something to watch. we have the onshore breeze and lower temperatures. a trough off the west coast is going to hang around the next couple of days. so for today, tomorrow and into tuesday the cooling trend is going to continue. tuesday is actually expected to be the coolest day. right now napa 62. 62 san francisco, 66 livermore. low 60s in hayward and mid-60s outside in san jose. for the afternoon today, beautiful in san rafael for the afternoon. 77, upper 60s for sausalito. if you're going to be hanging out by the water. 80 in sonoma. 80 santa rosa. a beautiful day for wine tasting in the napa valley. 74 san leandro. low to mid-80s for inland communities. a warm day but not too hot for the santa clara county fair in san jose. last day 79 degrees in afternoon. 82 morgan hill. upper 70s in santa cruz. peninsula, 78 redwood city, 73 san bruno. 67 in the city. low to mid-60s in the forecast along the coastline today though yesterday the coast cleared out and it was beautiful with 70s re

. >> the coast guard immediately searching 40 miles off of oahu shore to find three people and theirwere rescued. >>> it looks like opposites attracts when it comes to making friends. >> check it out. >> we're twins. there's a brand-new study that finds that relationship thrives because of personality differences. annex troe vert often needed an intro vert to balance things up. romantic relationships, couples should be similar, what do you think of that? those are your headlines. >>> thank you very much. so what does that mean? >> opposites attract. >> not really. but the ones that are going to work better friends. >> initial attraction, long term issue maybe. >> now, on a different note, as we talk about relationships, there's one thing that's pretty clear. frank gifford was one of the finest all around people you are ever going to meet who accomplished more in his life than most can only dream of. if you are a star football player with a movie star good looks that's usually enough, he went on to be an incredible sports caster, not only that, he went on to be a play by play guy, no