you can see the train this is where mount diablo state park is an you concede it's a mountainous region with lots of trees, lots of dry grass. it's burning a hundred three degrees of their fire fighters have their work cut out for them we sort of check of what sort of equipment they're throwing at this thing. we've learned that they've got to helicopters, 48 air tankers, so lot of equipment, a lot of manpower being thrown at this. so that this doesn't threaten any homes. at first we heard of may be threatening homes but last word as you can see it's pretty desolate out here. not of a lot of homes nothing is written at this point and they're hoping the no more homes will be threatened. last were todd you were in the 2460 here you conceal the thick smoke we see now where are you. >> i'm coming up the ganesha valley road raised by the hospital and you can see over the hills a lot of thick, brown smoke coming over. it looks like vandals san ramon area is getting hit pretty hard there. >> this has been burning for people who live in this area these are live pictures of smoke coming from cree

road and mount diablo state park. firefighters are battling the flames right now from the air and out on the ground. they are working on a rural area, and the high heat is a factor in fighting this fire. ken mcgeaver joins us now. ken, what can you tell us. >> hi. >> what's the latest on this fire, what can you tell us? >> it's about 150 acres at this time. it's still moving at a slow to moderate rate spread. we still consider structures threatened but no reports of any structures that have been damaged or destroyed. we're calling more resources in and basically the temperature is definitely we're talking close to three digits if not three digits and basically there's not a lot of wind at this time. >> we had talkedded to a woman just a few moments ago that lives on curry road, it's a one lane in each direction. a one road, what can you tell homeowners, people who live in that area about the fire, are any evacuations being called right now. are you advising people start packing their belongings, what advise would you

today, nine states were selected and california once again lost out. >> any student who fails the parkingperiod, must do what? >> reporter: $700 million would have gone to california schools had the golden state been selected for race to the top. >> obviously we're extremely disappointed that we weren't one of the states selected in this round. >> reporter: san francisco's richard ranson says that it will be several weeks before san san francisco find out why california was not chosen. california federation of teachers vice president kathy campbell says race to the top provided very little money compared to the risk of significant penalties leveled on under performing schools. >> it involves firing the principal and half the staff. closing the school. >> reporter: campbell says far more important than millions of the dollars of race to the top is millions of the dollars at risk with the budget. teachers are wondering if they will get paid and school districts cannot plan for the year ahead. >> it's kind of like cooking without the cook book. you don't know what you're going to have at the

and making them a place in california. >> we look to the state parks to create opportunities for californians to get out and experience what makes this state so incredible. >> the nature end nspancrfne o proud partner oftate parks. visit nature.org/california. >>> a day before a major speech about iraq, the white house rushed to arrange a news conference on the economy. that last-minute meeting was brought on by congressional democrats facing reelection who says the president is not devoting enough time and energy to voters' number one concern. nbc bay area kristin dal gren reports from washington where they're calling on republicans to back one bill in particular. >> reporter: in his rose garden address, the president promised support for extending the middle class tax cut, then pushed congress to move on the small business aid bill which he says will help grow jobs. but republicans have called it mi misguided. >> this bull is fully paid for. it will not add to the deficit and there is no reason to block it besides pure partisan politics. >> but with many expecting the politics

for mount, mount diablo state park remains closed. officials will revisit that, tomorrow. >> thank you very much. and as you heard her say, triple digit temperatures for the second day, sandhya patel is here now with more. sandhya? >> temperatures reached 105 degrees. now, it's 103 degrees. humidity is dry there. 4%. winds out of the south to two miles per hour but remember, fires create their own wind. you saw wind blowing there in the live shot. we're expecting the winds to pick up today. in the evening, out of the west, 10-15 miles per hour, this western wind is a sea breeze, while it wring brings in cooler air and humidity goes up 20% to 40%, temperatures drop, coming down to 80s to 70s, bad thing is that winds owe co-help to spread fire. so we'll be watching this very carefully. we had records today, of course, triple digit heat inland again, today. we did see cooling around the coast and bay as we'd expected. everyone will cool off tomorrow, wile be back with records and temperatures in just a few minute autos thank you very muc

discovering about 2,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $5 million growing in a state park. police say illegal operations are on the rise in both state and public lands, secluded areas, which cover both the view and scent of the plants. >>> and for one ultimate beatles fan in pennsylvania, saving her concert ticket stub just wasn't enough. she got paul mccartney's autograph on her back and then had it tattooed. her checklist there apparently caught mccartney's eye at the philadelphia show, and by the end of the night, she had a permanent reminder of what she calls the best experience of her life. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. good morning. >> good morning. mccartney's got a nice signature. a lot better than mine. >> good reason to get a tattoo. >> let's talk about yesterday. we saw temperatures a little cooler in the texas area. the reason i'm bringing this up is because they had a streak going in dallas, where every single day this month they were 100 degrees plus. you kno

diablo state park. as the curry fire continues to burn nearby, robert is checking in on his neighbors. >> just checking that the cattle have water. they are all excited. >> reporter: he says their owner voluntarily evacuated her property on curry canyon road when the fire broke out late yesterday afternoon near mt. diablo state park. since then, hundreds of firefighters have been trucked in to get the 375-acre fire under control, moving from 50 to 80% containment overnight. >> the same vegetation that at 4:00 yesterday had a 5-foot flame on it once that humidity comes in now it's 1 foot to almost no flames. overnight it's one of our most effective times to contain a fire. >> reporter: robert says the fire was approaching his property. >> yeah. my house, those guys came up, they came up real quick like and saved everything. >> the problem areas for us right now are some steep canyons that the bulldozers weren't able to get into. >> reporter: so they are dropping water with helicopters and sending up hand

diablo state park. nbc bay area's christie smith live with the latest on. the firefighting efforts there. >> reporter: good morning. it's already pretty warm out here in contra costra county, but it's not windy and firefighters say that's a good thing. that has helped them to fight this fire. they tell me that in just a couple of hours, they're going to go back out and map this fire again and get some more updated information on exactly what it did overnight. but they tell me that it appears that this fire hasn't grown substantially. it's burning east of mt. diablo. this is near morgan territory road and curry canyon. and it's much cooler now, obviously, than it was yesterday afternoon, when this broke out. this is in a remote area, but it did initially threaten at least one or more homes, but at least 200 firefighters jumped on this immediately, as people who could see the large plume of smoke watched quite nervously. and they're not sure, this morning, firefighters, exactly how it started, but they're

and earth day in 1990, after i found out about the toxins out there at the state park. don't turn -- you can't turn it but do not accept not one inch of that ground that they're proposing to give to you. please don't. and you start investigating. and i remember you stated, mr. larry martin, i heard you on the radio, saying, what is the rush? why is this being rushed on us? and you didn't vote that day. thank god you didn't do it. and don't do it again. because i'm tired of saying the same thing. and you all are being snowballed into getting something done in san francisco that don't need to be. stop voting on things that's going to injure the people. i have not seen one commission er i'm talking about from city planning, p.u.c., the board of supervisors, look at the procedures that you're supposed to be looking at and you haven't did it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank god i got here just in time. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? ok. being none, item number four is closed. we are on item number five, wigs th

wildfire burni ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, diablo state park. we just got new figures in. cal fire says flames have now ripped through 375 acres. and . >>> we want to update you on the wild fire burning east of diablo park. flames have now ripped through 375 acres, up from 150 acres at 6:30 this evening, the fire is 50% contained right now. crews have saved 1 home and say that no other structures are threatened. firefighters plan to be on scene all night long and certainly well into tomorrow to make sure that that is out. >> it has been hot outside with the sun blaring in the bay area these days. you should be protecting your eyes. but not all sunglasses are the same protection. tonight's good question, how does pole a arrived sunglasses work. everybody loves sun glasses. >> i'll be back. >> we wear them because they make us look cool. we also wear shades so we can protect our eyes and improve our vision on bright sunny days. and a lot of folks wear polarized sunglasses. >> polarized sunglasses has specially lamb nateed surfaces containing vertically oriented stripes. >> re

diablo state park. so far, it is at least 50% contained. nbc bay area's christie smith is live this morning with the latest on the overnight efforts, and let's hope in those cooler temperatures they were able to make a little progress overnight. christie? >> reporter: good morning, bret. i can tell you it's already quite warm out here this morning. that has been helping firefighters overnight. what they're telling us, they're going to map this fire again at daybreak to get a better handle on exactly what it did overnight and what the plans are for today, but we can tell you that this fire was threatening at least one, possibly more rural homes here in the area of curry canyon and morgan territory east of mt. diablo, threatening but so far residents not packing up and evacuating. this was first reported yesterday around 4:00 in the afternoon in that blazing heat that we were dealing with. it was burning grass and oak trees. at least 200 firefighters out here from cal fire and surrounding fire districts h

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that's why we bought a subaru. sn >>> firefighters fully contain the wild fire near mount diablo state parkhis evening. the fire started tuesday. hot and dry conditions helped fueled the fire that for a time threatened two homes. two firefighters suffered minor injuries. the crews are expected to stay in the area till saturday. this was the scene yesterday. official says the outlook for fulcontainment is good, which is 76%. the fire started tuesday west of los angeles. the fire is no longer threatening structures. >>> the cooler weather conditions are going to help lessen the fire danger. looking at tomorrow, we are seeing fog into the bay shores. it's going to continue and spill inland. by 7:00 tomorrow morning we will see fog close to the coast line and drizzle there as well. the fog back to the coast at noon into the afternoon. we will see winds pick up in advance of cold air that's dropping down the coast line right now and heading towards the bay area. temperatures 82 tomorrow in our inland spots. tomorrow morning, fog blanketing the bay area early, 6:00. 8:00 pealing back, and then cl

near mount diablo state park fully contained today.his was from yesterday, three canyon road on the east side of mount diablo. with hot, dry conditions fuelled the blaze and threatened six homes. two firefighters had minor injuries and the cause is still under investigation. for the second day in a row, the extreme fire danger has prompted san jose to close this part. it is expected to reopen, tomorrow. park. >> new details as this massive egg recall, and even salmonella found in the food of the chicke the chicke chicken feed and consumers of egg have to different brand names to look for. >> here are the two different names released by the fda. cardenas and trafficanda you can find the entire list www.kron.com and the federal center for disease control that there could be 2430 illnesses. all of these came from two different forms and northern iowa. and neither has been visited by federal inspectors. the aide industry has fallen to the cracks. >> we think that this high risk facilities including these egg plans should be visited every 6

sweltering day on the battle lines against the wild fire in the remote canyons east of mount diablo state park. kron 4 christine conley is on the ground she joins us with the various latest details on the fire. >> the fire is burning in this hillside here it's about 6 mi. away from clayton which is the nearest town. that's good news because no homes are threatened at this point. let's go ahead and take a look at some of the latest data from hellfire. they say at this 0.3 under and 75 a. have burned, they have the fire 90 percent contained and have 200 firefighters on the scene. let's roll some video here will show you pictures of the fire. you can see a lot of smoldering hot spots like this but not any big flames. there's a lot of smoke in the thick vegetation which is off of clayton road. they've been able to use helicopters to dump water in the area which is so steep crews have had to pump the water up the hillside because it's too difficult for the trucks to get up in their road. they've also had to deal with all hundred + temperatures things like rattlesnakes and tarantulas. this is the bi

is there going to be money, our state parks going to be open, money for education? hat does this say about the state of california, where i believe the largest union is not the teachers' association, but the correctional officers association? what does that say about a society? when people find out about that, they are stunned. but that is the reality. that is what is playing on people's minds, fear, prejudice, ignorance. >> this also points to the fact of what we have to do in each individual case. that is what you're up against. and when you are in trial, the priority is your client, which is different from broadcast journalism, television drum up. -- drama. >> but you cannot turn a blind eye to it. >> that question is deeply troubling when you look at certain cases. there are certain cases where it is a no-win situation. the robert blake case, when jerry managed to do was truly a lesson for trial lawyers across the board. the casey anthony case, now in florida. you have to think to yourself, how does she win a case like that? any casewh/vñ that received nationwide

officials took this video of the twister near the state park on the big island.ush fire charred 1300 acres since sunday. police arrested a man on suspicion of starting the fire. >>> here we are kicking off the weekend of the two days they are distinctly different. >> sunday is going to be the nicer day. i was looking a at the video of the fire turnout. that's like the dust devil. so let's go outside. temperatures outside are on the cool side. the winds are up a little bit. temperatures are trending down. look at the highs from today. just note highs tomorrow are coming off five degrees. fog and low clouds, it will break. clearing tomorrow. this is a fall weather pattern this weekend because of the low pressure center. much cooler especially in the valley. sacramento 7el 8 degrees. 75 degrees. red inc. 72 degrees instead of 102. cooler everywhere. the entire northern portion of the state. temperatures in weekend are mostfully the 60s and 70s. sundays the warmest day on the weekend. the chance of showers you will see them coming in behind me, not a big deal. this s

fire near mount diablo state park will be fully contained tonight. last report, it was 90 percent contained in this started on tuesday. near carrkerry canyon road, and dry hot conditions with high wind fuelled the fire and six homes were at risk. >> this was also closed with extreme fire cautioned at risk. >> golden gate park, and officials want this to stop. and daniel villareal park officials are doing about it. >> this young redwood tree is just one of the victims that this has been hacked to down to nothing. several of these trees have been handled and golden gate park, this has been yanked out and left to die. gardeners have been out, to replant and even that is a cost to the city. >> a lot of money, it costs the city a lot of money. to replace those. and just to nurture them, take care of them. >> these for eight years old and because of the damage will not be able to grow properly. this is what i would look like if they were left alone. >> the most victim was the rose garden. the vandals hacked down these to nearly nothing. hopefully these wil

it's a pretty vast area by state park, between danville and livermore.al fire, contra costa county fire arlen scene. we have air tankers that are coming in and at this time there's no evacuations, there no homes at risk it's just a pure wild land fire and there just trying get a hand on it. >> this is largely a wooded area off with we'll brush, how far away our homes? >> at this point it's quite a distance from homes are structures of this point we just want to keep it in the remote area away from homes. >> this book was the one driving in the area was the effect on traffic? >> i don't have the information at this point but i do know of the smoke is heavy in the area were asking people to try and stave the area keep the roads open for emergency personnel and if you see an emergency personnel pull over the side so we can get out to the scene as quickly as possible >> your 100 a. now what you looking at here in terms of getting this container controlled. >> this pointer to where best to get it done we have resources in the air and on the ground to really g