today in the bay )s thom jensen is there right now - getting the latest on this fire - he )ll join us live -- coming up at 5-30. happening today: firefighters join family and friends .. for a final farewell to the firefighter who died battling the ferguson fire near yosemite. the service will be held in modesto .. for 36-year-old braden varney. he died operating a bulldozer on the fire )s front lines. varney was married with two young children. the fire meanwhile is still burning mostly out of control. firefighters say it )s only abot 6-percent contained. it )s burned more than 32-thousand acres. u-s interior secretary ryan zinke visited the command center yesterday. more than 3-thousand firefighters are now working to battle the fire - which has been burning for 9 days. also today.... the )secretary of state ) and )secretary of defense ) will be on stanford )s campus. so will protesters. nbc bay area )s ansar hassan talked to them.... they say it )s an important opportunity... to make themselves heard. s1 snapchat loosing one of it features. the reason the new tool couldn t keep up w

nbc bay area )s thom jensen has the story. still to come. a band of brothers. after 50 years, three vietnam veterans meet again in the south bay. their emotional reunion.... that )s all thanks to technolog. plus. getting served-- by a waitress. a man was caught on camera groping her at work, and she didn )t respond with silenc. her reaction that )s going vira. ad lib wx tease reunion... more than 50 years in the making. three vietnam veterans reunited with their platoon sergeant in san jose today. nbc bay area )s laura sambol has their story. presidential citation for their actions. they plan to all get together again soon... they just haven )t set the date. new video tonight of a waitress... fighting back. you see in this surveillance footage the waitress standing at the counter of a georgia restaurant. that )s when the man in the red shirt and blue shorts walks behind her... and touches her backside. he tries to keep walking - but she didn )t let him. she pushed the man into a chair and yelled at him, then called police. officers arrived and arrested the man.

nbc bay area )s thom jensen is n pittsburg where the fireworks have been exploding through the night. thom? are cracking down on fireworks. historically -- san jose has been a problem. this is a live look. firefighters and police are out in full force. they )re also revising a tactic. the city of san jose has updated its illegal fireworks reporting page. you now have to attach videos or images to complaints. and you have to do it by sunday. there might be a lot of complaints. this is what skyranger saw late tonight. last year the city was sharply criticized for issuing 500- dollar fines to several people...but those people claim they never used illegal fireworks...and were wrongly targeted. ultimately -- with no actual evidence..the city canceled the fines. it was impressive ...this professional and legal fireworks show,not far from san jose international , did not disappoint. this was the view from discovery meadow courtesy of the rotary club of san jose. in an unusual move, the airport shut down its runways for half an hour tonight, from 9:30 to 10. the f-a-a... making sure legal sh

nbc bay area's thom jensen is live in the east bay. thom, some people there woke up to find a blanket of ashes on their cars and on their lawns. >> reporter: they did, anoushah. this air quality advisory, of course, is especially a concern for people with respiratory issues like asthma and emphysema. experts say the smoke could continue to push into the area through tomorrow. the orange sunset over the east bay is a telltale sign smoke is in the air. >> yeah, it's a concern, sure. >> reporter: a concern for this man that the smoke that he woke up to today will be back in the morning. the smoke was thick across parts of the bay area today. enough to blanket some east bay lawns and cars with ash. >> i just saw an ash come down almost like rain. >> reporter: always a worry for this woman and others who suffer from breathing problems like asthma. does it bother you? do you have any respiratory issues? >> yes, it bothers me, yeah. >> reporter: the bay area air quality management district warns anyone with respiratory issues should take speci

nbc bay area's thom jensen live at the airport with more details. thom? >> reporter: good evening, ayoushah. this is extremely unusual. you only see these sort of shutdowns after 9/11 we saw it, of course, then after earthquakes and during extreme weather events so really unusual, but wednesday night between 9:30 and 10:00, all arrivals or departures between that time will be closed down while there are fireworks in the air. the federal aviation h administration said the annual fireworks display at discovery meadows poses a danger to aircraft and wanted the city to move that show, but the city decided it has to stayut locati for people to use palamass tran and find parking. passengers told us they understand it's a delicate balance between patriotism and passenger safety. >> you got to support your country, obviously, so, but surely there's a better place you can do it than delaying a flight. it's a hard one. >> if it's a half hour, i don't see that seems like that big of a deal to me, i don't think it would bother me that much. safety first, right? >> re

th thom jensen today in the day. >>> this video is after the choice. it started at redwood city. it is about 1:40 in the morning. officers tried to pull over a woman driving a porsche. >> president trump raising to stakes. he wants his immigration reform bill passed. he is willing to shut down the gof. he said i would be willing to shut down the government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security which include it is wall. they democrats say republicans are the ones stopping reform. >> they want to stop a reform package. >> they told lawmakers he would ntd mind if it helped get a tough immigration deal. >>> mysteries still unsolved, no new answer on what happened to flight 370. that plane disappeared in march of 2014. in a nearly 500 page accident report investigators write the team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of mh 370. they say someone ma miplated controls. it doesn't rule out unlawful interference. 239 people vanished. >>> this is the closest mars has been close to earth in a decade. there will be a public viewing party with

thom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, thom. >>> speaking of the fires bringing the heat on for a lot of people, experiencing the heat in a different way. no relief really in sight for that warm weather out there. a live look at the golden gate bridge right now. we have been talking about it, kari. today's going to be a pleasant day some areas but a hot one in others. >> yeah. we can tell taking a look at the wind speeds and the wind direction that we are feeling most of our winds coming in from the north and we are, of course, watching around that area around altimate pass and winds light and then cool conditions for the coastline, half moon bay right now 63 degrees. but then you make your inland and hotter. as we go through the temperature trend for the rest of the day san jose will be at 87 degrees. that will be our high temperature for today right at about 3:00. and then as we go into the evening, the winds pick up and it will be very slow to cool down. we'll be in the low 70s by 9:00. and then look at how hot it's going to be in walnut creek. reaching the mid-90s there for

we're live in oakland, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> so tragic. so young. thank you, thom. >>> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo in the bay area this morning for a two-day summit with the australian counterpart. bob redell is live at stanford university. bob, did the secretary address president trump's latest tweet? i know it appears that he threatened a war with iran. >> reporter: no, he did not. did not take any questions in the brief appearance to the press this morning. good morning, marcus. there are a handful of people protesting the visit to the hoover institution, the building here on stanford campus. the video shot with him, 90 minutes when pompeo shook hands with the australian minister of foreign affairs julie bishop. this is the u.s.'s turn to host and chose this location. both will discuss trade with china and security in indo pacific region, especially coming to north korea and its nuclear weapons which australia is well within the range of. during the this brief photo-op, he was asked, secretary pompeo did not address president trump's late