45 warehouse sitting right near some legendary restaurants. Incredible videos flooding social media showing the intense earlymorning scene. You see some of them here. The flames were so intense the, the first fire truck to arrive was scorched, had to be taken out of service. Crews attacked the fire from the ground and from the bay. This dramatic new video tonight shows the st. Francis fire boat dousing the flames. The goal, to protect the historic ss Jeremiah Obrien. Take a look at this map. You can see where the obrien is docked at pier 45. Flames came dangerously close to the ship. Fortunately it was spared. That fire has but some Business Owners at pier 45 in a difficult situation on what normally would be a busy Holiday Weekend for them. Nbc bay areas jackie ward reports. Reporter one hit after another. Thats how some businesses feel here at pier 45 while others are feeling nothing but gratitude. Someone mentioned that if the wind was blowing the other way, our building would probably be gone. Reporter with a thumbs up and a smile of relief on his face, dan zelinsky, owner of the beloved Musee Mecanique is a bit overwhelmed by todays events. Ive had so much feedback and calls and texted from people all over the country just worried and concerned. Its heartwrenching. Reporter zelinskys dad started this collection of antiques in 1933. The arcade is home to hundreds of pieces, some dating back to the late 1,800s. Theres so much nostalgia and childhood memories, not to mention the potential of new childhood memories that hopefully will come forth in the future. Reporter other surrounding businesses werent as luckyfutu this is just another big curveball we all have to deal with in the food industry. Reporter many were concerned about when they could get back to work and if they had power. Red and white fleet says all its vessels are safe and its box Office Remains fully intact, but theyre still grappling with a huge loss. We were closed on march 16th by the order. We had to lay off most of our staff afterwards and now this. Reporter every Business Owner i spoke to tonight had nothing but praise for the San FranciscoFire Department and did an amazing job saving all that they did. In San Francisco, jackie ward, nbc bay area news. Jackie is talking about the firefighters. They were facing a very dangerous situation as they first got onscene. Take a listen to this. Weve got heavy fire on the back of the pier. Is in danger. We want to get the water pipes back up here. The whole back of the building is going and the roof. You heard it. Such an incredible effort to save the obrien. Firefighters say without the use of fire boat 3, the historic ship would have likely been destroyed. The obriens captain talked to nbc bay area about its lucky legacy. The Jeremiah Obrien has been known as the lucky ship, one of the last liberty ships around. She survived the north atlantic and dday, and this incredible fire. Three Museum Volunteers were aboard the ss Jeremiah Obrien when the flames started. A dramatic awakening but they evacuated safely. Weve been covering this story since it broke very early this morning. Were going to continue to bring you any updates as they develop. Be sure to head to nbcbayarea. Com for the very latest information. Lets take you out right now live to the bay bridge. Gorgeous night out there. Sunny, breezy today in most parts of the bay area. The heat, though, about to really kick it into high gear. Rob mayeda joining us now for an update on that. Hey, rob. Yeah, and emphasizing high gear for sure. As we look at temperatures outside right now or even into tomorrow morning, they will be comfortably cool outside. As you see, weve got 50s and 60s across the board around the bay area. Though as we head towards tomorrow morning, we will see things start to change as the morning transitions to a progressively warmer day tomorrow. Hottest spots tomorrow will approach 90, but beyond that, temperatures really start to climb. Were talking numbers close to 100 degrees in the valleys, even bayside locations. San francisco and oakland could see mid to upper 80s. So the excessive heat watch, which begins memorial day monday, takes us all the way through thursday. Does include San Francisco, oakland, the inner east bay, all of the interior valleys. Its only just along the coast. Half moon bay and pacifica will not be under that heat watch. Coming up, when we and those es temperatures to arrive and other changes that could come our way coming up in about ten minutes. A lot of red on that map. Thanks very much. Now to our coronavirus coverage. Many headed outside today. The weathers so nice. Its a big concern this memorial day weekend. Will people in the bay area and across the country continue to keep their physical distance . Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro reports from fremont. Reporter from santa cruz to fremont to San Francisco, thousands of mass visitors headed outside today with some covid19 restrictions eased, more businesses reopened and parks opening gates, many consider this first day of the memorial day weekend a big test. Will people stay safe and socially distant . At Coyote Hills Regional Park in fremont, it was so crowded, the parking lot filled up and then closed. A huge crowd. Its like the normal day. Reporter this man and his family are going for a bike ride and adhering toci signs. But 8yearold kaden was not too happy about one of the requirements. I dont want to wear this mask. Reporter lured by great weather, many were happy to leave the homes theyve been holed up in for more than two months and embrace nature. But because of covid19 concerns, there are still a lot of things you cant do. No picnicking, no barbecuing, no swimming. Those are things that are typical for memorial day weekend. But this year, its a little bit different. We need folks to be good park visitors. Reporter at dolores park in San Francisco, it was just as tough to find a social distancing circle on the lawn as it was a parking spot. And in santa cruz, even though the beaches are only open before 11 00 and after 5 00, that didnt stop hundreds of people from running and walking on the beach. Unfortunately not everyone was aware of the limited hours. We actually are staying in San Francisco, and so we were like, oh, well come down to the warmer beaches, but all of them are closed. Reporter changing tim outdo. But for most, the change of scenery is worth it. I like not being in my room, i guess. Reporter you can see this electronic billboard reminding people to wear a mask. Today the east bay Regional Park district did not issue any citations. Instead, a Spokesman Says rangers really just want to educate people about the importance of following the covid19 guidelines. In fremont, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Governor newsoms ban on inperson Church Services is being upheld by the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. The case was brought by a San Diego Church that claimed the order violated constitutional standards. Hundreds of pastors vowed to hold inperson services next weekend, but tonight signs of cooperation from at least some church leaders. The bishops of the e piece cowco copal die cease released a statement saying, for now we will not gather in our Church Buildings but will continue to attend church virtually in our homes, gree homes. Covid19 cases on the rise tonight in the bay area. San mateo county reporting 50 new cases since yesterday. Thats the most out of any county. Santa clara county, San Francisco county each reporting 30 new cases. In total, the bay area now has more than 12,000 cases. 425 people have died. President trumps push to reopen america took a personal twist today. He spent the day at one of his private clubs, golfing for the First Time Since march. He returned to golf amid the pandemic. Mirrors his sentiments for the country to accelerate its reopening. Mr. Trump played at his branded property in suburban virginia, a region dr. Deborah birx says has the nations highest rate of positive cases. She recommends people stay aware and vigilant. You can all make your decisions about going outside and social distancing, potentially playing golf if youre very careful and you dont touch the flags. Across the country, teeing off is taking off with the number of open courses steadily rising. Thats according to the National Golf foundation. Its one of the few sports that comes with low risk and a lot of builtin social distance. Simple and powerful. This is what tomorrows New York Times front page will look like. Theres no story written, just names of 1,000 people who have died from the virus in the united states. The very first name on that list, Patricia Dowd of san jose. The 57yearold is believed to be the first u. S. Death linked to the virus. The times dedicating a full page as a tribute to the ones we have lost. The 1,000 names represents 1 of the nearly 100,000 deaths in america. New at 11 00, a san leandro woman was arrested this weekend for allegedly leaving racist letters at several homes. One homeowner showed officers footage from his video camera. Police say 52yearold nancy ar chi ga was leaving messages with various sensitive comments towards minorities. She was arrested and then due to the current state bail schedule, she was cited and released from custody. We are back in 60 seconds with a new global coronavirus concern. The one place in the world that so many are now paying attention to. And back to school taking on a very different meaning these days. What it could look like when campuses do reopen. Well show you next. [music] [music] strong Public Schools make a better california for all of us. The World Health Organization now says brazil and other south american countries are the new epicenter of the coronavirus. The transmission rate in brazil skyrocketing with 20,000 new cases per day. Some doctors believe the true number could be 15 times higher than that. I think its possible. 15 times higher . Yes, because many people, they are not symptomatic. At least 30 Million People in brazil live in impoverished neighborhoods where social distancing and handwashing are not common. Across the world, parents and students are wondering how kids will go back to school during the pandemic. Earlier this week, some schools in marin county reopened classes, but only for a select group of special education students. They did so with strict social distancing rules. Tonight we look at classrooms and the challenges of making schools safe again for our children. Heres nbcs kerry sanders. Reporter kids still stand in hallways in elementary school. How many . 160 in this case. Social distancing, 44. 25 only. Where are we going to put those other kids . Reporter Kamala Patton is the superintendent in collier county, florida. Her district, the size of delaware. Student population, 48,000. A yearly budget over 1 billion. Here like in other parts of the country, administrators face a multiple choice exam. One big question, masks. Is it okay if a teacher wears one and not kids . Is it okay if kids wear one and not the teacher . You could keep going with these questions, but you see the point. Reporter to best understand possible changes, patton mocked up options. So when you look at this bus, this holds 77 students. Social distancing, as you can see, makes it nine kids. 12 of the bus only gets used. Reporter that would multiply one bus run into eight. What doesnt work here in a traditional classroom because of coronavirus . So what you see are collaborative spaces, kids working together, kids sharing pens, markers, ipads. Reporter one possibility, space the desks. But class size goes from 22 to 12. When i look here, those questions quite frankly feel uncomfortable. It looks like detention. It does. And if it doesnt look like detention, certainly the word sterile would come to somebodys mind. Reporter what about lunch time . A socially distant cafeteria turns space for 420 students into a dining area for 122. One of the big unserred questan questions surround friday night lights. Where would fans sit and would there even be games . After all, football is a contact sport. School districts urgently aware the clock is now ticking. Some schools reopened in just three months. Kerry sanders, nbc news, collier county, florida. Thousands of people turned out today at the State Capitol to demand california reopen for business. The demonstration was dubbed liberty fest. It attracted all sorts of protesters and donald trump supporters, antivaccination advocates. Many just wanted to be able to reopen their businesses now. As you can see, a lot of those people there did not follow social distancing measures. A lot were not Wearing Masks. Police closed off the street to traffic and monitored that event from a distance. A sad twist to a tragic story in santa cruz tonight. We are learning that Maddy Middletons ashes have been stolen. Family members say the urn with the ashes was stolen yesterday out of her fathers car. The father keeps that 3 1 2 inch tall urn in his glove box and they say they just want the urn returned. No questions will be asked. 8yearold middleton disappeared in 2015. Her body was eventually found in a dumpster at the apartment complex where she lived. Police arrested then 15yearold Adrian Gonzalez in connection to her death. Anyone with information about the sfotolen ashes is asked to call police. Three people were hurt and a dog killed in a fire that damaged two homes earlier today. It happened in a neighbor in antioch. You can see the damage right here. Firefighters knocked down that fire, rushed the three people to the hospital. No word on the cause of that fire. All right. Lets check in with rob mayeda. Hes got what could be the lead story tonight. Were talking about a major heatwave on the way, rob. Reporter yeah, and weve had heat spells before which may have lasted a day or two. This has the potential of being four to five days. Now, outside right now, its not too bad. As you see, san jose, about 58 degrees. Highs earlier in the 80s, so pretty nice right now. Well be cool for one more day heading into the morning. San francisco 55 degrees, but the sea breeze is not going to be as strong. We still manage highs in the 70s. Well get there again tomorrow. Around walnut creek, this is a likely candidate for approaching 100 degrees midway through next week. Currently 64 degrees after highs earlier were in the mid80s. So the sea breeze, onshore winds still happening, which is helping to keep our temperatures comfortably cool on the coast. But the wind speeds tomorrow wont be as strong, and the marine air itself is going to get compressed down. As High Pressure builds on top, you can think of it as the ceiling lowering in the room as we go through the next few days. The cooling push of that marine air is going to be pretty reduced over the next few days and were not seeing much in the way of low clouds. So without the coolant to the ocean airconditioning and without the sea breeze reaching our inland valleys, that is going to set the stage for the big warmup. Tomorrow morning 40s and 50s to start. High temperatures during the day tomorrow will range from the mid to uowntown san jose and likely closer to 90 around san martin and morgan ll similar story around concord. 80s back towards bayside and hayward. You notice the peninsula, a spread of 70s to mid80s tomorrow again. The excessive heat watch isnt for tomorrow. It does get started on monday. San francisco again climbing through the mid70s and north bay temperatures up towards santa rosa, sonoma, and yountville probably some of the warmest spots well see tomorrow with highs close to 90 degrees. Were jumping forward now to memorial day monday. You begin to see a lot of 90s and red showing up on the map. By tuesday, fuchsia is a nice color except when its on the temperature map. You can see how those areas from napa over to concord and antioch close to if not slightly above 100 degrees. So a summersized ridge of High Pressure shutting down that marine air influence. Heres the reason why we think those temperatures will peak around wednesday and thursday. Youll notice the high is really locked in through the middle part of the week. Then by friday, well have to watch this upper level lowey wh is approaching the cost. Once that low does near the coast, it will bring in some cooling. But it also may trigger some scattered showers up here on the north coast. Ordinarily that would be a good thing, but after four to five days of some dry weather, sometimes these can generate thunderstorms that dont bring rain all the way down to ground level. So thats something well watch for next weekend. We do think it will be cooler but stay tuned on that upper level system as we head towards next weekend. So here now a look at your sevenday forecast. San francisco and youve been looking at that sevenday forecast on the bottom of the screen thinking we had some typos in there. Mid80s, San Francisco. Well see 80s and low 90s bayside midweek. Valley temperatures soaring close to 100 degrees in the hottest places tuesday and wednesday. So really its four days, memorial day through thursday, where you have the excessive heat watch. But stay tuned. Friday, maybe one extra hot day before we watch those changes approaching next weekend. So its a case where the unofficial start to summer just hit fast forward to those numbers right like july and august. There you go, terry. Back to you. Thanks very much. We go from the mayeda mansion over to the estate of mr. Anthony flores. Hes got sports for us tonight. Anthony . Thats right. Everyones sleeping. Eli manning finally joined social media. The special message tom brady has for his former super bowl rival. Stick around. Sports is next. Welcome back. Im anthony flores. The nba is working on a game plan to get players back on the court. Now, the league is exploring the possibility of restarting the season at the disney wide world of Sports Complex in orlando, florida. The goal is to resume play by late july with limited outside exposure. Its not clear if they will finish the regular season or start with the playoffs. The season was suspended back on march 11th after a player on the utah jazz tested positive for the coronavirus. Nhl is moving closer to returning to the ice. The league and the Players Association are talking about restarting the season with a 24team format to determine the winner of the stanley cup. Several cities are in consideration as possible hub sites when play resumes. The nhl put its season on ice back on march 12th baecause of the pandemic. The 49ers could be getting closer to going back to work. The governor said pro sports can begin to move forward in early june if the state keeps trending in the right direction. Now, safety is a big concern for running back Raheem Mostert and his family. Yeah, my wife has been concerned. Shes actually cried, you know, a couple times just because she wants to make sure not only myself but those 90 guys that are in the locker room are going to all be safe. She understands that no matter what, you know, this is my job, and i have to what my job requires me to do. On a much lighter note, now that his playing days are over, eli manning has finally joined twitter. Tom brady had a special message for the former new york giants quarterback. The san mateo native welcomed eli and tweeted in typical fashion, you never showed up until the Fourth Quarter anyway. Now manning beat brady and the new England Patriots not once but twice with gamewinning Fourth Quarter drives in super Fourth Quarter drives in super bowl xlii and super bowl iv mrs. Walker. Fourth quarter drives in super bowl xlii and super bowl iv Michael Vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. The easing of covid19 restrictions in Santa Clara County came just in time today for a group of south bay college graduates. Three San Jose State University graduates got to enjoy this. Hornhonking, a little raucous, but safe. Graduation celebration in alviso complete with mariachi band. Family members cheering from passing cars. The grads were supposed to walk across the stage yesterday, but we all know theyre not doing that until covid19 gets out of town. Fortunately yesterday Santa Clara County lifted its restriction on car celebrations, allowing this to happen. Very nice. Finally, some dog owners can only dream of training their dogs to fetch their beer. Thats exactly what a pair of golden retrievers have learned. Check it out. Okay, barley. You ready for our delivery . Good boys. Good boys. Buddy and barley. Yes, buddy and barley. Sounds like beer. Their owners own Six Harbors Brewing Company on long island. When the pandemic arrived, the brewery staed making deliveries. The pair of pups would tag along, and now their owners drop off the beer Wearing Masks and gloves. Then the pups bring empty cans to the front door and pose for a photo. Its very exciting. First time ive ever had beer delivered by a couple of dogs. It makes the beer extra special. What were dealing with right now, its five minutes of happiness, which i think a lot of people need. Im with her. The owners of six harbors brewing say even after the pandemic, buddy and barley wont be going anywhere. Theyre already staples at the brewery where customers also often bring their pups. Have a great night. [ nbc theme tones play ] [ new york city accent] good evening. Im dr. Anthony fauci