Oversees this area. He said his Office Actually heard that there were a number of complaints filed with the rec and Park Department about this safety issue related to what happened yesterday. And he says hes looking into why this was not addressed earlier. Live in San Francisco, stephanie trong, nbc bay area news. Just tragic and heartbreaking for all those families involved. Thanks, stephanie. Switching to the weather now, its heating up this weekend, and no matter where you go, you wont be able to escape it. A live look now at san jose. Clear skies. We could see close to tripledigit temps this weekend in the south bay. Now to San Francisco. Blue skies. There are going to be plenty of sunshine for the niners and giants games as well as the americas cup on the bay. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is tracking the fire danger in the east bay, but we begin with geoff meteorologist jeff ranieri and the extreme heat. Jeff . High pressure already producing its grip across the bay area, producing this dry, hot, sinking air, right down to the surface. You can see temperatures warming up today, about 5 to 8 degrees from this time yesterday. Some of the most widespread heat at this hour, across the east bay. 93 in livermore. 91 in concord. Also 86 in walnut creek. So its not triple digits right now, but were going to be on our way there over the next 24 hours. These winds have now started to shift to more of a drying wind, coming out of the north and also the east. Its not really gusty. It will stay about 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour this weekend, but its lowering those relative humidities down into the 20 and 30 range, and thats where that fire concern will be coming in. The other thing is tonight, it will be mild out here. At 10 00 p. M. , temperatures in the low to mid70s for the most part, and as we progress throughout tomorrow, with a warm night headed our way, were going to have a quick jumpstart on that heat. You can see by 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow morning, temperatures will already be in the 70s to also low and mid80s. So coming up, were going to track more on this extreme heat, how long it will last, and where we could see places hit the century mark in just a few minutes. All right. Thanks, chuck. Now lets get to Jodi Hernandez, live in walnut creek, where firefighters arent taking any chances. Jodi . Reporter thats right. It could be a very busy weekend for firefighters, and ill tell you, it is already very toasty here in walnut creek. The temperature gauge you see behind me is reading 97 degrees. And the hot, dry conditions have firefighters on their toes. These bay area firefighters just returned to the east bay after spending two weeks battling the rim fire near yosemite. Now theyre gearing up for a high fire danger weekend, right here at home. So this weekend is going to bring a warming trend, a drying. And whats going to happen, its going to be approximately 20 degrees warmer. Reporter with tripledigit temperatures in the forecast, coupled with the dry vegetation throughout the bay area, firefighters say Everyone Needs to be on guard. Anything from a campfire, open flame, cigarette, something that potentially can get into these dry fuels, the potential is there, definitely. Reporter and things are already heating up. We found plenty of folks looking for ways to beat the heat, including taking an ice cream break. Reporter looking forward to going to the pool a lot. Thats fun. But he is sort of hard to deal with. Reporter and were back here live where you can see it is already near the century mark here in walnut creek. Again, firefighters are urging everybody to take precautions, watch your barbecue, dont smoke out in the wildland areas. Be very careful, because they dont want to see a disaster happening here. Reporting live in walnut creek, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Always a good reminder. Thank you, jodi. A major route into yosemite that was closed because of the rim fire is now open again. Thats the good news. State route 120 reopened at around noon today. The road is the main entrance to yosemite from the bay area. The rim fire has burned 385 square miles since it began on august 17th. Its now 80 contained. It was started with an illegal campfire by a hunter. For our latest weather conditions, we invite you to go to our website, nbcbayarea. Com. There you can look up maps, radar, and sign up for our Severe Weather alerts. An overnight fire destroyed an apartment, a business, and several cars in martinez. It was started we a pot left burning on the stove. In the 3 00 a. M. Hour, a neighbor heard the sirens and shot this video and sent it into us. Firefighters say they had a difficult time getting near the fire initially because of the power lines. When they finally got the power cut off and they were able to take care of the flames. The man who lives in the apartment says he was cooking and went to return his friends dog. He was handicapped, he cant handle him sometimes, he got lonely at 2 00 in the morning and wanted his dog back. So i walked him down theroad. I started cooking and ended up walking a dog and came home to ashes. Eight cars were destroyed in this fire. The man accused of killing a san jose mother of two was in court today. Oscar ayolla is accused of murdering 49yearold Reyna Figueroa. Her body was found earlier this week in her minivan parked in front of an Elementary School. Marianne favro joins live with the latest on what happened in court. Marianne . Reporter oscar ayolla was arraigned today for the murder of reyna figarora. Police say the two knew each other, but they are still not knowing how. Ayolla, who is 68, shuffled into the courtroom in shackles. He looked down most of the time. The judge ordered that he remain in jail without bail until his next Court Appearance next friday. Mr. Ayolla has been charged with one count of murder. He faces a potential punishment of 25 years to life in prison. Today, he was arraigned on those charges. Reporter Reyna Figueroa worked as a schoolyard supervisor at selma oleander Elementary School. His wifes minivan was parked on East San Antonio street, just a few blocks away from where oscar ayolla lives. Now, this case has been ordered sealed and prosecutors ask that they seal the case, because police are still investigating this murder. Reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Marianne, thank you. Also in san jose, some Elementary School students learned the importance of water conservation. Not by choice. This lesson was forced on them. A car crashed into a Water Pipeline outside of terrell will wantry elementary early this morning. The school had the pipe fixed by 9 30 in the morning, but the district brought in bottled water to keep the kids hydrated, especially because of the hot weather today. They also brought in portapotties. The city of palo alto is warning people to beware of calls from utility workers. A Business Owner alerted the city after getting a call from someone who said he was overdue on his utility bill and that his power was going to be shut off if he didnt pay over the phone right away. An initial investigation found that the calls are being made from the Los Angeles Area by people identifying themselves as with the department of water and power. As you can imagine, that rattles people, even if they have paid their bill, especially a business, if its a panic and think, uhoh, i have to act quickly to stop my power from being shut off and then agree to give a credit card number or other information, which then a thief has. The city of palo alto utility says it has a policy of sending out several written warnings before they turn off a customers power. And they also have to identify themselves as being with the city of palo alto in every single phone call. Still ahead at 5 00, his crimes shocked the nation. Now its Ariel Castros confessions which reveals just how many close calls he had with police and escaped. From Mountain View to the moon. Now details about the new spacecraft about to launch that was completely designed, developed, and tested right here in the south bay. And one bay area city cracks down on what dog owners can do with their pets. These new rules, coming up next. And good afternoon. Im jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. Walltowall sunshine right now outside the bay area. A leive look outside and we are fog free in San Francisco. Well talk more about this extreme heat thats going to force air quality to unhealthy levels in the south bay this weekend. Coming up in just a few minutes. Today u. S. Officials ordered nonessential staff and their families to leave the embassies in two countries bordering syria. Beirut, lebanon, and adanna, turkey. All the Emergency Personnel have been asked to stay. The precautionary move comes as tension rises, bringing concern that a strike in syria could lead to retaliation against americans. The state Department Also warned americans not to travel to lebanon and to avoid all nonessential travel to southeastern turkey. There are no specific threats at this time. Not convinced, president obama says he will address the nation in primetime next tuesday, hoping to change the minds of americans and lawmakers that air strikes are necessary against the Syrian Regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons. Nbc bay areas Steve Handelsman is live on capitol hill with the very latest for us. Good evening, steve. Janelle, thanks. Good evening to you. Here on capitol hill, congressional leaders, both houses, both parties are happy to hear the president s plan. Theyve been urging him to sell to the American People what he wants the house and the senate to approve. His argument to strike in syria people were gassed. Reporter is so far not convincing most americans or key u. S. Allies. So president obama announced from the g20 in russia, hell try tuesday on primetime tv. And i will make best case that i can to the American People, as well as to the international community, for taking necessary and appropriate action. Reporter as he headed back home, that looked like a hard sell. In allentown, pennsylvania i think its a horrible idea for them to go after syria. Reporter opposition in kansas city. How can we afford another military action . Reporter the loudest voices are saying no. We should not be continuing to make war. Reporter through the website pop vox, 98 say dont strike syria. But the cofounder says theyre just more vocal. What were seeing on pop vox is the people that have made up their minds, and they want to be heard by their members of congress. And theyre weighing in in opposition. Reporter assuming they can still win in congress, backers are striking in syria are pushing back. I frankly feel like if an atrocity goes unpunished, you buy more atrocities. Reporter obama u. N. Ambassador Samantha Power warned syrian dictator bashar assad has barely made a dent in his stockpile of weapons. Senate leaders said today the president right now does not have the votes to win. Live from capitol hill, im Steve Handelsman, nbc bay area news. Raj and janelle . Thanks for the update, steve. And steve just mentioned pop vox as a way you can get in contact with your local lawmaker about pressing issues. One of the cofounders, as he mentioned, is actually from the bay area, specifically fremont. He started the site back in 2011 and they already have 350,000 users. Just like the crime itself, the confession is also chilling. Just days after his suicide in his prison cell, nbc news has obtained the confession of ariel castr castro. What about you still the window. This video was taken just hours after his arrest in may. In the interview, castro confessed to kidnapping and abusing three cleveland girls and holding them captive in his home for a decade. He said he was surprised he wasnt caught sooner. Castro said surveillance cameras caught him at gina dejesus school and after kidnapping amanda berry, he said he used her cell phone to call her mother. Whatd you say to her mom . Castro hung himself in his jail cell just this week, just one month after being sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and rape. Janet napolitano officially said goodbye to the Obama Administration today. A farewell event was held for napolitano, who is leaving her post as the head of Homeland Security to become president of the university of california system. Vice President Joe Biden thanked napolitano for her service and said she made the nation safer. The Vice President also suggested that after heading up the uc system, napolitano should be on the supreme court. Nasa is set to launch a new Lunar Mission in just a few hours, and the bay area viewing party is already underway. Take a live look now at the crowd gathering in Mountain View. The public is invited to come out and see the exhibit, talk to the scientists and engineers and watch the unmanned shuttle lift off around 8 30. You see a lot of people with their chairs out there enjoying the sunshine. The lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer, thats what its called, or lade, for sure, launches from virginia, but it was built by scientists in Mountain View. This has been an exciting path here. This, as john mentioned, is the first spacecraft designed, built, developed, integrated and tested at nasa Ames Research center. Were one of ten missions, but were a lunar system. Lade will orbit the moon for 100 days, collecting information about the moons atmosphere. Scientists want to know more about the dust on the moon. The chp is expecting a busy weekend for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. Traffic patterns so far are much different from the old bridge. Youre actually looking at the old span right here. Officers are this is actually the western span. Officers are watching closely for speeders and handing out tickets to people who slow down and take pictures of the new span on the eastern side. Overall, the number of drivers crossing the bridge is up slightly. It wont be easy for bay area billionaire Larry Ellison and his Oracle Racing team. The america cup finals begin tomorrow and team oracle is already behind. The race team will start with a negative two wins. Thats because an International Committee punished oracle earlier this week for cheating during the preliminary races. That means Oracle Team Usa must win 11 races to regain its title, while the challenger from new zealand must win only nine. The action starts at 1 00 tomorrow afternoon right here on nbc bay area. Thats going to be a Beautiful Day to sit along the embarcadero and watch the boats go by. Lets check in with chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. Pier 27 and 29, its absolutely free. Well have more ton that forecast coming up. Its all about High Pressure this weekend, folks. This is whats producing this hot, dry air across california, for this extreme heat this weekend. Winds right now have also shifted in response to High Pressure, moving in across the bay. To more of a drying wind out of the north and slightly out of the east. That is helping numbers to pop up to 93 right now in livermore, also 87 in san jose. So no triple digits this afternoon, but well be even hotter for saturday and also on sunday, even into monday, and that forecast. If you thought it was uncomfortable today, hold on. Its going to be a wild ride this upcoming weekend. The other thing to notice, look at our forecast grid here. No cloud cover expected anywhere in the bay. At the coast, all the way to the england section, clear and sunny skies, right through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, with temperatures anywhere from the 70s to also low 80s. So a warm day coming our way here as we head into the first part of the weekend. Lets get you outside right now to that highdefinition view. And the air is becoming hazy in the south bay. Thats where air quality will be suffering the most as we head throughout the next 48 hours. Off to the north, we look here in emeryville, towards the new span of the bay bridge, also back to the coastline, and we are absolutely fog free. You can probably call it summers last sizzle of sorts here. And theres the americas cup park right near pier 27 and 29. Its free if you head down that way and its going to be a scorcher if you are going to be aiding up to americas cup park, at least for San Francisco standards. 92 in san jose. Also 92 in palo alto. The bay will save you from getting too hot, at least right here in the santa clara valley. Down towards gilroy, temperatures near 100 degrees. And also the east bay, we know how this heat likes to get trapped across the trivalley. Thats exactly whats going to be happening in saturday. 99 in livermore. 99 in pleasanton. Double 9s in walnut creek, with 98 expected in concord. Even for the coastal areas, as we have been mentioning, temperatures will be surging up, as we get this slight offshore wind. Thats going to keep any kind of fog from forming. Well go for 84 in pacifica, 85 in half moon bay, and 85 in San Francisco. Some of the spots that will be close to recordsetting temperatures will be livermore with 99. San jose, 92. Also oakland at 90. And that 85 in San Francisco, not quite good enough for a record. Look at the hottest day ever on september the 7th, that was 100 degrees. So certainly not that hot, but if you dont have ac in San Francisco, its still going to be a scorcher. The best spot, go right up against the coastline. Well have some awesome beach weather. Even at simpson beach, by the afternoon hour, mid70s opinion and if youre headed out to americas cup park, if youre anywhere near the water, the water would be the place to be. Water temperatures will be in the low 60s, but the air outside, well, its going to be in the 80s. So overall, its going to be an escape from the heat from the east bay. And you can also catch that live racing on nbc bay area at 1 00 p. M. If you do want to check out americas cup. On your sevenday forecast, it is hot and triple digits now make it on the sevenday for sunday and also monday, with warm weather staying at the coastline. Then by next tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, the cloud cover increases, and temperatures gradually respond with some cooling temperatures. So the next three days, while it is going to be great at the beach, awesome for your tan, dont forget the spf, its also going to be a little bit dangerous here in the east bay. Primarily thats where well have the hottest temperatures. Take it easy, make sure to drink plenty of water and take frequent breaks if you can. And remember to monitor that ac, so you dont have it on too cold. I know im kind of like the downer right now. Youve got to remember, we all like to jack that ac down. And bring an umbrella, right, because when you walk outside, like gwen stefani, she always carries an umbrella. So your skin stays nice. And we can just say, happy friday. Everyones saying, all right, jeff, thats enough. Thanks, jeff. Coming up, a different kind of apple prototype. The new features coming to a peninsula store that will be the first in the nation. [ male announcer ] at sizzler. Its back for a limited time fire grilled steak and golden allyoucaneat shrimp for an incredible 9. 99 only at sizzler a teenage birthrate has hit an alltime low. A new study from the cdc reveals that birthrates have declined among all racial ethnic groups and teen birthrates declined 6 last year. There is evidence that more effective Birth Control is a factor. People are also starting families later and later in life. For women, in their 30s and early 40s. We want to pass along a recall tonight. Parents of infants need to know about. Johnson and johnson is calling 200,000 bottles of motrin infant drops because they may contain tiny particles of plastic. The material was actually found in a different product, but in the same shipment. Anyone with these bottles are urged to stop using them and throw them away. The National ParkService Today released an updated version of proposed dog leash regulations around the Golden Gate National rec area. The proposal will eventually become a law. Governing where people can and cant take their dogs within the park. The park service says its last proposal two years ago drew more than 8,000 public comments. Near beach and marin county was originally closed to dogs completely in the previous version, but now there are areas where dogs can go with leashes on. Dog advocates, though, say the proposals havent changed enough. Well be Holding Public workshops about how to write effective comments to the park service. And getting the message out that offleash is definitely in jeopardy. The park service plannings to hold Public Meetings over the next 90 days to get some more public comments. It expects to have a final set of laws in place in 2015. Up next, apples big new thing. Well tell you about it. Well show it to you, next. Apple is unveiling Something Big tomorrow. Really big. Its 1,200 square feet with 23foottall ceilings. Take a look, this is what the new Apple Retail Store at the Stanford Shopping Center looks like. The new locatio tiny store that had been there for nine years. The new store is seven times larger than the old one at Stanford Shopping Center. Apple saying that the pavilion design of this new store, the first of its kind for apple, will influence the look of future stores. So ready for the grand reopening. And ive been to that tiny store there. So finally getting some elbow room there too. Completely different. Major redesign. So is our heat. Yes, its going to be hot this weekend. Lets get a look at that sevenday forecast. Upper 90s to near 100. And that 100 on sunday is representative of the east bay, where that mum weather will be at. And at the coastline, also plenty of 70s the also low 80s. Drink water, have fun. Yeah. Have a nice weekend, folks. On our broadcast tonight air support. The president is looking for it in his effort to launch a military strike against syria, and weve learned tonight the attack plan may be more extensive than first thought. Taking sides. We asked a lot of americans today what they think about military action overseas. Would the president get their support . Close calls. An nbc news exclusive, the interrogation tapes of the man who held those three women captive for years in cleveland and the number of times he came close to getting caught. And an outbreak of a serious childhood illness and Important Information for parents about the vaccine. Nightly news begins now