Investigators trying to fight your out what happened on the tracks. Bart is reporting delays of about 20 minutes now. Hi everyone, good everyone, im frank mallicoat. And im michelle griego. We begin with the fiery devastation surrounding our neighbors in the south. Right now, thousands have been forced from their homes by at least nine wild fires across southern california. Firefighters are on the front lines today. Some monitoring the dry brush and homes that are still in harms way. Dozens of homes have already been destroyed. More than 9,000 acres have burned. Schools in the area are closed an people are on edge sees where the winds could carry the flames. Firefighters from all over the state are racing to the front lines including crews from all over the bay area. A task force from Alameda County fire headed south to help in the fight. Coveraging temperatures and high winds are a big threat. Reporter flames made their way toward multimillion dollar homes in the hills of san marcos. While hundreds more in the county were also threatened. Among the nine wild fires near san diego, this has been the hardest to contain. At the cal state campus, final exams and graduation ceremonies were postponed. I will show you the proximity of the flames to the university which has been evacuated. Reporter more than 20,000 people were told to evacuate their homes, but some stayed. When we ask you to leave, support the local Law Enforcement an leave. Reporter several homes could not be saved when giant flames tore through the area. The wild fire came up the hillside and turned this home into a pile of ash. Firefighters have been back throughout the day to put out hot spots that keep reigniting. Oh my god. Reporter at least four homes burned to the ground along with an 18unit condo complex. 1800 new firefighters arrive today to help out. Planes and a dozen military copters are battling the fire from above. San jose parks officials are closing allan rock park today. They made the decision after temperatures soared into the 90s yesterday. Another factor closing the park. The availability of firefighters and equipment in case there is a fire in the area. Another top story, the heat and the heat wave is just about over. Lets get to meteorologist lawrence kamow with more. A great thing to see as we see clouds and fog moving back in. Thats a sure sign that the heat wave is winding down now. A lot of high clouds moving overhead. This is just a very thin layer of clouds. It will not reach all the way inland. Still some hot temperatures in the valleys, but we will watch the numbers come down from record highs. 88, a record in san francisco. 94 in san jose and 94 in santa rosa today. It will be about 11 degrees cooler in san francisco. 77. 85 in oakland. 90 in san jose, 89 in santa rosa. But much cooler weather is on the way, too. We have more on that coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. Thank you lawrence. New details this noon. Charges are being filed against an 18yearold homeless woman in the brutal attack of a little girl in a walmart. Maria garate faces charges of attempted murder and committing a hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon. She will be arraigned for beating a fouryearold girl on the head with a crowbar. The girl is expected to be fine. Happening today, four major wireless carriers are making it possible now to send a text message to 911 instead of calling but as anne makovec found out, the system is not quite ready. She joins us with more. Reporter we are known as being tech savvy here, but none of the departments here are set up for text messages. This is the text message you will get if you try to send a text message to 911. Please make a voice call. There is no Text Service Available at this time. Even though four major wireless carriers, sprint, verizon, at t, and tmobile went live with the new technology today. There are just a lot of technological hurdles that people dont think about all the time. Unlike phone calls to 911 which are given priority, this text message is not given priority. Reporter at this california Highway Patrol communication center, operators get about 9,911 calls. While the Text Services will be helpful for the hearing an speech impaired and in situations where placing a call is dangerous, open razors say calls provide information that texts do not. We get tout the officers saying this person is crying, screaming citizen. We are not able to get much because they are under a lot of stress. We have a location. This is what is going on that we can hear in the background. Reporter and menlow park is one of the few call centers to accept text messages, but that is several months from reality. One other positive about the system. When it goes into effect, you can text pictures and video which can help officers approaching the scene. Anne makovec, kpix5. In bay area news, crews are cleaning up after a big rig slammed into a funeral home and burst into flames. Part of Market Street remains closed in san franciscos castro district. Video on youtube shows the big rig in flames after the crash about 12 30 this morning. To people in the truck had minor injuries and right now, a tow truck is trying to remove the truck from the scene. Here they are looking at the beach that was cut off from the public. They are now sues kosla saying he doesnt have the right to do that. General motors is adding several more recalls to the growing list making this a record year of recalls for the company. 2. 7million cars including the chevy malibu sedan, aura, and pontiac g6 are part of the announcement. Gm says they need to fix problems with break lights an power brakes. They have pulled more than 11 million cars this year. And gm stock tumbled with news of the recall adding to an already tough day across the board for wall street. A couple of bad earnings reports contributed to the losses and looking at the big board, you can see it is down about 179 points. No act of terror can match the character of the united states. Those are president obamas words as he dedicated a 9 11 museum in new york city today. Here is more from the emotional ceremony. Reporter an honor guard of fire and Police Officials led off the somber gathering in the averagous underground space of the in museum. President obama remembered a young man who died helping others. In his 20s , strong, emerged from the smoke and over his nose and his mouth, he wore a red hank chief. Reporter wells crowder was that young person. He lives on in the people he helped and the memory in what he chose to do that tuesday in september. Reporter september. Reporter the ceremony took place along the original wall that held back the hudson river after the towers came down. The museum sits between the memorial pools. It holds more than 10,000 artifacts to capture the events of september 11 and the lives that were lost. Rudolph juliani was mayor at the time of the attacks. We will never understand why one person escaped and another didnt. How random it all seems. How powerless it makes us feel. Reporter for the next six days, the museum will be open around the clock for the survivors of the attack. It opens may 21 to the public. Coming up, kidnapped girls in nigeria, top priority for the u. S. Government. We will show you what they are doing next. The heat in california could affect the taste of wine in wine country. Not only is the weather hot, but we have the hottest sport in town. It is bachi ball. That is next on kpix5. ,,,,, well i love a rainy night. I love a rainy night i love to hear the thunder, watch the lightning when it lights up the sky. You know it makes me feel good. cause i love a rainy night. Yoplait with flavors the whole family will love. It is so good for a night in. Of hundreds of school girlsn nigeria. Finding them is of the us governm new details in the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in nigeria. Finding them is one of the u. S. Governments top priorities. That is what a state specialist told senators today. The Obama Administration is boosting nigerias capabilities. Nigerias president says he will not release their imprisoned militants in exchange for the young girls. Warm weather means more tasty wine. Vineyards are already in bloom. Grapes have budding four weeks ahead of schedule. So grapes have extra time to ripen on the vine leading to better quality wine. We have the opportunity to do that this year. These are the really big cabernets. Warming trends have increased one to two degrees since the 60s. If that continues, the land suitable to grow the grapes could be cut in half. Well Roberta Gonzales is feeling the heat. She is represents us at the bocce ball tournament. Where is she . Reporter hey everybody, it is currently 81 degrees in san francisco. You cant even buy a breeze in this hour. It is a Beautiful Day for outdoor activities. This is a palino. These are bocce courts and this is team mercer. We have heather yen joining us today. This is your team . Yes. Reporter what brought you out here . It is a gorgeous day and we want to have one. Reporter what is this . A bocce ball. We throw this and the whole point is to get as close as we can to the white ball. Reporter okay, and this has become a big time sport right . It is very, very fun, especially on a great day like this. Reporter do you know who your opponents are today . It is within our team, so just some friendly competition. Oh no, we are taking you down. You are on kpix5. I did not know that. In that case, we will take you guys down. Reporter andy are all on the same team . Yeah. We are. We like to play bocce ball at lunchtime. What is the secret to the form . Lets see, just arm stretched out and throw it as far as you can toward the light ball. Reporter all right, so, kpix5 channel 5 coming out here. I dont know if that was good, bad, or indifferent. Good job okay, we are waiting for the team to show up. Reporter we have a Beautiful Day here. Reporting from mobile weather, kpix5, Roberta Gonzales. Hey frank, arent you joining us . Im part of the team, but i have to take care of my news obligation first. You said you throw the palino first . Yes. Then you try to get the big ball close to the little white ball. Do you always play with a hose in the middle . No. That is an unintended obstacle out there. Looks like a difficult game. No, its not. It should be a great day to get out there to joint a lot of sunshine around the bay area. Cooler temperatures coming our way. The sea breeze has picked up again and it looks like is fog is rolling back in. Ocean beach we go. You can see some of the low clouds and fog there. A sign of the heat wave starting to come to a close here, but it will still stay hot inland. Temperatures soaring again. 88 in concord, 90 in livermore. It 186 in san jose. You can see the low clouds. High clouds up above this weak weather system coming in our direction. Just Strong Enough to break down the ridge a bit. Boy, by tomorrow, the temperatures really coming down. Patchy fog tonight. A much cooler weekend in store. High pressure starting to slide east ward now. The system is encoaching toward the bay area. Low fog and clouds are on the way. The air quality has improved. We are seeing more sea breeze. No spare the air for today. The computer models bringing in some high clouds then the temperatures are going to start to moderate a bit as we see much cooler air. You will see 60s by the coastline, but warming up inside the bay as you head to mountain view, 86 degrees. You will see 90s in the south bay. Be prepared for hot weather away from the coastline. Temperatures well in the 90s by the afternoon and keeping tout the hot side. 94 in pleasanton. 94 in walnut creek. Temperatures on the north bay staying on the hot side as well. 90s into clear lack. Sonoma. All right, here is how we are going to play it. As we look toward tonight, looks like we are going to see cooler air working its way on shore. 8 13 is your sunset tonight. The next couple of days, we will watch the temperatures cool down big time. Getting a little chilly as we head to saturday and sunday. Thats the forecast. Back to you. The east bay woman planning to save one life is on her way to saving a million. Her impossible dream in this weeks jefferson awards. And we want to invite all you pet lovers. On our web page, kpix. Com pets and we will have our pet expert give us an answer everyday at noon. Hey there. Did you select these things on purpose . Not a color found nature. Theres nothing wrong with tha. I can hear your arteries clogging. Ok. No. This is tap water. I cant let you buy this. Oh. Crystal geyser please. Crystal geyser. Bottled at the mountain source. Surprise lcome back. Crystal geyser Alpine Spring water. Crystal geyser. Crystal geyser. News flash, its bottled at the source. News flash, we sell it in cases. Oh. Thank you. Oh no no no. Crystal geyser. Bottled right at the mountain source. Country cares for kids. O child at a time. This weeks jefferson award winner has a moving story. I a berkeley woman is changing the way we take care of kids. Sharon chin tells us it begins with a crowded orphanage in chinas one child policy. Reporter jenny bowen and her husband richard adopted maya in 1997. Silent, sick, and shut down. From almost two years in a chinese orphanage. She had dysentary, parasites. She was emotionally vacant. A little girl who had never been held, talked to. Reporter she need fd love. I talked to her, sang to her, played with her. Reporter one year later. I looked out my kitchen window and boom, there was my little girl just romping around in the garden. Singing, full of joy, and life, and looking like a child who had been loved from the moment she was born. And i saw. I saw what a familys love does for a child. I said to my husband, why cant we do that for all the kids we cant bring home . Reporter foreigners werent each allowed inside a chinese orphanage. So how could jenny bring change . After a year of talks, china agreed to let the film director and screen writer launch a pilot program. We hire and train local people to provide the kind of nurturing care that children growing up in loving families would receive. Reporter in 16 years, jennys berkeley based nonprofit has trained 30,000 orphanage workers to nurture 100,000 add ban donned children from birth to adulthood. Most people would say i will take care of my child, but you said thats not enough. We have to love and nurture all of the children in china. What is it inside of you that told you this is not impossible . I dreamed a lot. I wasnt afraid of dreaming big dreams. Youre doing such a great job. Reporter today, jenny leads a Ground Breaking effort to train all of chinas welfare workers to lovingly care for a million abandoned and neglected children. Led into that one. [ laughter ] reporter richard and their two adopted daughters from china, maya and sister anya support their mission of compassion. In the end, just beyond my wildest dreams. Reporter still from producing a model of care for chinas orphans, this years jefferson award goes to jenny bowen. Sharon chin, kpix5. Nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online on kpix. Com hero. Well be right back. Ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. Wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. Find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at Universal Studios hollywood. Well today we are at the Produce Market looking for some beautiful vegetables. I found some beautiful string beans and they are beautiful, but you have to select and store them right to retain their flavor and nutritional value. Lets talk about selection. When you buy them, you see this right here . Look at the green color, how beautiful. Make sure they have no rust color. And feel nice and fresh. Look at this beautiful display. This beautiful box of beans. When you bring them home, store them in the refrigerator right away and keep them two and three days and thats it. Any longer than that, that will deplete the nutrition and flavor. I like to saute them in olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Im tony, your fresh grocer, remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. I just put beans in my stir fry last night. I have to bay bocce ball. All right,. A Beautiful Day. Better win, have a great afternoon. , [ door opens ] aly its okay, dad. Thorne what . Aly [ sniffles ] bill so, arent you going to ask, how was your day, dear . Brooke how was your day, dear . Bill well, funny you should ask. It was from the sublime to the ridiculous. I did something life altering for one of my kids. Brooke sounds intriguing. Bill i gave wyatt the spencer name legally. Brooke i didnt even know you were considering it. Bill it was time