Of my ability. Heather teeon, at halftime, dan quinn said to your guys this will come down to final two minutes of this game. How did the defense clamp down in the final minutes. We always got our brothers backs. They go out there and they pass the baton to us. Thats how we roll. Mchk congrats on great win. Mike. Mike okay, heather, thank you. Detroit, green bay and dallas fans. We have seven teams in the afc that have it a wins. Theyre at 66. Little separation in this very big separation week within the nfc. Cris ill say this about the nfc i cant wait to watch the playoffs. Twos the best team . You know what i mean, its the you have to figure out exactly as they jockeying around this week in particular, theyre all sort of playing each other again. Mike thats right. Top seven teams. The one team thats not playing an nfc heavy weight is seattle and they go to jacksonville. This will sort out. Atlanta gave themselves a chance to repeat as division champions. Cris the game was relatively sloppy tonight. You didnt see the crisp offenses were used to seeing particularly with these two quarterbacks out there. But that was a gutcheck and thats what football is all about. Especially on thursday night. You have on go out there and figure out a way to fight to the end. Its not going to be pretty. Atlanta falcons came out of here with a very tough win. Mike on sunday night, another division battle. Rivalries are hard to come by in a transient era. But pittsburgh baltimore have maintained. Cris lot of chippiness, too, theyll be going at it on sunday night. Mike what a start to week she of the nfl season, atlanta scored ten in Fourth Quarter to get the win, 2017. Back for a final thought right after this. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. We have a fantastic show tonight. James franco is our guest. Niall hourian is here. Plus, nfl superlatives here. Plus christmas sweaters. You dont want to miss it. Thank you for watching the volkswagen suv postgame report. Next stop, sunday night the rivalry of the afc north the ravens and the steelers. Coverage begins at 7 00 eastern. Next thursday, von miller and the broncos head to indianapolis, well show most of it from skycam 7 30 eastern time. Our final tonight here in Atlanta Falcons 20, new orleans saints, 17. Coming up next, stay tuned for your local news and those of you watching on nfl network its the mazda postgame show. For the entire crew, mike tirico, thanks for watching and good night from atlanta. Nbc sports, home of super bowl lii, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football league. A tiny sword . Bread. Breadstick . A matchstick a lamppost coin slot no . Uhhh. 10 seconds. 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Im janelle wang sitting in for jessica aguirre. Im raj mathai. Were on primetime because of nbc bay area. As feared things are getting worse in Southern California. San diego county is now involved. The releaptless wind sweeping through the entire region. Windy conditions this time of year is not unheard of. The difference now, theres no rain. Lets start in ventura county. This is a look now from our nbc chopper in Southern California. Fire fighters are essentially playing defense. Its too dangerous to attack the flames so theyre focused on saving properties and lives. This fire alone, though, in the ventura area has already destroyed more than 425 homes, nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated across Southern California. Now, we mentioned San Diego County. The lilac fire off of interstate 15 near escondido, the city of oceanside and vista. More than 4,000 acres have been scorched. The lilac fire in San Diego County, the libler at this fire in riverside are the two new fires you can see on this map that brings the total to six major fires currently burning down south. Nbc bay areas Jody Hernandez joins us from ojai valley where the largest fire continues to rage. Jodie. Reporter thats right, janelle. The thomas fire has burned 115,000 acres and shows no sign of being contained. Now, we are in the ojai valley where you can see Fire Fighters are waging a fierce fight tonight. The winds have made this fire so unpredictable that Fire Fighters really have no idea when theyll get the upper hand. Were having some really volatile wind conditions, very erratic wind with high velocity gusts. Reporter those strong winds are creating a huge challenge for fires battling the thomas fire. The gusts are literally fanning the flames pushing them towards ranches and homes. The fire front comes, our location, the weather environment. Reporter this cal fire crew is staged near the head of the fire. Protecting a beautiful spanishstyle estate called ojai vista farms. Its known for its tranquil environment, but not today. This was called for an immediate air drop location and thats why you see the response from the air right now. Reporter from the road below residents are nervously watching. Just the uncertainty of it and i feel like, you know, its not predictable. The fire, the wind as much as you theyre forecasting it, just not really knowing. Reporter but emergency alerts are keeping residents on their toes. Last night people in seven counties got the wireless warning. The states largest use of the disaster warning system. People in the danger zone are grateful. Kind of scares me a little bit when i get it, but at least i know that, you know, whats going on. Reporter and we are back here live where you can see the fire fight is on. Now, we are told 15,000 structures remain threatened in this area. 50,000 people have been evacuated. And today the National WeatherService Extended the redflag warning through sunday. That means extreme fire danger through the weekend. Reporting live in ventura county, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. Nearly 200,000 across Southern California. Another live shot of the lilac fire burning in San Diego County, one of the newest fires burning and those winds not helping the situation. That redflag warning and those gusty winds continue to fuel these fires. Lets check in with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. We saw winds 40 to 50 miles per hour. We did have isolated wind gusts. Irvine was one of them reaching 77 miles per hour. So, making it obviously extremely difficult on these fire lines. Want to give you an update on the acreages burned. Creek fire 15,000 acres near san fernando, rye fire 5,000 fires near santa clarita. The thomas fire, the largest at 115,000 acres. We talked about the fire to the north of san diego, lilac fire. Thats already grown to 3,000 acres. So, with all these fires, the key component that Fire Fighters are watching is the wind. There has been a little bit of a change this that wind forecast. Overall its a little bit less gusty for tomorrow out of the east. 20 to 40. Slight break here on saturday, 25 to 35 miles per hour, but it ramps back up on sunday 30 to 45. Were looking now ahead towards monday and tuesday for possibly the largest break in those winds. Ill have a look at our own bay area fire forecast in about 15 minutes. Okay, jeff, well see you soon. The deeper issue here are changing weather patterns. Here is an example of how active the fire season has been this year. This is the cal fire map showing all the fires that they fought last year, 240 of them across the state. This year were going to change the graphic. You see the difference . And we have firsthand experience. 360 fires in all, with more than a third of them happening after september. That includes the north bay fires, one of the most devastating and deadly in the states history. Weve had a lot of support here during our fires. Southern california now needs the support. If you want to help the victims, weve made it easy for you. Just go to our website, nbcbayarea. Com and click the link right there on our home page. Now to some local news. New tonight, youre looking at a Santa Clara County deputy who is under arrest. Blain hopper had an inappropriate relationship with a minor. David trujillo is in san jose with the story. Dave yen, another controversial incident with that jail. Reporter more bad news for the jail system here, janelle. The jail administrators are again having to explain what has happened here with one of their own. Here is the latest on this current incident that police are looking into here at the Santa Clara County jail with a correctional deputy. Tuesday Police Arrested blain hopper. Hopper is a jail guard known as a correctional deputy. Police say they arrested hopper for sending illicit pictures and videos of himself to a 17yearold female victim. Hopper is also accused of soliciting that minor to send him inappropriate content. Investigators say over a fivemonth period, hopper developed a relationship with the victim. Both of them participated in a youth program. Now, this is just the latest in a series of mishaps at the jail system run by the sheriff. Other guards have also been arrested for crimes while on duty. In fact, three were convicted of murdering an inmate. And just last month, two inmates were on the lamb for two weeks after they escaped two weeks while shackled from the palo alto courthouse. In a statement tonight, the sheriff said, quote, no one should be should have to be a victim of sexual coercion or harassment and there is absolutely no tolerance in the Sheriffs Office for anyone who engages in this type of conduct. Sources tell me that hopper has been fired. Nothing has shown, though, that that bad conduct was conducted herein side the jail system so far. Were live in san jose, im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Thank you, damian. A gruesome and unexpected discovery near moffatt field. A womans body was found floating in a canal this morning just off the bay trail. Police say a bicyclist saw the body this morning and called 911. The woman was found naked floating face down. Were not that close to the bay where you would have that, you know. Were a little farther in and theres a lot. Levees and all that. So, we dont again, thats part of what were trying to figure out, how the body ended up there, why the body was there. Police are not saying now if they are investigating this death as foul play. The body is being examined by the coroner. Tonight we are getting more details about that explosion in San Francisco two weeks ago. This was the aftermath of that explosion. Touched off by a gas leak. City leaders are now demanding answers from pg e about what caused the leak and where it originated. Nbc bay area sam brock joins us from the site of that leak in Bernal Heights with some troubling revelations. Sam. Reporter raj, good evening. You know we did learn one important tidbit of information tonight. You heard of the bridge to nowhere. This turned out to be the pipeline to nowhere. It was a defunct pg e pipeline that was part of the system, it was so strong it knocked the garage off of this house. Pg e did come out today, they answered questions. They faced the music, but still supervisors and San Francisco residents have their concerns about the culture of safe at pg e. Safety at thpg e. How many of these pipes do you have in the city that might potentially blow up a house . Reporter some quiz cal looks by councilmembers after they could not identify what caused this. Everything is broken. Everything is broken in. Basically there is a giant boom. Reporter a november gas leak in Bernal Heights that displaced several families and could have proven fatal, tonight scrutiny from supervisors about pg e learning about that leak from the San Francisco fire department. Despite the amount of leakage that led to an explosion, that pg e had no system in place to be forewarned that there was a leakage of this size. We have existing notification systems that we leverage into our control center that do feed that information to us and we continue to build on that and make that more sophisticated and install that on our system. Reporter sure. How come it didnt work in this particular instance . In this particular instance, we didnt have that information yet feed ing into our control center so well need to look at that as part of the investigation and the causal valuation. Reporter pg e says it hopes to have more information on what caused the leak in a matter of weeks. Marilyn lives in Bernal Heights and wants answers immediately before the company even thinks about a new Development Project in her neighborhood. Is your concern you might see a repeat of what happened two weeks ago . No, you would see a repeat of what happened in san bruno. Reporter now, marilyn there is concerned about a project slated for upper folsom also in Bernal Heights where they would be building over a steep rock terrain with a transmission line underneath it. Tonight supervisor ronen said that project has been tabled pending Environmental Impact review and she is going to be bringing pg e back in for questioning once they figure out what happened to cause this leak. Reporting live this evening from the 3900 block of Mission Street in San Francisco, sam brock, nbc bay area news. Sam, thank you. Lets go to the south bay. B. A. R. T. Is coming to san jose above the ground and underground. Today several agencies began the long and controversial process of trying to determine just how deep the tunnelling will go and whether it will devastate Small Businesses on the surface. Nbc bay areas robert honda shows us the dispute from both sides and those caught in the middle. Reporter Santa Clara Countys light rail system sometimes goes below street level to avoid disruption, but the planned sixmile bart stretch beneath downtown san jose will mean significant construction on santa clara street. Dee dee harper who runs red rose catering worries how much. I am 100 sure that we are not going to survive if they are going to close the road. Reporter in presentations today, it is clear project partners b. A. R. T. And bta have different plans. B. A. R. T. Wants its familiar twotunnel system, 65 feet deep, each with a single track which it calls safe and dependable. The bta wants one tunnel 85 feet deep with two tracks, a desire mayor sam liccardo said would avoid months and even years of street construction. We saw how devastating it was for b. A. R. T. Construction in downtown San Francisco along Market Street several decades ago, and some would say its taken a couple generations for that part of the downtown to recover. Vta ends up having to deliver this project. At the end of the day, b. A. R. T. Has to operate and maintain it. So, were going through this negotiation of who makes the call. Reporter while there appears to be some optimism that a compromise can be worked out, harper says it is hard for many Downtown Business owners to share that outlook. Im only one person, but city is huge and b. A. R. T. Company is huge. I mean, what about us . Reporter in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Extremely dry conditions on the Doppler Radar right now. Im tracking our own bay area fire danger thats coming up in about ten minutes. Im scott budman. An east bay man says he owes his life to his dog after a vicious attack and after both spent the night in the hospital. Well have the story just ahead. The verdict in the kate steinle murder trial. Instead of lki tonight marks one week since the verdict in the kate steinle murder trial. Instead of looking back kates parents are looking forward. Next week kate would have turned 35 years old. Her parents telling nbc bay area tonight, they want to honor kates memory in a positive way. Her birthday is next wednesday, december 13th. Among the ways they want to celebrate kates life is helping to raise money through her endowment with the challenged athletes foundation. They want to give a special person a sports wheelchair. It enables people to play basketball, run in races, all sorts of activities. If you want to donate in the name of kate steinle, we mosted a direct lincoln our website nbcbayarea. Com. Get ready for day four, oakland city workers will extend their strike into another day tomorrow. All day employees marched in a picket line outside city hough. Nearly 3,000 nonemergency workers are pushing for higher wages and improved working conditions. The city is offering a 4 raise the first year, but it is the second year raise of 1 to 2 that workers are not happy about. Mayor libby schatz says oakland cannot spend money it does not have. We want to turn things over to our chief meteorolog