It happened so fast. It lit up big time. It was very scary. Reporter the tenant confirmed the device looked like a molotov cocktail but thought the attack was random because of other arson incidents. They confirmed it has reported numerous other arson acts but says this is a significant escalation. Its frightening because its more than just randomly tossing out a cigarette or it shows conscious thought and planning on my part to burn a house down or send a message. Reporter within an hour of that firebombing, another family called the Fire Department after they say someone set fire to dry brush at a creek next to their house. The homeowner also asked us not to show her face. It has been an ongoing and increasingly worse problem. Reporter now the san jose Fire Department says its arson unit is actively investigating this attack and wants anyone with information or more video to come forward. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you. The search is on for the driver who hit a 12yearold girl and took off. It happened about an hour ago in Castro Valley near crow canyon. The chp says a man driving a lifted black ford f150 pickup truck hit the child. The child has serious injuries and is being treated at ucsf benioff Childrens Hospital in oakland. You see our sky ranger is overhead. Again, this is in Castro Valley. The driver of that ford f150 pickup was last seen on crow canyon heading to 580. A disturbing video on social media shows a man attacking sfpd wants to know whats behind it. This was posted on instagram and twitter. The scuffle took place in the bayview yesterday. You see a man hitting the man who is running with a stick. The attacker is trying to keep the man carrying the bag away from the shopping cart he uses to collect cans and bottles. At one point the man with the stick says i hate asians. Investigators say they need help identifying both men. She was fired and now she is firing back. Observings former police chief ann kirk patrick, tells us her side of the story and has some pointed remarks about mayor libby schaaf. Cheryl hurd joins us now from city hall in oakland. Cheryl . Reporter the former chief told me she came here for the long haul. She says the city of oakland had a troubled past when it comes to police chiefs. Two weeks ago in an internal staff meeting talking about she would fight for me and so i actually believed her. Reporter now Anne Kirkpatrick is disappointed tr fight for her he especially because h the same person who hired her. I do not feel betrayed. Thats not the right word for it. I would say im disappointed. Reporter the 11th chief in the past 21 years. She came at a time the department had gone through a number of scandals including an alleged coverup of officers having sex with a teenager. She says she came here with her eyes open, but she didnt foresee a Police Commission she believes was working against her. I was hired prior to the Police Commissions startup. Im nro i think that has been very important to them. Reporter kirkpatrick will not go on the record about the it could have been retaliation from a commissioner who asked for a favor. Kirkpatrick says shes not ready to say if she will sue the city of oakland. Right now shes weighing her options. The department of Justice Needs to look into this and investigate is everything aboveboard in terms of why can we not get into compliance . Reporter now the president of oaklands Police Commission says that the retaliation allegation is ridiculous. Now coming up at 11 00 well hear more from the police chief about the citys inability to come into compliance. Im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Good information, thank you, cheryl. Late this afternoon a decision announce that had could have a major impact on theral r a complete drain of reservoir beginning in october. They say the reservoir poses too big of a risk of collapse during a major earthquake. The water district, which owns anderson reservoir, is worried draining the largest dam in the county will have a significant impact. Our sky ranger was overhead. The reservoir can reopen once its retrofitted. They drank water from a puddle and relied on each other. Tonight more about how a south bay couple lost in the woods for over a week survived and how they were found. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is live where the pair is recovering and, jodi, they were actually stunned when they saw the rescuers. Reporter jessica, they really couldnt believe their eyes, and neither could the rescuers. Nobody thought that they would find the couple alive after so many days. They are recovering at marin county hospital and are so grateful. Its not easy. This country is very wild, very rough and rugged. Reporter 90yearold Barbara Bergman has lived in inverness for years and feared the worst for the palo alto couple renting the cottage across the street after they got lost in the wilderness for eight days. She was walking her dog saturday when a rescuer told her the great news. A searcher had just said were listening to the radio right now and the news is coming in that theyve been found. Reporter we got a look at the trail they took on valentines evening to watch the sunset. They somehow lost the path and ended up in the thick vegetation. But searchers Quincy Webster and rich along with his dog found the pair saturday morning. I was flabbergasted, i guess, for use of an older term. I was just stunned. Reporter cassens, who lives in the foothills, talked to us by phone. He said tou was in disbelief. Ian kept asking, are you real . Reporter he says the couple looked pretty beat up. Cuts and scrapes all over the place, faces, hands, feet. Reporter fortunately the woods provided enough for them to stay alive. They ate fern leaves and found water. They had the will to survive. They had some water out of a mud puddle to drink, and i believe they were trying to eat some of the plant life that was safe, being together, sticking together and wanting to be with each other and for each other and make it. Im amazed at those two. Reporter Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Glad to know theyre okay. Pg e says two workers left the company amid allegations they took payoffs. It allegedly happened after the campfire. The contractor is accused of overbilling fire victims for cleanup. It is not commenting on the allegations. The ceo bill johnson says the company is no longer a pg e contractor, and the two employees allegedly involved are no longer with the company. A new team is formed to get illegal guns off the streets in san jose especially those with restraining orders for Domestic Violence. The d. A. s office will form a new five member gun Violence Unit to identify and arrest the suspects saying too much are falling through the cracks. If follows our recent reporting. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo with details. Damian . Reporter behind me is considered a high gun crime area by police. And so the d. A. s office will pay some special attention to the neighborhood. Now as you mentioned this comes just days after our reporting that the police are arresting a lot of felons with assault rifles, but the courts are releasing those felons within hours with no bail. Our policies in Santa Clara County and counties across the state cant work if theres no one enforcing them. Reporter thats how board the supervisors president cindy chavez introduced the countys new gun Violence Unit. Five members including a fulltime prosecutor will be assigned to issue arrest warrants and target suspects in Domestic Violence cases involving guns. Were going to be able to make it safer. Reporter and Santa Clara County 6,000 felons each year are ordered not to have guns, but the Police Department and the d. A. s office says other county offices need to do their part as well. The concern comes after our reporting that suspects arrested are being released by the courts within hours with no bail. Yes, we are frustrated. Reporter the office of deputy d. A. Filed the arrest warrants in those cases and feels there needs to be better communication to prevent these releases without more scrutiny. From the police to the prosecutors, to the judges and Decision Makers need the best information about dangerousness. At the end of the day what we would hope and expect particularly because this is such an important topic that pretrial judges help us on the back end so when our officers put their lives on the line to bring individuals illegally possessing wae ining weapons of streets are held accountable. Reporter they hope this new unit will help close the loophole and keep violent suspects in jail until at least after their first court appearance. Up next here at 6 00, theyre not going back to class this week. An update on the wellknown Bay Area High School shut down because of the chemicals found on campus. Plus, what makes people in the bay area unhappy . You can probably guess the number one complaint. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Get ready to find your shorts this week. We do have record setting heat returning from this area of High Pressure. Ill go over all the numbers coming up in about seven minutes. Wall street banks took advantage of millions of americans during the recession. So, my wife kat and i took action. We started a Nonprofit Community bank with a simple theory give people a fair deal and real economic power. Invest in the community. In businesses owned by women and people of color. In Affordable Housing. The difference between words and actions matters. Thats a lesson politicians in washington could use right now. Im tom steyer, and i approve this message. Is it safe to send my kids back to school . Thats the question many parents in west oakland are asking after a toxic chemical was found. The campus remains shut down as district officials scramble to test the air and Drinking Water. Melissa colorado joins us where a Community Meeting just started right there on campus. Reporter im joining you from lafayette elementary where a meeting is under way where parents are getting a crash course on tce, the cancer causing chemical that was found in the groundwater underneath the high school. The district hopes to reopen by next week. Parents are demanding answers, more information and more testing. Theres no emergency plan set up. Reporter this grandparent is worried about the test results. No, not her grandchilds state test results, worried if enough testing is being done that its safe enough for students to return to mcclimonds next week. How do we fix this . What hospital do we take our children to see if theyve been infected . Reporter they decided to shut down the school after routine testing showed a toxic chemical, tce, found in the groundwater under the school. According to the National Cancer institute, the more youre exposed to tce the higher the odds of getting kidney cancer. The district says the cancer as found in low concentrations in vapor in the basement boilerroom and in one outside storm drain. State and county officials helped test the Drinking Water as well as the air in the class rooms, the gym and the football field. The preliminary test results we had on saturday showed what we are hoping and thats zero percent throughout the school. Reporter this isnt the first time there have been environmental concerns. In 2016 the water in the boys oboys locker room had high levels of lead. I want an independent environmental study done. Reporter and students will return to school tomorrow. Hou however, it will be split into three grades and students will have to attend three different schools. Of course there will be more testing, additional testing throughout the week. Im melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Many chinese restaurants and businesses across the bay area are struggling since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Today in San Franciscos chinatown a boost from House Speaker nancy pelosi this is her district. She held a meeting with business owners. The owner of the Fortune Cookie factory says business is down about 70 . I better not come to chinatown, to the Chinese Community so i get less infected. And we need to correct that. Thats what were trying to do today is to say everything is fine here. Come because precautions have been taken. The city is on top of the situation. Speaker pelosi says she is concerned the President Trump budget proposes a 19 cut to the centers for disease control, the cdc. The president said today the virus is under control in the united states. Housing, traffic and the climate among the things making people who live in the bay area unhappy. Unhappy enough to think about moving. Our Business Tech reporter scott budman joins us leave with results of a survey that say were less happy than we were last year, scott. Reporter people behind me have a lot of time to think about whats going on in the bay area, we are an area where most studies put us at the wealthiest and happiest of places. A study says the bay area has a lot of issues and its driving some people away. Even on a Beautiful Day in the bay area, people are willing to talk about whats wrong here. I think the traffic is out of control, having lived here for 20something years. Its gotten worse. Reporter yes, traffic is bad, but according to a survey by the Silicon ValleyLeadership Group and the bay area news group, the housing situation is worse. The housing crisis for sure. Its definitely, being a young professional, kind of unattainable. Reporter 89 of us call homelessness the Biggest Issue facing the bay area followed closely by housing crisis, the high cost of living, traffic, and environmental concerns. Three out of every four people responding to the survey say the quality of life here is worse than last year. Nearly one of every ten of us arent thinking about leaving some years in the future. We are planning to leave the bay area this year, 2020, period, stop, were gone. Reporter more people than ever citing homelessness as our most serious problem. At its core this is caused by a lack of Affordable Housing and rising cost of living. Reporter is there anybody happy here . We found someone who just moved here from l. A. Im okay, yes. I think its great. Reporter and there you go. I should mention in this political season that 60 of those responding to the survey say political divisions are among our biggest problems in the bay area. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. And a jeff is here to talk about our weather. It is shorts weather, right . Were talking nearly 80 degrees . Through thursdays forecast. A very warm february. Temperatures moving back in with our unusually dry weather trend. Lets get you into our micro climate forecast. Mostly clear skies. A high of 70 degrees. Right now dropping to 63. 50s coming back once we hit 8 00, 9 00 and 10 00. Tomorrow morning i dont see problems with fog. Just a few clouds to start and some 40s. By the afternoon notice how the temperatures heat up, 78 in santa rosa. 77 in concord. Also some mid70s from san jose down to morgan hill. Overall very, very mild for us. It will be near some record setting heat. Its certainly not uncomfortable. Were not in the dangerous heat level no doubt. We have High Pressure, the same pattern that has kept us dry for a good part of january and also all this month. No rainfall at all as High Pressure pushes the track right off to the north. A preview of the warmest day of the week will come once we hit thursdays forecast and how it compares to some of the records. Napa, up to 80. That would tie a record. San francisco, 72, would be close. Oakland, 74. I think a new record in livermore at 77. San jose also tying a record on thursday at 79. Now its not going to last for an extended period of time. Ill have details on this system, our shower chances and the wind that could bring power outages. Up next, chopper and explosion. Keanu reeves new movie and the damage its left behind. Vo a Problem Solver for president. Thats Mike Bloomberg. A middle class kid who built a Global Company from scratch. Mayor of new york, rebuilding the city after the 911 terrorist attack, creating 450,000 jobs. Running for president and on a roll. Workable plans to deliver on Better Health care. Affordable college. Job creation. Common sense plans to beat trump, fix the chaos in washington, and get things done. Mike im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. We have breaking news out of Castro Valley. The 12yearold we told you injured in a hitandrun at the top of the show in this newscast has died. The chp is searching for the driver of a lifted black ford f150. Officers say the driver hit the girl and then took off. It happened around 5 00 near crow canyon road. That driver was last seen on crow canyon heading toward 580. Well continue to track the story and were bring you updates as soon as we get them. Hollywood moviemaking got a bit destructive over the weekend. Crews working on the matrix 4, keanu reeves new movie, set off several explosions on pine street. There was some Collateral Damage not planned. The ex