and as our joe friar explains, no one is quite sure why it's happening. >> reporter: not a grain of sand is visible in these images of california's balboa island, where the shoreline is covered in red tuna crabs. >> we occasionally see a bird that got caught by a cat or something, but i've never seen anything like this before. >> reporter: at times the layer of crabs has measured seven inches thick. >> what did it look like? >> red. >> reporter: they look like crayfish, only one to three inches long. to tourists it's a fascinating sight and pungent smell. >> it's neat to see it, but it was fun for a day, and now we're done with it. >> reporter: each day crews now spend about eight hours clearing the beaches. most of the crabs are dead or dying. >> this is quite the cleanup project, isn't it? >> yeah. it's a little different than we normally do. each morning we've had to hand rake and shovel the red crabs that have washed up overnight. >> reporter: typically these crabs should be in mexico but experts say warmer waters off the california coast may have played a role in luring them north.

joe friar, nbc news, los angeles. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. and good night. combination, the heat -- accelerating the drought. tonight, . >>> it's a dangerous combination. the heat accelerating our drought. tonight the bay area is being hit by both. good evening, thanks for being with us on this friday. i'm raj mathai. >>> i'm janelle wang in for jessica aguirre. it's been a sweltering day, some places topping above 100 degrees. in foggy san francisco, you can see the clouds moved out and things heated up. tonight we talk about the coverage of the heat. jodi hernandez is standing by in livermore, one of the hottest spots today but first chief meteorologist jeff ranieri talks about the weather and how long it will stick around. >> high pressure across the west coast is blocking any kind of colder air and storm systems that could move our way this time of the year the second component that's producing the heat is some very hot air pushing in from the desert. it's more like july and august type o

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joe friar is in washington with the latest for us. joe? >> reporter: thomas you can see one fire here in downtown wenatchee still burning out. four businesses were destroyed. sparked by embers from the neighborhood fire about a mile away. it's a reminder of just how unpredictable these fires can be. as far as fires go this one moved at the pace of a cheetah. quickly devouring at least two dozen houses. >> probably really going to hit me hardener a few days realizing i don't have anything. >> reporter: shirley lived here 45 years. >> there's nothing left. >> reporter: she narrowly escaped the flames because a neighbor pounded on her door. the home was not so lucky. >> no point in crying and it's gone. it's gone. they were just things. they weren't life. >> reporter: on a single block 13 consecutive homes were destroy destroyed. >> this would have been basement, boys room. >> reporter: families just beginning to assess what was lost. they could grab little before evacuating. >> it was, it was really scary. it was nightmare. >> reporter: beca

. >> that was joe friar reporting. a psychiatrist at the medical center. thank you for joining us. let's start where the report ends with the two daughters jessa and jill. you heard jill saying that we are victims and people can't do this to us. and jess quickly says i do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or pedophile or rapist some people are saying. she says that is so overboard and a lie. and we'll hear more from them in this interview that will air tonight. what do you see there? first of all your concerns about the two girls and the media attention and being identified? >> i think it is very difficult for the entire family the victims because there is a lot of ambivalence. what bothers me is minimization of what happened and daughters defending their brother. i can understand this is a family member and when talking about childhood sexual abuse when this does happen it is someone close to the family perhaps a family member and one out of five girls will at some point in their life be a victim of sexual abuse. i'm afraid that th

. >> that was nbc joe friar reporting. we're going to ask one of the nation's leading experts about this in the next hour. we're asking viewers to weigh in on our pulse question of the day. if you were the duggars, would you report your child? we're going to give a peek at what's taking place. 89% so far are saying yes, they would report their child. if you have an opinion on this let us know. pulse is live. pulse.msnbc.com. see how the sonsresponses change. >>> hillary clinton is about to call out republican rivals and put everything front and center on the 2016 ballot. >>> cameron crow has a lot to say about the backlash of his latest film. >>> four miles of the coastline remain closed because of these disgusting tar balls washing up on shore. it's unclear yet whether the toxic tar is coming from santa barbara county. you'll recall santa barbara county where the may 19th oil spill put out 21,000 gallons of oil into the pacific. we're back after this. ♪ ♪ hp instant ink can save you up to 50% on ink delivered to your

want to get straight to joe friar following the case from los angeles. joe, what do we make of the fifth juror being kicked off? >> robert what this means or -- thomas excuse me we have 19 jurors, 12 will be on the jury. seven will be alternates and raises some concern and burned through nearly half of the alter alternate alternates. the concern is fewer than 12 jurors by the time they have to deliberate. the good news is that the prosecution is set to wrap up its case hopefully by the end of this week and the defense says it needs about two weeks to present its case. and then it will go to the jury sooner than expected probably sometime in july. now, this all comes one day after some of the most important testimony in this case. it came from a doctor, a psychiatrysigh psychiatrist who treated james hole ms in the months leading up to the shooting saying that even though he had homicidal thoughts three to four times a day he did not discuss any specific plans or targets and she did not try to get a mental health hold for him because she did not feel that

here's nbc's joe friar with more. >> i think as parents we felt we're failures. >> reporter: appearing on fox news, jim bob and michelle duggar recalled the first time their oldest son josh approached them with a confession. >> josh came to us on his own and he was crying and he adjust turned 14 and he said that he had actually improperly touched some of our daughters. >> at first the daughters say they dealt with it specially but the problems continued? >> it was after the third time he came to us is where we really felt like, you know what we have done everything we can as parents to hand this will in house, we need to get help. >> reporter: according to a police report newly obtained by "in touch" magazine through the freedom of information act, a document that was sealed josh duggar confessed to his father three times over the course of the year march 2002 july 2002 and march 2003. it's that delay that concerns some. >> josh duggar should have been removed from the home. he should not have been allowed to stay there. >> reporter: after the third confession the duggars say they sent