live in contra costa county, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> the tony fire started this afternoon in lake part. crews contained it to 75 acres by 7:30 p.m. tonight and in napa and yolo county, a containment line is growing on the county fire, burning east of lake berryessa. it has grown to 86,000 acres. the fire is 27% contained. more crews are heading fire lines. firefighters responded so far. crews were hoping to take advantage of favorable weather today. in lake county fire lines are holding tonight. the pawnee fire is 90% contained. it burned 15,000 acres since it started 10 days ago. this is already a busy fire season for the county. crew -- country. crews battling 2.5 million acres of flames in the u.s. >>> last year's wildfires have some folks uneasy, especially around fireworks. but not all are that worried. kpix 5's joe vazquez reports from an amateur display. >> reporter: i am in the home depot parking lot. and check this out, dozens of families here in the parking of setting off of >> reporter: most of what we are seeing all the -- seeing are the legal ones, the safe and sane firewo

. >>> and in the bastate of after a brush fire last week, kpix 5's a-b is live -- andria borba is live with more. >> the hillside dry and ready to go up in flames at any moment. mestee hill -- many hillsides look this way and the concern is illegal fireworks. as the sunsets on 4th of july in contra costa county so grows the dread. >> everything is ready to burn. just needs an ignition source. >> even though fireworks are illegal in contra costa county, that doesn't stop people from importing them in and lighting them off. sending crews scrabbling. >> they are the ones that fly into the air and move about the ground. those are illegal anywhere. i think it is about traditionally, is ngascts of the fireworks and set them off. >> reporter: last friday's grass fire unconcord with an 80,000 plus -- in concort along with an -- in concord along with 80,000 plus acres. a task force will be trying to nab people lighting off fireworks and spreading crews and enginens to the breaking -- engines to the breaking point. >> resources are spread so thin. we will go to a manual mode of dispatching. we a

in yosemite valley, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> right now, we are following breaking news. has rocked the us embassy in beijing. witnesses have posted pictures on social media of smsuthe bu in china is capirea li up every to the us. no immediate word of any injuries but the blast was reportedly heard from blocks away. we are following the situation and we will bring you more information as we get it. >>> family members showed up in court today as the man accused of a deadly stabbing on a b.a.r.t. platform faced a judge. 27-year-old john lee cowell has been charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of 18-year-old nia wilson. police say cowell stabbed wilson and her sister in the neck at the macarthur b.a.r.t. station on sunday night. >> i am just so sad for my baby. that is all i know. >> alameda county district attorney nancy o'malley said she expects to put cowell in prison for the rest of his life. >> it is just a ruthhoible crim overwhelming tragedy for the family as well as for our whole community. >> cowell is due back in court next month for arraignment.

kpix 5's andria borba with chilling new details. >> reporter: court documents detail what happened to each of the four women orlando vilchez lazo is accused of raping. the details you are about to hear are disturbing. the rapes attached to orlando vilchez lazo begin november, 2013. orlando vilchez lazo picked up a woman at a bar in the mission. she was drunk and fell asleep in his car. she woke up in a parking lot and said this wasn't where she wanted to go. he kissed her and then raped her. after the attack he got back behind the wheel. he drove her home. the woman went to the hospital and filed a police report. that is where the trail goes cold. till february of this year. >> what happened in those five years, if he wasn't arrested he may have had multiple victims. we don't know how many victims he had. >> reporter: in february a woman drinking with friends decided to go home leaving the bar at midnight. orlando vilchez lazo drove her to a secluded area, got into the back seat and raped her and then drove her home. she told her roommates and then called police. >> this guy, if he wa

kpix 5's andria borba is keeping a close eye on these new development, andria? >> a doctor gave the boys a clean bill of health and the operation is underway. divers have been practicing for four days, and the governor of chiang rai says the boys are very determined and ready to come out. right now 18 divers have entered the cave trying to save 13 lives. >> reporter: armed with heavy excavation equipment and a c raintrance, preparing too seems impossible, rescuing these 12 children and their soccer coach from two miles deep in a mountain. >> this is an 11. this is probably the most challenging rescue that i've read about or seen. sxlr greg morris with the northeast chapter of the national cave rescue commission. he says nothing about this attempt will be easy. >> the depth and distance in the rain is an issue here. >> what might work in rescuer's favor on what's anticipated to be a buddy dive through water the color of chocolate milk and raging like the colorado river, the age of the children. >> they can see this as a challenge because they're already teammates

kpix 5's andria borba is live on broderick street where the city just banned tour buses, andria? >> well, elizabeth, the move bans vehicles that carry more than nine passengers from this one block stretch of 1de street in san francis,t urstalgi tha a -- >> looking at the full house house. >> reporter: -- and ready for instagram. for neighbors, though, the reality isn't necessarily seen through the forgiving filters of social media, but the cold, hard reality of traffic. >> i get it. you know, i get everybody wants to see the house. but it's also difficult for the rest of us who live here all the time. >> reporter: the classic san francisco bay window victorian is the establishing shot of the house the fictional family the tanners called home in full house and the netflix reboot fuller house. it also has nonvictorian signs out front from neighbors begging for quiet. this is the time lapse video of folks double and sometimes triple parked on the street to get their moment on social media. >> parking is hard to find because i have a car and so street parking is really difficult. >>

kpix 5's andria borba hears from his family and friends and their demands for justice. >>> reporter: the end of pier 26 in the space, no pedicabs heading to the embarcadero. they are mourning a six-year veteran of the industry. >> he was grouchy and critical. but it was always with a spirit of making things better. he loved our cabs. >> reporter: he was hit two weeks ago at the corner of sansom and the embarcadero with passengers on board. the cars that hit him took off. kevin, a father and grandfather, had been hanging on following the crash. but he died monday night at sf general hospital. >> i think everyone is mourning him in his own y.e ysa riding becausethat's what they need the guys are here because that's what they need to do. >> reporter: she said kevin hated attention and didn't even like it when she would try to take his picture. but he would be more upset with the lack of answers in his case, she says. >> i think mostly he would be mad that we hadn't found the person that hit him, honestly, like, it's really frustrating that there's no information that we -- we have a big

andria borba explains. >> reporter: 1709 broderick street in san francisco is nostalgic. >> looking at the "full house" house. >> reporter: ready for instagram. for neighbors, though, the reality of living next to a famous address isn't necessarily seen through the forgiving filters, social media. but the cold, hard reality of traffic. >> i get it. you know, i get everybody wants to see the house. but those it's difficult for the rest of who live here all the time. >> reporter: the classic san francisco bay window victorian is the house of the tanners usthe rebook "fuller in "full house." it also has nonvictorian signs out from that neighbors begging for quiet. this is the time lapse video of folks double and sometimes triple parked on the streets to get their moment on social media. >> parking is hard to find. i have a car and so street parking is really difficult. >> reporter: this video was part of the reason the sfmta board voted to ban tour buses on this one-block stretch of broderick street between pine and bush. >> it's probably safer. get a lot of traffic through here. >> repor

kpix 5's andria borba reports on the tower touchups that will give the bridge a dramatic new look. >>> reporter: gleaming in international orange, the golden gate bridge is the shining face of the san francisco bay area. but if you look closer, it is also corroding. a new report shows the bridge is in total 4.5% corroded and 12.5% of the south tower is. >> it's an interesting thing to kind of look at how the weather pattern really shapes what happens at the bridge and that salt air corrodes certain sections of it. >> reporter: the golden gate bridge district says the report is overall good news and that the corrosion, rust and other defects are cosmetic and on the facade and not structural. >> the steel structures that hold up those towers that then hold up the cable bands that support the bridge are in excellent shape. there is no corrosion, no rust. >> reporter: but the exterior corrosion, particularly on the south tower, must be dealt with. and it will be tricky thanks to the paint that makes the bridge so famous. >> the fix for this is strip the paint entirely and go down to the b

let's get right to andria borba live in the newsroom with details on how this happens, andria? >> it began with an altercation between family members and ended with innocent grocery shoppers and their children barricaded with a gunman. >> reporter: with hands cuffed, the man suspected of shooting his grandmother, leading lapd on a rolling shootout, and holding a trader joe's full of customers and employees hostage, finally surrendered. it began at 1:30, when it's believed the suspect shot his grandmother seven times with another bullet grazing his girlfriend and took off. >> he pulled her into his grandmother's car. lapd was able to follow that car using technology with low jack. that car came through hollywood division. he fired at police officers and blew out the back of his car window as i understand. at the an norst dion. reporter: the chase and gunfire exchang leaving a trailf evidence throughout the city. >> there are shell casings we believe from the suspect's weapon in the middle of the street. but as the suspect exited the vehicle there, an additional gun battle ensued

in oakland, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> the lawyer for the suspected rideshare rapist insists that the evidence just isn't there. orlando vilchez lazo has pleaded not guilty to 12 felonies including raping four women. prosecutors say he committed those crimes while posing as an uber or lyft driver. he is an illegal immigrant from peru and i.c.e. deport him if he is released. >> i.c.e. should not advance its own political agenda with cases like these. >> i.c.e. blamed lazo's crimes on san francisco's sanctuary policies saying, quote: three men are under arrest... linked to a marijuana dispute in sonoma county that turned deadly.. police found tod je martinez on wednesday... buried near healdsburg. they say he was >>> three men are under arrest . police found the body of jose martinez on wednesday buried near healdsburg. he was involved with cannabis. investigators think these three men kidnapped him at cloverdale and then one suspect took him to the woods near a creek and killed him. family and friends told police he had received threats from angry business associates. >>> a deadly acci

kpix 5's andria borba reports. >>> reporter: the rapes attached to orlando lazo began november 2013. vilchez lazo picked up a woman at a bar in the mission. she was drunk and fell asleep in his car. she woke up in a parking lot near warehouses and told him this wasn't where she wanted to go. he kissed her and then raped her. after the attack, get to back behind the wheel. the woman told him if he took her home, she wouldn't say anything. he took her home. she went to the hospital and filed a police report. that's where the trail goes cold until february of this year. >> what happened to women in those five years, if he wasn't gone or wasn't arrested, he may have had multiple victims. we don't know how many victims we have had so far. >> reporter: in february a woman drinking with friends in soma decided to go home leaving temple bar at midnight. vilchez lazo aggravatedly drove her to a secluded area, got into the back seat and raped her, then drove her home. she told her roommates and then called police. >> this guy, if he wasn't caught, i think he would continue to be a danger to th

andria borba, kpix 5. >> lyft confirmed the suspect was once a registered driver for them but he was terminated once the company learned of the allegations. the suspect used stick terrorize uber and lyft -- stickers for uber and lyft but not using the apps. >>> firefighters are responding to a tent collapse that left a dozen people injured at the army post in monterey county. the roaders of the landing helicopter kicked a-- rotors of the landing helicopter kicked up. 12 people have been hurt. >>> thousands of troops are at the base right now for a combat training exercise. >>> an oakland man accused of plotting isis inspired attacks in the bay area pleaded guilty to terror related charges. he is a graduate of berkeley high school and pleaded guilty to several felony charges including material support to a foreign terrorist organization. prosecutors say he opened account ons twitter and facebook to help isis and he discussed potential plots with an undercover fbi agent including using bombs and cocaine laced with rat poison to kill people on the uc berkeley campus and targeting gay ba

let's get to kpix 5's andria borba. >> reporter: over the past few years, we have heard anecdotal evidence from the fire lines that fires are not behaving the way they should at night. now it seems climatologists may have an explanation. the hours after the sun goes down are supposed to provide firefighters with an upper hand for mother nature. cooler temperatures and higher humidity. when that happens, the fire lays down and firefighters can work on stopping the forward march of the flames. that old firefighting philosophy may turn into an old wives tale in the new normal of california fire season. >> nighttime fire temperatures are warming at a greater rate than the daytime temperatures. >> reporter: tim brown is the climatologist in reno. he says markers of climate change can be seen more markedly after dark. >> it is about 2 degrees fahrenheit. the anomaly we are seeing now, the departure from the long-term average. that has been happening since the 1980s. >> reporter: the swing towards hotter nights has become more pronounced. >> the nighttime warmth also means dryer humidity during t

in palo alto, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> a wild scene this afternoon when two people led police on a chase in sacramento. it lasted for hours. mark torch shows us how it finally -- thompson shows how it finally came to an end. >> reporter: their two-hour joyride ending here on highway 70 north of oroville. the suspects choosing not to remain silent. >> we saw hollywood, just -- [ bleep ] >> -- take off! >> reporter: a firefighter noticed a strange man in one of their engines. >> you wouldn't expect that. when he knows somebody was on the engine and then it took off, we did what we had to do in recording it. >> reporter: and the chase was on. the man stopping to pick up a female about a mile down the road and then driving, waving their way through sacramento, placer, and yuba counties. detouring through marysville. several agencies joining in. but the suspects didn't stop. >> he eventually lost the right front tire of the fire truck, rolled it for probably a half an hour, 45 minutes on the rim until it got up to this large incline. >> reporter: so why did they do that? >> because we're tryi

kpix 5's andria borba traveled to the heart of the park as tourists were sent packing. >> reporter: well, it is certainly odd out here right now. there's nobody out here in july. it is safe to say at this point, for a first time in a very long time, wildlife outnumber people in yosemite valley. the roads of yosemite valley aren't clogged it tourists. they are just empty. smoke from the ferguson fire has inundated the valley floor. as of noon, all tourists were ordered to get out, due to the unhealthy air quality. the announcement upended many scheduled vacations. >> we have been planning it since march. but even longer in a dream. we brought two people from laos from 8,000 miles away. it's a big ur be cael >> reporter: el capitan is nearly hidden and bridal veil false is not visible. no sign of the 20,000 tourists a day. >> if this were a normal day, where we're standing in the valley at the village door this parking lot would be full. we would have full campgrounds, full hotels, a lot of day users, full hotels in oakhurst, mariposa. >> reporter: some folks are stranded waiting on rides

in san bruno, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> in the east bay a man could lose both hands after setting off an illegal firework. the victim found the firecracker inside a dumpster, he said, at an auto repair shop in antioch. his brother-in-law warned him not to fire it off because the fuse was too short. but he did anyway. >> he came out and tried to light it up and it exploded in his hands. he called my name, juan, juan, juan! i tried to do what i could. >> the brother-in-law used some rags to make a tourniquet and stop the bleeding likely saving his life. then a coworker called 911. mor and a state of emergency as a wildfire grows rapidly on the oregon-california border. the fire erupted yesterday near the tiny community cornbrook. the town has been evacuated. the 5,000-acre five has nearly reached the oregon border. i-5 is closed in both directions at eureka to ashland, and so far no word of any homes destroyed. we are, however, just learning of some losses in the county fire east of lake berryessa. cal fire says nine structures have burned and more than 100 are still threatened. no one

kpix 5's andria borba explains. >>> reporter: the hours after the sun goes down are supposed to provide firefighters with an upper hand over fires. cooler temperatures and higher humidity. when that happens, the fire lays down and firefighters can thforward march of flames. that old firefighting philosophy may turn into an old wives' tale in the new normal of california fire season. >> nighttime temperatures are warming at a greater rate than the daytime temperatures are. >> reporter: tim brown is a climatologist and the director of the western regional climate center in reno. he says markers of climate change can be seen more markedly after dark. >> it's about 2 degrees anomaly we're seeing now departure from the long-term average and that's been happening since about the 1980s. >> reporter: the swing toward hotter nights has become more pronounced over the past six years. >> the nighttime warmth also means drier humidity during the night. and that and cured vegetation, which is the fuel for the fire, this would typically at night absorb more of the moisture. but with less moisture to

kpix 5's andria borba explains it comes after a photo of him surfaced holding a rifle like a sniper. >>> reporter: the intersection of nba championship and international controversy is a narrow one and at the moment filled entirely by this photo and video of golden state warriors all star draymond green at an israeli border training facility. according to the team, draymond was already on vacation in israel with his family when he met with the israeli presiden reby the friends of idf, or israeli defense forces, as record by some outlets. and that the photos were posted on their social media accounts and not draymond's. >> this is an ongoing tactic of the israeli government using to normalize israel. and i would invite draymond to go and visit palestine. >> reporter: the photos have sparked an outcry online. a volunteer with the international solidarity movement says draymond is not the first athlete or celebrity to be swept into a controversy like that. >> and having these photo opportunities, you know, with him holding guns and saying look, we have this, you know, spokesman promotin