yeah, you helped john snow, i understand, cover a french presidential election. i did, you're very well informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjohn snow's producer fell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go coverjacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and he just released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national services and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to southern france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac in english. john snow

yeah, you helped john snow, i understand, cover a french presidential election. i did, you're very well informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjohn snow's producer fell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go coverjacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and he just released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national services and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to southern france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac and english. john sno

yeah, you helped john snow, i understand, cover a french presidential election. i did, you're very well informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjohn snow's producer fell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go and cover jacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and he'd just released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national celebrities and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to the south of france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac in engl

yeah, you helped john snow, i understand, cover a french presidential election. i did, you're very well informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjohn snow's producerfell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go cover jacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and hejust released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national services and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to southern france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac in english. john snow

yeah, you helped john snow, i understand, uncover a french presidential election. i did, you're very well informed. it was one of those moments, it was a sliding door moment. i was kind of working for nothing, making the tea, etc, and thenjohn snow's producer fell ill and he needed somebody to go to the south of france — we were in paris at the time — to go coverjacques chirac�*s rally. it was the eve of the election, and he was the prime minister and he was standing to be president against francois mitterrand, and he just released the french hostages from beirut that day. he'd used his power as prime minister to potentially persuade the french electorate to vote for him. these french hostages were national services and they'd been incarcerated in beirut for a very long time. national news bulletins every night started with their faces and the number of days that they have been incarcerated. and i went down to southern france to meet up with the crew. i was 21 at the time, 22, and managed to get an exclusive interview with jacques chirac and english. john sno

. >> position the snow guns to blow water on the building. >> reporter: john is the general manager of the sierra at tahoe resort. he had to evacuate twice in two days. >> i've had to rebuild when i lost a house in an earthquake in 1992 and rebuild from that and start over. we've been through it and it's not fun. a wildfire is a little different. >> reporter: flames are moving through dry vegetation while the wind is keeping crews where to go next. >> a lot of our season passholders and locals that love coming up and we're ready to serve them this year. it might look a little different but we're ready to serve. >> reporter: cheryl hurd, "today in the bay." >>> this situation is changing by the minute. we're monitoring across all of our social platforms throughout the news cast and, of course, throughout the day. follow "today in the bay" on twitter for updates and sign up for our breaking news alert e-mails at nbcbayarea.com. >>> 4:38. jury selection starts today in the trial of theranos founder elizabeth holmes. >> holmes became world famous and notorious after dropping out of stanfor

. >> last we have snow spare the air alert for today. thankfully. john, good morning. yes, we can be super thankful for that. and the cherry on top of it. is this good air quality also comes along with some really good weather. so i know are working on a monday. hopefully get a chance to enjoy the little bit, though. you've got to take advantage of these good days. you're north calhoun. the weather center forecast for the south bay does show a little bit of cloud cover. and there in the distance. what you are looking at this morning whether it's gray are a little bit of blue with some the cloud cover in the distance is really just that marine layer that we're taking in as you can see, skies are pretty bright and san jose, we've seen this marine layer filtering in over the weekend. there are going to be pockets of moderate air quality into the afternoon. so it's not picture perfect, but it is pretty close to it. as you can see, we're starting this morning with good air quality across the board. now the bay area air quality management district has taken us out a spare th

la in southlake john found a one cameras here at tahoe. john. that's got a really good vantage point to some of the flames that we're seeing up there this morning. this one just sends chills down your spine. this one at sierra at tahoe right here. yet normally you look at this for snow resort this is wild. let's actually bring this one up full right here, guys. we can talk about it for a second. you can see just the glow of the fire right there. >> next to the blaze itself. and the fire obviously did expand a lot to the north east yesterday due to some south westerly winds. a lot of the camps right around south lake tahoe are showing views like this where you can actually see the glow of the blaze. go look at, you not kerkel, but we have like a heavenly cam, a dry front to show ski runs and you see this is bizarre. and by the way, because of these fires. feds, the forest service has closed all park lands in california. all national forests in california closed because of this. >> because of these fires and the winds are blowing continuing