Morning than yesterday. Around the bay we have fairfield the continued cooling for the weekend coming up in a little bit. We are going to start here because this is probably the worst commute bay area lied this morning. Highway 4 and there was a crash that has been cleared there is a report of a crash eastbound 580 in the noncommute direction. In the eastbound direction grant line road one lane is blocked because of a crash that happened there. 580 in the Richmond Bridge toll plaza if youre making your way over traffic is a little bit slow and lighter overall than it was this time yesterday and taking a look traffic here is okay. The toll plaza you can see it through the sun streaming in you are looking at a 20 minute delay. This weekend will be really interesting. A lot of your work will be taking place in the east bay the first of six weekends that they will be doing major repair work on the tracks. Our reporter is at the lafayette bart station right now. Reporter good morning and happy friday. This weekend bart is kicking off a major Improvement Project for the next six weeks the lafayette yett station will have best bridges going through because those stations at least the lafayette station will be closed. If you travel on eastbound highway 24 the are two left lanes will be closed near the station from tonight through monday. This will accommodate a large crane for track repairs. Buses will be providing a bridge and all of this work going on as you mentioned for the next six weeks. It could be an inconvenience if you happen to take bart on the weekend. A lot of the equipment that will be replaced has been around since we started service in the early 70s. It is time to replace this equipment. It is time for new equipment to be in place to give our writers a safe and reliable experience. Reporter in addition to replacing track they will also replace the halfdozen switches those are vital come opponents that allows them to redirect trains from line to line. The work as a result of measure rr that was passed in 2016 and a bus bridge it will be completely closed and if you need to travel on eastbound 24 be aware those lanes will be shut down because equipment will be on those lanes. Just so you know it will happen at 11 00 tonight and it should stay close to 11 am and will reopen hopefully by the monday morning commute. New this morning, power is back on for thousands of homes and businesses across the north bay after a major power outage. It affected 54,000 customers. Electricity started going out at 10 00 last night. Service was fully restored around 7 30 this morning. Pg e says they are trying to figure out the cause. Investigators want to know if a truck crash turned into a wildfire and knocked out power to 2000 customers. It happened around santa teresa boulevard about noon time after a pickup truck slammed into a powerful. About 1700 customers lost their power, 15 homes were evacuated because of that fire. Is now 80 contained. No injuries reported. Cause of the fire is under investigation. A judge is facing backlash after releasing a man from jail after he was arrested and charged with attacking a woman outside her condo complex. Surveillance video captured the incident. Police arrested the 25yearold shortly after the attack. On wednesday the judge ordered his release despite a recommendation that he remain in custody. The San Francisco Police Officer Association Says they are outraged over the decision. The Union President spoke with us last night and our 7 00 newscast. He is a clear threat to Public Safety and probably to himself based on his actions and statements. We are not claiming he be held in jail but there are other services where they could have held him for other evaluation and not just for released him. They say he does not have a permanent address. A 37yearold man was arrested after they say he tried to kidnapped an 11year old girl after she walked to school. It happened yesterday morning about 8 am. Police say the suspect grabbed the young girl, put his hand over her mouth and a Good Samaritan reportedly saw it and confronted him and he ran away and was later arrested. The jury in oakland warehouse fire trial is off for this weekend. They will be back on monday. Yesterday they wanted to hear testimony read back to them from a witness, a schoolteacher and former tenant at the warehouse describing how she escaped to the deadly fire. The defendants each are facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. The one lawyer told reporters he strongly believes the verdict would come down yesterday. Happening today the search warrant used to carry out a police raid on a freelance journalist. Four of the five judges who authorized the searches have said the warrant should have never been issued because they violate the california shield law which protects journalists from having to reveal their sources to police. People who were affected by the devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018 you can now file claims to be reimbursed. Investigators determined pg e equipment is the cause of several of those wildfires. The 105 million fund was approved by the judge in the bankruptcy case. This fund covers several fires including the camp fire, tubs fire and the deadline for filing is a claim and eight is november 15. Another milestone for those who survived the camp fire, many students went back to Paradise High School this week. Bussed in from all over the county so they could go to classes. The school was one of the few buildings Still Standing in paradise after the devastating fire. They will not allow it to define who they are, to dictate their future, they are returning here to pursue their hopes and dreams and they are the strongest, most resilient, most passionate group of young people that i have worked with for 40 years. It is combined into two schools and administrator say they will have a better idea next week of how many students actually came back. San Francisco Mayor will highlight Pedestrian Safety around schools. They plan on ways to make it easier to walk to and from school. The improve Street Safety after deadly crashes involving pedestrians this year. The mayor will speak at the middle school and before that we are joined live in studio by the superintendent of the unified school district. We are following a developing story from new york city. A scare this morning. Two pressure cookers left at a subway station disrupted the morning commute and the police had to investigate. Police tweeted those images of pressure cookers. First they feared it was an explosive device. They were left on a platform a couple of blocks away from the world trade center. We still dont know who left those pressure cookers there on the platform and whether or not it was done intentionally. A warning for anyone visiting a popular late to stay out of the water. Where it is happening and the toxic water. The historic cable car rides again with the first time in two decades. The commute is light in some spots and we have the usual traffic travel problems we will talk about. Here is a nice picture of a fog free Golden Gate Bridge. You can see the haze. Temperatures will take a notable drop. I have details on your weekend, coming up. Your business is up and running, but is it going beyond fast . Comcast business gives you high speed internet. We also have Solutions Like powerful wifi that gives your entire business more coverage and automatic internet backup that can keep your business running. And it all starts with our gigspeed network. So give us 10 minutes. If we cant offer you faster speed or better savings than your current internet service, well give you 300 dollars for your time. Call now to get your comcast business 10 minute advantage. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Welcome back to mornings on 2 and happening today a protest planned against recent i. C. E. Rates. The group called the coalition to close the camps organized a protest in they plan to demonstrate at pioneer technologies. Similar to a protest last month. They want the company to and the multimillion dollar contract with immigration and customs enforcement. The company says it has no are in deportation. Earlier this morning the governor d state attorney general expected to make an announcement concerning immigration. The Governors Office is that announcement will deal with legal action on immigration. Officials say they will hold a News Conference at the state capital at 9 30 this morning. President trump is weighing in on the unrest in hong kong. President Trumps National security advisor and other top aides have urged them to the protesters. They began the protesting when they passed a bill that would allow people to be extradited to mainland china. New this morning, democratic congresswoman now says she no longer plans to visit her grandmother in the west bank. A couple hours after israel reversed their decision and gave her permission to come visit. This morning the congresswoman tweeted this, silencing me and treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting under these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in. Fighting against racism, oppression and injustice. Earlier today israel granted her permission to visit her money 90yearold grandmother for humanitarian reasons one day after banning her and another under pressure from President Trump. President ial candidate and selfhelp brought her outside her campaign to the mission district. The establishment is the problem. It is time fothe people to step in. Some of the crowd says she caught their attention and inspired them to Pay Attention to politics. Ive never been inspired by politics and im inspired to listen to her and start to be an activist and make a difference. I didnt vote in the last election but i plan to vote in this one. A new poll shows joe biden remains the front runner among democrats was support from 31 of likely voters. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is in second base with 20 and the oldest San Francisco cable car is writing the tracks. It is cable car 19 originally built in 1883. It sat in the barn for decades before it was refurbished over the past year. According to the examiner there were no guarantees it would make it back onto the streets because of the hills. The old cable car is seven feet longer than some of the traditional cable cars. They werent sure if the midsection would actually be able to climb and clear the top hills, but it passed a test run on wednesday. You have to write that. I remember when it was two dollars. I know many of you can remember longed for that. It is the loveliest way to get across town. Thats why you get people from all over the world paying a lot more than two dollars. Lets get you started with a look at your traffic where there are no trolleys unfortunately. People might wish for one because the highway has been a problem. We mentioned that crash that happened earlier this morning at bailey road. That has been cleared and the congestion never really quite cleared up front that. You can see solid red. Now there is a new problem in the eastbound direction and railroad avenue where you see that stalled vehicle. A truck lost a load of gravel and some of it spilled onto another are so the left lane at that onramp is blocked. Heading to the south bay this is 280 at 880. No one is injured in that crash. It is slowing things down a little bit. Still not too bad. We see a little bit of stop and go traffic from here. It is much more clear than it was here 24 hours ago. The sun is shining and in most places and we are looking at another warm day although not quite as hot as yesterday. It looks like we have some fog as we get into numbers low 70s in fairfield. Mid to upper 70s from concord toward livermore we are warmer as we get into the second part of the afternoon the future cast shows us we get more of a westerleigh believe freeze and that will drop temperatures down. It will not be cool but it will be better than yesterday. A look at the afternoon highs calling her 100 96 in santa rosa. If youre going to the coliseum midseventies expected temperatures will continue to fall. What could be the biggest change to cigarettes and decades. The new packaging requirements. Up next, two popular dating sites are targeting college students. What they can have before they can get into some fraternity parties and how the parties are profiting. Rodney you know what my favorite part really is is when i greet students when they come in. Because i know what great things we have in store in the classroom. Marisa when they come into my classroom, theyre able to really get in touch with who they are. Rosanne my favorite part of teaching has always been this opportunity to make a difference. Ever every student has the right to quality education. No matter what neighborhood you live in. Rosanne we are cta. Ever we are cta. Marisa we are cta. Narrator because we know quality Public Schools make a better california for all of us. Narrator because we know quality Public Schools we switched from ford. I switched from ram. I switched to chevy. We switched to chevy. We switched to chevy. For dependability. For these guys. And just look at it. We switched to chevy. See for yourself why people are switching at the chevy allstar open house. Get 20 below msrp on all 2019 silverado double cab pickups thats over 9,750 on this silverado. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. New this Morning Health officials are warning people about an area of Discovery Bay where harmful levels of green algae has been found. Water samples taken at newport drive tested positive for the bluegreen algae. People are being warned not to swim or wade in the area. People are being advised not to eat shellfish from the water and carefully clean any fish caught there. Algae blooms have become common in california and across the country. Last week three dogs lane in a North Carolina bond died hours later. The state legislator has sent a bill to the governor that require School Districts to update their records to reflect the genders of past graduates. The measure which was authored by the assemblyman scott final approval yesterday. It is intended to help transgender graduates or those who identify as no gender. Those records can inadvertently reveal it is they are transgender when they have not made a transition public. Popular dating sites are expanding their reach to college emphasis. They are sponsoring fraternity parties at the university of sec texas. Students must present an id and their phone showing they have a profile. Paying for these parties is one way to attract young adults. A new survey reveals how many people are the victim of cyber crimes. People claim they are willing to pay thousands of dollars to get there id back. Nearly half of the people surveyed admitted they are worried their passwords will be hacked in many say they havent changed their passwords for at least a year. Hundreds of google employees calling on the tech giant to help those at the border. We will tell you about the public position. Has temperatures skyrocket outside students say the heat inside the classroom is unbearable. We are live to tell you what the district says they are doing. This is something we havent seen for couple of days. A little gray and cool and hayes. Weve checked in on San Francisco every day this week. It was Crystal Clear and today it is starting to feel a little different and thank goodness for that. Always say it is a combination some cooling whether we are ready for. Temperatures are going to be nicer out there today at least if you couldnt stand the heat the onshore breeze is expected to strengthen. Right now temperatures range around the bay. Some of the inland cities starting out in the 70s so when you start out in the 70s you feel like it never really cool down. 62 fairfield is one of the areas where temperatures are warmer. Up by 6 degrees. Half moon bay at by two. Most of us in a few degrees of yesterday the onshore breeze is week. Colin curtis, the moment coming in from the north and oakland and as we get into the second part of the day the breeze will kick in and drop temperatures. We are normally 83. San francisco going to 75 typically the eight. Yesterday was 85. 82 in oakland. 93 for san jose as we get into your weekend temperatures will continue to fall. I will have more coming up in a little bit. We will go back to highway four because there is another crash to tell you about. This has been one of the big problem spots over the last hour or so and we are looking at the notes and there is another crash westbound highway four just east of bay pointe it is a two vehicle collision. No one hurt and they have adjusted the location. That will tie things up more than they were from that earlier crash that has been cleared into the pittsburgh area. Taking a look at the rest of the county if you are driving southbound on 680 you will encounter a little bit of slowing highway 24 and the rest of your drive looks really good and light for this time of the morning. The macarthur maze will take you 27 minutes. It is filling up a little bit. No major issues to tell you about. The toll plaza is not too bad about a 15 to 20 minute delay and the carpool lane is getting a little bit busy and it is advised you try to carpool today if you can or take Public Transit because it is another spirit the day. As rosemary was saying it is already hot here in the bay area and in schools teachers and students are suffering and they are complaining. A say it is hard to focus and with no air conditioning there is no way to cool down. Stroke temperatures not expected to be as hot. They say temperatures inside the classroom is absolutely unbearable. In one classroom temperature reached 93 degrees yesterday. One teacher has drafted a formal complaint same conditions pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health and safety of students or staff over what they call excessive heat in the classroom. Some of the classrooms have fans other not and educators and students say it is unbearable. I want to make sure that parents at home watching the news know that their kids are going to school in excessively hot classrooms that are utterly unacceptable. Bucket can we install and run it . Know we cant, it is impossible. We do not have the money to do that. We are going to do as much as we can to mitigate these issues as quickly as we can. Reporter Oakland Unified School is working to get 100 more fans distributed in classroom and for now students and staff are being urged to fill up there water bottle at the hydration stations until the district can discuss and come up with a longterm fix. A san jose pastor and advocate for the homeless is helping People Living on the street deal with the extreme heat. He is the pastor of the ministry and yesterday he and others delivered bottled water to Homeless People throughout san jose. They may stops at several homeless encampments including one at roosevelt park. It is a lifesaver and people are not thinking about the homeless today. The elderly and vulnerable they are the most Vulnerable People in our city. Bucket they sayhe can be the deadliest form of whether. For raising is back in the bay area with the fans and problems. The gates open yesterday in berkeley and tensions are especially high this season among trainers, horse owners and jockeys after the tragic death of several horses. Lassies and nine horses died at the golden gate field, 30 died at another racetrack. Animal rights activists protested about the racing industry saying they mistreat horses leading to several deaths. In El Paso Texas a large crowd of supporters expected at a Prayer Service for a woman who was killed in the shooting after an online post about a widower made headlines. The funeral on posted this photo of him on facebook saying he had no other family and inviting anyone who wanted to come to the service for his wife margie. Her children from a previous relationship are coming from out of state and now so many people said they are coming the funeral home relocated the service to a larger venue. The funeral is set to happen tomorrow morning. In dayton, the coroner confirmed all nine people who died in the august 4 shooting they are were killed by bullets from the shooter, not by police bullets. He said the two victims were hit by police gun fire and those shots did not kill them. Autopsy results show the 24 yearold gunman had alcohol, cocaine and other drugs in his system during the attack. Yesterday a judge ordered another man the gunmen spread to investigators say bought the body armor and ammunition used in the mass shooting wont be released from jail. He is being held without bail. His lawyer is arguing that man had no involvement in the shooting and had no prior record. In philadelphia the people there one action after six Police Officers were shot during a confrontation with a gunman. The mayor, the governor and other political leaders want lawmakers in washington to pass comprehensive gun reform laws. Dozens of local officials met at city hall pushing for expanded background checks and a pan on military style assault weapons. That gunmen in philadelphia had a military style ar15. The officers need help and they need help these weapons out of the hands of the bad guys. No one should have access to the weaponry and fire prior we saw. The shooting happened on wednesday afternoon after narcotics officers tried to serve a warrant. They say the man inside chopsticks officers and barricaded himself in a house for 8 hours and later told negotiators he had a long record and did not want to deal with prison again. Eventually he surrendered. He may face up to life in prison. It was a campaign to help boost morale at amazon where houses. Things took a turn. Coming up why the campaign is getting backlash online. Could the United States be in the market to buy a big island . Coming up new details about President Trumps positive possible real estate deal of a lifetime. Lets say good morning as we look ahead to the next hour. San francisco unified Opening Doors to the new Academic Year and superintendent will join us live in studio to talk about what students can expect and talk about the controversy surrounding the mural at washington high school. A small grass fire near hayward is being investigated. It started yesterday afternoon just after 4 00. No homes were damaged. You can see it came awfully close to a number of homes. The flames were under control in about 30 minutes. In other parts of the east bay firefighters have been removing dry brush. They spent hours cleaning the firebreak between berkeley and lafayette. Maybe difficult. It wouldve been dangerous for firefighters to wear their normal firefighting here. We are maintaining safety and having people work in longsleeved tshirts just to give them an ability to maintain their temperature. There are designated shade areas and water hydration areas and airconditioned trucks to help them keep cool. The fda wants new packaging for cigarettes using very Graphic Photos to show the danger of smoking. They would include 13 very realistic images of the risk of smoking. A written warning along with the Graphic Photos would cover half of the front of every pack of cigarettes replacing that warning label on the side. A picture really is worth 1000 words when you join up warnings with pictures you are much more effectively communicating the risks of cigarette smoking alone. The fda tried to offer photos of they were defeated by five Tobacco Companies who challenged it. A very large graphic warning labels are used in 120 countries right now and the studies show it is an effective deterrent. Dale earnhardt jr. And his family are recovering after their plane skidded off the runway and caught fire. Him, his wife and their one yearold daughter were on board this private jet along with two crewmembers. Everyone on board escaped with only minor injuries. As you can imagine news traveled quickly. It was shocking. We were going into the meeting when we heard about it. Awesome they are okay. He retired in 2017 was flying to tennessee to broadcast the race tomorrow night. The government of greenland made an announcement, we are not for sale after those reports that President Trump floated the idea of buying greenland from denmark. Greenland is the biggest island in the world it is owned by denmark, but it is autonomous. Reportedly President Trump asked staff to look into the possibility of buying greenland because it is a strategic location. Lawmakers in greenland reactant saying they found it disrespectful to talk about the island of something that could be bought and sold. Greenland gained selfrule from denmark in 2009 and many on the island say eventually they want full independence. The Foreign Ministry is using this attention to try to push the island as a Tourist Destination. They tweeted out we are open for business, not for sale and put a link to the tourism website. I am not making this up. This has been a transition week traffic wise. You can tell with the volume of traffic out on the roads the number of people and rashes earlier this week especially wednesday was the worst day this week. Today is lighter. We have some problems that we continue to follow and most of them this time of the morning are on westbound highway 4. Westbound highway four a crash that has been cleared out of the way. You can see the commute hasnt really recovered from it and it continues to be very congested as you make your way down toward concord and walnut creek. Once you get to highway 24 it lightens up quite a bit. Part of this is much better than we thought 24 hours ago. This will take you about 30 minutes. You see some slowing at the curve at the macarthur maze and still not too bad. The carpool lane is wide open and a good reminder to people that it is a spare the air day in the air quality is expected to be bad. If you can avoid driving or taking people with you so they dont have to drive take mass transit as well that is advised. It is not going to be as hot as it was yesterday. We still have to worry about air quality. Another spare the air day and not quite as hot. We are headed in the right direction. Temperatures will begin to fall off today.  even better on sunday when the areas are expected to be in the low to mid 80s. A lot of us are looking forward to that. We have mostly clear skies and you can see some haze. We have a little bit of fog starting to develop and as we get into the second part of the afternoon low clouds will slowly work back toward the coast. We had the onshore breeze expected. 67 right now, 59 santa rosa, 67 over the south bay. We are starting out very similar to yesterday and a few degrees warmer in fairfield by five or 7 degrees. We dont feel the cooldown just yet. Here is a look at the future cast wind is light and variable and the second part of the day the arrows beginning to shift a little bit west and southwest and the yellow and blue indicating wind could be 10 to 20 miles an hour making it all away into the Sacramento Valley and bringing the numbers down. With that said it will still be baking in santa rosa. 82 for sausalito, low 80s expected berkeley toward alameda. Upper 90s for danville, low 100 for brentwood. For the south bay 90 degrees saratoga still very warm and not as hot as yesterday. Copy numbers by 5 to 10 degrees. Midseventies for downtown. Tahoe is a tricky one. Mid to upper 30s. Most of tahoe reporting low 40s and that will be the case. Afternoon ice for today 83 tomorrow, 83 on sunday. Fabulous. Heres a look at the extended forecast. Getting into your weekend upper 80s by tomorrow low 80s by sunday for a hotter location. Breaking barriers in a male dominated field becoming the first female marine to pilot the at 35 jet. There she is coming up. New plans to grow a San Francisco neighborhood after the break a new initiative in the bayview to help Small Businesses. California phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones, phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Call or visit and out of respect, we will let you make the first offer. Thirty minutes. Thirty minutes . Objection overruled. One hour. Sweeten the deal by doing the dishes and ill consider it. I wouldnt do it. I hate the dishes. One hour with the tablet, you walk the dog and do the dishes. If you insist. Congratulations. Only xfinity xfi lets you take control of your familys online time. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Xfinity xfi gives you the speed, coverage and control you need. Manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state program call or visit welcome back to mornings on 2, a partnership in San Francisco district helping Small Businesses grow and it is centered around a new food market in the bayview. As greg was there he tells us city and Community Leaders hope it will attract people to that neighborhood. Nothing brings the Community Together like food. Reporter the mayor hopes that is true here at third and upson you will find some big dreams on this tiny plot of land. It is giving some local food entrepreneurs still in the infant stage an opportunity to market and grow their business. The idea as a Publicprivate Partnership the landowner plans break ground on a mixeduse development and for now has loaned the land charge to a Commission Program that aims to help local neighborhoods. Small businesses are getting free space and coaching to help them succeed. At this point we noticed your hard work and this will mean something. I didnt think help was an option. Right now there are three businesses and the food is getting positive reviews. Fantastic flavors, fall off the bone meat. The mayor hopes it helps the largely minority district tried. I am hoping the businesses get enough support and we can hopefully help them transition into may be one of the empty storefronts. There was the opening bell at start of the trading day on wall street. Global stocks recovered some ground of the end of a turbulent week and there are worries about the American Economy and the trade between the United States and china which could derail the recovery. We are looking live trading just over an hour the markets are up right now. We will keep an eye on it throughout the day. Hundreds of google employees want google to promise it will not work with federal immigration agents or border patrol. This sinfully group calls itselfthey posted a petition urging the company not to bid on the contract for a federal agency that oversees Law Enforcement at the border. Almost 1000 people signed that petition. They oppose separating Migrant Children from their families and the conditions at detention centers. Google employees walked off their jobs earlier this year protesting Workplace Sexual Harassment and pay inequality. Amazon is getting some backlash for pain some workers to say nice things about the company on twitter. The workers called Fulfillment Center ambassadors. This is a program started last year in response to accusations of poor working conditions at the Fulfillment Center. Some people accuse amazon of using fake accounts to send out positive tweets. Amazon says the goal of the program is to educate people about the actual environment in the warehouses. Jcpenney is partnering with Online Consignment Stores to sell used clothing. This comes as jcpenney is struggling to stay in business. The Company Reported a net loss of 48 million over the last three months. Time is 7 56 and the great harvest in napa valley is underway. These berkeley winemakers kicked off the harvest earlier this week. The harvest they will probably begin within the next month. Napa valley winegrowers are working hard. The Wine Industry is one of the top tourist attractions. Still ahead, mark major trend to work that could affect how you get around in the bay area particularly in the east bay. What you need to know about plans to close some tracks for repairs. A new first to make sure the ballpark is safe for everybody. Growing outrage after a judge releases a man charged with attacking a woman and the San Francisco Police Officer association is speaking out. A huge project with major impact. We are live in the east bay with what will impact your commute for the next two month. A superintendent joins us live the state of the district and what students can expect. Good morning and welcome back to mornings on 2. The relief we have been waiting for is starting to get here. Temperatures wont be as high as earlier this week. 5 to 10 degrees drop and it will still be warm. That is how hot it was. We broke records well above 100 degrees and we will get to just about 100 for some spots today. Here is a look over the city where we have some haze and another spare the air day. We have fog trying to recollect is expected to move back. The onshore breeze very week. Oakland, 66 and we are free degrees cooler in oakland fairfield, one of the spots that is warmer this morning fairfield had a little bit of an onshore breeze and is still fairly weekend it is calm. Here is a look at the expected high and livermore, 99. 10 degrees of cooling expected in San Francisco and concord baking at 100 degrees. Temperatures will continue to fall i will have a better look at the numbers and what you back coming up at 8 01 list check on traffic. Good morning. We are following some heavy traffic coming through you can see what we are talking about and paramedics have been called to the scene of the crash. Expect that area to get backed up. This area is cleared and northbound 880 at 29th as well. Also on this map if you look at the bay bridge this is in the westbound direction there is a collision involving a big rig and they have pulled off to the right hand shoulder. No break like tapping going on so that is an improvement. This weekend where bart will be doing significant work. These are expected even if you are driving. In morning. The traffic isnt nearly as bad as we thought. If you have two lanes of traffic shut down it could take people by surprise. They had no idea this closure was going to take place. The station will not be in service this weekend. There will be a bridge this begins tonight at 11 00 and it will remain closed until 7 am and they have to shut down those lanes so they can bring in repair work. They need to make these necessary upgrades because the equipment is extremely old and we spoke with commuters who now say they have to change their plans. My boyfriend is in San Francisco and on the weekends i drive and the weekdays i take part. It will impact me adding that into the drive time and commuting and weekend plans. Because this is a busy line we are telling riders to expect delays of 30 minutes or more on those shutdown weekends and we have six of those coming up. The first one will be this weekend. In addition to replacing track they will replace a half dozen switches. Those are vital that allow them to redirect from line to line and because the bart station will be closed county connection will be coming in providing best bridges all the way over to walnut creek so keep that in mind this weekend and for the next weekends this station will be closed and those eastbound nes are going to be closed. It will be an inconvenience for some and this is a necessary upgrade they say they need to do and it is to improve the system. New this morning the power is back on for thousands of homes and businesses across the north bay. Stoms. Cted some 54,000 the life started going out at 10 00 last night and service was fully restored. Pg e says it is still trying to figure out the cause of the outage. Investigators are looking into whether a car crash brought down electrical line. That fire burned about 75 acres in the area about 15 were evacuated no one was injured. The fire started yesterday and that last word 80 contained. Checking whether about 700 customers lost power. A judge is facing backlash after releasing a man from jail three days after he was arrested and charged with attacking a woman. Surveillance cameras captured the incident at the front door of the building. Police arrested the 25yearold after the attacked. The judge ordered his release despite a recommendation that he remain in custody. Mayor london said the judge made a mistake. They say they are outraged by the decision. Mister vincent it is a clear threat to Public Safety based on his actions and statements. We dont think he should be held in jail but there are other services where they could have held him for further evaluation and did not release him as part of the revolving door. Police say he does not have a permanent address. A man was arrested after they say he tried to kidnap an 11yearold girl as she walked to school yesterday morning on palm avenue. Police say the suspect grabbed the girl and put his hand over her mouth. A Good Samaritan saw this and confronted him. The jury and the ghost ship warehouse fire is off before more deliberations. They wanted testimony to be read back to them from witness. She is a schoolteacher and former tenant in the warehouse who described how she escaped the fire. He said he believed a verdict would come down yesterday. The final hearing on the search warrant used to carry out a police raid at the home of a freelance journalist. Police were trying to learn how he obtained a Police Report about a deaf. They obtained five search warrants. So far four of the five judges you authorize the search outside the warrant never shouldve been issued because they violate the california shield law which protects journalists from releasing their sources. Pg e acceptingpeople can file claims to be reimbursed for housing and other immediate needs. Inveors stigattermined the equipment was the cause of several of those wildfires. The fund was approved by the judge in the bankruptcy case. It covers several fires. The deadline to file is november 15. Another milestone many Students Affected by the fire returned to Paradise High School. They were best from all over so they could attend classes. The school was one of the few buildings Still Standing in town after novembers destructive fire. They will not allow the campfire to define who they are, to dictate their future, they are returning to pursue their hopes and dreams and they are the strongest most resilient that i have worked with for 40 years. It has been combined into two schools. School administrators say they will have a better idea next week of how many students came back. We follow developing news in new york city where two pressure cookers were left at eight subway station and that disrupted the commute as police investigated. New York Police Department reported two images initially there were fears they were explosive devices. At this point it is unclear who left those they are on the platform and whether or not it was intentional. Pressure cookers were used as bombs they put them at the finish line at the boston marathon. A morning for anyone visiting a popular lake. Stay out of the water where it is happening and the toxic crisis. Up next we will talk with the superintendent it we will check the conditions after we have been following some earlier crashes i am tracking a change in the weather pattern that will bring a drop and details coming up. This monday is the first day of school in the unified school district. It is one of the biggest in the district and the state. The district was led by San Francisco native who has been part of the Oakland School district. Lets talk about what is happening with the superintendent. Thank you for joining us. Monday is the first day of school so make sure you get some rest this weekend and we expect 56,000 students returning and we are excited about that. We believe we have some exciting things and we are excited to welcome them back. You are implementing some new programs targeted at middle schoolers. Our mission is to make sure every student has the skill they need to thrive so we are constantly looking at what we can do differently to make sure that is happening and we have middle School Reform going on we have revamping and reviving over the next couple of years we will make sure they are taking health and art and computer science. We are excited about making sure they have those skills. That is one change for them. Teachers are looking at this and we hope to move up to the high school and down to the elementary school. Over the last five years we know we have a crisis here affordability crisis in the bay area and especially in San Francisco. One of the things we have been able to do the average teacher salary has moved and 62 to 82 so we are excited and we want to make sure we retain the highest quality teachers and they need to be able to afford to live here. Is 82,000 enough wax even with where the state is and what they are providing this has been a priority. We are finding dollars and to be honest, we need to do more and we will continue to try to do more. You had a big hand in the other districts and we invited the superintendent she invited us to they went through a strike and they are cutting 20 million, how are they doing financially . Financially we are in as good a shape as we can be. We need more from the state and one of the big places we have been fortunate with is that our community has stepped forward the voters of San Francisco have approved taxes and this has helped us stabilize. We shouldnt have to go to the voters to get more it should be the state that is stepping up to say no, if we will provided we need to provide more funds. Parents are donated gallons of glue, boxes of tissue, disinfectant wipes, parents have a big hand in this. I want your take on a controversy the controversial mural. The board reversed an earlier decision the board actually voted to go into the process of the state mandate where we will review all kinds of options and as we are moving forward we are going to do what we believe is in the best interest of our students. We will go through this process and make that final decision what we are going to do. For as the mural is in one lobby of one of our high schools and we have 136 and what we are looking at is those students returning and doing what ever we can for them. I want to say, School Starts on monday, make sure you drive slowly around the schools. The mayor is talking about Pedestrian Safety. It is a pleasure and thank you for crossing the bridge i know it can be a big deal. Thank you for that. Lets check in with a look at the commute. We will start with traffic getting from oakland to San Francisco because both directions can be a challenge this time of the morning. We do still have the problem on westbound direction of a branch at Treasure Island they are in the process of throwing away the big rig that got in a wreck earlier this morning. The backup isnt too bad. We have the usual slowdown with you can see. Elsewhere in oakland a couple of crashes on northbound 880 and the bigger one is northbound and we still have one lane blocked because of an injury crash. Taking a look at oakland in the coliseum it is moving without any problems over to the bridge traffic moving through and there is a note that just past the toll plaza they are putting a warning up that there is a stalled motorcyclist in the right hand shoulder. Drivers should be aware of that and take it slowly as they get past that. Here is the Golden Gate Bridge a nice picture a nice drive for those heading into San Francisco and we dont see any fog. Rosemary has been telling us it doesnt mean it will be as hot as yesterday. Technically have to be careful. We are going to see a change in numbers today and we are headed downward. We get a little bit cooler on saturday and cooler on sunday. I will show you that in a moment. We have fog along the coastline and partly cloudy and mostly clear elsewhere with the haze out there another spare the air day. Temperatures rebounding. 71 in concord and some areas are warmer this morning. 91 in napa. We are dropping temperatures from yesterday. 82 in oakland. Mid to upper 80s. At the weekend forecast we will drop again tomorrow 5 to 10 degrees temperatures sinking back into the 80s and low to mid 86 acted on sunday before we rebound a little bit down the road. The weekend looking a lot better when it comes to cooler weather. What could be the biggest change to cigarettes. The packaging. Two popular dating sites setting up on college campuses. What students are required to have before they get into some parties and how the fraternities are profiting. Health officials are warning people about an area of Discovery Bay where bluegreen algae has been found. Samples have been taken tested positive the algae. People are being warned not to swim or wade in the area to prevent children or animals from drinking the water. People are being warned tothe algae has been detected several times, harmful algae blooms have become increasingly common in lakes, rivers and reservoirs and across the country. Last week three dogs that played in a pond with the algae died hours later. Pennsylvania sent you join several states including california offering a gender neutral option on state id cards. Only seven states and washington d. C. Allow people to change their gender identification without a doctor signature. Move most states have no policy. The measure which was authored by assemblyman in San Francisco one final approval yesterday. It is intended to help graduates or those who identify as note gender they can and furtively reveal a graduate is transgender when they have not otherwise made it public. Students must present an id and phone showing they created the profile. Students must download the app and set up a profile even if they are in a steady relationship. 35 of americans polled they said they were either hacked or had their identity stolen. A quarter of those surveyed said they are willing to spend thousands of dollars to buy back their information. The survey was conducted in the United States, uk and france they are worried their passwords will be hacked and many of them have gone the past year without changing those passwords. Big changes coming to Memorial Stadium what the fans should expect at the stadium before they get in. We will explain. As temperatures skyrocket students claimed they are dealing with unbearable conditions as there are no ways to cool down the classroom. Here is what they are saying. It is going to be a great weekend. It will be 80s and 90s. For those that enjoy the heat we have had our dose. We will begin to see changes and it will be really warm in many locations getting about 100 degrees in some of those inland areas that hit 105, 107 and temperatures are headed in the right direction. We have San Francisco in view and reworking toward the coastline. It is expected to kick in and help us out. It is another spare the air day. Temperatures are within a few degrees of where we started yesterday some warmer. Fairfield started out warmer than yesterday. You may have noticed. The onshore breeze is weak and calm in concord oakland reporting about six. As we get into the afternoon 75 expected in San Francisco, low 90s to low 100 inland. A very warm day way above the seasonal average and better than yesterday and continuing to fall in the weekend. I will have a look at your extended forecast. We are going to go straight to highway four because i hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is going to go from bad to worse now that there is a report of a collision with five vehicles and a semitruck. The lanes are blocked and there is still some information coming in. We will check on it in our next traffic his. From there we go to oakland alameda, all along 880 we have had some problems. Northbound 880 we have a feedlot. A new rash 880980. A crash there is blocking three lanes. Expect that to slow down your drive traffic is moving at the limit and highway 24 is lighter today than it was yesterday. This part of your commute should be easier. With the extreme heat some students say they cant focus. Their classrooms dont have air conditioning. Our reporter has more. They say conditions were unbearable with temperatures reaching as high as 93 in the classroom. One teacher has drafted a formal complaint saying the conditions are an emergency. Some classrooms have fans and others do not. Educators and students say it is unbearable. I want to make sure the parents at home no their kids are going to school in very hot classrooms that are utterly unacceptable. I concentrate that i am hot more than the assignments i have to do. Can we install central air and run it no, we do not have the money to do that. We are going to do as much as we can as quickly as we can. Reporter for now, students and staff they are being urged to fill up the Water Bottles until they discuss a longterm plan. A pastor and advocate helping People Living on the street as we do with the oppressively high temperature. Yesterday he and others delivered bottled water. They may stops at a number of encampments including this one. Water is a lifesaver and people are not thinking about the homeless today, the elderly, the vulnerable and the homeless are the most vulnerable. Horseracing returns with fans and problems. The gates open yesterday and tensions are high this season among trainers, horse owners and jockeys after intense scrutiny over the number of horse debts at racetracks. Horses died last season and 30 died down south Animal Rights activists draw attention to that. They insisted plays no part in deportation. Leader this morning the governor and it state attorney general are expected to make an announcement related to immigration. The announcement will be recording all actions. They say they will hold a News Conference at the state capital and we will have are you on the nine or at noon. Democratic congresswoman now says she no longer plans to visit her grandmother in the west bank hours after israel reversed the decision and granted her permission to visit. This morning the congresswoman tweeted silencing me and treating me like a criminal is not what she, her grandmother wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided visiting her under these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in standing against racism, oppression and injustice. Earlier this morning israel granted her permission for humanitarian reasons one day after banning her and congresswoman after being pressured by President Trump. There is a new push in pennsylvania to pass comprehensive done reform. President trump may be considering the deal of a lifetime. The island he is interested in purchasing. In El Paso Texas a large order is a factor that a Prayer Service for women who is one of the victims in the mass shooting after an online post about her husband made headlines. They had no other family and they were in fighting those to come to the Funeral Services for his wife. Her children are coming from out of state and after an outpouring of support the funeral home had to relocate to a larger venue. The funeral is set to happen tomorrow morning. The cornerthe mayor, the governor of pennsylvania and other politicians are asking lawmakers in washington to pass comprehensive gun laws. They met at all to push for expanded background check ban on military style assault weapons. The gunman in philadelphia had a military style ar15. The officers need help in they need help keeping these weapons out of the hands of the bad guys. No one should have access to that kind of weaponry that we saw in north philadelphia. Investigators say he shot officers before barricading himself in house for nearly 8 hours. He had a long record and did not want to deal with it again. Greenland is the Worlds Largest island owned by denmark and has autonomous rule. England the selfrule in denmark in 2009 and many say eventually they would like full independence. The foreign minister use the controversy to try to push it as a Tourist Destination tweeting we are open for business not for sale and included a link to the tourism website. 29yearold woman has become the first female marine to pilot the 35 pilot jet. She was a commercial helicopter pilot and completed her fighter jet training this past summer at the Marine Corps Air station in south carolina. She is headed to japan to join an elite line unit called the green knights. New research is questioning that women are better than men at multitasking. A german study compared 48 women and men they had to identify letters and numbers switching their attention back and worth performing two tax simultaneously. They found accuracy and men and women equal and memory and cognitive function were all affected and analyst say the perception that women are better at multitasking is because women take on more responsibilities. Taking on the responsibility of helping us through traffic. A lot of people on the road and we have seen a lot of collisions and a lot of heavy traffic and we want to circle back and go back to that crashed out you mentioned a few minutes ago. Take a look at the map it doesnt look like it is creating too much traffic. Amazingly all of the vehicles are off the shoulder there is still a crash and the bigger traffic tie up is at 980 a crash there is blocking three lanes. You see that solid red line. If you are thinking about taking 580 instead of 880 you will have a slow commute there is a collision. Taking a look at your drive time this commute overall has been pretty good. No major issues along that freeway and beyond. You will have no weight if you take the carpool lane and it is highly advised that you carpool today and take mass transit because it is a another spare the air day. Four in a row we have had this week. Dry weather that brings it to us. We have an improvement coming our way. Temperatures are expected to drop off. Right now sunday looks like it will be the coolest day and i will show you those numbers in a moment after breaking records yesterday and it was so hot inland. We have a little bit of fog and beginning to reform and as we get into the second part of the afternoon we expect the seabreeze to help out. Already off to a mild start and it doesnt feel like much change going on. 70 degrees right now outside your door. Wind generally light and variable and as we get into the second part of the day and into the afternoon that breeze is expected to blow through. Lets bring some of that cool pacificare and drop those temperatures. It will still be a warm day and well above average. 96 santa rosa. For the east bay shore low 80s alameda, mid to upper 80s as you go toward hayward and 90s to low 100s from danville into areas over antioch and brett.  90 degrees saratoga, it is friday 75 in the city of San Francisco which is still mild to warm. 85 is what we had yesterday. Tahoe is a mild start. 80 today, 83 tomorrow, 83 on sunday and fabulous weather. Temperatures are cooling off upper 80s tomorrow, low 80s by sunday we will go low to mid 70s by the bay. Still to come there is one way to cool off on a hot day a refreshing glass of wine for some. We will let you know about some of the new releases. music throughout welcome back, some Major League Baseball teams are making safety their highest priority and have decided to extend protective netting. We have more from new york. Reporter baseball fans are warned to keep alert and recent instances in the seeds have rock the sport. Chicago cubs infielder fell to his knees at one point seen crying in the arms of a Security Guard after his line drive foul ball struck a young girl sitting in the field level in houston. A twoyearold suffered a fractured skull, seizures leading the fami to consider legal action. The spine chilling moment called in a call for extending netting from foul to foul. The Chicago White sox and Washington National the first to get the link the netting using the allstar break in july as an opportune time to install it. The Houston Astros the next two add the protections at their home stadium. Existing nettingthe Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Dodgers also have measures at netting install with several other teams including the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals hoping to have things in place. The commissioner said he will allow ball clubs to decide whether or not they want to extend from pole to pole. The league required all 30 teams to extend the netting to the far end of each dugout just last year. Uc berkeley Athletic Program says people can purchase beer and wine. Students have to follow different rules. Alcohol will not be allowed in the stadium student section even her students over the age of 21. They will be adding metal detectors force fans get in the stadium. New packaging requirements for cigarettes that will use graphic depictions to show the dangers of smoking. The proposed morning show 13 realistic images of Health Risk Due to smoking. A written warning along with a graphic image would cover half of the front of every pack replacing the current warning label side. A picture is worth 1000 words and when you join up text with pictures you are much more effectively communicating the risk of cigarette smoking than text alone. The fda tried to warn visual warning back in 2012 and was defeated by five Tobacco Companies who challenge the proposal. The large labels are used in 120 countries were studies show it is ineffective deterrent. An effective deterrent. The opening bell takes off the trading day. We had a wild ride this week and lets see if it continues. Global stocks are recovering and there are worries about the u. S. Economy and the conflict between the United States and china that could have a potential to derail the recovery which we see is going pretty well. Dow jones is up by 1 and stocks higher and it is txdot leading the way. Now stuck up by more than one half 1 . The dollars and cents california has seen a lot of green when it comes to marijuana. The industry is expected to grow to 3. 1 billion this year. That is behind driving illegal market. Sales kicked off where people are still spending roughly 3 dollars in the underground pot economy for every one dollar in the legal one. That is a report from the cannabis group. Experts say hefty tax rates and sales have been blamed for slow growth. Businesses have been added to the legacy business registry. It recognizes long time serving businesses as valuable cultural assets. And the businesses are nominated by city leaders and approved by the Small Business commission. It is no mistake we are wearing green today. Guess who is coming to the studio, the incredible hulk, specifically lou ferrigno. We will talk with him about that role and his upcoming appearance at comiccon. New plans to grow a San Francisco neighborhood. The new initiative to help Small Businesses in that neighborhood. Ur cars were de for the films but this is the only one which has been full hi restored. Today is the start of the sill cop valley comiccon. Some big names are taking part including action hero, former governor arnold schwarzenegger, aqua man himself, jason month mow aand stone cold steve austin. Organizers are expecting 70,000 people will attend the convention. The doors open at noon today. And late are this morning on the nine, actor Lou Ferrigno Joins to us discuss the comic con. Rock and roll fans around the world are remembering the life of music legend elvis presley. Today marks 42 years since the king of rock and roll died in 1977. He was 42 years old. Every year, thousands travel to the similar ares form are home for elvis week in graceland. people are gathering to remember 50 years since woodstock. Today would have been the second day of a threeday music festival. It became an iconic event in the 1960s count are culture movement. 32 musical acts including santana, jimmyhand rex, credence clear water revival and the who. The governor is closer to a book deal for those with dyslexia. He temperatures the l. A. Times can be deeply emotional and challenges both as a student and parent h he learned that there were not many other options he decided to write his own childrens book. He has in the released any specific details about the story he is writing as the project is still in the works. He is best known for taking on the superhero persona and now the man behind the incredible hull be is in the bay area it meet one fans. Still to come, we meet up with lou ferrigno. How about enjoy the last days of summer with a glass of wine. Well let you know about the new releases just ahead of National Pinot Noir day. I sent her a note. Are you pregnant . Yes, no, maybe . Plus, gettingied for a weekend of standup in the bay area. We sit down with felipe esparza. Welcome to the nine on this