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It was much worse. About 15 minutes ago, the fire cruise blocked all southbound lanes of 280. As you see, those lanes have reopened. 280 at winchester. Firefighters battling the flames earlier. Fire Officials Say at one time three separate fires popped up. There were structures in danger. But things have been cleared and all lanes are back open again. High heat for all of us and no school for some of us. A rare move by South Bay School districts. Theyre cutting classes for eight high schools. Not just for tomorrow. But also on thursday. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney is in saratoga where classes will be cut short. But rob, how hot are we talking about . The temperatures the same as today if not slightly hotter in the valleys. 76 degrees in San Francisco. San jose, 75. And in livermore, 76 degrees. In locations around the bay, if you dont have air conditioning, its not comfortable outside tonight. And same trend tomorrow 11 00 to 7 00 tomorrow evening. A heat advisory up bay areawide throughout the day tomorrow. Also, another spare the air day tomorrow, as air pollution gets worse as our heat wave continues. North bay, east bay, south bay, the worst of the air quality. We may see more of these. The temperatures right now, in the mid70s. Towards tomorrow morning, not cooling off much at all. Mid to upper 60s start the day in livermore. But the warmer start to the day. A few spots could be trending even hotter than today. Well look at how hot it will get in a few minutes. The heat is too much for an entire School District not willing to take chances. Officials in the campbell School District are cutting classes short for eight of their schools. Terry mcsweeney joins us from prospect high in saratoga. Tomorrow and potentially thursday, just a halfday. Reporter thats right. Students, as you might expect, pretty much happy with this. Parents, we have a mixed reaction, as youre about to see. But School District officials are saying many of the classrooms dont have air conditioning. And its already taken a toll on students minds and their bodies. The Prospect High School Football Team is not letting the heat stop them from preparing for friday nights opener against half moon bay. Hard to regain the breath. And hard to practice. You feel heavier. Reporter that heat means two halfdays of classes. The heat, i think thats ridiculous. But im not going complain. Im out of school early. Lets go. Reporter but because of the heat, the team wont be practicing on the field. Theyll be in the gym for the next two days. And all 8,000 students in the 8 schools in the Campbell Union high School District will be getting out at 11 30. The districts superintendent for business services, brett mcfadden, says its a first. About half of our classrooms in the district are more than half of the classrooms arent do not have air conditioning. And we thought this was a wise move. Reporter some parents say the school is missing out on a teaching opportunity. You could teach a kid that its a little hot outside, theres things you should do to stay healthy. Dont say dont go to school because its hot out. Reporter but teachers say students are raising red flags, with the hottest weather still to come. Many are reporting being dizzy. And sick to their stomachs and stuff. And that was just with, you know, heat in the upper 80s and 90s. Reporter outside tonights parents teachers students ocean meeting, cindy varek says she knows what students are going through. I was in a meeting in the gym. And it was ridiculous. That was in the evening. Anyway, im okay with it. Reporter School District Officials Say they knew they would take the heat. But the reaction to the heat, but they want toeer err on the side of caution are glad they are. Thank you, terry. You can track the heat with our nbc bay area app. Find the temperatures specific to your neighborhood. The app is free for iphones and android devices, as well. Promising big money and a lot of jobs in vallejo. Is it too good to be true . At issue, toxic materials. A Company Based in airlining wants to build a green cement facility. Is it safe . Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd is in vallejo. Reporter the people say theyre all for bringing new business to vallejo. But theyre concerned that this proposed business may be hazardous to their health. Vallejo has paid its toxic dues. Reporter peter brook is on a mission. Environmental Impact Review has a revised map that Shows Increased cancer risks for this neighborhood. Reporter he wants to know how a proposed green cement plant, that would replace the General Mills flour processing facility, will impact this neighborhood. We have a problem with the Environmental Impact report. It has a lot of information and tells us a lot about this project. But what it doesnt do is tell us how much contaminants and what type of contaminants we can expect. Reporter the report, which recently went online, is packed with information. The report claims the green plant based in ireland, would generate green highperformance favorable concrete. The companys president says the unique cement has been used in the building of the 49ers stadium and the eastern span of the bay bridge. Brooks and others are worried that levels of mercury and other toxic materials might be shipped in and trucked out of vallejo. You want to know if the Cement Factory and the city are being straight up with residents with the amount of dust thats created and the toxicity of the des. Theres going to be a lot of noise. A lot of pollution. A lot of trucks. Reporter we reached out to the citys community and Economic Development director and got no response. She did respond to a concerned resident, who was worried about toxic emissions at existing plants in other areas. She sidestepped the question by saying that information would have to be provided by the applicant. Vallejo residents have less than 45 days to voice their opinion. A huge meeting is scheduled for october 7th. Reporting live in vallejo, im cheryl hurd, abc, bay area news. Thank you, cheryl. It was supposed to be a new start. But homeowners in nevada were stunned to find their dream house was trashed by teens before they ever moved in. Want to show you pictures from inside the home. They were posted on facebook. Paint on the new hard wood floors. They say some High School Students broke in over the Labor Day Weekend and threw a party. A huge bash. Reports say as many as 80 teens showed up. You can see beer cans and glasses everywhere. Partygoers even poured beer and liquids down the new air ducts, ruining them, causing thousands of dollars in damage. If you know anything about the house party, police there would like to hear about it. A wild scene in vegas. Passengers scrambling for safety as a British Airlines flight caught fire. Late tonight, were getting new information. The jet was taxiing on the runway at mccarron international, the airport in las vegas. About to take off for london. But the boeing 777 never got airborne. The faa says the left engine caught fire. Emergency slides were deployed to get all 159 passengers and 13 crew members out. There was a lady with a young baby, not too far from us. She was immensely brave, taking her baby off the flight really quickly. Pretty much everyone was trying to help other people. Thats one of the passengers on the flight. Remarkably only 14 people suffered minor injuries. The faa and boeing are investigating. At a city that always seems to be under construction, one leader is asking for more. He wants to see a major transportation upgrade all across San Francisco. Supervisor scott winer calls for more subway stops and perhaps another transbay tube. Jean elle is live in San Francisco with more on the plan. Reporter right now, crews are hard at work building the new central subway. Its a 1. 5 billion project. One city leader says San Francisco needs more digs just like this one to help keep things moving. Getting around San Francisco on muni can be trying. It can take a long time. It sucks when its running late. Reporter scott wiener agrees. Muni is, on coverage, the slowest major Transit System in the country at over 8 miles per hour. Our buses and light rail vehicles are getting caught in the same traffic as everyone else is getting caught in. It impacts our economy, our quality of life. Reporter wiener introduced legislation today asking for city leaders to develop a subway master plan over the next year. He says San Francisco is growing by 10,000 people every year. And the system needs to expand or the gridlock on muni and for drivers will only get worse. Weiner says the system will be on tack in a few years. It will be the highest ridership line of any of the light rail lines. And we have to make sure its extending north to north beach and fishermans warf. Reporter many riders agree. I think hes right. I think we should have more transportation. And like that, less people would take their car. Reporter but this woman worries it will be a long, painful process. I dont know about the tradeoff between, like, the added congestion because of construction and the possibility that it will take, like, years for the whole system to get into place. Reporter concerned the board of supervicars will consider. Supervisor says it will not be easy to plan and it will be expensive. But the cost of doing nothing is even more gridlock. Jean, thank you. The question is, what happened behind bars . Accused of killing an inmate, three south bay Corrections Officers are now accused of assaulting another inmate. The three faced the judge for the first time today. Prosecutors say the guards punched an inmate in the head and twisted his arm last month. Then, just minutes later, they attacked this man, who is mentally ill. Tyree was found beaten to death inside of his jail cell. The officers did not enter a plea to the murder charges today. If convicted, they face life in prison. Coming up, free but not apologized. The next move for released county clerk that would not sign marriage licenses for gay couples. Also, the car crash that grabbed some headlines during oaklands mayoral election. Now, the price the city needs to pay for former mayor jean quan for the other driver she crashed into. Tracking hot temperatures, another spare the air day and changes into the weekend that could include a connection to hurricane linda brewing to the south of southern california. How that will impact our weekend weather when we come right back. We thought wed be ready. But demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding. Fast. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. You cant predict it, but you can be ready. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com. Yeah, we know that feeling. Youre so bloated youve started wearing sweatpants. Everywhere. When it finally happens, its always the worst possible time. And when youre finished, you realize youve been in there for a very, very long time. Being irregular is the worst. Get more fiber with chocolatey, chewy fiber one bars. Feeling good can taste great. Tonight, shes a free woman. But later this week, she might go back to jail. The kentucky clerk who denied samesex couples marriage licenses walked out of a jail today. And she got a rock star reception. The eye of the tiger music was blaring. Thats kim davis. She was greeted by Mike Huckabee and ted cruz and about 3,000 supporters. A federal judge set her free after her deputy clerks started issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples. Davis is urging people to continue the fight she started. We serve a living god who knows exactly where each and every one of us is at. Just keep on pressing. Dont let down. Davis is expected to return to work at some point this week. When asked if shes going to comply and give marriage licenses to everyone, her lawyer answered, davis, quote, cannot and will not violate her conscience. Trying to win back the flock, pope francis made a notable change to church doctrine, to gain back more catholics around the world. He has revised the process for annulling marriages in the catholic church, making it easier and quicker. The annulment position has been removed. And catholic bishops will be able to decide cases quickly. The process has been long criticized for being complicated, bureaucratic and costly and out of reach for many catholics. One in four american catholics, though, are divorced. It doesnt detract from the churchs support for marriage. But its dealing with reality. The pastoral reality. The annulment will take a year instead o two. And it will be free, except for administrative costs. Details on a car accident of involving thenoakland mayor jean quan. Several published reports says the city of oakland paid the driver of the other car in the accident 15,000. And that the driver also received nearly 11,000 to repair the car. Looking at cell phone video taken after the accident back in june. Kwan was driving a cityowned car when she collided with another vehicle. And there were questions if she was on the phone. Those were never proven. It may be time to update your iphone. Apples latest secret will be revealed tomorrow morning. The annual apple announcement is hours away. Insiders predict upgraded features on a new iphone and a larger ipad. The big reveal is at the bill graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at 10 00 a. M. Well have full coverage tomorrow morning and on our 11 00 a. M. Newscast. Will it have a fan that you can use . Or iac. Everybody would love that feature. After a day we saw today, over 100 degrees. Livermore, morgan hill, 104. 100 in concord and napa. Record highs. Oakland airport, monterey, 95 degrees. San francisco, if you didnt have air conditioning, tough day. 95 degrees. Still warm out there right now, with mid to upper70s. And look at the humidity levels at night. 25 humidity in San Francisco. This is very dry air in place. The High Pressure acts like an atmospheric hair drier, arming up the temperatures and drying things out. And acting like a lid when it comes to precipitation. The sun reacts to the car exhaust and creates the ground level ozone. And the reason why this is the prime pollutant for summertime spare the air days. North bay, east bay, south bay. And in terms of the heat wave, well see that continue as it goes into thursday and friday. Morning temperatures, warm to start. Mid to upper 60s for most. By noon, look at livermore. Approaching 100 degrees. And well see 80s and 90s. San jose south, numbers above 100 degrees. Burlingame, towards redwood city. Upper 90s. 80s and mid90s. For the north bay, highs getting close to if not above 100 degrees. In the trivalley, 100105. The heat reaching its midway point tomorrow. Well start to see temperatures cooling towards saturday and sunday. But los gatos and livermore will have some tougher time, actually, to cool things off, once the sea breeze gets going sunday into monday. The hottest temperatures to the end of the workweek. And in San Francisco, starting to see some relief, as we get into friday afternoon and saturday. Were going to get a weak sea breeze. For everyone else to cool down, it will take a stronger sea breeze. One of the culprits will be a weather system thats going to try to pull midlevel clouds away from hurricane linda, which is well to our south. And the storm will weaken as it moves to the north and curls off the coast of southern california. All of the clouds will begin to spill towards the bay area. This is going to bring in cloud cover and maybe a chance of an isolated shower on the central coast. It will also pump up the sea breeze. Were going to see cooler temperatures as we get into the weekend. That big cooldown looks like it will arrive into sunday and monday. Notice the temperatures to start off saturday. Still warm. Not as hot as tomorrow. As we get into the weekend, for your outdoor events, San Diego State against cal, thats not too bad. Mid80s on saturday. Comfortable for ucf versus stanford. The raiders game on sunday, not too bad either. The high in oakland today was 95 degrees. For sunday, in the 70s. And monday night football, come next monday, the weather pattern comfortable for a change out of levi stadium. Thats a long way office. The chance of hitting 100degree temperatures continues around the bay area. Are you suggesting we go to all four of the Football Games . I think he is. Our return to the halftime show at the super bowl. The pop star that might take center stage at levi stadium. And we have jimmy. Richard gere is my guest tonight. We have jessica simpson. Music from keith urban. Its a great show. Do not change that channel. Hackers targeting some 80thousand California College students. Vo son hackers targeted some 80,000 Colorado College students. The state and Maritime Academy and six others were impacted. Hackers broke into a violence Prevention Court last month, compromising the information. Hackers were not able to get Social Security numbers or credit card numbers. You may be saying byebye to your favorite macys star. The retail giant said it would close up to 40 Underperforming Stores across the nation next year. Employees may be offered jobs at nearby locations. No word on the locations that will be closed. But theres more than 20 Macys Department Stores Across the bay area. We dont know which teams will be playing in super bowl 50, but we might be close to finding out who will be performing at halftime. That would be fun. There are reports that the nfl has offered bruno mars the comforted halftime performance slot. This would be his second go around. He performed in 2014. That would be last year. Super bowl 50 is in santa clara on february 7th. Would they do a repeat like that . Or are they trying to throw us off . Well find out soon enough. Up next, a big night in sports, including the big tennis match. Stay with us. It took leonardo and miriam years to master the toss. But just a few little steps to master depositing checks with the chase mobile® app. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. Are you ready for some baseball . Baseball, football. Im ready for it all. Tennis . I got it all. I do have it all. Youre right. Giants 40yearold hurler, tim hudson, can see the light at the end of the tunnel as far as his career. The baseballs winningest pitcher determined to finish his season with a bang. Giants dbacks. Huddy making his first start since july. Gman on top. Hudson at the dish. Taking matters into his own hands. His first bomb of the season. Fourth of his career. He was also solid on the hill. Bottom sixth, strikes out goldschmidt. Hudson, gave up one earned run. And in the ninth, joe panik, going pull side. Solo homer to right, just missing. The giants win, 62. So do the dodgers and cubs. As at the coliseum. Billy burns, takes scott kazmir deep. Bottom fifth, two on for mark khanna. He says hello. A screamer down the left field line. Byebye. 40, athletics. Not the return kazmir had in mind. Sonny gray is working in the seventh. Gets George Springer to ground out. Gray, five hits, four strikeouts, no earned runs. As win, 40. A full house at Arthur Ashe Stadium tonight. Treated to a festive williams sisters u. S. Open quarterfinal matchup, as the serena calendar slam draws closer. Serena and venus, squaring off for the 27th time of their careers in grand slam competition. Fifth time at flushing meadows. First set, triple set point for serena. Venus return slams into the net. Tables turn in the second. Venus rolling to a commanding 51 lead. Serenas backhand comes up short. And set two to big sis, 61. Deciding set, serena back in control. Doublematch point, the ace for the win. Her 33rdstraight grand slam victory. On the pitch. Usa brazil, in a friendly from foxborough, mass. Namar buries the footer. The certain defense cant handle the ball skill officials the barcelona star. Usa loses, 41. And steph currys tour of asia has come to an end. Concluding in shanghai. The mvp traveled 5,800 miles across the continent. Promoting his new shoe, to thousands of chinese fans. The warriors brand getting a huge boost in the far east. Thats it for sports. Yeah, we know that feeling. Youre so bloated youve started wearing sweatpants. Everywhere. When it finally happens, its always the worst possible time. And when youre finished, you realize youve been in there for a very, very long time. Being irregular is the worst. Get more fiber with chocolatey, chewy fiber one bars. Feeling good can taste great. All right. Rob, 104, 105. What are we talking about tomorrow . Not good news from me tonight. Seeing the temperatures in the upper 90s by noon. South of san jose, hot temperatures and the heat advisories continues, 11 00, 7 00 tomorrow. Good night. Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests richard gere, jessica simpson, musical guest, keith urban,