Other plans. Some east bay hiking trails have been closed because of the heatwave. This weekend is not the weekend that we want the public hiking in the open space where youre far from the pavement, where youre two or three miles in, likely to experience a heatrelated emergency under the conditions were going have this weekend. Reporter thats the advice of Emergency Responders in the east bay. With an extreme heatwave on top, confire is urging folks to limit outdoor activity. And theyve asked cities to close popular hiking trails to help keep folks safe. If we do experience that fire in the open space in the wild land area, we want our resources fighting fire, not doingress zufs public. If our attention is diverted to do those rescues, then we cant fight the fire. Reporter its the first time confires made that official request because of a heatwave. With temperatures expected to top the century mark for several day, theyre expecting a very busy weekend. They hope closing trails will help. I think its a very good idea because there is too much of a risk both to the environment and to the individual. Reporter Blaine Rogers and his dog angel plan to limit their outdoor play time. Angels already an expert at finding shade. We play in the shade as much as we can, but she takes breaks. Reporter lupe is spending one last afternoon outdoors before things really heat up. Hiking is definitely not on his Labor Day Weekend agenda. Myself, try to exercise. When the weather gets this warm, ill do my exercise between 8 00 and 9 00 in the morning, and then indoors after that. Reporter confire says there are still plenty of things to do in the bay area without putting yourself at risk for heat exhaustion. In Contra Costa County, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Jodi, thank you. If you cant climb trees like angel the dog, head to a cooling center. Cooling Centers Across the bay area are opening up to help keep you cool. That includes this one at the Centennial Rec Center in morgan hill. Other cooling centers are open through the weekend. You see some of them on your screen right now. The camden and Roosevelt Community centers in san jose. Also, the libraries in cupertino, gilroy, milpitas, and saratoga. 21 libraries across Contra Costa County will also be available as cooling centers. And everything you need to know about the weather in your neighborhood during this heatwave can be found on our nbc bay area app. It is always free to download. Okay. At this very moment, President Biden is in philadelphia, delivering a primetime address. He just stepped up to the podium seconds ago. The white house says this speech will focus on the battle for the soul of the nation. Thats a phrase the president has been using since 2017 to rally opposition to former president trump. Now the Biden Administration is not calling this a campaign event, though the speech comes as the president is stepping up his efforts to help democrats keep control of congress. Remember, midterms are just two months away. Lets listen in for a moment. We the people, we the people these two documents and the ideas they embody, equality and democracy are the rock upon which this nation is built theyre how we became the greatest nation on earth. Theyre why for more than two centuries america has been a beacon to the world. Were of course going to continue to monitor the speech, bring you more what the president says. Well have that for you at 5 30. In the meantime, if youd like the hear the address live, you stream it on our app or nbcbayarea. Com. Very easy. Click on the link at the top of the home page. Just some parents in oakland are still reeling from a shooting on a school campus. It happened on monday. The child shot only 13 years old. The shooter even younger, 12 years old. And now some of the parents are demanding the district make changes to better ensure the safety of their kids. Nbc bay areas velena jones spoke to some families today ahead of a critical meeting tonight between parents and School Officials. Translator i feel mad and frustrated because my daughter saw all this. Reporter marina munoz are one of many parents hesitant after a 12yearold shot a classmate monday. The image of gunfire keeping her daughter up at night after witnessing the shooting firsthand. I want them to think about how they would feel if their kid came home and told them i feel like it was my last day of life. Munoz blames the school for lack of security and communication, while our skycap captured dozens of parents running to the school. They say they werent notified by the school until receiving this message more than six hours after shots were fired. I know the school said they did their best effort, but i know its only promises. I dont see them really doing their jobs. Oakland police dont believe the 13yearold was the intended target of the shooting and are investigating if the shooting was intentional at all. Parents say either way, it brings up questions of security on campus. For a kid to bring a firearm on campus, something wasnt being noticed. Reporter vanessa is one of a group of parents meeting with School Officials tonight demanding the district make immediate changes. I would like to know what calls are they going have for our kids safety. What are they going the change . Are they going to put metal detectors up . Or what plans do they have to keep our kids safe. Reporter oakland got in touch with families as quickly as possible after making sure students were safe. We asked them if any new Safety Measures will be implemented. Officials did not respond, but say safety is their top priority. Meanwhile, parents arent backing down. In oakland, velena jones, nbc bay area news. New at 5 00 tonight, putting a pause on covid booster shots until the new formulas arrive. The fda gave the okay for pfizers new boosters. The shots target the original strain and the omicron subvariants that most people are getting now. Most people, thats what youre getting. County Health Officials expect to receive the new doses next week. Public Health Leaders hope these boosters will prevent a fall and winter surge. Nurses were back outside today picketing as well as inside working at several bay area keizer facilities. So this is in south San Francisco. Its one of 12 bay area kaiser facilities where nurses are doing informational picketing, calling attention to their yearlong contract talks. The union wants kaiser to invest in more staffing, Workplace Violence prevention and better protection from infectious disease. The nurses are chronically shortstaffed. Were missing our breaks. Were missing our meals. And a lot of nurses are also getting sick because we have to work extra hours, just to take care of our patient. Kaiser did tell us its hired more than 3,000 additional nurses since last year. Kaisers head of hr for Northern California sent us a statement saying in part we hear the fatigue and frustration of our nurses, and we continue to work effectively to hire and retain skilled, dedicated nurses. Disgraced theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes back in federal court today in a hail mary effort to overturn her guilty verdict. Nbc bay areas ian cull was in the courtroom today as attorneys for holmes asked a judge to overrule the jury. Reporter Elizabeth Holmes is weeks from being sentenced, and today making a motion to throw out her guilty conviction on multiple counts of fraud. She arrived at the federal courthouse in san jose once again, holding her mothers hand. Her attorneys filing whats known as a rule 29 motion, not asking for a new trial, but for an outright acquittal. They argued the prosecutors didnt prove their case and that jurors drew too many false conclusions from those now infamous Text Messages between holmes and her fellow executive and onetime lover sunny balwani. We spoke with legal analyst dean johnson to explain it further. The rule 29 motion is something pretty much every criminal defense attorney has to do when their client is convicted in federal court. Essentially, what youre doing is preserving a point for your appeal. Reporter the jury found her guilt on four counts after a fourmonthlong trial and eight days of deliberation. The governments attorney today pointed to the testimony of multiple witnesses who said holmes knowingly and repeatedly lied to investors. Johnson said its a high bar for the defense to get over. What the judge would have to decide is that there is no rational basis whatsoever for the jurys verdict. Reporter today the judge ruled against holmes, preliminarily denying the ruling and will have to make a final ruling. In july a jury also convicted sunny balwani of investor fraud. Both holmes and balwani face up to 20 years in prison. She is set to be sentenced in october. Holmes Attorney Says she will file multiple motions for a new trial based off of new evidence, something the prosecutors say they would obviously object to. At federal court in san jose, ian cull, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Up next, trying to make Home Ownership more affordable for minorities. If you are a firsttime home buyer, youre going want to stick around for this one. The program that will offer zero down payment mortgages. Sharing a once in a lifetime experience. The story of a special Baseball Team that just returned to the bay area from this years Little League world series. Coming up next. And today now makes seven days at 100 and or hotter this system. Were going add to that in a big way. Way. Ill have the latest whats the difference between prop 26 and prop 27 . 26 . Not one dime to get people off the streets and into housing 27 generates hundreds of million to help solve homelessness. The choice is clear yes on prop 27. Whats the difference between prop 26 and prop 27 . 26 is a money grab that doesnt guarantee a cent for nongaming tribes. 27 requires 15 of all state revenues go to nongaming tribes. The choice is clear. Yes, on 27. Bank of america says it wants to help close the racial gap when it comes to Home Ownership. Study show Home Ownership and mortgage approval rates for back and hispanic americans are lower than the overall population. Bank of america says it is now launching the Community Affordable loan solution, a program that will help offer zero down payment mortgages for firsttime home buyers. No minimum credit score required. Applicants dont have to be black or hispanic to qualify. Of course it will not be offered here in the bay area, but it will be available in los angeles, miami, and some other major cities. Well, you may know, steph curry can add another title to his resume, college graduate. Kurri received his diploma from Davidson College in North Carolina yesterday. He finished his degree in may with a bachelor of arts in sociology, but he wasnt able to attend the spring graduation because of his job. He was kind of busy winning the nba title. So he got a personal Commencement Ceremony with everyone there. Davidson college also retired his jersey and the congratulations are pouring in. Vice president Kamala Harris tweeting congratulations to steph on your graduation. What an incredible accomplishment and example you earned this moment as a daughter of oakland, i continue to be amaid mazed by all that you do. Staying in sports. You may have heard that the team from hawaii actually won the Little League world series last week. But from all reports, it was a team from san jose that actually stole the show. Garvin thomas introduced us earlier this summer to the Challenger Team from the came briann little park league. Going to the world series. Garvin is here with tonights bay area proud. Challenger teams are made up of young people with physical and intellectual challenges. These are children whose parents thought at one time they might never get to play organized sports, let alone on the biggest stage. But for these kids, thats just what they got to do. Oh, that is a beautiful reporter at practice this summer for the came briann park Little League Challenger Team, they covered all the bases. They drilled over and over again on hitting, catching, and running. They were, after all, about to head to williamsport, pennsylvania, to play an exhibition game at the Little League world series. The first team from san jose of any ability to get to play there. In the end, though, nothing really could have prepared the players or their parents for what the experience would be like. I cant put words to describe how cool it is to be and also to be participating in it. Reporter his son riley has been playing challenger baseball for a dozen years. And he got to be on the field when riley got his chance at bat. He was the last one to bat. And clear the bases. I was dragging the bat off the home plate when he came around, gave him a big hug. There were tears flowing. It was beautiful, beautiful experience. Reporter Barbara Moroney founded the Challenger Park team with a dream, to simply get these kids on a field, any field. To be on this field, well, that gave her chills. The kids hit the ball and they give themselves like a yes or a thumbs up, or a highfive, or they look up at the stands and see their folks. Im getting goose bumps just talking about it. It was beautiful. Youre going to make me cry now. Reporter the parents of many of these players admit at one time, they wondered if their child with special needs would ever get the experience of playing organized sports. A onceinalifetime experience like this, well, thats clearly a home run. And while they didnt take the traditional route to the world series, it was by no means easy. Only two Challenger Teams in the country are invited to participate. And barbara says it took years to get their team chosen. It wasnt easy, and it wasnt cheap. They had to raise close to 90,000. Wow. No exactly. You had airfare. You had hotel. You had those cool uniforms for the coach, for the player, and for their parents. And it took a lot. They went out and they raised the money, and they got it. But come on, talk about priceless . For kids also as a parent to be able to have that memory that you participated in that. Thats something youll always, always have. You cant put a value on, they exactly. And something they didnt think they would have ever. Exactly. Which make it even more precious. Exactly. Thank you, garvin. Thanks, guys. Lets talk about the weather now. Because were all looking forward to this weekend. My goodness. An infern know. Yes. We may have to put any sports this weekend on the back shelf. Its going to be hard to kind of cool down here with the way those temperatures are going to be cranking up. So i did want to get you the late ohs tonight heatwave and well get you all squared away. As we started off tonight, i wanted to get you that overhead view of what im tracking on the weather maps. I showed this earlier. Certainly very important so you know how things are lining up. And you can see today, this High Pressure right here, this is actually our developing heatwave, just off to the south. Thats what brought us that quick burst of heat through our inland valleys and the low 100s. Here is the thing. Hang on. Tomorrow we get a cooler system moving off to the north. Thats going to drop temperatures down a few degrees. And then again, we heat up through this weekend. So well get you all the particulars on that heatwave here in just a little bit. But lets get you through our friday forecast. We start off refreshing around 5 00, 6 00, and 7 00. As you get the kids off to school, yourself to work, temperatures here in the 60s. Not going to need a jacket here for too long. The numbers will be climbing up tomorrow. 58 here in San Francisco. East bay at 64. So you can see those highs, instead of low 100s inland, back down to 96 in concord. Up to napa, 91. In san jose upper 80s. Oakland and San Francisco in the 70s. And right there at the coastline at 65. Tomorrow okay, we can deal with that. Then everything changes for us once we hit saturday, sunday, right into labor day. Were tracking that area High Pressure that i just showed you, and thats going expand all across california and move right over the bay area. Thats when were going get into the dangerous heat. Now everything right now is continue to show this lining up. I want to show you behind the scenes what im watching out for. These are basically two key factors going into our forecast that is the cool ocean breeze and cooler air to the north. If any one of these were to get stronger, the heat may not be as extreme. Again, i dont see that happening this second. But were keeping an eye on that ocean breeze. If it comes in a little bit stronger, our numbers may not be as high. Nonetheless, throughout the bay area, you see those excessive heat warnings and advisories in place. 100 to 110 inland. At the coastline, 70s to 80s. Also, of course, that increased fire danger. No doubt the hottest day is going to be on labor day for monday. Check this out. Ouch brentwood, 112. 109 tracy. 107 livermore. 101 in napa. Morgan hill at 103. You can see how the numbers will step down as we get closer to the coastline. So thankfully, we do have some sort of an ocean breeze. In San Francisco, 80s rolling in sunday, monday and tuesday. Then we drop it off next wednesday and thursday. And here is the latest. Again, monday, labor day, 108. Well hang on to it tuesday. 105. Ive warmed that up a little bit. Well see it trail off wednesday and thursday. Following weekend, we have some low 90s coming in. Thats going feel really nice. All of the sudden low 90s are going to feel fantastic. Its going to be good. A good sale on that. Thank you, jeff. Nbc bay area news is always on. All you need is a Roku Streaming device. To find us, select the live tv tile, scroll down to channel 133 and watch nbc bay area newscasts along with live breaking news whenever you want. Coming up, a popular line of ford suvs being recalled. Well tell you what models and whatsrong with them. W all right. If you own a ford suv, youre going want to listen up. Ford is recalling thousands of its cars because they could catch fire. The recall affects nearly 200,000 ford expeditions and lincoln navigators from 2015 through 2017. The National High Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the models have heating and cooling fan motors that may fail. Ford has received reports of 25 fires possibly associated with the fans. One person was hurt. The company says its going to notify car owners starting september 12, and ford will replace the fan motor for you at no cost. Okay, a heads up if youre flying this weekend, pilots across the country are on the picket line over contract negotiations. This is what it looked like outside of the Detroit Metro airport. You can see dozens of pilots with signs say that say they are ready to go on strike. Pilots say it is time they had a contract they can live with. Delta pilots are here to bring attention to the fact that its been more than six years since our last agreement. The delta pilots have led this company through a pandemic. We have hit the pause bus butt on the on our negotiating efforts in the past. And now Delta Airlines is emerging as an Industry Leader once again. Its time that Delta Airlines puts forth a contract to the delta pilots that reflects the contributions weve made. Now there is a tool to help you understand your rights as a passenger. Coming up, nbc nightly news will take you inside the faa room to watch the flow of flights. Tom costello is here with a preview. Reporter good afternoon. Im tom costello. Were at the faa command center here in virginia as they watch very closely air traffic this Holiday Weekend after a very rough summer. This is also the day the department of transportation is rolling out a new website so passengers can have onestop shopping access to see precisely what each airlines policies are as it relates to cancellations. Will you get a refund . Will you get a voucher for a meal or hotel . The airlines upping their game, offering more transpareny as the d. O. T. Is putting the pressure on to improve customer service. Were going have the complete story as we go into this Labor Day Weekend on nbc nightly news. Thank you, tom. You can watch toms entire story on nightly news coming up at 6 30. Jess, have you played the lottery lately . Not since we had that big one. Me too. So if you have played recently, youre going to want to check your tickets, especially if you recently bought one in daly city. City. H yol tell you how muc ghu miret alknady thow roat p tp 27 aaxesegnd resulat slines portinbett fg to undal reut sol tionseo th on me honelessriss c owso hl wil nthatevew renuebe nt spe . 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That has relieved some of the stress, but there are still people here. What the city and county are a doing now to help those living at this encampment. Also, we continue to follow President Biden who is addressing the nation tonight. What he just got through saying. And troubling news about how Elementary School students are doing in math and reading. Is the pandemic to sfwlam the news at 5 30 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Im [ audio difficulties ]. And im raj mathai. The heat has arrived. Its only going to get worse. Were smack in the middle of the latest flex alert. Were being urged to have your thermostat set at
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