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now at 11, santa clara county could get the go-ahead for more businesses to open. but tonight the county executive says not so fast.>> we still have a significant amount of transmission in our community. it is not just poor air quality, i'm also tracking near record high temperatures into the labor day weekend. one bay area school district is scrambling to come up with new lesson plans after parents complain of racist and homophobic material in the curriculum. >> it's especially concerning if we've been using it in the school district for six years without a concern raised. alejo reportedly reaches a settlement in one of the deadly shootings that has the police under the microscope.>> the bay area's largest county may be on the verge of getting the green light to reopen the economy just a little more. tonight county leaders are saying not so fast. maria medina is live in san jose to explain why the county will keep some businesses closed.>> reporter: you may be wondering why the state is saying okay but the county is saying no. typically counties enforce the most restrictive orders and in this case, it is ceren to send to cara honey. >> marissa is not only a teacher in san jose and a board member. >> i have a child with down syndrome. >> she is also a mother. >> if i were to get it and give it to my son, i don't know if he will survive. to make this santa clara county may reopen personal indoor services. and it could happen as soon as next tuesday. >> there should be no mistake, we still have a significant amount of covid transmission in our community. >> but county leaders will stick with the restrictions and keep those places closed. county counsel james williams says the county moved into the red tear two weeks ago but only because of its high level of testing. >> because we are doing more testing than the state average they have a factor they apply. >> many businesses including the fitness industry are watching sales declining can't wait for the day they can reopen while others are trying to keep their doors closed for now. >> we know it's the right thing for now and keeping ourselves safe and there were students safe.>> we will not know if santa clara county has officially moved into the red tier for two weeks until the governor releases more information next week. is salons and barbershops can reopen in alameda county and/or starting tomorrow. and outdoor dance classes will be added to the list of permitted noncontact fitness activities. the new health order issued even as the county hit a new high in daily deaths. 21 reported today bringing the total to 295. they also confirmed 157 new coronavirus cases today. the bad air is already here and an approaching way will make matters worse. paul heggen joining us with a look at what we have to deal with. >> the bad air quality certainly is not going to go anywhere. any improvement is very gradual day by day basis. tomorrow the trouble spots will be in the north bay, especially downwind of the woodward fire. also we have to worry about the central bay, san francisco and oakland with slightly less bad air quality but at no point will we see any green dots on this map as we head into the labor day weekend. and, the heat will be building. this is your hour by hour labor day forecast, look at those temperatures for inland portions of the bay area. the average high will be 103. that means the range temperatures will be between 98 and 108. around the bay and near the coast it will be not as hot but that's where a lot of folks don't have air-conditioning so he advisories are already in effect there. we will take a look at the whole labor day weekend forecast in just a few minutes. the question tonight, are we going to lose power again? the state has already issued an alert and warned about potential rolling blackouts during the heat wave. the alert is in effect from saturday until monday between 3 pm and 9 pm.>> a 5% increase of generation. >> once we get the word that we have to start rotating outages we have to conduct them within 10 minutes. onto the fire watch we've got word a few hours ago that the czu complexes more than 50% contained. evacuation orders have been lifted around bonnie june and the santa cruz mountains. in the lamar area is opened but there is a new problem, no freshwater after the fire melted a pipeline. for more information on the relief efforts, just head to our website, kpix.com . some east bay parents are ringing the alarm after they say their children were given online lessons that were racist and homophobic. what is even more baffling is that curriculum has been around for years. >> reporter: the district told me tonight once it started getting these emails, there was no choice but to remove the program from the distance learning curriculum. >> i have a lot of anxieties, a lot of frustration. >> cat is one of many parents have raised concerns with the alameda unified school district after hearing about racist and homophobic lessons being taught over a program. >> were you offended at all? >> when i was asked about what was a traditional family and we saw pictures of two white parents. >> racist, all over going on, especially for the kids, if they learned that, it is not good for them. >> this is a program that has been used for years within the district. >> i'm especially concerned if we've been using it in six years without a concern raised. >> it was a way for kids to make a credit to pass classes. the board of education vice president says this is a wake- up call to make some changes in the district. >> we have a curriculum that really comes from and ethnocentric base. we are really starting to change the way we adopt curriculum so that we adopt curriculum that is more culturally responsive. >> the district told me that the company may make the changes overnight to fix issues still, the district says they cut ties with the company hopes to provide information on a new program next week. federal agents have reportedly shot and killed a suspect in it deadly protest shooting. this weekend a caravan of trump supporters arrived in portland and converted a group of protesters demanding racial justice. members of the caravan fired paintball guns into the crowd setting off a series of clashes. that night a 39-year-old who reportedly belonged to a far right group based in portland was shot and killed. the suspect was among the group opposing the caravan. justice department officials say agents shot and killed him while attempting to arrest him in washington state today. the city of alejo has reportedly reached a settlement with the family of a black man fatally shot by police after initially being pulled over for not having a light on his bicycle. this is body camera footage from february 2018. right before officer ryan mcmahon shot and killed foster. that shooting outraged many but the da said mcmahon was justified in using deadly force. according to the mercury news the city settled for $5.7 million. now a year after foster was shot officer mcmahon was involved in another fatal shooting. willie mccoy in the taco bell drive-through last month. we learned that the vallejo police chief recommended that mcmahon be fired. still ahead, college students stuck paying rent on apartments they will never live in. we uncovered landlords getting money from the government while charging full price. >> they don't care for their residents, they just want to make their money. plus, a labor day travel surprise. why the number one destination has health experts so worried. and him jean, did you know geico is now offering an extra 15% credit on car and motorcycle policies? that's great! that's 15% on top of what geico could already save you. so what are you waiting for? john stamos to knit you a scarf? all finished, jean. enjoy! thank you. i give. the stitch work is impeccable. it's just a double fleck pattern with a reverse garter stitch. no big deal. is your hair this soft? softer. geico. save an extra 15% when you switch by october 7th. you can adjust your comfortst on both sides... your sleepleep numnumber setting.ed can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. will it help me keep up with mom? you got this. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. and now, all beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. months & free premium delivery when you add a base. ends labor day. right now asian markets are tumbling following a brutal day on wall street. japan and ek close, down more than 1%. all were down significantly today, tech has led that slide. lots of college students and their parents are stuck paying rent for vacant apartments. >> due to the pandemic students are studying at home but there landlords won't allow them to break their lease. we found out that the owners of several large apartment buildings are getting money from the government while charging students full price.>> no one is caring for the students at all right now. it is disappointing. >> just secured her lease at this apartment complex near sacramento state back in december. since june she's been scrambling to get out of it. >> it is putting a lot of pressure on me and my family considering that my dad and i both have no income right now. >> she wrote a petition and formed an organization to fight back. more than 1800 people have signed the petition asking element to let students out of their pre-pandemic leases. change.org is filled with petitions just like this from students all across the country. meanwhile the company that operates element student living received a paycheck protection program loan to offset its financial losses due to covid- 19. ppp data shows elements owner received anywhere from 350,000 to $1 million. the owners of academy 65, another student living space received between two and $5 million. at the grad in san jose the owners received between one and $2 million in ppp loans. >> we are scared and we are afraid of what is to come. how will this affect us long- term. >> palat lives at the grad and is considering dropping out of school at san jose state to get a full-time job to pay for her apartment that she is not going to live in. >> am i going to have to be a part-time student now to make up the money that i'm going to have to pay?>> student at the grantor also organizing, their petition garnered nearly 1500 signatures so far. most students are still at home with their parents but some have chosen to move into these apartments because they can't break their lease and some have already complained that the move-in here is not going well. students have complained to management that they don't feel safe at the grad during the ongoing health crisis. one wrote to management that during moving there was zero social distancing and packed elevators. >> right now we don't feel like we are cared for, we don't feel like they put our health in any sort of importance. >> jess is being asked to sign this liability waiver saying she acknowledges that it is possible she may become sick and that she agrees to hold the owner harmless and releases the owner from any and all claims related to physical or psychological damages resulting from covid-19. she will not sign it. >> i feel like they don't care for their residents, they just want to make their money. california living is already so expensive. for a company that is already getting financial aid from the government. >> we reached out to the owners of the grad, element and academy 65 and they did not spun to our request for comment. >> unbelievable, a catch 22 the students and their parents are caught in. >> expensive housing, they are paying double in many cases.>> keep sending your stories and ideas to project home at cbssf.com . overbay uc berkeley, the college town feels more like a ghost town. the financial challenges brought on by the pandemic have been so bad but nobody was prepared for this.>> this is my 36th year, i have not seen anything like this. this is a disaster. >> is been unfortunately a couple of places, two or three on this block alone that have had to close their doors.>> cal does have plans for limited in person only once conditions allow it but so far there's no timetable for when that might happen. a san jose theater is bathed in red light tonight as a desperate plea to lawmakers for help. sanheim has san jose joined the theater further red alert start. >> this is incredibly frustrating across the whole country, because we don't have, there is nobody driving this bus from washington. it's all these little buses being driven state by state and county by county.>> right now live theaters are not included in the state or county's reopening plan. let's take a live look at sfo tonight where the holiday weekend could be busier than you might expect. millions of americans who have been cooped up for months are expected to travel. the most popular destination, florida. according to san francisco based travel site drip it, 12% of all flights are headed for the sunshine state up from 4% last year. florida is also a hotspot for covid-19 with the third highest case in the country. a rning of a adlytion for ba osure sis went artahoe morning plague. a couple of weeks ago a woman tested positive for the disease that wiped out about half of europe's population in the middle ages. she was treated with antibiotics but public health officials say rodents in the area are carrying fleas with the plague. man, that's just, a lot of people take their dogs up to tahoe. >> is getting to the point where i'm afraid to ask what's next. because i don't want the answer. 2020 just keeps on. including the stretch of poor air quality. todaro will be the 18th consecutive day and saturday will be the 19 straight, and then some of those densely populated parts will have the worst air quality with maybe some improvement sunday monday, but you will not see good air quality around the bay area anytime soon. looking e treasure island the fog is obscuring the tops of the buildings as it's creeping in, doing its usual thing. low to mid 60s, temperatures will drop a whole lot more the rest of the night. the fog will make its way into the valleys inland in the bay area like it has the past several nights and then it retreats. basically to where it has the past couple of days, right along the coast, but i don't think you will see much clearing along the coast. one more great day and then you get a little more sunshine by the weekend. tamara's dog walking forecast, this is a bailey from pleasanton. if you have some high-energhe i beginning saturday and it will continue through the rest of the holiday weekend very temperatures tomorrow morning starting in the mid to upper 50s to around 60 degrees. near normal temperatures for the rest of the day. slightly below average around the water. upper 60s and low 70s around the bay, low 80s around san jose. close to 90 degrees for the hotspots, and that's not that hot this time of the year. certainly not close to where we are going to be this weekend. the heat advisory kicks in on saturday for spots along the water heard this is where temperatures will not be that hot, topping out in the 80s around the bay and 70s on the coast. but that is dangerously warm for a lot of areas where a lot of people don't have air conditioning. the excessive heat will be inland where temperatures will reach well into the 90s on saturday. and then high temperatures sunday between 100 and 110 degrees, that puts us in record territory for the second day of the labor day weekend. likely to get close to record highs in san jose and santa rosa. temperatures slowly back off as we head into next week but be ready to sweat this weekend. and we will stay hot at least through tuesday and back off a little as we head through wednesday and thursday. straight ahead, the a's are handling their covid-19 business. a local college superstar is an nba bus and a thriller in like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. lily everyone in the house is online and i can't get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. try 1 gig internet with at&t fiber. you get more bandwidth and hbo max included. so, everyone stays entertained. so i can just watch the show instead of reading the book? you know, if you turn on your subtitles... that's almost reading. get 1 gig internet with at&t fiber for $49.99a month for a year. no annucontract. and now get hbo max included. limited availability in select areas. call 1.877.only.att (vo) i have the best job in the world. ♪ i get to remind people of their grandmother's conchitas. give the little kids cookies... 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playing. >> in the nba, the brooklyn nets new head coach former mvp steve nash. the santa clara great most recently a warrior specialist assistant who helped kevin durant raise his game. kemba walker and the boston celtics try to fend off the defending champs, watch them rise up with the no look pass. this broke a tie with a half second left in the game. but a half second was too much time for the raptors. watch this pass, and the win! that was how that eastern conference game 3 ended, 104- 103, cutting the celtics lead 2 games to 1. kawhi leonard opened the semi, and hear some of the best of leonard. he scored 29. ellie about denver 120-97. nhl playoffs, what a great story, lindbergh came from bone cancer to play in game six tonight, when or go home. ivan scored the game-winner. flyers when it 5-4, and they are not the only ones, vancouver beat vegas to force a game 7 in the western conference. and this time next week, the first game of the nfl season will be in the books. that's coming up folks. as the pandemic stretches on, many pet owners are faced with an tonight it's a lifeline for people who can't afford to feed their pets right now. >> the humane society of silicon valley is providing pet food owners who are struggling in the pandemic heard it's called the pet pantry program. in an interview with cbsn bay area the humane society told us that financial problems should enforce families to surrender their furry friends.>> in this time of distress and chaos i think most people who have pets in their homes are feeling very comforted by having them there. so having the prospect of losing a pet or having to surrender that pet due to not being able to take care of it is a very stressful thing to >> the late show with stephen colbert is next.>> thanks for watching the news at 11. the news will continue streaming on cbsn bay captioning sponsored by cbs >> president trump made a fascinating discovery during his most recent press briefing. >> i have something here. 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