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Can actually cover. Reporter schools from redwood city to cupertino to san jose report a drastic substitute teacher shortage. The reason, more teachers retiring. The high cost of living in the bay area. But mainly, experts say, its the economy. As the economy has improved, you do have individuals going into different fields. So we dont have as many individuals going into the teaching fields. Reporter the shortterm solution, schools all over the bay area are pulling teachers out of their prep per...

Substance that affected a whole lot of birds in a spill in Great Britain a couple years ago, so were suspecting its a similar compound, but we dont know yet. Polyisobutylene, yeah. We dont know that its that yet. It might be something else. We just dont know yet. Reporter but what is clear, california hasnt seen anything quite like it before. As rescuers continue their efforts, theyre now finding more dead birds than survivors. Its an ecologic tragedy, really. Theres 100plus birds that didnt nee...

Freeforall open gym that people dont have to pay a fee. Reporter but now the neighbors are complaining, saying visitors are showing up at all hours of the day and night, making noise, littering, and in some case, committing crimes. Councilwoman Madison Nguyen has a solution, especially because the developer wants to add more homes and more staircases, 28 staircases. We can somehow designate it as parkland where its only allowed to be open between sunrise and sunset, i think that will resolve the...

Accountability. With more demonstrations expected in nearby oakland, police are preparing again. We certainly are here to facilitate free speech, protests, First Amendment rights. And we want to create a safe environment for them. Aku but also at the same time, it reporter last nights demonstrations largely peaceful. But last week some protests ended with vandalism and arrest. With just over 700 officers, police say some are working their 12th day. It drives the overtime up as well as it really ...

But first were following some breaking news at sfo. You can see it and you can hear it. Traffic backed up for miles as tax i drivers are circling the airport at this hour. These taxis are blocking the lanes and offramps heading into and out of the airport. Theyre protesting Companies Like uber and lyft which are taking a lot of business away from these traditional taxis. Dozens of passengers are having problems getting into and out of sfo late tonight. No word yet on if these taxi drivers are pl...

Ma din valley tonight is devastated. This is pokey. Its okay, buddy. Reporter pokey and moxie were not hurt during the attack on tuesday. But police say a third dog, sparky, was badly beaten with a golf club in an upstairs bedroom. We were looking around for the third dog. And my daughter unfortunately found him upstairs. He was laying on his side, whimpering. Pretty much unresponsive. Reporter the injuries were severe. And the vet ultimately had to put sparky down. Without sparky around, you kn...

There may be some pine interspersed in there. But those are mostly eucalyptus. Reporter and the trees that blanket the area couldnt be more flammable. Thousands of nonnative oilladen eucalyptus trees could act like fire torches if ignited. Its a very dry conditions like we have now and wind. Those things together with just the a cigarette butt could cause this thing to go up like a tinderbox. Reporter sal genito with uc berkeley says the university owns about a thousand acres in the hills. They ...

Kind of weapon that suspect had. Its a small victory in our deepening drought. Were finally conserving water. Today state water leaders announcing californians have cut water use by 20 . Eve better were about to get wet. We have Team Coverage this evening. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking some muchneeded rain, but we begin in san jose with michelle roberts. Michelle what do you have . Reporter well, im here in a pond, although it seems a little bit odd to call it a pond because there...

Lasting benefits from the super bowl issues such as transportation and parking have to be alleviated for more than just the game. People kind of know where Silicon Valley is but not really. Were going to show them where Silicon Valley is the beauty of our region. Reporter the Santa Clara Police pio, Public Information officer, was in phoenix to get a better idea for dealing with the crush of global media. What he learned . Get together with the local pios in our area and talk to them. And get fo...

Francisco, michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. Michelle thank you. At least three other americans have been killed by isis in the last year. James foley was killed last august. Isis then beheaded Steve Sotloff who worked for time magazine. Another american, peter kassig is believed to have been killed last october. Our coverage of this story continues on nightly news. The latest on the action that jordan is taking plus the problem that isis is running into. Lester holt joins us at 5 30. Just in...