Reopening, the university of North Carolina is back pedaling. Switching to Remote Learning after 130 students contracted the virus. Elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. This school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. Also new trouble at one of the nations largest fire department. Chicago fire academy had to close down after an outbreak. Officials saying theyve had nearly 300 cases and two chicago firefighters have died from the virus. Megan tevrizian. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also a special Education Teacher in the south bay logged into class without wearing a shirt and its not just that action that has parents really upset this morning. Also ahead, michelles message. What the former first lady was wearing during her its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, switch to Xfinity Mobile and for a limited time get 400 off an eligible Samsung Galaxy 5g phone. Click, call or visit a store today. Its 5 13 on a tuesday. If youre just joining us, here are the seven things to know this morning. No thunderstorms today and if you live along the coast into San Francisco, no excessive heat but for the rest of us, yep, its going to continue through at least 9 00 wednesday. We get a little bit of a break before it returns this weekend in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Another flex alert has been issued for today and were all asked to conserve power from 3 00 to 10 00 p. M. To avoid rotating blackouts like we saw over the weekend. Number three, mandatory evacuations in effect right now because of the hennessey fire. At least 2,400 acres have burned and opened at Crosswalk Church in napa. Number four, changes to the States Coronavirus watchlist. Santa cruz county came off the list. Five others have been added. Counties on the watchlist have to roll back reopenings and have to stay at home for schooling. Number five, uber and lyft are considering a model similar to a franchise. Both companying licensing their brand to operators of car fleets. Well have much more on this proposed change in our next half hour. Number six. We are going to check on the live look showing you san jose. 101 there in the south bay looking nice and clear this morning. The only hot spot im seeing is on northbound 680 in fremont just before 238. And number seven. Former First Lady Michelle Obama helped kick off this years Democratic Convention urging people to vote for joe biden. Today the theme is Leadership Matters and democrats will hear from former president bill clinton. In the north bay, an 18yearold man shot and killed in American Canyon is being remembered as a kindhearted baseball player who wanted to go pro. People shared memories last night during a vigil for nathan garza. He was shot and killed in the parking lot of a safeway where he worked. Earlier his mother spoke with abc7 news. He was the youngest. Six older sisters and he was our only boy. And he filled the room. He filled our life. The Napa County Sheriffs Office arrested 23yearold Christopher Roly Young from martinez. Its not clear what exactly led up to the shooting or even if the two knew each other. New developments about a san jose special Education Teacher who taught a Virtual Class shirtless. Parents say over the weekend the teacher contacted their kids to say goodbye. And as abc7 News Reporter amanda del castillo reports, those parents are furious. Reporter she was surprised this email made it to her daughters inbox saturday evening. A message from the Silver Creek High School identified in these shirtless photos taken during dg math class. It doesnt state why hes leaving or sorry for his actions. Reporter it looks like i will not be teaching you for an indefinite period. I hope to resume my teaching as soon as possible. She didnt read to much more before reaching out to officials. Shouldnt his access to these kids be terminated, as well. Reporter we tried the email on monday and delivery failed. A prompt reading that the address could not be found or unable to receive mail. We heard from another parent. Rachel garcia called over her 13yearold daughter. Is this your tuceacher . And she said, yes. He didnt have a shirt on yesterday in your class. And she stopped and she said no. And im like, why didnt you tell me . You have to tell me these things. Thats important. Reporter she searched for a note from the district explaining the incident. Instead we opened my daughter email and got an email from him. Reporter we reached out to the district. Superintendent chris funk wrote back, he is not to be in contact with any of thiz students. There was a timing issue on friday issuing his notice. I will not be commenting any further during this investigation. Both mothers wanting answers into action. Parents realizing their children were involved and affected by Something Like this. Reporter in san jose, im amanda del castillo. Michelle obamas speech during the Democratic National convention is getting attention around the world but not only for what she said but people were looking at what she was wearing. Specifically her necklace. They spell the word vote and it sent twitter into a search frenzy. An l. A. Based jeweler. And the designer tweeted out a statement saying she was beyond honored and humbled that the former first lady wore her design. The necklace is selling for 300. Well talk to the designers about the inspiration for this necklace on midday live starting at 11 00. Isnt that awesome . I have to be honest, i did not notice it during her whole speech and phil had to bring it up. He said, it says vote. That is what makes it cool. Just kind of like there but not in your face. Right. It takes a minute to take it all in. I cant wait to talk to her, the designer. Because im curious. Did she get a heads up . Did she just see it on tv . What was the story there . Thats a good surprise if it was a surprise. And were talking to her later on midday live is that what you said . Yep. All right. Set your dvrs for 11 00. That will be cool. Cant wait to see that, too. Lets talk about what is going on weather wise. You can also check the Weather Forecast if youre away from the tv. Right now lets focus on what will happen the next seven days. San jose 87 and 70 degrees under a mostly clear sky and dangerous heat and high clouds and hazy conditions. The smoke will not affect our air quality down where we live but then the upper parts of the atmosphere and youll definitely notice it. Heat easing tomorrow and thursday ask thnd then comes bad brings the possibility of thunderstorms next week. Increasing clouds on live doppler 7 as this area of low pressure up in the gulf of alaska will nudge that hot high to the east and that is just our brief break from the excessive heat. Still going to be hot. Low to upper 90s through the south bay. 100s in morgan hill and gilroy. 84 to 93 your spread on the peninsula and men llo park abou 90. Low 80s to mid 80s Downtown SouthSan Francisco and sausalito. Check out the upper 90s to low 100s. No novato 98 and 98 inan in fremot d en into the east bay, everybody is into the 100s. North bay is going to see the biggest jump in temperatures today because youll see more sunshine than yesterday. All right, tonight you can see the cooler weather, the low 60s, the upper 50s and the coast and into more of the bay. That will be the case again thursday as most of us will have our best morning for sleeping and our best afternoon for Outdoor Activities as the 100s go away and theyre back friday and they just keep building through the weekend and into next week. Well talk more about that, coming up. Heres reggie. Mike, thank you. Oracle is reportedly looking at possibly buying tiktok. Financial times reports that the tech giant has held preliminary talks with chineses owner. And microsoft is in talks to buy the popular social media app. President trump recently ordered tiktok to sell its u. S. Assets. Payless is launching its website to mak aer comeback. The company is rebanded and called payless worldwide. Plans to open as many as 400 Stores Nationwide in the next five years and the first location is set to ep open this fall in miami. The store filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, less than two years after it emerged from its previous bankruptcy. Brandnew details about the new season of dancing with the stars. Two of the shows stars reveal the scoop on gma. Health alert. The infe book two separate qualifying stays and earn a free night. The open road is open again. And wherever youre headed, Choice Hotels is there. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. Now your accuWeather Forecast with mike nicco. Tracking hurricane genevieve down near the baja of california and near the tip of cabo san lucas. This is monday and you can see at midnight and look what happens during the Morning Hours. Some moisture may break off from there and head our way. If it does, thunderstorms, humidity and excessive heat like we had the last couple days on the way. Mike, thank you. In todays gma first look a Stunning Development in a cold case. Two men are indicted in the man of Jam Master Jay. In this mornings gma first look a Big Development in the hiphop mystery cold case. As onethird of the hiphop gruen run dmc Jam Master Jay the deejay on the turntable for classic hits like turn of rock and walk this way wi with aerosmiaeri aerosmith. Monday, investigators announcing a major break in the cold case. Today, we begin to answer that question of who killed jason jason. Its all coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look im actress lori loughlin. The couple is scheduled to be sentenced on friday. In may, both pleaded guilty to pay 500,000 to get their two daughters into usc as fake rowing recruits. For the first time in five years a case of plague has been confirmed in california. The South Lake Tahoe resident is under medical care recovering at home. Plague bacteria are most often transmitted by flees. The person may have been bitten in the tahoe keys area on tahoes south shore. The symptoms include a fever, weakness and a headache. The plague can be treated with antibiotics. Not the plague. Not the plague. Out of all the stuff 2020 was digging around in the purse. Let me see what i got in here. Plague. Little sprinkle of that. Look, god bless antibiotics. Thank goodness. Thats scary. It is scary. Were coming back with another 90 minutes of news including a push for Police Reform and the local city taking up the mayors proposals today. Those rolling blackouts were called out across the bay area last night thanks to some Energy Conservation but that flex alert extended for today and tomorrow and also getting word of intermittent Power Outages you can adjust youriggest sacomfort on both sides. Eep your sleep number setting. 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. 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Its been a frustrating few days for people trying to beat the heat without electricity. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. Now, that was the line. It is what it is. A former first lady strong words about our president and his reaction. The big moments from day one of the Democratic National convention. All right. So, from the time that we first did the story about that vote necklace she had until right this moment i did find out that the designer knew that Michelle Obama bought the necklace but didnt know she was going to wear it yesterday. Thats wonderful. I wonder if she was hoping and she was like, yes. Sounded like it was a total surprise. People contacted her and then her website started to blow up. Is it sold out . You can buy it. It takes a few weeks to get it. But you can still buy it. So, good morning to the designer of the necklace only and everybody else on this tuesday, august 18th. Good morning to our friend mike who is tracking this heat and how it might impact us today. Yeah, guys. I cant wait to hear your interview during midday live with her. Since we last talked, let me show you what is going on with our excessive heat warning. Look at all those areas that have been added. The areas not included, San Francisco and the coast. This goes through 9 00. Wednesday, heres a look at our high temperatures today. 80 in San Francisco and 85 in oakland and not bad but when considering the Morning Hours have been kind of warm, thats going to not feel so good. Then we have 90s to 100s else where. Well talk about the hennessey fire and what the firefighters can expect up there. Coming up in just a few minutes, ill turn it over to kumasi and she has more on what is going on right now. While you were asleep, hundreds of firefighters worked through the night to get control of the wildfire that is burning in napa county. Burning east of st. Helena and rutherford and burned 2,400 acres with zero containment. Its possible that lightning caused this fire. Firefighters say the hot weather combined with theindake i flames. Mandatory evacuations are in effect in the area because the flames are threatening several homes. There is an Evacuation Center at Crosswalk Church in napa. In the east bay, four fires burning near alameda and Santa Clara County make up the marsh fire. Airdrops helped them beat back the flames yesterday afternoon. Nearly 1,800 acres have burned with zero containment. Mandatory evacuations in the kilkare canyon area have been advised to a warning. Mike says it will get really hot again today. A flex alert because energy use is expected to be so high. This is in effect from 3 00 this afternoon to 10 00 tonight both today and tomorrow. State operators are pleading with us to lower our energy usage. Highly disruptive to people and i truly, truly wish that there were other options. In our case, supply and demand always have to be equal. When theres more demand than supply, then you can eventually crash the steps if you dont take the steps, which is what our operators are doing. Setting your air conditioning to 78 Degrees Turning off your lights if you dont need them and not using your major appliances. The rotating Power Outages never happened here yesterday because people conserved power, but there were still a lot of o outages for other reasons. Abc7 News ReporterJulian Glover has more on this. Goodern moi morning, julian. Good morning, kumasi. We were spared yesterday and last night. But that may not be the case today, as you mention, the flex alert still in place for today and tomorrow and the California Independent system operator asking us to conserve that energy. But there are some other Power Outages this morning. We expect to find one here in milpitas about 139 people were said to be affected on the pg e website. We got here and it appears the lights and the power has been restored. It had been out since about 6 00 last night. But there are sporadic outages across the bay area this morning. But again the rolling Power Outages and the major concern called off last night by pg e shortly after 8 00 p. M. Because the Energy Supply would, in fact, meet demand. Were learning two big reasons for that, the temperatures stayed cooler and people did conserve energy. Governor newsom did take blame for the outages during the does not ee like this mom in t alameda. Word if the power doesut and h son sleep apnea machine. It is hot and then the air conditioning goes off and were all stuc