For that stretch of the nimitz. I believe theyre done with the construction. That traffic break will mean a little slowing out of Castro Valley and up through san leandro. Clearing from southbound 880 south of 980, an easy drive going towards the bay bridge. As the high heat Building Back into the bay area, we are under another spare the air alert. You are asked to cut down on Carbon Emissions but there will be dangerous air conditions for many of us. In the meantime thousands of students are heading back to school beginning the new school year in triple digit temperatures. Yesterday districts had their own challenges. Bob redell is in concord. Good morning. Temperatures are expected to hit 104 today in concord, which means it will be another hot one for the 30,000 plus students returning to class here at concord high behind me, the over 40 other campuses k through 12 campuses in the School District. At least these schools have air conditioning. Look at this video. This is highlands elementary in pittsburg, which was supposed to open this week but it cant. The classrooms dont have their new heating and cooling systems. The superintendent sent out a letter indicating that the contractor could not get the install done in time. The district tested out temporary ac. The district hopes highlands can have their ac installed and opened by monday. Now, in gilroy, it reached 103 degrees yesterday. Way too hot for High School Football practice. Coach made the players work out indoors. Further north along the 680 corridor, more than 3,500 pg e customers in alamo, danville and walnut creek, they lost power as temperatures soared into the triple digits. In concord, the contra costa Fire Protection district had a second alarm as they fought this house fire. It was so hot they needed backup to put out the flames. Bob redell, today in the bay. Heading back to school, dealing with those temperatures, hopefully they wont stick around for long. Nbc bay area the place to turn for all of your weather information. You can see hourbyhour temperatures for places in the bay area. Carrie posts updates all day long. Fire crews are no longer at the scene of a big brush fire in east Contra Costa County. This is what it looked like last night outside of brentwood. That fire at vasco road and marsh creek. Crews cleared the scene early this morning. We dont know how this fire started. Today a new website goes online to help north bay wildfire victims to seek funds for urgent and immediate needs as they continue to recover from the devastateding fires of 2017 and 2018. Kris sanchez shows us who is eligible. This is separate from pg es bankruptcy case. This new website makes that really clear from the outset. This is for people still struggling to find affordable, temporary housing, either because their insurance money has run out or they didnt have insurance to begin with. This is the nor cal Wildfire Assistance Program website. It is for people affected by the 2017 and 2018 fires. If you are one of those people you should register as soon as possible because the window is only open today through november 15th. The camp fire in paradise destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. A year early almost 9,000 homes were destroyed. This 1 105 million fund will be administered by a third party and it is to provide alternative living expenses, other urgent needs and granting related reli relief. Many wildfire survivors have struggled to find affordable housing. This program is separate from pg es bankruptcy cases. Applying for one does not automatically qualify or apply you for the other. I went through that website, all you can do now is sign up for more information. You should do that soon because the window, again, is only open for the next three months. Ill tweet out a link to that site in case you want to register. Sounds good. Thanks. Breaking news overseas, the United States looking to seize an Iranian Oil Tanker that is being held in gibraltar. The tanker was stopped last month near the tip of southern spain. Its suspected of heading to syria to be used by the assad regime. That would be in violation of European Union sanctions on Oil Shipments to syria. The tank hear been er has been since july 4th. Now to decision 2020 and the president ial race. Today former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is expected to drop out. Hes the second democrat to do so. East bay representative Eric Swalwell dropped out a few weeks ago. Several other drems wi democrat on the campaign trail today trying to get some voters. Several events will be held in iowa today, and drive yang will spend some time in south carolina. Today marks day nine of jury deliberations in the ghost ship warehouse fire trial. 36 people were killed in the fire back in 2016. Earlier this week the jury said they wanted to rehear everything that defend Derick Almena said on the stand. The jury realized they dont need to hear all four days. The jury is still debating whether they want to hear collect portions or need to hear any of it. In the wake of the deadly Mass Shootings in gilroy and across the Country Police in fairfield want to make sure youre prepared if youre caught in a similar situation. Theyre holding a public Forum Tonight at the Fairfield City Council chambers. You can discuss what to do in the event an active shooter where you are. Children attending under the age of 16 14r50 shoushould go with its been a few weeks since the shooting in gilroy where three people were killed. The community has rallied around the victims, along with pairs and support, money is pouring in at a staggering rate. The total amount passed 1 million and that includes donations from dozens of lemonade stands. Many local businesses are also trying to help. Every time theres a donation on paypal, whether its 10 or 10,000, i get an email. In one morning i had 366 emails. This week victims can fill out applications for medical bills and other needs. The foundation says the turnaround will take less than ten days. The new school year could begin with a teachers strike in petaluma. Instructors in the School District voted to hit the picketed lines after failing mediation efforts between the district in july. The district says it offered teachers a 3. 5 raise. Negotiations continued ahead of the first day of class on monday. Teachers at forestville unified School District also voted to strike this week. Now to the debate over the naming of the new San Francisco central subway stop. Sfmta leaders are expected to vote tuesday on whether to call it in chinatown rose park station. Shes the late political leader in the city. Others say she was a bully who intimidated the chinese community. Yesterday they were out fighting that proposal. In june, sfmta deadlocked on a decision to rename that stop. Dealing with those hot temperatures, kari hall has been looking at those temperatures. How are we faring today . Another really hot day. Just as hot as yesterday. A lot of people are up and out the door. If youre on your way to the dublin bart station, it will be nice and cool to start. Even though this is well above where we normally begin our mornings. This is going to be nothing compared to what well have later today. At noon, were at 95 degrees in dub lib. Look at all of our micro climbs. The highs today, still a lot of triple digits for the north bay, inland east bay as well as the south county. Well talk about cooler temperatures in the forecast coming up. Mike, you have one crash. In the areas where were showing the higher temperatures, dar kari showed you a 30 degree temperature change. This crash is on Altamont Pass road, west 580 is clear. Were tracking that early commute coming oitd of thut of. No major slowing there. In oakland, construction crews picking up in both directions, slow and be careful for everyone. Back to you. Thank you very much. Still ahead on today in the bay, a new key question being raised about Jeffrey Epsteins death behind bars as a union boss for federal Corrections Officers speaks out on what could have been done to prevent his suicide. The markets plunge, well go over the latest numbers and wake up the family because well talked about the yield curve. Plus trending this morning, how you can get paid to watch this popular sitcom again. Were talking about friends. Thats coming up after the break. We are here to discuss jessies online time. And out of respect, we will let you make the first offer. Thirty minutes. Thirty minutes . Objection overruled. One hour. Sweeten the deal by doing the dishes and ill consider it. I wouldnt do it. I hate the dishes. One hour with the tablet, you walk the dog and do the dishes. If you insist. Congratulations. Only xfinity xfi lets you take control of your familys online time. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Xfinity xfi gives you the speed, coverage and control you need. Manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. Good thursday morning. Were still under a microclimate weather alert. Were looking live outside in san jose. Lets check out our temperature trend. In campbell, 68 degrees at 7 00. Normally were reaching 82 degrees. But well be above that at noon today. Well talk about when these hot temperatures will finally back off, thats coming up in less than five minutes. A look at san rafael, an easy drive. Some of these folks have a longer drive heading down towards San Francisco. Well show you whats going on for another route heading into this area. Good morning. A very happy thursday to you. So, anything new on the stock market we need to talk about . Lets talk about some local companies and then well move on to that. Shares in overstock plunging after analysts are uneasy. The ceo there shared stories about conspiracies and deep state. Ciscos ceo will be live on cnbc in the 6 00 hour talking about layoffs in the south bay. All right. Biggest fall on the dow so far this year, as investors ran screaming for the exits out of stocks and into bonds. President trump who has tied his presidency to the performance of the stock market puts an interesting spin on it. Tremendous amounts of money pouring into the United States, people want safety. Hes correct on this. The United States is u. S. Treasury bonds. People are pouring money into government securities which are a safe investment. He has it right. But its a weird statement. Its like saying yes the boat sank, but we got to wear snazzy orange life vests with blinking lights on them. So money pours out of the market and heads towards those safe notes, government bonds and safety. That will affect the yield. How much the security pays you back in the end. Look at the big board in new york city at the end of the day. Its time to talk about that yield curve again. A tenyear treasury note will have a high yield. Its going to be up here, it will move back and forth a bit. The graph over time might look like that. It has to be a high payoff, youre lending money for a long time. You can also invest in a twoyear note down here, apparently my board wont allow me to draw a two year note. That will pay less. This makes sense. You spend a lot of money or you put a lot to of money aside, you get a high payoff, less, lower amount of time, less payoff. Enough people rush into the long bond, like the ten year. The yield, the payoff will go down naturally. They sunk low enough and the payoff on the shortterm has risen high enough this has inverted. They intersected. This right here is a good predictor of a recession. Its called an inverted yield curve. Now, marcus and lauren, inverted yield curve freaks investors out. The 64,000 question is does the inverted yield curve cause the freak ju freakout or does the streakofre cause the inverted yield cufrve. The answer is yes. A Pumpkin Spice phenomenon is back. Hormel foods is launching a new Pumpkin Spice spam. Ham is just like spam. Any way. It will go on sale next month. You can buy it online at spams website. You can go to walmart. Com. Of course this piggybacks on the autumn position of dumping Pumpkin Spice on just about everything. We need a little camera that shows karis face. She didnt like that one . Maybe you dont need to see her face then. Well get to that in a minute. 5 18 now. Trending this morning f your life revolves around friends we have some good news for you. So no one told you life would be this way yes, life can be this way. Companies are looking for a super fan who is willing to watch the show for 25 hours straight. Its all in honor of the shows 25th anniversary. Guess we can call this the one where sleep deprivation equals a pay day in exchange you can get 1,000, a pack of friends swag and a year of netflix free. You will be required to tweet during the challenge. We put a link on how to apply at nbcbayarea. Com. That show is still so popular. It is. You can go back and resist some revisit some of those episodes. Something to do inside. Not making the pumpkin spam . Not at all. That sounds disgusting. Not at all. So heres a live look outside. I love this shot. We have a full moon right now. You can see the light coming down on the bay right now. A lot of drivers heading across the bay bridge. Thats why the water looks so bright. Lets talk about the air quality. Its been an issue and remains an issue. The east bay and Santa Clara Valley, unhealthy air quality. High levels of ozone. That makes it unhealthy to be out there for long periods of time. Were sending some kids back to school. In santa clara, a great start to the day. Theyll probably be september inside today for recess. Its going to be really hot even by late this morning. Lets go through our microclimates and check out our temperatures. At 9 00, oakland at 67. Were at 93 degrees for morgan hill at noon. 90 degrees for danville. Napa at 86 degrees. In the middle of the day were starting to see triple digits in the inland east bay as well as the south county. Up to 101 degrees in fairfield at 5 00. That is during that evening commute. Windows rolled up, air conditioning on full blast today. Well have some warm temperatures going into tonight. At least the as game today will be in the evening. Thats when it starts to cool off. For the rest of this week, High Pressure slowly starts to move away. That will allow us to get an ocean breeze, cooler wins coming in from the storm system that will be dropping in to the pacific northwest. Look at how our temperatures drop. Going from 104 today to 85 on sunday. It looks like well start to see hotter temperatures by the middle of next week. Well enjoy that break while it lasts. Mike, youre checking in on highway 101 . South San Francisco exit from southbound 101, still reportedly blocked by a private bus. Trying to find out if folks were affected by that or if it was just moving place to place. No mrob problems south of ther. The overnight construction cleared from san leandro from the anymonimitz. There is the slowing on south 101. Some flashing lights, folks will tend to slow down and shift over to the lanes to the left you have plenty of them. Getting towards the bay bridge, we have some slowing, its in the fast track lanes first, not the cash lanes. We have that backup forming as the metering lights will turn on in the next two, three minutes getting over from oakland to San Francisco. Getting over to san rafael, no problems here. All 31 of those expansion joints were completely retearepaired. A nice drive and ride for these transit agencies. Reduce the number of cars and spare the air. So important. Thanks a lot. Coming up, teaming up. This morning were hearing from rapper and music mogul jay z as he talks about his new partn partnership with the nfl. And first check out this video, robert handa is sharing this on twitter. He said this man is getting ready to take part in an event this weekend. It is 5 23 for you right now youre watching today in the bay. New details for you. Jeffrey epsteins body is being claimed by an unidentified associate. The 66yearold was found dead by apparent suicide monday morning in his cell in manhattan. Investigators are looking on whether two guards tasked with checking on epstein the night of his death may have been sleeping on the job. Epsteins death comes as he was arrested last month on sex trafficking of minorminors. Jay z is teaming up with the nfl, and says he is supporting protesting and colin kaepernick, but is also willing to work with the nfl to make changes. Kaepernick tweeted i continue to work and stand with the people in our fight for liberation despite those who are trying to erase the movement. The movement has always lived with the people. This morning were hearing from jay z as he talks about what his social activism with the nfl will look like. It looks like people respecting each other. People not kids leaving the house and being able to come back home. Just normal things that we all expect, respect, and also for officers as well. I think theyre going into communities super afraid. The today show will have more on the partnership at 7 00, right after today in the bay. 5 27. The countdown is on until nbc bay area helps to clear the 14e shelters this saturday. Weve been bringing you stories all week long. There are 30 cats and 5 dogs in need of forever homes at the humane society. Hard to resist. Most of those animals will be offered at waived or reduced adoption fees on saturday. For more go to nbcbayarea. Com. Targeted by crime. Next and all new for you. Some scares in San Franciscos chinatown after a series of recent attacks. And new details on a wild shootout in philadelphia that lasted for hours. What we learned overnight about the suspect and the officers shot. Oh thaphenomenal , thats unfair. Thats so unfair. Cmon jaybo. Lets go. Lets go. Woahh try my 4. 99 bbq bacon double cheeseburger combo. Only at jack in the box. Try my 4. 99 barbeque bacon double che