Morning as well. The spare the air alert is in effect once again today. A record 18 days in a row with the alert for the bay area, that continues into saturday and likely beyond. The normal daytime highs, upper 80s and close to 90 in concord. Also for livermore comedy low 80s in san jose and the low 70s in oakland. The upper 60s for San Francisco. We have heat advisories and excessive heat warning in effect for the Holiday Weekend. I will have details coming up. Morning. As we check the roadways, we have a crash westbound 80. One car and felt of it might be blocking the left lane. The good news is there are not a lot of cars on the roadway. The traffic is pretty light. Plus the threeday Holiday Weekend is upon us. Things are moving after the limit. We will let you know if that changes but the left lane is blocked on the westbound side. Past that there are no delays towards the toll plaza. Traffic is moving at the limit. A place where we see a few brake lights is the nimitz freeway. We have construction northbound 880 near embarcadero. The traffic is backed up working into oakland. With the heatwave this Holiday Weekend, the big question, backyard or beach. Officials urging people to be careful and not cause another search in coronavirus cases. We are live in pacifica where the beach is closing for the week weekend. Reporter it is hard to imagine that heatwave is coming our way in pacifica come up but certainly chilly. Pretty much a typical morning in pacifica. This is a live shot of the pie. A gorgeous scene as we wait for the sun. This is the last day to get beach time before the Holiday Weekend in pacifica. The closure here begins on saturday. Sunrise to sunset, and reopens on tuesday morning. For pacifica they are applying Lessons Learned from previous Holiday Weekends where they thought record crowds and pacifica says they are starting to see record crowds under weekday as well. From here, 13 miles to the south, to Half Moon Bay. The beaches will actually be open. The city council met last night. They had a long meeting and they said it was too hard with 8 at different jurisdictions each having a say. Half moon bay would just stay open. We could not make it work the wa tor to have the correct enforcement necessary. When we do not have the correct enforcement, parking lots are shut down. People park in the neighborhood and come down to the beaches. We do not want to see a search under any circumstances. Particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter into the full we want to go out and with a running start in the right direction. We do not want to go into that with another search we have to turn around again. Reporter here is a little bit close. Nuevo state park. Cardoza creek. Fitzgerald marine reserve. To mullis bay state park. Port aransas. National seashore and all of Santa Cruz County. Do not forget that goes the same for pacifica as well. Kpix 5. Taking a live look at the present go where mayor loaded breed will help distribute masks head of the Labor Day Weekend. The mask giveaway is happening at noon at dolores park. A popular Gathering Spot in warm weather were people do not always adhere to social distancing guidelines. As the heatwave sets in the, the question this morning is, will we lose power again. The state has issued a flex alert and worried about potential rolling blackouts during the heatwave. Is not that short. A fight was increasing the availability of generation. 5 to 10 could solve the challenge. Once we get the word that we have to start doing rotating outages, have to conductor them within 10 minutes. Select the alert is in effect from saturday until monday between 3 00 and 9 00 am. A man has been arrested in san jose after a standoff with police last night. Police say the man was seen brandishing a weapon on oliver north drive in ramblewood. Some surrounding homes were evacuated for safety, but luckily nobody was hurt. Happening in Alameda County, salons and barbershops can reopen indoors. Outdoor dance classes will be added to the list of permitted noncontact fitness activities. It comes just days after the county allowed salons and barbershops to open outdoors. It is part of the states new blueprint for a safer economy. Right now, Alameda County is in the purple tear. Salons will be allowed to open at 8 00 am. To see what is open in york county, 02 kpix. Com. Reopening comes as the county hit a new high in daily death. The 21 reported yesterday brings the total to 295. The county also confirmed 157 new rotavirus cases in the past day. Back to school in marin county. That is reality for students next tuesday. Officials approved 15 applications from public and private schools to bring students back into the classroom. This as covid19 case data improves. Another 11 schools that applied to reopen all get an answer soon. This morning, for the first time, we are hearing from a salinas mom whose little girl touched hearts everywhere. A picture of the students connecting to wifi outside of a talk about went viral and then cash began pouring in. There was an outpouring of support after somebody discover they were evicted from their home. A gofundme, calling for help has raised more than 145,000. Mom tells us that she hopes their story will bring help to others as well. To help me find a place to put all of my stuff, and now they helped me find a place to live even if it is just for a week. The nonprofit is helping the garcia find a more permanent home. We also learned the Salinas City School District has offered the family food, clothing, and other essential products. Some Alameda County parents say their kids were given online lessons that were racist, and homophobic. Th dist removed a learning program created by sls immediately from the curriculum after receiving complaints about some of the questions. When i thought there was something about what is considered a traditional family. There were two white parents and two white children and that was the right answer versus a black child. Select teachers say this is a wakeup call to make changes in the district. Psycho have curriculum that really comes from an ethnocentric base and were really starting to change the way we adopt curriculum so iculs more culturally responsive. We have reached out and have not yet heard back but the district says the company did make changes to the program right away. It has been used over the years as a way for kids to make up credit to pass classes. The district said it is cutting ties with the company and they hope to provide information about a new program sometime next week. The National Guard medical teams are helping out staff at the santa rosa Memorial Hospital in sonoma county. There has been a severe shortage of staff caused by recent covid19 breaks among workers. The housing crunch from years of wildfires is not helping either. Start developing this morning, i popular destination for a lot of us warning of a deadly disease and it is not covid19. Closure signs went up around tahoe and visitors of the plague. A couple of weeks ago a woman tested positive for the disease that wiped out half of europes appellation during the middle ages. She was treated with antibiotics. Abe is a big buzzword and it is scary but we do see it. You do see squirrels. They have plague and it comes up from time to time. Public Health Officials say rodents in the area are carrying fleas with the plague. Students paying for rent at apartment they will not live in. And the landlords are getting money from the government. Why are they still charging full price . That is next on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Have another spare the air alert in effect and extending into tomorrow, likely beyond that to come in today makes a record 18 days in a row with the spare the air alert. We are talking about the smoke and our extreme heat for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. We have a close look at the nimitz freeway. Like a midconstruction. And then we checked drive times on the altamont pass. We are smelling the smoke outside. Taking a look from our roof camera at the beautiful bay bridge. We are going to its time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed you can adjust your comfort on both sides. 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. 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. Plus 0 interest for 36 months free premium delivery when you add a base. Ends labor day. It is 5 12 and the time for the original series project home. Right now, lots of College Students and parents are stuck paying rent for vacant apartments. Because of the pandemic, students are studying at home, but there landlords will not allow them to break their leases. Susie south found out the orders of several large apartment buildings are getting government money while charging students full price. Like nobody is caring for the students at all right now and it is disappointing. Reporter just secured her lease at sacrament estate back in december. Since june, she has been scrambling to get out of it. It will be a lot of pressure on me and my family considering my dad and i both do not have income. Reporter 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 there prepandemic leases. Change. Org is filled with petitions just like it is 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 element owner received anywhere from three to 50,000 up to 1 million. The owners of academy 65, another Student Living space near sacrament estate received between 2 million and 5 million. At the grad and san jose the owners received between 1 million and 2 million in ppp loans. We are scared, and we are afraid of what is to come. How will this effect is long term. Reporter she lives at the grad. She is considering dropping out of school at san jose state to get a fulltime job to pay for her apartment that she is not going to live in. Its like im i going to have to be a parttime student . To make up for the money that i will have to pay . Reporter students at the grad are also organizing. The position nearly hundred 1300 signatures so far. Most students are still at home with parents, but some have chosen to move into the apartment because they cannot break their lease. At some have already complained that they move in here is not going well. Students have complained to management that they do not feel safe during the Ongoing Health crisis. One wrote to management that during move and there was zero social distancing and packed elevators with 10 people. Right now we do not feel that we are cared for. We do not feel like you have put our health in any sort of importance at all. Reporter she is being asked to sign a liability waiver saying she acknowledges it is possible she might become sick, and that she agrees to hold the owner harmless and release the owner from any and all claims related to physical or psychological damages resulting from covid19. She will not find it. Its like i feel like our health is they do not care for their residents. They just want to make money. Living in california is already expensive. I cannot afford a vacant apartment. Just for the benefit of a company who is already getting Financial Aid from the government. We did reach out to the grad academy 65 at the element, and they did not respond to our request for comment for the story. Susie steimle, kpix 5. Keep sending your stories and i to project home at cbs. Com. You can see all of the reporting from Susie Steimle on our website. In a fire watch comedy czu complexes more than 50 complaint it evacuation orders have been lifted around bonny doon and the santa cruz mountains. At the lamarr area of san mateo county. There is a new problem. No fresh water after the fire melted a part pipeline. This morning the areas are under a boil water and no drink advisory. One fire victim in Santa Clara County are learning they may not get help from the feds. Santa clara is one of the bay area account is not approved for a president ial disaster declaration. Supervisor dave has had an urgent request to governor newsome asking for help, getting his county on the list to receive fema disaster assistance. Without federal aid comedy supervisor says that many will struggle to get back on their feet. For any changes to evacuation orders, warnings, and information on the relief efforts, go to kpix. Com. The bay area firefighters need all of the help they can get these days with so many wildfires. On thursday, the Garrison East Foundation provided hundreds of meals prepared by the cisco big jims barbecue. They literally worked their butts off. I am here to make sure they have a good meal after the end of the day. Long, long work shifts. Some of these guys we normally start out with a 24 or 40 hour work cycle. What happened this year, youre getting 7296, and longer. The foundation has distributed thousands of meals to First Responders across the nation. 70 minutes after 5 00. Lets check in with gianna to find out how our friday commute is. Any lighter this morning than normal . In some spots it is. Especially at the bay bridge toll plaza. Not the case for the nimitz for you do it file. We have roadwork moving things down northbound 80 around 23rd. You can see on the maps there is a line of red building and getting busier. If youre headed out the door w lights. I would use 580. It is wide open and both directions with no delays. No word as to when delays will open. We will keep a close eye on that. South of there, here is a live look near the colosseum on 880. Traffic is doing pretty good. You will just see the brake lights heading into oakland. Also, slow traffic is building westbound 80 and air pinole valley road. We have a crash blocking one lane. One cars of all. Crews are the scene and backup traffic is ed fr report 280, it might be a little slow as well. Once you pass that point and no brake lights headed towards the bay bridge, traffic is certainly lighter for the commute from or heading into the city. The rest of the bay area bridges are checking in problem free. A live look at the golden gate bridge. Not a lot of cars going a southbound. Traffic is moving after the limits with an easy drive time on 101. The same story for the san mateo bridge. A 30 minute drive time. A nice drive between 880, over towards 101. A quick look at traffic heading towards the altamont pass. Coming out of tracy. No delays westbound 580, mostly in the green. We see a little yellow popping up on the sensors right as you approach the exit. Overall, definitely friday light working through there. A threeday weekend is upon us and it will be hot. Here is mary. We are watching the temperatures climb for the Holiday Weekend. We are talking about excessive heat warning, heat advisories in effect for the bay area. I will talk about this in a moment. Here is a live look at the treasure islancamera. Its a fog the day. We are in the 50s this morning and even a little bit of drizzle in spots. Oakland catching the patchy drizzle this morning at 57. Also for livermore at 5759 in concord. Also for san jose. 56 in several cisco and 25 for santa rosa. Buly for the north bay, ity and right around the several cisco area, still dealing with the unhealthy air. That was the case yesterday and it is the case today. You can see moderate air for the peninsula, down through the south bay from redwood city to san jose. For the east bay, dry valley waking up to the moderate air quality this morning, and also for concord, walnut creek comedy and fell looking at moderate air. Also for oakland. You can see the red dots for parts of the San Francisco area this morning. Also up through the north bay, sausalito and for clarksburg, dealing with unhealthy air. Also for richmond as we start off our day. Looking better for the air quality in san rafael and novato. Because of this unhealthy air, we have the spare the air alert remain in effect for today. This is a new record. We are cord 40 days in a row set back in 2018 during the camp fire. The longest stretch happening now. It will be extended at spare the air alert for saturday and likely beyond that as well. Let talk about the heat. Heat advisory in effect saturday through labor day for the coast and right around the bay due to this dangerous heat. Excessive heat warnings in pink. That is for the rest of the bay area for the Holiday Weekend due to this dangerous heat. For saturday, we come close, if not break records. That will be the case on sunday and into monday. Now lets show you the reason why the ridge of High Pressure is in control. The smoke trapped at the service and the bridge only build and expand looking to the Holiday Weekend. Inland topping out in the triple digits. 80s around the bay and 70 for the coast for labor day. For today, thing at the height of 81 and san jose. 80 for santa clara. The upper 80s for concord, as well as pleasant hill. Around the bay, to upper 60s for San Francisco. Low 70s for oakland. The upper 70s and low to mid 80s for the north bay. There is the extended forecast, as we see daytime highs skyrocketing for the Holiday Weekend. Triple digit heat inland saturday through labor day, and even for tuesday. A tangled mess. The distressed deer that one ca a community in