tracking it all. >> tomorrow is another first alert weather day with the heat advisory, but this won't last too long. we're tracking a cooldown farther down the line. a theater company devastated by fire days before opening night. >> it is a huge hit. everything we own was in that warehouse, costumes, props, set pieces, everything you could imagine. >> but the show must go on. >> hopefully be able to rebuild and come back even stronger. a college admissions shakeup, why one elite bay area university is bringing back a requirement students thought they didn't have to deal with. >> decided they could all apply to mit and all the other elite schools because they wouldn't ever see their bad s.a.t. scores. and a remarkable 8-year-old has one challenge many of his students don't have to deal with, how he's putting his skills to the test in a national competition. >> if you get first place in the braille challenge, you win

the prize. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. at 6:00, a warm day inland, but the heat is really going to ramp up tomorrow. tomorrow is a first alert weather day with parts of the bay area under a heat advisory. so our photojournalist alex is giving us this look at the park, close to 90 degrees, but by this time tomorrow it will be closer to triple digits. the heat will add to the risk of grassfires. our camera on mount diablo looking toward contra costa county where there is a lot of dry vegetation. we've already seen grassfires this weekend as well. then in san jose firefighters have mostly knocked down a fire in the east foothills that broke out a couple hours ago. we saw calfire's helicopter doing drops over the scene, only an outbuilding involved, no homes ever threatened. san jose fire officials tell us one person had to be taken to the

hospital, no word yet on their condition. let's bring in chief meteorologist paul heggen. here we go again with the heat again. >> yeah. it was a two-day heatwave last week. this week it's a one-day heatwave in and out. we'll be able to handle it. make sure you exercise common sense tomorrow. stay safe during the hottest part of the day. it got hot today on. up to 91 degrees in concord, but most inland temperatures reached into the 80s, upper 70s fremont, 50s along the coast in half moon bay. tomorrow we'll see 70s and 80s around the bay with 90s for inland parts of the bay area, 8 to 14 degrees above average and some of the hottest spots will get close to 100 degrees tomorrow afternoon, which is hot enough for a heat advisory for most inland parts of the bay area. down the peninsula, you aren't included in this. heat advisory means

there is a moderate risk of overexertion for folks who are especially sensitive to the heat whether due to lack of access to air conditioning or heat-related health problems, but this is short of the excessive heat warning we had for solano county last week. it's only going to be a one-day heatwave. temperatures start to coast down wednesday. we'll be a little below average for highs thursday. we'll look at the full seven-day outlook and track the ups and downs as we head through the week ahead coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. an east bay theater company is scrambling to make sure the show goes on after a fire destroyed its warehouse in pittsburg this weekend. anne makovec in studio with more on the damage and their dedication to have that show go on. >> yes. it is. the timing is pretty bad, though. they're opening up this new show this weekend. now they are scrambling to try to set the stage for success after this devastating loss.

from the outside it looks like they're ready for show time at the california theater. opening night for the pittsburg theater company's production of the sunshine boys is friday. inside the stage is set. luckily they got this stuff out of their warehouse yesterday morning before this. >> i arrived about the same time the fire department did and all i saw was flames above the roof and i'm like okay, we lost this. >> reporter: director diana shepherds says the warehouse contained everything from furniture to microphones. >> 40 plus years of accumulation is gone, costumes, props, set pieces, everything you could imagine. >> reporter: the warehouse was a total loss after that fire started near john henry johnson parkway late yesterday burning about 55 acres. meantime back at the theater -- is. >> we've been around long enough to know we'll just continue one way or another. >> reporter: they're getting help from the community. the

theater director from college park high school stopped by to see how he could help. >> so whatever resources we have to offer. >> reporter: the theater crowd in pittsburg is tight and this warehouse was a resource for them all. >> i was just there three days ago bringing back a piano for you're a good man, charlie brown, i had borrowed from them. it's really sad. >> reporter: this weekend the curtain will rise with some borrowed furniture and a spotlight on resilience. >> the show must go on and we will rise from the ashes and continue on. >> they are now fundraising to try to start to rebuild their stock of supplies and they're trying to find a new place to store it, but their show "the sunshine boys" runs at the california theater in pittsburg from june 14th through the 23rd. >> true acting, true resilience. the show goes on. >> that's the spirit. >> thank you. also in pittsburg, two people in critical condition after they were rescued from

their burning apartment. the flames broke out around 8:00 a.m. near crestview drive. a man and girl were found unconscious on the second floor, no word yet what caused the fire. stay with us all fire season for the latest on air, on our website, kpix.com, and streaming on the cbs news app. now to a change in one elite bay area university's college admissions process, applying to stanford will once again mean having to take the s.a.t. or a.c.t. the school is the latest to reinstate the standardized testing requirement after most dropped it several years ago. as wilson walker reports, that doesn't necessarily mean the tests are making a widespread comeback. >> stanford is kind of following the pack on this one. i would have expected them to be out in front, but mit, harvard and the ivy's have done this months ago.

>> reporter: the return of standardized testing is a story with several parts. >> the first thing is covid. during covid students couldn't take tests. test centers were canceled. so colleges had to let in kids without test scores or they wouldn't have any students. >> reporter: another component is the age of the weighted grade when some schools can boast 40% of a graduating class with a 4.0. >> so when they see everybody with straight as applying, straight as don't mean what they used to. >> reporter: added up and many of the nation's most selective schools were seeing applications jump 50% a year. >> so at one point i think they just got overwhelmed and they were having trouble making decisions because if you're getting 50,000 applications for 1,000 slots, how do you make that decision? so this was really going back to how it was before. >> reporter: in a statement stanford noted that performance on the tests is an important predictor of academic performance saying the renewed

requirement will "allow stanford to consider the fullest array of information in support of each student's application." so yeah, part of this is admissions offices managing their own course load, but these are some very selective schools that are going back to these tests. >> so i think if you were a parent today and you were worried about like absolutely do i have to take this a.c.t. or s.a.t., it depends. it really depends. where is your student thinking about applying? what is their major going to be? >> reporter: along with elite colleges, adviser barbara harris says potential s.t.e.m. students may want to plan for the test, but she thinks most schools will not move back to the requirement. she says many of them are just struggling to get more students in the door. >> some of the smaller liberal arts in some cases and some of the less selective colleges that are great colleges are

having trouble getting yield, having trouble getting students to say yes. part of it, of course, is compounded by the affordability issue. so the last thing they want to do is add more barriers. >> college education like trend overall is to have fewer people going to college. that's a bigger problem than who gets into mit. >> reporter: so the s.a.t. is back but probably just for a certain corner of the academic world and rafferty stresses those highly selective schools may not always be the right one. >> because it's really up to you. so go someplace where you're going to get an education and you feel comfortable and where it's a good fit. >> reporter: stanford says the process will still be holistic, only the tests will be part of that and prospective students will get some time to study up. this will take effect in the fall of 2025 for admission to the class of 2030.

>> the nine uc campuses no longer require standardized testing, scrapped after a legal challenge from students saying it put minority applicants at disadvantage, but if applicants do submit test scores, they can be used for alternative enrollment. it is a different story in two of the country's most prestigious universities. harvard announced it is requiring standardized testing for fall 2025 admissions and yale is also bringing it back, but for the first time it's considering advanced placement or international bacheloreate testing options. san jose police are working to catch the criminals behind the sideshows that took over city streets this weekend. this video shows the dangerous scene on the embarcadero, cars doing donuts surrounding a burning

car, people pointing lasers, and launching fireworks into the sky. it was a similar scene in oakland. this is a sideshow over the weekend on grand avenue near lake merritt. people are hanging out of cars as they spin side by side taking over the intersection. just outside of oakland's grand lake theater there. no arrests have been made in any of the weekend side shows yet. also in oakland a string of homicides overnight, three teen-agers died ofshootings within about a one-hour span. authorities believe it was two separate shootings, one just bere 1:30 a.m., a teen dying on filbert street, a second shooting at 2:00 a.m. on 102nd avenue. two teens died. >> any loss of life is too much and especially to have three young individuals just getting a start on life to have their lives taken from them at such an early age is tragic. >> the oakland police officers

association released a statement calling out mayor sheng thao's recent budget proposal saying it would reduce the number of police officers on city streets. so city council is expected to consider that budget plan in the coming days. still ahead, it is the braille challenge. it is the only contest of its kind in north america and a student from menlo park is in the finals. >> my goal is to get first place and win. later these players were trying to win against nba champion steph curry, where he showed up and showed off o

san jose's parks and recreation department kicked off their summer food program today to provide free meals to kids enrolled in the department's summer meal programs. the program launched in 2017. there were initially only four sites and now they've expanded to nine total sites across the city of san jose. meals will be provided to kids who are eligible from now until august. a menlo park 8-year-old gearing up to compete in the braille challenge finals, a literacy competition for blind and visually impaired students. as len ramirez reports, this remarkable student is ready to put his skills to the test. >> reporter: enrique rio is an energetic 8-year-old who loves

learning, but he has one big challenge in life that most of his classmates don't. enrique is blind and although it may slow him down just a bit as he navigates his classroom, he finds his way. and now through his own determination and hard work, he's blazing ahead as one of the top age group braillers in the country. >> we said punctuation marks give us more beads. it's like all these little bumps and raised dots, it's like a regular book, just with raised dots that i understand how to read. >> pretty impressive, sir. >> reporter: under the guidance of his teacher, cindy davis, enrique qualified for this year's braille challenge finals, a rigorous academic

competition for students across north america who are blind or visually impaired. >> it's like a braille competition where there's tests and then you have to pass them. so basically it's not really pass them. i don't know what i mean. basically it's a spelling test, proofreading test, and reading comprehension. and how i qualify for the finals is i got second place in the original braille challenge. >> reporter: enrique has never been able to see. he was born with nori disease, which is a rare condition that affects the retinas in both of his eyes. he only sees light and shadows, but his mom says he's competitive and was always challenged to keep up with his three sighted siblings. >> we wanted him to be out there and be trying to ride a bike and be trying to climb the tree even if you get some bumps in your head. that's part of the learning. so i think it was

always -- also his personality is pretty much like that and being the fourth child, having the other siblings to catch up with also helped him as well. >> reporter: enrique tried the braille challenge once before, but it didn't go so well. >> last year i got like last place. >> reporter: he says that's not going to happen again. >> a reputation around school. >> reporter: he's been working hard they harder this year on his braille literacy. the braille challenge is now less than a month away. >> my goal is to get first place and win and if you get first place in the braille challenge, you win a prize. i'm not in champions. >> reporter: henrique says he doesn't miss being able to see and wouldn't want to change anything about himself because that wouldn't be him. he may not have sight, but he does

have a vision. >> what after school programs are there? >> reporter: a vision for himself that comes from hard work, perseverance, and success. >> the braille challenge finals will be held in los angeles june 21st through june 23rd. you know what? he's already won. coming up in tonight's cbs evening news, a roller derby league is taking a stand. here's norah o'donnell. >> hey, juliette. for our eye on america, meet the roller rebels, a flat track derby team that took a hit because of county laws dictating who could play on the team, why players say they're fighting for justice, that and more headlines tonight on the cbs evening news. >> thank you. also taking a live look outside at san jose, tomorrow is a first alert weather day. paul will have all the details for us on the inland heat

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we've been talking about our first alert weather day. that begins tomorrow. is that correct? >> begins and ends tomorrow. >> in and out. >> one day of heat. it's not like over parts of the southwestern u.s. where it's going to be camping out. we'll have cooler temperatures kicking in by wednesday. >> we can handle that. how hot? >> not extraordinary. we won't set records. just exercise common sense and you should be

fine. stay hydrated. find shade at least, if not air conditioning throughout the air tomorrow. check on neighbors or family members who may be sensitive to the heat. it will build in very briefly courtesy of this area of high pressure over the pacific getting closer weighing down the atmosphere on top of us compressing the air at ground level and heats it up. things shift in the middle of the week. temperatures back down by wednesday with a day of below average temperatures on thursday. looking out from salesforce tower, we haven't lost the fog, but it's a shallow marine layer. you can see the top of sutro tower peeking out above that fog. temperatures range from 58 degrees in san francisco to 88 degrees in concord. there were warm to hot temperatures on the map already today. there will be more tomorrow. some of the hottest spots will be up to 100 degrees. the fog will try to spread into the inland valleys by early tomorrow morning, but where it makes its way inland it won't last long. we should see improving visibilities within the first hour or two after the sun comes up and sunshine breaking through along the coast as we head towards

midday tomorrow. temperatures tonight drop to the 50s for most of the bay area and then temperatures heat back up. we'll drop down to the 50s area-wide including san francisco, but back up to the 70s in the city. that's good dog walking weather for louie here, but 70s in san francisco is about 8 degrees above normal. you may want to head for the water. inland take it easy. don't go for a midday walk. it will be toasty. low temperatures tonight, those will drop down to the 50s across the board, but barely below 50 degrees in san jose. some of the very warmest spots far inland will stay just above 60 degrees, but that's not that far out of the ordinary for this time of year. some of the coolest spots along the coast down to around 50 degrees and into the low 50s in san francisco. it's only half a dozen degrees cooler than our current temperatures, not a huge drop. some of the very coolest spots in the north bay valley drop to the upper 40s around petaluma, but our temperatures warm up quickly as we go through the day with highs reaching up to around 100

degrees near antioch and brentwood, hotspots on the map, plenty of 90s inland, 91 degrees in san jose, 94 for napa, 96 degrees around santa rosa. along the coast mid-60s, 4 or 5 degrees above normal, not going to lose that onshore influence. even far inland we are not likely to set any new records. we're not going to by the water. temperatures will be 15 to 20 degrees short of record territory in san francisco and oakland. as you make your way farther inland, the closest we'll be to a record around santa rosa, should be 4 degrees off the record high of 100 and livermore falling well short of the record high temperature of 105 degrees. looking even farther down the line, some ups and downs in the seven-day forecast, but the six to ten day outlook from the climate prediction center actually shows a chance of below average temperatures trying to sneak in from the north. we'll watch that in the long term while we sweat it out tomorrow. let's look at the seven-day forecast. it's a one-day spell of hot weather and then we're back

down to closer to average temperatures, probably slightly above average from friday into the upcoming weekend, but a mix of clouds and sunshine at worse, closer to the bay and around the coast the fog starting to spread out again beginning wednesday morning. tomorrow we'll see plenty of sunshine area-wide and then typical june conditions, pretty close to normal temperatures right around 60 degrees along the coast. enjoy your mid- to upper 60s tomorrow. heading towards father's day weekend, looks like the weather will be cooperative pretty much for all the plans you would have if you don't mind the fog along the coast sunday. >> maybe golf plans, hang out plans. >> making barbecue for the rest of the family, something like that. >> thank you. still ahead, forget courtside seats at chase center.

picture this. you're working out at the gym and in walks superstar steph curry, just happened to step in for a quick workout in folsom. he drove past the local players doing layups and downed three after three. he was also spotted in nearby roseville for his daughter's volleyball tournament. the wnba in the midst of a historic season in the

league's nearly three decades of existence viewership, ticket sales, merch sales at an all time high. so far this season more than half the wnba games have been sellouts, a 156% increase from last year. the league is setting records for social media, league pass subscriptions, app downloads. don't forget the new golden state team is accepting season ticket deposits for the 2025 wnba season. that's a great way to end the show. cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is next. we're back in 30 minutes at 7:00 with much more news. we'll see you soon. ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, the new video of the daring israeli rescue operation in gaza. >> a miracle happened to us. >> norah: what it took to bring home four hostages from hamas captivity and why the mission almost fell apart. plus with palestinian civilians