building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future, this is "abc7 news." >> i don't want to teach anyone, because i don't want to teach. >> teachers under fire after this video surfaced on social media. it shows the pair bad mouthing their students. >> good evening. it was recorded after a virtual class ended yesterday. stephanie sierra spoke with the mother who saw it all happen. >> it's so frustrated to know that these kids are technologically illiterate. >> reporter: this is the voices of two teachers at jessie bethel high school in vallejo. thursday afternoon. but before these teachers logged out, this was caught on camera.

>> they're [ bleep ] gone. no, they're not. >> reporter: the rant about their students goes on for nearly two minutes. this parent was record lt. >> i was heart broken and confused and i couldn't believe i heard that come out of a teacher's wife. >> reporter: she said her son tried to clarify a question about his assignment at the end of third period english. >> he's like, i can't turn it in. i' like, you didn't turn it in. you didn't submit. >> other students andtudents ann were still confirmed. >> reporter: can you confirm if both teachers are on leave. the school district did confirm both are on administrative leave. abc 7 made several requests for an interview but sent the following statement saying --

>> if i wouldn't have brought it this far, those teachers would have still showed back up in class today. >> reporter: stephanie sierra, "abc7 news." >> we'll stayen top of that story. hurricane delta is pounding southwest louisiana with heavy rains and powerful winds after making landfall several hours ago. the storm is weakening. but people there are worried it could bring more death and destruction to their communities already ravaged by hurricane laura. made a record breaking landfall in southwest louisiana. packing 100-mile-per-hour winds,

sparking power outages in lake charles. that area already hard hit by hurricane laura just six weeks ago. >> i drive around and i see all this debris. it's pretty rough. after tomorrow, that will be all over the place again. >> reporter: thousands of homes still damaged, covered in tarps. now delta pummeling louisiana with heavy rain. and in texas, strong wind gusts peeling off this protective metal shed. the storm is bringing flash flooding far inland. millions of people from texas to mississippi keeping an eye on what it will do next. >> it is very clear that southwest louisiana is going to get more of a punch from this than we would like to see. >> reporter: tonight, louisiana, mississippi, and alabama all under a state of emergency. >> you just hope for the best and prepare for the worst. there's going to be some worry no matter what, but we've been through it before, we just take it one thing at a time. >> reporter: in parts of

louisiana, we could see up to 11 feet of storm surge before the storm moves out of here and into the northeast. ellen lopez, abc news, lafayette, louisiana. >> let's get the latest on how strong this storm is and where it is headed with our meteorologist sandhya patel tracking it very closely tonight. sandhya? >> yeah, dan. this storm is still powerful, even though it's weakened from earlier when it made landfall in louisiana. hurricane delta is pushing across alexandria. heavy rain, gusty winds, life-threatening storm surge. look at the storm reports from the area. that is going to be the biggest concern with this storm, flash flooding. it is packing winds of 75 miles per hour, moving north-northeast at 15 miles per hour, it will become a tropical storm and a depression as we head towards saturday night into sunday. but the rainfall from this storm

is going to be damaging to that area and continue to be damaging. tracking a system of our own, it looks impressive on live doppler 7, but will it delive this weekend? i'll let you know coming up. ama? >> sandhya, thank you. we'll check back with you. fire investigators have seized equipment belonging to pg&e as it looks into the cause of the zogg fire. it has killed four people, burning more than 56,000 acres. pg&e recently emerged from bankruptcy. the utility released this statement -- meanwhile, in the north bay, firefighters are making headway on the glass fire. containment is now up to 78%. the wildfire has burned more than 67,000 acres or about 105

square miles. this has been a destructive wildfire, destroying nearly 700 homes in napa and sonoma counties. cal fire says it expects to have the fire fully contained in about a couple of weeks. "abc7 news" received special permission today to fly our drone view 7 over deer park in napa county and want to share with you what we saw. ♪ ♪

incredible images of the damage done. we also have to remember the toll it takes on lives. somber moments in santa rosa today as the victims who died in the october 2017 wildfires were remembered. [ bell tolling ]

>> the santa rosa fire department honor guard rang the bell 24 times for each life lost in sonoma county. wayne freedman has more. >> reporter: it has been three long years since the tubbs fire nightmare. if you lived through this, it feels like yesterday. and for these people outside the courthouse, more like an eterni eternity. ptsd for three years. >> reporter: all of them lost homes and money in fire to their contractors who promised to rebuild 39 houses at central valley prices. they did not deliver on most of them. they realized that they weren't going to be able to do any of the things they had been

promising, they continued to take money from people. >> reporter: this scheduled court appearance, the first time that many of these people had seen the couple since signing their papers. the contractors answered no questions. >> we're not allowed to say anything. >> but they did hear an earful. >> scum bag. >> reporter: elsewhere, a more dignified remembrance as the santa rosa fire department rang a bell 24 times in honor of 24 lives lost that night. more than 5,000 homes burned. a quarter of them in quacoffee park. in the spring of 2019, they set up shop. >> we didn't go up there as ambulance chasers to go up there and, you know, take these people. >> reporter: but carol mchale says she lost $90,000 to them. she finally found another contractor and moved into her rebuild just this year. this is behind you yet? >> no, this is not behind me.

>> when it will be? >> when i see them in prison. >> reporter: in court today, they delayed entering a plea until november, extending the wait for their accusers. three long years since the tubbs fire, and counting. >> there's certain things that still bother me. when everybody say everything happens for a reason, don't say that near me. tonight, the number of daily coronavirus infections is headed in the wrong direction. there were more than 350,000 new cases reported worldwide, a new daily record. california had a little more than 3800 cases today, about 800 higher than the daily average. the 14-day positivity rate is at 2.6%. that number is a good indicator of the tssn .> al f team bega preseason practices today. the cardinal are working out at woodside because santa clara

county is not allowing on-field practices because of covid-19 restrictions. san francisco firefighters held a memorial for jason cortez. cortez died tragically in a training accident on wednesday as we reported at the time. the 13-year veteran worked as a firefighter, paramedic at station 3. his fellow firefighters also placed a black wreath on a fire truck. the airport has closed two of four runways. about a third of the arrivals and departures can expect delays. the work was originally scheduled for 2022, but airport officials decided to get it done now because of reduced flight schedules, which are down about 60% from this time last year. more to come. in thee not calling it a amera

hate crime. over a hundred arrests by i.c.e. is concerning officials. and because of the nba finals, they did not woma1: get y woman 2: you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. surfer: or you can fill it out anywhere. man 1: it's easy to mail it back. you don't even need a stamp. man 2: or you can use an official drop box. woman 3: you can even drop it off at the polls. man 3: then, track it to confirm your county got it.

see? they got it! woman 4: mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. it's rising. the pain is coming.

another racist rant has been caught on camera in fremont. the victim says it started with an innocent conversation but took a nasty turn. dion lim spoke with her today. >> go back to china! >> thank you. >> go back to china. >> reporter: what you're watching is one of three hate-filled rants theresa and her family members received on thursday. >> thank you so much. i appreciate your opinion. please stay back, because you don't have a mask on. >> reporter: theresa is choosing to only use her first name. theresa usually abides by the saying "love thy neighbor." >> when she introduced herself

as a fab, i said it's lovely to meet you. but she asked whether or not i was a renter, she quoted things like how much my house sold for. >> reporter: they quickly spiraled into hate. >> go back to china. >> i feel really upset and distressed about it. >> reporter: the woman even yelled homophobic slurs in front of her daughter. theresa and her daughter are both asian, but not chinese. >> i thought that it was just really wrong. >> i just want to set a good example for my daughters. >> reporter: since she posted about it online, she's been greeted with support from her community, including the mayor, lily may, who condemned the incident on her facebook page and said she was displayed at the lack of respect and kindness. >> i'm just so grateful and blown away. >> reporter: theresa wishes the woman no harm but to get help and sends this message to anyone who experiences this kind of

discrimination. >> maybe we shouldn't stay silent when this happens. maybe we should actually have a productive and positive conversation about what's going on so that we can help facilitate change. >> reporter: dion lim, "abc7 news." >> police say they're aware of the situation and know who this woman is, because there have been other calls for service about her. but because there was no violence, they say that this is not get categorized as a hate crime. berkeley police say they have arrested a 32 yoerld m 232 for hanging a noose in a public park. this was near the south cove of the berkeley marina. the worker was able to photograph the suspect and gave that picture to police. the suspect was soon found walking along on university avenue. police say this guy, who was also arrested for drug paraphernalia, has no arrest.

we want to help you find an ally, go to abc7news.com/takeaction for a list of local resources. an oakland school rebuilt after four years. it's ready for students, but when will the students be allowed to return to class? ever feel like you're going around and around in circles at work? where can a healthier heart lead you? for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto is a heart failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart, there's no telling where life may take you. don't take entresto if pregnant;

it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. entrust your heart to entresto.

after long delays and higher than expected costs, glenview elementary in oakland finally reopened, but with no students because of the pandemic. the project was supposed to be finished in june of 2018, but took a lot longer than that, two years longer. as leeann melendez explains, oakland unified school district sys new measures are in place so that this won't happen again. >> reporter: what should have take twon years to build ended up being a construction project

>> it stalled and it delayed, and of course, people were frustrated. >> the neighbors, for being patient with us. >> reporter: initially in 2012, the glenview elementary project was limited to one that would replace portable classrooms. but that changed and the district decided to rebuild the school. then the oakland heritage alliance stepped in. >> through the school district, over historic preservation and the compromise was to preserve the very front facade of the whole building. >> reporter: even though that old facade was not the original one when the school was first built. that caused even more delays. the superintendent explained the delays were due to leadership turnover. >> there's no secret in ousd that we have struggled to have stability in leadership.

when you have changes in leadership, things get lost. >> reporter: so how does the school district make sure that other future projects don't experience the same kind of delays? the district told us today there is a lot more oversight with safeguards in place. >> given some additional authority to our oversight committee in terms of making sure that we are actually doing what we told the voters we would do. >> reporter: today, the project has been completed, even though the 475 students who would have been here are learning at a distance because of covid-19. another unexpected delay. in oakland, leeann melendez, "abc7 news." and next week, we'll have a report card on schools across the bay area. our building a better bay area education team will look at virtual learning, and for those who have returned to class, what in-person classes look like. we'll also hear from teachers and parents about their biggest

frustrations and what's working. join us starting monday for education week. and ama, you were on that building a better bay area education week. and i know you have some reporting for us as well next week. >> yeah. i talked to teachers and parts how it's going so far. so you'll have to wait to hear from that. why work from home when you can work from a ferris wheel? a japanese theme park has come one a way to boost visitors during the pandemic, selling an amusement workstation package. for $18, rent a poolside workstation with internet and power outlets and spend an hour working remotely from inside the wi-fi equipped ferris wheel. i am unclear if the ferris wheel is going to be moving, because i think i might get some motion sickness, dan. >> you could get a little motion sickness. coming up here, an ex-chclue

bay area high school may suspend its admissions standards for next year. >> grant money being offered to help small businesses gear up for money. the push to provide help during the pandemic, up next. and becoming a disney princess for a day. see the truly magical (garage door opening) it is my father's love... it is his passion- it is his fault he didn't lock the garage. don't even think about it! been there, done that. with liftmaster® powered by myq®, know what's happening in your garage- from anywhere.

we saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. i signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. you now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. if there is an earthquake. our house has a better chance of surviving in.

if you can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. ♪ ohhh yeahhh! just connect your myq® app to key. ♪ ohhh yeahhh! get free in-garage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. oreo releases a handful of new flavors each year, but you won't find these in stores. only 10,000 packages were made with seven colors inspired by the lbgtq history month. win a package by sharing a photo on social media about what lbgtq alliship means to you. a special little girl's dream of becoming a princess is coming true. >> are you ready for some

imagine magic? kidneyphotographer set up a photo shop. but the real magic happens in post production. ariana is transformed into elsa, snow white and other princess characters. the photographer says she's hoping to photograph more children who could benefit from these shoots. what a sweet girl ariana is. and we wish her all the best, ama. that's always hard to watch but heartwarming, too. >> absolutely. and giving her a wish to be all those princesses. so great to see. we wish her the best. president trump plans to hold his first in-person event since his coronavirus diagnosis. the unanswered questions about that tonight. plus, working to improve safety on north b why did we choose to give plastic bottles a second life in our kitchen fronts? ♪ ♪ it's just one of our commitments to a more sustainable future.

for the planet, and those who'll inherit it. ikea. make the dream yours.

woman 1: get your woman 2: you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. surfer: or you can fill it out anywhere. man 1: it's easy to mail it back. you don't even need a stamp. man 2: or you can use an official drop box. woman 3: you can even drop it off at the polls. man 3: then, track it to confirm your county got it. see? they got it! woman 4: mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. winter is coming.

local small businesses can get financial help to gear up for the cold weather. san francisco's may change its admission procedures. over 100 arrests by i.c.e. is concerning public officials. find out when it dries out and warms up. "abc7 news" at 11:00 starts right now. building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. this is "abc7 news." even though we are lucky to have sort of a late summer, once we hit winter, we're going to have some issues once the time of year can be up ors duri predictable. in an effort to build a better bay area, san jose and theco vae teaming up with door dash to help restaurants prepare. >> amanda del castillo explains how the money will be a critical

lifeline as the weather turns. >> reporter: we're still months away from the start to the winter season, but small business owners know it's never too early to prepare, especially during the pandemic. >> even though we are lucky to have a late summer, once we hit winter, we're going to have issues. >> reporter: bad weather for her push for $5,000 in dprangrant m meant to help businesses. >> but that would help us of course with any cost that we can get, any grant that we can get, we are appreciative for. >> on october 16th, restaurants can apply to get part of the money being dedicated to san jose. door dash, and the silicon valley organization partnering to provide relief. >> at the end of the day, what we need is a significant amount of federal investment