Friday Morning Constitutional: Savor the Heat While You Can

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  • Today will be another scorcher around the Bay, with a forecast high of 84 in San Francisco, but the warm spells may be wrapping up next week. It's getting closer to the moment where we'll be saying goodbye to "actual summer" and hello to El Nino fall. [Chronicle]
  • Three children and one adult were killed in a school shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon Thursday, and the suspect, a 16-year-old, was killed by a bystander who had seen the teen entering the school by shooting at locked doors. [KPIX]
  • San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and other city leaders faced a tough crowd at a community meeting Thursday night in which they tried to defend the expansion of data centers while many community members pushed back. [KTVU]
  • Mack Paige Jr., the father of slain East Bay reality TV personality Mackayla "Kash" Paige, laments that most people only knew his daughter's on-screen persona, and not the real person. [KRON4]
  • There has been some drama in the Marin County town of Ross, where the mayor apparently directed Public Works to remove campaign signs of opponents, which aren't allowed under town ordinances, but there is more to it than that and it's being referred to as "signgate." [Chronicle]
  • Mark Wahlberg drew a large crowd at a closing event at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday, speaking about his views on the use of AI in film. [KRON4]
  • Tesla has revealed a new "flying car," a Roadster model equipped with air thrusters that can launch it off the ground, but it's unclear what the purpose of this is, it's not approved for road use, and Elon Musk says, "It will probably work." [KPIX]
  • At age 52, actress Hillary Swank is pregnant with her third child. [Slate]

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