Late 2013 13 inch mackbook pro will not boot after latest upgrade

I got push notification to say there's an upgrade available. I upgraded from App Store and then after reboot, it waits in the rounding circle on the gray screen forever.
Safemode won't boot.
I reset PRAM
I reset SMC
But all above won't work.
I boot to the verbose mode, the last lines I see is
Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-226.1.1).
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000000000820 0x5ac 0x8406 0x820, 3
IOThunderboltSwitch<0xffffff8015d8e400>(0x0)::listennerCallback - Thunderbolt HPD packet for route = 0x0 port = 11 unplug = 0
IOThunderboltSwitch<0xffffff8015d8e400>(0x0)::listennerCallback - Thunderbolt HPD packet for route = 0x0 port = 12 unplug = 0
AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::checkStatus - received Status Packet, Payload 2: device was reinitialized
Then it stopped here forever......
Anyone knows what's going on? Please help!!!!!!

Well the people at Apple have no way of knowing if you have a marginal hard drive, or something installed that would interfere with the update from a third party. Problems can arise especially from tools such as system cache cleaners, anti-virus, firewall, and other software that operates in the background.
http://www.roaringapps.com/ should help you know what is compatible if you are running 10.7 or later.
In the future ignore push notifications, and turn them off via the Apple menu -> System preferences, Software Update, and the App Store preferences.

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