Cover sitting over the east bay. Dont let that slow you down or stop you from getting outside. Enjoying that morning walk. We are on the cooler side of things today compared where we were earlier this week. Temperatures obviously breaking some records a couple of days ago yesterday wasnt as hot and today. Definitely even cooler yet. Napa petaluma at 48 degrees nevado 50 degrees. Oakland at 55. Well conquered in dublin in the low 50s for current temperatures need the light jackets this morning as youre getting out there. Otherwise weve got clearing skies this afternoon and look at where the afternoon takes us. Its low 80s for our inland areas, low 70s along the bay shore, some 60s at the coastline, mostly sunny skies this afternoon and the rest of the weekend only getting even cooler. Ive got the full weekend forecast. Still to come. As for our roads, its friday. Will it stay friday light . It certainly is right now. Bay bridge looks great with some low cloud cover sitting overhead. But visibility is okay. As weve noted, as for the san mateo bridge, also looking good. We do have some tail lights making your way towards the peninsula. But that is pretty common at this hour. The Richmond Center fell bridge also nice and mt. Visibilities. All right. And the Golden Gate Bridge, you can see a little fog out there. But hey, overall, things are moving along just fine as you do. Youre crossing there 402, now and our top story this morning, a car buried in someones backyard in police say dogs used to find dead bodies may also have detected human remains. Police say a group of landscapers found the car just before 9 thursday morning that a multimillion dollar home on stockbridge avenue about a mile from woodside high school. The owners of the house called police and asked them to come out and check the situation out the car which police say has been buried there for more than 20 years, about 4, 5 feet deep. It is completely filled with earth and also contain some bags of an mc cement. Nobody knows at this time why the car was buried. Cadaver dogs were brought in and they signal to their handlers. That human remains could be in the vehicle. Excavation teams were still at work while we were on air last night at 10 00pm. And it was not a fast moving process. They do have the majority of the top of the vehicle has been uncovered. But the entire interior of the vehicle was also filled with dirt. And so theyre kind of working their way through that. But because of the unknown nature of it, they have to go through it kind of slowly and methodically as they continue the excavation. Police, the currents, homeowners. I have no connection to the car. Its believed it was buried sometime in the 1990s history on the real estate site. Zillow shows the property on stockbridge avenue has changed owners twice in the last decade selling for 7. 3 million in 2014. And then for 15 million in 2020, interestingly, zillow also says the home was built in 1990. Well keep you updated on those developments. Now, as for details about the car, police say for now, they will be withholding the cars make and model and registration. Details. Well, the future of downtown San Francisco is looking bleak report by the citys chief Economist Says one 5th of offices in the city are expected to stay empty for at least 4 more years. According to chief economist ted egan, the pandemic and the resulting increase employees working remotely have increased Office Vacancy in the city from roughly 5 pre pandemic to 24 over the past 3 months. An analysis by commercial Real Estate Company jll forecasted that between 19. 5 in 25. 3 of the citys office space will remain vacant. Thats through 2026. Both vacancy rates would be as or higher would be as high or higher than any prior Office Vacancy. Peak since at least the 1990s. This is also forcing San Francisco leaders to get more creative to revive the citys downtown. Some are even turning to neighboring cities. Kron fours taylor has more details. They were not at a Critical Mass place like we were 2019 before the pandemic. And you can see that the downtown is not as full as it has been in past. No doubt. And its clear that there are and the spaces partner at wayfair tavern in downtown San Francisco, tony marcel and many other Business Owners in the area say. Theyve experienced a significant drop in business since the pandemic. While some employees have returned to working in person, many Office Spaces remain empty as remote work is here to stay. Think at this point youve got to think outside the box, truth be told is is if we want to reinvigorate downtown and the work life where people are going to be working has changed. For the foreseeable future, then . Yeah, i think you have to shake the box to pin put everything out on the table. San francisco leaders have mentioned everything from turning empty office space into housing. To attracting new business sectors to the downtown space. Like biotech, something that neighboring city south San Francisco has been thriving off 45,000. A lifesize professionals. And our cluster, our Life Science Research cost or is the largest in the world with over 12 million square feet and growing south San Francisco city manager mike for trail says its the reason their local economy survive during the pandemic and why they continue to grow. Cant really do lab work from home. So throughout the pandemic, there are still a lot of scientists in the lab. A lot of whom were working. On covid related issues, whether it was testing or the vaccine itself so and because of the restaurant still saw some business. There were still some life and our economy throughout the pandemic in the last week, retail says 2 more Companies Just opened a headquarters location in a research facility. Patrol says the success coming out of the biotech industry has created more opportunities for south San Francisco. As it continues to now, reinvest in itself. San francisco, of course, is now eyeing up the industry as it tries to rely less on big tech with remote work in San Francisco. Taylor bisacky kron. 4 news. The twitter troubles keep on coming. The Washington Post put out a jaw dropping report saying if elon musk buys twitter he could cut the workforce down to a fraction of what it is right now. The report says he would lay off 75 or around 6500 employees with a big office on Market Street in San Francisco. This would impact thousands of employees right in San Francisco. An editor with seem that tells us he believes the post report and says its just not good news. It would essentially turn twitter into a disaster, right . A lot of problems with crop up. A lot of people who knew how to fix them would be there anymore. The people who are supposed to keep their eyes on certain things wouldnt be doing that anymore. It all sorts of troubles could ensue very quickly. The post also reports if the tesla founder does not buy the company for 43 billion dollars, twitter plans to cut 25 of its workforce regardless. The report also says they will likely close by the end of the month. Bloomberg also put out a report the Biden Administration is considering investigating musks twitter purchase. In the East Bay High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after assigning reading material that some parents team sexually explicit kron fours gayle ong talked with one of the parents upset over the incident at the union city school. That parents says she notified School Officials when she was first made aware of the assignment and says the topic should have been kept out of the classroom. Those states appointing this parents daughter goes to James Logan High School in union city. She says the controversial reading assignment was given by her daughters history teacher public coming to explain the source. So that is we have i wish our touching himself that that moment, her face just friends. The pair did not want to show her identity but showed this photo of the reading assigned to 10 graders earlier this month. And their reaction was that they felt so uncomfortable in that class and sick to their stomach with everything and have to having to answer those questions. In a statement, the new Haven Unified School district superintendent wrote in part, quote, as superintendent i was just as outraged as our parents. When i learned about the particular reading selection that was assigned to our students as soon as we learned of this assignment, it was withdrawn and the teacher was placed on administrative leave pending investigation into this matter. The superintendent went on to say the reading passage was from the book. Chuck, on a by michelle sarahs, a novel with the collection of poems about growing up in a Rural Community in calwfornia. District says it was neither age nor content appropriate for High School Students and that the book was selected by the teacher as supplemental material and was not approved for use in classrooms in the school district. But this parent questioning how the material reach students in the first place as parents, we would like the School Boards support us and how we want to raise our children. What theyre supposed to be taught within the school system. And eliminate the sexualization within the school literature. So far district has yet to release the name of that teacher under investigation in the newsroom. Gayle ong kron, 4 news. A south bay teacher was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting 2 students during an afterschool program. Stephen eugenes high worked as an art teacher at an Elementary School in san jose. Deputies say the incident happened 2 years ago but would not identify the school involved. Detectives say thai contacted the miners through social media. The teacher was booked into the Santa Clara County jail of charges of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14. Officials believe there could be other victims. But theres protest that has state that led to the citys District Attorney walking out 3 of the citys District Attorney candidates, including brooke jenkins, gathered for a debate. You that activists who oppose jenkins plan to prosecute some underage offenders as adults stormed the venue, chanting no justice, no peace. Were told the situation got tense to the point that all the candidates eventually got up and walked out. We are working to find out if the forum will be rescheduled. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news. A new report may show that a lot of work california did with reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. They have got out the window thanks to the twentytwenty wildfire season. And the pentagon may soon offer funds and traveling support for troops living in states with restrictive abortion laws. Hear how soon this new measure might be passed. Welcome back. New californias twentytwenty wildfire season has wiped 20 years worth of the states Greenhouse Gas reduction. Progress. According to researchers at ucl, a brush fires put an estimated 127 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide into the air. Now our state reduced emissions by 65 million metric. Tons between 2003 in 2019 in 2020 wildfires where the second largest producer of Greenhouse Gases in the state surpassed only by vehicles. California is now getting more resources to fight and prevent wildfires. The female improvement and efficiency act also known as the fire act is aimed at changing how federal resources are deployed ahead of a potential mega fire. It would allow fema to preposition resources when extreme weather is forecasted such as red flag warnings. U. S. Senator alex padilla and congresswoman zoe lofgren joined local leaders and cal fire to talk about the bill. Members of including senators from both sides of the aisle, recognize that we need to give. Local governments and First Responders all the 2 that they need to both fight wildfires when they happen. To protect communities. To the extent that we can be for a disaster. But also to be a very intentional partner in recovery efforts. When disasters happen. The bill will also prioritize wildfire. Survivors for housing in would provide more assistance for lowincome residents. For 16 on this friday morning. Feels good to say that especially if youre watching right now and our obviously someone is getting up a little early to get the day started. Hopefully youre doing so on a nice and caffeinated note this morning, Mother Nature going to make it super easy to be getting out the door looking outside. Currently, we dont have much of a view from the east bay hills. Its actually kind of a solid sign, though. The low cloud cover that we do have across the bay areas for the most part, sitting right above the bayshore itself. So its not until youre crossing into our hillsides that youre seeing views like this for the most part, visibility is okay as youre venturing out for your friday morning commute. Radar shows you those clear dry skies that we will hold on to this afternoon. Some low clouds and fog this morning. But that will let us up to some sunshine later on today. And sunshine only complemented by whats about to be a cooler afternoon. Now tomorrow and sunday are both set to be slightly cloudier and a little bit cooler, too, with daytime highs in the low 70s that are very warmest all this occurring in a massive change of pace. The west coast in general has been saying, well, above average temperatures over the past week. Now we have that cold front that youre seeing situated to our north, at least dropping in and cooling things down for us in california. Well, to the north up in oregon and washington, some much needed rainfall. Those states are suffering from wildfires right now and need that rainfall just as badly as we do. 60s and San Francisco for your daytime highs today, 60s at the coast. It will be 70s for most of us along the bay shore with burlingame at 74 redwood city at 75 and the south bay seeing temps anywhere from the upper 70s to low 80s morgan hill and campbell, right at 80 degrees. Freeman through hayward in the low to mid 70s. Well, livermore at 83 degrees. Oakland, berkeley and richmond in the upper 60s. Some low 80s from san ramon to concord and the north bay 70s and low 80s for you. You can see out or very warmest today. Those low 80s already a full 10 degrees cooler than we were just a couple of days ago and are very warmest and tomorrow, lets take another 10 degrees down. Daytime highs on saturday and sunday only in the upper 60s to low 70s. And thats at our warmest next week. Overall likely to stay cool as well. Wednesday night into thursday could see a slight chance of a few sprinkles. Although this forecast is definitely more dry than not a look at our bridges. Still nice and empty out there. Its 04 00am on a friday. Lets hope friday. Light continues. The bay bridge looks good as does the san mateo bridge as well. Just a few tail lights and headlights making their crossing a look at the Richmond Center fell bridge. Couple headlights there, but youre rolling at the limit through the toll plaza and the Golden Gate Bridge is also ok, we have a touch of fog through it. But nothing thats holding you up too terribly much for 19. Now has the fentanyl crisis continues to out of hand. Fresno county says it will start treating fentanyl Overdose Deaths as murders. Alex caprariello reports on the hard for to cut down on these drug deaths. She just got home from work and you know, was given a pill she thought would help her back from hurting. She was folding laundry eating a snack and fell asleep and never woke up sage dry. It says her sister knew the dangers of fentanyl and was misled about a painkiller she bought leading to her death. Prosecutors say they now have the evidence to prove jades death was murder. This is murder without using a weapon. This is murder without using a firearm. The weapon is fentanyl. 21 yearold Cassidy Gonzalez faces 4 felony counts, including suspicion of murder. Another man is also facing charges as an accessory. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid with legitimate medical use. But because its cheap and powerful, its increasingly common to find it mixed with heroin or in pills. On wednesday, agents say they found 12,000 fentanyl pills hidden in boxes and bags of candy at Los Angeles International airport. The sheriff in Los Angeles County says their suspect tried walking through security with the bags and ran when caught in new york this month, Police Arrested a woman hiding 15,000 fentanyl pills in a lego box. The pills were imprinted with an m and the number 30 to resemble common painkillers. At the time it was new york citys largest fentanyl bust. Only to be outdone, a week later when 300,000 pills and more than 20 pounds of powdered fentanyl were found. The dea says the fentanyl in communities across america is commonly made and smuggled from mexico. That was Alex Caprariello reporting just this week, President Biden and mexicos president said they are reviewing joint efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking here in the u. S. In national