With a disturbing story involving a north bay high school. A video captured a fight between a student and a teacher at Redwood High School in marin county ground force reassess. Has tonights top story and a warning. Some people may find the video upsetting. This fire broke out just. Okay. Were having a problem with that video right now. Reeses story about what happened at the school in the north bay the week. Just after 11, 30 morning at Redwood High School in larkspur school. Officials say that the student was playing loud music on a speaker and the teacher asked him to turn it down. The student refused and the teacher attempted to take the speaker. And that is when the student reportedly struck the teacher and the 2 wrestled to the ground eventually another staff member runs over and separates them. This was a really unfortunate in first for students. It was an isolated incident. Tara is the superintendent of the time. A pious union school district. She says authorities are investigating student. Im looking into anything leading up to the incident was kind of scary. I guess. We all know that kids. Just a little surprising. No one was hurt. But the fight was unnerving for students. As you can see in these photos obtained by kron, 4 news students were brought outside and police came to the school. I removed the student. I feel like theres something i could have done to prevent this. But i hope that they can prevent it in the future. If anything like this arises again, obviously parts of were not acceptable. My school standards, this parents said that he knows the video is facing a lot of scrutiny but feels it is important to discuss rather than just judge. I think we should all pause and look deeper. If we can provide whatever help were all able to and directly or indirectly. Superintendent says that they will have counselors in the Wellness Center available for anyone. Who needs any support on this in marin county. Teresa is stasio kron. 4 news Police Arrested a south bay teacher for allegedly assaulting 2 students during an afterschool programs. Stefanos even eugene tie worked as an afterschool art teacher at an Elementary School in san jose. Deputies say the incident happened 2 years ago, but would not identify which school was involved. Detectives conducted an investigation and said that i conduct it, contacted the miners through social media. The teacher was booked into the Santa Clara County jail on charges of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14. Officials believe there could be other victims. The Washington Post just put out a jaw dropping report tonight that said musk buys twitter. He could cut the workforce down to a fraction of what it is. Now. The report says he would lay off 75 of his employees. That, of course, would be devastating to the San Francisco based company. Kron fours justine waltman live for us in our newsroom with reaction, justine. Pam and ken with a big office on Market Street in San Francisco, this reporting would impact a thousands of employees. And as the sale of twitter goes, things are changing our to our day today. So we just have to sit back and watch the show. Get your popcorn ready. Im sure this is not the end of it. The twitter troubles keep coming. The Washington Post reporting thursday once elon musk buys the social media company. Headquartered in San Francisco. He plans to cut twitters head count by 75 or around 5600 employees ensure was seen. That tells kron 4. He believes the post repnrted says its not good. 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 would be doing that anymore. It all sorts of troubles could ensue very quickly. Also, the post reports if the tesla founder does not buy the company for 43 billion dollars, twitter plans to cut 25 of its workforce. It seems as though the future of twitter as a company is really unclear. And thats regardless of whether or not elon musk is in the picture one way or another sure says very soon. Well be looking at a vastly different twitter than the one we know today. The idea that it could some of just collapses. It seems almost unfathomable, but this may be the beginning of what could be the next stage of social media. Right word where twitter and its relevance starts to change. That. Washington post report also says that musks 43 billion dollar deal is about to close pretty soon likely by the end of the month. And bloomberg just put out a report tonight. That the Biden Administration is considering investigating musks twitter purchase. Live in the newsroom. Im justine waldman. Kron 4 news, justine, thank you. San franciscos District Attorneys Office is appealing the dismissal of a civil lawsuit against the law firm potter handy. The lawsuit initiated this april attracted attention because it accused the law firm and 15 of its lawyers of filing fraudulent cases against Small Businesses under the americans with disabilities act. Potter handy allegedly knew of the fall standing testimony but filed those lawsuits anyway. In august, it was dismissed on a technicality under the states litigation process. District attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the appeal at one of the affected businesses today. Most of the businesses that were targeted were small mom and pop operations that could not legal representation in the time fighting back against these fraudulent losses. As a result, many of them chose to settle out of court. Which costs thousands of dollars. Jenkins estimates that well over 10800 businesses across the bay area were affected by the fraudulent lawsuits. Over the past 3 months, a new report says oakland has the 10th highest homicide rate increase in the country. According to personal finance website, wallethub kansas city had the highest rate of homicides in july august and september. Oakland was the only California City to make the top 10. Los angeles was ranked 22nd. San francisco was ranked 28th. That report comes as Oakland Police investigate a shooting that sent 2 women to the hospital. Police say they were both shot just before 7 oclock last night near the corner of international boulevard and 40nd avenue. Both women were taken to the hospital for treatment and are said to be in stable condition. No motive or suspects have been given. Police say that they are still investigating and Oakland Police have arrested 3 people who they say were carrying firearms. Officers saw the suspect entering a parked car with guns on 27th avenue. This happened monday evening during a vehicle stop. The police found 3 loaded weapons. Investigators say one of the suspects had an outstanding robbery winds, but no information on why they had guns at the time. The investigation on this is ongoing. Oakland police say that they have recovered more than 1200 firearms this year. More than the department recovered in all of 2021. And staying in oakland, an ice cream shop was burglarized for the 3rd time this year. At least 2 suspects broke through the back door of flavor brigade, italian water, ice on fruitvale avenue. The owner tells us it got away with just a few 100 and some of the companies tied it shirts. The thieves also used his store to break into a neighbors business to steal their register and a key making machine galloway. The owner of the store filed a Police Report just as he did in july when thieves rammed a car through the front glass to steal an atm filled with about 500. The combination of the damage to the loss of business total, tens of thousands of dollars. The i wish you would stop the sense that youre not got nothing out coming to work. Were coming. We hire every every every spring and looking do a better you doing now . Braden galloway says he has no plans to close up, though and adds that things are going well other location in pleasanton. Oakland, police are warning the public about an uptick in robberies at atms. A say in several cases the victim was walking away from the atm and then was confronted by armed individuals to reduce the risks. Police are advising the public always look around the area and watch for suspicious activity. Were people around an atm . They also say to unpopulated area. If you get cash, youre advised to put it away immediately. Dont stand at the atm and count your money when leaving an atm. Make sure youre not being followed. If you are, they say drive to a safe place. That includes a Police Department or fire station and call 911. The sec on our Weather Forecast tonight as we hit thursday and get closer to the weekend. This is the richmond sandra fell toll plaza. And its crawling very much. Youre trying to get into marion county. Good lot. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by. Yeah, guys, get ready for the weekend now and really a big change in the weather coming our felt the change starting today. That cool air return to the coastline. The valley still remaining on the hot side. But what a change in just 24 hours. And you can see whats happened now. Weve got that on shore breeze, caring with of the low clouds and the fog instead of the offshore wind that makes all the difference in the world. Temperaturewise, look at the numbers. Today. Member was 90 degrees. We step tied a record in San Francisco at 90 yesterday today. 67 degrees. It was also 98 oakland. Well, today, 72 degrees, san jose, a warm 82 still some hot 90s in livermore in concord and 82 degrees in santa rosa. But numbers coming down across the board as High Pressure has weekend thats allowed for that on shore. When that cool breeze coming from the ocean waters to really drop the temperatures in the 20 plus degrees around the bay area today. More cooling for the wtekend. In fact, look at that. Weve got a cold front thats making its way into far Northern California. Not much energy with you see kind of falling apart. But as the systems fall apart, well, on the backside, usually High Pressure starts to build in that we start to talk about some gusty winds thats going to affect your weekend. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, lawrence. A new study says wildfires in california wiped out nearly 20 years have reductions against air pollution in just over one year. You may remember this a couple years ago when all the smoke caused the sky turned orange. A study by ucl a look to data from 2020 the largest fire season in modern california history. They say wildfires released an estimated 127 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide into the air. Wildfires for the second largest producer of Greenhouse Gases in california in 2020 after cars, california is getting more resources to try to fight wildfires and perhaps prevent them from becoming major disasters. The fema improvement and efficiency act also known as the fire act is aimed at changing how federal resources are deployed ahead of a mega fire. It updates the federal response allowing fema to preposition resources during extreme weather which is becoming more common because of climate change. 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 also prioritize wildfire survivors for housing and would provide more assistance for low income residents. It also provides funds to help update Emergency Operations on tribal land. Coming up, were bringing back a bay area institution. Well, we checked with another bay area institution, willie brown. He joins us for the first bay area back roads and more than a decade. Dont miss the premiere is tonight with our very own grant lotus coming up at 8. 45, dogs on drugs . A bay area Animal Hospital says its seeing a number of pets who accidentally consumed math. And after the break, why homeless advocates are so angry over the number of empty homes in San Francisco. The number of vacant homes in San Francisco continues to grow. Last year, there were 60,000 homes in the city without People Living in them. Thats up from 40,020 19. A new report released today by the city gives a better idea of what types of homes are sitting empty. Well, forced out as but has those details. The report is not a good look for San Francisco with so many People Living on the streets. Supervisor dean preston says 15 of all homes are vacant. Were learning a lot more when the Census Bureau put out the numbers last month for vacant homes in San Francisco, the citys budget and legislative analyst was asked to find out more. Supervisor dean preston says for every person experiencing homelessness, there are 14 vacant homes. Its just mind blowing to try think about those 2 things together and not be shot. An outrage. We have nearly 5,000 people on the streets. What we have 60,000 units tonight sitting empty according to the supervisor. The report shows that most of the homes sitting empty for 6 months or longer are vacation homes. 10,000 total. His biggest concern, though, is the increase of vacant homes that are for rent. Landlords hope in the Housing Market will improve so they can rent at higher costs. A lot of these levels, that they need to adjust their rental prices down slightly to attract people and to read out those units in november, voters will decide on whether or not to approve an empty homes. Tax owners of vacant homes and buildings with 3 or more units will have to pay 2500 to 5,000 the first year. The tax increasing each year to a maximum of 20,000. What we dont want is to just be creating. A bunch of housing. Thats a great Investment Vehicle for some investors, you know, nationally or globally. Its not actually if approved. Supervisor preston says the money from the empty homes tax will go towards Affordable Housing and rental subsidies for lowincome families and seniors reporting in the newsroom. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. Our was found buried in somebodys backyard in atherton. It was in the area of stockbridge avenue in shelby lane about a mile from woodside high school. Police say a group of landscapers working at the multimilliondollar home found the car just before 9 oclock this morning, the owner of the property reportedly had no idea it was there. Police say is likely been there since the 1990s crime scene technicians are also theyre theyre trying to determine whats going on as well and get the car out of the ground and make sure theres no crime involved. Theres no estimate on when the crews will leave the area concerning prediction about the california drought. Weather experts say the state is in for a fairly dry winter. The Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather service says la nina conditions are expected to stay with us for the next 3 months from 4 chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Here now with a look at to what we will be expecting. Okay. Not saying that im old, but ive been in this business a while and ive seen numerous predictions come and go on these long wrong. There you times before not say anything disparaging forecast. Very difficult. Theyre extremely difficult. And the weather is very complex. So well see what happens right now. Heres the very latest from knowing youll see this. And you can see right here down here, this the probability of normal. And you can see right in the middle there, it says equal chances. Guess where we sit . Yeah, we sit right in that probability equal chances of normal rainfall. Thats december through february. Now we are looking at la nina conditions and usually that means that the jet stream tends to get a little hung up northward and north of the bay area. That means that keeps us drier. But like i said, things could change and you just never know. Let the season play out and see what happens right now. Yeah, those winds are going to be an issue as we get into the weekend. Weve got a cold front dying and coming into california fall apart. Pretty typical to see that happen to this time of year. Thats where you get those strong offshore winds likely to see that happen as we head toward the latter part of the weekend. Cold temperatures, though, as were going to see some of these temperatures rolling into nevada, parts of the northern sierra nevada, down the mid 20s in some spots getting very cold out there. So free was freeze. Watch is going up and fire weather watches going up across the greater lake tahoe area as were going to see some very strong gusty winds there as well and around the bay area. Some very strong is rolling on in as were going to see a couple cold front. You see one on the gulf of alaska, one thats just now making its way to the north of us. Going to continue to drop through for tomorrow. Bring some high clouds, but its that next frontal system that drops to end the weekend. Thats really whats going to the winds going and its going to get blustery tomorrow. Youre going to see that sea breeze in the afternoon. Well start to pick up a little stronger breeze late in the day. But more that on shore flow looking at winds. 25 30 miles an hour through some of the mountain g