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KPIX CBS News Bay Area Morning Edition 5am October 21, 2022

Brought in, that picked up the scent of possible human remains so the team got to work, partially digging out the car that was buried about 4 feet deep. Atherton police say the vehicle may have been there since the 90s and was loaded with backpacks of cement. However, so far, there have bee no evidence of a crime and the current owners have no connection to the car. Hospitals in 30 states seeing a drastic rise in cases of Young Children getting an illness called rsc. Health experts say it is a respiratory virus and cases have more than doubled in 25 states over the last month. Putting a strain on hospitals in the area. On the east coast, connecticut officials are thinking about bringing in the national guard. San Francisco Health officials are calling and then cut to the monkeypox emergency by october 31st. A drastic change from the summer when lon lines of people waited for hours, just to get the vaccine. San francisco now says it is seeing fewer than one monkeypo case per day. Time for weather and traffi beginning first with first aler meteorologist darren peck. A cool down as we move into the weekend. We noticed this afternoon, w will be about 7 degrees cooler than we were. It says a lot mor about how warm it was, just two days ago because todays numbers, while they are cooler, they are on the mark for where we should be this time of year but it is a dramatic change fro what we did when we were breaking records the day before yesterday. There is a dog sa, artheshae going to watch this. See how widespread the clouds are right now . The marine layer is back and has filled in the bay. You can see it filling in napa valley, filling in the petaluma valley as the clouds cover the gap. But the visibility brings halfmile in santa rosa, that i our indication that you will want to slow down on the drive through sonoma county. But the clouds will be gone late morning, as will the fog and weve got a Beautiful Day with more sunshine than anything else. The numbers in the low 80s. It is a really nice early fall day. 71, will be the numbe in the bay. But these numbers are as much as 15 to 20 degrees below where they were , just a few days ago. Two days ago, in fact. San jose goes to 77, redwood city will hit 74 and it is 76 in santa rosa. It is goin to get windy around the weekend saturday, i will have more on that in the complete forecast a we look at the change. For now, how did the roads look . After a busy start. It is friday and we hope for friday light but that is not the case. We have a Traffic Alert 680 northbound at calaveras. All lanes are blocked. All northbound lanes are shut down for a major crash, involving tw big rakes. One of those big rakes actually stuck on top of the side guard rails. This is going to take some time to clea out. Use the alternates if you can. Use 84 if you are headed toward or away from 680 toward 880 but 84 calaveras getting busy. Backed up becaus of that, so plan for that. Headed southbound, we see brake lights as well. We will keep a close eye on this. It has been out there since 3 30 this morning but with two big rakes involved and one of them stuck on the side, on top of the guar rail, that may take time to clear out. Other than that, it is quite this morning. A live look at san mateo bridge, 12 minutes between 880 and 101. No delays at the bay bridge toll plaza. Nice commute, certainly friday light into the city. Seven minutes from the maze to San Francisco. Colorful pills and powder containing deadly fentanyl, being a growing problem in the bay area. They look like candy but can kill. It is a big worry for parents as kids get ready t go trickortreating for halloween. Andrea nakano has a warning straight from police. Reporter this is the time o year, kids are putting finishin touches on the costume and thinking about the candy they will collect on halloween. The Drug Enforcement agency though says parents should take the extra step this year of making sure that candy is safe. It is nonnegotiable. Have to go. Monday, 5 00 , we are ready parents may not be as excited for halloween, as their kids. I like the coconut things. Almond joy . Yes. I like gummies. I like getting the candy. A yearly tradition that satisfies a sweet tooth in ever child. In the past, parents were told to make sure that children walk in loathe it wallet area but now look out for rainbow fentanyl to the list. I have heard of that being a thing this year. I know in schools it is top of mind for students. Generally, it does not. But know it is an issue. The presence of fentanyl in schools specifically. Reporter the authorities have found it in Los Angeles International airport. The Berkeley Police Department Arrested a suspect carrying rainbow fentanyl. We are starting to see this colorcoded fentanyl that is out there. Reporter the concern this halloween and throughout the holidays is that drugs can be accidentally mixed with treats as dealers use kid friendly packaging to disguise the opioid. Authorities say the parents need to watch for candy out of its packaging, and just be aware. I would like to think that somebody would not be creating something to give to kids, that is incredibly harmful. But you just cant be too careful. Reporter in berkeley, andre nakano, kpix 5. San Francisco Mayor london breed is apologizing for comments she recently made on drug dealing in the tenderloin. She said dealers from honduras sparking backlash and accusations of racial profiling in a statement yesterday, she said quote, i want to apologize to the Latino Community for what i said and how i set it. And trying to explain what is happening in the tenderloin, discussed what a complex situation in our city and central america. Some are defending the comments saying it was not meant to apply to th entire community and a lot of elected officials, you know are making rude comments. People are not letting the get away with it. Twitter says there are no plans for companywide layoffs since it signed a deal to be acquired by elon musk according to a reuter report overnight. It follows an earlier post that said 75 of twitter employees might be laid off if the purchase goes through. Corporate documents sa even if muscat doesnt buy the companies, executives plan to cut costs by 800 million. Twitter revenue dropped compared to this time last year rising mortgage rates, th redhot bay area Housing Market is cooling off. According to zillow, some values dropped 6 in the san jose metro area from may to august. That is higher than the nationwide average of 2 . Higher prices are not scaring people away from spending a little extra money o halloween this year. The National Retail federation estimates consumers, spending for the spooky holiday, to hit 10. 6 billio and according to a recent survey from lending tree, people plan to dish out 16 more money this year for halloween than they did in 2021 biggest splurges include costumes, candy and themed activities like Haunted Houses you went to a Haunted House recently. Yes, i did. I got scared and realize that people heard me scream a little bit. But after hiatus, the good news is the most iconic home, the wincheste mystery house is back. The famous halloween hunt, which guests are excited about our giving guests its scariest adventure today. I got an insid look on how one person turned down the lights for a night of fright, which you can see at th Winchester Mystery House in san jose. [ music ] reporter it is considered one of the most haunted places in the world. The Winchester Mystery House. Right over our heads, we hea reporter lots of people hav walked the hung ways, winding stairway says and opened the doors that lead to nowhere. Including, susan to lance. This is our guide station. Reporter and she wears many hats. You look for and check it. Reporter during this time o year, shes brave enough to tak on another task , dimming the lights to transform the 24,000 squarefoot house into a halloween fright night. Guests walk through a selfguided tour that features live actors, dressed in elaborate costumes and lots of creepy, creepy decor. If you look over here, this isnt on the daytime tour. Reporter susan knows every nook and cranny. That is the most expensive window. Reporter and the house itself has so many features to explore, some are quite advance for its time. This is the speaking to. It would put an apparatus up to it that would blow into it like a ship whistle and you can just talk through it. If the walls could talk, emily can you hear me . They do. These walls actually speak. Reporter susan shares tales of sometimes unexplained occurrences in the house. This is where you feel your hair tag. That cabinet behind your head is open. Reporter the house itself, feels like it has a personality of its own. We had our candlelight were going to the house. The house felt irritated that year. Reporter for her, the job i more than walking through hallways and clocking in and out. It is a big family. Reporter it is a job she loves. That is what makes it such a special place. Reporter the people she works with feel like family. I am very protective. If anyone is mean from them, they will hear from me. Reporter guests come from all over to check out the house and the yearly haunted event. How is everybody tonight . Head this way and you are going to sneak to the garden. Reporter even the traffic doesnt scare them away. How was the traffic . It wasnt bad until we got into san jose. Reporter once inside the grounds, they are greeted by th traveling circus. Welcomed. Watch out for do reporter inside the house, it goes from historic to horrific. Well, it was for me, anyway. That creepy doll, just comin at you. I love though, getting the behindthescenes look and being able to check that out. B the way, unhinged will be there for the next couple of weekends if you want to get unhinged yourself. If youre not ready for a scare, the house is open 364 days a year and they have tours you can take like the wal of the spirits tour to get the ghost vibe without being scared. You are so composed as you tell us about the house, as if you didnt just scream. I lost my mind for a good 10 minutes. But they are coming a you. It was a lot of fun. I dont recommend it for younger children, though. You mustve needed protection. If you guys are coming with me i need somebody to come with me. Just ahead, restaurant wee returns. Bay area restaurants hoping to uphold the postpandemic on our bay area beat, San Francisco Restaurant Week gets underway today. It is an annual push by local trade association to draw in diners with special deals. Restaurants have multicourse menus for brunch, lunch and dinner. Organizers hope to encourage customers to get out and explore new places at a discount, or even save money at your local old favorites. As Restaurant Week returns for 10 days, running today through october 30th. Volunteers meet up with San Francisco streets fed up with the streets, take matters into their own hands. They hold regular trash pickups, including on valencia street. I am from ireland were throwing trash is a mortal sin so to me, it is important that if i care about my city, i do something to keep it clean. Organizes plan a cleanup tomorrow. That they say will cover all over San Francisco. Volunteers can join one of a dozen neighborhood trash pickups around the city. An event called lovelife day happened last night for the first time in oakland, with liv entertainment. Mayor libby schaaf presented keys to the city to several, who made a difference in oakland including Community Activists mr. Fab. He was born and raised in oakland and sets up community events. Lets get over to Gianna Franco for a Traffic Alert on 680 involving a big rig. Two, in fact. It is a tough way to start your commute, especially traveling through the northbound side of 680. I want to show you the video we got moments ago into the newsroom of what is going on. You can see two grix, involved. One of them, it looks like the front part of the truck is stuc on top of the k rail at the guardrail, off to the side on the roadway. A lot of activity is on scene. They will travel through to see if they got everything cleaned up. We got everything working on getting the big rigs out of the lane. North end 680 is shut down, all lanes shut down by the 84, calaveras road at 3 30 this morning. It has been out for a couple of hours at this point. They are diverting traffic on 284. That is probably the best alternate in and around the area. Easy to commute through the area, 84 is backed up heade out of the altamont pass. Livermore area, keep that in mind as well. Getting on 680 isnt an issue, it is the northbound lanes that are shut down. We will keep you updated on that and in the meantime, there are couple of things to look out for. It is busy into the altamont pallets out of tracy. And 580 westbound on 284 be advised north end 680 connector will be closed for quite some time. There are some delays on bark as well so keep this in mind if you are keeping three 615 on trans trips onto the. And foggy in some spots. Golden gate bridge, nort of here, potentially some fog o 101 through sausalito and on the north bay. Loss to think about on the roadways. Wish it was friday light. Hopefully the forecast will be better. It is. It is a little bit a fog for the north valley, we will start by spotlighting the trouble spots with fog to start your friday morning. It is cloudy for most of us. The marine layer is back. Grey skies in the south bay and over the immediate bay but not in to the inland valley. But look at the fog for santa rosa. You can see how widespread the clouds are. Mainly, it is the bay but also the north bay valley. And if you look under the clouds fo santa rosa, our visibility readings at low. Down to a halfmile. You have struggled with that, the fog was an issu yesterday to the late morning and we are seeing it redevelop today. A little extra time to deal with that. The clouds will be gone, with more sunshine tha anything else by early afternoon. Be high clouds will show up today. Daytime highs today, relatively cool compared to where we were but right on the mark for average for this time of year. Even if they are in places, 25 degrees below where they were on wednesday. Is going to be 65 in the city today. It is 90, two days ago. Low 80s for most of the warmest inland valleys. In fact, warme than average, 78 is the average daytime high for the inland valleys. I hesitate to say it i cool, it is not but it is coole than you war. Heres the headline of the forecast, a wea system will grace Northern California tomorrow. We will ge a little bit of light snow in the syria the sierra. But th main impact, it is windy and we can see that when we look at th futurecast. We pick up the win right there. That is saturday afternoon when we get our 25 mile an hour gusts. On sunday, it reverses and it is more of a offshore wind. That will be mainly an issue in the mountain where we could have gusts of 3 miles an hour at higher peaks. The sevenday forecast shows temperatures cool for the next seven days. It will be breezy this weekend, first the onshore wind on saturday and the offshore winds on sunday in the looking at lunch today, noo to 2 00, here is the thing abou todays temperatures, they are cooler than have happened over the last few days. Technically have to say, we are cooling down. That we are going to be above average. Daytime highs, going to the low 80s by 4 00 p. M. If we look at noon to 2 00 inland, and on the upper 70s. Plenty of sunshine and low clouds will be gone by late morning. For the majority of us it is time for the morning mix. It is a good morning for all of you swifties. We are going to have to have the review on monday. I texted her this morning. Want to facetime her. She probably stayed up late, listening. That is probably true. Hillis west tampa album, midnights, is officially here. [ music ] searched the party, better bodies, just to learn [ music ] that is on your own. She released the music at midnight and after thousands of spotify users started reporting issues with accessing the app and her music. Spotify is now hoping t finetune all of that right now hopefully you get your swifty fix. I know that jocelyn was. I was checking out my friend , who lives with me is a huge fan. She was playing it. Prett late. I fell asleep to the tune of it a little bit. But i think it is because, you know, she is vulnerable. She talks about thoughts at the midnight hour and a lot of people can relate to it. A lot of people have bee waiting for it. She was up at midnight . Oh, yeah. Just waiting for . Oh, yeah. It is a whole thing. The swifties are dedicated. And there was. I cant wait to see the videos. It is that time of year where many are gearing up for Spooky Halloween and that includes the Hollywood Reporter which has just put out a rankin of the scariest movies of all time. At the top of the list is a littleknown film from australia with a Home Invasion theme called funny games. Never saw it. Others include the blai witch project and at number 3, called by the exorcist, the shining, Alfred Hitchcocks psycho from 1960 ranks number 11. I would agree with all of those. I cant say anything about the first one because i have yet to see it. But it is o the list now. Ive never heard of it. Ive never heard of it either. All the other ones, hav you seen those movies . I have seen two of them. The exorcist and the blair witch project. Which was an example o a movie where they scare you a fear that something might happen. The whole movie. Nothin scary ever really happens but you are always thinking something bad is about to happen. That is the making of a goo movie because you are on the edge of the seat the whole time hitchcock would have appreciated it. I like them all. Good choices. Hes a nine are now. We have big news as they head into a matchup with the chiefs. And developments in the i see it in my office all the time. Kids getting hooked on flavored tobacco, including ecigarettes. Big tobacco lures them in with flavors like lemon drop and bubble gum, candy flavors that get them addicted to tobacco products,

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