Staying at home. Its been crazy. Now at 11 00, high gas prices have been hitting our Bank Accounts hard for months on end. But now the governor is going after oil company profits. So will that be enough to stop the spike . Why one expert says no. Good evening, im sara donchey. So if you ivr e area, you have felt the pain at pump surely. Now the governor is pointing his fingers at exhale companies. Gas prices have dropped a bit over the past month here in california. Regular costs 5. 80 on average one month ago. Today it costs 5. 68. However, our gas prices, the high of 3. 76. We dont even know what thats like here. So the question is now. Is the governors plan a good longterm solution to keep prices from spiking . Anne makovec live for us in mill valley tonight with what the experts are saying about this. Andrea . Reporter well sarah, the good news is gas prices are going down here in california. T noisthe time to shop around for the best price. Now is also the time to not forget how high the prices got in the last few months. I like here because its theo wewereat a minute ago was 6. This one is like 1. 50 cheaper. Reporter drivers are starting to sew see only see. The state is looking into a windfall property tax on Oil Companies. This has been tried a few times. Weve learned its very difficult to design the windfall property tax that only hits hits. [ inaudible ] he will do nothing, but the price of gas, especially since addressing high gas prices. What happened this year is the crude oil increase. Theres nothing we could do about that. Thats a world market. Reporter as frustrated as drivers were about paying more than 6 per gallon. Its hard working a minimum wage job or a job you dont get paid much. Reporter the goal is to get to the er x, a tax generating billions of dollars. For the last seven years, we have been seeing an extra 30 cents to 40 cents a gallon. In total its added up to more than 40 billion. Reporter overall the government should do more to keep Oil Companies in check. There should be a cap on how much they can charge. After that, thats covered by their temps. Reporter a committee has been formed to try to get to the bottom of this mystery tax. The return is as the prices go down, the focus for the search for answers will fade. Sara . So andrea, im wondering how much lower can we actually expect the gas prices to get this time . Reporter yeah, so its been going down several nts a day. The hope is the dollar per gallon will average in the mid40s. Hopefully that will happen soon. All right, andrea, thank you so much. New video tonight of a hitandrun crash in Castro Valley that sent a 6yearold to the hospital. This happened tuesday evening at the intersection of nunes and Castro Valley boulevard. The driver took off. Here are some pictures of that white suv. Blurry, but here they are. Authorities are still searching for the driver. The elon musk deal to buy San Francisco based twitter has been full of twists and turns. Will he or wont he . Well today the billionaire made an interesting appearance here in the city of San Francisco that has some thinking hes closer than ever to closing that deal. Reporter this is one way to make an tr. Entering twitter hk. He waltzed into the offices carrying a sink. Splashy headlines perhaps. What kind of impression will he make on his potential new employees . I dont think he cares about this for very much. And not my preferred leadership style. But arguably he does have to create a bit of an upheaval at this company if he wants to turn it around. Reporter musk is in town ahead of of a friday deadline to finish his purchase for twitter in a Company Email obtained by cnn. How hes being received by the rank and file is a big question. Musk told investors he plans to slash 75 of twitters work force. He has to watch that. This doesnt lead to an exodus, the top performers he wants to retain. Reporter analysts say his appearance could mean hes close to closing the deal. Hes likely sorting finances for the tumultuous 44 billion purchase, which he seemed to back away from since raising questions about bots and fake users in the platform. Twitter sued musk to try to go through with the deal. If he does, there is plenty of work ahead of him. To see who is with him and who is not. All of that will have to happen in reasonably short order because wall street and really all of twitters members are now waiting for the next phase here. Reporter last october Mark Zuckerberg bet big on the metaverse, changing facebooks name to meta. The company is on a downward trajectory that has not let up. The stocks tumbled 17 after a disappointing earnings report. The net profits were cut in half nearly. The company is making big changes. 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Ill be right there lurking. All right, here is what weve got later on in sports. Gone, but not forgotten. 49ers brought back some strength for the defense. Its only rams week. But first an alarming discovery inside a bay area students backpack at school. My wife, my kid cant even come home. Im terrified. Also a woman took an ax to a california familys home just inches from where their baby sleeps. Lets take a look at whats going on weather wise. Todays temperatures are slightly below average for this time of the year, but it was a pleasant late october day. More of the same tomorrow. A look ahead to see if we can keep going into the weekend. Well need that too. Its coming up in the first alert forecast. Paul, thank you. Here are tonights guests on the late show. Aubrey plaza and im karen. Im living with hiv and im on cabenuva. Ults who are undetectable, im l numplete, hiv and im on cabenuva. Longacting hiv treatment you can get every other month. 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Not just that, but police say he had an extended magazine. Police say the student s bahe student was oy that wae taken to juvenile detention and booked on several weapons charges. Okay, everybody in our newsroom is talking about this video today. It looks like it came from a horror movie, very real though for a family in pasadena. When a woman with a pick axe just started smashing in all the windows in the house with the familys newborn baby inside. Lauren posen has the story of what happened next. We got a target. Reporter arman says he got notification at work on monday from a Security System that something was going on at his house. All i see is a woman it trying to bash our door in. Reporter inside his house, his mother lawn and new born baby. As nay look up, they see the massive pick axe about to britain again. It shows the woman continuing to des the huge glass windows on the front of the home. Each time the glass shattering louder and louder as they hit the ground. One of those windows is where moments before the attack. He laid in his basinet. If she was five seconds late, my daughter wouldnt be here with us. Reporter she does this three different times. Ill be back. Get out. She came and did their job. Reporter a few hours later the woman was arrested. Police said she was having a Mental Health crisis. He doesnt know who the woman is other than she lives across the street from his family. Im assuming if there is a to doing . Like that to everyone and not just target us. Reporter much like the large windows on the front of their home, their peace of mind is now shattered. My wife and kid cant come home. Theye teifiehedont wahom t el. The homeowner had to file a restraining order against that lady. Back here at home, we have some chopper video of sea lions riding in style with the baby because we have to recover from the previous story. They were hitching a ride on a massive container ship, getting some shape out there. We needed a stress reliever. I read the script for the story and i thought they were on the deck of the boat just thinking how can sea lions climb . Thats what its called. Hey, they like lounging. Me too. Yeah, me too. Is it lounging weather . It is always lounging weather, sara. I like that. And when people talk about good sleeping weather. Its always good sleeping weather. Storm tracks staying to the north over the next several days. It wont be wet weather for the bay area any time soon. All the moisture aimed for the pacific northwest. Plenty of rain still headed their way over the next several days. Our next rain chance is ahead in the middle to upper 50s. More cloud covers will move in. Stronger onshore breeze. Slightly cooler temperatures towards the end of the weekend. Nothing more than a stray sprinkle in the forecast on saturday. We will see dry conditions continuing into early next week. The next chance of rain doesnt head our way until wednesday, but it looks fairly promising at this point. Its still seven days away, but the weather prediction center, which is another branch of noaa, along with the National Hurricane center, all looking at different aspects of the weather. Theyre outlining the bay area for a potential of light rain. Most of us less than. 10. Slightly higher amounts in the elevations of the north bay and the santa cruz mountains. Ill emphasize this again, its the seventh day of the sevenday forecast. Its a long way out there. Right now clear skies overhead. Temperatures are dropping off. Down to 29 degrees in o low livermore. Temperatures will drop down to the middle portions of the 40s for most of us. Upper 40s in the north bay valley. Even the coolest temperatures are only going to be about 5 degrees below average, so nothing record setting, nothing that far out of the ordinary. Low 60s along the coast for highs tomorrow. Mid to upper 60s around the south end of the bay down to the peninsula. Low 70s in the santa clara valley. 72 degrees in san jose. Mostly low 70s in the east bay. The warmest spots only reached the mid70s, which isnt that warm for this time of the year. Mid60s in San Francisco. Temperatures for the east bay reaching the mid to upper 60s, mostly low 70s north of the golden gate. Until you go part north, farther north. But then we do climb back up to near above average levels. Especially for inland parts of the bay area. A chance for showers will arrive potentially as early tuesday, more likely by wednesday next week. Well keep you updated on that. Good news for the trick or treaters. Near normal temperatures. Maybe a little bit of coastal fog to make things spooky, and dry conditions. No worries still about Water Proofing the kids trick or treat outfits. Vern . Straight ahead in sports, 49ers will address that. Today the game plan was hatched for the rams game on sunday. And steph curry and ive been trying to think of ways to categorize the 49ers situation. Its room for improvement . I just want to sober everybody up. I mean weve got seven games under their belt. Theyre 34. Here is my question, niners empire. Theyve got ten regular season games left. Can they go 73 . Can they get to ten wins . Will that be enough to get them in the tournament . San francisco, they activated some help. Quarterback Jason Verrett from the injured list, and they could use his help on sunday at the rams. Again, thats if hes at the top of his game. He has not played since tearing his acl last season. The star receiver deebo samuel did not practice because of a hamstring injury. Deebo usually feasts on the rams. The rams are bitter rivals, right . Knocked them off on the way to winning the super bowl. Here is a timely sound bite with the safety jimmy ward a handful of weeks back. You know, were not friends, were not cool. All right. They will face the rams at sofi stadium. Its where he last played them. The nfc championship game. Hes been hurt. He was frustrated by that. We are frustrated. You know what im saying . And now, oh yeah. I take a lot of pride in covering. Well then cover like a glove on sunday. Nba, steph curry entered last nights game in phoenix. A perfect 2222 at the free throw line until announcer pointed that out on the tnt broadcast. Steph curvy at the line. He has not missed this year. Why, why . So why . Steph must have heard him because the tnt crew. Curry is now 25 out of 27 from the charity stripe. Golden state hosts miami on thursday. College Basketball Hall of fame gary peyton on the road over at western washington. Oaklanders in yellow. Good news, the drive, the bucket, the foul. Led lincoln with 22. They could not overcome a 12point half time deficit and lost this opener 9581. Lincoln, they get right back to it on friday. Redding and the red hawks. All right, 2222 perfect sports casts until now. Wow. We dont want to jinx it. Yeah, a little pressure. Thank you, vern. Still ahead how things have gone from bad to worse for kanye west after his antisemitic tirade. He was escorted out of sketchers headquarters in los angeles today after he showed up unannounced. This just a day after adidas ended its partnership with the rap every. More Companies Cutting ties with kanye. Peloton says they are no longer going to play his music in any of their new classes. T. J. Maxx says they are also dropping his line yeezy, from his stores. You also an impact on the Oakland City Council ceng represent district iv in november, which covers much of the oakland hills. And which partially reads still rooting for you. Hope your comeback is much greater. Juliette goodrich sat down with joyner to gerardo ramirezvera side of the story and here is what he said. And how it impacted people, i was just looking at it. He cant be well. Some will ask what was he thinking . 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