♪ now at noon -- the first b.a.r.t. police officer to be killed in the line of duty, laid to rest today. the special message attorney general kamala harris had for sergeant smith's 6-year-old daughter. for the first time in weeks, drivers being forced to use their windshield wipers. we're also learning 17 communities throughout the state could run out of water in 60 days. the demolition of the old eastern span of the bay bridge is now months behind schedule.

the action caltrans plans to take to speed the process along. saying goodbye to a fallen b.a.r.t. police officer. today, thousands of mourners filled a castro valley church to pay their respect to tom smith who was accidentally shot to death by a fellow officer last week. good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. ktvu's alex savidge is live with how fellow officers are paying their respects this afternoon. good afternoon, alex. >> reporter: well, good afternoon. this funeral service wrapped up just about a half-hour ago. you can see there are quite a few police officers and other mourners still outside of the neighborhood church of castro valley right now. it was a touching ceremony today to honor the first b.a.r.t. officer to die in the line of duty. his family and fellow officers remembered tom smith as the man who sacrificed his life trying to keep others safe.

♪ >> reporter: officers stood at attention as the flag-draped casket carrying smith's body arrived for the service. smith's also, also a b.a.r.t. officer and 6-year-old daughter followed the cass kate inside the church. the 42-year-old officer was killed last week in an accidental shooting. fellow officer michael maes mistakenly opened fire on smith, killing a man many say was both a colleague and a close friend. maes was expected to be here for the service today. police officers from around the bay area and the country attended the funeral. we saw officers from as far away from massachusetts onhand. for all of them, smith's death truly hits home. >> absolutely. absolutely. it makes it that much more real for us. and for our families. >> the most important thing is to continue go to out there and do our job and knowing the risk

behind it, you never know when -- if it will be you. >> reporter: during the service, we heard from one of smith's brothers who is a new wark police officer. b.a.r.t.'s police chief also spoke and got choked up remembering the 18 years of service smith gave to the department starting when he was 18 years old. kamala harris spoke during one very poignant moment turned to smith's 6-year-old daughter in the audience and simply said your dad is a hero. a beloved b.a.r.t. police officer remembered as a man of honor and bravery who everyone here says left far too soon. we're live this afternoon in castro valley, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, alex. in addition to the outpouring of support at today's service, tom smith's neighbors have been honoring him by displaying their american flags. this is video taken earlier this week of the street in san ramon where the smith family lives. you can see all of the homes

proudly displaying their flags in honern of the fallen officer. for raw video of the police procession for sergeant tom smith, go to ktvu.com and we also have a slide show of the moving moments. it's all on our front page. pg&e crews are on the scene of a gas line break that shut down part of a road in north san jose. it prompted the fire department to issue a shelter in place warning for people in the area. ktvu's janine de la vega joins us live from san jose to tell us what the status is now. good afternoon, janine. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. well, in the last 15 minutes, police opened up hossseter road. it's been closed for several hours. crews were able to cap off the gas line that ruptured earlier this morning. it happened where you see the heavy equipment. construction crews were here already because this is where the future b.a.r.t. line will run through san jose. workers were in the process of relocating a sewer line to clear the b.a.r.t. corridor when their heavy equipment hit a two-inch gas

line causing it to break. that happened at 8:20 causing the fire department to respond because of the possible hazard to the community. the gas could be smemmed in the neighborhood which prompted the fire department to evacuate two homes in the area and to issue a shelter in place. >> it's always dangerous. it needs a spark or reason to ignite. as far as moving the folks out, it was for precaution. >> reporter: police detoured traffic away for several hours. an access hole had to be dug so pg&e crews could cap off the gafs -- gas line. they reached it after three hours. crews are doing last-minute inspections of the nearby homes and on the street to make sure everything is straight. even though the gas has been capped off and repaired, repairs still need to be done to the line. this was construction -- a construction zone to begin with. things back to normal. reporting live from janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right.

thank you, janine. new details about the impacts of the drought in california. we're now learning 17 water districts in ten counties throughout the state could be facing severe water shortages within 60 to 120 days. you can see the ten counties here on our map including cloverdale and the lompico county water district. the santa clara water district last night voted to ask customers to ask forry 10% cut -- voluntary 10% cutback. the district okayed spending $500,000 for a public awareness campaign. right now, grund water supplies are in the normal range but could become critically low by the end of the year. other agencies with water restriction, the san francisco public area is also asking for a 10% cut. in the alameda county water

district, customers are being asked to cut their usage by 20% and 25% voluntary reductions are being requested in marin county. now as for east bay m.u.d., those officials will decide in two weeks whether to ask customers for voluntarily cutbacks. the district's reservoirs are at about 63% of capacity now and they list that as fair condition. one thing that's helped is that east bay mud's 1.3 million customers have cut their water use an average of 17% since the last drought seven years ago. today we're already seeing some wet weather although it seems like more of a heavy drizzle or mist. but at least it's an end to the dry spell. you can see the windshield wipers were going in the north bay. this is video taken an hour ago on northbound 101 in santa rosa. ktvu's mark tamayo is here to show us if there's still a chance of more substantial rain heading our way. >> well, this is not the

significant storm but a change in the weather pattern. that rain line focused to the north of the bay area. things will be changing up later on this afternoon, especially by tonight as the rain line spreads to the south. just over the past three hours, closer inspection, you can pick out the coverage, basically covering a good portion of the northern part, of the state, the northern third, even rain showers out towards blue ranian. right now, even if you are not covered, you can have the spotty mist or drizzle. there you go with the rainfall moving into parts of mendocino county. ukiah county reporting light rain. this will gradually spread to the south. the rainfall will pick up intensity. it will be a quick mover. coming up we'll take a look at this and show you the sweep and the current rainfall pattern out there. mum we'll take a look -- --

coming up we'll take a look at the sierra as well. just go to ktvu.com for to check the forecast for the area where you live under the hot topics section. you will find our drought coverage including the varying water restrictions by water districts around the bay area. we have new information this noontime on a dog attack that left two people injured in san francisco's golden gate park. san francisco animal care and control gave us this photo showing the second dog involved which was caught just this morning. police say around 10:30 last night, the two pit bulls attacked a man at a homeless camp near 25th avenue and lincoln way. another man stepped into help and the dogs turned on him. >> some guy was getting mauled beside the bench located right over here, and then i hear this woman screaming. >> police officers shot and killed one of the dogs right after the attack. one man was taken to the hospital with bite wounds.

he's expected to survive. the second victim was bitten on the leg but refused medical attention. there's not much information on the dog's owner. witnesses say a man dropped the dogs off at the camp while he went grocery shopping. the new eastern span of the bay bridge may have barely opened on time last summer but demolishing the old span is already behind schedule. ktvu's brian flores is on the old eastern span to explain why caltrans is months behind. good afternoon, brian. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. well, if you have driven on the new sphan of the eastern side of the bay bridge, you could see the old span next to it. we've seen work being done to demolish it. according to caltrans, the work has fallen behind. they say it's because it was important to bring commuters on the safer span. according to crews, the work is a couple of months behind schedule. still waiting to see if it could potentially cost tax payers an additional $5 million. caltrans has given a green light to renegotiate the contract with contractors to

get things on the right track in terms of timing. caltrans says setback was a tradeoff of sorts to get commuters on the seismically safer side of the span. crews were set to begin back in july but because the focus was getting the new span open in time for labor day weekend, the permits could not be secured on time. here's andrew gordon who disputes the fact that it will cost tax payers more in the long run. >> any additional costs associated with potential delays of the demolition should not add to the overall price tag. caltrans had to go to a meeting with the state's transportation and housing commit 50e led by the -- commit tee led by the senator. he's been critical of the agency and doesn't agree that the assessment that it won't affect tax payers' pocketbooks. i just spoke with him. he's calling on caltrans to be more transparent, saying he needs to regain the trust of

the public. back out here live, you are taking a look at the bike/pedestrian path that's supposed to be completed to yerba buena island. caltrans hoped this would be completed by early 2015. it looks like it will be done by the summer of 2015. tom vacar is on the bridge. he will have a report at 5:00 and 6:00. we're live on the old eastern span of the bay bridge, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. less than an hour ago, the federal reserve announced it will cut its monthly bond purchases by an additional $10 billion to $65 billion because of the strengthening u.s. economy. as a result, the markets are tumbling because investors fear the reduced sim list will mean higher interest rates and that could hurt emerging markets. taking a live look at the big board, the dow is down 210 points. that's 1.25%. the nasdaq also down about the same percentage down 50 points

and the s&p is down 20. the mayor of oakland brms a victim of crime in her -- the mayor of oakland becomes a victim of her crime in own community. it's a landmark law that's supposed to make our food safe and prevent food-borne illnesses. why it could face another delay. [uncle]this is hopscotch,okay? uncle go one,two,one,two,one two,one. [niece]okay! [uncle]okay? [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight! [uncle laughing] okay,we go the other way,okay? [niece]one,two,three,four,five, six,seven! [uncle laughs]there's ten spaces,you want to try again? [uncle]yeah?

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san francisco's health department this morning reported the city's third flu death of the season. they released few details about the victim except to say the person was under 65 years old and had an underlying medical condition. they did not give the person's gender. there have been at least 34 flu deaths so far this season in the bay area. oakland police are looking for the man who broke into the home of an 81-year-old woman and shot her. we first told you about the home invasion near laguna avenue and potomac street during the noon news yesterday. police say the woman was shot in the shoulder after she surprised the suspect who had kicked in her front door. she's expected to survive. the bullet went through her wall and went through the fence here and then the bullet struck here and then fell to the ground right there. >> police describe the suspect as an african-american man, 175

pounds, 6 feet tall. he was dressed in all black and armed with a handgun. oakland mayor jean quan now has more first-hand knowledge about the city's crime problem. aides say the mayor left a community meeting at the chabot center to find the rear windshield of her car had been smashed. nothing was stolen. still unclear whether the incident was an act of vandalism or an attempted burglary. quan was the victim of a purse snatching three years ago. frustrated parents gather today on capitol hill demanding safer food. jacqueline fell talks with a mom and dad who watched their kids get sick from food that may be in your refrigerator right now. she joins us live. jacqueline. >> reporter: they grocery stop and want to fill the fridge with healthy foods. parents never thought the food they were feeding their kids would make them sick. >> they were hospital iced, the

sickest they've ever been. >> reporter: she watched helplessly as her daughters were hospitalized in 2012 after eating cantaloupe tainted with salmonella. that outbreak sickened 261 people in 24 states. corpton is on capitol hill preshing lawmakers to fully fund the food safety act. >> we want to make sure nobody else has to enter that. >> reporter: the landmark bill was passed in 2010, signed into law in 2011, but now three years later, only parts of the law have been rolled out. other major aspects are a year away from implementation. >> since the president signed the food safety law we've had 23 reported multi-state outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to regulated products. >> reporter: peter traveled from oregon and faster implementation. his son a healthy 8-year-old contracted salmonella after eating peanut butter.

>> nobody in american should have to worry about the safety of their food supply. >> reporter: the obama administration says it's a very complex law. it's important it's done right the first time. reporting live in washington, jacqueline fell, ktvu channel 2 news. a rare snowstorm created a traffic nightmare in atlanta overnight. only a few inches fell but it was enough to leave people stranded on the roadways for hours. one problem was that when the snow began yesterday, schools, work places and government offices all let everyone go home at the same time. government agencies had few resources to teal with the slick roads. this morning, the governor tried to deflect blame to the national weather service. >> the national weather service had their modeling showing that the city would not be the primary area where the storm would hit, that it would be south of atlanta. you've heard some of our agencies saying based on that

modeling, they had not prout in some of the resources earlier because they thought there would be other parts of the state that would be more severely impacted than the metropolitan atlanta area. >> with gridlock jamming the roads, some people slept in stores such as home depot and seven-11. others spent the night in their cold cars. our weather model doing a nice job picking up on the cloud cover and the rainfall approaching the bay area. right now, mostly some cloud cover and some heavy mist or drizzle out there. here's our live camera looking out towards san francisco bay and the bay itself on live stormtracker2 nice to welcome it back into the program. you can see the rain covering a good portion of the northern third of the state out toward the sierra. blue canyon reporting light rain. here's a closer inspection of the coverage. the bulk of the activity approaching parts of the north bay but even as i mentioned, there's still a chance you could have wet roadways out there, mist or drizzle. here you go with some of the

rain showers moving into lake county, the northern parts of sonoma county out towards cloverdale, the significant rainfall has been up to the north around point arena and right around ukiah as well. this will be drifting to the south, though, in the next few hours. current temperatures are in the 50s to the lower 60s. we're on the warm side of the system. so as a result, kind of mild out there. san jose right now checking in 64. antioch, 66 and novato in the upper 50s at 57 degrees. so as far as the rainfall it has been very dry. remember, december 13th one day of measurable rainfall. we had a weak system move in on january 11th but still that major dry stretch and then finally today, we're tracking a change in the overall weather pattern. this is not a major storm but still a change. we're welcoming it in the bay area. rainfall expectations could be approaching .5 in the coastal hills in the north bay. most areas .10 to .25. the north bay could be picking up .25 with this system approaching the reason from the

north. right now we do have mostly cloudy skies. here is our live camera looking out towards the -- you can see the cloud cover out there. still the clouds a factor out there. mist and drizzle. soent the rainfall spreads to the south. this weekend, a dry weather pattern. this won't open up the door for any major storms. dry weather forecast this weekend. temperatures will be cooling off. as far as the sierra, here's the plant for today, in fact, here's the forecast looking out towards sugar bowl. they have a winter storm warning and the snow will be on the increase tonight and tomorrow morning. a lot of cloud cover this morning into the afternoon hours. by 5:00, there's the rain line approaching the north bay. still up here and gradually spreading to the south late tonight into early tomorrow morning. the main event moves in between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. still holding on to some scurs for thursday morning into the afternoon hours. the clouds move out. the overall system. >> , the main action is up to the north. a lot of clouds and the rain showers will be drifting to the

south as well. forecast highs mainly in the mid- to upper 60s and here is a look ahead to your five-day forecast with your weekend always in view. some rain clouds, tori, you can see we dusted them off in the weather computer. we're going back to a dry weather pattern. >> tu, mark -- thank you, mark. four days before the super bowl, tickets are still available. in fact, we'll tell you why prices are even falling ahead of this weekend's big game.

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the market was already lower following disappointing results from several companies including yahoo!, which is down 8.5%. the dow is down 189. prices for tickets to sunday's super bowl are falling. that's according to the online ticket selling service stub hub. a representative says you can now get a ticket for 2,862 down from 3200. one factor, the games in the east while both teams are from the west. the spokesman says in 5 strange twist of economics . kickoff is this sunday at 3:30. and gasia mikaelian is in new york amid all of the super bowl excitement. already she's running into locals and has been beeting all

of her adventures, including this tweet just about an hour ago. picture with gasia there on the left and some 9er fans and she'll be joining us live tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00. thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. we're always here for you at ktvu.com. you can follow us on twitter and facebook. ;

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