>> an unusual story. ktvu's cristina cristina rendon found out the reason the dog was more vulnerable than his owner. >> reporter: we wouldn't have felt a thing because of our shoes but a dog's paws were the exception. >> reporter: she starts her days with a morning walk on the days of oakland with her dogs. she never shot about what they stepped on till her dog put his paws on this metal great friday morning. >> the thought of him being alick rucuted didn't come to me. . >> i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: he came running out of a building. >> sounded horrible. sounded like a dog was being tortured. >> reporter: he was zapped. >> i grabbed his neck, shocked

me. felt it go through the dog and into my arm and chest. like, out again somehow. >> reporter: he was hooked up to oxygen. they found fluid in his lugs and there is a possibility he might not make it. >> how would you feel -- would you feel if you watched your child suffer. . >> reporter: pg&e says crews put a cable inside the box three weeks ago to provide service to a construction site but they were investigating how it got charged. >> indications are somebody illegally tampered with our equipment. . >> the rain may also be toblame but -- to blame but these cases are rare. he was an exception. and the walk left her shaken. >> never in a million years did i think something like this would make me scared to walk

these streets. >> reporter: the man who helped him went to the hospital because his arm was feeling numb and he was sick. the dog is stable for now and we will keep checking with pg&e on the investigation. cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. following breaking news out of contra costa county. news chopper 2 is over a three car crash on san pab low dam road. just a couple minutes ago they reopened both lanes of the road and they have already towed the cars away. we are told one person was seriously hurt and was taken to the hospital by a helicopter. here is what it looked like a lilt bit ago. you can see the car on the left. the serious impact that the car had here. one person seriously injured. we are working to get more information. as soon as we do we will bring it to you.

the good news now is san pab low dam road is now open in both directions. we are on storm watch. a live look outside. this is the view from our ktvu studios. clouds and storms all day. >> great picture. it brought hail to some parts of the bay area today. >> ktvu cameras caught this rain in the south bay as heavy rib moved through. -- rain moved through. our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking all this. bill, where do things stand right now? >> the weather system is moving out of the area but we still have light scattered showers and it is on it afternoon commute. making things slower. north bay, santa rosa, petaluma. you have showers now. it has been a wet commute. 101. mill valley.

light showers near the golden gate bridge as well. and south, you see the tail end leaving the valley. we had up to a quarter inch, half inch, 3/4 inch of rain in parts of the bay area. look at the totals. this is a great system for this afternoon. messy day. slow on the commutes. got rain. in the mountains, winter weather advisory till tomorrow morning. snow levels 4,000 feet. snowing up there all night. five-day forecast has more showers potential in its into the bay area weekend. i will compress that for you when i see you back here after the break. >> thank you. even though it is spring time this wet weather we are seeing is not that unusual. we did checking. in the past five years it rained twice on this day, in 2011 and 2012. since 1849 it rained 29 times

on this day. the most rain 1978, half inch. governor jerry brown called on california toons cut back water -- california toons cut backt water use. -- back water use. it will redirect water. what it means is the governor is asking people to stop cleaning can streets and sidewalks with water. limit car washes. turn off water fountains and other water features and reduce landscaping. coming up, half of the water stored in the snow pack already melted. the new details about a man injured during an apartment fire near san jose state university universities. the victim is 20 years old. she a linebacker on -- he is a linebacker on the football team. he is in critical condition

with second degree burns over 20% of his body. his roommate may have accidentally started the fire when he dropped a match on to a couch. tonight we are learning about an arrest in connection with a arson in oakland. fire investigators released this surveillance video of a person seen near the building that caught fire. that building belongs to ucsf children's hospital in oakland. investigators said they received several tips that led to the arrest. the 43-year-old is charged with felony arson. vandals strike dozens of times leaving neighbors to pick up the pieces tonight. many people in antioch woke up to smashed windows. the damage occurred -- ktvu's john sasaki spoke to neighbors and police about the unusually large path of broken glass.

john? >> reporter: the most common item used was a river rock like this one but in one case the vandals threw this statue through the window of a car. >> reporter: this played out over antioch this morning. people cleaning up the mess caused by vandals. >> i don't understand why anyone could do this. it is stupid. ruthless. evil. >> reporter: 1:30 a.m. this morning someone was smashing wondose on cars -- windows on cars and trucks and homes. >> it was random. this is the first incident like this we had this year. in the last couple years. >> reporter: he had two weeks damaged. this truck has three windows broken and a handa that has this statue thrown through the window. >> threw a statue through it honda.

that is so odd. maybe a rock, but a statue? through a car? >> reporter: his car has two broken window. this window was smashed two months ago. >> just -- never heard of nothing like this before. >> reporter: police had reports from 25 residence. >> the motive could have been to take property. also could be for vandalism. too early to tell. >> reporter: people had to get windows fixed. he says he has been scrambling. >> unfortunate. very unfortunate. >> reporter: if you have information you are asked to call police or text to crimes 277-4637 and use antioch as your first word in the text. john sasaki,. >> reporter: . new information about the show away at mineta san jose international airport. his mother is speaking out from

africa. the teen found out his father lied when he said his mother was killed years ago. in an interview with voice of america from ethiopia she said her ex-husband took their children to california without her knowledge. she is worried about her son. police say a man charged at officers so they shot him. now that man filed a lawsuit charging excessive force. he filed a suite naming the city, the police department and the officers who shot him as defendants. he said he was armed with only a broom when police shot him three times last year outside his home. police say he also had a knife. she charged with. [ indiscernible ] and making criminal threats. some land in marine county once prosed to be developmented

into a poleo field will now be returned to the original residents. ktvu channel 2 news ktvu's tom vacar with the story. >> reporter: this old levy ripped open by a u.s. army corps of engineers backhoe protected the land around the air force base for a century. >> this is the piece of this military base conversion. >> the project returns 648 acres to natural wet lands. that includes two years to dredge and pipe bay mud. enough mud to cover 700 football fields three feet deep. >> a monumental amount of dirt moving. >> reporter: now it will be

available to former residents like salmon, herons, mice and even endangered california cler rail -- clipper rails. >> they help sequester carbon and protect humen habitation against wave action. >> we lost 85% of our wet lands so we are reclaiming that bit by bit. we need as much as we can. >> every square mile counts but it would take 230 more to return the bay to its natural state at the time of the gold rush. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. he knew something was wrong when he opened a door. he came face to face with a burglar. >> hurt myself a little bit. otherwise i am all right.

>> the one thing they took that prompted him to chase after the thieves. >> new snow in the sierra but it is what you can't see that is a problem. bulldog: [yawning]

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new at 6:00 p.m. burglars picked the wrong house. instead of getting computers or tvs they got chased off by the homeowner. ktvu's ann rubin is live where she spoke to the man who wasn't going to let them get away. >> reporter: he was afraid of what they were going to get away with so he tried to stop them. he didn't have a plan, he just reacted. >> reporter: he thinks the burglars broke in here and

began ransacking his place. he doubts they were inside long when he got home. >> everything was off the table. everything on the floor. it is a mess. there were two of them. they emptied his drawers. >> files here and files there. nothing big. probably looking for iphones and computers. i got zero of them. >> reporter: what they took was this. his 22 rifle which he bought in 1967 when he got out of the army. >> i went after. didn't want that on the street. >> reporter: he is 71 years old and gave chase. he guesses the burglar was probably a teenager he nearly caught him. >> he knew that if he didn't drop it i was going to catch him so he dropped it. hurt myself a little bit but i am all right. >> reporter: he recovered the gun, scared off the burglars and became a neighborhood hero. >> i think he is wonderful.

too bad he didn't do more than chase. >> reporter: police also think the suspects targeted another house around the corner. he just wishes he caught the guys. now she spending the day replacing the doors. >> a few people with burglar will remembers. maybe i will have one -- alarms. maybe i will have one. >> reporter: she lucky he -- he is lucky he wasn't seriously hurt. if you have any information on the case call police. live, ann rubin, ktvu channel 2 news. s.w.a.t. teams surrounded a san jose neighborhood after two robbers held up two 7-eleven stores. cameras caught one of the men sneaking around the neighborhood. san jose police went door to door looking for the systems. they didn't find bem thought ithey found clothes and -- them

but they found clothes. >> reporter: we are learning more about a shooting where the gunman is an 84-year-old man. prosecutors say raymond iwase was looking to kill dr. wong when he opened fire wednesday. the 84-year-old man is charged with attempted pre-meditated murder and felony assault with a firearm. prosecutors say raymond iwase was a patient of dr. wong's. >> went up and said to him out loud, you know, you gave me a shot couple years ago and i am still in pain. >> dr. wong was not hit but the shooting led to a lock down while police cleared the building and searched for the gunman. he is being held without bail. a businessman has been indicted by a grand jury in a money laundering scheme. he accepted more than half a

million dollars from a under cover agent posing as a drug dealer and he is accused of trying to launder the money. he is scheduled to be arraigned june 5. now to new information on the california drought on a day that brought rain to the bay area. officials say the snow pack has been melting dramatically. it varies but more than half of the winter snow has melted in the past three weeks. that snow pack would normally provide water much later in the year. people will have to keep cutting back their water use to get us through the drought. >> we don't know how long it will last. lots of questions. that is why we are trying to take measures to make sure we have enough water for next year. >> east bad mud is asking its customer -- east bay mud is asking its customers to cut

back 10%. new snow tonight thank has to the storms. many people said today they thought the snow season was over but with a foot of snow res dependents got out snowplows again and drivers had to put on chains on their tires. >> snow, rain here in the bay area. even hail. been a wild day. let's go to our chief meteorologist bill martin to find out what is happening for the weekend and tonight. >> still rain out there. and the winter weather have i said in the mountains lingers. snow down to 4,000 feet. they could see a few inches of snow before the morning tomorrow. raining out there now. may be slowed your afternoon commute this afternoon. highway 101, santa rosa wet all day. getting a break now. sonoma, napa and golden gate bridge, san francisco, you are getting light scattered showers. none of it is heavy. you can see it is enough to be

-- i call them nuisance showers. you might need an umbrella. that is how it goes. showers clear the area. what happens, as they clear the area, the skies clear, the winds are down. it will beal cold over -- it will be cold over night. frost in some locations. you might sewinser time valley fog. -- see winter time valley fog. currently san jose it is 53 degrees. temperatures tomorrow in san jose, looking for the numbers there to get into the 60s again. not quite as warm as it was a few days ago when we had the 80s. still out there. 1:00 a.m. tomorrow morning or this morning or tomorrow morning, late tonight, it pulls out. it is still snowing in the mountains. here is your morning. cold for saturday morning.

high clouds come in saturday afternoon. still a good day. starts out cold. dry all day. saturday night late. i like the way this was lining up. boom! 2:00 a.m. right. rain all you want. we don't mind. we are sleeping, sleeping. sunday morning chilly again, plenty of sunshine on sunday. right now your days on saturday and sunday should be dry. saturday night into early sunday morning wet. 64 fremont tomorrow. 64 in san jose. cool down today. because of the rain and the clouds. tomorrow temperatures have to come back up. highs, increasing clouds, a.m. slight chance. there is the five-day forecast. strikes me is how you look at that -- 90 degrees on wednesday. [ talking at the same time ] >> it was so cool and chilly

today and 90 degrees -- [ talking at the same time ] >> early middle next week. >> thank you. last night's warriors loss is hard toswallow. both -- to swallow. both coaches are talking about the no foul call on the game's final play. female announcer: get three years interest-free financing

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people talking about the warriors game last night. so far in the three games of the series we had two nail biters and a blow out. last night final tick of the clock. steph curry going for it all. looking for a game winning three. he says he was fouled by chris paul and the call did not go his way. another closer look at it. curry felt paul pushed him in the hip area. listen to the versions, different as they were, from the two opposing coaches. >> i thought it was a great play. he jumped up into him trying to call the foul. >> supposed to be able to land. clearly he wasn't able to. i am not looking for abapology -- apology. >> good.

you are not going to get it. draft day is coming up in the nfl, may 8. a lot of talk about the 49ers. today had general manager thought he would be talking about the draft but instead having to defend the off field behavior of his players. namely aldon smith. here is what head to say about the off season and -- what he had to say about the off season. >> they have to be accountable for the decisions they make. we tell them all the time, they have the degrees the car. -- the keys to the car. they get in situations and they are the only ones that could get themselves out of situations. we can guide and support which we think we do a good job of but we can't defend. we can't defend the actions. we can only support, into mentor, continue a teach and

expect that they come along. >> at this point what else can you say? they can't be a babysitter 24 hours around the clock. >> the a's leading the astros 4- 1. that is the sporting life. >> thank you. tonight on the 10:00 p.m. news a police substation funded by facebook. we will take you inside this public private partnership. the question is this the future of crime fighting? coming up tonight at 10:00 p.m. see you then. >> good night.

come on, boys! it's leap day, not sleep day! - whoo! - (claps hands) i love leap day! (chuckles) it's kind of a big deal in the dunphy house. this year, we even got manny involved. you're given this gift of 24 extra hours. you can't waste it at work or school. you have to do something extraordinary, - something shocking. - mm. this year, the entire family is taking a trapeze class. - how extraordinary is that? - it was my idea. how shocking is that? i can be spontaneous every four years. i can't wait. leap day is stupid. you're not understanding the logic behind it. a year is actually 365.25 days. every four years, we gain one day. if we didn't adjust the calendar in, say, 40 years,