debra villalon is tracking the storm. >> reporter: it is wet and slushy and dirty. and you can see the attempted snow men have melted. but in the bay area any snow is a welcomed novelty. caltrans trucks clearing snow, we expected the sierra not the santa cruz mountains. by above s era toga snow has been falling and sticking most of the day. >> it's a big one. >> reporter: time for some schooling in the fine art of snowballs. >> it's bigger. >> i played baseball, but this is more squishy. >> long time residents say this covering was pretty but no problem, they've seen worse. >> we've been snowed in without power. but days like today, and many other days are really special. makes it all worthwhile. >> reporter: the plunging temperatures are driving homeless indoors. >> it looked like they just jumped out of a ice cold pool. you can see the emptiness, not the coldness from the weather be u you -- from the weather but you can see it soaking into their souls. >> reporter: here a warm meal and pajamas were provided. we found billy coming home from a hawaii vacation, getti

debra villalon is tracking the storm. >> reporter: it is wet and slushy and dirty. and you can see the attempted snow men have melted. but in the bay area any snow is a welcomed novelty. caltrans trucks clearing snow, we expected the sierra not the santa cruz mountains. by above s era toga snow has been falling and sticking most of the day. >> it's a big one. >> reporter: time for some schooling in the fine art of snowballs. >> it's bigger. >> i played baseball, but this is more squishy. >> long time residents say this covering was pretty but no problem, they've seen worse. >> we've been snowed in without power. but days like today, and many other days are really special. makes it all worthwhile. >> reporter: the plunging temperatures are driving homeless indoors. >> it looked like they just jumped out of a ice cold pool. you can see the emptiness, not the coldness from the weather be u you -- from the weather but you can see it soaking into their souls. >> reporter: here a warm meal and pajamas were provided. we found billy coming home from a hawaii vacation, getti

ktvu's debra villalon is at the scene, where she has learned that it'll be until noon tomorrow until those bones are excavated. >> reporter: remains presume to be 48-year-old dale smith buried here in his own yard. still unclear how he died, and his wife's role. it's a construction job, shoring up the 6-foot square trench, four feet deep where the body lies. from the mast on our news van, 50 feet up we see progress made by an fbi forensic team. but rain hasn't helped. >> puts water in the soil which then makes the soil -- raises the risk of soil falling into the hole. >> reporter: so technicians stopped their excavation, packing up what they can to resume tomorrow, when the digging may be more stable. >> we want to make sure that we cover all the bases and we do everything proper so that we preserve all evidence as we move forward. >> reporter: evidence along with more found inside the home this afternoon after a search warrant was issued that could implicate smith east 's wife of 17 years, evelyn with him buried in the back. >> she said he was on a trip. >> reporter: a trip that fam

ktvu's debra villalon is at the scene, where she has learned that it'll be until noon tomorrow until those bones are excavated. >> reporter: remains presume to be 48-year-old dale smith buried here in his own yard. still unclear how he died, and his wife's role. it's a construction job, shoring up the 6-foot square trench, four feet deep where the body lies. from the mast on our news van, 50 feet up we see progress made by an fbi forensic team. but rain hasn't helped. >> puts water in the soil which then makes the soil -- raises the risk of soil falling into the hole. >> reporter: so technicians stopped their excavation, packing up what they can to resume tomorrow, when the digging may be more stable. >> we want to make sure that we cover all the bases and we do everything proper so that we preserve all evidence as we move forward. >> reporter: evidence along with more found inside the home this afternoon after a search warrant was issued that could implicate smith east 's wife of 17 years, evelyn with him buried in the back. >> she said he was on a trip. >> reporter: a trip that fam

reporting live at san rafael, debra villalon. >>> a bank robbery suspect managed to elude police in theeast bay today even though a bank gps device was attached to the cash. police released these pictures of the robber. a second look at the robber shows him waving a gun around. officers conducted a search but said they were unable to find the bank robber. >>> new information tonight about oakland's radio communication problems. this morning officers responding to a radio call said they lost radio communication with each other. officers were not able to communicate with officers on the field for a 10 minute span. officers faced the same problems last week. >>> traffic on the bay bridge is back to normal after major delays getting out of the san francisco during the evening commute. the highway patrol closed the three right hand lanes in the eastbound direction before the tunnel. while crews swept up the sand, traffic backed up for miles as you can see from these pictures from news chopper 2. the lanes reopened about 5:00 but traffic was still congested until about 6:30 this evening when

reporting live at san rafael, debra villalon. >>> a bank robbery suspect managed to elude police in theeast bay today even though a bank gps device was attached to the cash. police released these pictures of the robber. a second look at the robber shows him waving a gun around. officers conducted a search but said they were unable to find the bank robber. >>> new information tonight about oakland's radio communication problems. this morning officers responding to a radio call said they lost radio communication with each other. officers were not able to communicate with officers on the field for a 10 minute span. officers faced the same problems last week. >>> traffic on the bay bridge is back to normal after major delays getting out of the san francisco during the evening commute. the highway patrol closed the three right hand lanes in the eastbound direction before the tunnel. while crews swept up the sand, traffic backed up for miles as you can see from these pictures from news chopper 2. the lanes reopened about 5:00 but traffic was still congested until about 6:30 this evening when

debra villalon. >>> more developing news, united airlines is in the process of grounding all 96 of its boing 747 fleet. one of those planes is at san francisco airport where checks were made on its controls. united says the computers are fully functional. the checks can take up to 90 minutes. it's expected that all the 757s will be flies again by tomorrow night. >>> the fbi is investigating a letter containing a suspicious substance sent to the va hospital there. the building was evacuated when a mail room employee didn't feel well after opening an envelope. the fbi is taking the envelope to a crime lab and hopes to identify the situation by tomorrow morning. >>> and right now i've got live storm tracker two, it's lit up like a christmas tree. the storm is on us right now. i'll be tracking it as we come back we'll show you live images. >>> will berkeley make california history tonight by allowing residents to open up their homes to guantanamo >>> the berkeley city council is meeting at this hour and debating a controversial proposal to extend a helping hand to guantanamo detainees. a v

debra villalon. >>> more developing news, united airlines is in the process of grounding all 96 of its boing 747 fleet. one of those planes is at san francisco airport where checks were made on its controls. united says the computers are fully functional. the checks can take up to 90 minutes. it's expected that all the 757s will be flies again by tomorrow night. >>> the fbi is investigating a letter containing a suspicious substance sent to the va hospital there. the building was evacuated when a mail room employee didn't feel well after opening an envelope. the fbi is taking the envelope to a crime lab and hopes to identify the situation by tomorrow morning. >>> and right now i've got live storm tracker two, it's lit up like a christmas tree. the storm is on us right now. i'll be tracking it as we come back we'll show you live images. >>> will berkeley make california history tonight by allowing residents to open up their homes to guantanamo bay detainees. >>> and tens of thousands of new jobs, why home depot feels the time is now and how you can apply. >>> the berkeley city council i