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This is video from pittsburgh after four intense hours. This brush fire was contained at 7 00 this evening and burned 40 acres. No word yet on the cause. The area sees heavy foot and vehicle traffic. Investigators are asking for help tonight. Did anyone see anything suspicious. It happened on west 10th street. The firing was extremely close to a power plant operated by nrg energy services. The plant is operational but was not active when this fire began. The crews will be on the scene through the night watching for flare ups. Fire Officials Say it could be a record fire season for us. There have been more than 650 wildfires across the state. Thats triple the average for this time of year. Cal fire is trying to stockpile water since many streams where helicopters scoop up the water have dried up. Lets get a look at our Drought Conditions across the bay area. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. Right now the entire state continues to remain under a drought and weve actually seen things get worse in the north bay going from the severe level to extreme. Our last rain coming on march 3rd. And now the exceptional level of droughts in palo alto, South San Francisco and san jose. San jose, 4. 76 inch rainfall of rain since july 1st. That puts us eight inches behind. Coming up the possibilities of rain coming up next week. On the face of it it seems like a bad idea, draining one of the bay areas largest reservoirs. But there is a good reason. And that reason is to prevent what could be a catastrophe in the event of an earthquake. Monte frances is live near anderson dam in morgan hill. But we are in the middle of a drought. Reporter thats right. But anderson dam is not seismically safe and if there is a strong earthquake and the dam breaks, within minutes a huge wall of water would cover morgan hill where im standing and other parts of silicon valley. When it is full, Anderson Reservoir holds more water than all the other reservoirs combined. 29 billion gallons. And holding all that water back is the aging anderson dam which is in need of repairs. I know we need it. We need it because of safety issues. And if we when we have the big earthquake, we want the dam to hold. Reporter see Cecilia Logan lives in the shadow of anderson dam and understands why it needs to be repairs but it is counter intuitive to drain it in the middle of a drought. I conserve water but water is disappearing. Reporter the reservoir is at 48 capacity. If it were full and a 6. 6 magnitude earthquake, this dam could fail and put morgan hill and parts of san jose under water. It could be devastating. Reporter the Water District Spokesman Says that the draining hasnt started yet but the reservoir will have to be empty so the work can be done. The timing is difficult. We are obviously in a drought right now. We dont have to make that decision today. Reporter but time is running out. The agency has until the end of the year to get the 123 million project underway to meet a deadline set by state and federal regulators of making anderson dam seismically safe by 2018. See Cecilia Logan is hoping the big one doesnt hit before that. We know its going to happen. All we can do is be prepared as best we can. Reporter so where will all that water go . The district says it will not go to waste. It will be diverted to Wastewater Treatment plants and the groundwater supply. A decision on when to drain the reservoir is expected in the coming months. Monte frances, nbc bay area news. We have breaking news now. An active scene across from city college of San Francisco. The whole Foods Grocery store was evacuated. A shooting suspect ran into the store. You can see customers and employees and students standing around as the police look for the man. The shooting happened at a home a block away from the store. They made an announcement on the speaker. They said everyone evacuate the building. Thats all. I left my groceries in there. I heard seven shots and a pause and eight more shots. One person was shot and has nonlifethreatening injuries. Who is to blame for the dwindling number of officers on san jose streets . The Police Department accused the city of misleading the public. Cheryl hurd is in the willow glen neighborhood. Who is telling the truth here . Reporter the people who showed up at the meeting are trying to understand the math. San jose police say they are going to lose about 100 Police Officers over the next two years. Now, San Jose City Officials Say theyre going to add about 200 Police Officers during the same amount of time. Many people left here wondering who is actually telling the truth. Forward. Im deeply sad that our city leaders havent stepped up to the plate to do the right thing. Reporter tonight the right thing for steven klein is to attend a Community Meeting to talk about the dwindling number of Police Officers on san jose streets. When i lived in San Francisco you couldnt leave anything in your car. When i moved from San Francisco i thought that was over. Its not the case any more. Reporter the issue is how many cops will be on the streets of san jose in 2016 . The city council is telling the public to deal with the skyrocketing crime theyre going to add 200 Police Officers over a course of two years. James gonzalez says thats mathmatically impossible. We have retirements that are escalating that will make the math just not add up. If you want to add 200 Police Officers in that period of time, we dont think thats possible. Reporter this Council Member says it is possible. The assumption that nothing will change between now and 2016 is a false premise. Im pushing to restore pay and staffing now. Reporter he says he is restoring an 11 pay cut that the officers previously took. Some say thats too little, too late. When people are who are executing burglaries hear there are fewer policemen, heres our chance. Reporter san jose firefighters were also here tonight. They say there arent enough firefighters to cover the city. Reporting live in san jose, im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. They ignored the warning signs and acted negligently. Those are the claims by an africanamerican student against san jose state. Donald williams says he has been the victim of a hate crime and wants 5 million. He says his four white roommates bullied him for weeks, hanging a Confederate Flag and putting a bike lock around his neck. The school is aware of the claim and it was filed with the wrong agency. In the statement they said we will Contact Council the family to let them know of the error. And the university is not willing to comment on any pending claim. Dramatic Surveillance Video may help police track down suspects in two armed robberies that happened near santa clara university. The first video shows what happened on march 1st. Watch the circle. A group of students walking and one man in a hoodie pointing a gun at one of them. The suspect stole the victims cell phone and wallet. Another video shows them running through the Stadium Parking lot. According to police, three men held up three male students at gunpoint and just a few minutes later and blocks away. New details on the story of that deadly hit and run. This is the car that the suspect was driving when he hit a 60yearold woman today. The suv hit and killed her at 11 15 this morning at the corner of bay shore boulevard and visitation avenue. The driver made a uturn and took a look at the dying woman before speeding off. A white dodge durango. This is believed to be the car that sped off. Its the sixth deadly pederson accident in the city this year. They operate in the shadows, half world away. Next at 11 00, why california is the top target for International Criminals. As the weather heats up, so does a push to make better sunscreen available for us. Why many may not be getting the best protection. Dont be surprised if you soon get carded at a starbucks. And developing news in the southern indian ocean. Crews spend another day looking for debris from the missing jetliner after a new clue. Now to that developing story, the search for the missing Malaysian Airline jet. Crews are combing the southern indian ocean for a second day after satellite images showed what might be debris from flight 370. Five aircraft are part of that search. Six merchant vessels have been deployed to the area. It takes at least four hours to reach the area from australia. One of the objects is almost 80 feet long and the other just 15. The satellite recorded them on sunday and they may have drifted since then. More on the planes involved with the search. They can fly over the area for about two hours due to fuel concerns and distance from the mainland. They have a crew of 13. What they are flying up to 2,000 feet using everything from a powerful on board camera to binoculars. They have digital radars and detectors that can zero in on large metal objects. We are a rich state and an easy target. California is a hot bed for cybercrimes. What is the solution . Jean ellie is in San Francisco this evening with the details. Jean . Reporter the state attorney general says International Criminals are targeting california because of its size, wealth and innovation. To fight back she wants to fund a special unit at sfpd but first she has to win the budget battle in sacramento. Still the fact that these people have taken my information and taken my money for lack of a better term. Reporter millions of californians like ron have had their credit card account hacked. International gangs are behind the growing wave of cybercrimes. The attorney general released a report on transnational organized crime today detailing how gangs around the world are using california to conduct illegal business. Bringing drugs and weapons over the mexico border and heading up i5, delivering them to the bay area and beyond and leaving violent gang members behind. The black and red lines over the bay area indicate high level of gang and cybercrime activity. The weight and the burden of addressing and dealing with these offenders is on the shoulders of local Law Enforcement. Reporter as gangs become more sophisticated, Law Enforcement must keep up. And that requires funding. 71 million is 1 of the state surplus this year. A very specific recommendation we are making is that we make up for what happened a couple years ago so we can address this issue. Reporter no comment from the governor tonight in San Francisco but its a state senator says while the attorney general makes a good case shes not the only one after funding. This is something i hear every day from all of the different stake holders who have been cut by hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars including the department of justice. Reporter while the attorney general fights for funding she is urging Police Departments to partner with hightech companies to offer tools and training to fight cybercrime. A Los Angeles Public defender is facing criminal charges after a run in with Airport Police at sfo. This is monica jenkins. Police say she kicked officers during a drunken rampage at the airport. It happened after the attorney was about to board a flight back to l. A. The airline turned her away saying she was simply too drunk to fly. A Security Breach at a new york city landmark and the culprit is a teenager. A lot of questions about how this 16yearold made it to the top of the new world trade center. Port Authority Officers say he snuck past security cameras and an inattentive security guard. He said he walked around the site and figured out how to get to the roof. He went up calf folding and climbed to the sixth floor and took the elevator to the 88th floor and went up a staircase to the 106th floor and then climbed a ladder all the way to the antenna. He faces a charge of criminal trespassing and the inattentive guard has been fired. Many people say american sunscreen is less effective than sunscreen made in other countries. Newer, better sunscreen ingredients are caught up in the red tape of the food and Drug Administration which approves new products. They say the ingredients waiting to be green lighted were approved years ago in europe, asia and south america. Dermatologists are pushing the fda to okay them. Now the fda hasnt expanded its list of approved ingredients since 1999. We are entering sunscreen era not that you are not supposed to wear it all year long but it is going to be hot soon. Is it going to be a lot of you that need the sunscreen. Youll be able to see it on the scrolling sevenday forecast as it comes across who will be the hottest on saturday and sunday. I want to alert you to major changes in the past two to three days, the dry northerly winds have switched to a cooling wind, importing a ton of this cold pacific air across the bay area. Winds about 15 miles an hour, no doubt, will be bringing us cloud cover tomorrow morning also areas of fog. Take a look at the fog right now. I updated this graphic. It is pinpointing some of the most fog near point reyes. So lets take you into that sky camera network. Every dealing with cloud cover at this time. Temperatures in the low to mid50s. The thing you notice in San Francisco its not a thick fog at the moment. Its not shrouding downtown. But tomorrow morning we do again expect that fog to pick up. So lets take you into that forecast as we head throughout our friday. Sounds so good, doesnt it . You can see in the futurecast in the morning hours, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00. We do anticipate again the marine layer to build up across the coastline. So anyone traveling across the Golden Gate Bridge or the bay bridge will contend with the cloud cover. Not as much for the east bay or the trivalley. In the afternoon hour we get sunny skies inland. But if you are headed to the beaches, be prepared. We have the cloud cover, its not going to be a sunny day at the beaches. After major beach weather last weekend a lot of saying do we have a Beach Weekend in here. Doesnt look like it. Temperatures in the 60s. Par for the course this time of year. We got lucky last weekend. This weekend its colder. And the tourists love it if you are here visiting. The numbers go down a few degrees as we get the partly sunny skies. We will see cooler weather. San jose, 74. One of the warmest spots, morgan hill at 76. Some of the largest impacts, san matteo, 68, and San Francisco, likely wont get out of the 60s. It will feel like the low 70s out in the sun. But once again that breeze comes up, its going to get you there and feel cool. For the north bay, 73. Oakland, 68 for the east bay and the warmest spot in the trivalley is pleasanton at 76. Spring skiing in full effect. Temperatures in the 40s to low 50s. No snow this weekend. Sunny skies. 71 trails open at squaw valley. And as we finish up tonight lets look at the rain chances next week. You can see the best possibility, wednesday, colder temperatures is going to be the biggest thing next week from the mid70s tomorrow to mid60s, you guys. Ready for that weekend. Thanks, jeff. Still ahead, a local man stuns a game show host. Its hilarious. We also have jimmy fallon. Billy joel is here tonight to talk, to sing. Hes amazing. And we have Chelsea Clinton and tonight show hashtag. 140 characters or less. Do you remember your first tweet . If you dont, you can find it online. Twitter has a new website called firsttweet. Com. You can look up first time tweets by celebrities. Anyone you want. All lists in honor of twitters birthday. The Company Turns eight tomorrow. The first tweet was posted by the companys cofounder on march 21st, 2006. He wrote, just setting up my twitter. Hold the cappuccino and pass the cabernet. Happy hour at starbucks starts at 4 00 p. M. They want to boost nighttime sales by offering wine and beer at some locations and offer some small bites with the drinks. They started selling beer at select locations in 2010. Happy hour at the shark tank tonight may be the most exciting game of the season. Whoa, whats that . Umm. A flatizza. Its new from subway. Whats a flatizza . Tom, im patching you in. The latest invention from subway, the new flatizza. Crispy flatbread loaded with mozzarella. Now get 2 for 5. Subway eat fresh. Directions to the nearest subway. At the tank tonight, the Anaheim Ducks barely floating on top of the Pacific Division with the sharks rising quickly to yore taking their Division Rivals for the lead. Pick it up in the third. 21, anaheim. Sharks with the 21 advantage. Thornton buries the equalizer. Four minutes left in regulation. Thornton the pass, burns the deflection. A duck killer. Sharks win, 32. The giants might have to start the season without one of their best hitters. Marco scutaro, a 50 50 shot at best to be in the lineup. He received a second epidural shot to relieve discomfort in his back. His teammates in the desert. Sacks full fposey. And the jmen jump out 70. Dialing up zeros on the scoreboard. Seven innings pitched. Nine strikeouts. He has not given up a run this spring. Giants win 113. Oracle. Bucks and warriors. Straight to the fourth quarter. Steph curry on the move. A crazy shot making skill. Check it again and the foul too. 31 points, 11 assists. But with 45 seconds to play the dubs lead is three. The warriors avoid the let down winning. Harvard facing cincinnati. Second half action. Tight game. Crimson ball. And saunders with the smooth fade away. Crimson by five. Under two minutes. Onepoint game. Chambers off the bounce is clutch. Jeremy lin, harvard messing up peoples chances at winning 1 billion. Harvards second ncaa tournament win in school history. The 49ers gave bruce miller a contract extension today to keep him on the team through 2017. Charles not having coverage stressed me out. I literally havent been to a doctor in 15 years. I had a car accident when i was uninsured, and i declined medical assistance because it was gonna be too expensive. As a result, i deal with back pain on a pretty regular basis. After it had built up for so long of not having insurance, i couldnt believe that it was just that easy. It was just nice to have a plan that was a reasonable monthly premium. Im in because i dont want to put a price on my health. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves health insurance. Are you in . Find free, confidential, local help at coveredca. Com. Babies on the mind helped a bay area man pull off one of the greatest guesses in wheel of fortune history. New baby buggy. New correct there were only two letters on the board. But he says his answer was just pure luck. He was studying pediatrics. The episode aired last night. There is pat sajak patting him down. They were slow to punch it up here. You get a win and felt up by pat. Is that a bonus . They said it but they didnt illuminate it quickly. They were shocked. He should get double the money for that. I agree. And vannah throwing her arms up like that . Jimmy fallen is next. See you tomorrow. Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests billy joel. Chelsea clinton. An