He was exciting and kind of dangerous and this is like he is 52 and and he is this monster on the pop culture scene. He is an icon in fashion and music and in style and in every truest sense of the word. Sex permeated everything that he did. Reporter this man is the morning host on now 99. 7. Half of the fernando and greg in the morning show. I brought the dirty mind album home and, you know, my father pitched a fit. And if he ever had any sort of like doubts about my sexuality, i mean, at 10 years ago old, he probably i should have figured it out. Reporter prince was married to women twice and was engaged to oakland singer who tweet out today my heart is broken. There are no words. Im going to say back to you allen. And, uhm, coming up at 6 00, well be digging even deeper into princes bay area roots. Did you know his first album was recorded here . It was. Liz, allen, back to you. Thank you. Tonight at 8 00, San Francisco city hall and the bill Graham Civic Center will be lit up in purple. Investigators say he was found unresponsive in an elevator at his minnesota home in the minneapolis suburb of chanhassen. Reporter reg chapman from our minneapolis sister station is there. Reporter hundreds of fans have gathered here outside of paisley park in chanhassen, minnesota, to mourn the loss of prince rogers nelson, aka prince. Right now, state patrols had to close down the streets to accommodate all the fans that have come here mrn the loss of a superstar. Prince meant so much to fans here in minnesota. He had lots of parties, lots of concerts here at paisley park and fans that i talked to today tell me prince always made them feel like family. They were always welcome here. Thats why so many people are here and what is become a healing space for all those who are mourning the loss of prince. It was about 9 43 a. M. When Carver County sheriffs deputies were called here for a medical emergency. It was just soon after that we learned it was prince who had died inside paisley park. Right now the crime lab is here. The medical examiner is here. We are waiting to find out the cause of death. But until then, many of his fans will stay here and hold vigil at the site where they felt at home inside paisley park. In chanhassen, minnesota, im reg chapman for kpix 5. Dozens of viewers have been posting on our Facebook Page . Songs like erotic city and little corvet e my favorite. Cynthia ridola seward said very sad his concert was first back in the 80s. And joe baker said very shocking news. s not mourn death. Inste ebrate the li legend. Party like its 1999. One of my all te favorites. You can share your thoughts facebookdot com slash francisco. Just two months ago you can share your thoughts at facebook. Com cbssanfrancisco. Two months ago the singer known as vanity passed away at a Fremont Hospital also at the age of 57. She was considered one of princes first musical proteges. He produced her first hit song back in 1982 called nasty girl. Vanity had been living in union city. Other news tonight there are new details about what police are doing to find this missing 2yearold girl. Her mother was found murdered in a San Francisco park earlier this month. Kpix 5s emily turner at Police Headquarters where detectives released some new pictures a few hours ago. Emily. Reporter pictures of where this woman was found. They also brought more pictures forward of the little girl who is missing and her friends put this out today hoping that someone will see it and they will be able to finally find her. Take a look at this. Police need your help identifying where it time from and who had it last before it covered this shallow grave in mclaren park hiding the body of nicole fitz. The plywood has spray painted markings on it which we hope someone may recognize. The markings may be constructionrelated or graffiti but it is our hope someone will recognize them. Reporter while the Murder Investigation moves forward, the main focus of police is finding nicoles daughter. 2. 5yearold ariana fitz. Reported missing april 5. We want to help bring ariana home. She is still a little girl not with her family. It could be any one of our kids. Reporter Police Believe ariana is still alive and could be anywhere in the state. They have brought in the fbi served at least four search warrants and collected 30,000 pieces of evidence but none of them offer the answers the family and friends seek. She was a great friend and coworker so we want to help bring ariana home. Somebody out there knows where she is. We are pleading with you, contact us. Arriana reporter there are a lot of questions surrounding this case. Where was the child at the time of the murder . Whats the motive . There are several questions we are asking but because this is an ongoing Murder Investigation, with not a lot of answers, police werent able to tell us much of that because they didnt want to jeopardize what they do have. Hopefully in the next couple of days well get more information and most especially, they will be able to find arianna and bring her home. Reporting live in San Francisco, emily turner, kpix 5. Big news today from volkswagen. The company has agreed to fix on buy back hundreds of thousands of cars that were rigged to cheat on emissions tests. The deal was announced in a San Francisco federal courtroom. Consumerwatch reporter julie watts is at vw dealership. What do we know about this deal . Reporter well, honestly, liz, we dont know much in terms of specific details. We know that about half a million vw owners will be getting some relief but we dont know how much and when its coming. Steve is now a father of three. While he loves his jetta he needs a bigger car. Too tight. Reporter the problem . The value of the car lost almost 8,000 overnight. Reporter abernathy says as soon as volkswagen announced they were rigged to cheat on tests the blue book was so low its worth less than he owes. Vw has agreed to buy back the 480,000 vehicles with a two liter diesel engine. The bad news . No one knows what they will actually pay. What are they going to pay for it . Blue book value after the recall or before the recall announcement . Because theres about an 8,000 difference. Reporter vws legal team wont say. In part, due to a gag order. Lots of hard work. Got to go. Reporter but this golf owner who showed up outside federal court had plenty to say. Its disappointing that its of no value. Reporter todays announcement didnt specify how or when the affected two liter diesel cars would be fixed and no details on the additional 90,000 affected vehicles with three liter engines like audi and porsche. An attorney who represents car owners says its a start. I think its an enormous step forward. Reporter that could help repair volkswagens image along with their cars down the road. What could volkswagen do to make you whole . Give me 8,000 over blue book value and let me put it down on a minivan. [ car starts ] i dont dislike volkswagen. In fact i love my jetta. Reporter now, the final agreement is expected by june 21. For now the judge imposed a gag order saying he is worried leaked details could confuse customers on give them false hope. Now, vw says it is committed to earning back the trust of customers, dealers, regulators and the american public. It currently faces tens of billions of dollars in fines and lawsuits. Liz . Thank you. We were expecting a final decision today from the high speed rail board about changing the original route but the board decided to wait until next week. The new plan would shift the Central Valley starting point to merced and add a station near bakersfield. The first leg is still supposed to be from san joses diridon station to the Central Valley. The board met in san jose today but will meet again next week in sacramento. Flames tore through two apartment buildings in San Franciscos mission district. Heavy smoke spewed into the air at 17th street near guerrero at 9 a. M. Four stories of one building and two floors of neighboring buildings are damaged. Everyone got out safely. Investigators think it started between the buildings. Just over an hour our Golden State Warriors take on the rockets in houston became 3 of the nba playoffs. And the question every warriors fans wants to know, is steph curry going to play . Vern glenn is here now with the answer. Steph curry is [ pause ] not playing oh. He is not playing. Just in. Not playing. Curry this morning, though, he did go through an entire workout and shootaround practice. Serenaded by songs from prince, mind you. Now, conventional wisdom says if theres any question of his injured right ankle, go ahead and set em. Warriors have shown they can beat the rockets without him twice already including the last game. Coach kerr acknowledged, its not really a cut and dried decision, though. You know, its funny because people say just give him like two weeks off. [ laughter ] then his ankle will be fine. What about his shooting arm and handle . Players want to play. You know . They want to feel the game. They want to feel the rhythm. You got to have conditioning. So theres always a rest versus, um, rhythm, you know, equation in there somewhere that we have to factor in. All right. So number 30 wont be launching threes tonight but he has this going for him. He is one of people magazines most influential people in fact world. Good. Plus the other team members stepped up. They won without him. They can do it again. They can. They are going to have to tonight. In houston. Thank you. San franciscans on a Hunger Strike. Why they are refusing to eat. Coming up. Plus, Bay Area College students taking on the zika virus. How they are fighting it from the air. We have been telling you about one line of rainfall that will move through tomorrow morning. Well have the hour by hour timing on that, also coming up when a new second line of rain will move through that may impact a different commute. Thats coming up in your forecast on this thursday evening. ,,,,,,,, a promise to go without foo. Until changes are made in leadership. A small group of people kicd off a hunger developing now in San Francisco. A promise to go without food until changes are made in leadership. A small group of people kicked off a Hunger Strike this morning at the Mission Police station. Those participating say they want to call attention to Deadly Police shootings in the city. They are demanding changes at the top of the police force. Very clear simple demand. Chief suhr must resign. And we are going to not eat until that happens. Currently the u. S. Department of justice is conducting a review of the San FranciscoPolice Department as requested by the mayor and police chief. Well, we learned today that a new target store is coming to marin city offering among other things groceries and fresh food to a community that badly needs it. It will be in the Marin Gateway Shopping Center on donahue street just off highway 101. The red bulls eye going to take over a long vacant building used to be a best buy. Developers say it will bring 100 new jobs to the area, once it opens next march. Bay Area College Students are taking on the zika virus using drones. At a recent hack day at cal state east bay, one group looked at programming drones to identify standing water and apply insecticides to kill mosquito larvae. Infected mosquitos can transmit both the zika virus and malaria in pregnant women, zika can cause birth defects. There is no vaccine or cure. New at 5 00, a Business Park in the east bay goes green. But as kpix 5s john ramos shows us, sometimes conservation efforts can be complicated. Reporter at stoneridge Corporate Plaza in pleasanton, they are proud of their commitment to the environment. So last week, when they applied for a green certification from the city, the Water Conservation inspector who came out was a little surprised. There were fountains and rivers and ponds and waterfalls and water was everywhere. It was like a whole different world as i walked in there. Reporter the city pointed out its stage 3 drought emergency and the ordinance banning all use of fresh Drinking Water for decorative purposes. So the complex quickly shut everything down and drained the pond. But thats not sitting well with Erica Christiansen whose office looks down on the now dry landscape. Theres an ecosystem there thriving ecosystem thats tons of birds, ducks that come here every spring, squirrels and they all depend on this pond. Reporter erica took this picture of one of the ducks returning to the pond this afternoon. She says she understands shutting off fountains that are just for looks. But she says an exception should be made for ponds that animals may call home. I mean, now where are they going to go . I know they are just a couple of ducks. But, you know, how far is too far . maybe this is too far. You know, human right now, humans need Drinking Water and since there are other areas for animals to fly to or scurry to, we would like to save that for drinking purposes. Reporter in pleasanton, john ramos, kpix 5. Hidef doppler will be busy tonight. We have some rain on the way. Weigh do. That helps out because this is the time of year when we withdraw from all the water we deposited in the wintertime. Every bit of rain we get in april or may we dont have to take out as much. Its going to be really slow drive to work tomorrow. There is rain coming. Lots of sunshine in the south bay where it was in the 70s. We are cooler in santa rosa. 64 cloudy. San francisco of 4. Concord 68. Oakland currently 71. San francisco 64. There is rain in the Mendocino County coastline, the Sonoma County coastline, it will be several hours before the rain makes it onshore. Hour by hour how about a Winter Weather advisory in the sierra. This is wonderful news. Better than the past five years. Snow levels 6500 feet. We could see up to 11 inches of snow in the highest peaks and some travel theres on highway 50 and inter delays on highway 50 and interstate 80. Vallejo down to 57 tonight. San jose 56. Oakland 58. San francisco 58 degrees. Theres two things now. Often we talk about the front and when the front clears. The majority of the time the rain is gone, as well. Not the case if the low behind the front moves right over wherever you are. That will happen tomorrow. So initially we get the front tomorrow morning. Behind it, in the afternoon, we will see very unstable air with the actual low pressure area so tomorrow morning we have been talking about 5 00 and that hasnt changed. Over the past 24 hours it looks like wettest weather over the heart of the bay area will be 5 a. M. Leading to very wet roads for the morning commute and rain still falling at 6 00 or 7 00. Heaviest around 5 a. M. Second round of rainfall with hail and thunderstorms tomorrow especially in the north bay mountains. This begins to generate some activity just before lunchtime for the north bay work its way south through the afternoon. 5 00 in the afternoon still a few scattered showers. We will clear things out by saturday morning. And by saturday afternoon, partly to mostly sunny skies. So two waves of rain one early tomorrow. And a chance of some potentially heavier rainfall in the afternoon. If you get caught in one of those heavier showers. So showers develop overnight tonight. It will be wet and windy tomorrow with that chance of a thunderstorm. All setting the stage for a very calm weekend. Looks very nice to get outside saturday and sunday. Highs tomorrow 60s chilly day breezy oakland 64. Rain likely for you. San jose 67. Only 62 in vallejo. 64 concord. San francisco your high 60. Not the warmest weekend we have ever seen but it will be nice outside. Mid to upper 60s near the bay, low 70s inland. Not done with the rain yet. We have some more showers wednesday and next thursday. Wow. One of the things that el nino has done in the past which is never a guarantee it will happen again kind of drags out the wet season and we get above average rainfall into may. It could happen this year, too. Thats great news. Good stuff. Thank you. Hacking the iphone didnt come cheap. No. How much the fbi paid hackers next. But first, stocks were down today. The head of the fbi says t tonight on the cbs evening news, tears are falling among fans as the world mourns the loss of prince. Well have the life and legacy of the cultural icon who revolutionized music. Plus, well introduce you to the man who has been hired to tame donald trump. Well have those stories and the rest of the world news tonight on the cbs evening news. , agency paid more than 1 mil dollars for a third party to break into the iphone that belonged to one of the san the head of the fbi said the agency paid more than a Million Dollars for a third party to break into the iphone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Earlier this year the fbi tried and failed to get apple to hack into the phone spurring debate on privacy and security. The San FranciscoInternational Film festival opens today. This years festival of 173 films is centered at alamo draft house cinema. Other places are the roxy, victoria and castro theaters as well as the ucberkeley art museum and pacific film archive. Besides films there are live performances, awards and appearances from actors and the filmmakers. Mtv is bringing the music back. The network is refreshing programming after a 25 dive in viewership in 2015. In the fall, it plans to launch a show called wonderland that will feature live music as well as revive the acoustic show mtv unplugged. Mtv exploded on cable in 1981 as a channel to watch music videos. It later evolved into a traditional Cable Network with reality shows like the real world and jersey shor the death of pro wrestler chyna is being investigated as a possible overdose. The 45yearold was found unresponsive in her Redondo Beach apartment on wednesday. An autopsy planned in the next few days may take weeks for the toxicology reports to come back. Joan marie laurer took on the Pro Wrestling persona of chyna in the mid90s. She was named rookie of the year in 1996 spell, may feel a sting at the next National Spelling bee after the last two ended in ties. Scripps plans to adjust the rules. The list of the 25 championship word could be expanded to 75. And if spellers breeze through those words, organizers can choose harder words on the fly. [ spelling ] we have a winner. [ applause and cheers ] san jose middle schooler [ nonenglish language ] will be among the contestants after winning this years cbs bay area spelling bee last month. He will head to dc for the Scripps National bee in late may. They make it look so easy. Good for them. They study so hard. Stay with us. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, new at 6 00 tonight rage aga im veronica de la cruz in the kpix 5 newsroom. New at 6 00 tonight, rage against the rainbow. This man accused of burning a flag twice. How a symbol of tolerance has become a constant target. And before he was a pop icon, prince was recording his first album in the bay area. We take you inside the studio that helped launch the music legends career. That and more at 6 00. Allen, ill see you then. Thank you. Queen elizabeth is blazing into her ninth decade with a torch to mark her birthday. The queen spent the day touring and greeting hundreds of thousands of people who turned out to give her flowers and wish her well. She is the oldest and longest reigning monarch in england. Looks good, too. I like the hat. Arent you glad you dont have to get her a gift . What would you get the queen . A purse. Anything she wants . A hat or a purse. I think. She loves her little purse. [ overlapping speakers ] that was a rhetorical question and she has a lot of ideas. Never ask that again. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com why do we scream at each other this is what it sounds like when doves cry pelley he was music royalty. The death of the artist who will forever be remembered as prince. Purple rain purple rain also tonight, flooded texas gets the last thing it needed more rain. Reporter how much money do you think you will have lost . A lot, a lot of money. Pelley a bold prediction from a tough man on a delegate mission. Certainly by june 7th we think well be the nominee. Pelley and day for a queen. Elizabeth reaches a milestone. Happy birthday your majesty