Of the fallen officer. We begin with cara liu where a vigil wrapped up about half an hour ago. Reporter a few hundred people showed up for the prayer vigil. They were honoring the fallen officer and saying thank you to all the officers who serve this community. Todays vigil honored Michael Johnson. I honor you as not only a Police Officer but an important part of our community. Reporter hundreds turned out to pay their respects. And i hope you had the opportunity to see what im seeing. Our diverse city coming together tonight to mourn, the slate is wiped clean. As it has been its going to be difficult and especially next thursday. Reporter one Person Holding a flashlight representing johnson. A great heart. Cared about everyone. He had a golden heart. It takes a special person to put on a badge. It makes a difference for us able to walk the streets in our community. They do a job most of us will never ever do and because of them were safe. Reporter tonights event was organized by the star of david ministries and a local mlk association. Cara liu in san jose, thank you cara. From cara we turn to katie utehs. And katie owe spoke to a Family Member of the gunman. Reporter people packed the hill here, many people double parking on the street to pay their respects. And many people asking the question why. We got insight on to why the shooter may have occurred because we spoke to members of johnsons family. Reporter grief comes in many forms. An apology from the niece of the man who shot and killed officer johnson. As a family, we feel were caught in the middle. Were mourning for the officer but were morning for our uncle. Reporter two lives that crossed paths. And a fight with his wife brought officers to johnsons home. My aunt does consider johnson her hero. We consider him our hero. I cant forget how nice of a person he was to everyone. Reporter people who live in the neighborhood and officers who work beside him carry on with grace. Its so raw for all of us. Reporter united by law. Its incredible. I mean its very sincere these people are here because they care. Reporter a Community Grateful for those who serve. Seeing all these officers, its breath breathtaking. Reporter in the distance, a family mourning both men. The officer who lost his life and the man who killed him. They hope for grace in the form of compassion. Youre looking at the growing memorial here at the shooting scene. Some of the flowers that were placed there were placed by dunhams family. They said he did receive treatment for his Mental Illness but in their opinion, the incident was suicide by cop. Frank. Katie what was the reaction of people there of dunhams family showed up. Was there people that were upset or were they grateful that they showed up. Reporter they did not really step up. They spoke to reporters after the vigil wrapped up they wanted to pay their respects but did not want to take away from the vigil. The service will be held at 11 00 a. M. Next thursday at the sap center in san jose. A lot of people are expected to attend including Police Officers from all across the country. Later in this newscast, San Jose Police say the Computer System in their patrol cars crashed on the night of the shooting. The ongoing problem and how the Department Plans to fix it. Jurors in San Francisco reached a verdict late today in the closely watched aaron powell sex discrimination lawsuit. The jury ruled in favor of perkins on all counts. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is live tonight in the city where she spoke with two jurors who reached different conclusions in the case. Jana. Reporter this was a case julie, that lasted more than a month. Ellen powell in the courtroom appeared very calm after she heard the verdict from this jury that had six men and six women evenly divided. Some of them said today it was a very intense and emotional process. Ellen powell left the state courthouse in San Francisco having lost her 16 million gender discrimination case but still claiming victory for raising attention working women of silican valley. For people across the world who have reached out to express support, and telling me that my story is theirs too. Reporter as chief of staff for the firms well known partner john doer had been her mentor but also testified that she cautioned powell about her difficulty working with others. They called the firm a boys club. Powell claims she outperformed male comments, was asked to take notes like a secretary and treated unfairly after an affair with a married male colleague. Then the battle was worth it. Reporter attorneys for perkins say performance reviews, showed powell had conflicts and they pointed to other female employees who succeeded and did not have complaints. It never occurred to me for a second that a careful and attentive jury like this would find either discrimination or retaliation. Reporter the jury voted 93 against powells retaliation charge after one juror switched his vote at the last minute forcing the jury to reconvene for another hour. The jury voted 102 against powells gender discrimination claim. The performance evaluations throughout the years were a key piece. Reporter ramsey voted yes with powell. It seems that the those with male gender with the same flaws that perkins did were able to sad vance powell did were able to advance. The family of audrey pot is going to get hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of their wrongful death lawsuit. Pot was a student at seratoga high she committed suicide after being sexually assaulted. Photos of her were then circulated on social media. The family of one of three boys involved in the attack will pay 600,000 and the owner of the home where the assault happened will pay 100,000. A protest is held tonight against the Downtown Berkeley association and its hospitality ambassadors who patrol the street. About 1,000 people marched to the police department. Tonights demonstration stems from this you tube video. It shows one of the ambassadors punching a homeless man last sunday. The homeless and their advocates say that attack is a culmination of something much greater. A lot of things have been going on in the city that are anti homeless. And people dont have a place to stay. So they stay downtown so they can get services and they stay downtown so they can get a little extra cash. A booming bay area economy is issuing a fast increase in the region. Santa clara, contra costa, San Francisco and san mateo counties also saw some of the fastest population growth since 2010. Their Census Bureau reports that Alameda County has added 100,000 residents since june of 2010. Santa clara also added about 100,000. More people of course means more jobs, more traffic and a tighter Housing Market and that can be seen in the skyrocketing rents across the bay area. Governor jerry brown put his signature on a Million Dollars emergency drought package today. He tweeted a picture showing him signing the bill and said it is a piece of a much greater effort to help those affected by the extreme drought. The package was passed quickly by the state assembly and the senate this week. The package fast track spending on Water Infrastructure package designed to deal with the drought and floods when it rains too much. Other money will go to help communities that have little or no valley in the central valley. Going the extra mile to ask a girl to the prom. Yes. The grand gesture that got this student a date and got him suspended. Temperatures drop nearly 20 degrees today in some areas. Ill pinpoint whats ahead this weekend. And next, outrage after indiana passes a law that some are calling a license to discriminate. It feels like were back 100 years ago. How bay area politicians and Business Leaders are striking back. Sanddollar volkswagen credit bonus on jetta models. Seriously, pinch me. Its not a dream. Ow its the volkswagen stop dreaming, start driving event. Stop dreaming, and testdrive one today. Hurry in and you can get 0 apr plus a 1000 volkswagen credit bonus on 2015 jetta and passat models. There is growing backlash from leaders from indiana. A lot of people here in the bay area are calling it nothing more than legalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. Noelle walker reports on the backlash. Reporter this at a time when all eyes will be focused on indiana for the final four of march madness. Reporter lieu cal oil stadium in Lucas Oil Stadium in indianapolis, the final four is not the only thing taking place in indiana this week. This bill is not about discrimination. And if i thought it was about discrimination i would have vetoed it. Reporter for lawmakers, its about the final four. I think its dispickable. Reporter San Francisco is the first make major city to take a boycott against the law. In fact, theres a hash tag boycott indiana on twitter gaining steam among bay area businesses. Sale force ben beniof vows to cancel all programs that require travel to indiana. Tim cook says, we strive to street all clients equal no matter where they are, or where they come from. Whats so crucial about this moment that were in, is its not just about gay people off by themselves. Reporter the executive director of the center for lesbian rights says strives have focused on laws like that in indiana. If youre a ceo, youre with us. If youre an ncaa player or coach youre with us. If youre someone who just cares about the constitution living up to its promises, youre with us. Reporter now kendell says this law does not just discrimination gays and lesbians but also opens the door to discrimination against people based on their religion, race, immigration status, long hair. Anything. Reporter we saw that San Francisco is taking a stand. What else can San Francisco do. The supervisor thinks to think at some point in the near future theres a resolution that can be passed by the entire city council and that will also make another powerful statement. Thank you, noelle. At ktvu. Com we have posted many of the tweets from today about that indiana law. You can look for the story right on our front page. Police in vallejo still havent responded to a couple of bay area attorneys who now insist their clients were victims of a kidnapping for ransom this week. Police say there is no evidence that 29yearold Denise Hopkins was kidnapped. Police say the kidnap claim was orchestrated but huskins Attorney Says police have it all wrong. Huskins turned up unharmed near her home in huntington. A teacher accused of molesting his students was sentenced today to 12 years in prison. Cristina rendon heard from the mother of two of those students and martins wife about what the sentence means for her kids. Reporter elementary teacher Joseph Martin learned his fate. Four years in prison for molesting students. At the same time hes got two little girls, and set for release when theyre in high school. He would be a friend not a dad to them and thats heartbreaking. Reporter before the ruling the judge received more than 20 letters of support more support for martin. But also recognizes the damage he did to those victims. Happy that he wont be able to victimize children anymore. Hell be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. Reporter the court struck down a 25 years to life in prison calling the outcome cruel and unusual. Punishment to life does not institute cruel and unusual punishment. Harsh, definitely. What he did was harsh. Reporter the judge told the boys they did the right thing. And told martin that she was happy he will not be able to teach again. I will always stand by my husbands innocence. I believe he was wrongfully convicted. Reporter martin is likely eligible for parol in about nine years. Reporting in contra costa county, cristina rendon. There are new signs of west nile activity in Santa Clara County after three birds tested positive for the virus. Vector control says the birds were found on the 20th. West nile virus is spread by a mosquito bite. A bit of a cooldown today across parts of the bay area especially at the coast and right around the bay. Snapped this picture of this beautiful sunset from across the bay. Also midlevel clouds paying us a visit as well. Speaking of cool down. Remember the very warm temperatures we had yesterday. 83 in santa rosa. San francisco 80 degrees. Look at that big drop off today in San Francisco. Down 21 degrees and back down into the 70s for concord and san jose. Heres a look for the highs for today. Lots of 60s, lots of 70s out there. We had rainfall not here in the bay area but up to our north where you expect its been a familiar theme hasnt it over the past few weeks. Right now we just have some patchy fog regrouping in fact, locally dense. Right near the immediate coastline. Pushing back into the bay. So it will be part of our forecast. First thing tomorrow morning with partly cloudy skies and patchy fog. The fog toward pacifica, San Francisco, oakland and hayward. But lots of sunshine for tomorrow. Heres the temperature time line. In livermore throughout the day. Starting out saturday morning in the lower 50s. On track to reach the upper 70s by about 3 00 or 4 00. So heres the plan for your saturday forecast. Tomorrow morning partly cloudy skies. Eventually temperature range 63 to 75 degrees. Coming up well take a closer look at the forecast highs in your neighborhood and the temperature clang you can expect in your sunday forecast. Thank you, mark. He runs, swims and bikes. And hes blind. Still ahead tonight, some help tonight for a cal berkeley try athlete whos not only coping but hes participating. And live pictures now from the scene of developing news. Were working to bring you details on this deadly accident involving a pedestrian. Female announcer sundays your last chance to save big during sleep trains triple choice sale. For a limited time you can choose up to 48 months interestfree financing on a huge selection of tempurpedic models. Or choose to save hundreds on Simmons Beautyrest mattress sets. You can even choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular Stearns Foster mattresses. The triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep a Memorial Service at a church in Duesseldorf Germany held a vigil. Also today more disturbing information is coming to life about a young copilot who investigators say deliberately crashed the jetliner. Prosecutors say doctors notes were found at his home stating he was too ill to work. As ktvus Gasia Mikaelian reports, he kept his Health Issues hidden from his employer. Reporter authorities found ripped up doctors notes even on the day of the flight. Were hoping for clues regarding this mans motive. Reporter germanwings said they never saw the sick notes. This hospital confirms they saw him twice before the crash, they reportedly say not for depression. They did not find any confession or political or religious motivation for the incident. None of this is helping families of the victim coming to grips with their grief. Some gathered around a makeshift memorial. Some getting as close to the sight as they can. Among those remembering the life of one of those victims the father of 37yearold american Robert Oliver calvo. Instead of focusing our minds and hearts on that last, on those last nine or 10 minutes, we prefer to think of those 33 years we spent together. We shared our lives, our experiences, our fellowship. Reporter lufthansa is saying they will offer 30,000 euros in immediate Financial Assistance to the families of all those who died in the crash. Many have come a long way and have a long way before the remains of their loved ones are identified. Gasia mikaelian, ktvu news. The crash in europe has led to questions about how the u. S. Handles pilots and their mental health. Pilots younger than 40 must get a mental evaluation every year. And those four or older every six months. Theres warning for depression such as not sleeping well and changes in eating habits. We are following developing news right now after the break, a deadly accident involving a pedestrian in contra costa county. And a computer outage moments before a Police Officer was killed. The reoccurring problem officers say continue to put them at risk. We have developing news out of martinez tonight where police are on the scene of a deadly crash involving a car and a pedestrian. This is a live picture from morello avenue and highway 4. Martinez police say this happened before 9 00. According to a photographer on the scene, preliminary word is that a car was exiting h ighway four possibly going too fast when it hit a pedestrian and ended up on a median. We asked police how the accident happened and were still waiting for answers. Right now morello is still closed on i4. A Patrol Officer s computer crashed shortly after officer Michael Johnson was shot. Reporter adding to the chaos, the Computer Network crashing within an hour after officers responded to the crisis. Unfactory for us to have a problem. But we are looking at ways weve known about the issues and we are working on rectifies those issues and those problems. This afternoon, the San Jose Police department acknowledged it crashed because they could not handle the number of officers working that night. They admit the department has outgrown the technology. Its an issue going on for at least a year. Our officers are incredibly frustrated with the computers not working in their cars because its a critical piece of our safety equipment. Reporter ktvu obtained an internal memo sent to Police Details concern. And the communication speed was slow. We dont get information to officers as quickly as we would like to because its a safety issue. Quite frankly its a safety issue. The just approved city budget method for this year allocates funding for the Police Chiefs needs. This being one of them. The funding we identified would be enough to retrofit, with the mobile computer devices. And the Budget Office and our office is then communicating. Reporter and the Department Hopes to replace all the computers by the end of the year. Until then, if and when the system crashes theyll have to rely on the radio dispatch. In san jose, im azenith smith, ktvu news. In San Francisco they are hoping extra security will help stop vandalism and littering at dolores park. The citys Rec Department says there will be four Staff Members at the park tomorrow and six on sunday. This after several vandals caused damage. And last month someone drinking in the park smashed glass bottles in the sand box causing it to close. They also plan to have staff over the weekend to empty trash cans. Amanda knoxs family says theyre relieved. Knox is seen on this video was facing 261 2 years in prison. Her former boyfriend who was also convicted was facing a 25 year sentence. But the High Court Said the evidence did not a Russian Rocket carried scott kelly and his russian partner to the International Space station. The goal is to learn how extended life in space prepares humans to an eventual mission to mars. And now to a team of triumph. It includes a student who is in the track team, he also happens to be blind. Reporter hes not just any triathlete. Im like 98 blind. Reporter most of what he is sees is a dark blur yet he competing. If you think about what you dont have you wont appreciate what you have. Reporter noel and his teammates are preparing for a triathalon coming up in north carolina. Hard more most people that cant see where theyre going. His coach says its difficult to grasp but hes had to work with. Ive tried to swim with blackened goggles and youre totally disoriented. I hit my head sometimes. Reporter theyve allowed him to ride a tandem bike with a guide. This afternoon the challenged Athlete Foundation surprised him with a new bike. He has a degenerative disease that has started to take his eyesight. He said he joined the Triathlete Team as a challenge. Its great to think you have him side by side, training, hes there the whole way. Reporter he plans to get his phd and plans to keep competing. He says hes having too much fun to stop. Reporter he may have lost his eyesight but his vision is crystal clear. A cooler air mass gave us a significant drop in temperatures. The conditions you can expect for your weekend. Also tonight a prom invitation with unintended consequences. How a bay area teens grand gesture to sweep a girl off of her feet got him suspended. Up next a protest in the hills. Why these neighbors say a zoo Expansion Plan is not in the best interest of animals. Cant say thank you enough. You have made my life special by being apart of it. everyone cheers glad you made it buddy. Thanks for inviting me. Thanks again my friends. For everything for all your help. Through all lifes milestones our trusted advisors are with you every step of the way. Congratulations thanks for helping me plan for my retirement. You should Come Celebrate with us. Id be honored. Plan for your goals with advisors you know and trust. So you can celebrate today and feel confident about tomorrow. Chase. So you can. New at 10 00, a protest against the planned expansion of the oakland zoo. About two dozen people gathered today in the oakland hills. They say theyre upset about plans to use more of the park for a science and education exhibit. They say the development will harm native plans and disrupt the habitat of threatened species such as the alameda snake. Its a great irony and real tragedy to take over what is real and wild and rare to talk about preserving what is weird and wild and rare. The plans around the new exhibit is designed to be wildlife friendly. A caltrans crew that was clearing debris. The worker was using a skip loader to tear down a tent and remove debris from an encampment on story road. Were told a woman was in the tent. People in the camp had been warned about the clean up but for some reason she didnt leave. Fortunately were told that the womans injuries are only minor. Contra costa Health Officials are investigating a chemical relief in pittsburg. The company says workers were mixing 3,000 pounds of chemicals when it reacted. Fish and wildlife crews are now investigating whether there was any impact there. Harry reid surprised many by announcing he will not run for reelection. We have to be more concerned about the country, the senate and us. For that reason im not going to run for reelection. Reid says he wants Charles Schumer to succeed him. After closing lower for four Straight Days wall street ended the week with slight gains. The dow was up seven. The s p500 added four. Even so, the market had its second worse week ever . A group left to africa. Its part of a program called operation genesis. Jason johnson works in the Bay View District and his program aims to connect African American young people to their past so they can gain the understanding of the struggles of their ancestors. I want to go out there and learn what we actually came from so i can come back home and value what i have and see the difference and try to make a change in my community. Officer johnson says, this trip was made possible through donors including the San FranciscoPolice Officers association. Ahead in sports, see whos still alive tonight. If warriors take on the only team they havent beaten this season and try to reduce their magic number. Meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking higher temperatures this weekend. Hell take us through the next two days and beyond. Bay area teens suspended from school. The unusual prom proposal that won over his date but not school administrators. This is something that i probably wont reget. Regret. A students unusual prom invitation at Milpitas High School got him a date but it also got him suspended. Ryan florez spoke with this knight in shining armour who says he has no regrets. Reporter sure he could have asked her straight up, but thats been done before. Senior Miguel Gonzalez hes the creative one. I didnt think deeply until a couple of weeks ago and i said im going to do it. Reporter gonzalez impressed the girl and his classmates. Nothing happens at this school. So when someone showed up with a horse, it was exciting. Reporter miguel called his friend who had a ranch near by and asked him if he could borrow a horse. He had an idea to ride to school and ask his good friend Catalina Hernandez to prom. She said yes but the school said no. They suspended him and gave him community service. I didnt think it was a big deal. It was hardly any people there. Just her classroom. There was another classroom but that was about it. Reporter gonzalez says hes been around horses all his life and there was never really any changes. This kid is a nice kid. He plays sports, hes a good kid. And he comes here to help. I think they went too far. Reporter the school sited possible danger of having a horse on campus. The principal told us on campus that she wished miguel would have talked to her first. This is something i probably wont regret. Ill just be like yeah, i did it. Thats not the real reason why i did it. Just the story that i went on campus with a horse and asked a girl would you go to prom with me. I was honestly i would have done it for any girl that would have went with me. Reporter the good news is even though the suspension remains he will be able to go to prom. Miguel whos never been in trouble before says he would probably do it again but ask for permission first. Big wave surfers will have to wait another year. The three week window closes next tuesday. The Weather Forecast is offering no hope for the surf thats needed. It didnt generate the 40 to 60 foot waves that are necessary for the contest. Cancellations are fairly common since the contests first began in 1999 there have been eight winters when the surf didnt cooperate. Its important to get everything lined up. But always great to see those pictures. The rain not here in the bay area. You have to look to the north to the pacific northwest. You see the rain drops up here but thats about it. Theres a weakening system that will thraeufr a few clouds. Thats just about it. Right now we have some patchy low clouds. Some locally dense fog has been a constant coast side all day long pushing back into the bay right now. Current numbers are in the 50s. Livermore 57degree. San jose 58. San francisco 55. And san jose in the upper 50s. Winds up as well. You can see winds an on shore breeze. Winds from 10 to 15 miles per hour. Still a bit of a breeze out toward sfo. Winds out of the west at 14 miles per hour. Our cameras looking toward oakland. We had partly cloudy skies right now. Low clouds will be on the increase some what overnight. This weekend we will have this. Morning fog and fair clouds. The extended forecast, a sun cloud mix with minor cooling out there. But no big changes in the temperature department. Heres the view for the forecast in the south bay for san jose. Patchy morning fog with lots of sunshine for the afternoon hours. Temperatures on track to reach to a steadily climb back up into the upper 70s for tomorrow afternoon. Very weak system up here. I drew in a cold front because i like to draw the cold front. No rain, the chances for us just partly to mostly sunny skies for the afternoon hours. Once this moves out, winds do pick up from 10 to 20 miles per hour. This is a familiar weather pattern. High pressure rebuilds just a little bit. So sunday a temperature up a few degrees. Once again, thats the key headline this has been the constant headline. Dry, dry, dry. Heres our forecast model showing you this. Not much in the way of cloud cover. A few more patches coast side and right around the bay. Then into the afternoon hours. As i mentioned partly to mostly sunny. That green contour links up with 60s. The yellow in the 70s. Lots of 70s out there. And the warmest location approaching the 80 degrees mark. Livermore in the upper 70s. 71degrees. More neighborhoods in the local neighbors san jose, morgan hill. San francisco some fog in the morning. Heres a look ahead your five day forecast. And these are all just very tiny changes for sunday. A little bit of a bump in the numbers. Fair skies for monday. Then more cooling by tuesday. Well keep an eye on april 8th. Some of the forecast models hinting at a rain drop out there. That is a wednesday. Okay. How did you know . Because im off that day. Spring break. Random day calculator julia. It might evaporate. Thanks, mark. Scott is in here for mark. Warriors, what can you say another impressive win for the warriors. Its like mark saying its sunny. The warriors won another game. You know the story by now. One team in the nba the warriors have not beaten this season the grizzlies. Then there were none. Second quarter Gray Thompson doing his thing. The contested three ball. Not a problem. He hit 38. Dubs up by five at the break. Third quarter warriors on a 15 2 run. Seth curry, triple yeah. And then steph getting defensive and hes ahead of the pack. Reverse me. Curry with 38. Warriors win 10734. Now its official they have beaten every team in the league. You think duke basketball and you think perennial basketball. Theyve been a three seed or better. Trying to buck that trend in utah. Second half, amile jefferson. Punk fake and the high. The way this ended was just awful for utah right. So the game is over. They go to the locker room. Dejected thinking about it. Then they go and put. 7 back on the clock. So they make them come out of the locker room for one more free throw so that they can make the long walk dejected for a second time. That hurts times two. This one 6357. Ucla gonzaga mark hughes for his. Elton the cost and no look bounce pass to sabones that is pretty. Had a dozen. Moments later, the bulldogs win 7462. How about east region scores. Louisville marks nc state by 10. A seven seed advances over oklahoma. The elite eight is now set. State championships won and lost tonight at the high school level. Ahead how local teams faired in their big games. And why 16 was not so sweet for the stanford women. Ns foster. The triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. The stanford women as an underdog. Strange phenomenon but as a number one seed they were the lot. The sweet 16 match up in okc. There ended not so well. Thompson hobbled off the court and returned later as a nonfactor. Lindsay allen for three. She had 28. Irish by 11 at the break. A stanford stayed in it with the long run. Danielson five triples that made it a five point game. But with five to play its robertson turning it over and jewel lloyd ahead of the pack. She had 21. Noter dame wins 8160 ending stanfords season. Cif defensive san ramon valley. And i think the entire danville city population was there for this one at hoff pavilion. This game goes to Double Overtime for a state title. And in double ot. Kristan puca the big triple. The wolves win it in dramatic fashion. Their first ever state title. The girls against rio linda for the Division Three championship. Nice back door to asha thomas for three. The dragons win. And its their Third Straight title. And to do it at cal on the college floor. You see people there. Double over time too that was big time drama. A lot of people excited in ramon tonight. Thank you. Thank you for joining us tonight. Our next newscast mornings on 2 begins tomorrow at 7 00. And find us on facebook, twitter, ktvu. Com and our ktvu app. Have a good night. Good night. What am i most afraid of . Hmm, lets see. Global warming. And getting a b. The phone ringing in the middle of the night. That im too much of a perfectionist. Honey, this isnt a job interview. Oh, man. Job interviews. Nothing. Yeah, right. What about the pigeons . Oh, i dont like them. Theyre shifty. Losing mitchell. Oh hotel bedspreads. Never getting my drivers license. Or getting one and the picture sucks. Dying alone. Claire oh, haley, sweetie did you find your shoes . Mom, please, not today. I just wanted to know if you found your shoes. Why are you hounding me . Im freaking out right now