invogt was close. the fcc decided 3-2 in favor of net neutrality which essentially means treating the internet like a utility. today's vote caps off more than a year of heated debate on the issue. the fcc received more than 4 million public comments. on the one side content providers like netflix and google which favored net neutrality. the opponent like time warner and comcast, wanted to be able to charge more for so-called fast lanes, faster connections to the internet. in the end, the fcc said no to fast lanes saying it is a utility. there aren't faster ways to get water and electricity. they all reach the consumer in the same way at the same speed. equal access. >> it's a real question and what is unclear is how it's going to affect us as consumers, do we have to pay more because now these internet companies are making less money? we don't know. but it's going to be interesting to see how it shakes out. one of the things we know is we all get water and it doesn't cost that much and we all get power and it doesn't cost that much. hopefully, the internet will be similar. >> this may not be the end of the debate. after all, industry opponents have called this inappropriate. the government and dangerous -- government overreach. this could possibly and probable trigger more lawsuits to delay the issue further. >> certainly plenty of reasons to watch in silicon valley especially. thanks. >> we often speak of net neutrality. now meet the guy who coined the term. he's a professor at columbia university. he first used the term in an academic paper. he writes in the new yorker that he supports the fcc's move. now, our scott budman is digging deeper on the story. he'll is a live report tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. >> now new details on the masked man dubbed jihadi john. u.s. officials confirmed the name of the isis terrorist who beheaded hostages. and with the name comes more details on who he is. kooer sim keir simmons has more. >> u.s. officials have confirmed that a london man, muhammad muwassy is the person known as jihadi john in the isis videos. a number of officials have refused to give guidance, but they have not dismissed the reports out of hand. nbc confirmed british officials believed he had been identified and the fbi director confirmed u.s. officials have identified him. sources tell us he's of somali origin and known to have lived in london. he's responsible for the execution of americans james foley and stephen sotloff. each killing has been the subject of a well publicized and slickly made video, usually featuring the victims dressed in orange jump suits while their killer brandished a knife and beerates the west. the concern is for those still held by isis even while the reporting is emerging, isis is attacking christian villages in northern syria. 33 villages have been targeted according to a local group of syrians who live there, and as of this morning, one monitoring group said a total of 220 christians have been taken hostage by isis just in recent days. back to you. >> that was keir simmons reporting. new at 11:00, crews worked quickly to put out a house fire in san jose this morning. started just after 7:00 on 18th street near olinder elementerary school. crews found smoke coming from the back of a duplex. they shut off the electy and put the flames out in 30 minutes. no one was hurt. >> a man is dead a woman critically hurt after a reporting fight in a quiet east bay neighborhood. officers responded to a 911 call about two men fighting at a home in irkulous yesterday. they found the trail of blood going from the driveway into the house, and inside they found a woman hurt and a man dead. the suspect was arrested blocks away. police are still trying to figure out how it all fits together. this is the first killing in hercules in two years. >> in the north bay, three men are under arrest accused of holding a woman captive for almost two months. you might remember the story from last week. 22-year-old victim said she was kidnapped at gun point and taken to a rural santa rosa home. she says her captors beat her and sex wal assaulted her until she escaped. this shows the suspects being taken away by officers. police say the woman is now safe and recovering. >> five east bay students are recovering after apparently popping pills at school. paramedics rushed the girls to a nearby hospital yesterday morning. the girls are expected to survive. no word on what kind of pills they took. >> this morning, bay area congresswoman jakye y jackie speier unveiled her plan to stop children from getting their hands on to laundry detergent and dishwasher detergent pods. children mistake them for toys because they're colorful and bite size. if passed the packages would have to be changed in 18 months. >> new details on an uber ride that was just too much for one south bay man to stomach. he paid $450 for a 12-mile ride. >> how's that for surge pricing? stephanie chuang is live in san francisco. another customer frustrated by uber's controversial surge pricing plan steph. >> that's right. good morning. we heard about the issue of surge pricing from time to time. whether it's the surge pricing on the east coast during weather emergencies to the stories here at home. one lawmaker the same one behind the first state-wide ban of handheld cell phone use while driving has another focus, and his focus is on banning surge pricing all together and he's hoping that will spread across the country. rafael hernandez knew the surge pricing would make uber expensive, more than the $23 to get to the sharks game but he wasn't prepared for the $37 a mile ride back. >> i agree today the surge price. the problem was the ride itself should have been like $30 times four doesn't add up to $1252. >> in a companystatement, the company said it allows riders a safe reliable option to ride around time. surge pricing makes it possible even in times of high demand. >> one lawmaker has set his sights on banning surge pricing all together. new york assembly man said his legislation would also find violators who practice surge pricing to $250 every time. he said there's not enough transparency when it comes to what passengers will pay at the end of the ride. >> this is about certainness to consumers that they should know exactly what they're paying for. >> that seems crazy. >> this man was shocked by the story of the $450 bill. he just started using lyft. he recounts a recent ride taken by his girlfriend. just a couple miles amounted to $40. >> i'm guessing it told her that before but she definitely was really surprised. maybe there's not like a clear -- >> sign. >> sign. >> there should be a balance here. allow the uber and lyft as well as the drivers to make money but set some boundaries. >> they might need to do a little surge pricing because of just like it's traffic hour and it costs more gas and more time. but i do think it would be great if there was like some sort of block off of you can only adjust it a certain amount. >> i heard from a lyft spokesperson in the hour who says that the company has a cap. 200% on primetime, what they call dynamic pricing and the rider has to agree to that before the ride is accepted. as for uber, i just heard from a spokesperson a few minutes ago and she says there's no official policy really no comment on a cap for surge pricing, although uber's policy does require riders if it's double the surge pricing, you have to actually enter the multiplier into your phone, and that's supposed to let you know how much more you're going to pay. a lot of numbers involved here. live in san francisco, stefphanie chuang chuang. >> remember when you just watched the meter? thanks, steph. >> well new at 11:00, a new push to unionize the teamsters union is rallying outside apple headquarters in coomer teenume cupertino. they're urging bus drivers who shuttle apple employees to team up. teamsters struck a deal with shuttle drivers at facebook last week. union reps say it's time for bus drivers who serve apple to join and help standardize the bus driving industry for the tech industry. >> it's time for the tech sdra to step up and do something for the people who support them in order to make billions and billions of dollars. these are the low end of the spentroom and they deserve a shot at a decent life. >> bus drivers who serve the companies will vote on that union issue tomorrow. three times world series champion mvp award winner two all star appearances and now another title. buster posey. >> he's the new face of the mlb. i know what you're asking? what does that mean? right, not a lot in terms of career accomplishments. it's a pauluralty contest. fans voted on twitter and facebook. posey beat out 31 other baseball stars for the title, finishing with the mets david wright in the finale. >> that's what all the finalists say. it doesn't mean anything. i didn't want it anyway. up next at 11:00 google looking to expabd. the new massive headquarters it wants to build in silicon valley. >> plus good grades no longer good enough. the big change possibly coming to admissions at san jose state. >> speaking of san jose, 62 degrees. temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s, but changes ahead which will bring rain and lowering snow levels pretty close to the bay area as we head to the weekend. a look at that in the forecast when we come right back. welcome back. a bit of a ho-hum day on the markets this morning. the nasdaq barely breaking even. the dow down slightly. reuters says microsoft is going to lay off many chinese workers as it closed chinese factories. >> google needs more space. they inherited their headquarters back in 2003 when the company was relatively small. in fact 800 googlers moved into the facility at the time. google now uses this campus and dozens of buildings all over the city of mountain view. so tomorrow google is going to go before the mountain view city council to present a plan for a massive new headquarters. they're staying in the city. we may get our best peek otthe plans when google shows them to the council tomorrow. >> big news out of china. they have dropped cisco systems devises from its list of approved purchases. it's san francisco's largest provider in china, an important customer. we can't say for sure be we suspect china is dropping american devices because of claimed may by edward snowden that the u.s. government has placed spy software, even spy devices inside american-made products. snowdon remains in russia. american leaders says he faces espionage charges if he returns home. that's not the only problem. if they get foreign buyers to trust them they still deal with a strong dollar. a strong dollar makes our products here in silicon valley more expensive. hewlett-packard earlier this week blamed slumping revenue on a strong dollar. apple is holding another event march 9th. that's a quick turn around since the invitations went out today. they say spring forward. so we're figuring something to do with the watch, because you do have to spring forward on your watch or your clock. >> that's true, but haven't they had trouble syncing the time change with the iphone in the past? >> that's true they have. >> right? >> maybe it's just a reminder. change your watches and your batteries in your smoke detectors. good-bye. >> we'll see. >> a turf war brewing in the south bay. the community is at odds over the redesign of santa clara's montague park. the city wants to build two soccer fields next to the baseball field. the families whose kids play baseball there say if that happens, there will be no room for baseball practice or fans. in addition, a play ground for kids would be dismantled. >> we want a place where our kids can play have an open area. my daughter loves the playground, and as my son plays the little league my daughter plays on the park and it's a great time. >> the city says santa clara needs four more soccer fields and this will help meet the need, but if you cut the fans out, you're going to have grandparents upset. >> student could face a new hurdle while trying to transfer into san jose state university. those students are currently admitted based only on gpa, and now, the university is considering a new policy that would evaluate transfer students based on their academic preparation. transfer students would be expected to complete certain courses before they enter the university at the junior level. if approved, the changes would take effect next fall. a new life saving feature on the most popular social media network, with just a click of a button you can use facebook to prevent suicide. if you see a friend post something about harming himself or herself, you can report it. facebook will send a help line to the friend. people have been able to report suicides on facebook since 2011. but this new tool makes it more user friendly. >> happening today, tenants being evicted by a man who worked at google planned to deliver a petition to google's san francisco offices. the tenants and the group eviction free san francisco collected more than 1500 signatures demanding that jack halpern stop the evictions. the protesters say halpern, who is a lawyer at google is not living up to google pfsz code of conduct. halpern bought a building on guerrero street and is using the yellow tax to force them to move out. the alice act allows them to evectpeople if they're getting out of the rental business. >> going out for a bite in san jose? turns out you're not alone. a new survey found as a whole, no population eats out more than the people of san jose. one city did finish higher regina saskatchewan. maybe we just have a lot of good restaurants. >> a follow-up on the supreme court case with a muslim woman denied a job at abercrombie & fitch. a new poll finding that california -- why, thank you. 51% believe the state should relax restrictions on building new water storage facilities in california's not ready to accept mand atory mandatory but they should. it's getting dry. >> we want to do it. we just want to do it ourselves. >> i appreciate that. >> rob is here for christina loren. and you have some drought numbers. and maybe lending credence to mandatory. >> we have been hearing that for three years. we have had more rain. that has helped but the board over my shoulder still severe, extreme to exceptional drought in california. you need the cuppers to come off the map before we can talk about getting out of the drought. we could use more rain and we need a lot more snow in the sierra. good news in the forecast late tomorrow into saturday we might help out with both with changes ss on the way. 50s and 60s right now. san jose hazy skies around san jose. as we show you other spots. dublic right now, 58 degrees. one of the warmer locations right now, san francisco up to 60 degrees with the high clouds going by. as we approach lunch time we'll start to climb into the low to mid 60s. by 3:00 this afternoon, close to 70 in livermore as we approach the evening, the winds are going to pick up. that's part of the story as the temperatures begin to cool down close to 60 around the heart of the evening commute around 6 cloox, and wind speeds right now, not all that bad. starting to pick up around the hills to the north and east bay, but by later on the wind gusts approaching 25 to 30 miles per hour. and this will be a case as we have been saying of canadian air conditioning coming on in as the system dropping in out of the north. for now, high clouds going by the bay area. the system we're watching is around seattle and portland. that is the system that's going to begin to drop to the south later tonight. no worries about showers tonight. as we head to tomorrow morning and during the day friday now, you're starting to see showers on the coast, and in the showers begin to try to settle in saturday. especially out towards the coast, and the cooler air aloft is good news for snow levels. maybe as low as 4,000 feet in the sierra and maybe briefly a dusting of snow around mt. hamilton. the best bet on saturday. today quite nice around the bay area. the extending forecast for the next best chance for timing of rain, for friday tomorrow a chance of a few scattered showers. saturday, the main event, and sunday skies clear and another weak system coming in on monday. how much rain are we expecting out of the system and how much snow for the sierra? good news for the snow pack. we could see more than a foot of snow coming down. a closer look at the totals and snowfall expectations in our next half hour. >> thank you much. >> up next at 11:00, the latest fad in some gyms. why body builders are turning to new moms to help them get buff. researchers in europe are linking attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to an increased risk of early death. >> the study followed 2 million people from infancy to death. people with adhd were twice as likely to die early as opposed to those without the disorder. it was the result of accidents or other outside causes. >> the latest fad in body building has nothing to do with exercise drugs, or diet. it has to do with breast milk. and that has health experts raising a red flag. >> some body builders looking to enhance believe breast milk helps muscle growth. health experts warn there's no proven research showing breast milk has any benefit for adults and may have hidden dangers. >> our body's fluid. so it can carery with it disease. any disease the mother has, help hepatitis hepatitis, hiv, aids will be in the milk and also any drugs they take will be in the milk. so it's really just a gigantic game of russian roulette. >> fitness experts say some people are shelling out $20 an ounce to get their dose. >> scientists say they have found the perfect length for your eyelashes. though some ladies might disagree. scientists say the optimal length is a third of the width of the eye. eyelashes are supposed to ask as sun shades and dust catchers. researchers measured the lashes of 22 mammals from hedge hogs to giraffes and found most of them have the optimal eyelash length. >> so some guy whose job it is to measure the eyelashes of hedge hogs? >> i don't know how you do that. >> up next at 11:00 -- >> i can imagine him fighting for his life. >> she says a postal service policy delayed response to her husband's medical emergency. see what happened after we investigated. a critical change to the 911 policy at the u.s. postal service here in the bay area triggered by our investigation. >> investigative reporter vicky nguyen was the first to expose the policy that tells employees not to call 911 first when there's a medical emergency. a victory? >> it certainly is a victory for the employees. here it is in black and white. the first step in the policy now states in an emergency, anyone can call 911. it sounds so simple and obvious, but employees tell us for years the old rules led to serious delays in medical treatment. >> he worked there for 28 years. everybody loved him. >> in august, coworkers found postal worker sam accostosta lying on his back with blood coming from his mouth and ears. down from an apparent head injury. his wife marnie. >> it's so sad because i can imagine him fighting for his life. >> we have an employee bleeding from the mouth. >> no one saw what happened to sam. but coworkers reported finding him lying on the floor, bleeding and unconscious some time between 3:00 and 3:30 a.m. but his records show 911 dispatch didn't receive a call until 3:53. >> an hour wasted. >> according to an internal postal service investigation, instead of calling 911 immediately, employees first called their supersizevisors who called additional managers. they eventually called the on-site police who then called 911. why? because they were following the policy at the oakland postal facility, a policy that said only postal police are to initiate the 911 preernl. how long will it take to find out whether the policy will change? >> well, i can tell grow we'll bree addressing that tomorrow. >> the postal service made good on its promise. in october, we asked the communicational director why employee were instructed not to call 911. by december postal leaders at the oakland facility reissued the medical emergency policy. the first line now reads, in an emergency, anyone should immediately call 911. and last month they formally adopted it. the u.s. p.s. declined our repeated request for an interview to discuss the new policy, but told us the gravity of the concerns raised in our report prompted the change. >> heartbreaking. but because of it something good happened. >> andrew is a mail processing clerk and a shop steward for the american postal workers union. >> postal workers are dedicated people. they want to serve the public. they will step up and do more. sometimes it's to the detriment of their own health, because they care that much about what they do. >> he believes the new policy will save lives but says postal leaders have been slow in informing the 2,000 workers affected by it. >> i have asked several people at work whether or not they have gotten information from their supervisor. some have and most have not. i would like to see every employee be given the information that the policy has been updated. i would also like to see actual real training, dealing with potential scenarios that may happen on the work floor and how do we respond. >> sadly, the changes come too late for sam. his wife of 25 years is now a widow. >> his loss is felt deeply in the post office. with all his coworkers. >> paramedics responded just seven minutes after the first call. no one could say if sam would have lived had workers called 911 sooner but he did not wake up from his coma. for his family comfort comes from knowing they fought and it made a difference. >> hopefully it will never happen to anyone ever again. >> he must be saying you're doing the right thing. >> while there is a new policy at this facility in oakland, the national usps continues to decline our request for comment about changes at the national level. that policy still instructs employees to call their health services office or security first. scott and kris. they say it to limit confusion and help direct the paramedics. >> if folks feel like they need to call 911, they should be allowed to call and deal with the confusion later. >> they should. as you hear the employees say this is a common sense solution why weren't people calling 911 on their own? you have to understand the culture of the usps and a very top down organization. we talked to dozens of employees who say when the rules say in black and white only the postal police are the call, and my supervisors are saying i have to foot the bill if i call which is false, but if you get that year after year decade after decade, when an emergency happens, you feel like you're beholden to the rules. >> i don't thing you have to work at the usps to understand the rules, we know they follow the rules. >> i know this story is not about you, but in this case you have changed something out there that is going to change the way that people respond. it's got to feel good. >> it does and for the family our deepest gratitude to them because this is a horrible tragedy. but because marnie was so gracious and trusting us to tell her story and speak up and say this is wrong, and i never want another family to go through what we did, we really credit her and the many many employees who were brave enough to speak out and say this isn't right. please make a change. >> vicky, thank you. if you have a tip for our investigative unit vicky or the rest of the crew, give us a call. or send an e-mail to theunit@nbcbayarea.com. >> less than 48 hours from a homeland security shutdown the secretary of the agency said he's started identifying who gets furloughed. >> there's movement on capitol hill, but will it happen in time? to get the from tracie potts. >> analysts fear the arrest of two isis bound americans in new york may not happen next time. >> eventually there will be some other type of attack. you can't stop everything. >> this is not the time to engage in activities that would threaten our counterterrorism capabilities. >> house republicans will only fund homeland security if president obama drops his bid to allow 5 million undocumented immigrants to avoid deportation. >> american citizens first, not illegal aliens first. >> republicans who ran homeland security agree but say withholding the money amid an isis threat is dangerous. >> the solution they seek in my judgment is unfortunate. from a policy point of view it's wrong. it's folly. >> we cannot afford to be distracting manyen men and women on the front line of our home security. >> president obama vowed more immigration reform even with congress, as he put it holding homeland security hostage. >> the republican party has been pretty stubborn about this issue. if they start feeling enough pressure, that can make a difference. >> i'm trying to make sense out of all this. to me it's insane. >> i'm waiting for the senate to act. >> senate democrats now say they will support a clean bill that does not deal with immigration, and they expect house republicans to do the same. >> this isn't the time for games. >> by games he's referring to any add-ons like immigration that can prevent this from getting to the president's desk by midnight tomorrowie potts, nbc news washington. >> for the first time publicly the daughter of robin williams is talking about how she's coping with his death. >> are the good days becoming more frequent that the bad days? >> it's never about frequency. the thing for me has been that -- because tlrhere's no predictability to anything. literally, life in general, but you can turn bad days around as well, so i have been focusing on that. when i have a day that i'm not feeling great, i try to go do something funny or fun or strange. >> robin williams of course took his own life inside his tiburon home last august. you can watch the full interview with zelda williams on the today show website. >> poor girl. >> a surprising new admission from the former police chief who led the investigation into jonbenet ramsey's death. you'll remember the former boulder, colorado, child was found murdered in her own home. the police chief now believes his officers mishandled that investigation. ramsey's body was found in the basement of her home in 1996. in an online chat beckner now says the case was mishandled because of confusion and a police staffing shortage. that case remains unsolved. >> a national concern is playing out on the cal campus. the issue is sexual assault. a two-day conference addressing how to stop sexual violence on college campuses ended last night with keynote speaker anita hill. back in 1991 hill testified against the then-supreme court justice nominee clarence thomas claiming he sexually harassed her. that brought the issue to the forefront. now cal is in the spotlight. the university is one of 90 colleges under investigation by the federal office for civil rights for its handling of sexual assault cases. >> we beefed up policy for survivors to give them more rights throughout the process, and that's just to name a few. >> berkeley has the never to call their conference beyond compliance as if they're some role model that everyone else should be emulating when they're not listening to stubt survivors. >> they say they will continue to address, create and implement more programs. >> this morning, san francisco state university finds itself labeled as the seventh most anti-semitic college in the country. the david horowitz freed center in los angeles ranked colleges on anti-jewish incidents and activities on campus. students organizations and school executives are reacting with disbelief. >> very deliberately to the campus and speak with students, staff, and faculty with issues related to discrimination and harassment. i have never heard complaints from students or faculty about the issue. >> we believe in free speech and people can express what they want. >> a couple other california universities are also on the list. ucla is number nine. san diego state is number six. at the top of the list is columbia university in new york city. >> well deputies in oregon are having a hard time explaining this one. they're investigating the disappearance of a house. >> oh, that? 1200 square foot log cabin sat along the river until recently. it wasn't a mobile home wasn't a motor home but someone found a way to move it off its foundation and take off with it. investigators are asking for the public's help in solving this strange disappearance. the home was not occupied at the time. the homeowner though has been notified. >> if you need someone to sniff out a crime, why not go with someone with a really big nose? >> in this case a very big trunk. traders in south africa turn to elephants and their sense of smell to sniff out explosives, land mines, and poachers. it appeared to be working. they put a swab laced with the scent of tnt in a bucket and placed it among other buckets. the elephant was able to pick up the right bucket every single time. u.s. army supports that program. >> up next a story of survival, how one man in the east coast got buried under snow and lived to tell the tale. >> the oldest park in the city but it's a completeply hidden gem. >> it's a park that helped put san francisco on the map and now it's getting a multimillion renovation and a second chance to shine. >> it would be a nice day to head outside and exercise because we have changes ahead. 62 right now in san jose. we're tracking showers, lowering snow levels and maybe even some thunder as you approach the weekend. all those changes in the microclimate forecast when we come right back. when most people think of san francisco, they tend to think cable cars golden gate but how about skateboarding? >> joe shows us how a landmark park that helped put skateboarding on the map is making a comeback. >> in the city of hills, little parking, and plenty of terrain, the skateboard is king. >> people come from all around the world to come skateboard in san francisco. >> but san francisco's long skateboarding history has a chapter few actually know. >> we are in hilltop park. >> in the bay view hunter's point is a simple bowl. >> known as the dish. >> which holds a special place in skating legend. >> the dish is san francisco's oldest skate park. and by extension, one of the oldest skate parks in the country. >> the dish was built in 1980 during the skate park boom. it had sweeping views of the bay and not much else. >> when it opened it was a little underwhelming for some of the skaters. >> still a video of tommy guerrero riding the dish back in the day made it a destination for skaters like matt derrick. >> skateboarders like me on the other side of the country watched him skating this place and dreamed of coming to skate it. >> in the '80s, the daish was the site of skating contests which drew white skaters to the african-american neighborhoods. >> this is supposed to be the jump. >> thrasher magazine editor organized the contests and was a dish regular. >> riding the curves. >> i have seen people jump through this. >> but in an era of modern skate parks, the dish has rolled off the radar. >> time to rejuvenate. >> so he's now helping lead the effort to bring the dish back to the living. >> it's good for kids. skateboarding is alive and youthful. >> san francisco's park and recreation along with the trust for public land have raised $5 million to renovate hilltop park with $300,000 going toward making the dish a state of the art skateboard. >> we're adding a few elements, improving the bowl. >> the hope is the newly refurbished park will bring new opportunities to a neighborhood plagued by poverty and violence. >> it's going to rejuvenate the neighborhood. >> even if they're here hanging out, together it's safe. >> work is set to begin this summer. it takes a rear and a half to complete. with san francisco's skating history finally set to roll full circle. >> we used to carve our wheels out of potatoes man. >> my kids are always surprised when they see a grown-up skating. >> yeah. >> i'm like we invented skating. not me specifically, but i wasn't involved in any way, shape or form, but our generation invented. >> think about how old tony hawk is now. >> 47. >> a new hampshire man buried alive in his own yard after the snow slid off the roof he was cleaning on tauch of him. >> he spent hours under the snow. his wife barely heard his shouts for help. >> it all started with a little leak. >> my little one mentioned that her room, she had a leak in her room. >> dean decided he was going to get the snow off the roof of his new hampshire home before the leak in his 8-year-old daughter's room got worse. he grabbed a snow rake and got to work. he said he finished and started to head back inside when he heard a snap. >> i looked up and the snow came rushing off the roof. i had no time to move. it was moving so quickly. and it ended up pinning me on my back. >> his wife and daughters and just left so for nearly four hours he was trapped under two feet of snow. >> i was laying there. at first, i was angry just because i wasn't going to go out like that. i guess would be the best way to put it. >> eventually he was able to wiggle enough to move his left leg and make room to breathe. he began to call for help. >> at 5:30 my wife had come home and realized something was wrong, and she thought she heard something. and you know she said it sounded like a whisper. >> his wife eventually found him and called 911. firefighters were able to free him and get him to the hospital. >> it was just you know being in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> anthony miller reporting. apart from bumps and bruises he's not hurt. >> shocking to see that much snow. we would love to see that much snow in tahoe. a little rain here but sunshine? >> more sunshine and here's the issue. we had a lot more rain this year than last year but what's been missing has been the snow pack. 17% of average to date. from the central sierra, lake tawo ohoe basin to the sierra basin. so there's a lot to catch up here. rainfall averages percentage of dates, 90% to 120% of average, so the reservoir is looking good but our summer time reservoir that we depend on(t&háhp &hc& so good. but good news maybe in the short-term forecast as we're seeing more snow finally coming our way. right now, 62 with hazy skies in san jose. in the tri-valley 58. notice the cameras beginning to bounce around. that's one of the trends we'll notice as the winds picking up. sunshine in san francisco high clouds instead of the low clouds we're accustomed to seeing. 60 currently, and our temperatures this afternoon should top out in the upper 60s to low 70s around the south bay. foster city about 68 degrees. upper 60s for san francisco, and into the north bay, and some low 70s for one more day around the tri-valley before we see much cooler changes arrive. first, you're going to notice the winds picking up. right now, a little breezy but the wind speeds the gusts will start to pick up into the evening. 20 to 30-mile-per-hour wind gusts by 8:00 tonight. this is ahead of a weather system that going to drop down the coast and bring a slight chance of showers during the day tomorrow. notice how the coverage of the showers will begin to increase as we get into saturday. the cooler air aloft is moving in on top of the bay area. couple that with daytime heating, that could set us up for convective showers buzz there's a chance for thunder. snow levels for a change could drop as low as 4,000 feet. so this is great news for the sierra. high country with the system getting more than a foot of snow. we think above elevations of 8,000 feet, but the snow this time low enough to drop about a half foot of snow to 6,000 feet. good news for the sierra butio may need chains if you're heading to the high country this weekend as the snow should continue off and on sunday and saturday. bay area projections are interesting. you see how highly variable the numbers. some places .25 inch. morgan hill seeing higher totals. a lot more moisture will swing by to the south, but as is the nature with the convective showers or brief downpours, highly variable. some places get the thundershowers especially on the south coast, could see higher totals. places inland may miss out. as the colder air sweeps in. we'll see the pocket of air on top of us saturday. there is a chance we could get thunder on saturday afternoon. areas to watch, we'll head to the coast for santa cruz be careful this weekend for the chance of thunder. the first half of the weekend looking at the showers and heavy sierra snow at times and sunday begins to clear out. second half looks drier, and another system coming in for monday. so none of these are a drought buster type system but given how dry the sierra has been anytime we say there should be a foot, that's good news and that will come in in the start of the weekend. >> thank you very much. well klay thompson, a basketball basketball, we'll show you how good a shooter he really is. the 49ers are hoping for a chance to host the college football championship game at levi's stadium. the team will make that bid to host either the 2018 2019 or 2020 games. cities that want to have -- host have until may to submit their bids. winners will be announced this fall. >> klay thompson, he is good. gueye know that. did you know he is this good? >> this video produced by espn's sports science. they tested klay thompson to see if he could hit three-pointers with the light out. he was, to say the least, lights out. making eight of ten. >> holy cow. here's what scientists say. thompson does so much shooting in his life he only needs a split second to see that basket. that's all he needs to know exactly where it is, how to sink the ball even in dark. amazing. >> 8 of 10. >> step aside. there is a new top dog. the new number one breed for americans, next. we all have our favorite breed of dog. >> one dog getting roikz, the american kennel club named the labrador retriever as top tog of 2015. labs have topped the list 24 time. they recently broke the record held by poodles. bulldogs hitting a new high. they're number four. german shepherds golden retrievers beagles all in the top five. >> they're all super cute. thanks for joining us. our next newscast is tonight at 5:00. >> and the latest information all day, nbcbayarea.com. we'll see you tomorrow. lowe's presents: how to put your foot in your mouth. man. wish my yard looked like yours. hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the... sorry! now get the black & decker® 20-volt trimmer for $79 at lowe's. today on "access hlktd live" amanda pete is here to talk about her hot new show and thoughts on vaccines and the measles outbreak. >> bug shaun here talking music, and what he thinks the most attractive thing about his girlfriend. >> big shaun in the house, and meeting one of the couples from the wild new reality show "sex box" where couples have to make the love inside a box in front of an audience and they discussion it with a panel of experts. >> i don't know what to know what goes on in there. >> we'll find out. access hollywood live starts now. ♪ ♪ we're live in five four three, two,