mehdi-cal. so lucas remained hospitalized. >> just the fact that he was waking up in the morning, not to hear him, having him ask every day where his brother was ought. going home and trying to sleep without one of your kids, it's a nightmare. >> reporter: the family pled with leaders for help. today they officially received a waiver. the state picks up the tab and lucas gets to go home. >> it feels very good. i obviously -- i don't know the words to describe it. >> reporter: it was an uphill battle. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: now they're a family again, and baby lucas, he gets to sleep in his own bed. baby lucas is now considered institutionalized, meaning the state uses his salary to see if he qualified for coverage. obviously he does. he still has many more surgeries ahead. his father calls is a nightmare he hopes his son will never remember. >> damien, thank you very much. new tonight at 6:00, the younger brothers of nate scherr holtz pleaded no contest to dui charges stemming from a series of hit-and-run incidents in danville last august. he hit a bicyclist, a pedestrian, two cars and a light pole before his car was blocked into a one-way street by a witness. he he a blood alcohol content of 1.9. he will be sentenced to a year and then on probation for five years. he'll have to pay fines and make restituti restitution. he's already complete an alcohol rehab program in jail. parents are getting most distressing letters about their daycare center, a child care worker is charged with molesting five girls. tonight detectives are looking for more victims. investigators say 25-year-old keith woodhouse molested after-school daycare students at trace elementary where he worked in the child development center. all the victims were younger than 10 years old. woodhouse had been working at the center since august. he was charged friday with 14 felony counts of molestation. parents of the 60 children in the program have been sent letters about woodhouse's arrest. while a school shooting in placerville left the principal dead and the janitor behind bars. the principal of was shot in th torso around 10:30 right in his office. he died an hour later at a hospital. investigators say at least one student may have witnessed the attack. the school was immediately put on lockdown. the police search for the janitor john lubbers. parents gathered down the street waiting to get their is children. lubbers was arrested at his home an hour after the shooting. police have not revealed a possible motive for while he allegedly shot the principal. while a survey turned up 21 additional gas leakes including three in south san francisco. california ordered the utility to survey its entire system after a pipe exploded in san bruno, killing eight and destroying more than 30 homes. the first survey done in october turned up 33 leakes, four of them in pipes like those in san bruno. the leakes have all been repaired. the etilt also let the state no it's using 300 people working 24 hours a day to find the documents showing the existence of the existing pipelines. the company didn't say how much paper work might be missing or whether even the paperwork is accurate. the pipeline was reported to be seamless, but include many welds that caused the explosion when the pressure on the line was increased. topping our business and tech headlines tonight, look out, apple, your ipad is no longer the only tablet getting noticed. google hit the market today with several new tablets. nbs bay area's business tech reporter got to play with the new tablets today. what do you think, scott? will this they make a dent? >> i think they will. they're trying to do it again, but this time on a bigger screen. major league baseball highlights. the tablet world just got more crowded. in a market dominated by the apple ipad, google's latest version of android, called honeycomb has arrived, and it's getting some sweet reviews. in fact, for tablet makers like motorola, this is the is new zune, and app maker honeycomb wants to do for tablets what earlier versions of android did for smartphones, give you more choices. >> it's the number one request we get. it's such a social game. people are saying download it, i want to play with us, friends are like, i have an android, i can't, and they're mad at us, and so this is -- i think it's goods to be massive. >> absolutely. i think for us, the more people use it on the devices, the better kind of experience becomes, because you can discover new things more -- >> reporter: already popular on the ipad, the makers of pulse are about to see their audience grow as android users snatch up one of the half dozen google-ized tablets coming to market. >> you can see what we have is a three-dimensional object. >> reporter: this one is called body. think google maps, but inside you. >> you can interact in things in a way that wasn't possible before. as a physician, i love the idea of new tools to explore anatomy, but most remarkable to me has been seeing my 6-year-old daughter as well as my doctor friends just think, wow, this is fun and useful. >> reporter: some will choose google, some apple, but the best news is more choices and more competition. yeah, which means eventually we'll see the prices come down. most of the tablets, and this is an k356r78 of a 7-inch. most are due out in about a month. no pricing was released all all today. the big news, more competition, lots of apps for both, lots of games to plays and weather forecasts to check. >> and lives to look at. >> yes. >> and if you think smaller is better, right there's your product. >> and it's interesting. apple will have to responsibility now that google has come out with all of thinks honeycomb pads, and we're expected to see an ipad ii within the next couple months. happening right now, the monster winter storm stretching over 2,000 miles, impacting 30 states is starting to lose a bit of its steam, but the disruption to air travel will be felt for days. we want to show you sfo, where more than 70 flights had passengers staring at lots of canceled signs. san jose and oakland also saw several cancellations, mostly flights to blizzard-bound chicago. passengers traveling out of the the bay area, check with your headline before you head to the airport. let's turn your attention to the unrest in egypt. as the protests turned increasingly violent today, one bay area family welcomed home a loved one who spent several desperate days trying to get out. traci grant was there with the reunion. >> reporter: here at sfo they brought her flowers and she brought them the first sense of relief they have had in days. the family knows what it's like to drop off a mom or a spouse on her way to visit relatives. turn on the television a couple days later and find out that she had landed in the middle of an uprising. along embrace shared between a husband and wife who weren't sure when they would see each other again. >> it wasn't easy. the airport was jammed with people, but people were trying to get out. you. >> reporter: far from the rite on the-ravaged streets. it took four days of negotiating to get on the flight and 30 hours of travel time, but she will spend tonight at her home in danville after a normal visit to see relatives turned violent. >> reporter: many thought they could wait it out, but a criminal elements took over and the neighborhoods had to fight back. >> the men were on the streets making road blockades with whatever they had, sticks and whatever weapon you have, bring it to protect yourself. >> reporter: she was under the impression that things seems to be calming down as she was leaving. her husband had to break the news that things in egypt had gotten much worse. >> a lot of the pro-mubarak people were demonstrating also in the street and starting actually to get very violent against each other. >> reporter: video like this only added to her family's fears. >> there were a couple days when you were really worried. you didn't know how it was going to turn out. >> reporter: her family is not the only one to want her back. her church in pleasanton is actually planning an event to welcome her back total bay area there is at least one more member of that congregation trying to make it back home. traci grant, nbc bay area news. what are you doing? your software is freedom's ruin. >> the upheaval in egypt prompted members of the group raging grannies, and other local activists to protest outside the naris company in sunnyvale. reports have emerged about egypt as use of their technology to spy on internet and cell phone users. and they're calling on the u.s. government to regulate such commune indicate equipment the same way it controls nuclear weapons. still ahead at 6:00 we'll have more from egypt and what people are saying at mosques and temples here. >> and how about a million dollars for a minute's worth of work? coming up we'll meet the bay area family trying to forever change its fortunes. and it's the fourth down to ahn established pop warner league in the south bay. while oregonizer say the league was blindsided. and the verizon iphone prepares to take the tech world by storm, and today potential customers found out just how much the new phone could cost. another shake-up for a landmark bay area hotel. good evening. i'mhief meteorolohist jeff ranieri, plenty of sunshine, above-average temperatures and a beautiful sunset with mid to upper 50s right now. plenty of clear and cold skies. we'll have details on travel delays, and also what the groundhog had to say about all of this, coming up. california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. the historic transfers of the vallejo shipyards was delayed today. the ship was due today at the shipyard where it's going to be dismantled. >> it will get there tomorrow. when it does it will mark the return of much-needed jobs to the long-abandoned island. we're shown what it means for the troubled city, too. >> reporter: a group of vallejo residents peered down the city's waterfront watching and waiting for the delivery of the "ss soul and". >> the building is where he spent a lot of his time. he was a rigger, shop 72. >> reporter: in the end, the ship's arrival from benicia's famous mothball fleet was delayed until thursday. >> it makes my heart feel good to know there's something going on. >> reporter: to understand the ship's importance, you have to understand maher island's ghost. the navy closed the island in 1995. former vallejo city officials al better lavetzo remembers it torpedoed the city's economy. >> we had foreclosures. we had a depressed economy because of the loss of jobs. >> reporter: the city recovered, but then plunged into bankruptcy during the recession. now for the first time the federal government has hired a private company on the island to dismantle the aging mothball ships rather than tow them out of state. >> we walk this path every day down at the waterfront. you never see anything over on maher island. today i actually saw people over there. i was excited. hey, there's people over there. they're real, not ghosts. >> reporter: city leaders hope the work could mark the start of the rebirth. >> it will increase jobs, sales tax, it will bring people to the city. >> reporter: on thus morning, the faithful will return to the waterfront to watch and wait again, hoping for the chance to see vallejo's new day come floating past. joe rho sato jr., nbc bay area news. >> it was delayed by last-minute inspections, but it's set to begin the journey tomorrow morning around 9:00. the historic clairf clairmont hotel filed for bankruptcy today. day's move was part of an effort to salvage properties from morgan stanley. dating back to 1915, the clairmont hotel is a state and national landmark located in the hills of berkeley and oakland. the city of oakland wants to help its business owners go green. a $5 million stimulus grant is paying for the new campaign to help giss from gan avenue to jack london square. the oakland shines program will pay for the cost of installing energy-efficient equipment. today mayor gene kwan told the audience how a popular radio site is in tune to the commitment. >> the ceo of pandora says he couldn't do business anywhere else, because his workers like the whole green climate of oakland, likes the mass transportation, and to buy food at the farmers' market or ride their bikes to work. >> the mayor and organizer of oakland shines says the focus is to reduce energy use while attracting more business to the city. desperate to increase funding for its school, alameda county school board is turning to voters for help. ed boor of indication is holding a special election to cost property owners an extra $180 a year. now, that would raise some $3 million a year to preserve after-school activities and keep smaller class sizes. alameda county voters can cast mail-in ballots from april 4th through may 3rd, the measure needs a two thirds majority to pass. well, the dream of waking up a quarter of a million dollars richer has come true for someone right here in the bay area. yes, someone bought a winning lottery tickets on california street in san francisco. it wasn't you, tom, was it? >> no, i wouldn't be here. >> the ticket matched 5 out of 6 numbers, getting the migga number would have turned it into $2 million. the other winner will split the $91 million jackpot. we will just have to settle for being right here to witness jeff ranieri's first forecast of the evening. >> yes. a million dollar forecast for you, if you put a price on it. at least that's probably what some folks would say on the east coast if they could be sitting in the weather we had today. postcard perfect from the east bay in oakland looking right toward san francisco, as we loop, you can see the city lights twinkling. tonight it is going to be spectacular. we did have temperatures that were warmer than average once again, 64 in fremont, 69 in oakland, even 70 in santa rosa, 63 in san francisco, and 65 in los gatos, with santa cruz coming in at 61. temperatures starting to drop. mid to upper 50s in the east bay, down into the south bay countrily 59 in san jose, 57 in san francisco. clear skies throughout the entire state of california at this point. that's going to once again lead us to cold mornings. that storm track, which we need desperately to get? rainfall, continues to head toward the north. that will provide us with these mild winter days, the numbers are astonishing only six days of rain. very dry start to the year. as for the morning hours it will be dry and cold. by 11:00 a.m. we'll pop up to 50 in livermore, 52 in oakland. this major winter storm that paralyzed much of the mid warm front and the east with feet of snow, ice and wind, it's clearing out of the chicago, but still residual snow in the interior northeast, and some of nigh top delays will be in chicago, then oklahoma city with the cold weather, boston with snow and philly will a lot of air traffic. the ground del hog did come out today and did not see his shadow, so this is going to bode well for those in the east. it looks like we have some warmer weather coming our way earlier. >> well, that would be good. jeff, thank you very much. continuing on now, the bay area air quality management district has approved $3.9 million to expand at home and roadside car charging stations. the money will be distributed in the form of a $700 rebate to the first 2,750 bay area residents who buy a new electric vehicle, and get a home charging station. the money will also add 30 roadside stations to the 400 approved last year, making it easier to recharge on the go. still ahead, at 6:00 drivers as wall either could be lighter soon and it has nothing to do with gas prices. why traffic tickets could be going up. also ahead, the discovery by nasa scientists in the bay area that could keep 'astronomers very busy for many lightyears. man's best friend could be a good allyr. ghhong cancer. how dogs are helping doctors and patients. an topping or health watch tonight, sciencists have created a test that might make it possible to identify prostate tumors with more accuracy. it tests the of four genes within the tumors to determine whether they go on to become aggressive. the study published in "nature" says the accuracy went up from 4% to 91%. having information like this will help doctors make better decisions about how to treat the deadly disease early on. prostate is the second leading causes of cancer deaths. if you thought you could teach a dog new tricks, think again. the study published in the health journal "gut" adds to the previous research that says dogs can be useful for cancer detection. japanese researchers had specially trained dog smell breath or stool amples from 48 people over several months. the dog correctly identified cancerous amples in 95% of the breath and 98% of the 12508 samples. they were especially acrazz in detecting early stage bowel disease. what californians with state disability are now getting debit cards to replace the old paper checks. the paperless push being extended to those on paid family leave and will eventually those the residents unemployed. they say it will save the state about $4 million now, about a lot more later. >> because we'll still have to may tain some tine of paper. until we're able to complete other modifications of our systems. once we do that and go completely paperless, we should see significant savings. >> the next target is getting unemployment benefits. close to 1.4 million californians would be impacted. and still ahead at 6:00, one minute away from winning a million. the group of brothers and sisters trying to show the grownups how it's done in primetime. and getting your daily dose. what the i had pod did for music. independence blind 2k7 sided why a pop warner football league is tackle an issue it never saw coming. and back to egypt. nt. we ment. turning your attention to egypt where president hosni mubarak will apparently not step down quietly. as a result, today's protests at tahrir square the most violent yet. >> the president is being accused of sending in thousands of mercenaries to attack the pro-democratic protesters. the army did not stop the pro-mubarak attacks which are being condemned by the united nations. several journalists, including cnn's anderson cooper were roughed you said. internet service was reconnected today after it was blocked by the government more than a week ago. oil prices are up in the wake of wednesday's more violent unrest. the unrest in egypt is createn unease in israel. many worry that 30 years of relative peace could unravel. jodi hernandez checked in with jewish and muslim leaders in the bay area who say they are watching closely the developments in cairo. >> reporter: as protests heat up in egypt, prayers for a peaceful outcome intensify, both among muslims and jews here at home. >> you can say what you want about mubarak, but he has been a friend to israel and has kept peace, which is no small feat in the middle east. >> reporter: rabbi mark bloom is deeply concerned about what a new egyptian government could mean for israel, and for the peace treaty that's been in place for 30 years. >> anything that changes someone who is actually at peace with israel is of grave concern to israel and the jewish community at large. >> there's a widespread fear of the worst-kay scenario being the muslim brotherhood taking control of the government.