administration's chaotic early days. >> they have no sources. they just make them up. >> then just hours later the white house blocked some reporters from an off camera white house briefing. the new york times, l.a. times and cnn were among those banned from the meeting. >> i think that it's a fairly recall battle in what is going to be a war. >> the briefing did include conservative media outlets like the washington times, brietbart news and one american news network as well as the broadcast networks. reporters asked white house press secretary sean spicer if he blocked specific news outlets because the administration disagrees with their reporting. >> we've actually gone above and beyond with making ourselves and our team more accessible than probably any prior administration. >> in december spicer himself criticized the idea of limiting media access. >> conservative, liberal or otherwise i think that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship. >> cbs face the nation host john dickerson. >> when there is a skirmish like this, the first question to ask is what are the other stories the administration doesn't want to be covering and that's probably what we should keep our focus on. >> cbs news was the tv and radio network pool for today's briefing. said it, "we recorded audio of this event and quickly schrader it out of an obligation -- shared it out of an obligation to protect the interests of all pool members" veronica de la cruz, kpix5. a baby boy mauled by the family dog is alive tonight thanks to a quick thinking police officer. the baby was attacked inside an apartment on fremont street in concord. andria borba is there. >> reporter: a 10-month-old boy is recovering from bites to his head and shoulders at uscf benioff children's hospital oakland after the family dog attacked him. >> the 7-year-old started screaming. >> reporter: the call came into concord dispatchers at 4:20 this afternoon. a 10-month-old boy and his 7- year-old brother were playing in the living room of their concord home when their 80- pound dog turned on the baby. >> mom was able to pull the child away and prevent any further attack and that probably saved his life. >> reporter: when officers showed up, priority one was getting the child to paramedics. >> one of our officers was able to run up there, grab the child and run the child out to the paramedics as we detained the dog on the side yard. >> reporter: but the dog would not back down. >> we were able to kind of corner it next to a wall in the fence for a little bit, but then that's when he just started showing his teeth and taking that aggressive stance and lowering his lower body towards the officer and it just looked like he was ready to attack. >> reporter: that's when an officer shot and killed the dog. concord pd says they've never been called to the home before for animal problems and the family was surprised at the animal's sudden behavioral switch. >> mom raised the dog since he was a little pup. mom was actually quite alarmed that this happened. >> reporter: the dog's remains are in the custody of contra costa animal control. they'll perform a necropsy on the animal. in concord andria borba, kpix5. >> the baby had to undergo surgery. his injuries are not life threatening. we hope you enjoyed the brief break from the rain because showers are about to return. kpix5 chief meteorologist paul deanno has your saturday forecast. >> the keyword there is showers, not storm, not flooding. that's good news, only a couple showers moving through. it's not an all day washout tomorrow. the radar is not completely clear now. player ridge county going to get -- marin county going to get a few showers, a couple showers offshore of san francisco as well. futurecast says tonight we increase the cloud cover, a couple drips here and there overnight. 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 in the morning it's mainly the coast line getting showers and our best opportunity for some light rain, most of it is offshore, just light showers through the bay area, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 tomorrow night. we have a 70-degree day with sunshine in the seven-day forecast. find out when that happens coming up. >> paul, thanks. as san jose dries out from this week's flood emergency, tonight hundreds of people have been getting a first look at what a mess their homes are. kpix5's betty yu is in san jose tonight with that story. betty? >> reporter: ken, i'm in the williams street area, one of the hardest hit by the flood and piles of junk like the ones you see behind me are not uncommon in this area. we're looking at old carpets now, baby strollers, lots and lots of bikes up and down these streets. tonight the city says right now 765 homes are under evacuation orders down from 1,100 yesterday. spent today pumping out water from his basement betty: what did you lo / san jose as coyote creek recedes dropping about 10 feet, the piles of wrecked belongings rising outside homes that four days ago were submerged. today the city put out dumpsters to take in tons of junk near williams street park. this is man made." at a thank you event today, mayor sa hold a public he roberto perez spent today pumping out water from his basement. what did you lose? >> a lot of stuff, tools, clothes, furniture. >> reporter: some of his neighbors haven't been able to reenter their home. >> you can see water splash out from my carpet. >> reporter: others are drying out whatever they can salvage. >> it's tough to see our whole neighborhood becomes like a dump site. it's really hard. we've been here almost nine years and never seen this before. >> reporter: today some 80 members of the city's neighborhood clean-up program went out into the flood zone to help victims haul away debris. >> i do hold the mayor and also the santa clara water district responsible for all this flood event. this is not disaster. it's not natural disaster. this is manmade. >> reporter: at a thank you event today mayor sam liccardo promised to hold a public hearing to investigate what caused the catastrophic flooding that came as a surprise to 14,000 people who suddenly found themselves under mandatory evacuation orders tuesday. >> the bureaucratic finger pointing stops today. this happened in my city. i'm responsible. >> reporter: currently this is the only area where the city has provided dumpsters. it will add more to the two other affected areas tomorrow and also open an outreach center for flood victims at the shirakawa community center. live in san jose, betty yu, kpix5. also in santa clara county this is the landslide forcing the closure of a stretch of highway 9. it's shut down from skyline boulevard to redwood gulch road, no word yet when it will reopen. in the sierra caltrans is making progress on repairs to highway 50 at bridal vail falls. the clapped west -- veil falls. the collapsed west bound walls are completely gone and a new retaining wall will be built. there is one lane open each direction. it will cost nearly $60 billion to repair damaged roads across california. this just coming in after some confusion tonight, oakland police once again have launched an immediate crackdown on illegal parties like the one that was going on at the ghost ship warehouse when that deadly fryer broke out in december. ey must send an e- -- fire broke out in december. officersmust now notify the special events unit and their commander when they notice any type of gathering. they must send an e-mail documenting the time they saw it, an address and exactly what they saw. oakland officers responded to the ghost ship several times last year before the inferno that killed six people, but no code violations were reported. this is almost identical to the order the assistant police chief issued last week only to have the city administrator retract it hours later. illegal dumping is a problem all over oakland. now even the city is catching some heat for what it did after the ghost ship warehouse fire. so what's the deal? that's what kpix5's christin ayers asked the mayor tonight. we wanted to ask her ab dumping scandal. >> reporter: oakland's mayor confronted a packed house tonight with a plan for fighting illegal dumping in east oakland, but we wanted to ask her about the city's own dumping scandal. >> we took steps we thought were the right ones at the time. >> reporter: mayor libby schaaf defending the city of oakland's decision to dump piles of debris from the ghost ship warehouse at martin luther king, jr. shoreline park less than 100 yards from san leandro bay. why dump it in a wetland area where there's wildlife? >> at the time that we were doing this recovery we were trying to work as quickly as we can because rains were coming. we had to take advantage of areas that we had available and that is the decision that was made at that time. >> reporter: the city dumped the charred debris here on city property weeks ago right next to a soccer field where children play. it still reeks of smoke and one man who used to live at the ghost ship warehouse told us he worries the debris is laden with toxins like asbestos. >> i'm sure there's probably dangerous materials in this stuff that probably shouldn't be stored so close to the bay. >> reporter: why hasn't the city cleaned it up yet? a statement from the city administrator's office it says december 11th the debris was turned over to the warehouse property owner. >> right now we are in a legal conflict about who is responsible for that debris at this time. we take the position that it is not our responsibility right now. >> reporter: but schaaf insists that won't stop the city from helping to figure out how to get rid of it. >> we are going to work cooperatively with all the parties to insure that that material is handled responsibly and quickly. >> reporter: in oakland christin ayers, kpix5. tonight authorities have confirmed the body found in fremont last night is that of 18-year-old jayda jenkins. jayda disappeared more than a month ago after her car plunged into alameda creek. investigators notified her family of that discovery. >> they were relieved to know that we found jayda. they now can begin their closure, begin to start healing and begin to try to make sense of this tragedy. >> investigators found jayda's car upside down in the water last month. they recovered her body more than 11 miles from that location. she crashed her car into alameda creek during one of the first big storms of the year. a snowboarder gets lost and spends an entire night in the frozen wilderness in tahoe. now he tells reporter andrea fuji how he got the word out that he was in trouble. 's andrea fujii spoke to him tonight-- she's live in th s on the texts >> reporter: aaron yew was snowboarding in heavenly mountain resort when he cut across the trail to get to a different run but realized he was lost. >> at that 30 minute mark you're thinking this doesn't seem right. i'm not seeing anything that looks like the bottom of the lake. >> reporter: cell phone signals were low in near blizzard conditions and he sent frantic text messages to his friend. his business partner eventually got one of them and texted back. >> we could see he was not getting our responses so we couldn't assure him we received that and help was on the way. >> reporter: sutton called the ski patrol but didn't have directions how to get to aaron. in the meantime aaron said he was trying to find a way out in chest high snow. >> you lose feeling in your hands. you don't see anything out there. it's pitch dark out there and it's just very slow. >> reporter: once night came and no rescue he realized he had to stay put. >> i found a tree, a pretty wide and thick tree nearby where i was and just essentially hid behind that all night to block myself from the wind element. >> reporter: a little after sunrise he heard the helicopters. the air operators found him and aaron made sure they couldn't miss him. >> just relief, knowledge that hey, the ordeal is close to being over and that i'll survive. by tonight i'll be somewhere safe. >> reporter: hoisted up and relatively healthy with only minor frost bite on some fingers aaron says he'll never forget the people who helped him get home. >> he said are you aaron and i said yes. boy, am i glad to see you. sky drone 5 giving us this exclusive look of highway 37 in the north bay. it looks a bit different tonight. for one thing it's not under water. crews installed some corrugated walls and broader shoulder to hopefully deal with future flooding. this next story you might see eureka. only on 5 tonight joe vazquez shows us how all the stormy weather is now triggering a new california gold rush. >> jiggle, jiggle. >> reporter: miner gary sifts through the rock and soil looking out for a glistening element especially now after the heavy rain. >> after the storms i'd say the water came up this high. so we wouldn't be here right now. in 1997 it was double. it was way up there. >> reporter: gary says he always finds at least a little gold in his property near jamestown in tuolumne county smack in the middle of the mother load, but this year there's just so much more runoff than normal shaking the gold out of these hills and that could provide a eureka moment for those inclined to come up here and look for it. >> it kind of etch a sketches everything. everything i had dug up and all my known digs were gone. >> reporter: the known dig spots were washed out, trees uprooted and gold was sent down the river from the old abandoned mine. >> it will definitely bring down more gold here and open up new areas that i had never gotten to. >> reporter: officials from the bureau of land management say the erosion concentrates the gold by removing the lighter rock and soil. >> you can just walk and maybe walk and see a gold vein, you know, just not even dig because it's peeling back so much. >> reporter: miner gary runs tour groups through his property and said now is the optimum time for gold hunting because the storms just finished churning the landscape. you may be wondering if we found any. >> got a little flake. >> reporter: yeah, we found some fine flakes of what they call flour gold. we found it more quickly than normal, just a couple of panning sessions. >> eureka. i'm happy. that's hard to do. >> reporter: but not as hard this year now that mother nature has shaken up the mother load in. jamestown joe vazquez, kpix5. . >> gary says one hotspot this year will be below the oroville dam because the huge water releases from the spillway scoured down to bedrock and could reveal some new pockets of gold. tonight governor jerry brown predicts that fixing california's battered flood control system could cost half a billion dollars and he's not ruling out the possibility of raising taxes to pay the bill. >> we got to belly up to the bar and start spending money. now will the people reject that? in many cases they will, but we've got to keep at it and try to win a constituency to take care of business if we want a great california. >> the governor is asking the trump administration for annex if he dieted environmental review to -- an expedited environmental review to repair the oroville dam. we're going to make it less expensive and much better. obamacare covers very few people. >> actually the truth is the affordable care act covers more than 22 million americans. turns out some k-9s have a nose for cancer. a special group of dogs are being used to screen high risk firefighters and they're saving lives. tonight andria borba with the story you'll only see on kpix5. eve 09.46.07.00 >> reporter: in the basement of modesto's fire station 11 these firefighters are in the middle of the easiest and probably the scariest test they'll ever take. w guys in our organi come down >> wrap it around your ears. make sure it's pulled all the way down under your chin. >> reporter: for 10 minutes they'll breathe into these surgical masks. >> all right. now the hard part is breathe. masks for 10 minutes -- th 18.02 and pu >> reporter: because beyond the danger of flames and collapsing structures is a hidden reality of life in the fire service, cancer. >> we've had quite a few guys within our organization that have come down with different cancers ranging from multiple cancer on kidneys and skin cancer. >> reporter: a study from osha says 68% of firefighters will develop cancer at some point compared to 22% of the general population. >> i've been in modesto about 13 years and there's 25, 27 guys that i know that i've worked alongside of that have developed some kind of cancer. >> reporter: after breathing into the masks for 10 minutes. >> put it in the foil envelope. >> reporter: they're sealed and shipped 3,500 miles away to glenn ferguson with cancer dogs, canada. he's trained these six beagle hound mixes to sniff out cancer. >> their sensitivity is over 95% accuracy for finding cancer and our specificity is over 60% which means that 30 or 40% of people detected by us will have another condition that's not cancer, but over 60% do have cancer, which is in itself very accurate compared to other tests. we're looking for a majority dog decision for a detection. >> reporter: if four out of six dogs signal on the same surgical mask, glenn asks that firefighter for a longer test of about 20 minutes and gives a recommendation to go see a doctor and get a blood test. >> what we're offering is a screening method. it's quite different than a diagnostic method. nothing? good work. >> reporter: while glenn's method is still experimental, he's gotten lots of fire departments around the u.s. to sign up for the tests. >> like dallas, north richmond hill, chicago, fort worth. >> reporter: glenn's dogs caught early stage colon cancer in chicago firefighter jim o'malley. >> they said you have colon cancer and it kind of took wind out of my sails. >> reporter: in fire service culture laying it all out on the line today and not worrying about the consequences of tomorrow was the norm and a test like this one would have been shrugged off, but that attitude is changing. >> i think it's a real concern in the fire service today. we're learning more and more every year about the exposure rates that firefighters superto deal with and the -- have to deal with and the diagnosis rates that firefighters are coming down with cancer on a regular basis. >> reporter: the cost of the test is $20. the modesto city firefighters association local 1289 is covering the test for every member of the department. >> they use service dogs for people with seizures and people with diabetes. so why not? for 20 bucks what's the down fall? worse comes to worse, it brings some awareness to the organization, makes guys think about it and just that alone is worth the money. >> reporter: andria borba, kpix5. >> absolutely amazing. kpix5 hi-def doppler tracking a few showers around marin county, no washout and it will not be that widespread, but there will be some rain over the weekend. sunday into monday some snow in the sierra. snow level as low as 3,000 feet and the highest elevations will get 4 to 6 inches of snowfall, likely at lake level an inch or 2 but some fresh powder on top of the 500 inches of snow in the sierra so far. san jose currently 43, a chilly night but not as chilly with a few showers around overnight, livermore 33, vallejo 35, redwood city 37. locally a 2,500-foot level could put a little bit of light snow on the top of mount diablo. the majority of the rain, the precipitation will also stay offshore, but it's close enough we may have a few showers especially mid to late afternoon tomorrow. they will be light. they won't last that long, but the showers will be close by especially right along the coast line, half moon by, san francisco, bodega bay the best chance of precipitation. another round of light showers late sunday into monday morning. after these two rounds of a .1- inch of rainfall, a huge ridge of blocking high pressure. talked about that for five years in the drought. now we want it to keep the rain away, a pattern reversal giving us sunny, warm and dry weather. that begins next week. scattered showers tomorrow mainly along the coast. some high elevation snow is possible. then hello pattern change and sunshine, mid-50s tomorrow, fremont 56, san rafael, san francisco 54 degrees. sunday we're dry. early monday morning a few showers and look at next week, 60s, sunshine. do i hear 70? the answer is yes. next friday inland spots, the warmest ones, pittsburg, antioch, fairfield, may hit 70 degrees, the first time since mid-november, a big change coming. >> thanks, paul. tonight how this new bay area gondola can take you to the land of giraffes. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by living spaces. the oakland zoo getting a bit of a facelift. >> it is doubling in size and this will give visitors a bird's eye view of the expansion. crews are installing an urban gondola system to rise above the oakland hills and float over the modern exhibit. it's scheduled to be finished this summer. how cool is that? ahead we got some high stakes pac-12 play. winner in control of the conference, tara vanderveer stanford cardinal or the raging beavers of oregon state? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the nissan sports report coming up next on kpix5. >> basketball up top. you know it is something when two top 10 team goes toe to toe. jar minimum every victory, -- margin of victory in any quarter no larger than four. battle on the road at oregon state, no. 1 in the conference up for grabs and beavers tied it up late. last seconds down one. weiss drove again, no. marie gulich put them up for good. why? because erin mccall here, shot missed as time ran out. liz could have made that shot. yeah, oregon state in position to win the pac-12 regular season final, 50-47. e state...senior night...senior slam..jabari bird... cal won its 19th in a give me quanzo martin of cal. when the coat is off that, means business. they hosted oregon state senior night. how about a senior slam. cal won its 19th by 30, 76-46. while steph curry was scoring a 10 point win over the clippers last night, shaquille o'neal was working for tnt and he was clowning at the expense of warrior backup javale mcgee here. things got heated on twitter last night between the two and today mcgee's teammate kevin durant did not go silent on the matter. >> it's cool and funny, but when you just keep doing it time and time and time again for no reason and then the guy actually disagrees with you and you threaten him, i ain't no cop that could threaten civilians like that. he misses dunks. he couldn't shoot off the side of the paint. he's bigger than anybody. he didn't have any skills, but he was bigger and stronger than anybody. >> kevin durant. >> other than that he was a good ballplayer. giants win over the reds 6- 4. the a's spring opener tomorrow against the chicago cubs. >> we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, have a great weekend. late show with stephen colbert is next. >> have a great weekend! captioning sponsored by cbs ba-ba-ba. >> uh. uh. uh. ah! oh! oh! >> oooh! okay, thanks, good question. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes allison williams cush jumbo and comedian carmen lynch. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert!