Reporter supposed to be the family but more people appeared and one of his sons spoke fighting back the tears. The family of rich land Police Officer gus vegas gathered on the church on the hill and his widow sobbing. Vegas son joe talked about the amazing man his dad was. My dad would literally wear his shoes until the soles of the shoes would separate just to make sure we had food on the table. Reporter joe vegas and the familys pastor shared stories and laughs. The vegas family loved the Denver Broncos through the thick and the thin. We have been broncos fans and last sunday it was gus family and my family that got together and we watched the super bowl together. Man did we celebrate. And that was the last time that i saw gus. I will always treasure that memory. I cant help but think now that compassion, the generosity and the love that were receiving is a testament to the life that he led. Vegas killed in his home thursday morning by the father of his grandson. One of his partners describes this loss. This one hit me hard. It affected me but we will get past it. Thats what he will want us to do because he was a professional. The vegas neighborhood was quiet and a thin line waving in the breeze across from the home. A neighbor was clearly devastated. There is people that go to church and dont live out their faith. This guy and his wife, they lived out their faith and you can see it in their kids and you can really see it in them as parents. And grandparents. I talked with his widow sandra that says he was her super hero. He was the breadwinner there is two accounts one a go fund me and another one on our facebook page. Heart breaking seeing the family. Do we know anything about what led up to the shooting and what was the issue . Vallejo police are being tight lipped about this and told Richmond Police not to say anything because they want to get the investigation right. John sacramento in vallejo. Thank you. We are getting a good look at the suspect. 30yearold robert vega. Believed he is the father of officer vegas grandson and being held in fairfield where authorities took him into custody yesterday. A bizarre collision between a pickup truck and a car caused delays. The rear wheels of the pickup wound up on the roof of a sedan and ended up on a muni bus. One person was injured seriously and it happened at ocean avenue at 11 30 this morning. It took until two this afternoon to clear the scene. A threealarm fire has destroyed a home in pacifica. A viewer sent us pictures of the intense flames and black smoke that was pouring out of the building. You can see a fire truck arriving and dropping off a long fire hose. Sky fox got these pictures from the oceanside of the fire. Firefighters poured a lot of water on the fire but you can see that the home unfortunately looks to be a total loss. The fire broke out about 3 00 this afternoon at the home on palmetto avenue. This is part of the shoreline that has been battered by el nino storms and part of the cliff as you know is fallen away. And just nearby off of the coast, lead surfers were competing in the titans of mavericks competition. The first time in two years it has taken place and a winner was crown. A surfer from santa cruz. Nick lamb. Bill, how close were you to those waves and what was it like being that close seeing the gigantic waves . Well, i thought about it a lot. We talked last night and you, me and julie about what will be the most impactful thing and you pointed out, hey, the sound, the noise, the concussion. And in fact, that is. When the right wave comes through and it throws and hits and explodes, you hear it and you just dont hear it, you feel it and there is sort of a vibration. Thats the first thing. I was there at 5 00 this morning. The thing that is a drag. Everything came together. The swell was perfect and the tide. The side wind came up and it turned the contest to what was completely epic day. Good contest to a good contest. It was great and the right people did well and that was good but it just didnt have that glassy aspect, that smooth aspect from last friday. If you remember, a week ago it was breaking there and unreal. It was it was an 8 out of 10 on the contest. I think i saw a 25 to 30foot face. Some of the local boys are calling it 20foot but on some of those faces at the peak it was 30foot. The thing you noticed a lot was because of the wind it blows it big. They are 10 feet long and pushing down the face and the wind is blowing up the face and it pushes you backwards. All of the momentum and the physics of you getting down the face of the wave it gets stalled and thats the moment you are getting to your feet and stand up and if you get blown up the back or get stuck for a second or two the chances are you could have a catastrophic wipeout like ken collins. He got dinged up pretty good. Thats the most dangerous situation and thats what we had today because of the strong winds. And bill, what can you tell us about the winner, a guy from santa cruz and i heard an alternative did pretty well as well. Yes, the santa cruz guy did great. He has been owning this contest, daryl or flee we all know him as. The santa cruz guys are used to big waves. I get in my car and im in santa cruz in an hour and all between here and santa cruz there is big waves and there is a couple spots that you havent heard of not as big but nearly as big. The real story is travis payne, a pacifica kid. I just met his dad out here. I remember his dad and i surf with his dad. These guys, we have to realize tomorrow morning and the next day, every surfer magazine and web size, they are on the cover. The premier local event. When locals do good it is good. A good day for a contest, the wind made it more treacherous than it needed to be. Im trying to put this into perspective. You have been surferring for years when you looked at them was it part of you to get out there and do Something Like mavericks . I brought my wet suit and it is where my bag is and i thought between sessions. There were smaller waves i thought i could surf that but when a real wave came, a real set, it would go from 15 to 30 feet and i was scared. To answer your question, frank, i would have no a guy like me has no business. We are average surfers and these guys are another level. Just amazing what they do. A lot of big wave surfing fans have been waiting for this. The only problem, no one was allowed to watch it from shore because it is too dangerous. Ktvus Tara Moriarty was with the crowds and joins us live from halfmoon bay. Hi, tara. Reporter good afternoon. This was a fun event and two locals nabbed the top two honors was great. We talked about nick lamb being from santa cruz and travis payne from pacifica and firefighter medic. You can bet your Bottom Dollar the station 49 was going off about an hour ago. You can see behind me the fans are gathered at the old prince landing bar and they really appreciated the way the surfers put their lives on the line today. The athleticism was not left out on this crowd and even the wipe out amazing to watch. The el nino fueled 30foot wave offs gave surfers from south africa and brazil a ride of a lifetime. Some took the day off work. Your friend called in sick. No, no, no, no one called in sick. We met fans from chicago and even brazil. You are from chile. Yes. Thats a long flight. Yes. Maybe 20 something hours. The lines for food were long. The place packed. We expected to be busy but not 250 people at the gate at 8 00 in the morning. You could barely see the waves but because there is no viewing on the beach this is as close as people are getting. Our experts at the Parks Department has determined it is unsafe. Allen payton drove in from antioch and disappointed he couldnt watch mavericks in person. The sheriff says no you cant get out there because of safety reasons and they had to air lift four people last year so we will hang out here at the old prince landing and watch on the big screen. Reporter in the end most people could see the action better on the big screen and the viewing experience at the bars, they say it brought the fans closer together. Back here live you can see the folks are awaiting for the surfers to arrive. This is where they come after the awards ceremony. I think a couple of them may be here and a bunch of the surfers wives and everybody is excited about mavericks and it is great ending the fact we had local boys capture the title. A great story for the community and pretty flowers. In other news for the second time this week human remains have been found in santa clara county. Last night a woman found a human skull along interstate 280 near san jose college. The chpd says a woman was looking for her lost phone and instead found the human skull. After further search investigators found nearly an entire skeleton and clothing. The chp says the home was near a homeless encampment so they believe the person may have been homeless. We are trying to get an idea of who it may have been or what happened so we can eliminate anything. On wednesday, pg and e contractors found a human skull near gil roy. There was some speculation at first. It could be those of missing teen sierra lamar but investigators concluded they were not her remains based dental work. A man covered in blood less police in and arrested for murder. A neighbor called the police and said he heard a man calling for help. Officers went to the home on morgan avenue in san leandro. When they knocked on the door they found a man covered in blood and another man dead in the home. Police have not released the name of the suspect or victim. Professional surfers at mavericks but tonight at 5 30, how that high surf can turn deadly. A growing trend in San Francisco, a group gets locked in a room together and has to solve puzzles and riddles to find their way out. Crab fishing comes on but will the people eat let alone buy the crab. Fisherman facing a delayed start for the crab season are hurting for money. Tom vacar reports even though you think the opening would be a blessing for the crab season a lot of crabbers say they dont think it should be opened until the fall. Captain james smith has two crab boats. The mad dog is a commercial crab boat still not allowed to go out and harvest crab. The california dawn is a fishing crabber that can go out but withing thanksgiving, christmas and new years past, the captain says crabbing would be fool. Crabbing is Holiday Market and this time it is a weak market and our whole season is for the crab side a complete lost. Too little and too late and not enough interest. Natures conspiring against the crabbers. You will dealing with soft sea crabs. Captain smith has chosen to put his sport fishing in martinez doing sports sturgeon fishing and where the water is calm and nobody gets seasick. No doubt some fishermen move to the ocean for crabs but there will be no dig demand. So wholesalers wont pay crabbers standard prices for it. State assurances of safety notwithstanding, crab unfishable last week will carry a bad stigma this week and in the future. Bad publicity from the acid. It is a huge turnoff. Nobody will want this crab in volume. Nobody will want to go to the store and purchase crab with the fear of getting sick. How bad is bad . Consider this. The mad dogs strictly a crab boat has not had a single crab on it since march and the likelihood is that it wont have another crab until late fall but the bills, they go on. You will have every boat from the entire state fishing down here on weak crab with a soft market. It smells disaster. Consumers will decide the fate of the crab season. Fox tom vacar, fox 2 news. A Beautiful Day and cloudy along the coast. Lets go to Rosemary Orozco for our holiday weekend. Temperatures dropping off tomorrow and then warm back up as we get into the valentines day. Outside the doors right now as julie mentioned we have a mix of clouds. Those clouds will stick around as we get into your weekend. I will explain in a moment. We know about mavericks going on this afternoon and that large long westerly squall will continue. The buoys reporting 10 to 15 waves but that could increase for high tide and the High Surf Advisory goes to tomorrow night. Occasionally seeing waves from 20 to 25 feet and this advisory for the entire coast, from the north bay down san mateo and into monterey. Please be prepared if you are going to the coast. Low clouds at the coast and mid level clouds for the rest of us and here is a look at the system. You can see a lot more to come. For your evening we will see in between the sun and the clouds at times. The fog will be back with us tomorrow morning. The low clouds at the coast, because of all of that cloud cover, some of us are actually cooler at this hour than we were 24 hours ago. Down by 7 in hayward and down by 4 in oakland and down by 3 in Mountain View and 5 for san jose. For most of us mild and temperatures similar to where we were. Take a look at halfmoon bay with the clouds in place. A bit cool and areas like walnut creek and 70s at this hour. Temperatures will cool as we get in the evening hours. For tomorrow we will have again mix of sun and clouds, temperatures in the low 60s to low 70s. For your afternoon. Morning lows look like this. 49 degrees expected for oakland and 50 for San Francisco and along the peninsula. 47 redwood city and 49 for san jose in the south bay, upper 40s for morgan hill and starting in the morning upper 40s for the east bay and 45 for antioch. Upper 60s expected for the afternoon for napa and san rafael 67 and 70s for oakland. Into the south bay, low 70s for san jose and 70s for santa cruz and lake tahoe dry if you are skiing, shouldnt have trouble. Partly to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 50s. The extended forecast. Bay weekend in view. Valentines day on sunday, notice the jump in the temperatures for the afternoon, dry until wednesday when we see some rain come our way. All right. Looking good. Now we have a nice picture of the rain window opening back up. Yeah. Lets hope it comes far enough to bring us rain. We will track it. Health officials are scrambling to contain a zika virus. We are learning exactly how long it could be until a vaccine may be made public. Later new at six. A break in the case after deadly hitandrun in the south bay. The crucial piece of evidence recovered and how this evidence highlights a bigger problem. We have been seeing a large amount of increases in vehicle fatalities. Health officials around the world are still scrambling to contain the zika virus but the World Health Organization says it will be 18 months before vaccine trials can begin. This comes as more and more cases continue to be reported in the United States. Laura engle has the report from new york. Reporter Health Officials at home and broad are working hard to contain the zika Virus Outbreak but it is not going to be easy or quick. The World Health Organization says that it may take for a year for a vaccine to be deployed. Many people are working towards having this vaccine as ready as soon as possible. In spite of the encouraging landscape, vaccines are at least 18 months away from launch scale trials. Meanwhile the virus continues to spread here in the u. S. At least 21 states and the district of columbia now reporting cases. Raising concerns from some olympic athletes about the Upcoming Games in brazil. A country hit hard. There are precautions staying out of the areas. And shifting virus tests to pregnant women around the country and many fear that there will be a country. For now Officials Say they dont expect widespread transition of the virus in the continental United States and they are urging women to be cautious when traveling. The concern is for pregnant women. The centers for Disease Control is asking for emergency funding from congress to fight the virus saying it could spread rapidly in puerto rico and other u. S. Territories. In new york, Laura Engle Fox news. Republican candidates are focusing on the South Carolina primary now 8 days away. It could be a make or break moment. Donald trump threatened to sue tez cruz for not being a natural born citizen being born in canada and jeb bush trying to keep his campaign alive. We have an entertainer and he pushes people down to make himself look larger Hillary Clintons campaign is planning to spend 27 million in commercial time in 17 states and less than Bernie Sanders that is spending 28 Million Dollars on political ads. It was media day from at t park. And what one of the new players is saying about the world series rings he keeps seeing on his teammates. About a week to go until the big chinese parade in San Francisco but the celebrations are already happening. And high surf a dream for surfers but officials are warning people about the danger of getting in the water. At mavericks the waves can turn deadly in a blink of an eye. In distress right off still wall number 17. Reporter a swimmer in trouble at ocean beach. Spotted him about 50 yards right off the cry. A San FranciscoFire Department team comes in to save him and this was a demonstration but it is a scenario that rescuers from the Fire Department and coast guard seeing with greater frequency during the el nino with the larger waves. We are seeing the high surf warningings and king tides. In the past two weeks two people have drown in bay area waters. Just three days ago 60yearold larry moore died tuesday while trying to save his wife after a sneaker wave swept her out in the water. She survived but rescue workers were too late for him. If you have an untrained person trying to rescue somebody we will end up with two victims rather than the initial one. How can someone stand on the beach when a loved one is struggling in the water. Thats probably the hardest question to answer. And to be in the shoes to observe. But we are asking to take faith in our system and abilities to get people out of the water. The Fire Department is