live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. breaking news, fireball in the east bay, a small plane crashes and sparks a grassfire. it happened two hours ago at north livermore avenue and may school road. mark kelly is there with the latest. reporter: we just got the update from officials here one body was found. it is believed to be the pilot s because there are no other passengers on board. i m going to step aside. you can see the field in livermore where this plane went down. according to the faa the pilot reported control problems on the descent into livermore municipal airport. that was around 9:00 tonight. the plane crashed just 3 miles north of that airport and just five minutes ago we heard from officials. there is a report of a plane radioing into the livermore tower that they were having mechanical difficulties. so we re trying to connect that. reporter: were they taking off or landing? it appears they were coming into the livermore airport and
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that i am not just a drunk victim at a frat party found behind a dumpster. reporter: actress sharon stone read the letter written by the victim in brock turner s case. the isolation at times was unbearable. [ crying ] you cannot give me back the life i had before that night. reporter: a letter she says touched her emotionally. i felt that emily doe was very courageous. reporter: as well as cnn s ashley banfield. i thought, you know what? other people need to see this. a lot of other people need to see this because she is going to shed a light on this issue that no one has been able to shed before. reporter: both women wanted to be part of santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen s event today about sexual assault on college campuses. we have known for a long time that campus sexual assault is rampant and not being reported to law enforcement. reporter: rosen s office and several college campus leaders in his county as well as law enforcement signe
gates are open, everybody is available. and they do it all night. reporter: maryellen says the officer got the kind of response all neighbors have been begging for since burglaries started spiking in almaden in november. when it s some poor person down the street who doesn t have a san jose police badge, you know, they don t even take fingerprints. reporter: slow or no police response to burglaries forced the neighbors to hire their own private security patrols at a cost of $40 a month each. as of today, we have seen a lot more activity from a police perspective on the streets. they have been driving around. they have been looking at things. maybe with a different eye. reporter: last night s burglary at a police officer s house was one of actually six burglaries that happened all in the almaden area last night. veronica, there s been about a 400% increase in burglaries here in almaden over the last three months. all right, len ramirez there live for us in almaden,
san mato coast line. great news in the sierra where the snow pack is so low, so below normal this, is the best news, 2 feet or know of new snowfall between now and friday morning above 8,000 feet in elevation. 4 to 6 inches of snow at lake tahoe where they ve seen nothing in the month. timing things out, i ve stopped the clock at 3:00 in the morning, moderate, even heavy rainfall at times, along the 6 # 0 corridor. we all get rain tonight and tomorrow. the rain will spread over the bay area tonight. this will be the first soggy community since december. we ll talk about how much rain in your town and how long it will stick around in ten minutes. concerns over california s drought have reached the white house. the governor said the president gave him a call. he called today, offered to do whatever he can do. obviously can t make it rain, but there are some parts ever california that are more privileged from the point of view of water availability than others. so we have