Thinly staffed department that we have. Reporter the officers spend much of the day talking to people and making their presence known. They reminded this man he couldnt block the sidewalk while panhandling. Today, they are also looking for a man who reportedly stole two sharks jerseys from the discover san jose store. The Downtown Team went to work and within a half hour after the crime was reported, they had found a possible suspect. Mind if i take a look . Reporter and recovered two jerseys worth 140 each. The store manager was stunned. This just kind of blew me out of the water. Wasnt expecting much, especially someone on foot can go anywhere and the fact they got this guy a half hour, if not less after i called in, thats just that says something right there. Reporter she says it wasnt always like this. I absolutely love the idea of more enforcement down here since i was held up at knifepoint, ever since then, i carry pepper spray and am cautious of walking down here by myself at night. Reporter but today, shes convinced these officers are a sign the crime climate is changing in downtown san jose. Very good news for those residents and business owners. That was marianne favro. New details in the deadly stabbing of a south bay teenager. It happened in campbell. The man accused of killing the teen gave us a jailhouse interview. He says it was selfdefense. Damian trujillo joins us from morgan park in campbell. The suspect in this case was also hurt, correct . Reporter you can see visibly during that jailhouse interview, both friends of the victim and the suspects say it was selfdefense. Now its up to police and the d. A. To determine what exactly happened here. And they wouldnt stop, man. Probably would have got kicked in the head 60 or 70 times in 45 seconds. Reporter thats the claim from todd that were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of ivan diaz, a 16yearold from san jose. He says he was forced to defend himself. I so grabbed i had my knife in my belt and grabbed it. I wasnt even swinging at anything. I was just swinging for him to get away from me, you know, and i swung, but i thought i hit air, man, but come to find out i actually hit a person, and i really dont feel too good about that, man. Reporter friends say the teen was trying to defend himself when tharp stabbed him. The friends dont want to go on camera but says diaz was a nice kid. Sergeant joses his investigators havent ruled out selfkvns noting the first officers on the scene found the suspect had been badly beaten. Thats an angle were being investigating and its up to the District Attorney if that was selfdefense. Thats an angle were looking at. Reporter diaz was a junior in campbell. Hes been there since january after transferring from west month high. A memorial will take place tonight. Meanwhile, the suspect is in jail and wishes the incident had a much different outcome. You know, selfdefense, man. Reporter that vigil tonight here at morgan park begins can t the 8 00 tonight. Thank you, damian. The investigation into a house fire in Mountain View is head in a different direction tonight. Investigators are now calling it arson. They believe someone di deliberately set this fire to cover up a burglary. Someone driving by saw the fire and called 911 and now police say there are items missing from the house, including the homeowners car. Its a 2003 blue audi a 4 with a california license plate 5 hjm 491. Neighbors say its a problem, a dangerous intersection in concord. Tonight, police are trying to track down a hitandrun driver that killed a woman. The collision near the corner of willow pass road and fifth street, the hot spot neighbors say for travouble, according to many people. Cheryl, how is the family reacting and why is this intersection so controversial . Reporter the family, of course, devastated by this. Raj, were just getting information from police. They believe they nailed down the type of car that they are looking for. They believed if they are looking for a Chevy Silverado pickup between 1988 and 1994 and believe its tan or light blue in color. They also believe they are looking for a while male between 40 and 50 years old. Of course, the family devastated by this and the sign you see here, it was taken out by the car that police are looking for, and the cement barriers that you see here, they are here because a car crashed into this Doctors Office two years ago. I heard voices. Reporter and thats why cindy knew something was wrong. Came around the corner. I seen one gentleman that i recognized and i saw her in the street. Reporter in the street and lifeless. This one gentleman that had been walking with her, we were both, you know, he was feeling for a pulse and i was feeling for a pulse, and he said he could feel a pulse, but i dont know. Reporter this all happened before midnight on willow pass road near fifth street. Investigators say the victim, 46yearold yolanda was on the street and either dragged or thrown into the road way and killed. Her family was at the crash site this afternoon. Shes a free spirit, and thats what she was, you know. She was, thats how its just tragic. Thats how she lived. Reporter Police Believe this video shows her pushing a shopping cart near a Convenience Store a block away from where she was hit, ask this cell phone picture is one of the reasons why people who live in the area are not surprised to hear about a deadly crash at willow pass road and fifth. The picture shows the car that crashed into this medical office in november, 2011. No one was hurt, but Sarah Crawford believes the intersection is dangerous, and something needs to be done to make it safer. Just this year alone, there is already been three accidents in this area, and i mean, i park here. I walk here. Any of those times could have been me, as well. Reporter concord officials are telling me tonight there have been ten pedestrian accidents on this Street Corner in 13 years, but the crash involving the jeep inside this building, that was not on the list because they say that a pedestrian was not involved. Well have an update on the story at 11 00 tonight. Reporting live in concord, im cheryl hurd. Thank you, cheryl. A california man with ties to the pill tmilitary is being labelled a terrorist. The 20yearold wanted to bomb the l. A. Subway system and was going to go to syria. He was captured in Washington State near the canadian boarder this morning. According to court documents, he was a student in stockton. He joined the National Guard in 2012 but because he never met requirements to attend basic training, hes being discharged. The argument outlines several terrorist plots. The fbi says he discussed al qaeda at length with a person that turned out to be an inform mant. Its a tech company you probably havent heard of. Alibaba is likely to go public. Alibaba is chinas answer to amazon and ebay selling 150 billiondollar worth of merchandise. The company would raise up to 15 billion that would value alibaba at 100 million. Facebook was able to raise 16 million last june. No word on when the Public Offering will take place. Yahoo owns 24 stake. Ggv capital is also an investor. More like google minus than plus today. Some people had trouble connecting to others after several Google Services went down. The text message app hang out crashed and that caused people with android phones to have trouble texting. Everything back up and running 11 00. The last major outage was in february. Still ahead here at 6 00, a rude awakening down south. Lessons researchers are already learning from this mornings earthquake in southern california. Also. The bay area has one of the highest rates of Human Trafficking in the nation and now San Mateo County has a remedy to save more victims. Im kris sanchez, that story coming up. Good evening. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. We cleared out plenty of blue sky with a clearing wind out of the west and more temperatures going up throughout the workweek coming up in just a few minutes. San jose police have questions for the people who live in this house near 101 and fully. Firefighters rushed to the home last night to find the garage in flames and to find 70 pot plants inside. Investigators believe electrical wire that caught illegally installed caught the fire. They drew more electricity to grow the plants. No word on if anyone will be charged for the fire or pot plants. The bay area has one of the highest rates of Human Trafficking in the nation. Today in an effort to fight back, San Mateo County rolled out a new program. Kris sanchez joins us in san mateo with details on how it works. Reporter hi, there, raj. A lot of Human Trafficking happens out of sight. The idea is to make sure anyone who comes into contact with the victim knows what to do in the rare moments when they come into the light. I have never felt safer than i do right now. Reporter 20 police chiefs, the San Mateo CountyDistrict Attorneys office, congresswoman jackie spear announced a blueprint for dealing with Human Trafficking from first contract to keeping victims engaged in the Court Process and includes something others dont, a process for connecting victims with longterm health. The fact that we have Freedom House in this county is really a remarkable advantage that cant be said about programs in many areas. Reporter but Freedom House, which provides housing for victims whale they get back on their feet can only house eight adults and six children at a time. If we could have the funds right now, the resources where you could open a dozen homes at this point. There is a huge need. Reporter congresswoman spears says increased funding and better interaction with the foster system could come later but getting everyone on the same page now is a start. Ill measure the success by seeing an increase in the number of prosecutions. Apprehension and prosecutions. Reporter all of the speakers reminded the public that they, too, should report anything they see that might be unusual because it could save someones life. Thank you, kris. A followup on the proposal to reinstate affirmative action in colleges and universities. The plan prompted an angry demonstration at san jose statements. Parents and students marched to show their preference on admissions with grades and testing. They are going to allow consideration of race and ethnicity. Lawmakers want to address the drop off in black and latino admissions. It died in sacramento because of lack of support. Leaders will form a task force to further study the issue. Okay. March 17th, it is a fun night across the country. Happening now, the party off to a good start in San Francisco. Its st. Patricks day and all the celebrations that go with it. This is at oreilchreillys in francisco. Sfpd know a lot of people will be out drinking. They are warning drivers not to get behind the wheel, even if you only had one drink. You can see the party in full swing. Its a Big Party Night and an active night for police officers. The chp is joining Law Enforcement statewide to crack down. Dui check points were set up yesterday and will remain throughout tonight. If you plan to go out there to have fun with the festivities, very important that you plan ahead. Make sure you have a designated driver for one thing and a designated driver is actually a person that is not drinking. Okay . Not drinking at all, using any drugs at all. Last year on st. Patricks day, the chp made more than 430 arrests statewide for dui. Thats a 30 increase from the night before. Go out and have a great time. Whatt happened to us . None of us wore green. You usually i know. Monday caught up with me. Lets say that. Now that i can wear green, i have a screen behind me, i forgot green. Maybe a green tie later this week to pay tribute. It was a tale of two cities today. 80 degree temperatures in dublin this past weekend. Down to 69 today. Cooler weather and look across the oakland region and 69. So areas near the bay and also inland, which is usually hotter had the same temperature, and that was all due to the cold front that moved through this morning helping to drop our temperatures back behind the cold front, though, a lot of sunshine here. You can see from the south bay towards the north bay and since i forgot my green tie today and everybody else will take you into dublin for the live look and you can see a lot of green back in the hills of dublin now. Winds relatively light at five to ten Miles Per Hour. Lets get you back in the forecast as we head throughout tomorrow, and temperatures are going to go warmer. You can see in the south bay, numbers near 70, about a three degree warmup, but thats enough in the sun for you to notice it and out towards the north bay, napa and sonoma, cooler at the coastline and not expecting major beach weather and sunny and 72. Lets get you a little further here into the forecast. Well take you here throughout the different day parts. You can see tomorrow morning chilly, jacket weather in the south baby 3 00 p. M. Sunny skies and low 70s. Well see the same scenario in the peninsula. By 3 00 p. M. Upper 60s, San Francisco fog free at 7 00 and fog free throughout the day with sunny skies in the forecast and for the north baby 3 00 p. M. , temperatures in the low 70s and low 70s likely in the tri valley. The one thing to look out for, Beautiful Day on tap for us is the fact that pollen namely here throughout the trivalley and east bay will go up. Moderate pushing close to high. In fact, as we head throughout wednesday, thursday, friday, an additional jump and go towards the high category. Pollen will be an issue throughout the forecast. As we tie things up for you now, it was a recordsetting winter across the east coast. Recordsetting cold. Back across the west, complete opposite in california. Look at a few highlights. California one of the warmest winters on record now and it was also the third driest winter for california at this point. So record hot for us, record cold for the east coast, you guys. Thank you, jeff. Sure. Up next, giving back, what San Francisco leaders are hoping to encourage more people to buy homes in the city, plus. Im scott budman with a plan to use nasa satellites to help guide and maybe even find airplanes. The latest develops in the missing jet. The copilot spoke to Mission Control before any of the Communication Systems were kiss abled but dont know win. They revealed on friday the plane was purposely diverted. Searching has begun north and south of the last radar was recorded. The boeing 777 disappeared on march 8th. The question is can technology up in space find planes in the sky. Nasa thinks it can. Today it used technology they hope some day will save lives. Scott budman joins us from the san jose airport in the latest for the search technology. Scott . Reasonable ev reasonab. Reporter the plan is to use technology to guide and find planes that need help. When nasa welcomed administrator carls to Mountain View, the former u. S. Marine corps general and astronaut got a birds eye view of how Satellite Technology may help air Traffic Controllers track planes, making it less likely that an airliner like Malaysia Flight 370 could get lost. The satellites without a doubt will help because right now, you know, even the system, if we had it everywhere, its ground based. So there are no ground stations, you know, out over the ocean and everything. And in fact, there are very seldom ground stations in many other countries, where as if you had satellite its like gps. And lift off of the atlus five. Reporter they launched the gem satellite and like the neighbor, the sky box imaging, nasa wants to use satellites to help those on the ground with extra technology. The information of the aircrafts position and when its ready to go, where it needs to go, is sent a Computer System and we can build Software Applications that help the people, the humans involved in trying to hang them to do that better. Reporter they are convinced satellites will help better track planes in the future, but its not a done deal yet. There is still a lot of money that has to be raised. Airline companies, Business Aviation and private aviation have to buy into this. Reporter an eye in space to help make the skies a little safer. Nasa says its satellites can also help airports and Airlines Save money by monitoring planes on the ground and making take ja offs and landings for efficient. Scott budman, n brks krrbc bay. Interesting. Up next, at 6 00, new trouble for tesla. The road block for the road company. Getting ready for the worst. Bay area cities got a helping hand to prepare for a disaster. Imagine cutting your rent check for 40,000 a month. The bay area rental where this is a reality. That story next. It was a big jolt and rattled nerves across southern california. Video from Convenience Stores. A 4. 4 magnitude quake that was, as you can see, caught on camera. Its the strongest earthquake in the la area in years. The quake hit around 6 30 this morning. Stephanie stanton joins us in los angeles and every time we get complaisant in california, were reminded of the earthquakes. Yes, absolutely, we are. The quakes struck exactly 12 hours ago now. Were unofficial recalling it the shamrock shaker in honor of st. Patricks day. It was only a 4. 4 but many thought it felt stronger than that and experts say this quake is a big reminder for everyone to be prepared in case of the big one. A shaky wakeup call this morning. Earthquake. Were having an earthquake. Repo