Stole my fathers ashes and ruined our trip. Reporter julia and mary only left the car there for a few hours while waiting for their airbnb to open up. We didnt leave anything out in plain view. We tried to be smart about it. I would like to apologize to the family on behalf of the city. Reporter just two days ago, supervisor norman n yee introduced legislation to hide logos so they wont be targeted. Julia says he is right. If i wanted to move here, i wanted to live here, i wanted to call this home. I dont want to anymore. Reporter in 2015 it over that full year, there were just about 25,000 car breakins. Police made arrests in 484 of those cases. As for the whereabouts of Joe Wilkinsons ashes, police have no leads. We are working to get more information on what started a fire in cupertino this afternoon. Chopper 5 showing the smoke pouring from the open roof. Fire crews using a ladder to get water on the fire. The home on flora vista avenue appears to be destroyed. The people inside did make it out safely. New at 6 00 after years of drought, landscaping is making a comeback in the bay area. One big project in the works this fancy rooftop park at San Franciscos new Transbay Transit Center but there is a fierce tug of war going on over the trees. Kpix 5s len ramirez is in cupertino where apple is also in the market for some of these trees. Len. Reporter thats right, veronica. When apple unveiled its plan for the spaceship campus everyone liked the design but no one gave much thought about how much trees would be needed to fulfill the design. Now that apple is buying up thousands of trees, its creating atree shortage in the bay area. Reporter landscaped trees at the western Star Wholesale nursery in sunol beautiful in bloom ready for planting and many have already been reserved for large bay area construction projects. Competition for these prime specimens has become so heated, nurseries to red tag them to make sure rival contractors cant swoop in and take them redhanded. Its pretty fierce, pretty cutthroat. Reporter she is talking about the tree wars that have started up between the bay areas biggest Landscape Architect a green rush driving prices way up. Someone coming out and overbidding them so they take it out from under them. So its really a cutthroat industry at this point. Reporter and the apple spaceship campus is a big reason why. Apple reportedly needs 3,000 trees to fill up its inner circle many of them hardto find native species. At the same time the new transbay transit park project in San Francisco put out an order for 469 trees. The two projects are reportedly battling for branches all the way to fresno. Several years ago, a lot of the nurseries were forced to downsize inventory because sales were down. However, with the upswing and a lot of projects are finding funding, they are kind of scrambling to find plants which is kind of nonexistent at this point. Reporter the other problem is the time it takes to grow trees. Landscapers want to buy them large enough to provide shade immediately which can take years. Its something i find kind of exciting [ laughter ] keeps us busy and on our toes. Reporter apples vision to have it being one of the greenest corporate campuses in america. Its going to take a lot of trees when this project finally does open later this year. Reporting live in cupertino, len ramirez, kpix 5. It could spell trouble for uber. A report says the company used secret software to spy on the competition. A tech website called the Information Reports that from 2014 to 2016, uber used a secret Program Named hell to spoof lyfts accounts and track its drivers. Uber could reportedly see which drivers were working for both services. Then target them with promotions to get them to shift more time to uber. If the report is found to be true, ubers tactics could constitute fraud. And uber may be in even more hot water state regulators want to fine the company more than 1. 1 million for failing to investigator suspend drunk drivers. Teslas ceo says the bay areabased company will soon come out with its plans for an electric commercial truck. Today elon musk tweeted, quote, tesla, semi truck unveil, set for september. Team has done an amazing job. Seriously, next level. The electric automaker could shake up the freight hauling business. But theres also faces challenges. For one thing, its not set up to manufacture semi trucks right now. Also, it has to figure out how to make batteries that arent too heavy and where to recharge them. We are hearing for the first time from the family of the man bloodied and dragged off the united flight. Dr. David dao had a concussion, broken nose and two broken teeth when security forcibly removed him from an overbooked flight to kentucky. His lawyer says theres no lawsuit yet. But there likely will be. If you are going to eject a passenger under no circumstances can it be done with Unreasonable Force or violence. Thats the law. Dr. Dao i believe to his great credit has come to understand that he is the guy, he is the guy to stand up for passengers going forward. Its us against them dr. Daos daughter also appeared at the news conference. She says that her family is going through a very difficult time. What happened to my dad should have never happened to any human being regardless of the circumstance. We were horrified and shocked and sickened to learn what had happened to him and to see what had happened to him. Of course, hearing is set a Court Hearing is set for monday. The lawyer is asking the city, the faa and the airline to preserve evidence in the case. Dr. Dao came to the u. S. More than 40 years ago during the fall of saigon. His lawyer said what happened aboard that plane brought back those painful memories. Kpix 5s kiet do looks at the comparison from san joses Little Saigon neighborhood. Kiet. Reporter the vast majority of vietnamese people here came or know someone who did. When he made the comparison to boatpeople that got our attention. At the press conference this morning, dr. David daos lawyer passed on bold comments from dao to said he escaped vietnam by boat at the end of the war in 1975. He said that being dragged down the aisle was more horrifying and harrowing than what he experienced in leaving vietnam. Reporter he is referring to the mass exodus of refugees fleeing vietnam after the war ended. The socalled boatpeople faced crowded conditions while spending weeks or even months at sea with no food or water. Some were attacked by pirates, robbed, raped and murdered. More than 700,000 made it out alive but the u. N. Says between 200,000 and 400,000 vietnamese died trying to escape. San jose is now home to the museum of the boatpeople and the republic of vietnam. They work to remind younger generations of the struggle and sacrifices their elders made in fleeing the homeland. Today, volunteers are repairing a boat that once held 28 people. Do you think went too far by saying that . Yeah, too far, yes. Reporter executive director [indiscernible name] doesnt know the specifics about dr. Daos escape but says there is no comparing the united incident to the boat experience which for some families was the most tragic moment of their lives. Reporter are you offended by that . Do you think thats disrespectful for him to say that . No, i i i dont think so. Its okay if he say so. Reporter at grand century mall the heart of Little Saigon people that i talked to said it was a stretch of the paul tran was 4 when his family escaped on a boat. That doctor on the united flight said it was more scary experience that he went through that versus coming over to the United States. I think thats probably kind of exaggeration on his part. Reporter and so there is a discrepancy in some of the facts being reported about dr. Dao. His lawyer said he came here in 1975. But i spoke with the reporter with the l. A. Times who has been talking with some friends and relatives in southern california, who they say two sources say that dr. Dao came here in 1970. I tried reaching out to the attorney but have not heard back yet. Live in east san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. A live look at sierra at tahoe. There is fresh snow on the slopes. Today the National Weather service said this years snow and rain has set a new record in the northern sierra. Reporter Elissa Becerra shows us people flocking to the mountains today to enjoy the late season powder. Reporter snow in the sierra means fun. It also means a financial boost for the area. Tons of cars coming up. And were putting chains on and we got a few more storms coming in. So were loving it. Reporter this traveler is on her way to colorado. You know, the weather is 79 degrees where she is right now. So its like, this is going to california for some snow . Reporter thats right california snow. Havent seen much of it during the last five years. But its been hitting the sierra all year. Not a lot of snow but a lot of rain. We have had a lot of rain this year. Reporter in fact, the sierra broke a record for all time rainfall weighing in at 89. 7 inches. The new record beat the old one of 88. 5 set in 198283 at 207 of average for this time of year. According to the state department of water resources. But all this moisture means time to bundle up, chain up. I never put chains on. Im trying to learn how right quick. [ laughter ] reporter and enjoy. Not just the north sierra dealing with record rainfall. We have had record rainfall in san rafael, more than 5 feet of rain this winter. 62 inches. In ben lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains coming up on 8 feet of water. Just this winter. Theres more rain in the forecast. Well talk about when coming up. From highspeed chase to a game of cat and mouse in oakland backyards, chopper 5 is high above as the suspect goes to Great Lengths to try to out run the law. A longawaited change to the Golden Gate Bridge. The construction that some families have been fighting for, for decades. And a marine life mystery. The theory on why so many bat rays are turning up dead in lake merritt. ,,,,,,,,,, it was overhead this afternoon. As this guy tried to hop a he tried to out run the law but couldnt outrun chopper 5. It was overhead this afternoon as this guy tried to hop fences to freedom. Ken bastida with how it went down. Reporter police had been chasing this black mercedes down interstate 880 when the driver hopped off on 42nd avenue. Chopper 5 picked up the chase from there. The car sped through traffic on city streets before crossing over onto 580 and turning on to a residential neighborhood near the diamond district. Thats where the two suspects inside decided they might do better on foot. The driver takes off as the car keeps right on rolling. You see him running there. A moment later, the passenger bailed, as well. Chopper 5 stayed on the driver as he ran into the neighborhood near maple avenue and delaware street. He hopped from backyard to backyard even climbing up over the rooftops in an attempt to get away. Little did he know trapped beca he was busy on foot, police set up the perimeter. Police eventually corner him behind a home on delaware street where he dropped to the ground and surrendered peacefully. By then they had also picked up his passenger. As for the car, it rolled away still in gear but didnt hit anybody. It was stopped by a tree. Police say the car may have been involved in several recent robberies. Thank you. A bittersweet ceremony at the Golden Gate Bridge today after many delays. Construction finally getting unway on a new suicide barrier. But melissa caen says it wont be the first safety net to save lives there. Reporter today the Golden Gate Bridge district had a ceremony to kick off the construction of the long awaited suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge two fences that run the bridge preventing from people jumping into the water. For loved ones and family members of people who have committed suicide off this bridge, this has truly been a labor of love. They have been at it for years. Today at the ceremony there were lots of tears and hope that their efforts can save for family. People look at it and say isnt it so beautiful . To me its ugly. Its a bridge of death. Reporter on november 22, 2010, sues son jacob committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was very depressed. He, um, felt that there was nothing else for him. Reporter today, sue was one of dozens of people who have loves a loved one to suicide at the bridge who came to a ceremony marking the start of construction of a barrier on the bridge. Priya clemens is a spokesman for the Golden Gate Bridge district. The construction starts this year but people wont see very much right now. They are going to see a little bit of fencing that will protect the contractors under the bridge taking measurements. Reporter actually falling on the net would be incredibly painful resulting in at least broken bones. She says the net isnt about catching people. The concept behind the suicide deterrent is that people who come here dont want to hurt themselves. They want to end their lives. And when you see a hard stainless steel platform two stories down that you will hit when you jump off the sidewalk, thats going to stop you from jumping at all. Reporter sue says thats exactly what would have happened if the barrier had been up when her son decided to kill himself. I know that if he had looked down and seen that he would have sat down on the middle of the walkway and cried and help would have come to him. Reporter a temporary safety net for the workers was put up costing 1. 4 million in todays money and saved 16 lives. This permanent structure will cost 204 million. A large price tag in part because such a big barrier hasnt been done before. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi acknowledged this is all made possible by decades of activism by the families who have lost loved ones to suicide at the bridge. What a bittersweet day this is, the joy of the prospect of saving lives, the sadness of those weve lost. Reporter one of the most disturbing things we learned today is the number of young people who have been jumping off the bridge. In the First Six Months of 2016, 88 people under the age of 35 jumped to their deaths. We spoke with one expert today at the ceremony who said that social media might be playing into that as ideas spread so quickly and such an iconic and easily accessible location makes this a prime target. Hopefully by january 2021 when the barrier is up and running, all that will come to an end. Live in San Francisco, Melissa Caen Kpix 5. Barts new warm springs station is only up and running for a few weeks and already something is broken this photo showed up on the website reddit yesterday. An escalator blocked off by caution tape. Unclear what caused the breakdown. But riders wont have to pay for t bart says that new escalator is covered by a two year warranty. And as of this evening, it is back in service. If only the roofs all throughout the bay area were covered by warranty. Maybe some of them are but roofers are busy. Folks in tree removal are busy. Because we have had a harsh winter around here which continues this morning with some rainfall. We have sunshine and the silhouette of the financial district of San Francisco in the background. San jose today 64 for a high. Couple of spots got mild including fremont and morgan hill you hit 67. 57 in San Francisco. We were colder than a town in alaska today sitka, down by juno. June au. Cherry blossoms in japantown Better Weather on saturday dry on saturday, wet on Easter Sunday so as the front moves through overnight behind the front still some unstable air you got caught in heavy rain this morning coming down good. All of that unstable air has pushed into the Central Valley and then eventually will be in nevada and Eastern Oregon and the ridge of High Pressure will build in giving us two dry days. Thats tomorrow and saturday. So were chilly tonight with clear skies after a chilly day. Lows are going to get rather brisk down to 45 for you in fremont. Down to 39 in napa. San rafael dropping to 42 and San Jose Mountain view and redwood city into the mid40s. We are dry friday and saturday. Tomorrow will feel warmer than these temperatures look because were going to eliminate the wind. Well get the sunshine back. A lot warmer than today. Showers on easter afternoon early in the day on Easter Sunday will be dry but once we hit lunchtime its going to rain. So we are dry tomorrow and saturday. Could see low 70s inland on saturday. Rain sunday afternoon. Dry monday. Rain tuesday. Dry out for a while on wednesday perhaps and thursday. So not done with the showers just yet. Back to you. Thank you. It is the moment that has survivor fans shocked. Why havent you told anyone youre transgender . The outrage after a contestant is outed and the National Conversation it is sparking. Former raider coach john madden is not drinking the relocation koolaid and neither is the portland trail blazers star who made a bold prediction for the playoffs with the warriors. His words coming up. ,,,,,,,, to las vegas. Now, its jo first it was jim plunkett who spoke out against the raiders move to las vegas. Now its john madden. The former coach said he was shocked by the vote of league approval. Doesnt think las vegas is a good idea to have an nfl team and thinks oakland is losing a part of its history. Maybe this is just me but being oversensitive. But doggone it, if you are going to go, thats really tough. But leave us something here in oakland. There will be no more oakland raiders. There will be no more history. That really bothers me. Just boom it goes away. The shark struggled at the end of the regular season. San jose showed that edmonton the momentum can change quickly in the playoffs. T