The person was hit accidentally or on purpose. The injuries are not life threatening. We have asked police for more information on exactly what happened. Only on 5, daycare for deputies. A bay area sheriff hoping to boost ranks with a new plan to help cover the cost of child care. Its one of the biggest problems of course. Bay area parents face all of them finding reliable and affordable daycare. Only on 5, kiet do has learned of a groundbreaking plan to help deputies that could be expanded for other county workers. Kiet. Reporter yeah, if all goes as planned, the sheriff will bring [ indiscernible ] and then the deputies would drop their kids off and go to work. This whole idea came about when the sheriff talked with womens groups and female deputies and found that child care was one of the big reasons why women stay out of Law Enforcement. And so she decided to do something about it. Google might have lots of perks as well as facebook, but Santa Clara County sheriff laurie smith is thinking outside the crib. She is asking for round the clock affordable child care for her deputies. Youre one upping google and facebook here. I wish we had the resources that they do but i think its a great commitment and it would be really good and really getting good quality people. Reporter fact, when new deputies first graduate from the academy, they are often stuck working the graveyard shift for years. Sheriff smith says they lose out on quality applicants who cant find or cant afford the child care to cover those unusual hours. Many deputies women and men have this as an issue but its particularly an issue for Single Parents and its a job you dont go into because child care is not available. Reporter this sergeant has four children and a boyfriend also in Law Enforcement. When the children were younger, a small army of relatives helped watch them while she worked overnight. I had my mom, cousins, nephews, you name it. I had to make it work. Reporter she says round the clock child care will be a powerful recruiting tool. Deputies wouldnt have to stagger hours with their spouse which means they could spend more quality time together. And deputies trying to climb the ranks wouldnt have to sacrifice career options. And they will able to go to different specialized positions, be able to get promoted more. They will be able to drop their kids off at the early hours because your regular child care is usually maybe 7 to 5. Reporter if the plan works, the county just might expand it into other 24 7 careers like doctors and nurses at valley medical center. This person thinks that would help retain good employees. When im working long hours, weird hours, i want to know that my kids are safe and they are near me if i want to check on them. So it would be a good idea. I would support that. Reporter and so the sheriff has made her initial pitch on this. If it survives all the back and forth with the budget committees, they will vote on this in midjune. The sheriff is asking for 200,000 in the first year and then half a Million Dollars the year thereafter. Live in downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. A developing story right now. Power has just been restored to tens of thousands of pg e customers after a massive outage in San Francisco today. Chopper 5 shows us the smoke from a fire at the larkin street substation this morning which sparked the entire outage. Heres a look at just some of the affected areas. Much of the outage was centered in the northeast part of San Francisco. The neighborhoods as far south as the Outer Mission and west as the sunset were also hit. The outage knocked out power to cable cars in San Francisco. Earlier today it also affected bart and muni riders. We have Team Coverage on the outage. Kpix 5s emily turner and andria borba are live in San Francisco. We first go to andria borba. Reporter well, liz, pg e officials held news conferences around the city today long on promises of investigation but short on answers about why 88,000 customers were without power for much of the day. It was 9 19 a. M. At the larkin street substation when one Circuit Breaker led to a citywide meltdown. There was a system failure that resulted in this fire. We are continuing to investigate what happened and what went wrong. Reporter a pg e spokesman described the breaker as old but could not provide an exact age. The breaker was slated to be replaced within the year as part of a 100 million upgrade at the larkin and eddy substations. Instead, the aging equipment caught fire catching nearby insulation on fire and leaving 88,000 customers including hospitals and schools in the dark. At the same time, pg es online outage map appeared to have malfunctioned, as well. This is a screen grab of the online map at 9 40 a. M. Nearly 30 minutes into the crisis only showing one outage along the great highway. Information and electricity both in short supply today in San Francisco. Were still looking into that as we look into this situation. We can say that they are not connected. But we are looking into what happened in that situation as we continue to work. Reporter now, we asked pg e officials about the actual size of that Circuit Breaker. They wouldnt give any specific or concrete dimensions other than to say it was very large. We also asked how many volts were going through that breaker at the time. We still have not heard an answer yet. Thank you. We go now to kpix 5s emily turner with more on how this outage impacted hospitals today. Emily. Reporter well, liz, we finally seem to have turned a corner from the day we have had. You know, the last fire truck i have seen has pulled out from this substation. I can hear all sorts of machinery going. So that seems to be a good sign but after the day we have had, i think its fair to say tgif. This smoking substation powered a quarter of the citys stop lights. 21 schools and several hospitals, as well. So when a circuit blew, shutting down power, tens of thousands of people felt it. Some literally. It was really a massive jolt. It felt to me like an explosion. Reporter this person was in cal pacific at the time. Sutter healths two campuses lost power right afterwards and switched to their backup generators. They canceled surgeries and elective procedures for the duration. We practice for this. We drill for there. So were well prepared. Patient safety is our primary concern and we are taking care of all patients involved in here in the hospital. And no concerns at this point. Reporter in fact, no major injuries were reported. And surprisingly, no traffic accidents, considering 30 traffic lights were out. Thats amazing. [ beep beep ] reporter rush hour had the sound track of gridlock though as intersections became four way stops. The traffic lasted all day as businesses in the dark let their people go home early. Sfmta deployed 100 parking officers to the main arteries in and out of the city in an effort to ease that congestion. We are focusing our efforts around the ridges to facilitate traffic as much as we can and thats both the golden gate and the bay bridges, focusing our efforts around the bridges as much as we can. Reporter shops, bars and restaurants in the northern part of the city closed their doors and took a loss for the day. We are working with about 260 people. Reporter you are all sitting idle right now . Cannot do anything. Its a huge loss for us. But what can you do . Reporter we have been keeping a close eye on our Traffic Cameras to monitor how the commute is played out. And actually, its good news to report. It seems like all the people who got to go home early made for a much easier commute for the folks who had to go home without the lights. Live in the tenderloin, emily turner, kpix 5. Nearly two dozen schools lost power today and according to the San Francisco examiner, students at two of those schools were in the middle of their standardized testing. No word on how the outage could affect the outcome of those tests. Take a look at some of the fallout from the outage. One mans car stuck on that lift in a San Francisco parking garage. And with hundreds of traffic lights out of commission there was plenty of traffic backup. Look at the long line of cars. This taken at third and market. A free speech ultimatum for ucberkeley. Student groups say let ann coulter speak or well see you. The campus response. Local farmers say they cant compete with mexico on asparagus. Why some blame trade agreements for hurting the famous california crop. San jose kicks off the Second AnnualSilicon Valley dom con this weekend. What makes this comiccon this weekend. What makes this year better than last year . What makes today better than yesterday . Sunshine. 15 degrees warmer, as well. Coming up the warm temperatures. The forecast is coming up. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. A man got stuck on the side of a cliff at eagles point. That s at lands end. A dangerous cliff rescue in San Francisco this afternoon. A man got stuck on the side of a cliff at eagles point at lands end. You can see him there clinging to the rock. Chopper 5 was overhead as the helicopter came to pluck him off the cliff. A rescuer harnessed him and they airlifted him out and dropped him off at a nearby parking lot. Cal is now responding to threats of a free speech lawsuit over conservative commentator ann coulters upcoming visit. Kpix 5s ken bastida in the newsroom with more. Reporter allen, the university now says College Republicans signed the contract for could you teller to speak before consulting with campus officials or obtaining any kind of security review. Coulter was supposed to speak this coming thursday. But cal canceled that event over security concerns. Now, cal offered to move the event to may 2. The College Republicans were upset because school is not in session that week. Wouldnt be anybody around. In response, College Republicans gave ucberkeley until 5 p. M. Today to move the event back to next thursday. Cal says its refusing to back down. It wont move the event. The lawyer for the College Republicans says holding the event with no classes on campus amounts to a violation of constitutional rights. They jerk these students around. First they impose a number of restrictions and then when we agreed to the restrictions, it was like lucy with the football. Im afraid that the university is really leaving me and my clients with no choice but to seek relief in the courts from their illegal denial of the students free speech rights. The university did respond to the lawsuit just minutes before the 5 p. M. Deadline and said that it has scrapped all plans now for coulter to speak even on may 2 since the College Republicans refuse that offer. Cal issued a statement [ signal breakup ] [ no audio ] under the constitution to protect the free speech rights of your clients. So far. Its unclear when the republicans will file the suit in federal court. Liz . Bart has hired a new police chief. So far its unclear when the College Republicans will file the lawsuit in federal court. Thank you. Bart has hired a new police chief. Carlos rojas is currently the police chief in santa ana and orange county. He has been with that department for 27 years. Rojas is expected to start later on this spring. Rojas worked his way up from Patrol Officer to police chief a position he held for five years. Bart describes him as an advocate for communityoriented policing. He also created a Homeland Security division in the Department Following 9 11. Santa Ana Department has more than 300 officers. Bart has 227. Rojas will be barts first latino chief. An event thats the brainchild of tech icon Steve Wozniak is back this weekend by popular demand. We are talking about Silicon Valley comiccon. Kpix 5s maria medina is live at the pop culture and technology expo. Maria . Reporter i dont know if you notice this about me, but i love comic book movies. Of course i found ironman. [ laughter ] this place is super impressive. They have really transformed the San Jose Convention center into the Silicon Valley comic con. Back to the future is in the corner. You have all things star wars. If you check it out you will see Virtual Reality videogames, comic books and a long list of celebrities. Steve wozniak was giving autographs a few minutes ago. William shatner will appear and foxy brown will make an appearance. Last year they had 60,000 people show up to comiccons weekend. This year they are expecting a lot more people. In part, because they actually are going to have an outside festival this weekend and it is free to the public. So you dont have to buy any tickets. Thats going to be at the cesar chavez park. If you want to buy tickets, you can hop online or buy them at the door. Theres a threeday pass for 99. And for kids, its about 39. Doors open today at 5 00. This is the first day. You can see how many people are here and how impressive it is. We have already run into r2d2 and some storm troopers. So its been pretty cool. We are going to hang out and hopefully meet some celebrities. Back to you guys. Great people watching. Characters, too. All right. Thank you. Have fun. Let us know if you see Robert Downey junior. Sky drone 5 giving us a view of the Fremont Hills covered in wild mustard flowers. Thanks to the rain, spring blooms just in time for earth day tomorrow. Absolutely beautiful. And were going to be actually able to go outside and enjoy it. Yeah. Weekend, sunshine, im told that the deserts of california right now are in bloom as much as anything every any season since 9798. Get outside because we have been stuck inside since like thanksgiving, christmas . Cabin fever. Its your time to go outdoors and go hike. It wont be as warm as today. Today was war. Lets look at the highs. We had mid80s. Today was warm. Healdsburg 82. You were so wet this winter. Los altos hills, 80. Hayward and san mateo 75. Even ocean beach got close to 70 today. But a return to the onshore flow and some clouds will make things different tomorrow. Baseball tonight against the mariners, as going for win 2 against them. I believe they are going for four in a row as a team. Beautiful evening for baseball. How nice, 65 degrees your first pitch temperature. Should be very nice outside. That h to our south and west is why. Theres Something Else on the map that looks pretty prominent. A big shield of cloud cover stretching from anchorage, alaska, down to about 300 miles offshore. Whats that . It is a storm as strong as anything we have seen over the past couple of weeks but this ridge will block all the rainfall. So rain no. Cloud cover is a different story. That goes up and over and spills through the ridge of High Pressure so well see some of the cloud cover coming up tomorrow which will impact the afternoon temperatures to the tune of 10 to 12 degrees cooler coming up tomorrow afternoon. In oakland, low clouds moving in from the bay. Some high cloud cover in the afternoon. So we are going partly sunny at most. And temperatures not the mid 70s like you had today. Afternoon temperatures tomorrow will be cooler than that first pitch well have this evening so a significant weather change coming up tomorrow. Still going to be dry and some sunshine but no 80s. Theres more 60s on the map still nice, still good to get outside. But we will be cooler. Cooler still on sunday and monday with highs generally in the 60s even inland. One shower chance thats it. Thats tuesday. Not that much rainfall. And next week toward the end of next week well warm up again under mainly sunny skies. So perhaps not the warmest forecast in the world. But liz and allen, we cant complain. Because its not going to rain. Thats pretty much the beginning and end of it. We love that. Complaint is not in our vocabulary. [ laughter ] well, a move to clean up piles of trash halted. Why in one bay area city they say its too dangerous to clear out this homeless encampment. Hey, kick to the gut to the giants. Should i say a terrible shot in the arm. What was Madison Bumgarner thinking . Story from colorado next. ,,,,,,,, are in last place of the national west. Say adious to Madison Bumgarner for the next 68 baseball up top. Bad enough the giants cant score. And they are in last police in the National League west. Say adios to Madison Bumgarner for the next 6 to 8 weeks. The power pitching lefty bruised his ribs and sprained a joint in his throwing arm in a dirt bike accident on the teams off day yesterday in the denver area. He was placed on the disabled list today. Poor judgment by bumgarner for sure for getting on the bike. Its a very highly compensated professional athlete. Madison bumgarner has no wins this season. He is expected to speak to the media on monday. For now, heres bruce bochy. Heres a young guy like a lot of us we think were invincible and you just having some fun that day and, you know, slippery spot and went down. If i was there i wouldnt have let him on that bike. Should say im sorry, i dont think i need to, you know he said i feel terrible. Nba and the warriors. Kevin durant practiced today. He is listed as questionable for tomorrows game 3 in portland. Its a strained left calf but nobody is panicking. I mean, i look at this game 7 of the finals he would play, all right . Because were not talking about any