Clifford is live tonight where it happened. And charles a chaotic situation out there well, just a terrifying scene here in redwood city this afternoon. The suspect apparently confronted his ex wife right behind me here and now he is dead from an apparenty self inflicted gunshot wound. According to redwood city police, around 2 15 tuesday afternoon a 43yearold man confronted his 44yearold exwife in the parking lot of her employer here along penobscot drive. The woman apparently had a restrain order against her exhusband and refused to talk to him. According to police, the man retrieved a handgun from his truck and chased his exwife across the parking lot. They also believe that during the pursuit he fired at least one shot. The woman managed to call 911 on her cell phone and then hid. When Police Arrived on scene, they confronted the man and tried to get him to lower his weapon. Sot< Deputy Police chief gary kirby says they started to talk to him as he stopped for a short period of time. They tried to negotiate his surrender. Unfortunately, there was an exchange of gunfire. One of our officers fired one round and we believe that he discharged around at himself, into his face. Redwood city police also confirmed that they have had previous encounters with the man. In just the last month, they had confronted him multiple times in connection to Domestic Violence issues with his exwife. The woman had also been granted an emergency restaining order against him which prompted police to seized several weaponssot< Deputy Police chief gary kirby says they seized several weapon in the home that were registered to himas of tuesday evening, the identity of the man had not been released pam rain returns to the bay area. As a second round in a series of spring storms rolls in. steve it hit pretty hard last night. Lets check in with kron4s chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp. With what its going be like tonight and tomorrow morning a system will move through this evening into wednesday and bring another round of rain and possible thunderstorms. Drying conditions will briefly set in wednesday afternoon into thursday ahead of another approaching storm system. This late week system will likely be the most potent of the week and result in widespread rainfall, stronger southerly winds and a greater potential for hydrorelated impacts. steve steve the rain is on its way and itll be coming down throughout the night. The north bay. Expected to get hit first. dbl bx kron 4s alecia reid joins us from novato with how people are preparing for the storm. Alecia . Theres been a light drizzle off and on for the last hour or so. People here are prepping for yet another set of showers. We got pounded this winter and now that the spring is here, theres still more to come. Neighbors have prepped their yards and windows for the rain that is coming in the next couple of hours. Especially for those areas proned to flooding, they have their sandbags on deck. The roads are clear and easy to drive on at this hour, but it is expected to get extremely slick overnight. So be careful when driving out there. Especially when the oils start surfacing. It can be slippery. The morning commute will still have rain, so be prepared with your umbrellas, rainboots, raincoats, and everything youll need to get through it. Depending on the city youre in, you may experience downpour before othersso the main message here is, be prepared. Theres still more rain. And were going to be seeing that throughout the week,reporting live from novato pam the return of the rain has road crews once again keeping an eye on active slide areas and other trouble spots. Especially in the santa cruz mountains, where mudslides have been a continuous problem all winter. The three inches of rain that fell overnight along summit road. Was enough to make one of the two mudslides. Blocking Soquel San Jose road that much worse. Highway17 also continues to be a hazard. The mountains that line either side are still wet. And could send unexpected debris into the roadway. Officials are warning drivers to be cautious during this next round of wet weather. steve an oak tree more than a century old. Came crashing down in vallejo early this morning. A family was inside the home. Asleep at the time. Luckily everyone survived. Kron fours Philippe Djegal was there while crews were cleaning up. Nats tree moving this downed oak tree wasnt done moving by the time city of vallejo inspectors arrived to assess the damage on capital street early in the morning. Veronica mcelroy homeowner we were awakened by what we thought was an earthquake. But by the time Veronica Mcelroy called 911 just after two oclock in the morning. She realized it was the large oak tree on her front lawn that toppled onto her home. Damaging power lines as well. Veroncia mcelroy homeowner the house was red tagged after pg e cut the power. Bridge an arborist says the tree was rotting from its roots. And, because of the strong winds and saturated soils it came down. Veronia mcelroy homeowner weve been here 11 years, this is our eleventh year, and when we first moved here, um, i called out a company to come and cut the tree, because i wasnt fond of it at all. Mcelroy later decided against having the tree removed. Because she says the permitting process was time consuming and too expensive. Joanna altman with the city of vallejo says a free permit is required to trim trees. But the permit required to have an arborist assess an unhealthy tree and remove it costs 477dollars. Joanna altman city of vallejo and, the fees associated with that really cover the costs of the arborist going out before and after and then it has to completely removed all the way down to the stump to remove the hazard, you know, of a sick tree. A city buidling inspector did return to the home in the afternoon. Removing the red tag. So, veronica, her husband, son and dogs can go back inside. Though its possible the mcelroys will be held reposible for paying for all of the repairs. In vallejo, Philippe Djegal, kron four nrw. pam in the east bay. Storm preps are underway as another round of rain makes its way to the bay. take vo public works is especially focused on a hill on taylor boulevard in pleasant hill. As you can see. Workers are busy shoveling out debris to reduce hazardous road conditions. They say the hill is a known trouble spot when it rains. Crews are also spreading out across the bay. Checking inlets and storm drains in advance of the next storm. pam tonight. Investigators are trying to figure out why a car hit and killed a man. While he was riding his bicycle in san jose. Grant lodes is here with video of the scene. And what we know right now. grant you can see the black bike after the accident. Investigators with evidence markers. Trying to sort out what caused the collision. This was a stones throw from two schools. Fammatre elementary and ida price charter middle. It was not a student in the crash. An unidentified man was on his bike near the intersection of leigh avenue and coit drive. Just before 3 00 today. The victim was pronounced dead on scene. The person driving the car stopped and is cooperating with the investigation. Ahead at eight. She targets women. Stealing their wallets and going on shopping sprees. Coming up. How she has been getting away with it plus. Evacuated to higher ground. A south bay zoo moves dozens of animals during a flood. The interesting places they were kept. And next. Plagued by potholes. Neighbors in the east bay take to the street to do something about it. pam months of rain have not helped with potholes which are prominent all over the bay area. In the oakland hills, a woman who got tired of the holes started taking matters into her own hands. steve kron fours Spencer Blake is live in the newsroom with her story. Spencer, she wasnt trying to afill those potholes was she . No, nothing that laborious. She simply decded to amark the potholes to make them more visible, and easier for drivers to avoid. nats of car driving over pothole drive along thornhill drive in oakland, and youll have to navigate a whole lotta holes. But one in particular got on linda fousts last nerve. I was hitting it fairly frequently, and then it just got so big. Just yards away from the corner of aher street is the big one, as she calls it. But now it comes as less of a surprise. I decided that i would paint it so that i could see it in advance. Foust and her friend wendy replaced their scheduled tea date last week. With a paint date to draw attention to the big whoppers on thornhill. Standup at first they started with yellow paint making a ring around the potholes. It wasnt very visible, so they switched to orange paint, and then even still, to make it more obvious, they started painting white arrows pointing to the holes. She mustve done a lot of work because theyre all up and down the road. Neighbors have noticed, and really like what the ladies spent three or four hours doing. I dont know who did it, but its actually a little help because you can do a little dive and dodge. People think youre crazy they think youre drunk coming down the hill but, youve gotta miss the holes the thought crossed my mind that it might not be strictly legal but on the other hand, i thought it was doing a bit of good. This milelong stretch of thornhill still now sits as a reverse treasure mapwith the arrows telling you where anot to go. Foust also plans on politley contacting the city to let them know the holes are already marked for them. Shes heard through the grapevine that crews might be out to start filling them when they get a day without rain. Live in the newsroom, Spencer Blake, kron four news. pam a bold and troubling crime to tell you about tonight. On the peninsula. Authorities say, a woman stole from an elderly resident then went on a shopping spree, and did it while dressed up as the victim. This is one of two pictures of the suspect released by the San Mateo County sheriffs department. Authorities say, the victim a 90 year old san mateo resident was out picking up groceries at bianchini in portola valley. And at some point after paying, the suspect was able to lift the womans wallet. Was frozen and the suspect got away. Authorities say, she has done this before in other states. steve its a modern day noahs arc story. Dozens of animals saved from san joses massive flood and taken to higher ground. pam Vicki Liviakis is here to show us. How those animals are doing tonight and whats become of the happy hollow zoo. vicki yeah pam and steve it really was like noahs arc. Were talking meercats like you see behind me here. A jaguar, foxes, red pandas, turkey vultures. You name it. All safe tonight after being rescued from the destructive floods that were the worst san joses seen in 20 years. As last months storms raged, zookeepers at happy hollow zoo rushed to move the critters to higher ground. Some like the meercats hung out in a bathroom. Even the fish in a coi pond had to be relocated. zookeeper the coyote creek flooding affected the lower zoo we wound up evacuating all the animals from the lower zoo. Were slowing bringing some of the animal residents back into their homes as soon as were able to and were hoping to get the zoo in hollow back in business as quickly as possible. vicki volunteers are working round the clock to put happy hollow zoo back together and open it again to the public. Good news is that no animals were lost. Only bee hives were damaged by flood waters. The buzz is. Volunteer bee keepers are working hard to try and restore the hives. Vicki liviakis kron 4 news. pam this is a live picture tonight. Looking out at sfo. We had a sampling of sunshine and rain earlier today. steve our chief meterologist Brittney Shipp is here with details. A system will move through this evening into wednesday and bring another round of rain and possible thunderstorms. Drying conditions will briefly set in wednesday afternoon into thursday ahead of another approaching storm system. This late week system will likely be the most potent of the week and result in widespread rainfall, stronger southerly winds and a greater potential for hydrorelated impacts. New ahead at 8. Want to avoid pesticides on your food . The foods youll want to steer clear of. Plus. A once in a lifetime experience to see the wreckage of the titanic. How much it will cost you to dive to the bottom of the atlantic. Its red and shiny and not only the new apple product unveiled today. Coming up at 8pm apples new devices gary sports tease gary radnichcoming up a little bit later in this broadcast. Warriors on the road in dallas. Feeling pretty good. Well have the highlights coming in a few minutes. Barry bonds is back officially with the giants. Well explain the details. And the sharkies doing their thing. The first place sharks. Later in this broadcast. steve heres what were tracking tonight at ten. A scary situation in a california neighborhood. A teen girl was almost abducted by a man. And its all caught on camera. Now police are combing through this video. Trying to track him down. That story. Tonight on kron 4 news at ten. steve anchor lead plasma vo its shiny. Its red. And its not the only new product that apple unveiled today. Kron 4s tech reporter gabe slate shows us apples new gadgets including one that got a major price cut. pkg apple has unveiled a new color today for their iphone 7 and 7 plus bright red it will feature an aluminum body. A portion of the sales of these phones will go to the global fund which is fighting aides. All the specs and features of the phone are the same so unless you have to have a red iphone or want to contribute to a charity in this way i would wait for the iphone 8 coming out in september. Apple also unveiled a new cheaper 9. 7 inch ipad for 330. Tablet sales across the board have been dropping for a couple reasons one smartphones have gotten bigger. Some people just dont want or need a tablet two. Once you have one you have one they tend to stay safe in your home and dont break easily this is good news for consumers that is a lot cheaper than the existing ipad at that size 9. 7 inch the ipad pro. Which starts at 500. So heres the major differences between the two the ipad pro is slightly lighter, a little faster, the camera has a couple extra features, 4 speakers as opposed to two, and the ipad pro is compatible with the apple pencil and the smart keyboard. These are not big differences. For 330 to basically get a top of the line ipad i would choose the new cheaper one. Ofcourse there are more affordable tablets on the market you can get an amazon fire for as low as 50. Stand up gabe slate if you are in the market for an ipad this is a good deal. The cheapest we have seen a 9. 7 model. There is cheaper tablets out there but ipads are good, solid, they last forever, i still use my ipad 2 from years ago. So this is a good solid tablet. A good deal. Stand up gabe slate apple also unveiled a new mobile app called clips clips is a video editor tool the idea behind clips is to help you create better looking and more fun videos to share on social media. It looks a little like snapchat or instagram. You cut and paste video together than can add colorful words, filters, thought bubbles, emojies, stickers fun meme type visuals but one new thing that sets clips apart it will offer automatic transcribing of what you say as you say it similar to closed captioning subtitles you see on tv. Stand up gabe slate the new red iphone and the new ipad will hit stores this friday. The new mobile clips app will be out in late april. Gabe slate kron 4 news. pam starting in 2018, tourists will be able to dive down and explore the wreckage site of the titanic. The first voyage is already fully booked, despite the fact the experience cost more than 100 thousand dollars per person. The eightday journey sets off from newfoundland, canada, and will transport visitors in a luxury submarine to the ships final resting place which is more than two miles below the surface of the atlantic. This could be one of the last opportunities to visit the titanic. Scientists say, bacteria could eat away whats left of the wrechkage within the next 15 or 20 years. Ahead at eight. A grueling day for Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Questioned on capitol hill for 10 hours. The clear message he delivered. Plus. North korea releases video depicting an attack on americans. As tensions between the us and the kim jong un regime rise. And next. Another country banning Electronic Devices on certain flights. The potential terrorist threat behind the move. brittney tease pam britain followed the lead by the u. S. Today. In banning laptops and other large Electronic Devices. On flights from a number of muslim countries. pam the ban is drawing protests from the airlines affected. And questions from security experts. steve the white house explanation only hinted at the reason for the sudden ban. Elevated intelligence that were aware of indicates that terror groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks, to include smuggling of explosive devices in various consumer objects. Cnn sources say the trigger may have been information obtained in the navy raid target in yemen two months ago. Suggesting that an al qaeda affiliate was perfecting techniques for hiding explosives in batteries and battery compartments of Electronic Devicesthe new carryon rules ban any device larger than a smartphone. That includes laptops, ipads, cameras and kindles. The ban applies to flights from six countries in the mideast, plus morocco. Researcher nicholas weaver at International ComputerScience Institute told the Guardian Newspaper that the order doesnt seem to match any possible threat. if you assume the attacker is interested in turning a laptop into a bomb, he told Britains Guardian newspaprt, it would work just as well in the cargo hold. And if youre worried about hacking, a cellphone is a computer. the new regulations have taken the airlines completely by surprise. One top airlie executive said it was extremelly unfair. Cnn business correspndent Richard Quest notes that none of the airports on the tsas list is served by a u. S. Carrier. They include istanbul, dubai, doha in qatar gutter , amman jordan, cairo and casablanca. Itlll mean passengers beiing without laptops, kindles and ereaders for many long hours as they make their way to the united states. pam with two days until a vote on health care. President trumps dealmaking skills are being put to the test. Today, th