now sh, from abc 7, live breaking news. right away the breaking news is an enormous fire burning through a large building in san francisco's north beach neighborhood. the blaze is so big it could be seen across the bay area. good ooevening and thank you fo joining us. i'm dion lynn. >> and yes, that fire started at 37 and columbus this evening. >> if you are taking a look at the fires, the pictures are going be coming into the nizroom shortly, but this started at the cornerer of union and columbus street in san francisco's very busy north beach neighborhood.

>> it quickly went from one to four alarms and loft equipment on the scene, and the fire department is saying to please avoid that area if you don't have to go through there, and please don't. if you to go near there, you have to take the alternate route, but you could see the flames on both sides of the bay. we have a live camera from one of the towers there, and can we take it there to show people what is going on there at least? >> okay. we are having technical issues, but we can tell you that in that area, a block has been evacuate and we are seeing on social media that people are taking to the streets and also reports that it started at a restaurant again in north beach. here we go. we have individuvideo and a twe from one of the producers saying that there is that fire in north beach and you can see there the intense flames and really the dark black smoke billowing up into the sky, and you can see the tower in the background. >> indeed, at this point, you are trying to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings a and the whole block. those buildings are fairly old. so, we are not sure what is in the wall, and what is in the

ceiling. we know that officially from the san francisco fire department there are no reports of injuries and however we did hear a report on the scanner of one person being sent to san francisco general with what is not considered serious injuries. >> this is from the vantage point of the mount tam cam, and there you can see the sky canline of the city, that the area of red lights in the center is the sheer number of emergency response vehicles that were on the scene in north beach. once again, if you are just joining us, the breaking news is the four-alarm fire at union and columbus streets. >> are north beach is very popular with the restaurants and the bars and the nightclubs and an area that is very popular on saturday night. once again yushgs don, you dow there because you can see the flashing lights from the fire, police, am ambulances have been dispatched to that area just in case. once again, we have heard of no serious injuries and one person on the scanner we heard was taken to the hospital with what

is noncritical injuries and we are not 100% sure that they were directly linked to the fire. >> and this is a tweet sent by nicoc. grant and you can hear in the back of the tweet, the number of sirens and first responders swarming in for the building fire. it appears to have not onlyin engulfed the top but the back, and you can see multle the groups of streams of water to try to put that out. it started before 7:30 this evening, and to put it in perspective, it was knocked down quickly given the fact that it is a four-le alarm fire in the north beach neighborhood of san francisco. >> and the indiviuvideo that th seen is time compress and the flames were shooting out of the roof, and the aerial units going through the roof and trying to cool it down inside and keep it from spreading further and this is an area crisscrossed with alleys and small streets that you are being advised to stay away from, because sit is full f

emergency vehicles at this point, and getting around there is going to be just about impossible. >> and of coursek the viewers have sent us amazing videos of the flames, a wep want to to see yours, and we encourage you if you have social media and images and pictures that you want to share, go to #abc 7 so we can find them and use them online and on air. all right. completely different end of the spectrum and talking about the weather and the showers spread across the bay earea, but they brought more than rain. >> yes, it is the hail that fell in danville today. these large bits of ice peled the roadways and kept going for several minutes. >> in san car low, so much hail went quickly and it covered the driveway and look like a blanket of snow, and soon this is going to be behind us. and we have more with andy. >> and yes, these showers have been departed from the region and active in the afternoon, and several areas reported hail and snow falling in some of the highest peaks. high doppler 7 is a quiet

picture and contrast it to the past six hour, and live doppler is showing you this afternoon, an intense of showers moving through and it did bring the hail with the areas, and some storms from cord daaro oveo the west. and now, we are tracking the fog, and we are showing you 6:00 in the morning sunday, cerrito and livermore and parts of the north bay will be dealing with the fog on the beginning of sunday. and we will detail more coming up. >> thank you, drew. reminder to keep track of the change of weather conditions where you live with the accuweather map, and on the doppler as you go. >> and today president took to twitter to taunt fired andrew mccabe who was fired two days

before his retirement. >> and now his allies are firing back. we have the latest from washington. >> reporter: tonight an ing a gres zif switch in strategy from president trump's legal team. the lead attorney john dowd calling for an end to the russian investigation, and asking rob rosenstein to tell the special counsel robert mueller, case closed and that he should follow the brave and courageous example of a.g. sessions who fired andrew mccabe. he is if first to look into the coordination of the trumps and the russians in the election. >> there is no collusion between us and the russians. >> there is no collusion. >> there is absolutely no collusion. >> reporter: overnight, and this afternoon, trump blasting mccabe calling it a great day of the fbi and questioning the intrigue ti of his own fbi saying that there was leaking and lying and

corruption at the highest levels of the justice and state. and in the inspector report, there was allegations that he had spoke to investigators involved in the clinton probe, and then lied about it. >> we documented that he has had troubling behavior and by most accounts a bad actor and some calls for concern. >> reporter: president trump has questioningly questioned his politics. >> did you ask him that? >> i don't think. so i don't think that i did. >> you did not? >> i don't know what the big deal is with na. >> and mccabe is firing back speaking to abc news calling the attacks ongoing assault on his credibility of the russian probe. and james comey who the president also fired. >> i hold director comey in the highest regard and i have the highest respect for his considerable abilities and his integrity. >> reporter: and today, this major development, abc news has learned that mccabe like comey kept detailed memos about his

conversations with the president, and now he has been interviewed by mr. moouler and he has hand those over. we continue the follow the breaking news. fire tore through a building in the san francisco north beach neighborhood. >> much more coverage ahead on abc 7 new

one community is touched by tragedy and reaching out to the families of victims killed at the veterans home of california. >> this week a popular wine and music event is helping by raising a loft money. cornell bernard is in yountville with the story. >> there was music and lots of wine being poured for a taste of yountville, an annual food and wine event attracting thousands

of people, but today, they are remembering three women who lost their lives while working at the pathway home, a treatment facility for vets dealing with ptsd. >> we are celebrating lives and the beautiful lives of the three women. >> these women were doing their job and i do a similar job outside of the winery, and, i don't know their family, but i could be them. >> reporter: army vet killed chr christine loeber and doctors jennifer gonzalez and jennifer golick. wong had been removed are from the treatment program weeks before the shooting. they are asking patrons to use this credit card reader to donate money for the victim's fund. >> everybody wants to help, and the hearts are broken and we are sad for the program and the families. >> reporter: the wineries donated the best bottles for a silent action to raise money for the three brave women's fund. >> we are still supporting pathway home, and just a matter

of figuring out what the future holds. >> reporter: this community trying to do their part in the wake of a terrible tragedy. >> here in napa, everyone coms s out, and everyone feels heart broken. >> so many wineries donated wine bot fols the event that organizers will be holding an action on ebay to raise money for the families. in yountville. and the me moil for the three victims takes place monday at 6:00 p.m. at the napa valley performing center at lincoln center, and we will carry it live here on abc 7. back to the with developing news at the top of the newscast, it a appears that the firefighters have a handle on the north beach fire. >> but for several hour s s tonight, the enormous flames and the plume of smoke drew eyes from all over the bay area, and we will have the latest on the fire next. >> and plus, the sun will come can out tomorrow. meteorologist is coming up next

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okay. back to the breaking news of that fire in san francisco's north beach neighborhood. we first told you about this at the top of the newscast and starting 7:30 near union and columbus streets near columbus park. and we are told that the homes upstairs are evacuate and severely damage and the good news is that nobody was hurt, and the half a dozen or so businesses have been affected. the exes tetent of the damage, don't know, but there is a growing response and debate growing about the response. we should point out that the supervisor erin peskin has called for the resignation saying it took too long to

respond, and the chief is saying it is not true, because it took six minutes. so we will have more on the news situation, and the growing debate coming up tonight on nbc 7 news at 11:00. >> and now, meteorologist nick tou touma. >> tomorrow is a much different forecast to finish off the weekend. live doppler is showing the scan around the region, and the showers have diminished like we have said, and the sun went down and lost the heating of the day and the fuel for the showers and they are out of here, and the snow has been across much of the see jere ya,nd a few of the snowshowers are around bear valley and that is it. and however, in the past 24 hours, we need a lot of fresh powder in squaw valley where there has been two or three feet of snow, and heavenly coming in with 17 inches in the past 24 hours, and the picture outside

with the exploration place is lit up in green for st. patrick's day, and across the region, that is going to the allow the temperatures to quick ly cool off and down to 39 in napa, and that current number in oakland and 49 in san jose and checking in with the current temperature of 50 degrees. the next call is over to the next 12 hours, give way to fog, and so right now, the best chance of finding the fog is the north bay and the east bay the night. and in oakland and san jose, dropping to 33 in napa though, and 33 is the low in san francisco. so we will plan your sunday and the 12-hour planner is to be areas of dense fog and the chilly spots start iing out in e 30s and a fair amount of sunshine and midday and the clouds will bubble up again tomorrow afternoon and by 4:00 w we will call it partly sunny out there, and it is going to be a dry day with temperatures in the 50s to near 60. so highs tomorrow in concord,

near 59, and 67 in peaks of sunshine in san rafael, and 60 in san jose, and 67 is the high in palo alto, and it is a warmer day around here monday. if you check the temperatures it is going to be mild and sunny and close to 70 in the south bay. it is going to feel like a warm start to the school and work week, but by tuesday, the cooler air is going to move back in and knocked back down into the 50s as showers will move into the region and in fact, future weather is going to jump you into tuesday and what we are watching is a system moving in from south and the west, and bringing us showers here locally and right now, the heaviest of the rain is really moving towards southern california to los angeles and of course, watch the band of showers, because it could oscillate to the north more and that would give us heavier rain on tuesday and something that we would keep a track on. and so we are seeing fog in the morning sunday and partly cloudy sunday afternoon and a cold start monday afternoon but a

bright dry finish and showers arrive tuesday where the storms intensify iing a little bit wednesday and morning rain wednesday and thursday and dry out friday and saturday. and now, sports with mike shumann. >> and last night at oracle trying to right the ship against the sun, and steph, and klay and omar kas pi out and it showed early on. nick young, swaggy p draw iing e contact, and bank it in plus the foul. swaggy had 16 points plus the three there. and quinn cook is making the most of his opportunity draining the three, shend just getting started, but the warriors trailed at the half, and josh jackson is leading the way for the suns, and 52-60 at the break. draymond green throwing it back. and cook gets the second of the back-to-back there'ses and part of the 24-20 ws run.

and then jordan bell with the steal, and cook will take it the other way, and lay it in, and the warriors go on to win bishgs 124-109 that final. also in back-to-back games in the sharks in vancouver with evander cain with back-to-back nights with two goals. this guy does look like joe thornton and the sharks are down 1-0, but on the power play, joe pavel ski with a nice pass to kevin le banc and the easy tap-n and 1-1 game. and tomas hertl with the pass, and now, this is in for the 29th of the year, 2 and-1, sharks after one. and then timo meyer cutting to the middle, and the wrist ser the second of the game, and 20th of the season, and the sharks are up 4-3 in the third. cactus league action. and wearing green on st. paddy's day, and this is where there is

jake smolinski is off of the wall, and they score for 2-0, a's, and then it is a four-run first with a two-run blast, the fourth of the spring, and the a's go on to win 8-3. stanford head coach tara vand er veer is so underrated that she entered the ncaa tournament 30 times under tara and winne twice, and runner up twice, and been to 20 ncaa final fours, and starting another run today. they took on gonzaga. and stanford was ready right out of the gate. and this is carrington with the three, and stanford with 11 in the game, and brittany mcphee with a nice up and under move. stanford up 11 at the half. alana smith catching and shooting the three, and she had 20. and the freshnman williams led the way with 21 points. showing off the strength, smith ripping it away. and stanford wins 82-68 and will

face florida gulf coast in the second round. >> my teammates have so much confidence in me, and so it is that i don't have to think about what i am doing, but play my game, because the seniors and the upper classmen are telling me to be aggressive and play my game, and so that is what i do >> we have to be more aggressive than the other team that we play, and so having someone like de deejonae, when she comes out, she is going to be giving 110%, and she is lead e over the aggressive club we like to call her. >> and so for mare mount loyola looking to make a upset facing third seed tennessee, and this is none more important than this one. the ramble rs up one. and this is for the win, and a good look, but can't get it to foul. and loyola-chicago heading to the sweet 16 with a final. is this tournament fun or what?

>> yes. amazi amazing. >> so you have seen her on the low block there. >> hey. not agrgressive, but nice and kind [ laughter ] >> okay. don't throw the elbows there. >> and oh, it is time for the commercial. >> and paper airplane is hard, but how about making the things that makes the

okay. we have much more on the fire in north beach here in san francisco coming up on abc 7 news at a 11:00. >> and we have reporters on the scene to gather more information about how the fire broke out and talking to bystanders who witnessed the whole thing. join us for 11:00 for that. >> and you know, making paper airplanes could mean a lot of paper cuts, but not for one

student in switzerland. >> this is a paper airplane making machine to fold perfect lines while moving it up the assembly line. it is not the mike shumann paper making planes, but he is fine tuning the craft work and one day he hopes to have are a machine that runs on its own. i am not sure that there is a demand for that, but. >> weren't your perfect? >> bell, i was pretty -- and we have something. >> well, if you have a green dress on the green screen. >> and this is the floating head magic. >> and is that dion magic. >> see what they did to me. they are so entertned by this. >> she is trying to make me disappear. disappear. >> tha

that was great, man. i love watching games on your hi def. well you keep bringing that six pack admission charge and you're welcome any time. all i know is when i watch my regular low def tv, i want to stab myself in the eyes with a fork. well, don't do that. then you won't be able to find your way over here with the beer. see you later. oh. oh, hey! i just saw jennifer in the hallway. she's got a present for you! i'll bet she does. what is it? well i'm not gonna ruin the surprise. but make sure you are excited when she gives it to you. i bet she-- okay, shut up. well i can't wait to see it. hey, uh, can i grab a beer to go? yeah, sure, help yourself. and how was girls' night out? did you guys play truth or dare and try on each other's bras.