here, the johnson family felt safe. alan was a landscaper. his wife, diane, worked as a tax collector. >> alan was an avid hunter, just a wonderful guy. diane, her passion was cooking, she was always doing something wonderful in the kitchen. >> on a september morning in 2003, the serenity of this small town ended abruptly. when shots were fired in the johnson home. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> there have been two gunshots. >> okay, where's the shots coming from? >> the daughter came over here and said that somebody shot her parents. >> when police got there, they found diane johnson shot to death in her bed, apparently, while she was still sleeping. alan johnson was also dead on the floor next to the bed. >> the shower was still going, and i could see directly into the shower, and there was a bullet hole that was straight on, chest high, straight into the tile. >> the murder weapon, a .264-caliber rifle, was still on the floor. >> it was probably one of the most violent crime scenes that i had ever seen. >> sarah, the couple's 16-year-o

johnson. >> the fire broke out at fourth and china basin streets a few blocks from at&t park a block from the ucsf mission bay campus. >> alan live with our coverage. alan? >> dan and carolyn, the battle 1* tapering down and we are seeing fewer hoses on the fire, and we are seeing a few engines starting to pull out. from the beginning these firefighters were on the defensive. they were trying to keep the massive blaze from spreading. by night fall firefighters were snuffing out a fire that could be see around the bay. >> it was insane how big it got. i was worried it would spread to this building. >> linda gruben came home when she noticed several frantic firefighters. >> they followed me in. they pulled the fire alarm and said everybody needs to evacuate. >> about 30 tenants raced out anded immediately felt the heat even though the windows were too hot to touch. >> you couldn't see them crash, but you could hear them cracking from the heat. >> the plan is to put every available hose on the fire and soak it down. that meant calling the water department and diverting more esh prer to the hydrants -- more pressure to the hydra

johnson. >> the fire broke out at fourth and china basin streets a few blocks from at&t park a block from the ucsf mission bay campus. >> alan wang is live with our coverage. alan? >> dan and carolyn, the battle 1* tapering down and we are seeing fewer hoses on the fire, and we are seeing a few engines starting to pull out. from the beginning these firefighters were on the defensive. they were trying to keep the massive blaze from spreading. by night fall firefighters were snuffing out a fire that could be see around the bay. >> it was insane how big it got. i was worried it would spread to this building. >> linda gruben came home when she noticed several frantic firefighters. >> they followed me in. they pulled the fire alarm and said everybody needs to evacuate. >> about 30 tenants raced out anded immediately felt the heat even though the windows were too hot to touch. >> you couldn't see them crash, but you could hear them cracking from the heat. >> the plan is to put every available hose on the fire and soak it down. that meant calling the water department and diverting more esh prer to the hydrants -- more pressure to t

alan was looking for a job. radio shack's loss was congressman johnson's game and mine as well. a few days after that parade alan was working as a volunteer driver for jim's campaign. when jim won his election he hired alan to work in his kokomo, indiana office helping constituents to work on military and veterans affairs. it was a good fit. alan grew up in a military family. his dad phillip bud bruce was a career air force man. in 1989 alan moved to washington to work in congressman johns' d.c. office as systems administrator managing a congressional computer network in those days was a lot different. the internet was still pretty obscure used mostly by elite researchers. people didn't have personal e-mails and back then high-tech communications meant fax machines. computers were used mainly for keeping lists, data entry. cell phones were a perk of just the wealthy few. almost no one had heard of a web site and smartphones, youtube, twitter, flicker, nobody imagine what had that meant. alan joined my staff as systems administrator in 1992. to give you a sense of how dramatically