jamie: the attic is empty now. but not that day in 2011.arl and carla walk in to find a century worth of dusty boxes and family heirlooms. >> literally filled to the rafters. >> all the way up to here and just a path down the middle. jamie: after several hours, they uncover a box hugging the back wall. it contains something the two cousins have never seen before. >> it was dirty, busty oldustyold box. i open it up. i don't know what it is. >> the cousins see what appear to be small cardboard photos tightly wrapped in twine. they recognize some pretty familiar faces. >> we're looking at it. baseball players. cy young. tiger. they're not baseball cards. not to us. they look like baseball cards. miniaturized. no who made it. no nothing. >> how many we talking about? >> hundreds. jamie: amazing. you see the box. you take them out. what do you and carla say? >> actually we set them on a dresser in the hallway and dove into the attic. >> soon karl starts to ponder where the strange cards may have come from. where they something the aunt collected

i found something in the attic that's going to help us save our business. jamie: the wenzel family is a fixture in the beach community, a restaurant called salty's, like so much of the jersey shore that got pummeled by sandy. salty's was not the average neighborhood ice cream parlor. >> we were the largest bulk ice cream distributor for hershey's ice cream, they would give us a golden scoop. 200,000 gallons of ice cream every summer. >> what was the traffic like on a good day? >> salty's was the place to come. >> there would be a line out the door. sometime around the block. it was a nice spot for an evening out. it could be music, it could be hermit crab races. always a surprise. jamie: why is it important that salty's come back? >> it's an anchor for our whole community and the people who come to the jersey shore.. jamie: the story of salty's and the "strange inheritance" begins far from the boardwalk with rick's grandfather guftaf wenzel, he opens a bowling alley during the great depression in garwood, new jersey. gustav sells comic books, may have been

the water's rising in the attic, ma'am. >> and 40 years on the run. >> i want to make one of the greatest rock records ever. >> the song that saved the boss' career. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm norah o'donnell. he may be limited to 140 characters, but donald trump's twitter war knows hoe bounds upon. his latest targets include his opponents for the republican nomination and once again g.o.p. debate moderator megyn kelly. here's chip reid with the front-runner's bitter tweet story. >> reporter: trump's twitter tirade began last night when he lawived out at the fox news anchor. he then re-tweeted a message from one of his nearly four million twitter followers that called kelly a bimbo. the battle began at the first republican debate earlier this month. kelly asked trump about his inflammatory statements about women. trump later posted tweets saying kelly bombed and was unprofessional. in an interview on cnn, he even said. >> you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming

he removed a single nail from a panel in an upstairs attic room and discovered a trunk and books and portraits stuffed up under the eaves, and this was the treasurer of dolley madison's things. greensboro andn guilford county formed the , andy madison association their task was to acquire this collection. birthday, may 20, 1963, they donated the collection to the historical museum. since they came in in 1963, we have had this story available to the public. i am displaying different items from time to time. trying to include her life story from her birth in guilford county to her death in 1849. some of the items we currently are thedisplay medallion that was given to mrs. mattox. john quincy adams notes in his that of these awards or medallions, several were struck, only one in silver, which was given to mrs. madison. and ivory calling card case that had the card enclosed with dolley's signature as well as that of her niece, anna. small, cut glass perfume bottles, and a pair of silk slippers that had tiny ribbons that tie across the arch of her foot. the portrait is a john vander ling

william seale: attic, yeah.dith mayo: and so apparently the man with the ferrets was brought in to help reduce the rat population, but there was also a man with a gun, i think -- william seale: with a pistol yeah. edith mayo: -- who was shooting the rats whenever he saw them. so -- william seale: he would proceed her through the attic. now, strangely enough, the attic had no access to it. when the elevator was put into the white house, the little back stair that lincoln made famous was taken out and the elevator was put in there. and so you had stair access to two floors, so they had to go in a ladder up above the elevator. and she went, the little tiny woman, she went up there with this guard with a gun, and they began pulling things out of boxes, and a rat would appear, and he'd shoot it. and they were big ones, too. susan swain: he'd shoot, she'd scream. william seale: she'd scream right. susan swain: is how the story goes. well, we would like to invite you to participate. this series, which has been really l

the family lawyer says it's not physically possible for a grown man to drop through the attic hole. >because you can see that no individual small baby couldn't have fit through that hole. >> reporter: but the evidence shows that tellum's clothes were coated in dry wall, insulation and wood from the attic. a hammer was recovered. with kellum's blood. >> where was he coming through. >> you see right here. there's no way a human body can fit through a hole. when you have shelves like this. he was 110 pounds. >> 110. >> i weigh 170. >> and you can't fit through that can you. >> i don't know should i try it. >> miss that shelf right there. >> he's 110. i'm 170. >> yeah. >> there's no way you can do it is it. >> it's not easy. my wallet is stuck. yeah i can do it. >> could it be that you love your son so much and you're hurting so hard that you're remembering things that didn't happen. >> no, charlie. i would never forget this. never. i saw from step one all the way until they gunned my son down in my face. >> reporter: if this cop was white. >> okay. >> do you think you would be getting be

the family lawyer says the not physically possible for a grown man to drop through the attic hole. >> small baby couldn't have fit through that hole. >> reporter: but the evidence shows terrence callum's keith were coated in drywall, inn sewell laying and wood from the attic. a hammer was recovered. with his blood. >> he came through. >> he tried to fit through there. >> he had a hammer. okay. >> you see this hole right here, karlly? >> there's no way human body can fit through that hole when you got shelves this big. you zoo they shelf down there karlly. >> my son weighed 110 pounds. >> 110? >> i weigh 170. >> you can't fit through there, can you? >> i don't know. should i try. >> try it. >> all right. >> miss that shelf right there. >> he's 110. >> yup. >> i'm 170. >> yup. >> you got cops looking at you too, charlie. there's no way you can do it. >> it's not easy. my wallet is stuck. yeah, i can do it. >> could it be that you love your son so much and you're hurting so hard that you remembering things that didn't happen? >> no. charlie i would will never forget this. never. i saw st

. >> also in the neighbors' attic, police found several unused .22 caliber bullets, the same as thosein the second gun in the murder. >> it was as if they were basically accidentally dropped along the way. they didn't appear to be placed in any type of a pattern but like they were in a pocket and they fell out as someone crawled through. >> this suggested that the killers hid in the neighbor's home after the murder so they could make a clean getaway later. >> apparently, someone went up in that attic, and they were either trying to climb up in the master closet access, or they came down and landed on that shoe rack and broke it to pieces. it wasn't sturdy enough to hold them. so they tried to hide evidence of that in a feeble attempt by putting it under the bed. >> and since the neighbors' home had no signs of forced entry, it meant one of two things -- either the killers were professionals or they had a key. >>> with no solid leads, police asked themselves, who would benefit most from rob andrew's murder? rob's friends told police that his wife, brenda, had the most to gain. >> we fo

there was a gentleman there that had a stroke and the water went all the way up to the attic.above the water, and the rafters in the attic and what they did, they tied a piece of bed sheet to keep his body afloat so he wouldn't drown and they literally had to cut away the bed sheet and then lift him by his arms up through the hole in the attic and up on the roof top. >> one, two, three. come on, i'm holding you. >> once it got completely dark, the rescue operations ceased until the morning, and in those hours there were those who didn't make it. >> who was at your house with you? >> my wife. >> where is she now? >> i can't find her body. she gone. >> i actually did, you know, a little counselling afterwards because you would just get -- not depression, but maybe a little ptsd why didn't we stop at that house, why did we get that house, those people are here, those people aren't. we did what we could with the resources we had and it's that psychological thing it's like -- you wish you could have done more, but you got to look at the positive side and you can't think of the nega

. >> people were making phone calls to 911 operators and drowning in their attics. we got really bad reports. >> people were falling into the water, drowning, in total distress. so it was mass chaos at that time. >> we had enough time to get onto the attic by kicking a hole from the inside, get onto the roof and think we'll now be save and the house lifts off its foundation because it wasn't attached to its foundation and a piece of water floats when water hits it, it floated up the street that way the way the current was pushing it, so we wound up up the street on the roof of my house and that is how my granddaughter died. when we tried to seek refuge on another roof, she dropped off and disappeared. >> kim bondi, senior of operations. if new orleans is your home, it's always your home. take us back to where you were at that time? >> i was working in new york and was actually supposed to be in new orleans during that week but there were a million things going on and i couldn't. so i ended up being in the control room leading coverage as the storming was making land

the water is rising in the attic, ma'am. >> reporter: we'll have the story of those who were staring at death and those who came to their aid. that's tomorrow. and still ahead tonight, an indy driver fights for his life after an accident on the track. a big reward for finding the hackers who exposed millions of cheaters and we'll pander to the panda lover in you when the "cbs evening news" continues. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said.. doctor: symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. you should tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high bloo

aggravated assaults, and high incidence of rape, homicide, and arson. ,ith drug abuse as the source baby attics will die from overdose. a mayor's committee had chosen this site for a new opportunity. with high hope in more than $1 million, the plan was this. he wrote suspicion and fear among police and the people, find ways of helping the police force to be part of the community again. there were those in the third district for whom the experiment was dangerously flawed. the overall goal of the project is to try to get at what we recognize is now a pervasive distrust between the citizens and the police. when you talk about control, it falls short of a total citizen control of the precinct. there was never any provision in the grant or in the plan for that sort of control. that's absolute control. we in the black community see the police as enemies. i remind everyone here that i may very well be shot as i walk out that door if i happen to anger some white policeman. i am aware of that him and every black person is, and therefore we want to control those individuals. >> everyone and the mother kn

a lot of people were dead in their attics. we had not thought about it before. people went upstairs and died in their annex -- attics. we started to realize. you only really had time to think about it in the middle of the night. you are just outdoors, protecting yourself, you realize this is different. they are not coming. are sitting we here, people are dying, and there is nothing i can do about it. i can't scream any letter. say, the partisans would your part -- your emotions. you actively spoiled girl. well i had never been in this position where someone had to scream. it wasn't that they were there and they were failing. they didn't come. in all my years i have never seen that. >> we have to keep in mind to, this was an international news story. this is not just a national news story. the international media covered it. ira for the first time i was -- contacted by australia. we are in the early stages of both the iraq and afghanistan wars. trade in a to be the fashion that it can even respond to the challenges of people affected our standing as a country and

apparently he squeezed through a hole in the attic dropped into a bedroom and came out with a hammer.amily said it's impossible. so i went through the whole. >> apparently 60 pounds heavier according to your piece. terrance is only a hundred and 10 pounds. little guy fitting through a small whole. the federal agent said he had a hammer. here is the difference and here is why ii take issue with the story, and i understand his dad is hurting, the worst thing a human being could go through, ld because to you that person will always be your baby no matter what record they have i understand his father's pain. when the task force came to the door dad lied and said his son wasn't there. >> i asked the dad. that is exactly right. listen, if it was me and i come from a place, you come from a place, it's my mom's house, i'm coming down. here we got issues in america but everyone keeps a cool head. you can go back to ferguson and the ballistics match. let's decide the cases we want to complain about based on the evidence, not what you want to feel. >> all right. >> come to the door. >> when you

night, the last one igniting in a pack of diapers, there were those and a lot of other debris in the attic. the manager of the care home also telling me the fire alarm went off and a neighbor across the street yelled out to alert the two caretakers to live in that top unit. they were able to help get 14 people and a dog out of that building and the next door building with five apartments, the red cross bay area has been out here since 1:00 in the morning to help those now without a home. >> people that are displaced for more than a couple of nights as these folks will be in the main fire building, that's very difficult, it's an expensive city as we all know, particularly pokes that are special needs, you know, limited resources it is extremely difficult. >> reporter: around 5:00 this morning the red cross helped get seniors to a temporary housing. an arson investigator was here overnight but that is standard protocol. the bat hon chief for this fire department will be out here around 7:30 this morning to get a better and closer look when it's light out. live in san francisco, stephanie chu

as it looks from the outside it was worst on the inside because that fire did burn am some of the attic space. because the fire started before 10:00 last night not too late, most folks were still awake and able to get out safely. in fact, there were no major injuries from the fire, though one firefighter did suffer a muscle strain. foster city police also warned people about an hour or so after the fire started that there would be heavy smoke in the area and some folks did report to us it was visible from near the highway 101 highway 92 interchange that's just across the retaining wall from where we are right now. that smoke has mostly dissipated this this morning. 14 people were displaced, it could have been much worse, this is a very big apartment complex and the apartments are very tightly packed together. those folks who were forced out of their home by the fire last night were getting assistance from the red cross. in san mateo, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >>> it will take months for the ntsb to reveal what caused a small plane to crash near the san carlos airport. that plane

they went quickly to the attic. >> they said as they sat up in the attic the water started rising. waves, it wasn't just little waves. it became bigger waves an he seen other houses collapsing. >> that's exactly what happened to their house. it collapsed on top of them. >> one piece of the house went one way with my mom and the other went one way with him. when he felt the house hit up against the tree, he was able to grab on to a branch and pull himself up in the tree to make sure -- he couldn't swim. as he reached down to grab my mom's hand, he had my mom's hand for a few minutes and he said he could tell he was losing her. >> you can't find your wife? >> no. i tried. i held her hand tight as i could and she told me, you can't hold me. >> i'm sorry. . >> tonie was devastated then and still is now. she misses her mom ef single day. >> she was like my best friend, i mean in my eyes no wrong, no wrongdoings, no anything. she was perfect to me. only regret is fi could have her back just for one day. >> tonette's body was never found n. 2012, the judge issued a death certificate based

every minute or so they would swoop the length of the attic and i jumped with each pass and i know they wouldn't hurt me. they are interested in beatles, not people and are used to the occasional scientist claiming the stops to count them or to collect the bedbugs. i had plastic containers i was putting them into and does what it was like. it became a game. whether it was dead or alive we needed more and we didn't have much time. in the beginning i couldn't recognize the signs of life after ten minutes i could see they emanated a vitality that i couldn't pinpoint even when they are frozen in place. they were brighter and more purposeful ready to take off running. once i caught caught it between my teasers the next step in the game was to collect it against my palms. i settled into a rhythm. i shouted when i captured and encouraged for my lost one and consumed the ground into the ground of my hiking boots. as my collection bottles filled up i rendered a passage from the biography were a poet is thrown into the security prison in philadelphia for dodging the world war ii draft and the poe

they went quickly to the attic. >> he said, they sat up in the attic, the water started rising. waves was, it wasn't just, little waves. it became bigger waves. he said he has seen the other houses collapsing. >> that's exactly what happened to there house. it collapsed on top of them. one piece of the house want one way with my mom. the other piece went one way with him. when he felt the house hit up against the tree. he was able to grab on to a branch and pull himself up into the tree to make sure, because he couldn't swim. as he reached done to grab my mom's hand. he had my mom's hand for a few minutes. he said he could tell that he was losing her. >>-up can't find your wif >>-up -- you can't find your wife? >> no, i held her hand as tight as i could. she told me, you can't hold me. i'm sorry. >> reporter: tonie was devastated then and still is now. she misses her mom every single day. >> she was like my best friend. the best. i mean -- in my eyes, no wrong. no wrongdoing. no anything. she was perfect to me. only if i could have her back, just for one day. in 2012, the judge

the fire spread so quickly because some of the units shared an attic space. >> there was a problem in cal, an up tick in burglaries. tonight, campus police officers are on heightened alert. someone broke into nine offices just yesterday. a couple of weeks ago, more were stolen. the fall semester, by the way, starts at the end of this month. >> i can't remember one affecting any of our growers as mum as this year. >> getting burned by the massive wild fires in california. we'll show you the mystery at a california beach tonight. what washed ashore that has experts baffled. >> good evening. i'm meteorologist late tonight -- the beach reopnedn santa mica...ts is right near the iconic pier. the beach -- and water -- had been st dowfor hours -- ter lifeguards spottedhite chunks, washing ashore. investigators now tell us - the clumps may have come from the septic tank of a cruise ship. they say - the clumps are not toxic. . >> may have come from the septic tank of a cruise ship. they say those clumps are not toxic. >> lights out at l.a.x. topt, the power is back on after two major outages i

routed by the glom attic editor, james bays. >> getting diplomatic reaction from around the world. lots of countries issued statements. all of them have condemned these verdicts, from the countries that had nationals affected. fahmy is a canadian national, the consulate minister issued this statement. she said the canadian government continues to call on the egyptian government to use all tools at its deposal to resolve mr. fahmy's case and allow his immediate return to canada. i think what they would like is what happened for peter greste. he has been convicted of terrorist crimes but he was allowed to go back to australia in february. they would like that. mr. greste is an australian. the australian foreign minister said i am is that dismayed. i will continue tonight pursue all diplomatics to clear his name. we also had a comment coming from the united states from the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. i know having had conversations with her, she has been working very hard on this issue behind the scenes. she is a former journalist, herself, sam angthat power tweeted greste and greste

the water's rising in the attic, ma'am. >> and 40 years on the run. >> i want to make one of the greatest rock records ever. >> the song that saved the boss' career. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm norah o'donnell. he may be limited to

they called them in to get over 60,000 bees that had taken over their attic. he started by vacuuming the honey bees and then had to scrape away a massive hive. >> this is an established colony. and they had layer after layer after layer. >> a lot of good honey up there. it took 12 hours to removal e all of those bees, then they will be moved to a honey farm. we'll be eating their products. that is it for news 4, nbc nightly is coming up next. we'll see you after the giant's game. night, captured, a party say they arrested the man guilty of a texas department. desperate journey. they're coming by the thousands. refugees in serge arch of a bart life. dos ctor shortage, nurse practitioners filling the widening gap in health care. why there are new questions tonight about their training. ten years later, it was the deadliest hurricane in history. devastating new orleans and the gulf coast. why hardships remain years later, and see how man's best friend is teaching kids a new trick. it has something to do with stop, drop, and - roll over. nightly news begins now. >

so when the fire moved to the attic they had proves.pany that's next to the market. one of the owners of the family business spoke to us this morning, we are just, you know, praying to god everything is okay. [inaudible]. >> reporter: an apartment building directly behind the fire had to be partially evacuated. out of the 16 units, four units must remain empty. about 50 firefighters responded. right now there are investigators here on the scene trying to determine what started this blaze. live in san leandro, lisa chan, kpix 5. >>> and let's take you to 101. lots of brake lights. slow conditions recovering from an earlier fatal accident. slowing to 237. 280 taking a hit as well northbound. so pack your patience for your south bay commute. tons of delays guadeloupe parkway northbound. bay bridge metering lights are on. and the san mateo bridge is slow westbound. >>> good morning. take a look live from san francisco towards oakland. we have a compressed deck of low clouds. some areas of patchy fog. we are in the 50s and 60s out the door.

it spread fast across two buildings thanks to a shared attic space. from 32 apartments were evacuated and brought to save zones. kpix 5's da lin spoke to some residents who lost everything but escaped with their lives. >> reporter: by the time contra costa county firefighters got to the delta pines apartments around 8:15, the fire was already raging. flames gutted the roof, melted windows and spread quickly to a second building. >> the reason why the quick spread of the fire is a shared attic space that quickly extended to the second building and had both apartment buildings on fire. >> reporter: firefighters say the flames damaged 12 apartments leaving 29 people homeless. >> i never in a million years thought that something like this would like, you know, like happen so. >> reporter: she saw flames burning at a nearby units and woke up her siblings and nieces. >> if i wasn't there, like, would my sisters and nieces were there, would they hear? >> reporter: she is happy they are alive but upset they lost everything in the fire. this is what's left of

apparently he squeezed through a hole in the attic, dropped into a bedroom and came out with a hammerthe family says it's impossible. a baby couldn't fit through that hole. so i went through the hole. >> you went through the hole. you're apparently 60 pounds heavier, according to your piece. terrence is only 110 pounds, little guy. but he fit through a small hole. and this federal agent said that he had a hammer. now, here is the difference and here is why i take issue with this story. and i understand his dad is hurting and that is the worst thing a human being could go through, i believe, is losing a child, because to you, that person will always be your baby no matter what kind of record they have. and i understand his father's pain. but when the task force came to the door, the dad lied and said his son wasn't there. >> yeah, go to youtube, you can see the story. but that's exactly right. it's a lie. listen, if it was me and i come from a place, you come from a place, it's my mom's house, i'm coming down 'cause that's what you'll bring on her. the point here is we got issues in am

crews were faced with ferocious flames reaching all the way to the attic. the first units did run a hand line and eventually knocked down the fire on the first floor. precious minutes had passed. they found the two victims in the kitchen in the back of the home, both were dead just a few feet apart. officials say conditions inside of the home complicated this operation. >> the house was very cluttered, extremely on that first floor where the fire was, so it hampered the first two units trying to make a push to knock down the fire. >> officials say because of the extent of the victims' injuries they were severely burned. the medical examiner will have to identify the pair. the woman who lived here was rarely seen outside. >> barbara rarely came outside. actually i probably saw barbara 10 times in 24 years. >> back here live investigators with the medical examiner's office are on the scene. officials say the fire appears to have started in that kitchen in the back of the house where both victims were found. again, at this hour the names of the victims have no

some of it fell into the attic of a duplex there. a transformer knocked out power to some 20 homes. there the red flag warning was lifted less than 90 minutes ago. >>> let's what does the weather have in store? >> dry weather has returned. we will have dry conditions as we get into the afternoon. a slight warm up. let's take a look. you can see pretty blue sky over the east bay. a lot of sunshine out there. temperatures are responding as well. 73 degrees outside your door. oakland checking in at 71. 80 degrees in concord. san jose at 75. we also have outside lands already underway. 66 degrees at golden gate park. it is under mostly clear skies. those low clouds will come back as we get into the afternoon and for the evening hours. it is 61 degrees with partly to mostly cloudy skies expected there. no rain to speak of. no lightning strikes. we have a little bit of cloud cover. i'll take you into the sierra. this is where the thunderstorms will continue as well as the coastal rains. again, looking at what's going on this is a system right in here. it is right there on the california /

it started in the attic of 640 east 2nd street overnight and quickly spread to two neighboring homes. about 8 # firefighters worked firelessly to keep the flames from spreading to other homes in the area. investigators say everyone was able to get out safely. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> developing in brooklyn today, police released surveillance video of a suspect in is an attempted rape. it happened at 74th street and 20th avenue in bensonhurst earlier this month. police say the man grabbed the 34-year-old woman from behind and tried to kiss her neck. she resisted and the suspect ran off. >>> mayor de blasio wants to clean up bad behavior in times square. the new task force will crack down on aggressive costumes charactered and painted ladies and pan land hers. -- panhandlers, he says the behavior is sometimes harassment. and officers will also be on the lookout to make sure the characters don't spread to coney island and battery park. the new task force could be on the streets by october and will be on patrol 24 hours 7 days a week. let's get over to jolt

we learned on day four, i guess, a lot of people went to attics.t didn't occur to us that people went upstairs and died in their attics. as the tragic was growing we started to realize, there wasn't sleeping, you're outdoors protecting yourself, you realize this is different, they're not coming. and right now as we're sitting here, people are dying. you're in motion, you acted like a spoiled girl. i had never seen you like that. i've never seen where someone had to scream. they weren't there. it wasn't that they were there and failing, they didn't come, and in all of my years, i had never seen that. >> it was an international news story. it was not just a national news stories. the international media covered it. i remember being contacted by australia, south america, press from all over the world. why is that important? when the early stages of both the iraq and wars and for america to be portrayed in a fashion that it can't respond to the challenges of its own people affected our standing as a country and our ability to demonstrate competence in

. >> and then like your attic, i painted your attic.erty very well. >> jimmy: the value just went -- i'm so excited. >> there you go. right through the roof. >> jimmy: in addition to writing and directing, you're also a musician now. this is a new thing. >> sort of, yeah. i mean, i'm barely a musician. >> jimmy: explain this to me. >> so, you know, like -- i always wanted to play guitar, always had a guitar, tried to teach myself, could never do it. i tell my wife this. and then for my 35th birthday, a long time ago, she gets me a a guitar and lessons. and i fully commit to it. so, that's 12 years ago. so i decide every day i'm going to practice. and a couple years later, i'm jamming with a buddy of mine from high school, and the guy that does the music for my films, and we kind of stumble upon a song. and this guy, p.t. walker who does the music, is like, "hey, i think there is a pretty good song here. let's flesh it out." so he comes back two days later. he's written lyrics for it, and we play it. and i'm like, "let's just record it."

--two dozen residents >>:due to the proximity of the apartment buildings and the attic space the fire grew and spread to the building next to it >> reporter :it took time for the firefighters to put the fire out but no injuries were reported >> reporter :they are mourning the loss of a beloved teacher. teachers say that he changed the lives of so many students. talk match and science at the school and directed many outdoor products including hacking and boat making, using the skills that kids learn in his class from--hiking he had gone missing in july during a motorcycle trip. >> pam :in sports. colin kaepernick says he likes being in charge huddle. we'll explain. . and the giants get stellar performances from their rookies. and mad-bum. gary has the highlights. and all the sports. next happy anniversary to me it's safeway's anniversary... happy anniversary to me but you're the one who's gonna save some serious money. happy anniversary to me right now with your club card usda choice ribeye steak is $7.99 a pound 32-ounce gatorade is 69 cents and select quaker cereal is $1.49 happy ann

this is an older building with double roofs, so when the fire spread to the attic, the fire chief says they had a challenging time getting the fire out. most of the damage is in the marina market which is where the fire chief believes it started. but thrifty medical supply next to it is heavily damaged. one of the owners says it's been around for 30 years and his family bought it in 2006. >> it's devastating, it definitely is. we just hope everything's -- we heard that everyone was all right so that's the most important thing. >> he jumped out of bed and drove here as soon as he heard about the fire. he had a hard time watching his family business get destroyed by fire. >> red tags are now outside the building, and investigators are here trying to determine what started this fire. in san leandro, lisa khan. >>> in oakland an early morning fire tore through a home under construction and threatened two others. it happened on 72nd avenue east of the coliseum. the flames even scorched some power lines. fire crews have the blaze under control. a neighboring homeowner cannot return because o

firefighters say this fire has gone into the attic space and burned quickly burning two apartment buildings impacting a total of 20 apartment homes. firefighters say that everyone got out safely but they think that at least 20 people are now displaced from building one. they are still trying to get a head count how many were in building two. residents say it was terrifying. >> i saw it and i heard, boom, and then i heard the fire alarm going up and i jumped up and i said, what is going on and i ran out the front door and the smoke just bam, went like that. >> one person stopped to check out the fire after seeing the highway while driving by. firefighters had to take a defensive approach because they say the roof collapsed in one of the buildings. the callism in a fire started on a balcony. firefighters do not know where or why. they are going to look into that and the investigation will be started shortly when they have this all mopped up. they say everyone is accounted for. everyone is okay it was a smooth and calm evacuation. >> thank you. developing news a massive wildfire burning in lak

suddenly in new orleans pulling people out of attics, out of buildings, people that would have died had we not come in and found them. >> fema placed tight restrictions on media access. he ignored it. >> the day we were with you, we totally broke the rules that day. you weren't supposed to be with us on a boat. we were told no news reporter, but he thought the story was too important. what he didn't know then was hundreds of the people they rescued still had nowhere to go. >> thousands were put in these staging areas with no food, water, shade. >> some residents were seetsdzing at fema. people threw things at his trucks after seeing the fema plaque cards on his vehicles. they flipped them over, the other side read california office of emergency services. >> suddenly they realized we weren't fema. we were from california. it kafrnged in a second. people were telling us they loved us, thanking us for being there. >> later he learned why there was so much anger. >> it wasn't until we got back that we realized everyone thought it was an immense failure and yet we rescued, just our team, ove

. >> there is a shared attic space that quickly extended to both buildings and had both buildings on fire. >> reporter: 32 apartments were damaged or destroyed. >> thank goodness it was early in the morning so the residents were awake. we had the assistance of antioch police department to assist with the evacuations. >> reporter: this teenager escaped with family and dog. >> we heard someone scream fire and it was me and my sister, we woke up. >> reporter: his apartment is badly damaged. he is happy to have made it out. >> we have some pictures salvaged, family photos. >> reporter: firefighters don't know how the fire started. they say the first 911 call came in as a balcony on fire. no one was injured in this three-alarm fire. the red cross is helping those evacuated families but they still need a long-term solution for the families. live in antioch, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> it's another hot day on the fireline for crews battling the massive "rocky fire." it covers 100 square miles and today, firefighters are finally beginning to get the upper hand. meanwhile an entire town in washing

the water started rising and soon, you had thousands of people trapped on their rooftops or attic. i was down here, we were at the convention center where thousands of people were taking refuge. we spoke to police officers who cut off from communication from the higher up. scrounging for food and getting shot at on the roof of the police station. it was an extremely dangerous time. the feeling i'm getting here is this is not a celebration, too many people died here to celebrate the anniversary. they are marking how far the city has come. president clinton will be here later this afternoon to deliver that message to the nation. in new orleans, chris lawrence, news 4. >>> new this morning, two people rushed to the hospital after this deck collapsed in montgomery county. take a look at the picture. montgomery county fire say the deck broke with people standing on it. it happened on water drop court. the people fell 12 feet. a big disappointment for football fans this morning. robert griffin iii not going to play against the ravens. if you have the nbc washington app, you got the alert