. >> it kept the frye battalion was attacking more in nasiriya. >> we had a good fight in support of the infantry moving up. >> suddenly visibility dropped to zero. blinding grit powered over 20,000 feet traveling 60 miles an hour. >> driving down the highway we got ambushed in a little town. >> the engagement brought captain frye to the brink of death. >> i was in the lead vehicle in the passenger seat reading a map, and a rocket propelled grenade hit the door of my hum v and it came through and cut my arm and took my arm off. when you look down everything goes into slow-motion. i remember thinking did this happen to me? a voice kicks in and says do something. >> i was born and raised in baghdad. it's a beautiful city. >> iraqi interpreter mustafa abdul remembers growing up in the iraqi capital. >> i never cooked in iraq. i am a great cook right now because i had my mother and grandma and sisters cooking when i was living in baghdad. >> in 2003 he was 30 years old and one of 30 million iraqis who waited nervously for war. >> when president bush came on tv... >> sadam hussein and his

. >> it kept the frye battalion was attacking more in nasiriya. >> we had a good fight in support of the infantry moving up. >> suddenly visibility dropped to zero. blinding grit powered over 20,000 feet traveling 60 miles an hour. >> driving down the highway we got ambushed in a little town. >> the engagement brought captain frye to the brink of death. >> i was in the lead vehicle in the passenger seat reading a map, and a rocket propelled grenade hit the door of my hum v and it came through and cut my arm and took my arm off. when you look down everything goes into slow-motion. i remember thinking did this happen to me? a voice kicks in and says do something. >> i was born and raised in baghdad. it's a beautiful city. >> iraqi interpreter mustafa abdul remembers growing up in the iraqi capital. >> i never cooked in iraq. i am a great cook right now because i had my mother and grandma and sisters cooking when i was living in baghdad. >> in 2003 he was 30 years old and one of 30 million iraqis who waited nervously for war. >> when president bush came on tv... >> sadam hussein and his

the battalion chief says that is very, very brittle right now. they have to determine whether it's safe enough to go back into the firefighters and the residence. this fire started yesterday just before noon. and from our video from news chopper two you can really see how quickly it moved through the first building and then jumped to the second. at that time during the day there were a lot of heavy winds around here. that may have been one of the reasons the fire was able to move from build to building so quickly. san francisco fire department employed 150 firefighters. that is more than half of their force. because these buildings are so close together in san francisco and she said that is what you deal with when you work in san francisco the buildings are so close together you need to get people here to prevent the fire from starting. >> we called 1502 the fire building and so that just tells me they almost -- they will start there. they will be looking through all of these buildings and looking at not just origin cause but how it extended. >>

go back to our nert staging area, go back, tell the battalion chief, get whatever you need. eliminate your hazards first, make sure you can work safely, remove the victim quickly but bottom line, safely. lifting procedures, we're going to show you a demonstration what you do but when you do it, make sure you treat the patient and tell them what's going on. you want to crib the object. again, cribing goes underneath the object or the load to make sure it stays off the patient. that's the idea of cribbing. lift the load the height of one piece of cribbing. you want to lift a little at a time. you'll understand when we actually do this. whenever the object is set down, it never rests on the patient. it rests on the cribbing. here is the i-beam, here is the patient right here. they're going to build it high enough so the i-beam is resting on that cribbing right there because that would take the weight, hopefully take some of the weight off of the patient. so now here is the patient, here is the load right here on the patient, there's cribbing right here, there's a rescuer standi

the baba tal yun chief ordered all -- battalion chief ordered everyone out of that building because there were flames overhead presumely at the top of the roof of this building. i believe you are seeing flames billowing up. traffic in the area has been slow. we can see a number of fire trucks down on the scene but these -- the situation is still a very dangerous one for the firefighters who are initially rushed to the scene. again, our understanding is they've ordered all units to get out of the building, presumably where this fire started. we're just a few hundred yards at this moment away from the scene. it's really a very spectacular fire in what is normally a very quiet intersection. >> david, i can tell you also that you were talking about how the firefighters were getting out of there. certainly one of the problems they might be facing is the possible collapse of this building because the fire has been surging through three, four floors of the building and that's obviously gonna weaken the structure and as the fires got out of the -- >> reporter: a number of police officers are -- >

i'm sure the house wishes to join me in paying tribute to riflemen sheldon steal from fifth battalion the rifle. he with a highly respected soldier who achieved a great deal and showed much potential during his time with the army. at this sad time arafat should be with his family, friends and colleagues. his courage and dedication will never be forgotten by our nation. this morning i had meetings in addition to my duties with this house meetings later today. >> can i join the prime minister paying tribute to our brave servicemen who gave his life for his country? arafat's go to his family in a very difficult time. >> my constituency has high unemployment but great potential and promise two hundred million -- investment in motor's ford. can i ask him to provide support for enterprise zones as well as in england? >> i thank the hon. gentleman but congratulate him for growing facial hair in november. very good way of raising the profile. we are committed to providing enhanced capital. our discussions are going to both administrations in their enterprise zones and do what we can to help.

mike has the story of burns battalion. >> turn over burns. about 64.orter: sharks defense and burns a great edition on and off the ice. he and his wife susan sponsor burns battalion which help military and family a night at the tank in luxury box. >> it was always a big passion for me. i grew up always a big interest for military and kind of my plan b if hockey didn't work out. >>reporter: hockey worked out which led to the foundation. >> people find it real easy to give back to soldiers and their family for what they do for us. >>reporter: here's how it works. all branch of the military can go on line to burns battalion and fill out this form. l. >> brief story about themselve themselves. talk about the military experience. where they deployed to. what they do in the normal job on day to day basis what it would mean to be able to come to a game. >>reporter: several members bring 3 guest. >> says he appreciate the freedom we go to work for. that we get deployed for and family sacrifice so much and he is appreciates that so much that he offers it up to

steadman has two medic units, battalion six and they will only get busier if there are more cuts to thehtpartment. joce sterman, abc2 news. >>> the baltimorexd county schom to help findxd a new'a7 superintendent. superintendentxd hiredxd by mid. the company also conducted searches for -- searches for baltimore city. >>> the ravens are gearing up for sunday's game against the cleveland browns but will they play. the forecast for ray lewis and why the ravens could be home for the entire playoffs. >>> you're looking live at a tree lighting ceremony. why it's a fitting tribute to those who sacrificed for our freedom. >> no two-degree winner today. we'll talk about our flex weather maker. it will make a difference in your saturday. details coming up. >>> for many folks, it's the chance to get the perfect christmas tree for the holiday. they are hoping you will get a fresh cut tree in maryland. it not only helps local farmers, but it helps the environment in many ways. of course cutting a local tree could become a family tradition. >> i like to do this because going to the store is not as -- no

he enlisted as a light weapons infantry in 1969 in the 773rd maintenance battalion. two and a half years later he graduated and became a second lieutenant platoon leader as part of the 3671st ma maintenane company. from these very early beginnings in the national guard, he progressed rapidly through the ranks. during his time with the guard, he was part of several major campaigns, including a deployment during desert storm. and during the first gulf war general landreneau and his battalion were tasked with any number of missions, one important one for the gulf war commander himself, general franks. general franks needed an unmanned aerial vehicle landing strip built immediately, so he knew who to call to get that job done, and he called benny landreneau and his battalion. need i say that it was done, i am a.m. sure, under budget and before time, after the 527th return to command headquarters, general franks called general landreneau to thank him for what he did and asked the general what he could do as a return favor, a understand without blinking an eye, general lan

what investigators found the battalion chief entered the home alone and did not keep in contact with firefighters outside. and also two backup firefighters were not kept outside. finally there was a break down in communications between firefighters as you can hear from the 911 tapes. >> how much fire you got? what is the location? >> we are looking at low visibility. >> 26 come in. give me an update. what is your location? >> reporter: there was no response. the cal osha report says penalties are due within 15 days of notification. the fire department can appeal. no word on whether it will. we are live in san francisco i'm tara moriarty. >>> the bay area continues to deal with high winds this morning. and the winds have caused power outages throughout the area. we just got these updated numbers just about 15 minutes ago. pg&e says it has been able to restore power to about 1,000 customers in the south bay. there are still nearly 700 people without power. about 340 in the east bay. and down to just 30 on the peninsula. as we have been reporting power fully respore before the people in

joining mess is steve russell, who commanded the battalion that captured is a dame.ide story in a new book. steve, it's great to have you here. >> thank you. >> explaining what role you played overall. >> i commanded the first battalion of the 2nd infantry. we got involved largely because of geography. we worked with two special forces teams over the six-month hunt, as we gained information, we went after those groups, and that led all the way to the hole. >> there was certainly a lot of different theories about exactly where he was, the theories of he's living on the highlife interest, two, he's living somewhere in a hole, which is where he was found you wouldly, but what was the big tip that led to that capture? >> i think early on, a couple businessmen came and explained the entire security apparatus of is a dam and who those people were and that put us on the trail with great sectionses early on, and then on the trail of the guy that actually drove is a dam out of baghdad. that was key to finding is a dam. we are on the raid going after is a dad withen 24 hours.

him if his unit second battalion fifth marine was one of the first combat quantity home that same summern much of the country thought the war was winding down. >> i really think i was more realistic than the rest of the country about how long it would take but i didn't think would it take this long. >>reporter: he and his high school teammate weren't back to iraq for a second tour of duty with second battalion fifth marine this time as sniper tea team. they were killed together in ambush in ramadi, capitol of sunni try angle. >> open the door and 3 l marines in full dress and sl didn't mean anything but one thing. >> they went to school together. they went in the marines together. the they went to war together. and now we'll bury them together. >>reporter: their death and the national coverage of the joint funeral on veterans day 2004 also marked the graduate shift in american feelings about the war. except for the hub barred family especially youngest son nathan. >> i haven't changed my thought of the war or anything. still the same thing. i did last someone extremely close to me and i

and that the battalion chief did talk to perez and the firefighters in the house. they had radio communication which somehow failed during the fire. the firefighters union says it's more concerned about the internal fire department probe than with cal/osha investigation. >> they have the documentation of the radio transcript. with the times that each radio transcript was made. you have video footage from neighbors with time stop stamp on the bottom to track the time of the radio transmission with the growing fire. >>reporter: cal/osha has impose add fine of 21,000 dollars but you just heard chief say the department is going to appeal those citation citations. now with regard to the department own investigation l he tells that you say that report is almost done. it could be released within the month. that is the report the firefights want to see. vick lee, 7 news. >> man suspected of running over a firefighters in san francisco last week pleaded not guilty this afternoon to variety of charges including torture. eduardo also faces attempted murder and assault with a

at the point where every unit born sward so if you have ups three or four groups going in with a battalions a red report every day in a certain area each of those units like call for a team and then that will come down here in fort bragg will be tasked with with sending a loudspeaker team so it does much more of the main. technology of these loudspeakers is becoming more and more sophisticated the latest models all compact powerful sound cannon they can bust ear drums cools nausea and can even make people unconscious by then see medium bills these acoustic morhaime and. it's a powered loud speaker that works at very long distances with perfect clarity that is not what a normal loud speaker does. it makes it more intelligible. it makes it louder. and it throws it farther. business is brisk every day dozens of these small high performance speakers are assembled into large sound cannons cannons that knock out the enemy not with bullets but with sensory overload what's scary is not just that looks. it's like it's here. how is that possible if i blindfolded you if i blindfolded you and i turned

and the battalion chief entered the home alone and did not keep contact with other firefighters inside. >>> attempted child production -- we told you yesterday about the 11-year-old girl that claimed a man grabbed her in front of the marin brewing company. the girl made up the story to get attention. police said she did see a man walking in front of the company but he did not grab her. >>> let's check in with sal far look at traffic. >> good morning, and happy friday to you and all that are watching. let's take a look at the commute. if you are driving on 80 westbound it looks pretty good. again pretty windy out there. it's not going to be great driving across the bridges. as you saw lou dean say earlier. there will be high wind warning for most if not all of the bay area bridges. you can see here at the bay bridge it's light still. if you can do it safely without stopping and causing a big distress wave to claudine as you drive by. this is a look at northbound 280 getting up to highway 17. dave thinks it's funny over here. that traffic looks pretty good. >>> hello steve. >> should i w

shot for drunkenness in the front line or being found when they were supposed to be leading their battalions within their campaign lawyers. these were extraordinary stories which because of all those decades in the soviet era when this stuff was hitting them and we were supposed to believe that they were just refer than we were but it's amazing. i suppose what i complain to my wife and i say it's hard writing books and she says you love it and of course i do. you've done it. you've just written a terrific book. so thrilling sitting in these archives in the far corners of the world with the stuff that people produce to even now after the war we are getting stories that for a very long time people were not willing to tell how ghastly it was three to post to your born in 1945 after the end of the second world war your father was a war correspondent coming and how did -- you lived the post world war you've been researching and writing about for 35 years so you have an incredible perspective. how is your perspective changed from comics as a child to now? >> i grew up as people in the united state

. >> to be asked to join that battalion of hon. males is me -e males is very thrilling for me. a lot of our male heroes are completely in a vulnerable -- invulnerable, in some cases completely fit. we are more complex than that. tavis: let's talk about your character more broadly in the project "hugo." >> my character was completely empowered by his craft and he was one of the first narrative film makers in the world right about 1906-1913. because of world war ii 1, having achieved the peak of magic, he was amazing. -- because of world war i, having achieved the peak of magic. he was experimenting with 3d, motion capture, everything. then, the first world war came and suddenly nobody wants to see his films anymore. the social trauma was so great that he lost his audience almost overnight. then he went to sell his negatives to be sold down to make plastics for shoes, to burn all of his props, to allow his studios for collapse. we start off with his affirmation of life and magic and then to see all of that taken away from him was the resulting toys that you see in the toy shop. h

a battalion that lost 17 wouldn't even know they were in a battle. and that's true. i learned a lot from personal experience about the ways of soldiers and what it's like. give you one example. soldiers talk about women but actually my experience enwhen you're on the battlefield, you would give absolutely anything for a bath, hot meal, and to be able to sleep in a bed, preferably alone so you don't want to believe all this stuff about power, and it's the sort of thing -- you have to talk about women, but how much -- there are other priorities. an american marine in the pacific who said, the real thing he was waiting to get back to when he got home, apart from wanting to sleep in pajamas, he was going to keep flushing the toilet for hours just to hear the water run. >> didn't have to dig a hole anymore. >> what you learn from being on battlefields, you learn about how terrifying it is to be under fire and you learn how difficult to make your limbs move from one place to another when you're really scared. so you learn about that. and you just learn about what it's like

there was a battalion that lost 17, and wonted recognize they had been in a battle. this, of course, is true. we have to keep a sense of perspective what we've seen in our generation is small potatoes, but i learned a lot in personal experience about the ways of soldiers. for example, soldiers talk about women, but actually my experience on the battlefield, when you live -- actually what you really care about is you would give absolutely anything for a bath and a hot meal and to be able to sleep in a bed, preferably alone. don't believe all the stuff it's the thing with soldiers, you have to talk about women, but how much there's other priorities. i quoted that. an american marine in the pacific who said the real thing he was waiting to get back home, apart from wanting to sleep in pa jam mas, but he was going to keep flushing the toilet for hours just to hear the water run. >> host: didn't have to dig a hole anymore. >> guest: what you learn from battlefields, you learn, first of all, you learn how terrifying it is to be under fire and how difficult it is to make yo

in addition to the unresponded radio calls, cal-osha says a battalion chief entered the house alone and that at one point, only one firefighter was outside the house to monitor the situation and handle the pumps, both against the rules of. the san francisco fire department has a report of its own coming out but in the meantime has a message. >> the public needs to know that our members are always ready to help our citizens and at a moment's notice we are there to save them orr do what we have to do to protect them. >> reporter: the fire department said cal-osha didn't give them a chance to respond to before they became official citations. they have two weeks to respond to the citations. it could cost the fire department $21,000 to be paid to the state. the main goal is to improve safety in the department. >> thank you, anne makovec. >>> our other big story wind. about 700 people in the bay area are still without power. pg&e says 400 customers are in the dark in the south bay, 170 in the east bay and just 40 in the north bay. power has been restored in san francisco but in santa cruz cou

we only have one infantry battalion in the army reserve, so the other, the mission is logistics. we have, as i said, medical units, civil affairs, which involves a special skill set for civil affairs, a unique skill set, so i think what we do is attractive to females, and two, it is a welcome environment. >> go back to what we were talking to earlier. you send an important thing in your life was watching your mother and grandmother working with a car salesman. >> i was in grade school, probably second, third, or fourth grade, early 1960's, back in illinois, and we needed a new car, and my grandmother near the vice president of the bank, and we had a good relationship and a good banking relationship, i am sure, and i went to school with their son, and they went to the bank, and they got preapproved. they knew how much they wanted to spend on the car, and they knew what they could afford, so we went to the dealership, and we were running around, and they walked on the showroom floor and ignored them, and so they finally got a salesman who reluctantly came over, and they said, "we a

my own connections with a name like giovagnoli are third generation battalion. i'm not even sure what generation on my mother's side in terms of scotch irish dutch immigrants from virginia to missouri. i never really thought about immigration much growing up. my grandfather was italian. i was aware he had a different life from me. and very grateful for the opportunities that he give us. my father was the youngest child growing up in the depression. all they wanted to do was the american. he does not even know italian. i never even thought about it. during the development of a career path, i fell into immigration. like a lot of young attorneys, i was interested in human rights. i was offered a job at the department of justice with the ins. i was not tried to do it. i started thinking about what i cared about. it was public service. you make a difference where you are. i believed for the 13 years that i was in ind and then dhs, that i was able to help make changes within the government structure. i was detailed to senator kennedy's office. i worked on the immigrat

finally, they all collapse in front of him, his battalion. he stood up and said what the heck is the matter with you? i'm 35, during the same that you are, you don't see me out of breath. from somewhere in the back a soldier shouted out, he never figured out who it was, but we're not as while as you are, bill. okay? from that day on "wild bill" donovan start. he claims he didn't like that nickname because it ran counter to the cool, calm collected spy energy he wanted to project. but his wife said he really did like being called while bill. he returned to new york he wrote. eventually became an assistant attorney general in the coolidge administration during the roaring '20s. his goal at that point was to be attorney general of the united states. and he thought herbert hoover had made a promise to. hoover had. but the ku klux klan which is very powerful, powerful political movement then was up in arms over the idea of an irish catholic becoming attorney general of the united states. donovan was a prominent republican made his share of enemies

so they really have -- we have only one infantry battalion in the army reserve. the rest of our mission is logistics. we have medical units, civil affairs, which involves a lot of special skill sets for civil awares -- affairs. a lot of what we do is attractive to females and two, it's a welcoming environment. >> you said abimportant moment in your life was watching your mother and grer deal with a car salesman. when was that and why was it so important? >> i was in grool, maybe third or -- in grade school, maybe third or fourth grade, in the early 1960es -- 1960'sing back in illinois, we need -- we needed a new car. my grandmother had a vice president of the bank, they had a good banking relationship and i went to school with his son. so they went to the bank and got preapproved and they knew how much they wanted to spend on the car, they had researched it and they knew what we could afford. we all went to the dealership, them, my brother, myself, we were running around, it was just my mother and grandmother and we walked into the showroom floor and they ig -- t

. >> reporter: the oakland battalion chief worried that the state's dry spell could mean major wildfires come may. >> and we have a potential for a fire season. >> reporter: he's currently more concerned about the immediate impact of the rains and that is ching new year's eve plans because of the rain. >> rather than tough it out and ski rocks and horrible snow, we decided to get on a plane and fly home and get some surf at ocean beach. >> reporter: and you're looking at a presentout of craig's list ads for luxury vacation rentals in tahoe this weekend. you can see it's filled with price cuts with many would be snow boarders and skiers. live at fort baker, patty lee, ktvu chapel 2 news. >>> up ahead in 10 minutes, ktvu meteorologist will be here at the rain totals and whether it will be a dry new year's eve. >>> and san jose firefighters rescued a 24-year-old man this morning from a chute at a landfill. the man works at the landfill before 8 this morning, he got stuck in the loading part of the shot and the landfill. more than 20 rescuers were called in and to help pull him out. he was t

members of the 185th military police battalion have been in afghanistan since last christmas. >> i'm really glad to be home right now. i've been away for a year. now i want to spend time with my family and loved ones. >> it's quite amazing to see all of these people here. never expected. >> last nights celebration was bittersweet. just last month the company lost 21-year-old shawn walsh from san jose in combat. he was counting down the days until coming home and his presence was felt at last nights reunion. >>> this morning the payroll tax cut extension is once again not a sure thing. on saturday the senate passed a temporary bill to continue the payroll tax cut for two more months. republicans in the house of representatives want the legislation to be for a full year. the house will vote on the senate bill today but if republicans are united in vetting against the bill, it will fail. >> it's pretty clear that i and our members oppose the senate bill. it's only for two months. the president said we shouldn't go on vacation until we get our work done. and frankly republicans agree. >>

in a choreographed show of grief, this as masses of weeping people, battalions of organized mourners appear as u.s. officials say, on command. an emotional outpouring that reminds some of a cult. >> it has both elements of a cult and elements of a mafia. you have to think of the two of those together. mafia with the personality cult behind it. >> reporter: the well-fed political elite of pyongyangpyo their standard of living is inconceivable to the starving millions outside the capital. this satellite image taken just six years ago, illustrates the stark contrast. south korea thriving, brightly lit. north korea in mere total darkness. its isolation makes it a difficult target for u.s. intelligence, which picked up no warning that kim was dead. how is that possible? >> you have a government that's fairly compartmentalized. and fairly paranoid about its governance. given all of those things, it is a very difficult place to collect accurate and analyze information. >> reporter: in 2007, u.s. intelligence didn't know north korea was building a nuclear reactor in syria, until israel showe