allacteristically, while the moments of the 155 millimeter battalion were in p.m.thefiring by 5:00 mediums could 28 not supply a concentrated effort until d+ four. it must also be noted that core artillery at this point of the offensive operated under the restriction that it could fire on targets no closer than four miles from the infantry's frontline positions which were often in question. so why is this important? assumeded command had whenermans would withdraw french and american formations respectively of the left and this massive past area of tangled growth and large trees. outas the romans had found 2000 years earlier and the next iteration of frenchmen and americans would learn in world war ii, the germans were not shy about fighting in force. moving against them in 1918 whether the new york guardsmen of the 77th division, one of whose units would become cut off and become famous as the lost regimentswill stop to of the guardsmen, the third opposite theh was 35th division, they were fighting up the western side of the valley which had normal and they really

>> after barely surviving the cliffs, new jersey native lieutenant limbal and the second ranger battalion had months of fierce combat ahead. >> a lot of fighting in that 2 1/2 months as patton and those guys led us across europe through france and belgium. >> as the allies broke out from the normandy lodgement and the americans were sweeping towards the east and germany. >> the german defeat. >> the germanys fell back in total disarray. >> retired colonel edward miller spent 18 years studying the battle the author of the book "a dark and bloody ground". >> by and large they were very ill equipped, ragged, something that clearly the allies could look at with a little bit of optimism. ♪ >> on 29 august american troops of the 28th infantry division, the keystone boys of the pennsylvania national guard, marched down the streets of a liberated paris. the division commander, general norman cota and generals omar bradley and courtney hodges reviewed the parade. >> the proceed across france and approach to germany led people to think there might be a chance that the war could be ended by the end

he was a battalion commander. we all know the story, north korea attacks the border of south korea with about 80,000 north korean soldiers who are extremely committed to their communist cause. they come across -- the south korean military was rudimentary light infantry forces. a significant amount of combat power to resist the north korean attack. the united states on very short notice -- president truman decides within days to commit u.s. forces under the u.n. mende to this peninsula south korea. he crosses the strait there and gets into the south korean peninsula and the south korean -- or the 24th division starts working its way up the road. the 21st infantry regiment is the lead unit of the 24th division and they start setting in this u-shape defensive perimeter to form an engagement area to stop the north koreans. the tenant colonel smith has his op's looking out. they start shooting rounds at them. round start pinging off. the 21st entry, colonel smith gets overrun. the 24th division got hammered pretty hard

. >>> today the leaders of the san francisco fire department, battalion chiefs, including the battalion chiefs, joined the rank and file on the call to replace fire chief joann hayes white. mark matthews is live at fire department headquarters with more. mounting pressure for the chief to step down. >> reporter: indeed. you remember last week, big news when every working group in the department signed a letter of no confidence. while today with this letter the battalion chiefs have joined the insurrection, calling on the mayor to replace the city's first-ever female fire chief, who's been on the job for more than a decade. when rank and file firefighters called on the mayor to replace chief joann hayes white, the mayor said he would look into it. by thursday a line of department heads and community leaders had formed at the fire commission's meeting in support of chief hayes white and it appeared she had weathered the worst. until today. when her battalion chiefs sent this letter through their association. describing a crisis of confidence and echoing the rank and file's complaint that

this time the pressure isn't from the rank and file but from battalion chiefs. nbc bay area's mark matthews is at the fire department headquarters. mark, what is the response if any from chief joanne hayes white? >> reporter: well, raj, the chief is not responding in person as she did last week when the rank and file sent their letter. and today the battalion chiefs with this letter have joined the chorus, calling on the mayor to replace her. her own department is turning up the heat on fire chief joanne hayes-white. last week's unprecedented letter of no confidence from the rank and file was followed today by this one from the fire chiefs association. battalion chiefs echoing the crisis of confidence, saying the current state of the fire department has become untenable and immediate action is necessary. >> we're at a crisis point. we have -- we have real issues that need to be dealt with in the very short-term. >> reporter: the initial complain from firefighters focused on the department's slow response time on ambulance calls. but the chief's association presi

airborne battalion underneath it. the czech republic and battalion companies and platoons with albania and serbia and other nations. we had many nations well over 6,000 soldiers. this time we did what was different. we just didn't train in germany which we normally do. we expanded and did an air field seizure and simultaneously in lat via and lithuania. we landed and we were able to drive the striker vehicles out of the c 17s. we seize the air field several countries away. building on the operability and the partnered capacity. we are doing this well before the crisis started. my mission to get over there and get the u.s. army in europe with nato, it's successful. we have a strong alliance that can respond to security concerns today. they responded as a number of a very, very strong alliance. >> can you talk about how nato operations in afghanistan and lessons learned from that and i'm inferring if there was a positive lesson from that and potentially negative ones that operational diseases there have created things w

you're talking about special forces in with every iraqi battalion? >> correct. we have a little more than a thousand troops on the ground. they're mostly in head quarter roles. they're far back from the front line fighting we just heard. in order to succeed we'll need to increase them about a factor of 10, 10,000, 15,000 advisers to put a dozen inside every iraqi battalion and brigade. they'll have to get their noses in the fighting. that means that some will likely get hurt, hopefully no one would be captured. the time is urgent. isil is very close to be did not capture baghdad international airport, least render it unusable by u.s. and international forces. that would an di seaster. >> you were involve in the training of people who trained the troops. with worked with general john allen, president obama's special envoy with respect to isil. they just released a statement where general allen has said that they've reached an agreement to have turkey involved in the training of coalition fighters to be the ground troops to take on isil. what does that mean? >> th

battalion chiefs. >> the majority of chiefs in the san francisco fire department have spoken to me and said that they feel like a change in administration is necessary. for us to solve the problems that we have now. >> reporter: the union says the problems range from ambulance response times to facilities. mayor ed lee says his office is currently assessing the situation. chief white's office did not respond to our calls for comment. >>> a show of support tonight for a bay area man accused of setting a series of fires. his friends and family believe this man is innocent and say he has an air-tight alibi to prove it. abc 7 news reporter nick smith is live outside court in oakland tonight with the story. nick? >> reporter: we have covered many of these cases in the past here at superior court but i can tell you it's rare that i have seen this level of support come from friends and family. that's because they say stephen peterson is innocent and they will be here every day that he has a court appearance because they are convinced cops have the wrong guy. >> unless he got possessed by the

and he was the battalion commander. so you all know the story, north korea attacks across the border of south korea, with about 80,000 north korean soldiers, who are extremely committed to their communist cause. they come across, and the south korean military was fundamentally a little bit better, rudimentary light infantry forces. there were american advisers there, but there wasn't a significant amount of combat power there to resist the north korean attack. so the united states, very short notice, within days, president truman decides to go ahead and commit the u.s. forces under u.n. mandate for the peninsula of south korea. so the 24th division, then under general keene, dean or keene, he goes across the straits there, and the south korean -- or the 24th division starts working its way up the road to seoul. and they get up around oson, and the 21st infantry division gets up and starts this defensive perimeter to form an engagement area to stop the north koreans coming down the western corridor. and lieutenant colone

you know that there is not public support for any kind of battalions of u.s. soldiers going back to iraq. there does not seem to be any other country willing to put people inside iraq to fight isis. so where does this go? if the administration -- i'm sure every day they're looking at it and saying, okay, do we need to refigure this. how do you refigure it given all of the restraints there are in taking this fight to isis? >> first of all, i'm not advocating sending battalions back in but we can do a lot more down at the operating level. we have to understand there's no boundary between syria and iraq. why should we differentiate? certainly isis doesn't. we certainly must give them the weapons and capabilities that they need. but right now we are going to have to have effective air strikes. you can't have that without forward air controllers on the ground. in kobani, there's no way you can use -- orchestrate air support in that kind of urban fighting. isis has adjusted to these air strikes. fortunately for them we gave them two weeks warning. and so this has to

we're also reducing our number of battalions from 102 to 49 battalions.se organizations, although the numbers are going smaller, the size organizations are becoming larger and much more versatile. and so that's the, you know, in the business of executing total force policy as the executive agent for forces command, that's, that's where we're going with bold shift in order to create these integrated training events. of which, by the way, there's about over 30 a year that the army conducts. these training events come in the form of combat training centers, rotations, war fighter rotations both brigade and division, they are xctc rotations, five or six a year, cx/tx rotations and war ex rotations with the army reserve. all of those, first army's charged to insure those are integrated. the army is organized, trained and equipped, manned in order to fight as a total force. we never go to war as one component. we go to war as a multicompetent force always. so the secretary's intent with this total force policy in the role of 2012 that's been talked about quite

importance of rail transportation in combat areas and the importance of organizing and training combat battalionsor use overseas. all of these officers and most of these enlisted men are with the bno, the delaware hudson, and the other great railroads of america. once they put it on, they start it the beginning again, doing it the real word army way, showing they can strip a railroad under field conditions. these are government owned ships and repair shops at the camp, and after the men learn the nomenclature, there is a 50-mile track to practice on. railroading is a weapon, and the work of shuttling freight cars is work for soldiers. soldiers engineer the locomotive and man the switches and run a regularly scheduled train each day over the 50-mile strip. but this is no milk train. these men are schooled to work under fire and combat areas. they furnish their own security and observation, and when they hit trouble, it is their mission to repair the damage and keep the train running. [airplane sounds] [bombing sounds] ♪ after the damage is estimated, the call for repair crews those goes from the s

. >> cal fire battalion chief says one spark of a lawn mower can turn into a dangerous situation. >> san jose fire crews were fighting two separate fires requiring them to call for backups. first happened at 10:00 at a town home. minutes later crews were called to the center grocery store. san jose fire tweeted out this picture of the townhouse fire. they say a car fire spread to the building. you can see a burning car. then flames shooting out of the second story. no one was hurt, but the down home is a total loss. five people have to find new places to live. one crew was battling those flames, another crew was fighting to keep a small grocery store from going up in flames. thankfully a sprinkler system kept the fire from spreading. crews had a difficult time fighting the fire because there was so much smoke and clutter inside the store. there is extensive smoke and water damage. no one was hurt. causes of both fire are still under investigation. >>> a uc berkeley student is under arrest on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman at the frat earn house on campus. police are investi

. >> when the 24 year veteran of the san francisco fire department, a battalion chief, said it had to be done. >> i have never seen morale this low. >> and it is low because? >> i feel that it is a leadership issue. >> by top, battalion chief means joanne hayes white who faces increasing criticism from all branches of her department, first came the letter from rank and file to mayor ed lee, today, another letter from her trusted managers, 44 chiefs. >> we all felt it was important to have a consensus. and i have spoken to all the chief officers and we have a vast majority that are supporting the letter. and looking for a change in the administration to be able to solve our problems. >> the most publicized ambulance response times, today union president tom o'connor showed abc 7 where there were delays of up to a half an hour, where ten minutes is the standard. >> tme this is the index of pain and suffering for people in san francisco, they're waiting too long for help. >> under hayes-white, they are criticized for the handling of the disaster. they are sleeping in a fire training clas

the area is extremely rough and hazardous and we have to know if the battalion can move safely and swiftlya. >> how did you get a helicopter halfway around the world? c-130used an air force three. it was necessary to partially dismantle this helicopter. then the aircraft was moved inside and change down. miles.flown here 8000 >> because this is unfamiliar territory, to feel you will have any problems flying this area? >> we come -- we are very familiar with around area. we are operating in a desert region that has large mountains and flowing snow that offers many for jill your programs -- problems we do not -- many peculiar problems we do not normally have. supportingall equipment and we brought an accompanying helicopter to this and spare parts, fuel, oil, crew chiefs to maintain the aircraft. >> how long have you been in flying helicopters? >> six months. formally, i was with the 101st. >> do you normally take your heavy equipment with you when you make an overseas move? >> yes, we do. ?> where's your hometown >> chicago, illinois. >> thank you for the use of this flight jacket. later, u

>> the area is extremely rough and hazardous and we have to know if the battalion can move safely andd the world? >> we used an air force c-133. it was necessary to partially dismantle this helicopter. we took off main -- one main rotor blade and then the aircraft was moved inside and chained down. it was flown here 8000 miles. >> because this is unfamiliar territory, do you feel you will have any problems flying this area? >> yes, we do have a problem. we are very familiar with our own area. we are operating in a desert region that has large mountains and flowing snow that offers many peculiar problems we do not normally have. >> did you bring much other heavy equipment along with the 101st trip contingent? >> yes we brought all supporting , equipment and we brought an accompanying helicopter to this and spare parts, fuel, oil, crew chiefs to maintain the aircraft. >> how long have you been flying helicopters? >> six months. formally, i was with the 101st. >> do you normally take your heavy equipment with you when you make an overseas move? >> yes, we do. we take all the equipment we

here in kiev, one of those battalions is holding a special ceremony. their soldiers are packing up their things and heading off to fight in eastern ukraine. now, ashov is a controversial organization. it's seen as far right. ultra nationalist. and some of its members have been accused of being neo-nazis, and the kind of symbols they use very much like symbols used by the nazis. this is not the political mainstream here, but what the war in the east has done is to give the far right in ukraine a new prominence and a new confidence. and now, the ashov commander is running for parliament. >> reporter: among the farewells, there are far right salutes. here's another of the riders and riders. he has this warning for the politicians in kiev. >> reporter: here outside the ukrainian parliament building, there's a long line of police. very heavy security for what is the final parliament session ahead of this weekend's election. and i think what this security reflects is a nervousness, an edginess really. there's been so much turmoil in this country over last fe

me try - nope it's not working but go the website and also at the kickoff snow white from beach battalion is there they've created a song go there targeting youth we're going into schools and trying to teach behavior that's not good to trash keep it clean green and buffalo in partnership with the department of the environment they've been awesome and done 33 successful assembles we go in and talk to the youth to the youth about changing their behavior and that touched one hundred 8 thousand students we're or we're going to try to beat that this year we have competition last year a poster competition elementary school middle school and high school each level had a winner and the winner each level of the poster competition one $500 for the students and the supported t-shirt and $500 for the school this year we did a 30-second passing two winders they received one thousand dollars to themselves and those videos can be seen on the website as well their fanatically we go out to the merchant we wanted to community to the mfrnt are merchant and ask them to do their part in keeping the storefront

but a battalion chief told me she is now stable. it was concentrated near the kitchen. firefighters say at this point they are not sure how it may have started. >> you know we don't know sure the company called an origin yet. but when we enter the structure it was adjacent to the toyy and the kitchen. this woman could have been seriously hurt. given how large the fire had grown by the time crews got here, they evacuated four homes nearby. neighboring homes about 20 people were forced to leave their homes until the fire was eventually knocked down. at this point the firefighters do not think this fire is suspicious. of course investigators will take a closer lookat it. >> all right. i'm sure we will find out a little bit later how this fire started. >>> happening right now dozens of east bay workers for the garbage company waste management are walking a picket line. other workers are picketing in san leandro outside the company's building there. many workers are spanish speaking immigrants. these protestors clearly don't have the support of the local teamsters union. >>

he was not an adviser to a south vietnamese battalion.s service in the vietnam war. trns out he did not serve in the vietnam war. the sum total of his vietnam experience was he visited the cannot once befo country once on a tour while on leave from noncombat duty somewhere else and walter rob robinson nailed him for it. royal switzer did not become governor and reporter walter robinson is a vietnam veteran. and for a generation when massachusetts politicians have lied about their military service in order to advance their political careers, walter robinson has been there at the boston globe to tack them up to the wall and make them pay for it. walter robinson is still around and just broke a story that's the antidote to all of that dishonorable muck he's had such a great career muck-raking through. get this. this is seth molton. served as a u.s. marine in iraq. running for congress in one of the congressional districts that's a competitive district. he beat out democrat john tearney to get the democratic line. he has not been shy about hi

many in her own department are calling for hayes white to resign including the battalion chiefs and the firefighters' union. >> we want a chief that will roll up their sleeves and pay attention to the small things. how many are on duty? what fire engines are in the shop. >> a deputy chief tells me the department is looking into what happened this morning and why the ambulance was late. he promises answers tomorrow. if you have a tip for my next investigation call 1-888 for the eye team or e-mail me at abc7news.com. >> we will see what happens with this. >> we sure will. more to come. >> to dallas now where thomas eric duncun, the first patient diagnosed with the u.s. -- dying ease nod in the u.s. died today. a sheriff who was staying in the room where he was has been hospital lidsed. five airports will start separate screenings for travelers from west africa. they will have their temperatures taken before going through customs. laura anthony is live in walnut creek to show us how john muil medical center is ramping up in case any patients show up with ebola symptoms. >> john muir has no

. >> we have a medical battalion, we have surgical teams, we train in chemical and biological environments. >> reporter: and as visitors take in the sights and sounds, local emergency planners see this as a broader opportunity. >> to partner with our -- with the military to really work together to learn each other's language, to be able to exercise together and to get to know each other. >> reporter: all right. back out here live now along the embarcadero near the bay bridge, where you can see people are already lining up for these tours which start at 1:00 this afternoon. if you are planning oncoming down for one, two things to keep in mind. where closed toe shoes and bring a valid government identification. anne makovec, kpix 5. >> fleet week festivities include navy ship tours today, the parade of ships tomorrow, saturday night fireworks at pier 39, and the highlight of fleet week, the blue angels performing over the bay saturday and sunday afternoon. >>> breaking news. the. he battled president of the state public utilities commission says he will not seek a new term. michael peavey's

it will be mounted on the battalion chief's car. >> that's right, giants playoff fever. live look at at&t park. the calm before the raucous. the team's walk-off win in extra innings. game four, 5:0 7. >> if you want to see it again, check the tape. bottom of the tenth, blanco lays down a bunt, no out. the cardinal pitcher blows the throw to first. there's crawford cruising in for the game-winning run. score, 5-4. >> tonight for the giants ryan vogelsong hoping for another strong showing from the starter, who has won seven straight playoff appearances, coming into tonight's game. >> christina did provide fair warning to players yesterday the winds were -- >> they talked about them, too. >> you saw it happen in real time, knocked down, violent almost winds out there at at&t park. >> yeah, it cool when you can predict that and actually watch it play out. those boys know our field and so i think that really helped them that home-field advantage. i think it will tonight. i have to it'll you as we get into tonight, wind direction will shift and that will likely impact the game

the entire battalion is expected to be kept in isolation for the three gestation timeframe of the disease. next catalonia where the leader of that spanish region has vowed to press ahead with a vote on independence despite the challenge from spain's constitutional court. the regional governor said they will go ahead with the vote on november 9, but now with an official vote to get around the court ruling. >> the cattle on government -- the catalonian government maintained its goal of a referendum on november 9. it means there will be polar -- polling stations open with ballots. and if you are wondering how we will be able to keep this consultation legal despite the decree to suspend it, the catalonian government will remain within the existing legal friend work as we -- framework as we have a right for public participation. >> there has been a radical shift in tone from the vatican on homosexuality. reports from a catholic bishops meeting on family life seem to lead more toward accepting gay people into the church. claire williams explained. >> 200 of the world's top bishops, a week of di

this is hard. >> reporter: in the opinion of battalion chief brian rubenst n rubenstein, it's time for joanne hayes-white to step down or be removed. he's a 24 year veteran of the department. that's his name on the bottom of the letter on behalf of 43 other chiefs. >> i have never seen morale this low. >> reporter: it's low because? >> i feel that it's a leadership issue. >> reporter: this criticism of hayes-white has been building for months, the firefighters union tells us. the department has a laundry list of issues from ambulance response times to facilities to style. they say this chief, who plays well to the public, has failed to represent the department at city hall and let too many details slip. >> we want a chief that will come in in the morning, roll up their sleeves, pay attention to all the small things. who's on duty, how many ambulances do we have, what fire engines are in the shop, what do we do going forward, what's our succession plan, what are we going to do about hiring. >> reporter: this chief doesn't do that? >> we're adrift right now, unfortunately. >> reporter: c

from the battlefield until his men in the position are secure 89 in about five days of action, his battalion about 6 hung strong -- when he became director of the oss, he insisted that his telephone extension be 600. on his desk you'll see a sort of sears and robucks style catalog. a piece that stanley loval's group generated in 1942 that went out to different ovrks ss bases achkd stations around the world. so depending on your operational pace, you could pick so many beano grenades or so many liberate for pistols,or so many 22 caliber handguns, so many high stand dards, what are you needed for your operational pace, you could find it in this catalog. as the war was drawing to an end in 1945, general donovan was very passionate about there being some sort of a post war centralized intelligence agency, and he wrote memo after memo to both president roosevelt and truman. but he lost the battle when it seems at least one of those memos was leaked to the press. so on the 20th of september, 1945, donovan receives a letter from the white house that said, basically, dear bill, we loved what you did

many in her own department are calling for hayes white to resign including the battalion chiefs and the firefighters' union. >> we want a chief that will roll up their sleeves and pay attention to the small things. how many are on duty? what fire engines are in the shop. >> a deputy chief tells me the department is looking into what happened this morning and why the ambulance was late. he promises answers tomorrow. if you have a tip for my next investigation call 1-888 for the eye team or e-mail me at abc7news.com. >> we will see what happens with this. >> we sure will. more to come. >> to dallas now where thomas eric duncun, the first patient diagnosed with the u.s. -- dying ease nod in the u.s. died today. a sheriff who was staying in the room where he was has been hospital lidsed. five airports will start separate screenings for travelers from west africa. they will have their temperatures taken before going through customs. laura anthony is live in walnut creek to show us how john muil medical center is ramping up in case any patients show up with ebola symptoms. >> john muir has no

succeed, we'll need to increase by a fact of 10,000, 15,000 advisors, to put a dozen inside the battalions and brigade. they'll have to get up close, and it means some are likely to get hurt. hopefully none of them get captured. that's what it will take to push i.s.i.l. back. the time is urgent. this is what i was pointing out. i.s.i.l. is very close to being able to if not capture the baghdad international airport to render it unusable by u.s. and international forces. that will be a disaster. you will be involved in the training. training the people who train the troops. you work with general john allen, special envoy with regard to i.s.i.l. they released a presser where general allen said that they reached on agreement to have turkey involved in the training of coalition fighters to be the ground troops to take on i.s.i.l. what does that mean. turkey is going to provide more of the behind the line trainers. my guess is that will be the free syrian army forces that will work on the other side of the fight inside syria. but we are talking about multiple mondays, if not years before the fo

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for more on the rescue, we are, um, trying to talk to the oakland battalion chief and we're going to try to get that person on the phone. but for now, the two men are safe after being rescued from this building. >>> new at noon, health officials are confirming two people have been infected here in the bay area with the dangerous enterovirus. kpix 5's anne makovec joins us live in oakland. apparently these could be the first of many cases to come. >> reporter: that's right. and doctors aren't saying much about the two infected children here in alameda county just that they are out of the hospital and they did not appear to have the polio-like symptoms that other states have been reporting in the certain isolated cases. nonetheless, it is the first confirmed two cases of enterovirus d-68 during this outlook here in the bay area. >> we only are actually touching patients that is hospitalized and 18 years or under, only accepting those. beyond that i don't have other details. >> reporter: so according to the alameda county department of public health we can expect the number of cases of

. >> reporter: all in all, the battalion chief says this drill went very well. the conditions were perfect. not a lot of current. the sun was out. they could have been dealing with fog and choppy waters. the idea is to give them a chance to practice. disastersers can trike at -- disaster can strike at any time. live from san francisco, i'm tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a couple is in critical condition and four dogs are dead after a dog mauling at a northern california home. who investigators are looking for today. >>> the first tunnel to deliver hetch hetchy water under the san francisco bay is now complete. what this means for drinking water through the bay area. californians are discovering the real risks behind prop 46. it was written and paid for by the trial lawyers to make them millions... while, for the rest of us, health care costs go up. no wonder every major newspaper in the state opposes prop 46. they say 46 "overreached in a decidedly cynical way." it's a ploy "for trial lawyers to enrich themselves." and prop 46 has "too many potential dr

on the ground in major military formations, and certainly very robust advisory teams down to the battalion level. i think this is absolutely necessary. and in fact, you can, if you find forces such as the pkk we're fighting in sinjar two months ago, and some of the peshmerga forces advancing from the east and the west. you can find ground forces doing what we can do. at the strategic level, isis has stopped winning. they haven't started losing, but they have stopped winning. they have offensives, but they're about to go to the defensive in iraq and not so in syria at all. interpreter this is a tough one, no amount of talking, if they mean to kill the azidis, and no amount of talking is going to make them stop. interpreter i agree, and we have to recognize that what happened two months ago when the azidis were caught on mount siniar, the u.s. airstrikes are not what saved them. the kurds, who opened up the corridor in the back and escorted them down through the mountain and into syrian territory through tir ac later, but they were saved by, of all of the airstrikes that were being put forwa

. >> reporter: for the battalion chief, his crew had few details and many variables working against a successful search and recovery. >> in this case, we are talking torso and the idea of how long it's been down. we're talking about eventuality of, you know, the body floats to the surface. >> reporter: 7:30 this morning, crews from this tugboat business were towing a dock from pier 50 to this ship in the bay when 300 yards out, the body surfaced. but towing the dock was time- sensitive so crews continued with the towing while alerting rescue crews as to what they saw. but when rescuers arrived, the body was gone slipping back into the bay and right past the firefighters. >> in this case, it was just going out for recovery and had negative results. >> reporter: as far as identifying the body crews think it could have been a kayak they're went missing near that same dock -- that went missing near that same dock on this bay several years ago. no way to verify that unless the body surfaces again. >> the body may possibly resurface. i mean, time will tell. >> reporter: in san francisco, ma

. >> reporter: for the battalion chief, his crew had few details and many variables working against a successful search and recovery. >> in this case, we are talking torso and the idea of how long it's been down. we're talking about eventuality of, you know, the body floats to the surface. >> reporter: 7:30 this morning, crews from this tugboat business were towing a dock from pier 50 to this ship in the bay when 300 yards out, the body surfaced. but towing the dock was time- sensitive so crews continued with the towing while alerting rescue crews as to what they saw. but when rescuers arrived, the body was gone slipping back into the bay and right past the firefighters. >> in this case, it was just going out for recovery and had negative results. >> reporter: as far as identifying the body crews think it could have been a kayaker who went missing on that same dock on this bay several years ago. no way to verify that unless the body surfaces again. >> the body may possibly resurface. i mean, time will tell. >> reporter: in san francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> firefighters say the bod

that image of the soldier, torching a villager's home with a zippo lighter, or looking at sort of a battalion totally being sort of ripped to shreds with american military machinery, which the north vietnamese didn't have, and so i don't quite understand -- i see sort of remnants of what is taking place today with the war -- with the previous question about israel and palestine, and i don't understand how that tweaking proportionality -- how that still has been taking place today and why we should still understand this. i think what you're getting at is extremely important because maybe i'm drawing too many simple analogies from vietnam but -- but prefire zones. west moreland basically steppedded all of vietnam, south vietnam,as free-fire zone, and with guerrilla warfare you can't stipulate this part is okay to bomb and this part isn't. that was the case -- those were the issues at play in south vietnam during the war. so, although, as historian context is important, i hate to draw simple analogies with the vietnam war, with the wars today, but in certain other ways you can see mistakes being

. >> the battalion chief said everything changes when they're dealing with not only a fire but also a rescue. >> at that time we're setting up ladders. a couple have actually jumped off the roof. it was very involved, very smokey up there. they were obviously in distress. >> one resident, apparently the grandmother, was burned and was transported to the hospital. we tried speaking to a woman and her two daughters but understandably they were pretty shaken up and did not want to go on camera. they say the fire started on the first floor and they being vat waited from. >> there was a threat inside the home, a dog who want able to make it out be oh, another hour and at this point the cause of the fire isily,. >>> cap off a good weit looks le we're probably going to have a bit of a pause, maybe a little bit of profit taking this morning. we had a strong wally on thursday. at pun wount with ebola in new york city that was confirmed last night. so the dow is on track for its best week since august. we'll get data today on new home sales, earnings from procter & gamble and ups has been bette

we're trying to get to the fire battalion chief and get more information. we'll vie to have that for you in the next 30 minutes. jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> at 5:33. we continue to follow breaking news in the ebola outbreak. here's what we learned. a u.n. worker who contracted that virus has died. now, in just the past few minutes we learned the 56-year-old man was from sudan and stationed in liberia when he got sick. sent to germany five days ago for treatment and died last night at the hospital. we'll continue to monitor this story and bring you new developments as soon as they become available. >>> meantime a nurse who contracted ebola in dallas is in stable condition. she received a transfusion from kent brantley. the cdc also says it wouldn't be surprised if another worker at pham's hospital with b comes ill because ebola patients become more contagious as the disease progress progresses. >>> officials back home at delaware county will unveil their plans. matt delucia is live with details about this preparation that is taking place. matt, what is dela

many in her own department are calling for hayes white to resign including the battalion chiefs and the firefighters' union. >> we want a chief that will roll up their sleeves and pay attention to the small things. how many are on duty? what fire engines are in the shop. >> a deputy chief tells me the department is looking into what happened this morning and why the ambulance was late. he promises answers tomorrow. if you have a tip for my next investigation call 1-888 for the eye team or e-mail me at abc7news.com. >> we will see what happens with this. >> we sure will. more to come. >> to dallas now where thomas eric duncun, the first patient diagnosed with the u.s. -- dying ease nod in the u.s. died today. a sheriff who was staying in the room where he was has been hospital lidsed. five airports will start separate screenings for travelers from west africa. they will have their temperatures taken before going through customs. laura anthony is live in walnut creek to show us how john muil medical center is ramping up in case any patients show up with ebola symptoms. >> john muir has no

the line of defense is an earth berm and sniper shield guarded by a battalion of iraqi soldiers camped on the dusty plain. isis fighters are just a couple of miles in the trees over my shoulder, but the front line is static. neither side is movinged for or bark just trading occasional fire. ( gunshot ) sure enough, the iraqi army suddenly opened up. isis had just fired a mortar over the berm. the soldiers returned fire at the village of as subjaiyat, just visible across no-man's-land and prepared a mortar of their own. it's unlikely to do much damage but the soldiers hope it will stop isis from advancing on them and on the capital. then a third mortar whistled in. isis getting more accurate. mortars are coming in closer. and we left the soldiers to their dangerous stalemate. scott, nobody really expects isis in a major military offensive to try and push past those soldiers into baghdad, but they are expecting isis to ratchet up the pressure by expanding its vicious bombing campaign. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in baghdad for us tonight. liz, thank you. and today, president obama told u

but over at cal fire, battalion chief scott wiig knows how dangerous hot weather can be. >> dries things out, makes it tougher for firefighters to get up and down the hillsides. so we increase our staffing to make it easier to put fires out. >> reporter: fire officials say this is not the weekend to be out there mowing your lawn because any spark can start a really serious fire. there is a breeze out here tonight which does help slightly. but not good for any possible fire danger. in case you're wondering, acorns are up by 7. michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. >>> you can track the temperatures in your specific neighborhood on our website. put in your zip code and your personal forecast will come right up. that's at nbcbayarea.com. >>> it is spreading. enterovirus has hit another bay area county. today san francisco confirmed its first case after alameda and solano counties reported their first cases yesterday. nbc bay area's christie smith is live in san francisco with more on this health alert. >> reporter: the department of public health here in san francisco just got the positive t