cleaned out because chimney fires are a huge cost of residential fires and that is when the chimneys are not cleaned out, they are fire starters there. so it is critical that if you are going to use a wood burning fireplace, you ain't it out once a year. >> people often say you should bring your water hero. we have such clean water in san francisco, i have not seen that to be an issue. but if you need to take action, not in san francisco. it is not an issue. this is your emergency water supply. make sure they are strapped like that. garage doors, get lubricant and just lubricate those things and clean the bottom, clean it off and lubricated. it will last an awful lot longer. fire extinguishers obviously are good home maintenance. >> you have to make sure that they are up to date. it changes every couple of years. >> and blasting a wanted to mention was earthquake safety. when you do your home maintenance, preventing damage from earthquakes is a big piece of this, and it is a valuable piece of ceramic with the group on the bottom that keeps it from sliding off the shelf. there are so

but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older arch

the shirtless guy who stood on a chimney for hours.had reportedly violated his parole and according to the l.a. county sheriff's department. he was wanted on a burglary warrant and had a gun and bullet proof vest in his possession. the guy had apparently gone up to, yes, the attic and then the roof to escape the cops. there are reports he tried to sit down on that chimney cap but it was not strong enough to support his weight. more than 3 and a half hours later. our santa impersonator climbed down. and now you know the news. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's it the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. and not so fast. a federal appeals court has ruled that the president violated the constitution when he bypassed the u.s. senate to fill three spots on the national labor relations board. the president says he had the right to make the so-called recess appointments last year because senators were away for the holidays. ah but the court ruled the senate was still technically in session it had tricked a little bit

. >> you can see the chimney heating that area. >> a pool opened in the 1920's. they talked about how they were going to keep it, but they never did. -- to heat it, but they never did. >> this is a publicity shot. this was the world's largest public pool. they had lifeguards in boats. this was a beautiful building. it is boarded up and full of rats and homeless folks. this is a parking lot now. $8 and you can park there. the beach was a big pleasure place. they would go for sunday picnics and stay all day. an amusement park developed to cater to these people. >> i think we have a shot of the fun house. >> she was not in the fun house. she was in a glass thing at the fun house. it was an animatronics robot who went "ha ha ha ha" all day and scared generations of san franciscans out of their wits. it has a month-to-month lease at fisherman's wharf. >> they moved it to this temporary location at fisherman's wharf. they left an unusual little treasure of the city. >> ingleside terraces, again, i was trying to show off the residence park. a lot of crazy building. for

firefighters believe it started on the roof near the chimney. family had a fire going in the fair place. none was hurt. >> a man is in custody suspected of assaulting a woman in her san francisco apartment. police arrested a 26-year-old soon after the assault last night. they say he followed the woman in, demanded money and sexually assaulted her. a neighbor call 911. the suspect tried to jump off the balcony but police found him hiding in the backyard. >> president obama will be sworn into office one week from tomorrow. he is wasting no time working on legislation that could define his presidency. he is working with house dlgs on a massive overhaul to the immigration system. would it would allow immigrants to pursue citizenship. legislation could be introduced this march. >> ama: vice president joe biden is putting the finishing touches on series of gun proposals but the white house may not find support for those ideas in congress. >> reporter: the president of the national rifle association says the nra has enough votes to block a ban on milit

investigators say the fire began in the chimney and spreading to the attic. no one was hurt and the cause remains under investigation. and hours after police arrest two suspects in the murder of a teenager. marcus jones was gunned down outside of a birthday party. if a third suspect is on the loose. live in fort washington. we have reaction from the students' parents. >> 2 teenage suspects under arrest. police are trying to catch the third teenager they believe was involved in this murder. this crime has just rocked this tight-knit school of friendly high. >> it really hit the school in the heart. >> students are devastated and parents are upset, too, especially now that police say this was gang-related. >> the violence needs to stop immediately. >> concerned parents came to a meeting last night after the weekend murder was blamed for flights that broke out at friendly on tuesday. that happened late saturday night at a party away from the school. tension had been rising all night between marcus jones' gang and members of a rival gang. while jones was in a gro

. >>> a shirtless man stood on this chimney ranning on to the roof of his house after a bondsman arrived. the man failed to meet conditions of bail on a burglary charge. sheriff deputies coaxed the man down after four hours with promises of hot food and warm clothes. >> when it comes to preparing teachers for a classroom, california is not making the grade. state saved grade of d from national council on teacher quality. the organization measures preparation programs for teachers and licensing across all 50 states. the head of the california parent teacher association says not putting a priority on teachers is the fundamental problem. >> know that teaching is the most-important factor in helping kids be successful in the classroom. and yet, we're not really investing enough in teacher development. we're not honoring teachers profession as much as we should be. >> california received low scores in special education teacher prep railgs ask akit kthible for programs. >> police say young drivers are among the most likely to text while driving. a habit they're trying to break. officers went t

>> banker. >> no, chimney sweep.ush ashes on your forehead. and in japan, buddhist temples ring their bells 108 times, 12 times, once a year or 72 times? >> 72. >> 108. each ring represents one of the 108 elements of bono. we had our own little "world news now" party thrown by our camera operator and her husband, kevin. but there's you and i getting down and drinking some champagne. there are the party hosts, kevin and joanie. we thank you so much for throwing the party. come on up here. everybody come on up here right now. we said everybody come up and we have the commish and that's about it. me and sandy with our directors up there, keeps us all looking good. more joanie and elizabeth. we have pat and elizabeth. i'm digging your glasses, sweetie. those are awesome. there's willis, who you hear all the time. and there's some of our lovely ladies. everybody come up onset right now, if you can. cheers to 2013. cheers to 2012. it was a great year. i said everybody come up and we just have the commish. >> happy new year

she'd sit at the end of the bar, smoke like a chimney. maybe she's still buzzing around, can tell us if billy was there the night he died. talk to dad, too. see if any of this new info sparks a memory. (garbled radio transmission) got a kid here, wants to see detective rush. i'm her partner. i'll talk to him. he asked for detective rush. vera: scotty. (coughing) (belches) ooh. something i ate. the chili fries? (groans) good, though. valens. hey, ma. uh, just... no reason. just checking in. what, i can't check on my mom? yeah, fine. okay, yeah. talk later. bye. ran the title. real estate files show the queen bee was geraldine watkins back in '70. still around? yeah. runs a soul food joint out of the same address today. somebody here to see me? oh, yeah. he's right over... we played music for the lord. billy played an organ the angels envied. vera: is that billy's brother? tom jr. was going to be a preacher in the sanders tradition. my eldest was taken by the jungle, my youngest, by the streets. both jungles, just different terrain. i serve

investigators believe a problem with the chimney or fire place was the cause. and we're still waiting to learn the identities of a mother and daughter, killed early this morning, in falls church. this cell phone video shows flames consuming the front of the house. we do know both victims were hearing impaired and the mother taught at gallaudet university. neighbors tell us tonight the family moved here from florida a couple years ago. the two dogs and eight cats also died in the fire. no word yet on a cause. >> three prince george's county high school students have been killed by gun violence this school year. tonight the communities coming together demanding answers from politicians and police, erica gonzalez is in fort washington with the growing concerns about safety there. erica. >> doreen, tonight some very emotional parents asking some very tough questions on behalf of their kids. how do they keep them safe with all of the violence around them? >> a room full of parents and a young man, grieving the loss of of a 16-year-old. >> friendly senior high school

you have a chimney build up. >> one of the things to point out they're using normal combustibles to start fire which is wood and straw. in the year 2006 in people's home the normal combustible is not a class a material it is class c, which is the polystyrenes and foam materials. so the natural produced on the interior of the building is greater than what you see here today. >> if we fill this with sofa and couches. >> computers, kid furniture, teddy bears. >> okay. what is happening with the one with fireproof paint. i am amazed it is reflecting the heat. put your hand on the side and it is deflecting it away. >> there is a flame inside. >> can we put our hand up there. >> at your own risk. >> i can. sure i can. not gonna catch fire. so the paint reflects the heat and also i understand it foams up and makes a protective foam layer as well. it is amazing stuff. >> we will be here quite a while. >> the fire is still burning inside strongly. the first building that they had the same materials, same construction, lit them at the same time. that one is nothing left. >> yeah. >> this has yet to

finding the next route it take you from ledge to ledge to ledge, down through cracks and narrows, chimneys leading down step by step. until you get to this arch. it's a small arch, it's only about this tall. the photograph is a little -- well, size, scale dimension, they all kind of leave out there. right inside of this arch way there is a bunch of broken pottery so you know this was a used route a thousand years ago. and the arch leads down into a canyon that opens up and you go up a side canyon into this little alcove where a piece of the ceiling has fallen just slightly. and i found this place. the first time i found this was on the 27th day of a back pack and i got up to this spot and i took my hat off and i stuck my head in the crack, which is something that i do frequently out there, because i know every once in a while you're going it see something back inside one of these cracks. and back in this crack there was a basket about 1500 years old that had been turned upside down so it wouldn't collect anything and it was way back down in the crack so that no light or wind would touch it

chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is still standing doesn't necessarily mean there's not a danger there. so what could you as nert's do to make that situation better or at least keep it the same so no one else gets hurt? keep it off, yeah. keep people away. perfect. take out some of that yellow tape that you have, that yellow caution tape, and string it around around keep people back. in this particular case, what could you do to make that situation better? turn off the gas. where would you turn the gas off at? at the street, okay. that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a platform or a balloon, nothing that keeps the wall from racking, they call it. so y

investigators think a problem with the chimney or fireplace caused the fire. >>> this morning we know a mother and daughter died in the house fire on manor road in falls church. this is cell phone video showing the fire burning the front of the house. neighbors say they heard an explosion, and two brief screams about 3:30 yesterday morning. the identities of the victims have not been released. we do know both victims were hearing impaired. the mother was a professor at gallaudet university. investigators removed a gas meter as they determine what caused that explosion and fire. >>> 4:17. today, fairfax county's school board will vote on a plan to build two new elementary school buildings in the coming years to accommodate its growing student population. six existing elementary schools would be renovated, as well. the county would like to build even more schools in the distant future as part of its capital improvement program. >>> this morning parents are worried about sending their children to school. they want some answers after three prince george's county high school students have

surging past skinner's house during the flood, and they said the house survived because it's five chimneysrooted into the ground and it was made of boards and not brick. house was so large that it acted like a dam in the midst of the search with the water surging around the front and backend, crushing both of them, shattering windows, completely flooding the interior of the first floor. the back parlor floor collapsed under the weight of all the water, and all the contents fell to the seller below. so as one reporter put it, potatoes indiana's, pictures, books and taken became terribly mixed in the flooded cellar. this house, trance removed with him when he relocated after the flood. it was taken apart piece by piece and transported on 25 railroad cars to the city of holyoke where he rebuild. it is now a museum on the national register of historic places, and you can go and visit it and walk around in it. this is an image of what was left of skinnerville after the disaster. it's hard to imagine what it was like before. it was a thriving factory village filled with houses, trees, stonewalls

. >> reporter: several chimney sweeps credit the lack of spare the air day for keeping them busy.ernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the first flu related death is a 51-year-old man from orange county. he died last week from influenza b. a flu shot is the best defense and there is still time to get vaccinated. >>> california's two senators sponsored a bill to redesignate a land as a national park. the site features tower rock formations and cavs. >>> a donate thon in san francisco ended 35 minutes ago but not before bringing in donations from 700 donors. good will says there were long lines on mission street. december 31 is the biggest day for donations as people take advantage of the last day of the year to make tax write offs. >> tax write off, which is always helpful. it is really about the spirit of giving. feel fortunate good things happened this year to me. >> today's donate-thon included music, and free zoo passes. for more on how you can give go to www.ktvu.com. >>> they rarely encounter gunfire but they are arming themselves with bullet proof helmets. this equipment is spe

they watched a clear blast other lamp chimneys blasting. instead of being warmed they feared the worst. they dreaded the high winds off the day that would drive the soap would do in flammability. and with either water wells nor flame fighting equipment nor the inclination to buy any, everybody knew that san francisco would burn. four years earlier in pittsburgh they been a disastrous dawn fire, but that had come after a dry winter, six weeks without rain. san francisco's spring would be much different. but the results would be the same. from his window, broderick made out the end of the road where fogg mounted in heaps and the prickly forest of masts towered. these abandoned vessels had transported hundreds of thousands of gold seekers who in turn had made a thousand ships orphans. broderick stands on the sill with a callous hands of a stonecutter of a stonecutter, the practiced hands of a rough-and-tumble politician and consummate barroom brawl or. during the night, the ex-firefighter had slumbered fitfully, feeling all around him the fan

. >>> many of us remember him as a friendly chill chimney sweep or ex-techsen trick inventor and dickd for his work. he will receive the screen actor guild's lifetime achievement award. he walked down memory lane are our piers morgan recently. >> van dyke has been making people laugh over 50 years and still going very stroke. he has now written a memoir, "my lucky life in and out of showbiz." dick van dyke joins me now. you are like santa claus to me, dick. >> oh, really? >> every christmas in britain, i follow sort of familiar regime. i get a bottle of wine after christmas, either christmas day or the day after the, i sit down, roaring log fire, normally freezing dmold england that time of year and i sit down and i watch either "chitty chitty bang bang" or "mary poppins," can you still do that god-awful cockney accent that i did? >> i can do the bad one that i did. >> yeah. >> but i have what he 40 years lay blame around for other people. >> let's have a flash of t >> i don't think -- what would be a line? >> don't pretend to be me. just come on. >> well, i can't get it -- i can't le

investigator think the fire may have started in the chimney or fireplace. >>> and this morning, we also know a mother and daughter died in that house fire. we first told you about it yesterday. this is on manor road in falls church, virginia. this is cell phone video showing that fire burning the front of the house there. neighbors say they heard an explosion and two brief screams about 3:30 yesterday morning. the identities of the victims have not been released. both were hearing impaired, we understand. the mother was a professor at gallaudet university. investigators are trying to determine what caused the explosion and the fire. >>> today we could find out if construction will begin soon on new school buildings in fairfax county. the county school board is expected to vote on a plan to build two new elementary schools in the coming years. six existing schools would also be renovated. this is part of the school system's capital improvement program which addresses its growing student population. the county would like to build even more schools eventually. >>> this morning the universi

the sky was visible through the chimney." gosh, that's rather drafty, isn't it? yes, very.ranged along the whitewashed walls "were furniture and various articles of utility "in the indoor work of the farm, "a relic of bygone days, when ale was brewed in the farmhouse kitchen." doesn't that give you a wonderful sense of where this type of furniture might have been in some country house. that's glorious. it really puts the whole thing into perspective for us how life was like when this was made, 200 years ago. i don't think they brewed beer then because they were strict baptists! ( laughter ) that was grandpa, then? grandpa's parents, i think. i'll just pop it back in here. well, the handles have been changed. indeed. did grandpa do those? no, i shouldn't think so though they haven't been very skillfully done. what sort of handles would have been on there? just little peardrop-- little, brass, very simple little peardrop handle something you'd expect to see much earlier on but this has clearly been remade, this drawer. yes, and underneath. oh. right. okay. what's this? "war d

you can see the smoke coming out of the chimney there.rust his head through a tiny upstairs opening gasping for air ready to surrender. guy starts down the ladder and then he falls to the ground there. about 4 week into january it's the season for breaking those new year's resolutions. but san francisco start up wants to help you keep them by putting a real live personal trainer in your pocke pocket. jonathan strapped on his sneakers and tried it out. >> sam has a thing for being upside down. former wrestler and pole vaulter who only turned right side up when he there's walk into the next room and get some work done. if you have ever wondered what happens when you put jock and nerd oeing together in the same office it turns out you get something like this. >> forward kick. 20 rep ready go. hear we go. stand tall raise your arms up. >>reporter: looking at gain fitness. app designed to replicate indicate down to the finest detail the experience of working out with a personal trainer. >> sort of this sense that i have got someone here with m

and i rather like this sort of crest it's like a horse's head as the chimney.at get you in our out? it doesn't really turn it anymore, this part underneath doesn't really turn; it think it used to. so the turret lifts off, and then you can get the money out. i think it should date from somewhere around the end of the last century, 1880. now, anything unusual is always collectible, but i just want to inject a little note of caution here. because they were so popular they were such a collector's item during the sixties seventies and eighties they have been known to be copied and copies do exist, and they're hard to tell the difference. so as a copy which i don't think this is, but as a copy, we would say £200 or £300 as a novelty box. but as the real thing... £2,000 to £3,000. i'm amazed. absolutely amazed. that's quite a good inheritance. a siebe gorman 12-bolt diving helmet. yeah. it's a great object. it is. it is. i've got plenty i can say about it but what can you tell me? well, i've been a diver in the rail industry since 1968, using scuba and more modern eq

a problem with the chimney or fireplace is thought to have caused the fire. >>> we learned the namesther and child who died in a fire. this is cell phone video. neighbors tell news4 they heard an explosion and two brief screams. both victims were hearing impaired. the mother was a professor at gallaudet university. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the explosion and fire. >>> this morning, north korea is drawing international concern after reports that the country is preparing for a nuclear test. the associated press reports that north korea is warning that it's ready to conduct a test while also planning to carry out more long-term missile launches. they're reportedly threatening to wage a "full-fledged confrontation" again the u.s. for what it calls continued hostility. the threats come just days after the u.n. condemned the country's rocket launch last month. >>> today we should get an update on the safety of boeing 787s. the national transportation safety board will discuss what led to a fire on board one of boeing's dreamliners at boston logan. that was on janua

past skinner's house during the floods, and they said that the house survived because it's five chimneys rooted to the ground and it was made of boards and not brick. a house is so large that it acted like a dam in the midst of the surge, ma with the water surging around the front and back in, crushing both of them, shattering windows, completely flooding the interior of the first floor. the back parlor floor collapsed under the weight of all the water, and all the contents fell into the cellar below. as one reporter put it, potatoes indiana's, pictures, books and bacon became mixed in the flooded cellar. this house, skinner moved with him when he relocated after the flood. it was taken apart piece by piece and transported on 25 railroad cars to the city of holyoke where he rebuilt. it is now a museum on the national register of historic places and you can go and visit it and walk around in it. this is an image of what was left of skinnerville after the disaster. it's hard to imagine what it was like before. it was a thriving factory village filled with houses, trees, stone walls, farmla

sleeping there tonight, and there are green chimneys, all these mating part -- amazing programs are taking care of young people who don't have any other safe place to be. and that trafficking and the exploitation and the violence that some many of these kids have experienced really eats away at the soul of people who are working every day weekend people, and it was true for me 20 years ago when i started at covenant house, more hair, a lot thinner. i forgot to buy was. i came with the scaffolding of love around me. my mother told me from the day that i could hear that i could sing. i cannot sing. my mother had me convinced that i could. my father had me convinced that was going to be a really great math and science student. i am not. but they filled with a sense of promise and encouraged me to believe in myself. some the of the kid to come in don't have that. and you begin to think that the darkness is so large and hovers so presently that the light is untouchable, but the great virtue of covenant house being 40 years old and me having been a part of it for 20 years as i know doctors and t

nothing is lost either up the chimney or in a cold or leaky duct, so right off the bat, you scale back furnace that might be only 50% efficient by adding a system that is virtually 100% efficient. but the people saving the most money are using their edenpure for zone heating, which is impossible with their existing furnace set up. so, they lower the whole house thermostat from 72 to 65 or even 60 degrees and use the edenpure to create a comfort zone in the living room, the family room, whatever room they're living in. this is why the average edenpure customer saves only 15 to 25% on their overall heating costs, but individual customers using this zone heating technique have saved much, much more. this is gloria smith, a retired elementary school principal. edenpure first visited gloria in 2008. here's what she had to say then. >> even though we use the propane gas for cooking, in addition to heating, the edenpure heater has still cut our heating bill in half, by 50%. and i've found that amazing. >> richard: now, four years later, we asked gloria if she liked her edenpures. >> well, i w

up where the clouds are far ♪ ♪ behind me ♪ where troubles melt like lemon drops ♪ ♪ way above the chimneyirds fly over the rainbow why then, oh, why ♪ ♪ can't i ♪ if happy little blue birds fly ♪ ♪ beyond the rainbow why, oh, why ♪ ♪ can't -- ooh ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ♪ >>> how about another big hand now for the newtown music project. so great. ingrid michaelson, thank you. you can get the songs on itunes and amazon right now. >> you guys were terrific. you were really great. by the way," gma live!" moments away. goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo!/live. >> right now. >> have a great day, everybody. >> now, from abc7 news. >> good morning, i am kristen sze. facebook will reveal a new development. they have been keeping the 10:00 a.m. announcement at headquarters under wraps. there is speculation the c.e.o. could reveal a facebook feature that intensifies competition with google search. >> our meteorologist, frances, is looking at forecast. >> it is cold. temperatures are still in the 30's in a lot of locations. but san francisco is 42. we will warm up in the mid-to-upper 50's. sue?

. >> we actually had one firefighter that had used that lubricant rescuing an individual from a chimneye used it and it was helpful. bill: he has experience to make it happen. what are you going to do today? >> today is probably going to be another day filled with interviews like this one. it's been a pretty exciting story for the most part. there's been a lot of interviews new were the man in the middle of all that. i don't know how that happened but you're a leader at heart. thanks, lieutenant. >> thank you. bill: rich chapman out of portland. top that. martha: a really nice guy. thanks to him. bill: we were watching him all day yesterday. martha: we were. i feel like i know him. here is a question that has been coming up in the last few days due to a study. can a child grow out of autism? that may be possible according to this research. we'll break it down with our medical a team. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement