determined to the area of origin in an alleyway where garbage was collected, at the bottom of the garbage chute shoes. jeff >> it could be some time before the actual cause is unknown. on friday workers were cleaning up and residents lucky enough to have something left inside were picking up what they could. 41 people including three children were displaced as a result of the fire. the deputy chief says the this fire was particularly challenging to get under control. >> we had wind gusts up to 30 m.p.h. and the smokeless lawn towards the west. jeff >> it took 170 firefighters three hours to put out the blaze. >> with the fires, the wind

his friend is able to cut away and use his reserve chute but tim's reserve chute got tangled up in the mess above him. when tim hits the ground he breaks his pelvis, back, and neck. >> can you feel your feet? >> no. >> can you feel your fingers? >> i can feel them. >> tim says in the video, rescue breathing is performed, paramedics arrive and i am air lifted to a hospital where i awake and days later begin life as a quadriplegic. it has taken tim four and a half years to be able to watch youtube. people are thinking this is a hoax. not real. >> because he survived it? >> i think some people do have questions. >> i would say it is survivable. >> it is not the first time we have seen someone survive a failed sky dive. >> one of your favorite restaurants you go to and you think it would be great if i could go through a drive through. near san diego, a couple patrons exiting this small restaurant and this car made its own drive through. scattering glass and tables everywhere. kgtv did talk to some of the witnesses. >> i was sitting at the restaurant. i heard broken glass. >> this is a bett

inside a trash shoot chute in the 3 damaged buildings. l we have the details. >> as he saw the flames and smoke billowing over next door apartment building, nicholas and some of his fellow crew members called 911 then ran inside the building. >> we had a craw bust open doors with sledge hammer running through clearing rooms making sure to get as many people out as we could. >>reporter: manuel is the guys who wielded the sledge hammer. he knocked down a door at one apartment where the resident wasn't answering shouts to get out. >> we heard people in were still inside so l fortunately we did get in a room. guy was working night shift. was asleep so. >>reporter: they figure they got more than 7 people out of the apartments before fire crew arrived to begin battling the blaze. investigators say the fire started in a trash chute pushed along by midday wind and grew to a 5 alarm fire. for some of the 41 now displaced residents, returning home was a dreaded path. >> feels lick a party gone. stuff you can't replace. >> want to get my stuff see i

investigators say the fire started in a trash chute push add long by wind and grew to a five-alarm fire. for some of the 41, returning home was a dreaded task. >> it's just feeling like a part of you is gone. you know? >> i just want to get my stuff, see if there is anything that remains and move on, i guess. >> and people have been pulling up to donate anything. >> the word got out. and people just have been bringing thing autos the neighborhood association is helping as well by trying to retain neighbors who might now be out of a home. >> if you have a place to stay, let us know. and with activity on the days following the fire, someone still had construction workers in their thoughts this, banner hanging outside of the gate as they arrived to work this morning. >> there is this banner from the neighborhood. >> it was a warm welcome this morning to see that. >> and that crew's company was nice enough to buy them lunch today for their job well done. as for efforts to help those residents who are displaced, the neighborhood association set up a pay pal account on the web site and also a

. >>> a 24-year-old man was rescued this morning from a chute at a landfill. he works at the landfill there. before 8:00 a.m., he got it stuck in the loading part of the chute that inserts material for the landfill. more than 20 rescuers extricated him. he was taken to the hospital and is said to be in stable condition. >>> finally, some wet weather today. not enough to help fill the rain buckets but still a welcome sight, unless you happen to be driving. patty lee is here now and shows us what happened today on highway 101. >> reporter: you can tell how dense the fog is by looking behind me. you can't see the golden gate bridge. the visibility here is a half a mile. the roads are wet and that combination, frank, wreaked havoc across the bay area. a six-car accident this afternoon. turned northbound lanes on highway 101 into a parking lot as drivers trying to brake collided instead. >> and this is consistently wet. the first collision, we have it back up and people were not able to stop in time. >> reporter: routes are slick and from steady drizzle. the visibi

. >> i was looking around in my closet for the match to a chute. >> reporter: emotional, crying cry -- crying and confronting her inner demons. once the rebellious teen, she has spent a lifetime battling addiction. >> the person that i was would spend hours and hours in that closet alone using drugs. >> reporter: he's helping mckenzie clean out a closet that holds painful memories. what do we have here? >> that's weird. those are pill bottles. i want to throw them away. >> reporter: tonight dutches case daring down. that and more coming up later on entertainment tonight. >> that's at 7:30 only on wjz 13. >> still to come, the ravens return to a practice field after a bad loss bow in a good mood -- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . >> i guess mood changes in owens mills when you put the pass behind you. mark is here with wjz sports. >> the players found it rather humorous. ravens players were laughing today about the mood change in their sometimes emotional coach. joe flacco says that john harbaugh was noticeably upbeat. that's quite a shift in demeanor after that loss to san diego in the reason

the site of the deadliest campus chuted four years ago. >> broadcasting here and around the world, this is newsday. >> make sense of international hello once again. about 15 minutes ago we received news that the european union leaders are still debating potential changes to the eu treaty, but the news is -- the non-zero nations, news at bbc.com/news. -- the non-zero nations, there are 10, -- that least 17 nations that use the common currency to go it alone. there are fears there could be a two-track europe with france and germany are leading the way. treaty changes are being discussed by the european council. they are trying to persuade the nation's they do not need to change the eu treaty, the protocols currently exist that would allow them to make changes to ensure the safety of the euro. we must stress that these, from an unnamed european democrats who are at the meeting in brussels. the british prime minister, david cameron, has demanded certain concessions. the u.k. is not part of the eurozone, but part of the european union. they the camera demanded the concessions that france and

reporter: investigators say the fire that caused more than $8 million in damage was started in a trash chute. r firefighter say this was the biggest home fire there within seven years. now to decision 2012, former house >> newt gingrich will not appear on the virginia primary ballot because he did not submit the 10,000 signatures needed to qualify. the announcement came one day after officials said the texas governor rick perry will not appear on the virginia primary balloting their current former massachusetts gov. mit romney and rep ron hall have both qualified to. the first family is spending the christmas weekend in hawaii this is a video of president obama who arrived kron air force one last night to start his vacation. every year the family spent the current vacation on the island where the present rule up.--with the president look. the have vacationed on kyloe beach for the past three years. >>reporter: 11 upper that sounds pretty good team that is freezing here in the bay area gary bettman is a view of the bay bridge from this evening at sunset. this is a beautiful postcard shot of t

say the fire that raced through three apartment buildings yesterday started at the bottom of a trash chute. construction workers called 911 when the blaze broke out before mid day. and in this district. firefighters say it's the first nim six years the city has seen this fire. >> everything is sort of lined up. where this fire started. and buildings really kind of lining things up for a fire. >> and there is three apartment buildings almost gutted. investigators trying to determine if the fire was set or if it was an accident. >> not a happy holiday for management of pacific steel casting. the business being slapped with a lawsuit filed by a former employee over working conditions but not all workers there think there is a problem. nick? >> this lawsuit filed today and seeking more than $30 million in damages. >> it's a violation. we don't feel the comfortable working with this violation. >> bobby rodriguez describes what he calls a disregard for california work labor laws by his former employer. >> very challenging work to have to go an extra couple hours to have an opportunity to take 30

the fire started in an alley near a trash chute between golden gate and pierce street. three people were injured. the fire left more than three dozen people, including three children homeless. this morning six people are lucky to be alive after a fire in sa south san jose home on christmas day. fire investigators say smoking products caused the blaze, but they're not sure what kind. the house did not burn down completely. >>> so far it's unclear if the mother will be booked in jail over criminal charges or if she'll be placed under psychiatric care at the hospital. san jose police say a family call called after a 24-year-old locked herself and her son in a room on christmas day. she allegedly dropped the boy out of the window and then jumped herself. the toddler was only bruised, but cortez suffered broken bones. >>> bart thinking of big plans on how to move people in the future. christie smith is live in oakland with details on bart's vision for the future. good morning, christi. good morning to you, jon. the idea is that bart needs to dust off its playbook that move i

hours since officers moved in, pratt street opened to through traffic getting right side ready for the chuteren redmond is on the scene. more coming up in a bit. >>> health news, side effects of breast cancer treatment and chemotherapy and radiation that help save patients lives can come with a cost. they may have problems with mental aishts years after treatment. no evidence of cognitive problems from hormonal therapy. >>> virginia woman accused of faking cans tore make money. deputies arrested the motivational speaker accusing her of faking cancer in exchange for cash. martha nicholas was collecting donations based on a medical condition she didn't have. nicholas could never provide anything in terms of single photo of her appearing to have cancer even when profiled for a story. >>> a woman used facebook to get money from friends. she told friends and family she was dying. find the story at abc2news.com. >>> people who drink too much alcohol are likely to have unsafe sex. it's not clear if drunk is the sole cause or personality traits could come in to play. a slight increase in the blood a

it remained that way through the chute. there was some much brutality that it brought out so much kindness and love between the people who suffered it to themselves. one of our actress lost 28 family members. everybody was affected. everybody became a family. there were some hard days. this scene where she is going through sniper alley, how do i director? i had to make her relive one of first -- worst memories. >> the scene was difficult that happens before the war where the two characters meet in the club. it was fun. it should be fine except it was making me cry because that is the happiest time of the sarajevo i remember. my parents were happy and we had all of these friends. never did anyone think of such a horrible thing could happen. i was trying to play a happy scene while it was killing me. it was hard to get those smiles. it was not easy. what is the advantages and disadvantages of bringing to the screen a film about a subject matter that is relatively recent? >> well, the disadvantage is that the wounds are still

three people were injured in the fire that began in the garbage chute in one of the buildings. >> a fire that started in a lightwell displaced 15 people in the bay view district this afternoon. firefighters were called to a multiuse building on third street around 4:00 p.m. took ten minutes to contain the blaze but there was extensive water damage from the sprinkler system. the red cross is helping people who can't get back home find other accommodations. >> a tour boat in san francisco is being examined after its motor began smoking. the coast guard and san francisco fire received a distress call shortly after 4:00. passengers were taken off the boat and on to the coast guard cutter. nobody was hurt. the boat was towed to the peer in the south beach yacht harbor. >> the g.o.p. front runner out of the running in virginia. >> a secret santa is out thousands in cash. >> and preparations underway in san francisco to help the homeless he a merry christmas. >> get ready for a cold christmas eve. a freeze warning in effect, and you christmas forecast and my seven-day finally has some rain in >

the fire began in the trash chute on the building on pearce. residents in the 32 units will be without a home this christmas. there will be a place on the 1400 block of golden gate avenue for the victims and they will be receiving relief from the red cross on tuesday. >> tuesday, a custodian worked for the school district. he was arrested last night at his walnut creek home after allegedly assaulting a boy under 14 years old. he's also being investigated for another molestation that occurred more than 10 years ago, alleged allegedly. people are looking for other victims who might come forward. >>> new details tonight in the arrest of a serial arsonist in the east bay after a complex six month investigation. this is new surveillance video that helped investigators tie 53-year-old thomas hartman to several dumpster fires in the east bay. the pittsburgh man standing near the dumpster on the right hand side of your tv screen, gets into his car, drives away, moments later, the dumpster catches on fire. hartman is accused of setting at least 50 fires

1,000 foot of just sheer rock right to the bottom, and from there right beside that rock is this huge chuteclear the whole way to the top. one of my buddies talked, you're not going up there. and in my mind i wasn't. i had no plans of going up there. >> trennis has a great morning and with the sun shining down figures a great time to stop for lunch. >> it was getting warm by then. the sun was out. i usually wear a big, heavy coat, and i took that coat off and just walked over and hung it on a tree. >> as he eats a sandwich, trennis watches a friend take on the same chute that intimidated him just a few minutes earlier. the friend gets high up, but not to the top, and trennis said it stirs the daredevil inside him. >> the path i seen up there, the sun was shining on it, just beautiful. that's when something -- i've got to go. >> so he heads to his sled. >> my sled was running awesome. okay, i'm running over the top. >> he passes the high mark but doesn't stop will. >> i'm going over. i was probably 20 to 30 feet below the top when it just got really soft and i went to turn my sled to come ba

was at the rear of 1015 pierce in an alley where the trash was collected at the bottom of a trash chute. >> reporter: more than half of the city's force responded. firefighters say they haven't seen a similar one in the city in almost seven years. this one was fanned by winds that blew it from a 27 unit building to this three story one. >> the wind conditions were extraordinary, that wind condition later in the condition but at noon yesterday we had gusts of up to 35 gusts. . >> reporter: classes will have to be relocated before the new semester starts. they think is cause eight million dollars in damages. not including the possessions lost by 41 residents. >> we don't have driver's license, medical card, our bank card. >> reporter: and late this afternoon we learned the red cross will reopen a service center at 1455 golden gate afternoon after the holiday next tuesday to help the fire victims. david stevenson. >> the bay area's dry weather is causing fire concerns in rural areas. in ten minutes an unusual order just issued by a state agency. it could impact anyone who wants to spark a

. >>> 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 taken to the hospital and the extent of the injuries is not released. >>> and the matchup between ucla and the university of illinois is more than a game but a chance to give back. the fighting illini served branch at the dining room in san francisco. they manned food lines in the kitchen and goes with the craft feet hunger bowl mission and food banks. >> it feels good to put back. >> ucla players donned aprons before shooting months at the church. about 90 players helped out. kickoff is for 12:30 tomorrow. >> the san francisco food bank got a delivery from food and lucky and save mart and a giant shopping cart. represented a 130 check for the food bang. the money and food donated by lucky and -- 880,000 meals for people in need. >>> for decades, this was a home for up ins and now it's a shelter for si

investigators say the fire began in an alley near a trash chute. three people were hurt and more than three dozen people, including three children, are now homeless. >>> more than 100 drivers now facing dui charges after a holiday crackdown in the south bay. officers in santa clara county have arrested 160 people for drunk driving since december 16th, all part of a safe driving campaign. extra patrols will be out on the roads through january 1st. >>> unlicensed drivers won't be getting their cars towed from sob rig sobriety checkpoints. the new measure will stop police from impounding cars if the driver's only offense is not having a license. thousands of cars are towed away each year just in that kind of scenario. >> stores across the bay area are getting a huge rush of po post-christmas shoppers today. the day after christmas is usually the third busiest shopping day of the year. nbc bay area's damian trujillo spent his morning at the walmart in san jose. that store opened hours ago. >> it opened at 5:00 this morning, a few people outside were wa

it took me a few minutes to get on his back in the chute, he kept rearing up, and he tried to get mee ride starts and viking keeps trying to shake his rider and it doesn't take him long. >> it seems like as soon as i could get the left leg down the right one came unsettled and i knew about the third jump, the first spin to the left i just didn't get the coverage down quick enough and he got me down at the wrong side. >> 2.8 seconds after the gate opens, michael is thrown to the grown breaking a rib, but things quickly go from bad to worse. >> i saw him coming, rolled over, tried to get up to get some air and ended up getting more air than i bargained for. >> not intent to get his rider off his back, viking throws michael into the air. >> the throw in the air didn't hurt at all. he hooked me between my legs and on the other side of my ribs and he just gave me a free ride and nodded his head. wasn't much effort at all. >> the australian cowboy flies 12 feet up and 20 feet away. >> when i was up in the air and looking down at the numbers on top of chutes, i had some thoughts and words i

diplomatic visit that gained so much attention when the vips themselves seem more interested in bamboo chutes were greeted by bagpipes, costumes and kilts, after an eight-hour journey from china, inflight meals on a plane adapted, dubbed the panda express. >> we monitored the pandas throughout the entire trip between eating the panda cakes and the carrots and the apples, they were just as happy as they could be. >> reporter: they have left their home to spend a decade in scotland. the female called sweetie is shy compared to her male traveling companion, sunshine. so shy, perhaps, that it will be months before they share a cage, and get to know each other a little better. it is notoriously difficult to breed pandas, but the hope is that sweetie and sunshine will not be the last new arrivals. once they become friends, they provide new links between china and the outside world. >> the pandas are a symbol of the friendship and the cooperation between chinese people and others. >> reporter: the zoo says its new guests will raise awareness of an endangered species. one estimate puts the number of

. >>> a fire badly damaged three apartment buildings started at the bottom of a trash chute.how it started is under investigation. the fast-moving wind-driven fire was the first five alarm blaze in six years. construction workers called in the first report just before noon, and they probably saved at least one life. >> you know, we heard people that were still inside. fortunately we did get in the room. a guy working night shift was asleep. >> damage estimates are in the $8 million range. >> i'm on the first floor and i thought it would just be water damage. but it was everything. everything was trashed. it is still there, but it is no good. >> firefighters and neighbors meantime are trying to gather supplies for the displaced residents and christmas gifts for their children. >>> tonight a man posing as a physician had no license and no business performing surgery. but they say that's exactly what carlos guzman was doing. he is accused of operating on unsuspecting patients at a clinic in the mission district. he got his patients by of onering cut rate deals on things like lip

. >>> a fire badly damaged three apartment buildings started at the bottom of a trash chute.how it started is under investigation. the fast-moving wind-driven fire was the first five alarm blaze in six years. construction workers called in the first report just before noon, and they probably saved at least one life. >> you know, we heard people that were still inside. fortunately we did get in the room. a guy working night shift was asleep. >> damage estimates are in the $8 million range. >> i'm on the first floor and i thought it would just be water damage. but it was everything. everything was trashed. it is still there, but it is no good. >> firefighters and neighbors meantime are trying to gather supplies for the displaced residents and christmas gifts for their children. >>> tonight a man posing as a physician had no license and no business performing surgery. but they say that's exactly what carlos guzman was doing. he is accused of operating on unsuspecting patients at a clinic in the mission district. he got his patients by of onering cut rate deals on things like lip

today the officials said the fire began at the bottom of a garbage shoot at the rear -- chute at the rear of the building. it blew streaks. some residents were able to return briefly today but in many cases there was little left to salvage. firefighters estimate the fire caused $8 million in danger to four different buildings. >>> the suspected gunman in the shooting near the oakland occupy camp appeared in court today. 21-year-old noris torel faces a charge of the shooting death of foster. he was arrest inside kentucky in november and was sent to alameda county last week. four other suspects were arrested in the shooting. he is scheduled to return to court on tuesday and may enter a plea at that time. >>> after weeks of argument, republicans and democrats in the house and senate today passed a payroll tax cut extension. members of congress took it in stride. some first-term republicans seemed upset by the compromise. >> i trusted in the deal when we left town that this would not happen. >> i hope this congress has had a very good learning experience. especially those who are new und

we do know that the origin is at the bottom of a trash chute in the area of garbage collection. >> reporter: firefighters say when they got to the scene within it.5 minutes of the first nine -- within 2.5 minutes of the first 911 call the fire was already raging, all the wrong conditions lining up with 30-mile-per-hour wind gusts. >> with wood frame buildings and that wind being pushed behind it the fire companies were met with a dense fire. as they tried to enter the building on golden gate avenue, the wind was pushing towards it from the rear of the building right at them. >> reporter: in a flash, scott lost everything. >> running down the stairs, flames blasting on the windows in the hallway like a furnace. just glad it didn't breakthrough because i probably would have been burned -- it just happened like that in a minute. and i raced down outside. >> 20 years down the tubes. >> reporter: 20 years. >> yeah. 20 years. oh, well. you know? i guess sometimes it takes a fire to get a -- get you out of your nest has and move on. >> reporter: he moves out without his dog who died a few days ago

determined to the area of origin in an alleyway where garbage was collected, at the bottom of the garbage chutehoes. jeff >> it could be some time before the actual cause is unknown. on friday workers were cleaning up and residents lucky enough to have something left inside were picking up what they could. 41 people including three children were displaced as a result of the fire. the deputy chief says the this fire was particularly challenging to get under control. >> we had wind gusts up to 30 m.p.h. and the smokeless lawn towards the west. jeff >> it took 170 firefighters three hours to put out the blaze. >> with the fires, the wind conditions and the buildings being close together, jeff >> sadly, it is almost christmas and more than three dozen people will have to spend the holidays in a shelter. jeff bush, kron4 news. >>jaqueline: here is a look at the highs from today. really quite mild. upper 50s and low 60s. cooler conditions on tap for tomorrow afternoon, i will have details on the frigid temperatures coming up. unlike her leggings of the stars >>grant: and evacuation at oakland the mal

the blaze started at the bottom of the trash chute attached to the building on pierce. the flames cost an estimated $6 million to the victorian building and two neighboring buildings need minor work, and the red cross is offering shelter for the displaced residents. >>> tonight at 11:00, what started out as a report of a car crash ended in a stabbing report in viejo. the chase started on monterey park, and the victim drove the black pickup truck through a fence and on top of a trash can in the middle of the residential neighborhood. the driver suffered from multiple stab wounds, and investigators are trying to figure out why and how he was stabbed. >>> in san francisco in the middle of the castro district there is controversy about the church and the gay community. a catholic perish is turning away gay clergy scheduled to speak this month. the holy redeemer churf ch r rescindeded invitations to three people. one reverend served as the marshall of the gay parade, and also the spokesman from the archdiocese felt that the speakers were not appropriate for the season of adv

firefighters say either way, he probably thought that he would fit through the whole chute. >> i would guess that he had his hands on the edge and released into the chimney thinking that it would be a -- kind of a nice smooth transition into the house and it didn't work out that way. >> the teenager appeared to be okay. firefighters say he was probably in there for a few hours before mom heard him screaming for help. >>> after a long ordeal, frosty has finally been found. the 1-year-old poodle terrier mix had been roaming the streets of monterey for two weeks of. the spca says someone threw it out of the window of a moving car. with an injured infected eye, the pickup put survived rain -- puppy survived rain storms, freezing temperatures, looked for food an evaded predators. she was found in a woman's front yard yesterday. >>> frosty didn't get too frosty as cold as it's been. >>> you may be dreaming of something that could be a flame retardant. the popular sodas that contain this chemical. >>> she was barely as big as a hand. now she is beating the odds. the milestone for the third sm

at government imposed austerity measures to go to the streets and out loud i think has been on the chutes pressure from the e.u. to make cuts in spending to qualify for a bailout money it needs to of financial collapse of course one of. the has been covering the protests in greece over the past year now live for us in athens the greek government has been forced into budget cuts to pay its debts but what about the impact on the lives of ordinary people. well it's just been such an exhausting year for the people here in greece as the country and indeed the usa face some of the biggest ever challenges and never really has a feature of the year is a place within it. seems safe. now this year it's been all about debt we've seen countless bailouts throughout the year insane and hearing police that's led to seville start being in place in the country nine real terms to people that's meant job loss on a huge scale it's meant tax hikes cuts to say she said this is and of course that is led in turn to at this huge outpouring of public anger that we've seen time and again and certainly here this yea

these are kicking out the chute is it the today sanctions. how it was around the city with they were calling for the sanctions would put in place have now become much more frequent and. longer is why. now washington has once again a harsh criticism out the syrian regime warning of a new international measures unless it would draw security forces from the streets so let's talk more on the sound and cost line to new york or to china and why waste all that analyst a vote go in jet many thousands speaking to us here on our c now the u.s. as i've been saying has said that the international community will take additional steps to pressure the assad regime to stop its crackdown what kind of steps do you think will follow. well the u.s. government the obama administration has been very clear that there are calling for to resign to step down in fact for there to be regime change in the country they're not looking for some way to negotiate a solution to the conflict that's that's going on in the country they're looking for a way really to to force out

it prepares you and improves your ability to respond to stress, and so, right out of the chute, easiests my pillow. >> in order to get a good night's sleep we need to be in a position that is comfortable. if our body is contorted in any way, we can impinge on nerves that would lead to tingling, numbness, discomforts of various sort. if you could position yourself with a pillow that is comfortable, then these motor and sensory signals that you get in a restless state don't occur and you have a lot more rem sleep. >> we're here with sleep expert michael j. lindell, founder and inventor of a revolutionary new sleep aid called my pillow. >> over the last seven years, what i came up with is a theory, after talking to hundreds of thousands of people that have the pillow... there's eight cervical nerves on each side of your neck, and what they do... they need to be in alignment, okay, to get-- for the signals to go to your brain. remember the old-fashioned tvs that had the horizontal hole, you know, the wavy line when it wasn't clear? when you first get set at night, you first get comfortable

>>reporter: investigator said this fire started in a garden--garbage chute. firefighter say this to the biggest home fire within 70 years carried more than 40 people were forced from their homes as regard to that fire. air quality management has issued a spear the ear day for sunday to the stagnant weather here conditions and trapped air pollution. this ban affects fireplaces, wood stoves and firepits. anyone caught returning zebrawood on christmas day will be fined. temperatures and low to mid- 20s. some temperatures were around freezing. by this afternoon everything was in the mid to upper fifties and low 60s. we are chilly once again for this christmas eve tonight. already, some locations are and to the 30's, and a bottle at 39 degrees, 34 for fairfield and it will get colder later tonight as we go on to the morning hours for christmas day. the coldest places once again tonight is dropping into the mid-20s with 30's by the bay. a freeze one is in effect for the north bay and the east bay as well as the santa clara valley. look for a low of 24 in fairfield,

that was like the mostly vance complicated version of the mousetrap you can imagine goes down the chute into the basement and then the little girl runs out of the closet like really who shoots a mouse that's what you do normally if you see a mouse is ok you're going out to shoot and what thirty four year old to have an affair with a thirteen year old i think that's the reality that in order you know you want to talk about the reality i mean i was i was i really have a mouth you know i mean obviously there was something that needed to be discovered there in terms of the story rape so you can blame your. roommate the want to shoot a mouse for it maybe you should have read the story more closely but my question was the guy who actually got shot in the chest was a man who was having an affair with the kid or the mother got oh no you know i really like a bundy apparently different room it was like four and then they found the girl hiding in the closet and then she admitted that she was do we know what happened to the maoists at the end of the day we don't know you know what i believe that is

not yet determined if this was intentional or accidental and say it started at the bottom of a trash chute, then climbed out and grew from there. good news is that no one was killed and we talked to people who returned home to see what they can salage. >> i saw it and i thought it's just going to be water damage. but everything was -- my place is just trashed. >> you can take that situation that happened at noon on a clear day. and take that same situation and put it at 2:00 in the morning with everybody being home. >> someone in the neighborhood put up this banner thanking the construction workers at the next door school at the school next to where the fire started. the fire department says they wrt first to spot the fire and call 911 but several members of the crew also ran into one of the buildings before cruise got here and helped evacuate people. some were there until this morning thanks to their company as a b-52 a reward for quick action. coming up tonight at 6:00 we'll have their story. they're being hailed as holiday heroes. >> and commotion, fights and gunfire as shoppers waited

. >> the for a started in the bottom of a trash chute. flames burned up detected before firefighters could get there. >> the red crosses helping 15 people find accommodations after a fire in a multiuse building on third street at 4:00 p.m. today. took ten minutes to contain the blaze but there was extensive water damage from the sprinkler system as many as ten units are uninhabitable. >> 28 people had their san francisco bay tour interrupted when their boat caught fire. shortly after 4:00 the coast guard received a report of a boat in trouble in the cubby cove. the passengers were taken on to a coast guard cutter while they're boat was toed to the harbor. >> the clock is just about run out for all those christmas shoppers. the best bet now might be an all-night convenience store. a lot of procrastinators took advantage of this final shopping day. we joined the masses. >> shoppers from in daly city to san mateo all had an excuse for the last, minute shopping rush. >> really last minute. i've been superbusy. >> tomorrow i'll do it. i've run

. >> boole is more focused on getting the shot than his altitude until the other flier pulls his chute>> i saw him reach for the parachute. immediately, i saw the ground. rather than 600 feet, i was at 60 feet. i could see the texture of the snow and ice. so then i thought the most likely i'm about to die. because 60 feet is not enough for the parachute to open. i'm still doing over 100 miles per hour. >> he pulls his parachute hoping for a miracle. >> the parachute slowed me down enough that i'm still here today. i swung out and i landed flat on my back. it spread out the force of the impact. >> boole fractures his spine, breaks some ribs, and bruises his lungs. but amazingly, survives the 6,000-foot drop. >> my initial feeling. it's all gone. finished. >> three, two, one. >> but time heals wounds and boole can't stay grounded for long. >> after six months, i started to miss jumping. to be happy in my life, this is what i do. this is what i am. i'm a jumper. i fly. >> welcome back. >> coming up, a thrilling jump ends in utter disaster. and an aerial artist twists and turns from a brid

you just can't pair a chute into washington, dc, as president of the united states, as leader of the free world and pretend you'll learn your way around. you need experience. >> tim pawlenty. >> another quick thing now. mitt was the first presidential candidate on the republican side to actually call for keeping and maintaining the lower employment tax reduction. in other words, embraced the payroll tax reduction and keep it lower. >> let me ask you a wider point though, tim pawlenty, about mitt romney which is you said, look, he's been mr. reliable, mr. steady in the campaign. hasn't put much wrong. that is true, but there is another argument. the reason he's been unable to break out of the shackles of his poll ratings at a certain level is that the republican party don't find him that exciting. let me play you a clip from david letterman's top ten things that mitt romney would like to save the american people. >> isn't it time for a president who looks like a 1970s game show host? >> yes. yes, it is. >> i mean, i guess that could be a positive. isn't part of the problem for mitt ro

that badly damaged three san francisco apartment buildings yesterday started at the bottom of a trash chuteit remains under investigation. the fast-moving fire was the first five alarm blaze there in six years. construction workers called in before noon. >> we herd people that were still inside. fortunately we did get in a room. a guy was working night shifts and was asleep. >> damage estimates are in the $8 million range. >> i was on the first floor and i thought was water damage but everything is pretty much trashed. it's still there, it's not there. >> firefighters and neighbors are still trying to gather supplies for displaced residents and christmas presents for their children. >> a san francisco man posing as a physician's assistant is under arrest. police say he had no mallicense and business performing surgery. they filed several charges including carlos garza. mark matthews has the story. >> also known as carlos guzmangarza was led into court and led back out after they waived his right to appearance. gussmarn had an office in this building, a janitor said she saw five patients a w

. >> the way tim pawlenty went after michele bachmann out of the chute, that was horrible.. >> desperate. >> off the get. lost it. >> the post debate deliberation? >> how much longer will you go? you only have three weeks left. >> i didn't make up my mind four years ago. voted at the caucus. you never know. >> in sioux city, steve brown, fox news. >> bret: wisconsin voters are trying to kick out governor scott walker. trying to kick him out of office. they say they are close to having enough signatures to force a recall election there. they are angry at the republican governor over limiting collective bar ganning rightser public workers. we have follow that one. take a live look at tonight debate stage as we leave you before the debate. we'll have a preview of the debate. with a special all-star panel when we return to sioux city after a quick time-out. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's easy to see what subaru owners care about. ♪ that's why we created the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subaru and 250 dollars goes to your choice of five charities. ♪ with your help,

firefighters say either way, he probably thought that he would fit through the whole chute. >> i would guess that he had his hands on the edge and released into the chimney thinking that it would be a -- kind of a nice smooth transition into the house and it didn't work out that way. >> the teenager appeared to be okay. firefighters say he was probably in there for a few hours before mom heard him screaming for help. >>> police trying to erase san jose's growing graffiti problem just scored big. in one fell swoop, they say that they have taken dozens of serial scrawlers off the streets. len ramirez on the tagger takedown. >>> police say that they have-- >>> reporter: an explosion of graffiti in san jose. over the past few months, almost any flat surface on the streets or on the side of a building has become a target for taggers making their mark. >> it makes the neighborhoods look ghetto. it's sad. and it brings down the value of the neighborhood. >> reporter: neighbors have been watching and so have police. >> we put a pretty good dent in this group. >> reporter: officers announced th

. >> we do know the origin is at the bottom of a trash chute in the area of garbage collection. everything was lined up. where the fire started, the wind conditions, the buildings being built close together. , really kinds of line thing up for a fire that was well advanced upon arrival. >> damage is estimated to be at $8 million. >>> the alameda firefighters association is looking for donations for families displaced in the house fires this weekend. investigators believe december 17th fire onshore ponte court was started by an electrical space heater. people in 18 apartments were displaced. the firefighters association is collecting household items. gift cards and new and unwrapped toys. >>> if you would like to help, you can drop off your donation today at fire station one. donations will be accepted from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. >>> whether it's chestnuts roasting or a yuletide fair, taking part in holiday traditions could you get you in trouble with the law today. give you a live look now outside. a spare the air alert is in effect today. this is the second time in the last four y