. >> reporter: dennis adams lives just a couple miles from where the keller fire broke out. the area by engine 28 is a popular dumping site for cars that are often set ablaze with combustible materials nearby. >> the difference between a fire spreading, potentially destroying a hillside verses a fire being put out down the street and this fire house being open or not open. >> reporter: he and others are calling for elected officials to reconsider the closures. ken houston is the newly elected council member for district seven. he tells me he is committed to finding the funds to reopen the station in his district. >> they said they would keep it closed for approximately five months, six-month period, and then they will close another one and reopen this. that is not good enough for me. just open it back up in three. i'm not saying it will, but i will push the envelope to open it back up. >> reporter: but as he looks in the windows of the vacant station that has had one break-in, he has volunteered to protect it himself, with a warning to looters. >> you've got a new sheriff in

. >> reporter: dennis adams lives just a couple miles from where the keller fire broke out. he says the area by engine 28 is a popular dumping site for cars that are often set ablaze with combustible materials nearby. >> the difference between a fire really spreading and potentially destroying hillside versus a fire put out away right down the street could be this firehouse being open and not being open. >> reporter: he and others are calling on elected officials to reconsider the closures. ken houston is the newly elected council member for district 7 and tells me he's committed to finding the funds to reopen the station in his district. >> they said they would keep it closed for approximately that five, six-month period and then they will close another one and reopen this. that's not good enough for me. just open it back up in three. i'm not saying it will, but i'm going to push the envelope to open it back up. >> reporter: but as he looks in the windows of the vacant station that's already had one break-in, he's volunteered to protect it himself with a warning to looters.

. >> reporter: dennis adams lived a couple miles from where the keller fire broke out, he said the area by engine 28 is a popular dumping site of cars that are often set ablaze with combustion materials nearby. >> a fire could potentially spread along the hillside. >> he and others are calling on elected officials to reconsider the closures, the newly elected council member for district 7 tells me he is committed to finding the funds to reopen the station in his district. >> he said they would keep it closed for approximately five months, six months, and then they will close another one and reopen this. that is not good enough for me. i'm going to push the envelope to open it back up. >> reporter: as he looks in the windows of the vacant station that already had one break in, he has volunteered to protect himself, with a warning to looters. >> you have a new sheriff in town, i'm going to drive up here and check it out myself. if i see something. this is hopeful to me. >>> san francisco reports its first bird flu case in a child, what health officials are saying. and several people are h

dennis murphy: but they were adamant rodgers had no idea his friend was planning a murder.do some work on the side, maybe earn some money. dennis murphy: and the defense insisted the witnesses against rodgers were motivated to lie, especially wright, whose cooperation guaranteed a prison sentence of 25 years. you were all in this together. am i right? curtis wayne wright: yes. yes. the only difference is with this plea deal, you get a big benefit. the difference is that i'm telling the truth. dennis murphy: the jury got the case, and it took them more than a day to come up with a verdict. it was not what the state had hoped. jimmy rodgers was found guilty, but only of second degree murder. and in another blow to the state, he was acquitted of conspiracy. jurors found no evidence to tie him directly to mark sievers. so what would that mean for mark's case? it wouldn't take long to find out. please be seated. dennis murphy: when mark sievers' trial began a few weeks later, prosecutors presented a motive, money, in the form of a financial windfall mark would receive with his w

a's stars jose canseco, dennis eckersley and dave stewart taking part in a tribute to the late rickey henderson. there will also be performances from counting crows frontman adam as well as billy bob thornton's band, the boxmasters. >> for more on the event, we're grateful to be joined by tony la russa here in studio. sir, thanks so much for being here. we were just talking about what an amazing lineup you have for saturday. for people that show up, what can they expect? and all for a good cause here. >> you know, we do it in spurts, like adam's going to be there for about 30 minutes acoustic. billy is going to be about 30 minutes. and then we have a military session. we've got the leader of top gun, we've got the first female top gun graduate. so they're going to talk about their experiences. and then we have scotty hastings who was wounded ten times in afghanistan as he rehabilitated. and he had some ptsd. he started teaching himself how to play guitar and writing songs. and now his last song is part of dolly parton's thing. >> oh, wow. >> we have an all star band and the one we we're going to have a lot of fun with. i just said, i saw i was with ec this mor