it is burning at 6th and harrison street. we believe that the fire may have started in an abandoned victorian home on harrison street. this is right next to 880, the freeway. it is also on the same road that the posey tube comes out of. this could be causing some problems in the posey tube. it also could be causing folks to slow down on 880. these are pictures from earlier. you can see a lot of smoke. the fire initially started as a one-alarm fire but quickly went to two alarms when it broke out probably 30 to 45 minutes ago. christian is on the scene. christian, what can you tell us? >> reporter: frank, we just arrived here about ten minutes ago. let's give you a look. you can see flames still on top of this building. it is very much like what you described. it appears to be an abandoned building at harrison. traffic is shut down on harrison and on 7th street here. firefighters and police are routeing people around it. 880, as you said, looks like there is slowing traffic as people approach the scene of this fire. and then t

with an intense fire in oakland at harrison and 621 harrison this vacant building is a three story buildingls are making sure that this does not spread. it began a round 5:00 p.m. and at nearly 6:45 you can still see that it is very smoky. there is one possible injury reported, no evacuation's we have a news crew on the scene. people are asked to stay away from this scene. this is happening during the evening commute will have a complete update for you coming up at 8:00 p.m. meantime, we are going to take a look at the 49ers that are back on the practice field preparing for the practice field. what about alex smith? he will talk about colin kaepernick and his own feelings on being the odd man out. gary radnich coming up, next. >> good evening. what about alex smith? wait until you hear about alex's met talking today. i have not heard alex really talking about what it is about the situation. >> i think what has impressed me the most is the lack of mistakes. most people come in and show flashes and ricky moments. but he has not done it. these are all my teammates. we have gone through some mu

i have the great honor and privilege to introduce and to introduce karen harrison who is also receiving this award tonight. karen harrison is a registered nurse and clinic manager at the native american indian center in oakland and a member from a tribe here in california. she started out as a medical assistant in 1985 with the native american health center and went on to get her registered nurse degree so she's been with the health center for 27 years and 21 of those years she has been a registered nurse. [applause] karen has greatly contributed to the native american health center and sharing her knowledge and wisdom with the whole agency and this goes out to the community as well and serves as a chair on the advisory community and board member of the friendship house and coached american indian children in the tribal athletics program and known as the coworkers as the patient whisperer and when there is a patient that is angry or agitated she is always successful in calming them down. she is a mother and her with her family tonight. can all her kids wave? and she is here with her sis

i'm michael harrison working with harry clifton here for the hastings planning committee. heckler: never heard of it. what good's it ever done? ladies and gentlemen these are the facts. in the last five years more than three million houses have been damaged or destroyed. as a country, we now need to build 750,000 new homes 7,000 of them here in hastings. but it may well be that the luftwaffe has done us a favor. (commotion) we can look on this not as a challenge but as an opportunity. highcliffe green. it's an empty space even though it's only minutes away from the center of hastings. and here it is again the hub of a new development zone with purpose-built housing, improved traffic flow, the sense and simplicity of concentric rings. a new modern hastings with a bustling, new heart. heckler: but what happens to us? heckler 2: and what about the existing bomb damage? one at a time, please. may i ask where you live, sir? gladwell avenue. then i congratulate you on your good fortune. every resident of highcliffe street, quay street and gladwell avenue is going to be required

harrison. so no one's going to let you anywhere near it. (pounds the table) harrison: why?!why did you have to get involved in all that? don't you believe in progress? progress or profit? i think i know which one you believe in. adam, you were magnificent! do you think so? it was nothing less than a triumph for democracy. well, common sense. and hill house. we could have a fete on the green to celebrate. (dog barking) yes. what do you think? (explosion) that's hill house. crikey! (scream in distance) not another bomb! no, adam, wait! wait for the fire brigade. what about the guests? are you all right? mr. west: stay back, mr. wainwright! adam: mr. west, get out of here! is there anybody else up there? i don't think so i don't think so. sam! mrs. crawley! (fire bell ringing) is she all right? she's still got a pulse, she's still breathing. anybody in there?! i can smell gas. fireman: anybody there? what the hell are you doing in here? this whole place could collapse at any moment. it's my hotel! sam: we've got someone here who's hurt. fireman: all right, we'll take over now.

be shout out to larry harrison for taking care of our eagle staff. you maybe seated. calling up to the podium at this time michael lupdtin and vice president of the marketing and branding for this station. >> hi everyone. can you hear me? hello everyone. i am from kqmd and i wanted to welcome you to this eighth annual indian heritage celebration. we are honored to be honoring four heroes from the community who have tirelessly worked throughout the year to provide the kind of service that admissible media is about and engaged community and robust heritage is about. nominated by community leaders they have worked at the grass-roots level and share the highest values we all share. as a public supported media organization we are committed to this and in november we are celebrating american heritage indian month with special programs on our television channels including kqed and plus and world. many are provided by native american public television which is actually an organization that produces indian producers and countries with partnership with public television and rad

so, it's a concern if you allow the left turn going north on sixth street at harrison and then you've also allow for the parking on the east side of 5th street, you are creating much more gridlock. * calls almost to the point where you're going to get huge levels of service by up to e or f, and i am very concerned what you're going to do and how it's going to affect cab service because of the fact it's going to cause more gridlock on that street. please, you all, i invite you all to drive that all in an afternoon, particularly let's say on a thursday or friday, how to get into the city. and you know the cabs -- again, where the cabs are situated when there's a change of shift. so, if you want to harm service in the downtown area or in north beach or in nob hill, then go ahead and make traffic on sixth street going northbound worse. and this is what does it. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, before you proceed, if i can just clarify that item w has to do with revoking the no left turn on 5th street on harrison. it does not have anything to do with hayes street. >> okay. so, we

last and not least is the picture of the grand opening of harrison park and car go lane bike lanes both of which we have seeshed a lot of great compliments on and people are out there using them today and with that i'm available for any questions thank you. >> clean woods? >>> good afternoon commissioners conmarine woods water front den son, i want to thank for all of his hard work the blue green white project if you have not been down to harrison park since the new entrance went in, please go, it's absolutely beautiful. the bay front park shore line is has really opened up that park from the boulevard for people to use all of these projects really connect people with the water front. and they are very important and without the support and david's leadership, they would not have happened. i know that you will all worked hard to get to 2012 bond. i'm hoping that you can find some other money to do the north east work plaza's so we don't have to spend our bond minute on that and we can move it back down to the southern water front to help finish up crane copark and then the other project

come as a major revelation so in the meantime from tax hikes to trillion dollar coin ideas edward harrison is here to discuss what is likely to be the fallout from what he calls the fiscal cliff less and les miserables it is a hollywood blockbuster meant to show off a list actor singing chops or is it actually a valuable lesson in the economic misadventures of stated them very relevant today while jeffrey tucker argues the latter will hear why business week's cover feature is babies crying on capitol hill but what about a study that finds babies born during recessions are more likely to be delinquent teens no word on what happens if they get elected to office we'll have more in loose change plus we'll talk bad minutes an inflationary dragons' let's get to today's capital account. nouriel roubini has an op ed in the financial times today saying the deal reached in washington on new year's day kept the u.s. from falling off the you know what however given the dysfunctional nature of the american political system it won't be long before there is another crisis to months in fact while that's n

this is a three story vacant building we believe on harrison street.ire officials now say there is an injury that has been reported but they aren't elaborating on the seriousness of that injury. we don't know how the fire started or the circumstances surrounding it. the flames did break out about an hour ago, about 5:30 on a house on harrison street right next to 880. if you're going that way or pass that way, surely you saw the smoke in downtown oakland on harrison street beside 880. the home is in a thabd which is a blend of residential and businesses in the area. there are some reports of very strong odor from the fire. we'll continue to update the story as warranted throughout the newscast. >>> out in the open. women serve in combat. ask can anyone in the military. it's no secret. but until today it was against u.s. policy and that means that women were doing the work but not getting the credit. in a surprise move the pentagon enlisted a ban dating back 20 years. kris sanchez joins us with reaction. a lot of women are saying it's with about time. >

you've met steven, and the host, chris harrison.. but you have to find some love here. listen to the ladies. >> good morning, ladies. how are you? >> hi. how are you? >> the first question i have is for bachelorette number one. let's say i were to pick you. what would be your idea of a perfect date for us? >> well, i would want to go somewhere quiet. want to have a conversation, get to know you. maybe a small wine bar. maybe a hole in the wall dive bar. i can't speak this morning. sorry. it's still a little early. but i definitely want to take some time to be able to chat and not scream over people. >> maybe some place it's not 30 below. that's good. >> next question. >> bachelorette two, same question for you. >> although the cold is getting to me lately, i heard that iceland is beautiful this time of year. there's hot springs to sit and enjoy wine. and the northern lights if we're lucky. >> she wants to go to iceland. >> i don't think it can be colder than here. >> it's not bad. >> it's a cool place. the next one. >> the next ques

unlike the host of "the bachelor," chris harrison.e bus. >> sorry, buddy. >> let me introduce our bachelorettes. bachelorette number one, an account executive at a p.r. firm. can you please turn and say hello? >> hi, steven. >> hello. >> i think this is going swimmingly well. bachelorette number two is a business student. can you turn and say hello? >> hello, steven. >> bachelorette number three is a broadway dancer. can you please say hello? >> hi, steven. there you go, bill. >> thank you. >> i feel like i've done my job. >> if our bachelor was watching the stage director, scottie, he knows which one. this will be fun. we're going to have -- we've seen them say hello. and you get to ask them some questions before making your pick. >> doesn't that music bring you back? >> it does. >> really does. >> bob eubanks. >> that's right. >>> now, chris harrison for the rest of this half hour. and we'll have secrets of weight loss that the pros are not telling you. and we'll have them revealed by our own becky worley. right now, we go to lara.

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the fire broke out at the home on harrison street near interstate 880 just before 5-30 tonight. flames furiously burned for an hour and a half. kron-4's scott rates has been on the scene all night. and joins us now with the latest. scott? >> reporter: pam, i just spoke with the battalion chief. they are treating this as a suspicious fire. let me show you what is left of 621 harrison the firefighters are still making sure that everything else is out. this is what it looked like with our helicopter partnership from abc seven. flames were shooting out of this home they had to work quickly before it spread to any other homes. antiphon i have learned tonight that the homo was vacant. when firefighters are right to they found something interesting. it was on the roof of a home right next door. >> when we are right on the scene. this building they called and told the three people off and rescued individuals but they could have been involved in the fire. and the police department has them in custody. they are being questioned on weather or not they had anything to do with this fire. >>

i am joined by the star rick harrison coming up your business needs... at prices that keep you...outred. this week get a bonus $15 itunes gift card with any qualifying $75 ink purchase. find thousands of big deals now... at officemax. >> from the fox business studios in new york city, it is "the willis report" with gerri willis. gerri: okay, wealthy people need fast cash, too. we are asking of the biggest names in the business. the self-proclaimed hustler from the hit television show "pawn stars" joins me now, rick harrison with an exclusive look. >> actually there is a clock and basically made with golde mercury. and yes, what they used to make these clocks is really dangerous. the people that made these rarely live past the age of 30 years old. gerri: so why are wealthy people visiting more often? >> most people don't realize that up until the 1950s, palmtops were the number one form of credit in the united states. they are just becoming popular again. it's because of my tv show and a lot of other tv shows as well. it's a little bit more mainstream, and it's a way to get quick cash

in annapolis, don harrison. abc 2news. >> and now to the latest from the super bowl bound ravens. got breaking news on ed reid. take a listen. >> no, not my last ride. just bought a bike. >> he now says he has no intention of the super bowl being his last game. he plans to be back on the field next season. they had a couple days off to recover from the hard fought win and they were looking fresh today. focus is on the super bowl and facing a difficult team with the 49ers. the team of course still the under dog. players address some of the doubters and haters out there just a few hours ago. >> i don't care. you know there are guy that have to make a living on hating on somebody. if that's going to be us, me, then i plan on being around for a while and if you want to continue to do it i will be here. >> speak up. that's great. they will practice at home until sunday and then monday getting on a plane. >> something else. >> a lot of people want to get tickets and go to the super bowl. this may make getting a second mortgage but that's not going to stop fan who are searching for seats

ever wanted to get into politics and we are mourning the death, a look back at the life of hatie harrison. >> they are waking up in the big easy chatting it up with the media later today. we will show you the good- byebefore the ravens boarded the plane. that was yesterday with you it's tuesday, january 29th. good morning i am charley crowson. >> are you sore from screaming at the rally. >> a little bit. >> a huge crowd showed up and we will talk about their arrival into new orleans but let's talk about the weather because yesterday it was all about the ice and now it's fog. >> what's going on out there lynette? it feels like a roller coaster. >> you said it. yesterday we had the ice today we have the fog and temperatures are going to be a little above average and tomorrow we are going to be in the 60s with some thunderstorms possible. so all over the place. maryland most powerful radar is dry. and that's the good news. sprirchges from the -- sprinkles from the west going to the east. the bigger story is the patchy fog in spots and annapolis is one spot. being see the humidity and dew poi

want to thank for all of his hard work the blue green white project if you have not been down to harrison park since the new entrance went in, please go, it's absolutely beautiful. the bay front park shore line is has really opened up that park from the boulevard for people to use all of these projects really connect people with the water front. and they are very important and without the support and david's leadership, they would not have happened. i know that you will all worked hard to get to 2012 bond. i'm hoping that you can find some other money to do the north east work plaza's so we don't have to spend our bond minute on that and we can move it back down to the southern water front to help finish up crane copark and then the other project that have been so long in planning but really, thank you david. >> thank you. are there any i public comment? >>> david i gist wanted to tell you that you did a very great report. great thorough and i'm going through all of the project and everything that you worked on and i'm totally impressed this is very good work. thank you. >> ditto. very ve