morning after an apartment fire in san francisco it happened yesterday at montgomery street and pacific avenue. as you can see the flames spread quickly most people did not have any time to salvage possessions the cause of that fire is under investigation the landlord says the power was out on friday so someone may have been using a candle for light the displaced people are at an emergency shelter. >>> a couple new years laws effect students and parents here in california. middle and high school students not required to be vaccinated against whooping cough starting around age 5. most children are given a pertussis vaccine before starting school but immunity wears off older students will need to provide proof of booster shots before starting school in the fall. >> second law will hold the parents responsible for child have excessive absences. >> after banning plastic foam containers from fast food restaurants the bay area's fourth largest city is joining a county wide effort to ban plastic grocery bags. fremont city council has shown support for banning the bags in 2012 despite concerns about p

on the regular calendar, item 19, at 25 pacific avenue, discretionary review request, we received a request from staff to continue to february 3, 2011. it that is all i have. vice president olague: is there any public comment on items proposed for continuance? i believe we have one speaker card. >> we would like to ask for continuance to february 17. if you would allow a brief update on where we are, we met with neighbors the following winter, made changes for planning, and the project went before the commission three times before last year. it also benefited the neighborhood as well. in the last week or so, there has been a lot of key indication asking for additional time. we would have come today but for a clerical error in the planning department. we are agreeable to that. i am also meeting with neighbors on monday evening, it and i made this available to the neighbors. vice president olague: great. thank you. is there any additional public comment? did you want to speak, sir? is there any additional public comment? vice president olague: commissioner ray anthony? commissioner antonini:

the procession may cause some delays around grand avenue and pacific avenue in hall immediate dpa >>> the contracost to county water district is warning customers to watch out for impose rs. they said it's rare for an employee to go inside a home without making an appointment first. >>> tesla has a new naifnlt union pacific railroad has purchaseed acres next to the freem ont factory. freemont city officials said they're trying to set up a meeting with union pacific to work together >>> fans of the mavericks surfi ng contest near half moon bay, you're being encourageed to stay home. the event will be closed to the public for safety reasons. access to the beach and nearby bluffs will be band. these are to prevent what happene d at the last mavericks competition 13 spectators were injured when massive waves knocked them down >> exciteed there are so many fans. no one wants anybody getting hurt >> about 40,000 people usually show up to watch the contest. this year there will lab des sigg ed viewing area. it will be a mile from the beach where you can watch it on a big stream. it also will

the filth avenue improvement project was developed through a partnership with the city of oakland, the port, the union pacific and the alameda county transportation commission. there are detours. northbound i-80 traffic is advised to use the oak street offramp. so you pass up the embarcadero offramp. they don't want you to use that, use the oak street and you turn right, there are signs up there. southbound traffic on 7th and then east 8th street should head north on 7th street, turn right on fallen and there are signs -- fallan and there are signs to direct you where you need to go. but the problem is, there's no closures in the works. no crews are here. it doesn't look like fifth avenue is gonna be closing for at least the next hour. i'm gonna call caltrans again and see why that is. reporting live, kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >> we'll look forward to an u pdate very soon. thank you, kraig. >>> we're learning new details about a deadly caltrain accident early this morning. investigators say a southbound train hit a 19-year-old man on the tracks around 1:0 a.m. it happened near the -- 1:30 a.m. it happ

pacific neighborhood last night. they arrived to investigate a suspicious container. it was discovered outside of a home not far from a high school. there were concerns that mysterious liquid inside the container might be dangerous. avenue sifaka firefighter -- pacifica firefighters were not taking any chances. >> we found a material that wasn't dangerous possiblely a fertilizer it was neutral. it shouldn't be where it was. >> the hazmat crews were at the scene until early this morning. investigators say it could take several more days to determine the exact contents of that mystery liquid. >>> time now 6:02. right now as we speak the crew of the space shuttle challenger is being remembered in a somber ceremony. this is a picture we are seeing at the ceremony. the astronauts memorial foundation is funding this. again it seems like yesterday. this is being held at the kennedy space center right near the space mirror memorial. among the speakers will be june skoby rogers she's the widow of dick skoby. if you can't remember this -- you remember these pictures. the space shuttle challenger blew up 73 seconds into their mission. also on board was crystal mcculla the first teacher in space. we will talk more about this later