then we will have mat lynn macky from the red cross talk about using red cross resources. to be prepared for a disaster. we have michaelllow from china town disaster preparedness committee an example of an organized neighborhood they have their own disaster plan. we have judy choi from animal care and control that will talk about pet preparedness and michael from pg and e. i will facilitate a discussion after based on the questions folks have. let's get started. >> i'm amy with the department of emergency management. thank you. >> hi. thank you all for chosing to get involved in the conversation of disaster prepared. i would like to present alth about the training program the san francisco department provides free of charge to you. there are a few people in the room that are are nert trained. anybody else? know we are appreciative for that. 1990 for the fighter department to the react which was training for citizens and how to take care theflgz after a sdaft every how to feel empowered about what they can do after the disaster instead of waiting in line for what people cou

the american red cross has 12 volunteers out here. many more spontaneous volunteers are still out here this morning. these volunteers came down to help last night, are in no way affiliated with the red cross. they started arriving last night and immediately got to work. a lot of organizing has to be done in a situation, the food and clothes brought in by the community needed to be sorted. that's one of the reasons why at this hour the red cross is asking for monetary donations. log on and send money in care of the san bruno fire effort. women dropped off diapers and baby formula, one of the women heard the loud explosion last night and as she watched the continuous coverage of what was going on she came down to donate. we also spoke to a man who heard the explosion and th took some action. >> we are a tight community. everybody knows each other and everybody went to school together and played sports together. when you see your neighbor's homes on fire and you know them you can pick out our friend's houses it's sad but it makes you wan

we have done training around the city a partnership with the red cross. one challenge was people showing up. we did advertising and people didn't necessarily come to the presentations. because it requires more than putting up a sign and it requires more contact than our department has. people in the building have to encourage their neighbors to come to these trainings. back to disaster kits. we have a grant from the hospital council to purchase disaster buckets from the red cross. it's not many. our focus is on low income families. family and child care providers. we are looslooking at organizeds like day care centers and providing them with supplies. so they're available after a disaster. that's one way we are addressing that. >> did you have a follow up to that? >> you keep saying turn off the gas. i've tried to get a hold of pg and e. a lot of the meters have frozen nuts or whatever you want to it. i tried to get pg and e to look at the one in my house and says it's impossible to shut off. how do we get pg and e to address the fact the old meters in fr

we also have the red cross truck here.have information this morning that they helped out about 38 people at the two shelters they had set up last night. they say that a lot of people ended up going with family and friends. we're also, if we can pan over here, waiting for a press conference to start to get new information. we're believing this may be the lieutenant governor coming here. that could happen any minute. a lot of people coming by wanting answers. we spoke with one woman a couple minutes ago, she said she had a couple relatives up there and hasn't heard from them. she is trying to get information on them. also people coming here wanting to know, as sad as it sounds, wanting to know if their home is still standing. they are wanting answers and the red cross can't answer that. oes is here, firefightering trying to learn what is going on. state farm, the insurance company, will be out in this lot helping out the people they cover trying to get them back on their feet. certainly a lot of activity this morning. a lot

the red cross shelter will be open a few more days.referred that you donate money instead, as they are already overwhelmed with these physical donations. if you would like to donate online, there's a link to the red cross, cbs5.com. also, the humane society, peninsula humane society is caring for all of the pets that were rescued from the disaster zone. they can use food and financial donations as well. >> lot of help coming in there. that's a good thing. >> absolutely. people have been amazing. >>> weather wise today, sunny skies and warm temperatures. so make a point to enjoy it, because we'll be cooling. >>> that does it for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning. have a great saturday morning. >> we'll see you first thing in the morning. >> dark and early! ,, the guys who drive a heavy duty truck, like enough horsepower and torque to get out of just about any situation. a payload that beats the other guys flat out. a frame sturdy enough to bear up a max towing capacity that's over 10 tons. and a braking system tough enough

>> they can contact their local red cross, contact the american red cross in the bay area go to our website, call 800-red-cross, get information. or, again, come to the points of service delivery that we set up in san bruno. >> thanks a lot for taking a moment. reporting live from san bruno, i'm christie smith. back to you guys. >> he mentioned a website, we will continue to one those remember sites and more information on the ticker below us. >>> the mayor of san bruno says this terrible tragedy has fallen on the city. here's a statement from him. >> our main concern, as public officials here, making sure our citizens are safe. we're trying to do that right now this is going to be a long haul for the season and all of our residents for a number of weeks to come. >> the mayor is asking people to pray for those effected by the massive fire. it will be a tough tragedy to overcome. we are still in the very early hours of all of this. >> is going to be so hard to go through the remains there. it just looks like a volcano hit. >> it does. it is still hot. they have not declared this area safe. w

you can see behind me the red cross truck is here. they are certainly helping many of those people who had their homes either completely burned to the ground or had a lot of damage done to it. you can see some of the video there. dozens of homes that burned and more that are damaged. one person confirmed dead and dozens hurt. many people taking themselves to the hospital. some with severe burns, others with smoke inhalation, some in nearby hospital, others as far as san francisco. saint francis burn unit was treating some of the people last night. this is going to be a pretty difficult search operation, certainly not rescue but a search operation as cadaver dogs go through some of the rubble this morning. mainly, that's because many of the people if there are any left inside pretty much would have been incinerated. this fire was so hot, i was here last night that it just eliminated the houses almost instantly. you see skeletons, chimneys, ironically about the only things left standing sit on the ground n top of foundations. certainly

red cross says they are no longer taking any more donations at this site.hey have been inundated with people bringing blankets and other goods. they say bring it to your nearest salvation army and tomorrow at 2:00 there is a town hall style meeting with the san bruno city council. that is at st. roberts church at 2:00. >> kiet do, thank you. >>> we're finding out it could be more than a year until we find out exactly what happened in this neighborhood. the federal government investigators there say it could be 18 months before their final report is completed. one thing that neighbors have been saying from the very beginning. they told us that yesterday, they told it to us outside in the street again today. they smelled gas for days in that neighborhood before the blast. robert lyles shows us some neighbors still smell is tonight. >> reporter: ken, consider. this just over an hour ago i stood outside of a home in the crestmoor section of san bruno and it is literally blocks away from what is now being described as ground zero. i lay out the distance because

san bruno is part of the bay area red cross, and, of course, the bay area red cross is housed here in san francisco. we had a pretty significant mutual aid response to our neighboring county. we had, specifically from san francisco, over 15 volunteers respond last night. we had over 125 volunteers either on site or in rows -- en route. we are staffing personnel at the various eoc's. we have said seven or eight of our emergency response vehicles to the area, and will begin damage assessment of each individual home to assess the needs of the victims of the fire. we have caseworkers who will start those interviews beginning today, and we are also sending from the six counties our disaster mental health service specialist to help out in that area. it people are concerned about the well-being of their family or friends, they can register themselves at our safe and well website, or they can call 1-800- red-cross and file their information about their concerned parties there. mayor newsom: appreciate that. you have another site that was set up for city employees. >> yes, so for san francisco

we are at the shopping center, we have a red cross here. and i want to show you right here, where they have been getting donations from people around the area, there's food. there are blankets. there are jackets, there's water. all things for people who are just kind of trying to get what they can to help. they've been seeing these picture and it's been touching them. a lot of them are trying to do whatever they can to help out in whatever small way. as you saw, as the two people we talked to got a couple of blankets; because it's chilly out here. we're not sure that the red cross is accepting any food. but blankets, and jackets. a lot of these people don't have anything right now, so they are really in need. we're going to try to stay on top of this, and we're going to try to get an interview with the vice mayor who has been getting briefings regularly from police. there are a lot of police out here on the scene from san mateo, san bruno and surrounding jurisdictions to see if they can keep order here. when we started off it was about 15,

>> at red cross we do not exactly known to nations. you can donate money, food, blankets you know you can join it to local church or charity. and by all means the local red cross ringnecks times it happens like this you prepared to come up and l. >> have been helping families get in touch with their loved ones? to make sure their loved ones ok? >> of funds and local funds are not affected it like in most of the disasters we deal it's a communication has not been we talked about opening a call center we don't do this would be necessary this point. >> to fill most of the people that feel the trendy yet in touch with their family >> yes absolutely. >> bucket of thank-you very much. we'll let him continue and there are a lot of folks who found shelter with friends and family members. about three of them have gone to the american evacuation center in and returned them to pick up with your lives. >> are jonathan take you for that. we do have some new video that just came as of the fireball. look at that. >> and the fumes it's almost like you

we turn to christie smith at the american red cross shelter for evacuees. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. i have not heard this said yet, i wanted to say it, that as soon as we got in the area of sfo, we were coming from the east bay, you can really still smell smoke out here. it kind of smells like the aftermath of a fireworks show. it's quite thick in the air this morning. right we're at the bayhill shopping center. basically what this is is a clearinghouse for people who are displac displaced, for evacuees to come and get help. earlier i was told they had some samtrans buses here to get people to buses. earlier evacuees were sharing incredible stories of escaping the flames, i spoke briefly with a red cross spokesperson this morning, he said they have already helped dozens, perhaps more than a hundred people. i asked for an exact count, he said we don't even know that. the best i can give you is an inaccurate estimate. earlier we spoke with a woman who got out just in time. >> i was four houses away. by the time we got the cars out, it wa

>> we are working with the red cross to help provide emergency shelter.hat is a good question because our focus is on those that have been impacted. we want to work with the red cross to make sure they are -- those that have experienced this terrible tragedy that their immediate material needs are met and so working with the red cross on making sure that you know first and foremost shelter but also food and cloth in and the things the necessities of life that will be needed we are working closely with them because this is such a terrible tragedy we want to make sure those folks who have had just an unbelievably terrible experience that their material needs are obviously met and we will let the red cross do that. >> all right again just to let people know who are just joining us we are talking by jeff smith, a spokesperson for pg&e, jeff, i am sure your phone lines and website flooded, what can you tell people that near the area if they did smell gas or what they saw and hear, where should they go with this information in this investigation? >> certainly t

i'm christie smith here live with the red cross. we'll tell you how they're helping out. >> amid the flames, stories of survival. we have complete coverage on this neighborhood explosion this friday, september 10th. "today in the bay." >>> good morning. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm scott mcgrew in for brent. garvin thomas will be joining us from san bruno throughout the morning. >> right now we want to fill you in on the latest details about the san bruno explosion. as of this moment, one person is confirmed dead. and more than 20 people are injured. the explosion and fire destroyed 53 homes, damaged at least another 120. >> safety crews will get together in about an hour. they will survey the damage and decide when it's time to start to search for survivors, for more dead. we have at least one confirmed death, search and rescue operations could begin any time. >> if this is the first time you're hearing about what happened, here's the details. the initial explosion actually happened just after 6:00 last night near glenn view par

the red cross in the hospital are as saying the victims.ey want to know what pg&e stalinism what really happened. the is of a source of the explosion was a home in claremont and when you drive. and that is spread. >> oh yes. it was the ones that did that caring the flames from home to home and what you see on the right-hand side is at the entire neighborhood had that was just leveled. there used to beat houses on the street and now you see nothing-and rubble. police has been following the weather talking about the high winds that we see there. the reset? >> yes we have a chilling pictures of the video over and over and over of the planes being pushed very fast by the ones. it is no question why this place is very susceptible to high winds. yesterday is up to 20 m.p.h. and that is why the fans' were pushing so quickly. currently it is about the status is going to get peer getting very low temperatures and has been light and variable morning is fluctuating from 1 to 2 mi. an hour winds and not to about 3 mi.. it could get up to five or six. i

we are at the shopping center, we have a red cross here. and i want to show you right here, where they have been getting donations from people around the area, there's food. there are blankets. there are jackets, there's water. all things for people who are just kind of trying to get what they can to help. they've been seeing these picture and it's been touching them. a lot of them are trying to do whatever they can to help out in whatever small way. as you saw, as the two people we talked to got a couple of blankets; because it's chilly out here. we're not sure that the red cross is accepting any food. but blankets, and jackets. a lot of these people don't have anything right now, so they are really in need. we're going to try to stay on top of this, and we're going to try to get an interview with the vice mayor who has been getting briefings regularly from police. there are a lot of police out here on the scene from san mateo, san bruno and surrounding jurisdictions to see if they can keep order here. when we started off it was about 15,

it is a volunteer for the red cross, and you've seen a lot of that haven't you?he persons i've spoken to, she was a emotional about it. the idea that these people have suffered like they have. >> and with all of that conviction to be able to do that and she is been very proud that our co-workers and family members of the victims. and as somebody came and all the way from a neighboring cocounty and they have lost one family member and the bridges tried to find a place for her nephew for stricter. >> there's a lot of help coming in but is family-shelter. >> craig sklar, adding to. >> and someone else took an interesting is congressman jack spears. you can see her meeting with the evacuees and she is here looking for federal, state aid jackie spears. also, an investigation on who is at fault. at a short time. , and evacuees were able to go back but as reggie kumar explains to start its stopped. >> skyline and this several the back to is a been trying to get access. authorities have built a road block. not allowing people in, out. for a short time allowed one evacuat

. >> jeff -- yeah, we got the red cross here. we are having a little bit of communication problems between my microphone and our camera. we are joined by steve sharp. he's with the american red cross. tell me us what is this chaotic scene? >> what's going on here is the police department has asked the people that have been evacuated to come to this location to register their names and dresses. >> for what purpose. >> so they can keep track, it's a roll call sheet. if they need any further assistance from in a, we have our -- we can give them further assistance there. >> do you have any idea what the need is in terms of numbers of people? >> no, we don't. we opened the first shelter has about 100 people. the second shelter has about 80 people in it. in each of these events, it depends on insurance coverage and staying with other family and stuff. we supply the help and support for the people that don't have it in other means. >> we've seen some people walking by with blankets, you don't need clothing, what do -- what can people do

if >> well red cross operates of money so that would really help. to our website at red crossbayarea.com and if you do choose to make a donation of blood which is very an important to us to people who have needed a lot of blood is a good idea to make an appointment and that we don't have to wait. i had given blood and i encourage others to do. >> we have a live picture at the command center in san bruno and again the red cross is out there and so is acting governorabel maldonado and in fact they're going to be giving a press conference that is scheduled to start a 730 and when to take a quick break and we're going to come back as it unfolds live. 7 t a renowned showing in a fireball that is part of last week's fire that ripped through sanford as sabre hit level in 53 homes and damaging another 120 this morning in for a slight fire fighters are still working on hot spots and areas that are smoldering. we see smoke rising from the area we also know that they're trying to get into some of the homes are damaged to make sure there are no more victims. at

>> go to american red cross web site.nd you can put transformation in their people can go to that site and find information and know you are ok. we have been taking names at the shelters to ensure we have accurate list of individuals we have come in contact with an individual's who won give information. if somebody is looking for them. >> so anybody checked into the shelter as soon as you get there give your name so we can cross you off the list. >> exactly. >> james i will be out here throughout the morning giving you the latest information i know that the acting governor will be here in about two hours to give a new news conference hopefully we will get more formation of what's going on. being here i can tell you i did not see flames as i drove here. he usually is foggy around here you know today is not fog its thick smoke. it's pretty nasty. >> thank you will if you could do me a favor if there's any fire personnel we are getting word that possibly six people were confirmed killed in the spirit if you could get that co

. >> called red cross, checked red cross online, the hospitals. called them all. >> did you talk to the fire department at all? >> i talked to five different police officers. >> her two aunts and uncle were also in the house. they made it out alive but were severely burned. the approximately 100 evacuate wes are anxious to get back in to see what's left of their homes. the neighborhood they had known for so long was reduced to rubble in a matter of hours. look closely before and after image. disaster officials say it's still too dangerous to allow people back in. amy hollyfield has that part of the story. >> i'm sorry, ma'am. >> road blocks kept people from getting the answers they so desperately wanted today. >> i'm holding it together for my kids. all my daughter wants is her special blanket so she can sleep at night. and that's the first thing i'm gonna look for. >> the chp officer said he dealt with some upset people today. one man even threatened him. >> most folks are frustrated. they don't have access to things they need. nothing that -- i

affected residents can get all sorts of help at two red cross centers of that been set up.nsurance, medical care and loans. laura anthony is live at the veterans memorial rec center with available resources and incredible stories of escape. laura? >> that's right, kristen. i can tell you first of all only about a dozen people actually spent the night at this shelter but let me show you what it looks like right now. come this morning, many, many more people showed up. these are all folks who have registered as fire victims. they are taking advantage of the donations of that been made here throughout the night. clothing, pillows, blankets, food and the like. you can see there's quite a demand. in the meantime these folks also shared their stories. >> it's indescribable. indescribable! >> she woke with the sun to fails the reality of what happened to her and her neighbors just 12 hours earlier. >> we heard the boom. and then all of a sudden there was a light. like coming from heaven or something. and we didn't know what it was. and my son sails you better get out of here, you

the red cross is saying that at this point it can use money. it doesn't want you to show up and drop things off but it can use money. in terms of other hospitals, sf general has had five people come in, three in critical condition. st. francis which has a very renowned burn center by the way had two people initially transported, and then we've heard at least three people taken to seaton medical. >> there's the red cross as you mentioned also by sam transwho is transporting fire evacuees, fire victims from one place to another. we should mention grocery stores are getting into the act, specifically safeway, apparently they're making lunches and providing water to fire victims. they are delivering those packages to shelters and in city hall. this is safeway in san mateo county. the latest numbers we've gotten so far, san mateo county coroner's office says one person has died. chief dennis haage mentioned they will not know the full extent of the fire, the number of injuries, the number of possible deaths, until maybe tomorrow afternoon when they

the red cross is here to help them. >> we are sheltering about 38 people.e have two shelters open. and we're prepared to keep those shelters open for as long as we need to and provide services to individuals for as long as that's necessary. >> once again, search crews are going to be out today trying to see if there are any more bodies remaining. the death count, john, so far has increased from one at the beginning to now we're up to six. and unfortunately, those people that told us that there were six dead bodies also think there are more so their work is not done. >> thank you very much, simon perez in san bruno. want to remind that simon is there and we have julie watts as well as anne makovec on the scene. >> we want to try to help rescuers and help san bruno the city of san bruno get a count of people once they are accounted for, making it easier to go back into the neighborhood and look for those who are missing. so the city's urging people whose homes are in the area to ringster by calling this number: the city wants to account for as many people as

the red cross, city, county have liz. we don't have an lists we don't have an accurate list. four burn victims went to saint francis memorial hospital in san francisco with on outstanding burn unit. three have life-threatening injuries. they were burned over 50% of the body from the waist up. the other victim has 40% of his body burned or her body. we don't know gender, i should specify. we don't know ages or anything. but that person is faring a little bit better. they have a long haul. burn victims have a long way to go. they will have more information on how they will fare long term on sunday. >>> what's happening over my shoulder here, there is a news conference that's happening right now. national transportation safety board one of the groups that's speaking. we are monitoring that and, of course, any new information from that we'll be sure and bring it to you. >>> so what indeed caused what could turn out to be the worst pipeline disaster in u.s. history? the images of that fireball last night almost too incredible to believe. some people who live in the area say they a

store the red cross has set up an emergency shelter for evacuees from the explosion and the fire in san bruno. julie watts was at the scene of the explosion shortly afterward. she is at the emergency shelter. good morning. >> reporter: we are here at the san bruno veterans memorial center. there are 16 evacuees staying inside here, another 6 down the road at the senior center. this is where people have been coming overnight to register to write their names down on a list saying i'm alive, i'm okay. i'm here with one of the volunteers. this is christopher. christopher drove here from fremont yesterday. saw this on the news and you came here to offer your services. >> yes, ma'am. i did. i actually was coming home from work on thursday night around 11:00 p.m., i heard it on the radio on740-am so i came to san bruno because they needed volunteers. >> what have you seen since you have been here? tell us what's been happening overnight. >> i have seen a lot of emergency vehicles. i was coming up 280 south and i saw a lot of burning embers, power completely out. found my way here, signed on th

as you heard from priya, there are shelters set up by the red cross because there are immediate needs in that area, still smoldering as you saw behind priya. we want to get more about the damage on the ground. excuse me, in san bruno, also how it unfolded from some of the folks there and experiencing it. woody baker cohen joining us from the american red cross this morning with adam broadway who saw the explosion as it happened. good to have both of you with us. if you could, give us an idea at this point, what are the immediate needs for folks in the area? >> well, the immediate needs obviously people got out of the area, those that could, and the fire department, police department were very quick at getting people out. we then assessed anybody that had injuries that needed treatments, people that were maybe missing life, sustaining medications, things of that nature. and then we quickly set up a couple of shelters to house people overnight, brought in some mental health professionals as well as some nursing staff to help with the medical needs and so forth. we have now got them in s

affected residents can get all sorts of help at two red cross centers of that been set up.nsurance,edical care and loans. laura anthon is live at the veterans memorial rec ceer with available resources and incredible stories of escape. laura? >> that's righ kristen. i can tell you first of all only about a dozen people actually spent the night at this shelr but let me show you what it looks like right now. come this morning, many, many more people showed up. these are all folks who have registered as fire victims. they are taking advantage of the donations othat been made here throughout e night. clothing, pillows, blankets, food and the like. you can see there's quite a demand. in the meantime these folks also shared their stories. >> it's indescribable. indescribable! >> she woke with the sun to failshe reality of what happened to her and her neighbors just 12 hours earlier. >> we heard th boom. and then all of a sudden tere was a light. like coming from heaven or something. and we didn't know what it was. and my son sails you bett get out of here, you goods get out of th

. >> the rec center, called red cross, checked red cross online, the hospitals, call them all. >> did you talk with the fire department at all? >> i talked to five different police officers. >> and finally last night she got the bad news. her two aunts and uncle were also in that house. they made it out alive but were severely burned. 100 evacuees are anxious to get back in to see what's left of their homes. the neighborhood they had known for so long was reduced to rubble in a matter of hours. before and after images. it's still too dangerous to allow people back in. amy hollyfield has that part of the story. >> i'm sorry, ma'am. >> road blocks kept people from getting the answers they so desperately wanted. >> i'm holding it together for my kids. all my daughter wants is her special blanket so she can sleep at night. i'm like that's the first thing i'm gonna look for. >> the chp officer dealt with upset people. one man even threatened him. >> folks are frustrated because they don't have access to things they need. and there's nothing -- i don't take it personally. we understand they

apparently the red cross using this as a staging area. but the shelters are actually some miles from her on crystal springs road. they've got a shelter at the veterans memorial recreation center and another at the san bruno senior center also on crystal springs road. reporting live from san bruno, mark matthews. >> mark, thank you so much. we'll be checking with you later on as well. 4:44 now. the fire did knock out power at the height of the fire. some 5,000 pg&e were without electricity. well, this morning, the latest update, pg&e says power is still out to 700 customers in the san bruno area and 300 customers are without gas. three at&t cellphone towers with back up and running on emergency power. the fire is affecting some schools in san bruno other than skyline. the san bruno park school district said its elementary schools will all be closed today. >> however, cappuccino high school will be open. blood centers of the pacific has issued an emergency appeal for blood donations. they especially need type o negative blood which can be g

with links from everything from the red cross to contact investigators if your information. the latest on our forecast as we headed his workweek. say good morning louisa. >> morning james. clear shot this morning of the golden gate, a little bit of fog to the south, some patchy fog. nothing widespread, visibility is not too bad as we headed the afternoon we could see a decrease buthe breeze picked upe bit. slight chance of rain, we're keeping a site because it could stay at every area. , here's a look to the satellite, fought to the north bay. pockets of its fremont and san jose. 55 san francisco, a kind of chili in the city. still kind of call the napa. as we make our way through the day looks like 10:00 we will see the '50s out there, pretty cool warming up to the '60s by noon, high temperatures all of this yellow sure the '70s. kind of damage a juror of '60s and '70s. high temperatures 75 degrees into santa rosa. 77 napa. warmer spots getting up to 78. 73 redwood city. 75 half moon bay. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. warming trend for the rest of the week. n

this is spontaneous donation as red cross calls it.these showed up at the door here, people wanting to help in any way they can now. we also spoke this morning with randy schwartz. he's the community services director here in san bruno. he said they're getting lots of assistance from outside the community. >> it's something that happens quite often during a disaster because everybody wants to have -- don't know quite what to do. so they gather up their blankets or food, water, whatever it may be and drop it off to the shelter. >> this is one of those situations where it's not just the city but all of the surrounding cities and the county office of emergency services as well. many of the other cities have sent representatives here or either police, fire or public works or city administrators have come down to our city to assist us. >> and there are also service organizations that are here to help out. as we speak the lions club has pulled up with a big mobile kitchen, if you will. they're planning to serve a pancake breakfast to the fol

another person heading over to the red cross this business donating right now if you'd like to donate head over to www.kron4.com along with our continuing coverage with videos and picture slide shows of the fire coming out of san bruno. we also have links set up if you like to donate. >> this just in to the kron 4 news room we've just learned that giants infielder mom was been evacuated from the fire zone yesterday. she's fine the homes find the pair made the right to have some very but she's ok. we also learn the giants plan to donate $3 from every ticket for the farleys periods also taking donations at the game. >> alright think you so much donations continue to come in from around the bay area this is one of the area churches in san bruno offering emergency support you see the sign there. just one of many locations better picking goods and money and offering their time and service to help the victims of this tragedy in san bruno. look all the items that of been connected and collected to help. this is the church and several they have announced a clothes, blankets and shoes. things

we gave a million dollars to the red cross. we take active role in nert training. provide fund to help them. i was surprised about involved with michael's group another outstanding program. for us to engage in disaster recovery from the standpoint things will be better when we get there. we provide what's called public safety training. that's if you have a wire down or a gas leak what do you do as a citizen? as a neighbor? as a community. we provide that training from the standpoint of safety. that's the bottom line of what we are trying to do is to create a safe environment. the folks that are available to provide the training across the city here but we provide it to emergency responders, local law enforcement, fire services. we provide it to community groups themselves. if it's a community group a safe group and/or nert group we will provide that training for individuals. the other as an organization for us to take care of business during an emergency. for us to take care of your needs to get power on, we have to have aggressive emergency response planning for o

we are being told by the red cross only a dozen people slept here overnight.e no one knew how many were sleeping upstairs. i have been told they have since dispersed. of course all of this information is coming in. we have also learned the animal has about three animals that have been picked up. in fact someone is down here this morning so anyone who come down here who might have lost a pet is being directed back to their shelter. a lot of stuff, a lot of activity is going on here. we will talk to people who actually spent the night upstairs coming up. we will have that for you in a few moments. jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, jade. >>> san bruno officials are asking everyone who lives in that fire zone to please check in. they recommend calling the special hot line on our screen. we also have it on our website, area code 650-616-7180. >>> even if you have a place to stay with family or friends you a asked to sign in or call that number so that everyone can be accounted for. >> 6:51. in just a couple of minutes we should be get in and update

wells fargo gave $50,000 to the red cross. if you want to help, here is the local red cross phone number -- 1-888-4 help bay. it is 1-888-443-5722. there is an e-mail link if you prefer on our website. the salvation army is accepting contributions as well. it is 1-800-sal-army. they have several dropoff sites as well. you can find them at our website, abc7news.com under see it on tv along with more information on how you can get involved if you wish. >>> we will continue. coming up next, cell phone video of the fire taken moments before the man who decided to take it ran in the other direction. and blood banks put out a call for donations. the response is --over well ming. and the pets that were rescued, some of them are still waiting for their owners. and then on "nightline." >> we will pick up your coverage of the san bruno explosion and fire. w45* was it like at that moment of crisis? plus, we will step into the lion's den to meet a man who plays match maker to the big on a well, i love a deal on a designer bag as much as t