the attic was a complete revelation. >> the insulation in the attic was made of ground up newspaper treatedith a flame retardant chemical. dr. hurst checked local weather conditions, and he discovered that hurricane fran had passed through tabor city, north carolina, just six weeks before the fire. terry said torrential rains from that hurricane leaked through the roof and caused water damage in the ceilings. dr. hurst also found a melted electrical wire in the attic insulation. terry told hurst there had been some electrical problems on the night of the fire. her curling iron had been going on and off earlier that evening. and when she moved the electric space heater for the firemen, she remembers it was cold to the touch. >> i picked it up with both hands. i just slid it out of the way. and later is when it dawned on me that that heater should have been very hot. it had been turned on full blast. >> that meant the heater had gone off at least a half an hour before she became aware of the fire. >> dr. hurst and fire investigator ken gibson flew to north carolina to inspect terry's home fir

jamie: the attic is empty now. but not that day in 2011. rl and carla walk in to find a century worth of dusty boxes and family heirlooms. >> literally filled to the rafters. >> all the way up to here and just a path down the middle. jamie: after several hours, they uncover a box hugging the back wall. it contains something the two cousins have never seen before. >> it was dirty, busty oldustyold box. i open it up. i don't know what it is. >> the cousins see what appear to be small cardboard photos tightly wrapped in twine. they recognize some pretty familiar faces. >> we're looking at it. baseball players. cy young. tiger. they're not baseball cards. not to us. they look like baseball cards. miniaturized. no who made it. no nothing. >> how many we talking about? >> hundreds. jamie: amazing. you see the box. you take them out. what do you and carla say? >> actually we set them on a dresser in the hallway and dove into the attic. >> soon karl starts to ponder where the strange cards may have come from. where they something the aunt collected

after several weeks of sorting through the house only the attic remains. m and his cousin decide to tackle the project. jamie: it is empty now but not in 2012. carl and carla walk-in to find one centuries' worth of family heirlooms and dusty boxes filled to the rafters literally. >> all the way up to here. engaged uncover a box against the back wall and they had never seen it before. >> i opened it up and i don't know what it is because since sees small cardboard photos tightly wrapped in twine and recognized billiard -- familiar faces there baseball players tied cub cub, wagner but they are not baseball cards, not to us. >> this looks like baseball cards miniaturize was no statistics or if nothing. jamie: how many. >> hundreds of. jamie: what do you say? >> actually we set them on the dresser in the hallway and went back into the attic jamie: but then he starts to wonder where the cards have come from tucci collect them off a cereal box or do they go back to his grandfather carl? to make a german immigrant working his way through chicago. >> and then he st

the flames shot into the attic space. >> got up into the attic space, started running the attic space and difficult to chase. once it got up in there, it weakened the roof and partial collapse of the roof happened. >> witnesses said when water hit the roof some parts of the building began to foul. chief hayes white says they will go into the building when it's safe. it will likely take days to determine the exact cause and origin. crews are looking at this from overhead. one firefighter who was hurt, he from exhaustion we're told is doing well. the american red cross is helping those who have lost their homes, at last check talking about at least 50 people, a dozen of them children, the red cross saying it will do what it can to help people before they're able to find a home once again. live in san francisco, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> nice to see the red cross stepping in and helping out. >>> we'll continue to follow the story all morning long. stephanie will join us again in about 40 minutes. when we're not on air, visit our website, nbcbayarea.com where you can find m

they overlooked him in the attic. i was downstairs, along with the rest of my family that was there for my grandma's funeral. and he waited for his moment. he shot my mom in the neck through the attic vent. my mom was rushed to the hospital. he missed by just this much. they couldn't operate, take the bullet out because it was so close to her spine. till this day the bullet is still in her neck, three years later. and after he did that, he turned the gun on himself. >> david ratliff sr. began his spree of violence shortly after his release from the same jail in which his son is now incarcerated. he had served 119 days for threatening and abusing his wife. family members say he had never been violent until about a year earlier when depression, alcohol, and drugs sent him over the edge. >> he was a great father growing up. i loved him. he was my hero. i don't know any other dad that was better than he was. i really don't. he would get home from work every day and throw the ball with me. teach me right from wrong. spank m

fire as you can see, the attic was fully involved. >> reporter: rob says the owners of the house kept plugging in a space heater last friday morning. and the circuit breaker box kept tripping off. >> this fire originates directly above the bedroom in the attic space. >> reporter: he says the wiring eventually overheated and started igniting wooden beams, something experts say is completely avoidable. >> a breaker box is there for a reason. if the breaker is tripping and constantly tripping there's a problem, an issue. you could call an electrician, have somebody come out and check out your wiring. >> reporter: the number of space heater and wire-related fires is spiking with the cold weather. rob says the only way to really stop them is to scare people. >> put them out on the internet and we're doing stories like this to let people know. hopefully next year we have none. >> reporter: investigators in philadelphia also checking into a rash of overnight and early morning fires to see if any of those may have been caused by space heaters or people trying to keep warm. we're working on th

fire chief joanne hayes white what is dangerous is how the fires take off in the attic space when the flames move quickly. >> we seen people rushing out their windows and jumping down the ladder and like, they're on every window, not even on the side of the fire, because the smoke started there, and then just went off to the right side, so they started coming down and the firefighters weren't even here yet. >> so a lot of chaos at that time. now chief hayes white says fire investigators will go into the building, but they've spoken with witnesses and it will probably take days to determine the cause and origin of the fire. dozens of people without homes this morning, the red cross taking care of them. the evacuation center and the shelter is at city college at this point. at last check there were about 50 people, 12 of them children. the red cross assuring it will be helping these people as it will be a long process for them to get back to any sort of home. live in san francisco, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much, steph. >>> in the meantime, this is actually

the storage room that some are calling the city's attic. and the effort to find new life for all these things. >>> pretty warm day despite the cloud cover and despite the sprinkles we saw this morning down south around morgan hill. real light sprinkles. as a weak system moved through. look at hayward with 70 today. big disparity between the west and east coast right now. this is cloud cover we saw today. here's the system and it's kind of progressing to the east now. a few snow flurries up in the mountains. our radar spinning right now and you can see really nothing going on. we did have a few returns offshore. there may be a chance for something to sprinkle out. that's it. then we start to clear up everyone more. more sunshine tomorrow than we had today. 45 right now walnut creek. 49 in napa. overnight lows mid- and low 40s. as that system broke through. it broke up the inversion. not as much fog tomorrow morning than we've been seeing since january. valley fog won't form. we will look at the fog forecast for tomorrow morning out in the val

mother is in the hallway in the attic. >> the letter was not only a confession but an explanation.gned by john list. list had recently lost a lucrative banking job was having money problems and feared his family would have to go on welfare. and he had other concerns. as a devout christian, list feared that his family was turning away from a christian life and would eventually stop going to church. he disapproved of his daughter's growing interest in an acting career, a profession he considered to be immoral. in the mind of john list, there was only one place he could send his family to save their souls. >> at least i'm certain they have all gone to heaven now. >> the letter provided some details of the murders. that it took longer for his oldest son john to die. he was riveted with bullets until list was satisfied the child was dead. >> john got hurt more because he seemed to struggle longer. >> john list's confession also described his last moments alone with his family. >> i said some prayers for them all from the hymn book. that was the least i could do. >> when news of the murd

they are still in the attic space areas that are hard to get to. who are just making sure it will all be out. >> thousands of gallons of water were put under the fire and that caused street flooding here in the mission district and investigators say at this point the fire does not look suspicious but arson is looking for the fire's cause. this is back in the mission mission street is still shut down and this is between 23rd and 21st and twit it will it will be here for a while and they will be open scene for a few more hours. >> this is a look over the scene of the fire you can see the fire equipment still on the scene 12 hours after the fire began. they want to make sure there are no hotspots and, of course they still have investigating since a body was found inside the building. >> our creative services manager sent us this cell phone video reports before the firefighters decided to pull back and take a defensive position. if you have photos or video to share mail them to us at ureport@kgo-tv.com. >> san francisco supervisor is representing the mi

>> he kept that box in the attic. he knows i am a writer. i do not think he kept all that believing that i would never see it. he encouraged me to write the book. he wrote a wonderful letter to me that i quote in the book. at the end of my mother's life about her spirit. how he, in his frailty, had done his best to preserve her. he had another relationship. it was his survival mechanism. but you know what? i tried to put myself in his shoes, going through the mental anguish of my mother and how he tried to survive. the marriage lasted 29 years. i did not come away thinking i could pass any kind of judgment. like anyone, both my parents made mistakes. maybe there could have been a better outcome. but i dedicate it to my father because i know his love for me. >> but you do not grow up knowing the extent of his lithuanian origins? >> i knew nothing of it. we were in a neutral zone. we were:'s -- cohens. we did not have a christmas tree. but i think people need an identity. >> do they need memory? >> they do. memory is fundamental. without memory

gomez told police his mother kept nagging him to put the boxes back in the attic and planned the murder his brother found the body in the home and called police. >>> a police chief is on administrative leave while his wife fights for her life in an atlanta hospital. no charges have been filed by state authorities to sort out the details. >>> from philadelphia to los angeles, officers across the country are on high alert tonight. fbi has sent a bullet to law enforcement saying the fatal shootings of nypd officers has spurred threats of copycat threats. >> i am alarmed because law enforcement are the heart and soul of keeping the county safe, what they call the rule of law are important to our everyday freedoms. when you jeopardize that it's a big deal. >> in tampa two deputies were shot on at. in houston officers are forced to work in pairs. in saint louis antipolice protesters were arrested after storming police headquarters. 50 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty. >>> 2015 has arrived and things are not exactly the way they were portrayed back to the future ii. we

the attic on to ohio to try to get him and his sister. his cousin says the daughter is now back in maryland with her father. >> we have her now, thank god. >> the police have arrested cameron bedford's mother and are up holding a columbus, ohio, man, on related charges, saying that somebody had eaten cameron so severely that is skin came off -- had beaten cameron so severely that his skin had come off, leaving open wounds. i was filled with rage about this, because cameron was the most quiet and funny. he always had a smile. >> the family is waiting for more answers. >> we just know somebody did the beatings. we do not know who. we'll have to wait until the dna comes back. >> his cousin always wanted a son and took care of his aging mother and his girlfriend. >> sean was a very loving dad. he would eat after them to make sure that they ate first. >> the years that they were a couple he said she never spoke much, but she'd lied to social workers when she left maryland and took the two children. >> she fabricated a live to leave. sean would

they turn the attic from a playroom to an office. and the blog i'm that lady dishes out her meal plans to 10,000 followers. >> we enjoy being frug ral. >> reporter: watching her use coupons at the grocery store is like asking a computer hacker to crack the code. >> i'm going to get three loaves of bread for 3.$3.79. the bill is down to ten bucks. they estimate over $10,000 in savings every year. >> so i saved $51. >> she's just not saving on food bills. she saves on high-quality passion. >> i can imagine someone raised in an upper middle class family saying i'm not shopping in a thrift store. >> my values have changed every year. >> but she has school district rules about what she'll buy. >> what's this one? >> that's faded glory. that's walmart brand. >> now that her family's finances are turned around she says it was much an emotional makeover as a monetary one. >> we had to get on the same page financially, together. >> it really was more i think an emotional connection we had to make rather than a numbers connection. >> with all t

crews arrived flames were pouring from the floor and spread to the attic. nobody was hurt no word on a cause. >> 5:08. time to turn to david murphy and find out what's in store today and the weekend. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you while most of the region is dry if we go in tight areas to the south there are light snow showers popping in and out of maryland and in through southern new castle county, delaware, aerials farther south closer to smyrna and dover picking it up a bit. some of it is making across the delaware bay into salem and cumberland county. it could put down a coating on untreated surfaces and it's possible it could change over to freezing drizzle. all this is expected to be off the board and improving by 7:00 or 8:00. as we look outside we have main cloudy skies later today sun possible. but for now it's gray. the temperatures are cold. everybody a tad below the freezing mark. there's the clouds i should say on satellite and radar. they are pretty thick right now. as we get later into the day we expect them to break u

flames forced a family from their home, on girard avenue crew arrived to find flames pouring from the attic fort naltly nobody was hurt. >>> president obama and vice president joe biden will be in philadelphia next week, they are in town to attend the house democratic caucus retreat. the president will be there on thursday and the vice president on friday, we are told that more details of the visit will be released in the coming day. from our new jersey newsroom governor, chris christie announced a team to help get atlantic city back on its feet, he held his third summit meeting in a.c., and announced a team to help bring life into the struggling resort. one is kevin orr he helped to guide detroit through bankruptcy. four casinos closed last year and three more are in bankruptcy. they currently generate 3.5 billion in revenue down from 5 billion a few years ago. >>> philadelphia city council is in session today after taking a month off for the holidays council will take up the mandatory sick bill, and darryl clark says that affordable housing is a priority this year. >> we'll have more than

they say the fire quickly spread from the tree to the living room and into the attic, gutting the entire house. >> it's a good reminder this time of the year when christmas trees are drying out, get them out of the house quickly. late holiday season, a lot of fires are started that way. >> reporter: grant says she was just hours away from getting the rid of the christmas tree. neighbors are now coming to the family's aid. >> i had my friends bring food to the little kids. if it was us, we would greatly appreciate all the help. >> reporter: jeremiah was able to save one of his christmas presents. >> my ds. >> reporter: and a picture of grant's daughter as a baby brought a smile to her face. >> what a memory. >> reporter: she's grateful her children made it out alive, but wishes she and her family had a place to call home tonight. >> everything i got, everything i worked and toiled for is gone. gone. >> the red cross is helping the family with basic necessities, but the family says they need much more help. they were renters of that home and it's unclear if they had insurance. >>> a 14-yea

this time to gain access to the attic space to locate any nest which must be eradicated. in the meantime, firefighters say they worry they will bring the mites home with them. they've been advised to shower and wash their homes. fortunately, rat mites do not carry diseases. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> berkeley police are looking into the bizarre discovery of a wild boar's head and carcass left near two vegan restaurants. a viewer took these pictures. on monday someone left it on a trash can steps from the vegan restaurant on adeline. around the same time, a car das was found at the vegan restaurant on shaddock avenue. the owner of a liquor store says his surveillance camera caught a man troping something off. >> i saw a white truck pull up. i seen a man come out of the side and set it down as fast as he can. >> the storeowner called police who are trying to determine if the restaurants were targeted or if this was just a random act. >>> three puppies found in a trash bag in an east bay park are recovering at an animal shelter today. the puppies were found yeste

the pest inspector also returned to gain access to the attic space to look for nests. firefighters worry they will bring the mites home with them. they have been advised to shower and wash their clothes. experts say rat mites do not carry diseases. on treasure island, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news news. >>> coming up next, a mail thief arrested in the east bay. >> plus, more on the mystery of bay area birds found covered in goo. >> the goo is just pulling their feathers. >> officials say they don't know what it is. but they do know what it isn't. >> also, seven killings in just 21 days. the push tonight in oakland to stop the violence. >> and in weather, clear skies over the bay area right now. but i'm tracking a weak system for tomorrow. coming up, the impact headed our way and when 70s return to our local forecast. >> and right now, a look at the evening commute along i-80. the taillights you see there are headed up toward berkeley and richmond. boy, it is heavy in both directions right now. >> and, here is what it looks like now on highway 4 in contra costa coun

when i found a box in the attic of my parents' place a farm in wales. a place my mother hated. always windy, never sun, the opposite what she wanted rose: she wanted thesun of south africa. >> my doctor's precise annotations. rose: you discovered my mother's suicide attempts. i did both times road you read them? >> i read them and i copied them out and i thought about them endlessly. that's a very substantial part of the reason why i had to write the book. and i thought i could tell an intimate story of one person's breakdown and a wider story of jewish migration during the 20th century. not just jewish. it's "the girl from human street." i think this is a very human condition these days. we are on the move. and a lot of people are uncertain where they belong what their true home is. how do they build community? how do they feel part of something? rose: has the book helped you reconcile her experience? >> it has, charlie. i feel at this point i have done everything i could to discover what happened to my mother. i now know something i never knew because it was never talked about

. >> but the thing about the fire, it is dangerous, and it did travel and take off in the attic space. so it was a three-alarm when i got on the scene, and we went to four alarm and got over 100 firefighters working the scene. >> reporter: they got four people out of the fire and rushed them to the hospital. one man did die. as you can see, the crews are putting water on the fire, and they will be here all night long. 18 units have been affected by the fire and 60 people are without home and 65 will be put up by the red cross at nearby city college. reporting live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd for nbc bay area news. >> thank you, cheryl. this is the second fire in that area on mission in the last five months. another blaze destroyed a building a block pr there and the firefighters had trouble flocking down that fire and the building was burning so hot, it weakened the steel supports. people had to be hospitalized because of the smoke inhalation there. >> and body parts in a suitcase? a that is the grisly discovery tonight. there was a suitcase found with body parts on the corner o

a ruptured gas line kept giving the stubborn blaze life, shooting flames to the attic of the pizzeria. mike jaber owns the once-thriving shop. >> i woke up out of our sleep what we've been working for up in flames. >> firefighters brought in 18 pieces of equipment including ladder trucks and dosed the gas line with water hoping to stop the inertia. it helped. pg and e clamped the pipes. firefighters were able to stop the fire from reaching a tattoo shop in the same building. >> they had to kick the door in. and to see if flames went into the shop. >> firefighters say a 16-year-old girl was driving a car down a back street. police pursued her through stop lights. >> it was like a, in a race track. waits so loud. >> the driver apparently lost control and plowed into the pizzeria. the teenager escaped and was arrested the fire put out after 12:00 noon. vic lee, abc7 news >> prosecutors are critical of a judge who threw out an arson conviction last year in the case against a man accused of setting two arson fires a jury convicted david diaz for manslaughter for the death of a sexual partn

a ruptured gas line kept giving the stubborn blaze life, shooting flames to the attic of the pizzeria. mike jaber owns the once-thriving shop. >> i woke up out of our sleep what we've been working for up in flames. >> firefighters brought in 18 pieces of equipment including ladder trucks and dosed the gas line with water hoping to stop the inertia. it helped. pg and e clamped the pipes. firefighters were able to stop the fire from reaching a tattoo shop in the same building. >> they had to kick the door in. and to see if flames went into the shop. >> firefighters say a 16-year-old girl was a car down a back street. police pursued her through stop lights. >> it was like a, in a race track. waits so loud. >> the driver apparently lost control and plowed into the pizzeria. the teenager escaped and was arrested the fire put out after 12:00 noon. vic lee, abc7 news >> prosecutors are critical of a judge who threw out an arson conviction last year in the case against a man accused of setting two arson fires a jury convicted david diaz for manslaughter for the death of a sexual partner. he s

. >> it traveled into the attic space. >> i saw white smoke because they were putting it out. then i started seeing like more flames moving towards more and more to the outside corner. >> reporter: initial attacks turned into a defensive one with master streams of water sent from several hoses on ladder. >> reporter: you are taking a live look at this fire from chopper 5. we have updated numbers for you. we are told six people including a firefighter were injured. he was taken to the hospital on oxygen. 59 people are without a home tonight because of this fire burning now. nine of those children. many are at city college san francisco where the red cross has set up an evacuation center but it will be a listening night out here. we are told firefighters will be out here at least three more hours. >> probably most of the night. andria borba in san francisco's mission district. thank you. >> did you see the fire from where you are? someone posted this video. you can see firefighters were left with no choice but to watch that building burn. now lots of you are tweeting photos. here

for two days.and said he was upset that his mother kept "nagging him" to put away some boxes in the attic. the man's brother found the body and called police. gomez is charged with first- degree murder. there's been another possible data breach. still ahead -- the restaurant that could be one of the latest victims of a hack. and we'll meet the bay area's "baby new year." little fiona's parents tell their story. female announcer: save up to 35% on a huge selection of clearance mattresses. get two years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. sleep train's inventory clearance sale is on now! ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ it's safe to say that the members of one ohio family will never forget a birthday. that's because they are all new year's babies, including the newest addition -- born just today. paul kiska has the story. "she's one in a million." raheen stover was born new year's day 1978. his wife qiana was born new year's day 1980. they always thought that was quite a coincidence, until now. the couple's first born, a baby girl, born on this day new year's day 2015. "to eve

>>will tran: bought loss estimate to do with some fires are running through the attic seen in the areaasa the integrity of the bill into law the investigators to finally go in there to try and find out the cause of the fire you concede accord is still on the same 13 hours later. the sun is up look of those windows is black and chart on the side when firefighter was among the six injured as and was more exhaustion we're on 22nd you concede the hustle and bustle the reason why as many people are moving about they're coming down here as if they can head back into their businesses on the street here to see if it's fine or not. this is no that is why you see the police department here i have to preserve this for the investigators should this turn out to be criminal. >>will tran: here is what the at the sale of the difficulties fighting this fire it was a big fire got up to the attic space we headed back to out of who first got here was a lot arrested to be done here that was our first priority. if the data to the attic space very quickly is not a small deal at all it was a stubborn fire was

. >> the thing about fire, it's very dangerous, it did travel and take off into the attic space. >> i started seeing white smoke at first they were putting it out and then i started seeing, like, more flames moving towards more and more, like, towards the outside corner. >> reporter: initial attacks turned into a defensive one with master streams of water sent from several hoses on ladders. andria borba, kpix 5. >> six people were injured including one firefighter who was taken to the hospital. 46 people lost their homes including 15 children. >>> new this morning now, the measles outbreak that started in southern california is now infecting 95 people in eight states and mexico. most of the cases though are here in california. most of those are all directly linked to disneyland and riverside county palm desert high school has suspended 66 students for two weeks because they have not been immunized. most of those with the disease were not vaccinated. >> we have given people a false sense of security and in situations like this outbreaks like this that really remind us of the importance

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it caused significant damage to the attic and the roof. smoke detectors worked properly thankfully.up the family allowing them to escape unhurt. >>> the victims of the 2009 fort had shooting are now a step closer to receiving the purple heart. major nadal hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others. now, victims may qualify for the hop fer it can be shown the attack was motivated or directed by a terrorist organization. should be easy enough but you know how things go. never quite easy with this. hasan has already admitted to carrying out the shootings in the name of jihad. our chief intelligence correspondent is live in washington with all the details on this. katherine? >> reporter: thank you. the legislation that funds the defense department includes new language that requires the pentagon to reconsider whether the victims of the fort hood massacre qualify for the purple heart, one of the department's highest honors. for texas senator republican john cornyn and others there is little doubt the 2009 attack at the texas army base meets the criteria for the award

the three. >> i don't know if these spread fast. >> there's an attic space in which the fire travels the whole attic space and traveled over to pitch mitch. >> you can see flames roar frog top of the roof. >> and smoke out the window. >> fire sent six people to hospital last night including the firefighter. most of them were treated for smoke inhalation. there were a toted l of about 50 people who had to be vac waited from their at a nearby shelter. >> there was also one tenant last mite who told ktvu he didn't hear the fire alarm going off in the building last night. but that's something that still new eds to be investigated here. to know the cause of this fire that left one man dead. >> thank you for that update this morning. had this building will likely be red tagged as well. this is age image from the building from google street view taken last november. you can see the pop eye's on the first floor there. there were dental suites, the offices for the mission local news site. that's also on the second floorand the top floor is residential. >>> this building is just yards away from another

this morning he said there are some fires that are stuck inside the building in the ceiling area of the atticout obviously before they allow investigators to fully go in there and do their job because of the fire still are known as you can see their original take care one it is to allow all the crews to have any of space to do their job to is because until they find out a cause they have to assume that this is the crime scene that someone started the fire you just do not know yet they have to preserve it. >>will tran: we got a chance to talk to the battalion chief the heavy lifting is over at this point we did say this fire was very stubborn. it ran very quickly on us still the law rescue's to be done also still the first party is very difficult for us to get him and it was a stubborn fire. they do not know if the building came equipped with smoke detectors as far as the same here one firefighter told me at least until known that they will be here. >>darya: people who live in that building are talking about what happened then spoke of a man who live there were five family members he said he i

she kept nagging him to put away boxes in the attic. he was planning the crime for two days.rother found his mother's body and called police. >> a georgia police chief said he shot his wife with service revolver but it was an accident. his wife is listed in critical condition and chief is on administrative leave while authorities investigate his claims. >> safe to say one family will never forget each other's birthdays. meet the trio all born january 1 and next we take a look at hot movies that will hit the big screen in 2015 and nightly remind to start your day with the "action news" team and get morning's top news headlines and weather and traffic starting thank you cable. for the slower internet upload speeds. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. thank you cable, because if we never had you... we wouldn't know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. the numbers don't lie. in customer satisfaction studies, fios is rated #1 in internet speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. so join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes. get a fios trip

before the attack christian gomez fought with his mother because she asked him to put away boxes in the attic. the deputies say he knocked out his mom and killed her and that her head was disposed of in a garbage can. he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. >>> former new york governor mario cuomo has died. news was confirmed after cuomo missed his son's andrew's inauguration for his second term as new york governor yesterday. in his speech the younger cuomo said in his father's house the family rang in the new year together in new york city because his father was not well enough to head to albany. last month there was a heart condition that sent mario cuomo. he spent three terms as new york state governor from 1983 to 1994 and survived by his wife and five children. he was 82 years old. >>> the search intensifying this morning for air asia flight 8501. more ships arrived in indonesia but search and rescue officials worry bad weather will put their mission on hold. focus now is to find the plane's black boxes. so far only 16 of the 160 on board have been found. >>> another day, another hack

a ruptured gas line kept giving the stubborn blaze life, shooting flames to the attic of the pizzeria. this is the other than of the once thriving pizza shop i. woke up out of my sleep to run over here and see what eave been working for the last 12 years up in flames. >> reporter: firefighters brought in 18 pieces of equipment including ladder trucks and doused the fire with heavy doses of water hoping it would help. they clamped the two-inch metal gas pipe. fire fighters were able to stop the fire from reaching af= tattoo shop in the same ground-level building. >> they had to kick my door in, and to see if anything flames went into the shop. >> reporter: see this white mercedes-benz wedged into the pizza shop? firefighters say that's what caused the blaze. a 16-year-old girl was driving the car erratically down a back street. police pursued her through several stop lights. joann wiggins saw the chase from her bedroom. >> it was like a if were you in a racetrack. it was so loud. and fast. >> reporter: the driver apparently lost control and plowed into the pizzeria, ruptures the gas li

shooting flames to the attic of the peter ri a.he owns this pizza shop. >> i just woke up out of my sleep to run over here and see our what we have been working for for the last 12 years up in flames. >>reporter: firefighters brought 18 pieces of equipment including ladder trucks. they doused the gas line with heavy doses of water hoping it would stop the inner shah. it helped while pg&e got here and dug a 4 foot hole in the sidewalk clamping the gas pipe. firefighters were able to stop the fire from reaching a tattoo shop in the same ground level building. >> had to kick my door in. and i had to see if any flames went in the show. the white mir said benz wedge in the pizza shop. firefighters say that is what caused the blaze. 16-year-old girl was driving the cary ratcly down a back street. police pursued her through several stop lights. jo an saw the chase from the bedroom. >> it was like if you were in a race track. the it was so loud. tell and fast. >>reporter: the driver apparently lost control and plowed into the pizza ri a. >> hit the building hit a gas main sought gas main ruptured

flames broke out on the second floor and quickly spread to the attic. was seriously hurt. >>> and the rescue efforts for a teenage boy who had fallen through the ice ended in tragedy in nevada. swimmers from the reno fire department braved the icy waters before pulling out the victim. they estimate he'd been submerged for at least 30 minutes. >>> the bitter cold is making life miserable for millions of americans. roadways are virtually invisible through the blowing snow. emergency crews are busy around the clock. the same is true for air travel. hundreds of flights at chicago's o'hare and other midwest airports have been canceled. >>> something you don't often see, florida was hit with some snow flurries. the area around jacksonville recorded a trace of snow. a trace. tying a record set in 1958. that's not likely to happen again today. but much of the country is in for another brutal blast. accuweather's justin povick joins us with the details. good morning to you, justin. >> thanks, reena and t.j. the northeast preparing for a quick shot of snow. more

i was in a case where they found fire arms box in the attic which is dramatic because the box almosts have serial number which matches gun. the defense would sound unusual you see a plea the guilty with -- jenna: enter a plea. >> two real quick so we talk about some viable defense they may try to raise some kind after mental defect. jenna: lis we talked about these before. the texas teen who claimed "affluenza." >> right. jenna: wealth of his family. >> driving drunk. jenna: for his behavior. >> right. jenna: could you see some sort of defense? >> we saw that in texas. i think they will have to mount the "affluenza," i was so rich i couldn't connect right from wrong. here is different from the texas case he got off 10 years probation which i thought was a horrible result. here is what is different. this kid he is 30 years old this guy tried to stage it as a suicide, right? sew knew right from wrong. jenna: allegedly. >> allegedly. trying to, allegedly make this look like a suicide. >> hard for lis to use that word. >> allegedly. jenna: so much is out there already. >> exactly but all

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of fires rub here to the scene and they say it was a tough fight especially because it got into the attichen it took off and went running through the building. it is a three-story building and the continue floor is -- the top floor is full of apartments. many used the fire escape to get out. 100 firefighters were on the scene. it is contained. they do not consider it out. they still have 24 firefighters on the scene. >> it is not out yet. not until all the hotspot spots are done and the building is safe and the integrity of the building is good before we leave. >> a man died in the fire. we asked firefighter why he want able to get out and they don't know. they did their best to save hill. six people were taken to the hospital suffering from burn and smoke inhalation survive civilians and one firefighter. the firefighter is going to be okay suffering from exhaustion. >> this first took so much water that it created minor flooding and thousands of gallons of water with nowhere to go, 40 people displaced by the fire and the red cross is helping them and there is the investigation into what

. >> and the attic is completely burnt out. >> reporter: the owners told investigators the breaker box kept tripping each time they plugged it in. >> get an electrician out there to check somebody into it. not just keep forcing that breaker. again, the chances of a fire happening is increasing. >> reporter: investigators in philadelphia are checking to see if a morning fire in north philadelphia and one in southwest philadelphia were caused by people trying to keep warm. and if you've got any questions about how to use a space heat are properly, simply call your local fire department. live in bensalem, i'm doug shimell, "nbc10 news." >>> we may never know what started this fire at a burlington county landmark. flames ripped through the columbia farmer's market back in november. today investigators listed the causes of the fire as undetermined. they say it will probably stay that way. parts of the farmer's market remain closed as repairs are made, but the majority of it is open. >>> the search for a killer continues tonight, more than 24 hours after a woman was shot and killed while wai

investigators say the fire started in the attic. >> antonio rigosa is consider ing to run. s are struggling. >>> the oakland a's gave their fans some hope for the upcoming season after trading some of their players. >>> well, it's safe to say you could not hear a pen drop in the northwest. >> rustle willson and the gun gets it under way. panthers respond, but so does willson and company. this is out the one-handed grab and away he goes. 14-7 sea hawks. seattle win it 321--- 217. >>> the ravens win 14-0 on the road. 35-31. >>> the packers have been paying fans $10 an hour to help shovel away the snow. renee spent decades collecting memorable of his team. he has painted his car to match his team colors. the cowboy's kick off at 10:00. >>> for perform chris brown, investigation under way after shots were fired during his concert. >>> and we've got a hot chef rocking and rolling. what with you need to know if you want a reservation at this year's hottest spots. have you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes? no what is it? starting february 21, 20

this guy christian gomez for the with his mother because she asked him to put away some boxes in the attic. deputies say he later income his mom out and then killed her and that her head was disposed of in the garbage can. gomez has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. >>> more ships have arrived in indonesia to try to hunt for fuselage for that air asia flight 8501. search and rescue officials say focus is under water detection, with more sonar equipment accounts brought in. rescuers hope it is going to contain the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. but all that bad weather could put the mission on hold, owe far only 16 of the 162 on board have been found. >>> four crash victims have been identified and returned to their families. a funeral for one of them was held yesterday. would the man was on the the plane with her husband, ten year-old daughter and mother-in-law and their remains have not yet been found. >>> are your chances of getting cancer the roll of the dice where luck comes into play verse genetics when it comes >>> we will carry that in the weekend, nice holiday weather wi

the inspector located entry points at the vents and they are going to the attic spaces to see if there are nests that need to be eradicated. >>> last month they had black mold and they had to deal with everything associatedded with that. and the mites have been discovered, they are advised to shower and change their clothes and wash them as they can travel to their homes. there is no proof of a infestation. they spoke to officials, they can't determine if they came from a rat mite as they have no proof of rats. 6 people were infected. there is no evidence that rat mites can transfer any type of disease. an exterminator can get here at 10:00 this morning and fire department officials will give us an update at 7:00. >> the time is 6:08. president obama made his first state of the union address to a congress now firmly controlled by republicans. >> every republican here today, i will not only seek out your ideas i will seek to work with you to make this country stronger. [ ammos ] >> coming up at 6:30 we'll have more of what the president said during this speech even when he went off scri