that included rebecca ryan, roxanne sanchez, tom o'connor, tim paulsen, and we are joined by the fire chief joann hayes- white. i want to make sure i recognize throughout the process that our city attorney contributed to all the legal questions that came up. knowing how difficult these aspects were, they stepped up to help us review all these proposals. with that, this press conference is concluded, and we will move forward. yes, we will take questions. >> [unintelligible] >> first of all -- [unintelligible] in this proposal, we're talking about 35%. how can we afford that? mayor lee: it does, but obviously we have a long-term view on this. our talks relations indicates -- our copulations indicate this over 10 years. a lot will depend on how -- our calculations indicate the server 10 years. a lot will depend on how our investments do. we've always said employee contributions would be the major part and for a lot of current sacrifices are reflected. >> 35% -- it never gets to 35%. [unintelligible] mayor lee: it is a safety net. we have made the calculations just in case. >> [unintellig

tom o'connor says perez was well liked and well known. >> i worked with vince for ten years just aboutvery day, and he taught me how to fight fires. in fact the last fire i went to, he stole the nozzle from me, i'm still mad about it. >> perez grew up in san francisco, served as a united states marine and was a sheriff's deputy. fire fighters who knew perez, say his dream was to be a fireman. >> he was just a great, great firefighter, real aggressive, real confident. and one of the guys, if you went to a fire with him you trusted him. you were going to be okay. this is a terrible loss. >> reporter: he and two other firefighters got into trouble at a house fire. a possible flashover in the house was too hot. tracy courtney was treated for smoke inhalation and released in good condition. but 53-year-old anthony valerio is on a ventilator and surrounded by family in the icu. >> it's pretty gruesome. no one wants to see it, but you have to, i had to talk to him for a minute. i don't know if he can hear me, but i had to say pull through. my mom did the same thing. my mom's struggling to kee

tom o'connor described the men as opposite but essentially the same in purpose. >> vince had an amazing economy of words and tony had an inability to put a period on the end of a sentence. >> marlene perez described her brother and commanded men and also respect. it is a difficult job, she acknowledged. >> some of you loved him so and wondered if he loved you back. well, i'm here to tell you, yes, he did. >> and tony valerio's best friend described a multi-facetted man who lived life fully who was also a consummate professional. >> he could walk into a chaotic situation, diffuse eat motion natural fireworks, pick up the pees and bring sanity to an otherwise intense and sometimes dangerous ambulance call. he was the best part of many people's worst day. >> this would have been one of those bad days, as well. both men posthumously received the firefighters in the line of duty. and the receptions continues for many of the firefighters who came here from across the country and literally around the world. as one of them said, we don't get to see each other very often. unfortunately it always

>> reporter: they know that the construction of these houses -- what tom o'connor told us is that these houses are built upside-down. you have living levels below and above ground. they know that the fire started below them and that's exactly what they didn't want to happen but they go in knowing it's dangerous and they continue to fight these fires. >> they do. and we're grateful for that, too. all right, linda yee in san francisco, thank you. >>> he was supposed to be in charge of countless drug investigations. now we're learning in addition to all the other allegations, the commander of a contra costa drug task force may have been planning to grow his own pot. joe vazquez is has new details as a widening drug probe now in the hands of the feds. >> reporter: this is the first time we have heard the district attorney talk about this publicly that normal wielsch allegedly according to the d.a. was trying to set up a marijuana grow house operation. it's not clear whether that came to fruition. but the county doesn't have the resources so they are going to make a federal case out of it. >

union president tom o'connor part of the team working on the massive logistic thes. >> the family just want their son to be remembered both as the men they were and also as hero that they died as. >>reporter: men died in a fire at this house last thursday. investigators continued picking through the rubble for conclude today. they now say the cause of the fire doesn't appear to be suspicious which made life easier for miss green who owns the place. she did not want to talk today. mean time the union did provide one clue about what made the fire so difficult. combination of terrain, wind and house architecture from the front stairs down. >> down the chimney. you are coming in on top of the fire. sought fire started in the bottom of the house. you are coming down on top of it. >>reporter: not just anyone would walk willfully into dangerous conditions. firefighters do. they are born to it. sometimes they pay the price. >> hardest thing to deal with is that it could have been one of us. it could have been me. >>reporter: from stait st. mary's cathedral in san francisco, abc 7 news. >>> mor