. >> reporter: the tree tore through the roof, making the home unlivable. workers used a crane to remove it. this family was not alone. one local tree service company is saying two hours after the storm, they received 50 phone calls. >> there were traffic lights out. limbs down. >> reporter: carol county students were in the middle of the storm. >> we're bus driver turned around and took the students back to school. >> everybody was scared. some were crying. >> reporter: students that had not dismissed held students late to shelter them from the storm. >> the lights shut off, it was dark. we went into a room and put our heads down in a corner. >> i was shocked and really scared. >> reporter: shocked like many, at the power of the storm. as they came through. if this is what your yard looks like, you may need patience, that tree removal company is saying it could take days to get to everyone. meghan mccorkell, eyewitness news. >>> yes. the national weather service is investigating reports of a possible tornado in carol county. >>> bge is working to fix down

. >> reporter: the tree tore through the roof making the room unlivable. this family wasn't alone. one local tree service company said within two hours after the storm, they already received 50 phone calls. >> i was like, oh my god. >> reporter: some carroll county students found themselves in the middle of the bus storm. >> a bus driver took the students back to the school. >> everybody was scared and some were crying. >> reporter: schools that hadn't yet been dismissed sheltered them from the storm. >> we all went into this little room and put our heads down in a corner. >> i was shocked and i was really scared because they hadn't like, done this before. >> reporter: shocked at the power of the storm as it came through. and if this is what your front yard looks like, you might need a lot of patience. that tree service company i spoke with said it could take several days for them to get to everybody. reporting live, meghan mccorkell, wjz eyewitness news. >> meghan, thank you. first warning weather coverage continues with gigi barnett. she shows us some of the worst damage and some

a building this -- a building inspector declared the home unlivable. >> it is a mess. it is a total mess. >> it was so loud around here, it was almost like a helicopter was 100 yards above my house. >> homeowners were picking up branches in dealing with power outages. he considers himself lucky after seeing what his neighbor had to deal with. >> they have lived here a little bit longer than we have. they have always been so nice, it is a shame. >> he hopes to be back in his home, but is grateful everyone is able to walk away in one piece. >> and thank god we are all still alive. >> [no audio] >> sometimes the microphones do not work, thank you very much. several of our viewers have sent in picture of the damage and storms. this is video of a funnel cloud. this is in carroll county around 4:00 this afternoon. check out this next piece of video. this is the storm rotation. that is scary. this came in around 5:00 this afternoon. our facebook follow were just sent us this, video showing what appears to be a funnel cloud. brian tells us this was around 6:00. approximately o

. >> reporter: fire ravaged two homes and two are unlivable. >> no injuries. everybody was able to get out and firefighters were able to make quick work of bringing the fire under control. >> reporter: investigators are looking into whether a bbq grill is to blame for the fire. they say you need to be extra careful in the dry conditions. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> crews put out hot spots after a apartment fire started at 6:00 a.m. this morning. there is no word of any injuries but it caused major damage to the building. investigators are trying to determine the cause. >>> communication between the sheriff's debarments in alameda and contra costa counties improved. they are using a new system that allows them to better commute. sheriffs can hear and respond to public safety government agents in alameda county. the system will be expanded to allow more communications. >>> bart is spear heading an effort to prevent copper left cop -- copper thefts. it threatened the safety of the tabst system. they are propertying part to responser their own bill t

they acted quickly and the home is now unlivable. >> no one was inside.ut it was not a vacant home. they will call in the red cross to help anyone who lived there. >> the fire chief is questioning pg&e's response to an explosion. it sparked a big fire. it happened yesterday in san bruno avenue in a portola neighborhood. a construction worker was doing welding work. natural gas flowed uncontrolled for two hours while firefighters battled the flames. >> pg&e said the workers arrived on the scene but they couldn't if stop the leak because of the flames. three firefighters suffered minor injuries. >>> jurors are listening to more graphic testimony today of former assistant coach jerry sandusky. now a 25-year-old man identified as victim number 10 told juror that is when he was 11 years old, sandusky pinned him on the floor and sexually assaulted hill. sandusky threatened him and a said he would never see the foster family again if he toll anyone. >> six more victims are expected to testify. >> sandusky denies the allegations. the jury in the roger clemens per

tonight, we know a microburst has left dozens of structures completely unlivable. good evening. i'm jim rosenfield. pepco reporting more than 6800 customers still have no power, most in prince george's county and the hardest hit town was bladensburg. dozens of home deemed unsafe, dozens left homeless are staying at a shelter at the high school. others are staying with friends and family as crews work to clean up the mess left behind. darcy spencer is live and talked to some of the folks affected by the storm. been a long 24 hours for them, right, darcy? >> reporter: it certainly has. jim, to just give you an idea of the devastation, this here is just one of 20 condemned buildings here in prince george's county. you can see there are tarps over of parts of the building. take a look at the very corner of the building. a huge piece is missing. you mentioned there are a lot of power outages here in the county. thousands of people are without power. many of them told me tonight they feel fortunate because they escaped with their lives. loretta banks is in tiers. her condo unit she's

bedroom on the first -- the ground floor diminished in size to the extent that the first unit is unlivable. i understand that diminishing of the deck for the extension would mean that the to come back to just show that would really be a problem. i hope to see something that is much more reasonable that does not have the small first store unit and a very expensive second and third story and that if this deck is really the point of contention. commissioner antonini: what it appears from the testimony that 1 d.r. requestor has agreed essentially to the revision of -- mr. williams, maybe i could ask you for some comments. sounded like you had said that if the bedroom remained on the ground floor where it is designed to be, you had talked about perhaps some rounding of the corners. what sort of shrinkage would make you more comfortable or revisions to the plan without reconfiguring the entire floor plan? you hinted it would be ok with some kind of changes to make it less intrusive. >> you heard from us and i submitted a brief. i think this is a faux merger that is being done. i do not think it

resources the problem here is you're you're accelerating a destructive process that will make the earth unlivable. and some predictions within within eighty years or thereabouts do you see that happening that rapid. you know you hear different estimates from climatologists i'm not a climate scientist so i don't want to claim to have that expertise but indeed people say that by the end of this century we could see two or three degrees centigrade heating of earth with the very dire consequences you know it's it's really quite remarkable i'd like to get into solutions i think we've kind of defined the problem if we can do that when we come back from the break that's all right more internet special editions of conversations with great minds of michael klare coming up right after this break. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we are like. we want to present. something else. a nation of free accreditation free transfer charges free. range means three. three stooges side free. download free broad

both of these buildings have been rendered unlivable. they have been condemned, pending repairs. so not only are these people dealing with no electricity and no air conditioning. they have no shelter. they spent much of the day wandering around in the hot sun, with not a lot of options on what to do. >> yes. it was a tornado. cars destroyed by falling sections of roof, torn by two apartment buildings. >> people was outside. and they said the wind gusts were just swirling around. >> a miracle no one was killed. >> we have to stay here. >> reporter: today, hundreds from two apartment buildings sweated in the hot sun. kids in steaming cars. the power out everywhere. others wandering with belongings. >> it's starting to get hot now. you got a car load of kids. what's the plan? >> hotel. >> last night, we had 70 people. >> reporter: the red cross came to the rescue, opening a shelter at northwest high school at hyattsville. air conditioning, electricity, rest, and worry. >> i think we gotta stay here a couple of days. now, i gotta go to work on monday. so does she. >> this is pretty m

this building is unlivable. >> they have gone through everything.es of the puzzle. >> reporter: the american red cross is helping families with food and shelter. the apartments are no longer available to them. they have no power and no gas. reporting live in redwood city, lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 8:49. an overnight fire in oakland left a house very badly damaged. the fire started about 2:45. >> at this time, the fire is under investigation. >> the firefighters say no one was inside their but this was not a vacant house. they will be calling in the red cross to help anyone who did live there. >>> it's ten minutes before 9:00. people in berkeley could soon vote on a controversial proposal to crackdown on homelessness in the city. ♪ >> opponents of the idea held a rally and,ed people to stand up for the right to sit down. the measure would ban sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. the violenters would face $-- violenters would face -- violaters would face crimes. >> if you want to give the police a to

. >> reporter: fire ravage two homes and two sustained too much damage they are unlivable. >> no injuriesirefighters made quick work of bringing the fire under control in 45 minutes. >> reporter: investigators are looking into weather a bbq grill is to blame. regardless you need to be careful in the dry conditions. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> police in sacramento say a gang member is the suspect in a weekend shooting that killed four people, including the gunman. the 26-year-old shooter is a parolee who is suggest to supervision after serving time. he was killed at the scene after he entered a home and shot a husband and wife who lived there as well as a 33- year-old man. another resident shot him. >>> observers paid a visit to syria. here is video showing the observers in the town. it has not been verified. reports from the u.n. say there is new violence with syrian troops shelling towns and strafing them from attack helicopters. >>> doctors revived hosni mubarak when they couldn't find a pulse. he was given a life sentence 9 days ago and suffering from high blood pressure,

he said how unlivable it was. we have to give this back at night. the vietnamese may not like it but they will like us less. kennedy said i will run for president if you run for the senate in new york. cronkite labs. i do not live in new york. i live in connecticut. i am not a democrat. i am an independent. i knew he had those feelings about the war. [end video clip] >> what would happen the marker rubio win and said you had to run? >> he would not survive because of the blogosphere. he would be seen as a partisan figure. that happen because vietnam tore our country apart in a way afghanistan is not. cronkite was very much pro war. he thought it was a piece that he did about our marines. walter would not change. he said that our troops could do no wrong. he toured vietnam. he came to believe that the johnson administration had been lying. other reporters felt that way, too. there was no quick victory. cronkite cast in his chit. they did a special report. walter cronkite said this reporter says it is a stalemate. everything went off. what frank manki

me you can see where the fire was set, right near the gas and electric meters, now that place is unlivable >> i peeked out and i was like oh my goodness, i saw the fire. >> reporter: lidna points out to where there was a fire. someone intentionally took one of her recycling bins, pushed it against her home and put it on fire. >> i'm scared, who doesn't to be scared of your own safety and your children. >> reporter: that fire is one of four fires intentionally set in the same neighborhood near blossom hill road. the same morning a home a block away was also set on fire. a week after that, another home was set on fire. >> the three last fires we've had started with a recycling bin. >> reporter: someone set a tarp on fire at near by oak grove high school. all this fire activity prompted firefighters and police to go door to door. they left fliers in english and spanish asking people to be aware of anything suspicious. there's a reward leading to the arsonist. >> this is dangerous, it's not funny because someone can die from this. >> reporter: there's no electricity or hot water, she's worried

. >> at this time the house is unlivable due to smoke and fire and water damage. >> firefighter had the flames out -- firefighters had the flames out in just about ten minutes. they tried to find out how the flames started and they also called the red cross to help anybody who lived there once we find out who they are. >>> a fire investigation on the peninsular which caused a major damage -- caused major damage. pam, you have -- lorraine you have been out there, what do you know? >> reporter: fire investigators are on the scene and they just put out crime scene tape to make sure clues and evidence is not messed with. they started with five cars ablaze simultaneously. it looks like a graveyard. they are only saying at this point that the fire was intentionally set. the car fire spread to two units and about a half dozen people are homeless this morning. the other six units had smoke and water damage. it quickly grew to three-alarm fire and these overnight fires they say can be extra challenging. >> with such a large fire volume, we always encourage people to call 911 right away because a

bladensburg took a hard hit in many cases damage was so severe, homes are still unlivable. today and tomorrow the department of social services will collect donations of nonperishable food and summer clothing. >>> national weather service wants to make sure you know when severe weather is coming to your area. starting today you can receive weather aalreadies on your smart phone. the new wireless emergency alert system, offers a way to warn you, even if you aren't by your tv radio or storm siren you can hear that, they will notify you about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards and other threats. service is optional for smart phone users. tony. >>> allison, jerry sandusky receiving a state pension while behind bars. under pennsylvania law pension can only be forfeited for crimes like extortion and bribery. sandusky will continue receiving $59,000 a year for life, a jury convicted him of molestic 10 boys over 15 year period. >>> i don't like it i don't like any dollars going -- -- my dollars going to a child molester. >> he is still getting rewarded >> i think it is terrible he ge

. >> a 90 foot tree came crashing down on the house's roof that a building inspector declared unlivable. he believes strong winds caused the tree to drop. >> it's a mess, total mess. half the roof is gone and we have water seeping into the family room. >> it was so loud around here, the roaring sound. i thought -- it was almost like a helicopter was, you know, 100 yards above my house. >> even home owners like mike alexander were picking up snapped branches and dealing with power outages. but alexander considers himself lucky after seeing what his neighbor has to deal with. >> i feel sorry for him. yeah. they lived here a little bit longer than we have. and, you know, they've always been nice with us and everything. it's just a shame. >> swinton hopes to be back in his home that he's lived for 16 years but is grateful everyone was able to walk away in one piece. >> thank god we're all still alive and healthy and nobody is injured. >> nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> and the heaviest damage was in harford county, particularly in fallston. >> and this went way beyond downed trees and po

crashing down on the family's roof instantly damaging the home which a building inspector declared unlivable. swinton believes strong winds from the storm caused the tree to drop. >> it's a mess. it's a terrible mess. half the roof is gone and, you know, down into the family room. >> it was so loud around here, the roaring sound. i thought -- it was almost like a helicopter was 100 yards above my house. >> even home owners like mike alexander was picking up snapped branches and dealing with power outages. he considers himself lucky after seeing what his neighbor had to deal with. >> i feel sorry for him. they've lived here a little bit longer than we have and, you know, they've always been nice with us and everything. it's just a shame. >> swinton hopes to be back in his home where he's lived for 16 years but is grateful everyone was able to walk away in one piece. >> thank god we're all still alive and healthy and nobody is injured. >> nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> i have a friend who said they lost five trees and they heard that whole thing come right through the neighborhood. very, v

crashing down on the family's roof instantly damaging the home that a building inspector declared unlivable. he believes strong winds from the storms caused the tree to drop. >> it's a total mess. water seeping into the family room. >> it was so loud around here, the roaring sound, i felt it was almost like a hecht was like, you know, 100 yards above my house. >> even home owners like mike alexander were picking up snapped branches and dealing with power outages. alexander considers himself lucky after seeing what his neighbor has to deal with. >> i feel sorry for him. they've lived here a little bit longer than we have and they've always been nice with us and everything, it's a shame. >> he hopes to be back in his home where he's lived for 16 years but is grateful everyone was able to walk away in one piece. >> thank god we're all still alive and healthy and nobody is injured. >> nadia ramdass, wbal tv 11 news. >> it wasn't just flooding, strong winds ripped down trees and branches across the entire baltimore area. >> sure did. at the peak of the storm, bbe was reporting more than 19,000 c

he said how unlivable it was. -- unwinnable it was. we would with a village in the daytime and have to give it back at night. the vietnamese in the south like us less. kennedy said i will run for president if he would run for senate in new york. but cronkite said -- i do not live in new york. i live in connecticut. i am not a democrat. i am an independent. i knew he had those feelings about the war. [end video clip] >> what would happen the marker rubio win and said you had to run? -- what would happen today and brian williams went to marco rubio and said you have to run for president because the country is in such a mess? >> he would not survive because of the blogosphere. he would be seen as a partisan figure. that happen because vietnam tore our country apart in a way afghanistan is not. iraq almost did but didn't. cronkite was very much pro war. 1965, 1966, 1967. he loved morley safer -- and personally he saw the thought it was a hell of a piece about the marines -- but he had a cold war lens that our troops could do no wrong but h

belatens burg took a hard hit in many cases, damage was so severe homes are unlivable.morrow, prince georges county of social services collecting donations of upon perishable food and summer clothes. >>> we will talk about the colorado wild fires in just a moment but first we have learned this morning there are wild fires burning much closer to home. >> that's right. crews are battling flames inside shenandoah national park. a wild fire has scorched more than 250-acres, on neighbor mountain in the park. another fire is burning on nut mountain which straddled warren and shenandoah counties the terrain is steep and rocky making fire fighting efforts difficult. >>> well, we continue to see heart breaking pictures out of colorado as the massive wild fires rage on. >> president obama is expected to visit the state tomorrow, touring the fire stricken area, more than 30,000 people have been forced out of their homes as a result, of the monster flamethick smoke. waldo can owe fires engulfed more than 15,000- acrethreatenning major landmarks like u.s. airforce academy and famed

we will tell you why an early morning crash is make some units unliveable. >> and we will have the latest on the investigation into a fire that shut down bart service for part of the day yesterday. >> plus why protesters dressed in caps and gowns have taken over president obama's campaign office in oakland. >> plus, breaking news and that political battle over illegal immigration the obama administration has just made a major decision. mornings on 2 begins right now. >> complete bay area news coverage, starts right now. this is ktvu mornings on 2. >> well good morning. welcome a to mornings on two. >> it's friday june 15th and tori has the day off. what a difference a day makes. this time yesterday, thousands of bart passengers scrambled to find a different mode of transportation. but this morning there you see it bart trains are arriving at each stop on time. commuters are glad there is not a repeat of thrs's nightmare in which -- there's thursday's nightmare in which they were without the ride to work. >> it's nice to see them working. it's interesting to cut into the on to the bridge f

and it sounds like an unlivable situation. >> by the way, that e-mail from tim who is married to alisynssues. there you go. i'm only kidding. >> constantly with the a.c. >> hey, let me tell you about this person. this is a different challenge. this guy just retired. he said i retired after 36 busy years. i'm rested but worried about my reclusive retirement behavior. i avoid social contact, spend my days walking, reading, watching tv. are my hermit patterns normal? >> well, they're all too normal, right? they are all too normal after retirement, people tend to do this, right? they become a bit like hermits but i'll tell you, i like to tell people, it takes an emotional giant to live an unstructured life. we rely on each other for momentum, for ideas, for energy. this is somebody who has got to get an activity and soon or he'll need somebody like me. >> gotcha, that's ok, too. beginning of being socialized again. dr. keith ablow, thanks so much. for professional judgment, you couldn't be more normal. >> thank you! appreciate that. now i'll help other people. >> have a great week. straight