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Winners. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. Good afternoon, i am tori campbell, a raging Apartment Fire in redwood city is now contained but the investigation has just begun. We have team coverage, ktvus Paul Chambers talked to people who took extreme measures to escape the fire but we begin with janine de la vega who joins us live from the scene, good afternoon. Reporter good afternoon, they have been in and out, doing overhaul in the past few...

Retire. Knock on wood. Thanks for being here and each of you drive safely and thank you for your prayers and blessings and those that come before us and those coming into the world. Hi pop. [applause] shirley, shirley. All my xs kids of taught by shirley. Im kidding. And again with great pleasure welcome janet king to the stage. [applause] hello everybody. I have the great honor and privilege to introduce and to introduce Karen Harrison who is also receiving this award tonight. Karen harrison is...

[laughter] that is a good way to say it. That is the racetrack grandstand. That is huge. Opening day in 1895 through 14,000 people. They put a train line to it. They had a street car line. It was a big deal in those days, horse racing was. Reason really interesting progress about car bill. Tell us about what cargo was. In 1895, adolph sutro owned a couple blocks of land, which were sand dunes. The pavement, the streets. South of golden gate park. There was a train line that brought people from d...

Collapse to make it safe for people. But you dont know. Were getting so much debris, you can see it in the sky and some of that is hot. Some is burning and drifting down the block here. Hot enough to set things on fire. Im wondering how much of a concern this building potentially collapsing. When you buildings across the street, that must be a big concern at this point. This fire continues to roar out of control. Frank, you look at that structure how much of that green wall has burped away burne...

San francisco is home to some of the most Innovative Companies of the 21st century. This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more...

Worked over in Green Division for 27. I guess you could say its blood. Come on in. Have a seat. Hold on. I like it because i am standing up. I am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. You catch up to people you know from the past. You know. Went to school with. People that you work with at other jobs. Military or something. Kind of weird. Its a small word, you be. Like i said, what do people do when they come to San Francisco . They ride a cable car. California line ...

Right over here is woodward gardens. He started collecting stuff. He invited people over and eventually opened it up to the public. He had a menagerie. It was an 1800 thing. Could any of the people in this room go . Ice skating. Ice skating. You could see the remains of the pool. I thought the ice rink was made out of one of the largest pools. Yes. You can see the ell that goes around. They tried to make it a tropical beach theme. They had a bunch of sand. Like you could not go to the beach 40 f...

Be. Thats per closet . That would be for the permit, not the cost of materials or labor. My point is it sounds like it would cost more to pull the permit than to actually do the work. Commissioner walker. I think i would suggest these are issues that we prioritize and we do what we can to limit the cost to the owners of the Residential Hotels as a way of encouraging them to do it. So i think that, i would feel that that would be something that would do is to limit the cost of the permit. Persona...

Two seconds later the flames started spreading out. When i saw it go for a nosedive i just thought its over for the people inside. Theres no way youre walking away tr that one. Reporter the two people on board the pilot and photographer died in the crash. The resulting fire ball spread to three cars. One man who was inside of that car was in critical condition. He was waving his arms. He was like screaming, the screams just didnt, it wasnt like a help me it was like, it was scary. Reporter the n...

It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an Office Building. To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has an important job. We provide clean, pristine public Drinking Water to 2. 6 Million People in the San Francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. With also generate Clean Renewabl...