Building itself collapsed. Here it is as it happened. Major portion of this building just collapsed. Can we just show you right here . A huge portion of that building just came tumbling down. Wow. And we hope we hope there was no one in that vicinity. You see debris pouring out on to the street. We had two cameras that captured that very moment. Take a look at the second view. Watch out. As of now, we have not heard of any injuries or anyone missing. The smoke and flames were seen all over the east bay and San Francisco. Road closures in the area are still in effect. With that, good morning. Welcome to the 9. What a battle the firefighters had when they just rolled up to the scene at 4 30. Massive flames, swinging cranes, trying to evacuate people who were sleeping in neighboring buildings. What was interesting is i was here when the fire started. I heard the initial call come over the radios. They arrived and it was just smoke and they were check thanksgiving out. From like that it turned into a huge fire in like ten minutes. Right. And i knew something was wrong when you hear the firefighters on the radio start yelling. Right. And backing up. Get back. Yeah. We brought you a live briefing at the 8 00 hour. Crews had to take a defensive stance and it went to three alarms. Things went very quickly. Pam cook is looking into who owns the building. We will check in with pam in 30 minutes or so. We brought you video from our crews. Christien kafton and alex savidge have been at the scene for hours. Alex, youre talking to people who have been forced from their homes. We want to begin with Christien Kafton at the command post of the fire itself. Reporter yeah. Lets give you a live look first off so you can see what the status is at this time. Very active scene here. They are putting as much water on the fire as possible. They are trying to make sure it that they put as much water on the fire as possible. They want make sure it doesnt flareup and cause more problems. We have video from this morning of what the fire looks like. Sal, you said you were monitoring the progress. I was monitoring it as well. We were listening to it this morning. When we arrived on scene, we just saw major, major fire when we first arrived here. Hundreds of feet up in the air, sending embers and soot up into the air. A very dangerous situation. One of the Major Concerns that firefighters talked about when they arrived here was that crane. There was an unsecured crane. And at one point that crane began spinning around wildly, which posed a serious threat to everyone involved in that first response. The neighboring buildings had to be evacuated because of the crane. We talked to bi gie representatives and they mentioned when a crane takes on heat, it starts to swing. That was one of our Major Concerns fighting the fire. Reporter fortunately at this time the crane has not collapsed. We did see firefighters and First Responders talking with representatives from biggie, the crane company, trying to determine how stable the crane is, to determine how safe it is and what their next step should be. At this point in time it appears to be somewhat stable. One of the ongoing questions though is how this fire started. Firefighters are trying to work out an investigation to try to determine exactly how this fire started, especially in light the fact that have been at least two other major fires at apartment complexes under construction. Uction its just deemed to be under investigation currently. As you can imagine, were still in a position to put out the hot spots and ensure that we can get in there safely at some point and do an investigation. Reporter coming back to our live picture, you can see that, again, firefighters still working to get as much water on the fire as possible. George, if we can show the crane that has been the focus of so much attention this morning. The concern being that that crane could have collapsed. It appears to be at least for now somewhat stable. Fire crews on scene. Were expecting the next briefing as early as 11 00 this morning. We will continue to stay here at 23rd just to the southwest side of this fire to determine exactly when they will have the next press briefing. We will give you details as they find them and pass them on to us. From Christien Kafton, we will go a few blocks away to alex savidge who is in the area of valdez and grand avenue where the red cross is setting up an Evacuation Center at the nearby cathedral there. Alex. Reporter yeah. And morning to you guys good morning to you guys. They set up the shelter there at the cathedral. We are on grand avenue, right at valdez. You can see all of these people outside of the Apartment Building. This Apartment Building is called the grabbed grand. It is caddy corner to the building that caught fire this morning. Most of the people who were evacuated live inside of this building. There are about 240 units. The reason that everybody is over there is they thought they were going to be let back in a short time ago. Then they had growing concerns about the stability of the crane here at this construction site. They wanted to things out before they let people in. One of the residents came up and told me they were just told that they will be allowed to go back into their units temporarily, maybe for a few minutes to grab some of the things that they might need. It doesnt sound like they will be let in on a permanent basis any time soon. We will show you the video from this morning. Again, the big concern in terms of letting people back into the homes is the stability of that crane, that freestanding crane here at this construction site. Again, this was a frightening morning for a whole lot of people who live just across the street from where this fire started. They all had to evacuate. And we talked with some of the people who were forced out by the fire. They say it was certainly a chaotic situation. But everyone made their way out in an orderly fashion. We actually just had a drill about a month ago. So everyone was very orderly and it was good. I was impressed with the team. They did a good job. It was organized but there is a lot of people. 22 floors. To exit everybody and get everybody out, it was quite a few people in the stairwells. Reporter again, the building that caught fire this morning is a 7story Apartment Building that was under construction. It was in the midst of being built and it was set to open in early in february of next year. Called the alta waverly building. It had market rate Housing Units on top and commercial on the bottom floor. The cause is still under investigation. The fire has not been labeled suspicious by the Oakland Fire Department but they have arson investigators here as you would imagine. Speaking this morning with a member of the contracting company, the information that i got is that they did have Security Officers who were doing their regular walk around the perimeter this morning. And so they were here at this construction site, keeping an eye on the place when this fire started. They also have motion detectors here at this construction site. And i was told that one of those sensors did go off at about 4 45 or so this morning. So that may be one piece of evidence or an indicator of something that may have been going on at this construction site right around the time that the fire started. That will be all part of the investigation. Also we talked about this earlier this morning, guys, we are in the heart of the downtown oakland area, just north of downtown really. There are so many buildings around here with cameras. Cameras all over the place in this area. So you have to imagine that as arson investigators try to piece this together, they should have plenty of evidence, plenty of Surveillance Video to go through to see who may have opinion in the area when the fire broke out. Alex, people watching now may not have been watching mornings on 2 during the 5 00 hour when you were reporting live during the partial building collapse. Can you explain for our viewers what that was like being just feet away there. Reporter well, first of all from this Vantage Point where we were, were just one short block away from the fire. So my photographer chip and i could feel the intense heat from this fire. First and foremost. While we were live on the air and giving people live pictures i dont know if you can sneak the camera over there, chip. We will show you over here. Just down the street you can see how far away this shot is right here. A major portion, a whole side of the building, we heard a creaking, cracking sound and we glanced over to the left hand side and you could see a whole portion of this building came crashing down right into the middle of the street. And of course your first thoughts are, boy, i hope theres no firefighters anywhere in that have i sippity. They obviously had cleared everyone else out of the way. The firefighters in order to get water on the fire, they have to they have to be somewhat close to this thing. Obviously they know the dangers of the potential for collapse. So they were thankful leo owe thankfully they were all at a safe distance and no one was hurt. Your heart sinks initially with Something Like that. You glance over and see a huge chunk of the building falling down to the street and you hope no one is near there. Alex savidge, great job out there all morning long. Thank you for the report. People in the area near lake merritt have been sharing pictures on social media along with their well wishes for all of the firefighters who battled this, not only oakland firefighters. There were other agencies called in to help. Plenty of photos of the hundred plus foot flames coming from the building under construction. Sal, i know a lot of photos were being sent to you as well. Yeah. One of my twitter followers who lives up there near the macaque their area, kind macarthur area, kind of far way from the fire could see the fire. When you why driving into the work. Yeah. I was passing grand avenue exit and i could see it very clearly on my left hand side of the freeway. I fought every urge that i had to pick up my cell phone. It was a huge orange fireball. I will tell you i was mindful of traffic. There was a lot of unusual slowing. There was a lot of lookyloos. I drove by in the 5 00 hour. Now we are four hours later and this is what is left at the construction site. Fire crews still putting water on the smoldering. Unfortunately here we are a building with a lot of housing going to come up. Now were starting again from ground zero. So were going to hear more about that. Pam cook will tell us more about this troubling trend of fires coming up. Busy day. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, President Trump meeting with russian president putin. What he is saying about his sit down with the russian leader. We are what should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Hansome scrambled eggs andt i pancakes. For . Lilly we got a craving go, go, go crashing cravings in the crave van jacks gonna crash your crave jack hey, guys. Try my jumbo breakfast platter with sausage or bacon, plus 8 mini pancakes, eggs and a hash brown for just 2. 99. Handballer 2 2. 99 . How bout we play you for it. Handballers oooooooh. Jack vo you crave it, we serve it. Try my 2. 99 jumbo breakfast platter. Crave van President Trump and president putin wrapped up their much anticipated meeting on the side lines there of the g20 summit in germany. This is the photo op following the first facetoface meeting. That is not the video. That is all the leaders there in a photo op that came together earlier. President trump said it was an honor to meet with the russian president. President putin and i have been discussing various things. I think it is going very well. Weve had some very, very good talks. Were going to have a talk now. Obviously that will continue. We look forward to a lot of positive things happening for russia, for the United States and for everybody concerned. And speaking through a translator, president putin said he was delighted to finally meet President Trump as well. Thousands of protesters have come to hamburg to protest the summit. Protesters marched towards the Downtown Conference Center where the World Leaders are gathering for a twoday meeting. The protesters are angry over economic inequality and a lack of action on climate change. Joining us live is political analyst brian sobel. A lot of expectations going into the g20 and the faceto face encounter between the two leaders. Would the topic of the 2016 election come up . That was a question that a lot of people were wondering. Somewhere it had to come up. Obviously it is causing a lot of problems for President Trump domestically and at some point in that meeting it had to have come up. But this is a very busy time. The g20, the group of 20, representing 85 of the Gross National product of the world. Thats why you have protesters there who are all getting together to talk about things. And it is a huge story. The president s speech in poland, another huge story. Very successful speech. So lots going on. People who dont know, why are these people protesting . Every time that the leaders meet like this, you see huge protests. What is at the heart of the protests. I think basically it is an opportunity to when everybody is gathered to make their point. And their point is theyre against industrialized nations, against oppression of the of the lesser nations in the world. Theyve got a whole agenda. And it is a mixed agenda. Global trade, climate change, syria and ukraine. In the states, facetoface with president putin is dominating the g20. Are we too concerned about the optics. The handshakes and the elbow touching. Yeah. It is distracting. Did he or did he not do well with america he will. How was the handshake with putin . Did the first lady of poland not shake Donald Trumps hand for long enough. It just goes on and on and yet were not focusing on the substance. That i think that is worrisome. You talked about 85 of the gpd. Do you think countries the United States always appeared to be kind of the leader when it comes to global trade. Do you think that countries are looking at them selfs and going do we really need why cant we be aligned with the u. S. Maybe we take the lead when it comes to trade in the world. There is an assessment process going on around the world with the new president. It happens with every presidency. Each country is taking stock of the mix. You made me think of something. President trump was said to be unpredictable. How much does that factor into how the World Leaders are going to try to get to know him and see where he is heading on certain issues. It is a good point. When you dont know somebody, you have to take time to understand what their motives are. In that, there may be an advantage for the president because, for example, the putin meeting, this is their first facetoface meeting. They have talked on the phone. Tillerson, the secretary of state, knows putin. They dont know what to expect. Theres a lot going on. It is an interesting time. I would like to be a fly on the wall. Oh, yeah. The president of mexico as well. On and on. Quickly with north korea, is it okay to negotiate with north korea . Will that come up . This is the most complex situation in the world right now. And so negotiation has to be on the table as one option. But the North Koreans dont seem to respond to anything but raw power. Really it comes down, mike, to the chinese and the russians really taking an active interest in doing something with north korea, particularly china because they have a huge trade situation with them. They can provide the influence. All right. Brian sobel, we appreciate your time. My pleasure. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, workers with a babysitting company claiming theyre not getting paid. The accusations and how this could turn into a criminal case. 2 investigates has learned that the District Attorneys Office launched an investigation into wonder city for failing to pay its workers. The company is based in San Francisco and operates in 13 different cities across the country. We are hearing from sitter whos are owed thousands in back pay. Candice nguyen says the case could result in criminal charges. Ive been around kids all my life. Reporter suzanne holten says it was the perfect part time job. When i was in college. Two interviews and a background check. Reporter after a few steps, she found herself as the newest employee of wonder city. A San Francisco based agency that helps parents find sitters and sitters find jobs. The gig was great until she started getting paid late by the company. And then stopped getting paid altogether. Im emailing saying i cant make rent if i dont get this money. Please help me. There was a new story in baltimore. And i just kind of stumbled upon it and heard about the Facebook Group. Reporter entitled sitters unpaid by wonder city. A quick look and she learned she wasnt alone. It is blowing up now. Reporter 2 investigates found sitters around the country. San francisco, seattle, baltimore and more, documenting how much money wonder sitter owes them. From 100 to more than 4,000 each. The total amount, more than 80,000 and growing. Rose seen on her Facebook Page is listed as the manager organizer. By a show of hands, who here feels like they were ripped off by the company . What started as a Facebook Group turned into a meeting in San Francisco. Young working women coming together. Im a teacher in the bay area. Im currently a graduate student at San Francisco state. Some doing investigative work themselves. We checked their llc compliant forms that you need to file each ye