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pg&e engineers about the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. this is a rare public hearing in the nation's capital. it's expected to last about three days. the september 9 blast killed 8 people and destroyed dozens of homes. today 8 pg&e official will face federal investigators and answer questions about the blast, the pipeline and whether the utility company should have known it posed a potentially deadly threat. it's part of the national transportation safety board's full scale investigation into the disaster. the board is expected to issue a final report on what likely caused the...

really could have been a close call. a fire broke out in san francisco's mission district tonight and quickly spread. don knapp shows us what made the flames so tough to fight. >> reporter: firefighters, their gear and water lines cluttered valencia street shutting it to traffic on 16th and 17th as they battle to keep the fire under control and put out simmering hotspots. a pocket camera shows the heavy smoke over the neighborhood. by the time firefighters arrived a single family residence behind valencia was fully in flames and the fire was spreading. a third alarm was called. >> th...