it happened at about 2:45 on sheridan street. now firefighters say that two teenagers were home at the time but escaped when smoke detectors woke them up. the 14-year-old and 15-year-old boys say they tried to get neighbors to help them but no one would answer their door. after running for about four blocks, they found their mom. she was walking home after her car broke down and was able to call 911. fire officials say the neighborhood could be to blame for neighbors refusing to come to their aid. >> it's a sad situation that nobody would answer their door for these young men in this neighborhood. i guess probably because of the crime rate. >> firefighters say most of the damage was confined to the front bedroom. and they say a curling iron that was left on was most likely the cause of that fire. no one else was home at the time and no injuries have been reported. >>> time now 6:04. overnight a head on collision involving a wrong way driver happened about 10:00 last night on interstate 880 near the fifth street exit in oakland. c

now it happened at about 2:45 on sheridan street. ktvu channel 2 reporter claudine wong was the first reporter there on the scene. she tells us now why neighbors didn't answer the cry for help from two teenagers who escaped that fire. claudine. >> reporter: good morning, pam. let me show you where this fire started. it started in the front room. you can see it's boarded up. it has the bars on the window. the damage is mostly contained in that area. and most of the damage and property is actually out here now. no one's in the bedroom. the two teenagers were actually in the back when the fire broke out about 2:30 this morning. now what happened after that fire broke out though is what is causing some concern this morning. the two teenage boys ages 14 and 15 say they were asleep. they woke up to the smoke detector. got up and saw the fire and realized they needed to get out. so they got out and then they say they went to every single door on this block looking for help. and they didn't find any. >> as i got home my boys were coming, i s

foxworthy: she is a 40-year-old national pizza sales manager who attended sheridan elementary. please welcome bridget baskin! bridget: yeah! yeah! hey! foxworthy: bridget, how are you? bridget: hi. good. nice to see you. foxworthy: great to see you. look at that. you are so cute. bridget: thank you. foxworthy: now, are those your real glasses, or is this like a costume day? bridget: no, those are my glasses. foxworthy: those are the real glasses. you look so great. you're just, like, normal-sized with a little basketball there. -bridget: thank you. thank you. -foxworthy: you are. and i learned a long time ago as a comedian, do not ask a woman if she's pregnant. because one night, i was onstage, and there was a woman in the front, and i said, "when's your baby due?" and she said, "i'm not pregnant." and i thought, "i'm never asking that again."

we come back here live out here on 1000 block of sheridan. you can see what is left of what was in the bedroom where this fire began. as far as the cause, we're going to talk to firefighters. they have an idea of how this fire started. and we'll keep you updated coming up on the morning news. live in vallejo, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> this morning the marin county coroner will remove a body that was buried in the backyard of a home in novato. police and the f.b.i. found the body last night underneath a patio at a home on rebecca way. investigators believe the body is 74-year-old dale smith who has been missing for several weeks. they say his wife is a current person of interest. her current whereabouts is unknown. their discovery changes the focus of this investigation. >> it went from a missing person investigation into a criminal investigation and our investigation obviously will be focused on following up with additional interviews. >> police say the missing man's wife never reported him missing. it's believed her husband was

he would not be exonerated or condemned and general sheridan told everyone not to say anything that would impugn the regimen. that's of great value in many instances, but sometimes of limited help to identify what was going on. time motion analysis of the movements of the various battalions have in some instances suggested that he was kind of slow in coming up. yes? >> i have a story to tell you. like you, little big man with a favorite movie. unlike you, they filmed it on location 10-15 miles south of billings, my home, along a creek called prayer creek which is five miles away from our junk zone where we sport parachuted. here we are, a bunch of kids. let's jump on site. we do. we parachute down, the pilot is making the airplane because if we're going to get qir rid about that, we're having engine problems, we wanted out before it crashed. anyway, we hit the ground and i'm probably from me to you, dustin hoffman and another actor are filmed in a close up. it was exciting, nothing much happened. i saw him later on that night with his family at a restaurant, apologized for breaking up the

their right mind -- that might be a stretch, spanned 25 years of their life studying, grant, sherman, sheridan, lee. but a man past middle age bear, rankled, intelligent, cold, noncommittal, with eyes like a codfish. at the same time unresponsive, cool, calm, and composed as a concrete post. a heart of sulfur and without charm,-balls, passions, or a sense of humor, happily to never reproduce and finally get to hell. there is no doubt who the template for patton's description was, the quintessential the soldier. known as the biggest square wheeled son of a bitch in the states army known as a hatchet man, known as an empire builder, known as someone fought way above his weight. perhaps. the point is that any book above smith equally at least as chief of staff must deal with eisenhower, his personality and his. this book, if it makes any contribution at all beyond telling us smith's story is a re-evaluation of eisenhower and his in the second world war. now, as i said, two points. the first book was good. it was good. a part of my dissertation, i was twentysomething at the time. i felt prone to a

they were under orders from general sheridan from chicago who was the commander of the army of the west. they had no choice but to do that. from their point of view it seems like a rational thing to do, get him away from his dangers easily inflamed situation, but he wasn't really at that point things just went wrong, and it was really an assassination. >> in your treaties of the magic course, did you interpret him as being all indian? remember mary, the strange man of oglala. he didn't do any and think that he didn't do any sundance. he didn't fire his rifle like he was off like a white man. mother and father were both indians. did you ever hear any talk of that? in other words, did he have a white weight in? >> there's been much speculation about that, and you know after the battle of the little bighorn, initially white people thought that sitting bull had been in charge, was the man who really won the battle which is not true. they ascribed the amazing qualities to sitting bull. it was reported at one time hit accident to west point. it was reported that sitting bull it actually been

it happened about 2:30 this morning on sheridan street. ktvu's claudine wong is the only reporter on the scene. >> reporter: we'll get to that story in just a minute. neighbors are reacting to it this morning. i first want to show you this o'the crews were out here over the last half our boarding up the home. in the meantime, this neighborhood is just waking up. a lot of homes are on the block, people just coming out of their houses. i talked to neighbors in the last hour who said they never heard anyone banging on their doors for help. if they had, they would have not hesitated to do just. that twhot boys were inside the home when the fire start. they said they went to every door in the neighborhood. they knocked trying to wake people up. they said their calls for help went unanswered. the boys didn't want to talk on camera but said they were home alone when the fire broke out. the mother works midnight, she was walking home about 2:30 when she saw her boys at nearby fire station. >> when i was coming i saw my boys. they were knocking on