good morning. welcome to mornings on 2. it s wednesday, january 18th. we begin with an update on developing news in contra costa county. firefighters are on the scene of a house fire. the fire broke out about an hour ago, on green bay drive in walnut creek. just a few minutes ago, ktvu talked to the homeowner and is everyone okay, claudine? reporter: everyone is okay. they all made it out safely, but look at their house behind me. the major part of the damage area is the garage, and you can see inside the garage is what is left of a car still sitting in there. the three cars in the driveway also damaged heavily by this fire. it started about 5:00 this morning. the homeowner i just talked to him, is out safely. he and his family all made it out. he told me it was the sound of the fire that woke him up. it was a combo of things, lot of noise, things crackling and popping. got up and saw the fire coming out of the garage, so got everybody out. it was going very good, and