go back in a photo album. take a look at some pictures of the scene out here in morning. here s the way it worked the fire department is allowing residents to go in with a milk carton, maybe grab a few boxes they are escorted in they get 15 to 20 minutes and what is most important to them, papers, photos, whatever nothing too big. firefighters keeping an eye out for hot spots and they found#ñtlw 145 minutes ago smoke coming out they found one 40 fife minutes ago coming out of the attic: it spread rapidly going to a fourth alarm in 30 minutes. the santa clara county arson task force out here now looking for the cause. right now they are in four units that were the most heavily damaged and they are investigating. reporter: the unit was found to be structurally sound? it is structurally sound enough for us to investigate. reporter: want to update some numbers from the fire. a total of 26 apartment units affected. 50 residents affected. four units are destroyed. there
golden gate bridge. good morning on this wednesday, we are a little more than halfway there i m eric thomas. and i m kristen sze. we get our first look at facebook s future as a public company. the world s largest social network is expected to file he did papers file papers [ unintelligible ] reporter: as facebook grows everyone is hoping that will mean the economy here will grow with it. how much money do these facebook executives have to spend on mansions and fancy cars? if they file for their ipo today which is expected we ll get to see inside facebook. we ll get to see the company s revenue, growth rate and how much facebook intends to raise from the stock market until now analysts have only been able to speculate. facebook is not commenting about the ipo but executives were at the city council meeting last night giving another indication of how well the company is doing. facebook just moved into a new location. now it is asking the council if it can expand. we
6:01. we have a lot of news. i m eric thomas. i m kristen sze. topping our news right now. it is not ferris bueller s day off it is an entire school s day off. private institution in san francisco has cancelled classes today after hundreds of students got sick. reporter: for those who don t have the stomach flu this is a heck of a good day, 1400 students go to st. ignatius college prep yesterday 200 called in sick or got sick because of what they are calling the stomach flu. take a look at what they are doing to sanitize the campus to make it safer. the plan now is to have them come back tomorrow. city health officials say it is not influenza but an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis refered to as the stomach flu it lasts 27 hours. you want to rest and drink liquids if you get it. highly infectious it hits people who don t wash hands after rusing restroom or after getting sick there was plenty of that going on yesterday. people were throwing up everywhere. coughing every
this evening about the case and thomas is live at the hall of justice in the city with details. thomas? reporter: the 32-year-old san francisco resident police arrested today is being charged with a series of sexual assaults and robbery. one occurred on june sfaechbt. another on november 18th. most recent just this past december 8th. all occurred as you said along the 24th street corridor where police say residents can now breathe a little easier. members of the san francisco police special victim unit gathered this evening to announce the arrest of man wanted in a connection with 3 sexual assault robbery and kidnapping. you will of them occurred in the san francisco mission district. officers say that members of the special victim unit that include officers from 11 different discipline helped put this case together. dna and tip helped them make the arrest. he s responsible for 3 sexual assaults committed along the 24th street corridor. he will be booked into the san franc
and they believe he s still inside of the apartment. thank you. we ll check back with you. windy weather that battered california has not blown through yet. this is a look at ocean beach from our camera. this is a gorgeous view out there. you can see there is no fog in sight. tens of thousands of people in santa cruz mountains are still without power. and we re still blowing around a bit out here, there are about 25,000 people without power in santa cruz mountain area. this is one down the road has been without power. that is not the only problem that these downed trees are having. this was no match for wind storm of 2011. a towering redwood snapped and smash smashed through the roof. and bare yes s family built the cabin and he grew up here. this house has got history. and. it s lined with self homes, neighbors say it was just a matter of which way the wind blew. i m grateful there was nobody in the house. yeah. and just thinking if it came my way that coul