Out of their homes tonight after fire ripped through two buildings and damaged a third 234 San Francisco. Even someones pet had to be pulled from the flames. Thanks for joining us. Im matt keller. It began just after 4 00 this afternoon between church and 15th streets in San Francisco. You could see the flames shooting up into the air shortly after the fire started. Abc 7 News Reporter sergio quinn tan a is live at the scene. Reporter this was a threealarm fire. Crews were able to get a handle on it after a pretty hard fight. You can see right now for the last few hours, weve been actually watching crews board up the tall floor of that building. There are three buildings damaged here. Residents tell us theyre now trying to figure out what theyre going to do. You can see fire crews attacking the flames. I received texts saying that the apartment is on fire. And i should come home. Which is a little disconcerting. Reporter she showed us her text as she met with the red cross at a nearby coffee shop. Its my first time experiencing any sort of a tenancy fire. I dont know the laws. I dont know how long well be out. If we have to look for new places. Reporter among those without a home are the owners of this cat that survived. Hes recovering at a veterinary hospital. A firefighter was also treated for exhaustion. Fire investigators have not determined a cause. Witnesses of this threealarm fire say it moved really fast. I see the flames. I call 911. We started spraying on the building on the left. It got a little bit into the attic in the building on church. About six units two businesses on church. Reporter a few hours after the flames were put out, residents went in with flashlights. They were looking for clothes and other necessities since they will not be staying here for now. Abc 7 news. This was the third major fire in the area in recent months. A fire last month near mission and 22nd killed one man and injured six others. 40 people were forced from their homes. In september a fivealarm fire tore through a building packed with merchandise. Two businesses were destroyed and five people were injured. Investigators are looking into what caused a motel unit to go up in flames around 7 30 tonight. Rescuers rescued a man and woman inside. A third woman suffered minor burns to her hands. All three were transported to a hospital. The fire appears to be accidental started by misuse of flammable materials. One man is clinging to life after a series of horrific crashes in east san jose. Police say the man responsible was under the influence. Lisa has more on the suspects and the victims. Reporter traffic is rerouted away from three different crime scenes. Police say the suspect drove out of the liquor store parking lot swerved into oncoming cars and crashed into this silver sedan. The family inside was okay but the driver kept going and slammed into this nearby fruit stand, run by Francisco Hernandez and his wife. This really hit me. Ive never seen anybody laying bloody like that. Reporter this witness did not want to show her face, but she saw everything, including when the suspect ran hernandez over. His wife was also hurt but not as seriously. The hush and wife team had just set up their fruit stand when the crash happened. Theyve been coming here to work seven days a week for the past two and a half years, and typically their two small children are with them. Their children werent with them today because they went to visit family in mexico. Everything. Theyre real nice people. Reporter police say the suspect was under the influence. My goodness. Reporter its not good to drink and drive. People dont think or understand that theyre affecting the lives of other hardworking people. But the suspect still didnt stop. The guy continued on out of the driveway, hit the pole. And then went around those parked cars, and then got in the accident over there. Reporter the suspects vehicle stalled after hitting the suv. He faces felony hitandrun and dui charges. In san jose abc 7 news. A child was taken to the hospital with a hand injury this afternoon after a muni bus accident. It happened around 3 00 p. M. In front of San Franciscos Ferry Building. Protesters shut down the emoryville Police Department and home depot today. 100 people gathered at the Police Station where 40 demonstrators chained themselves to home depot entrances. Theyre demanding Police ReleaseSurveillance Video of the officer shooting death of a 38yearold. The oakland woman was suspected of shoplifting. Utility crews have shut off the water to a broken water main that caused part of the San Francisco street to cave in. Theyre still working on the pipe at franklin and gross streets next to the davy symphony hall. The concert venue was not damaged. The pipe burst just before 1 00 p. M. The Rushing Water mixed with dirt making a muddy mess for symphony fans tonight. The San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings playing in the stadium series at levi stadium. 70,205 fans packed the venue. The largest crowd ever at levi stadium. Kings got a goal in the third period giving l. A. The 21 victory. Mike shumann will have the highlights later on in sports. Bta said they carried twice the riders they usually do for football. Abc 7 news meteorologist drew tuma has the first check on weather, live doppler 7 hd. Coming off a warm start to the weekend. Five to ten degrees above normal. Not record breaker ingbreakingrecordbreaking. A high of 67 degrees. Take it live outside on the embarcadero. The flags atop the Ferry Building are waving just a bit. They are forecasting for at least the winds to increase. We call for interval of clouds overnight, gusty winds for your sunday. Were tracking cooler, more winterlike weather sunday into monday. Well let you how high those winds gust and how low those temperatures go with the forecast in just a few minutes. Matt . Thanks drew. The new dialing system for the 415 area code has people confused and calling 911. If youre using a land line youre required to add a 1 in front of it. Changes make way for the new 628 area code. New numbers will be assigned a 628 number starting next month. Workers at San FranciscoEmergency Call Centers say dozens of people called this morning not knowing why calls wouldnt go through. Sometimes when people are confused they call government numbers. 911 is one that you remember. But 911 is for emergencies. Thats right. Callers not dialing correctly will receive a recorded meng. Still to come on abc 7 news at 11 00 a big chill bearing down on much of the country. Plus hitting the red carpet before the oscars. Katy is there for the big show. 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Like one bay area filmmaker whose documentary is up for an oscar. Katy has his story and red carpet antics from the dolby theater in hollywood. Reporter the red carpet here at the dolby theater is an exciting place to be. But its not the only place where theres oscar action happening. We went to the Writers Guild theater where a stanford professor screening his documentary short which could very well earn him oscar gold. With his documentary white earth playing on the silver screen, he watches from the back of the theater. I never fathomed it would reach the oscars. Reporter but it has. The 20minute short chronicles the oil boom in north dakota as seen through the eyes of migrant children. A film embraced by the International Documentary association. To bring attention to the stories critical to an informed, intelligent, connected group. Reporter he spent nine months in north dakota making his movie. Hes not in there nor is he originally from the bay area. The film program is second to none. I feel like im been embraced by the bay area. Reporter the academy has noticed. Jensen will walk the red carpet sunday. I rented a tux. I didnt get it right at the prom, or get it right at my wedding, so maybe this is my chance to look smart in a tuxedo. Reporter also dressed to impress, esther goldberg. The im the first drag character to grace the red carpet of the oscars. In 87 years im the first character. Reporter shes surrounded by plenty of spectators. Im so excited. I love movies. I love everything. Reporter at the entrance to the dolby theater workers arrange hundreds of roses one by one. On the red carpet, the rain tent is in place, and some people are already wearing gowns, adding to the glamour and character of the landscape. I love the bay area. Theyre my people. Reporter esther actually has a show coming up in june in San Francisco. As for jensen hes focused on teaching right now but definitely has a plan to do a feature length documentary. In hollywood, abc 7 news. Live coverage begins tomorrow at 2 00 p. M. With on the red carpet at the oscars. See what the stars are wearing, live, and then at 5 30 watch Neil Patrick Harris host the oscars. Visit oscar. Com for a list of the nominees. A festival kicks off with a familiar face on the big screen. It will be a showing of back kid begin, the wish heard round the world. 25,000 people packed the streets in 2013 to cheer on miles scott aka bat kid. He had been granted a wish to become a super hero for a today. Bat kid begins at the World Premiere last month. More than 1,000 people came out for a centennial celebration in San Francisco today. The palace of fine arts is lit up in spectacular colors tonight to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the panamapacific international exposition. The event was held among music, art and displays of appreciation for innovation just like back in 1915 during the worlds fair. They had an Assembly Line right here and built model ts. They had an Assembly Line in front of everybody. You could watch a vehicle be built from scratch all the way to a finished product right in front of their eyes. One of those model ts, along with other memorabilia from the 1915 worlds fair is now on display inside the palace of fine arts. Today it was warm for sure. But now it seems to be transitioning into cooler weather, maybe feeling a little bit more like winter, drew. Winds of change coming in the next 24 hours. Breezy out there, tomorrow the winds will make it feel much more winterlike around the bay area. Well take you outside and talk about current temperatures. Right now 54 in downtown San Francisco. 49 in napa. And mountview sitting at 53 degrees. Satellite and radar is going to show you generally we have quiet conditions over much of california right now. You look off to the east, some snow showers gathering around salt lake city. Its all associated with the system thats diving south out of canada. And well scrape by the bay area over the next 24 hours. The future forecast does call for the interval of clouds tonight. 3 00 sunday morning theres a chance of a popup sprinkle in the south bay. Pretty light in nature. As we go through sunday afternoon itself lots of sunshine on the way. If your travels take you south south of san jose thats where the best moisture is. Unfortunately, rain in the forecast for l. A. , for the oscars and the red carpet tomorrow. Showers likely on and off, with temperatures in the 60s by about 2 00, and falling back into the upper 60s as the ceremony gets under way shortly after 5 00 in the afternoon. The system not coming over the ocean, coming over land so its moisture starved. Generally one to two inches perhaps up to four inches above 5,000 feet. Not much in the way of powder with this system. The bigger story here locally is the winds that crank up. 6 00 sunday evening wind gusts near 40 Miles Per Hour from San Francisco, napa into fairfield. It will feel much cooler tomorrow than it did today. A wind advisory is in the forecast. Would not be surprised if it would be in the bay area tonight and tomorrow morning. Winds will be active sunday afternoon and into the evening. Well see clear skies in the north bay, 40 in napa, 42 in santa rosa. South bay cloud cover. Temperatures a bit warmer overnight. 48 for palo alto. Dropping to 45 for san jose. Highs for your sunday with this wind picking up in the afternoon, what it will do it will mix up the atmosphere and kind of bring the temperatures into a uniform mixture. 60s across the board. Mid60s around the bay. 67 fremont. And 63 the high for clear lake. Your accuweather forecast calls for the breezy afternoon on oscar sunday. It feels like winter still on monday with temperatures in the low to perhaps mid60s. The winterlike feel doesnt last all that long. Tuesday morning, afternoon sunshine. Another warming trend around here, so wednesday into thursday, back to more springlike numbers. Next saturday were tracking clouds that will bring the temperatures back down into the mid and low 60s. Still waiting for the rain to return. Maybe next saturday perhaps. Still to come on abc 7 news at 11 00, female announcer through sunday, save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. And of course, free sameday delivery. But hurry sleep trains president s day sale ends sunday. Yoplait. With a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. Dont miss yoplaits exciting new flavors creamy caramel and cookies n cream. Hundreds of people plunged into the San Francisco bays chilly waters to raise money for the Special Olympics. Police officers joined cents in the annual polar plunge. Also a 5k run. Each team raised a minimum of 125 to support the nearly 20,000 Special Olympics athletes in Northern California and nevada. The search is on for the new mack gifr the creator of the 1980 series. Five winners will get 5,000 each and develop a script with a tv producer. The contests ultimate goal is to get more girls and women interested in engineering. We have a link on our website abc7news. Com. Good news, you dont have to grow the mullet to be involved in that. Were talking about levi stadium. Tell me if youve heard this before. The home Team Struggled to get some offense going. So youre saying the 49ers might be. Something in common with the sharks tonight. I agree with you. 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After six months of anticipation, the scene was set. A vital game against the division rivals. It was there for the taking. The sharks were in a giving mood. Get the puck shoot it get it back. We were trying to force pucks through people, through sticks. It ends up costing us. It hurts. You want to win, and leave the room happy. You know, just a good game. We just couldnt find the back of the net the second time. You want to win, you want to perform and do everything. You want to help your teammates. You want to play for your fans. Theres nothing given to us. We have to go earn it. Reporter the series was everything it was hyped to be and more. Now as the rink comes down after a 21 loss, the sharks frustration level goes up. Theyre now on the outside looking in at the playoffs. At levi stadium abc 7 sports. College hoops, st. Marys hosting gan saig inging gonzaga. Big night for patty mills jersey number 13 retired. Wheres waldo. There he is. Burying the three to put st. Mary up. 100 z