26-year-old carla garcia. the cops looking out for this, abdel basaet al-megrahi, as we find information to you we ll bring it to you right here. megyn: did they talk about motive here, trace? reporter: there is no motive. they are calling the death of the 3-year-old suspicious and they left the 4-year-old boy behind. he was sleeping, it looks like from what police are saying this happened in the dead of night. they just took off in the middle of the night. when they arrived at the house in the morning the boy was sleeping the girl was dead and they are just calling her death suspicious but with signs of severe trauma. megyn: and the little boy, he s okay. reporter: the boy is okay, the 4-year-old boy is okay. megyn: what a story. all right trace thank you. a half hour now to a white house news conference and a very big question. was the man who killed 290 people, including almost 200 americans released from jail so bp could land a big oil deal? it s disgusting that we were told
megyn: a disturbing story out of bakersfield, california. a manhunt is underway for a family who fled the country leaving behind their four-year-old adopted son and his dead adopted sister. police finding that young boy alone at the home near the body of the girl. now the police are worried that this couple may be long gone traveling with their three biological children somewhere in mexico. trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom, trace this continue be any more bizarre or disturbing. reporter: or behalf fling pw-flg. a woman named carla garcia calls her sister in a panic, she tells her sister go to my house. the sister calls police. when police arrive at the house they find a 3-year-old girl dead and a 4-year-old boy sleeping.
story of the usda official who was forced to resign for her racially-charged comments. vod vod shirley sherrod defending herself today saying her remarks were taken way out of context. she is also now claiming that the white house was behind the move to ax her from her bogs at the department of agriculture. shirley will be here live in a few moments to tell her side of the story. but first the controversial video that started all of this. [unintelligible] megyn: james rosen is live in washington with this unfolding story. why is shirley so very upset with the white house? reporter: abdel basaet al-megrahi this story is breaking and unfolding and we ll learn more from our interview with shirley sherrod minutes from now. her resignation according to miss sherrod was because of sustained and overwhelming pressure from the house. she said today, she felt quote harassed by the deputy undersecretary of agriculture who called her three times on the telephone as she was on a lon