lawyer, mayor by night. i do know that we re not getting a lot of information law enforcement because they re trying to preserve the integrity of their investigation so they ll have a successful prosecution. i did hear of the news reports earlier this evening as well. it s important to remind people, it wasn t about setting cars on fire. cars being being used to set buildings on fire. the only cars targeted were cars in carports under dense and crowded apartment buildings. we felt like a city under siege for the last few nights, what were being targeted were rent controlled buildings with hundreds of people who barely had time to get out with kids, pets and photo albums. i have to wrap it up, but i have to ask you, you re the criminal defense attorney and you hear the state attorney is
2012. we were getting you up to speed on the bizarre fires. look at this man with the ponytail. he s been arrested. this is the worst string of fires in that city since the riots of 92. get this. there may be annism grags beef allegedly involved with this arrest. lots more to tell yu about that. that s coming up. he looked like he was kind of smirking in that video. a man accused of killing a park ranger is found dead fats down in a waterfall. apparently the exposure to all the cold there. the mountain is shut down as the rangers regroup and mourn the loss of one of their own. we don t worry so much that the sniper is out there. they ve shut down the search. they pretty much figure they ve got the guy. also, did you feel it this morning when you woke up or did you have to shovel it? it has been a serious cold day in the midwest. it s basically slamming us this weather. it s actually moving into the east as well. a couple feet of snow in some places in the great lak
the new york times says it is the worst los angeles has seen the 1992 riots in arson fires. police are releasing surveillance video showing what they call a person of interest. seeing it there on your screen, 39 fires are said to be linked to a serial arsonist. casey wian is following all the developments for us live in hollywood this morning. we understand police executed a search warrant. is that true? reporter: that s what s been reported, zoraida. we have new developments to report on the actual suspected arson fires themselves. we arrived here at the command center about an hour ago, spoke with an arsing investigator who said so far tonight everything was quiet. well, in the last 45 minutes, things have definitely changed. four confirmed fires we re told linked to automobiles near carports in the los angeles
a suspect yet but he is paea pen of interest. 43 fires in the city of los angeles. the other two in west hollywood and burbank, surrounding cities. it is unfortunate, you said it, it is an absolute adomination that this person would do this in a very densely populated area of los angeles. we re very fortunate that nobody was killed. there was one firefighter who was slightly injured. more than $2 million in damage and it could have been much worse. but again, at this point this person is only a person of interest. it certainly could have been a lot worse. in l.a., a lot of these carports are under buildings. when a fire starts in a car, it can move up into a garage and building itself. it appears all 53 of these fires
they also took in his van which appeared to have out-of-state or canadian plates. since friday, as you said, 55 fires tied to arson. most between the hours of midnight and 5:00 a.m. on friday. the suspect was able to ignite 19 fires within a four-hour period all within a two-mile radius. so the person you re looking at there is the quote, person of interest who is now being questioned by detectives. martha? martha: amazing. he looks fairly calm in those pictures, with. he almost has a smile on his face at one point. how are they set? what was the method of action here? and has anybody been injured? reporter: all these fires were started in cars or under the engine block. then in most cases they spread to carports, garage, apartments, homes. miraculously no one was hurt, only property damage. police declined to say what evidence tied the cases the together or provide evidence or what the ignition source