don t worry, fema said they will be there no later than thursday. no later than reporter: trapped in a four-alarm fire, five firefighters barely escaping the blaze. the amazing story from baltimore this morning. and scout s honor, the boy scouts, more than 3 million strong considering dropping its ban on gay members. after decades of being out of the closet, the boy scouts of america forced me back into the closet with its don t ask don t tell policy. reporter: the fight going nationwide, the cause on the scout s doorstep this morning, petitions for more than 1 million of them signed asking the ban be dropped. scouting was a real refuge for me. it was a place where i didn t have to deal with my sexuality and i felt accepted regardless. reporter: ahead the motto and the movement. newsroom starts now. good morning, thank you so much for being with me. i m carol costello. this morning, little ethan is waking up safe and sound. this is the alabama boy being whiske
women near al ka polka. they raped the women after tying up the men in the group. the mayor has amazing comments about what happened. more on that story, straight ahead. also, in alabama, the 5-year-old boy held hostage for more than a week is now free. his captor is dead. now people are asking, how does this boy heal after seeing his bus driver shot to death and after being dragged into an underground bunker by a stranger with a gun. a live update. and it is something, nof course a lot of us worry about when we travel. are we going to be safe. for us women it s a concern. the allegations of a gang of armed men raped six spanish women visiting the resort city of acalpulco. elizabeth is in l.a. what do we know about what happened, first of all? then we ll get the reaction from the mayor. hi, suzanne. a horrifying attack, as you described it, what we know at this point, according to local media reports, six spanish women raped inside a condo staying near the beach resort
singing. we were singing my momma told you, you better shop around. that is the song we were singing whistling at the happened. it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the because on to avenue 21 where a white van with its door ajar was parked near the center of the road. it looked like somebody had broken down and so edward went to swing the bus around the van. and at that point one of the kidnappers jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle, came up to the driver s side and told edward to open the door. and then the other kidnapper got on to the bus and took over. and i do remember seeing one of the kidnappers with pantyhose pulled over his face and holding a gun. i was scared immediately. ed ray asked him who are you, what is going on here and the guy just told him shut up and move to the back of the bus. one of the masked men got behind the wheel as the other held a sawed-off shotgun on his
all of the kids were singing. my mama told me you better shop around. that was the song we were singing when it happened. it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the bus on to avenue 21 where a white van with the door ajar was parked near the center of the road. it looked like somebody had broken down. edward went to swing the bus around the van and at that .1 of the kidnapers jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle came up to the driver s side and told edward to open the door. the other kidnaper got on to the bus and took over. i do remember seeing one of the kidnapers with panty hose pulled over his face and holding a gun. i was scared immediately. who are you? what s going on here edward asked. the guy told him to shut up and move to the back of the bus. one of the masked men got behind the wheel as the other held a sawed off shot gun
two industrial batteries on top of this weighing more than 100-pounds each nothing was going stop them from freeing themselves from what surely was to become a mass grave. the first thing that had to be done was the sheet metal had to be pushed off to the side and they would let the dirt fall and move the sheet metal more and more dirt falls. and the dirt would file up and i would scrape it out from underneath their feet so they weren t tripping on the piles they were making. i would hold the flash light. they would stand on my shoulder for awhile. stand on edward s shoulder for awhile. as they moved the steel plate aside and moved the batteries aside. which then disconnected our vent lakes system and we were starting to lose oxygen and get weaker and weaker. and it is like please let s make it out. as they finally kicked free and got the box loose and the sand came in there was an outpouring of light like from heaven above. it was like christmas