Jenna: welcome back. the srerpd is in following a very high profile murder trial in kansas, the jury taking only hours to decide the fate of a former cop accused of killing his wife. rick folbaum is live in our new york city newsroom with more. reporter: the trial has been big news in small town america. king man, kansas, population 2900, a couple goes from being high school sweethearts to murderer and victim that was the decision the jury made late last night after six hours of deliberations find being the defendant guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 death of his wife. the couple was estranged fighting over custody of their two young sons while continuing to live under the same roof. prosecutors convinced the jury that 16 days after the wife filed for divorce, bret, a former sheriff s deputy shot and killed her, grabbed the two boys and set a fire in the house to
Their grand parents. flames consuming the hole of new york city advertising executive madonna badger. connecticut fire officials saying the accident was sparked by hot fireplace embers. it is not clear if the home had working smoke detectors. here is the frantic 911 call from neighbors. 911. what is your emergency? huge fire next store to the us. what is the address, ma am. it is the house next door. three kids and a woman. 911 what is the address of emergency. i got cut off. i was talking about a major, major fire in the house. we have the fire department on the way, ma am. please. gregg: despite firefighters attempts to save them badger s three children were all killed along with their grandparents. uma: well, there are new questions in a report on a little-known fee included in
Those spot fires they are dealing with. let s go to nbc s justice correspondent, pete williams, what have you learned about the individual that is the focus of this investigation? just to clarify some of the early reports, the early indication we had from law enforcement officials investigating this crash was that the plane was stolen. they now say they ve satisfied themselves that it, in fact, did belong to the pilot, who was in the plane when it crashed in austin this morning. he s identified as joseph stack. they say this whole incident began this morning with a domestic disturbance call to the police. that by the time police got to stack s house, he had already tried to light a fire in the house and had fled. they say it s clear now that he fled to the airport, got his own plane, not a stolen plane, but his own plane, took off, and crashed it a short time later at a complex of federal buildings that include the irs. and it is the building which
January or july 29th, which is of course when the law goes into effect. the law was filed by david salgado, he s the phoenix police officer, a hispanic man who says the law would force him to target hispanics. listen. i had to take the step of faith on blocking this law because i had a duty to do that. reporter: the arizona attorneys for governor brewer say that this lawsuit has no merit, one because the law has yet to take effect, so there is no way to prove racial profiling and two, because racial profiling is not allowed, and the law says it four times. megyn. megyn: before i let you go. can i see it again, can i see the new fox alert animation? what do you think of this trace. reporter: it was cool. i thought it was a fire in the house when i first saw it, the yellow banner, isn t that cool. megyn: i think it s beautiful. reporter: it looks like