while talking to reporters, mural monroe says she has lost everything. everything i think possible to have. reporter: and who could possibly blame her for feeling that way. the 62-year-old resident was the only person to get out alive when her house caught fire around 4:00 sunday morning. i broke the window in my sister s room to try to get in. reporter: the three other people in the house have now all died. her 6-year-old grandson passed away a few hours after the fire started. her sister and daughter died last night. she s faced with a tragedy with what the fire department calls epic proportions. fire investigators say the cause of the fire was an overloaded power strip in the house. it does not appear the home had any working smoke alarms. i was able to come out of the house by the kitchen. reporter: this afternoon, she described getting out of the flame and smoke-filled house and then trying to save the others. i knocked at my daughter s bedroom window and s
a very wet morning. so fog mixed in with the mist and occasional showers 48 to 50 the general range this morning. and a slow push up with rising temperatures through the evening hours. and the rain becomes steadier and heavier through the afternoon and evening. and rumble of thunder overnight as temperatures continue to rise. we will have the rest of the outlook in a moment. 6:31 let s toss it over to traffic with teresa. reporter: good now is mta reporting no problems on kel denor penn lines camden or penn lines. outer loop seeing delays inner loop no problem. 95 south of the tidings bridge no problems there. and look at your drive times, nothing out of the ordinary except for more delays on the outer loop. 695 to 795 going over to 70. charley. new details this morning on the penn state child sex abuse scandal. a u.s. senate committee is planning a hearing in december to decide on whether stronger laws are needed to protect children. former fbi director lewis freeh wil
the super committee was also considering extending that payroll tax break and extending long-term unemployment benefits. now if all that money, millions and millions of dollars gets pulled out of the economy, experts say we may well slip back into recession. derek. nobody wants that. thank you bruce. lesli. so, what does cutting $1.2 trillion mean to you, the taxpayer? the so-called super failure will trigger automatic off the board cuts starting in 2013. andrea mccarren continues our team coverage. she hit the streets today to find out what you had to say. andrea. we suspected taxpayers wouldn t be happy about this. what we didn t anticipate was their level of anger at what they see as inexcusable incompetence. i think it s ridiculous. pretty disgusting, actually. how do taxpayers really feel? we barely making it as it is right now. dependent on medicare, which could face $9 billion in cuts. i m scared to go back to work and do myself more injury. a moder
loner. at his home, family members say pimentel slept during the day and kept to himself his neighbors say the same. other neighbors are also shocked to hear police cars, government buildings, and u.s. troops were allegedly targeted for destruction. pretty so real, actually. it is nice to know that he was only working alone. police put together this video of what pimentel is accused of trying to pull off. investigators say he tried to make pipe bombs like this one of following instructions from a well-known al qaeda publication. pimentel a u.s. citizen born in the dominican republic, had converted to islam. he was arrested over the weekend when he allegedly started to move forward with his plan. he made even as some of his like-minded friends nervous with his extremism. pimentel s attorney says his client does not match the profile of someone who would commit terrorism, and the case against him is not as strong as prosecutors say it is. pimentel faces five charges, in
scott of maryland. he was being held on a first-degree murder charge at the prince george s county detention center in connection with a homicide last march. he was mistakenly released ten days ago on november 10th after posting a $75,000 bond. scott was supposed to be held without bond. authorities are describing the mistake as a clerical error on court records, indicating that his bond had been set at $75,000. we re, you know, using you guys as far as the media and the public goes, to put his picture out there, hoping maybe he sees us and has a conscious to realize that there was an error and bring himself back in. and also, maybe if the public can help us locate him. reporter: scott is accused in the death of phillip watson in southeast washington. the early morning shooting happened outside the surf club live on kennelworth avenue in edmonton. scott was arrested two months after the shooting in las vegas and was held without bond until his mistaken release nearly two