more on this later. thank you. now to our other big story tonight, investigators are searching for the cause of a fire that tore through homes, three of them, in owings mills. they could not find the address, so it took a while to get to them. county officials have confirmed that there was some delay with firefighters reaching this fire because of problems with the cross street. but they insist there were no problems as far as fighting the fire. as far as the cause, the victims in this case feel it was a bunch of children and smoking underneath their deck. walters said he got a frantic call from his wife just after midnight tuesday that their house was in ruins. i saw smoke blowing out by the kitchen. i went back to get my keys, but it was a choice between going toward the front door or back by the kitchen and possibly getting hurt. it took more than 33 pieces of equipment to control this fire as firefighters for able to keep three adjacent homes from catching fire