fire in the attic. reporter: four people are found dead inside. tragic. and as it turns out very sinister. the fire appears to be intentionally set. reporter: but before it was set police also say three of the four victims had suffered blunt force trauma. it has been declared a quadruple homicide. the victims, 46-year-old savvas savopoulus his 47-year-old wife amy, their 10-year-old son phillip and their 57-year-old housekeeper. she was one of two family housekeepers. i almost had a heart attack. it s very hard to believe. reporter: the other housekeeper says about three hours before the fire broke out she receives this text from amy, it reads in part i am making sure you do not come today. and the day before she received
so i mean 30 40 years from now you ll still be reporting about these two biker gangs fighting each other. the war will never end between the two. so it s the cossacks and bandidos. isn t this something you hear about later on as opposed to playing out in plain sight where they re telling police we re coming they better arm themselves we re going to settle this once and for all. how unusual is this? it s pretty unusual. there has been some shootouts in the last decade on the west coast. but they re usually they usually like to stay low key and not be in the public eye so that they can kind of fool the public into thinking they re not a gang. and what do you hear in terms of what may happen next here with all these big numbers of people? i mean it s very unusual for us to observe this and the police are kind of like referees as opposed to locking everybody down. i think the bandidos and
neighborhoods, which is what you re talking about and also weapons in times of crisis in post ferguson that s been a bigger conversation. i think the optics of this translate into practice on the ground. i think we need to remember that police lives matter. and this is what this is all about. fellas thank you. certainly two distinct sides of this. you see them laid out. what do you think? tweet us using #newdaycnn. this conversation will continue. it s a big story. there s a lot of news this morning. let s get right to it. fellas. a major biker war playing out in texas. any time a biker gang war starts it never stops. we would encourage biker groups to stand down. there s been enough bloodshed. there s been enough death here. at the heart of this mystery is why the train accelerated. the ntsb is saying that this engineer manually moved the throttle forward. there s no denying that this
groups to stand down. there s been enough bloodshed. there s been enough death here. reporter: aerials show members of one of the biker groups the cossacks being arrested. many of the others part of the notorious bandido motorcycle club. in texas the bandidos are at the top of the pile and everybody wants to be at that top level. that s all this is. it s king of the hill. we re not like that. the 60s are long gone. reporter: with a faded swastika tattooed on his arm, a bandido member high up in rank says the police and the media have it all wrong. we didn t do nothing here. we are fighting for our rights. they re saying lies on tv and telling everybody that the bandidos are after police officers. that s never been. reporter: the u.s. justice department identifies the bandidos as one of the top two largest outlaw motorcycle gangs in america with at least 2,000 members in the u.s. and 13 other countries and the texas department of public safety still lists the bandidos as a
all right. this is the disturbing reality. right now hundreds of armed men are descending on texas and looking to go to war. police are now on high alert after receiving word the bandidos and the cossacks biker gangs are out for blood following sunday s shootout that left nine dead in waco texas. police have now back on the scene. cnn has learned as many as four of those bikers may have killed by police officers. the train derail was not caused by a gun. the fbi cannot explain what did cause the action. focus is on the engineer. two other trains in the area being reported to have been hit by projectiles. catching a big break in a fight for new trial. the maryland court of special appeals has agreed to send the