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>> okay. >> he initially sprays her with the accelerant in the frame youre showing, spraying her with it. then he followed her into the elevator and methodically continued spraying her. the initial hit was in the face and then methodically doused her spraying it. and then he -- using one of those long lighters you would use for a grill, he lit a molotov cocktail and used the burning rag on the top of that to ignite her body. then he stepped out of the elevator, threw the malakhov cockt...

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Relationship may have been between these two people? >> well, police say that they believe the man knew this woman. so what theyre trying to figure out now through questioning is exactly what that relationship might have have been and of course, no motive at this time that we know of. of what would cause anyone to do this to another person. >> were also told that he may have had some burns on his hands and face as well? >> yeah. when he walked in to the police station, they said the man was smel...

Suspect, but evidently overnight someone walked into the police station and identified themselves as the man who was responsible for dousing a woman inside the elevator with some sort of accelerant and then setting her ablaze in that elevator. theyre questioning that man at this hour. theyre not -- they have not filed any charges but police say that they are questioning him in regards to that attack. this woman was in her 60s and she was inside the elevator of her apartment building carrying a s...

The floor and then seeping under the thresholds. much of the furniture, including a large dining room table, has been reduced to piles of ashes. >> they thought that any fire intense enough to make a large heavy dining room table go away was more intense than a normal fire. >> after days of sifting through the homes remains, the investigators reach a conclusion. this fire was no accident. on top of the forensic evidence theyve gathered, police believe that survivor ernest willis is lying about w...

Enough heat to destroy a heavy dining room table. >> but as this other fire investigation experiment shows, a gasoline fire only gives off large intense flames for around a minute. by the time a piece of furniture begins burning on its own, the gasoline will have already burned off. from that point on, the gasoline fire burns at around the same temperature as a normal fire would. whats more, if an accelerant had been used to start the willis fire, it would have taken an enormous amount to genera...

>> flashover produces patterns that cannot be discerned from those produced by liquid accelerants except that flashover does a better job than a liquid accelerant does. >> people have said, oh, the whole house caught fire from one end to the other in under five minutes. somebody must have poured gasoline. its not true. you flash over one room and very quickly your house is involved. >> flashover could also explain the furniture being consumed. >> following a post flashover fire, what you expect ...

>> just days after the fire, branch davidian david thibodaux places the blame for the deadly inferno squarely on the fbi. >> what was the cause of the fire? >> tanks. >> more than a decade later, hes not so sure. >> my opinion, how did the fire start? i simply dont know. i just dont know. i dont believe that anyone inside set that fire. i didnt see anybody pouring any kind of fluid or any kind of accelerant or anything like that. my understanding is the accelerant used to disburse cs gas in a ro...

>> there are specifics of each of the three deals that are reasons enough to be against them. and with the korean deal, yes, the estimates are were going to lose 159,000 jobs in seven years, is probably going to increase our trade deficit with korea by almost $17 billion. but i do disagree a little bit with the statement that nobodys really all about the specifics of the deal. for the last generation, we have seen increasing inequality, income inequality in the united states. and the cumulative ...

thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bulls-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and lets begin with word of a new endorsement were hearing about this morning. >> reporter: thats right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark...