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Structures including apartments. residents were terrified. >> this new form of urban terrorism that we are seeing in our community. >> reporter: sunday a task force of local and federal officials released this surveillance video of the man emerging from an underground parking garage in hollywood. announcing they wanted to speak with him. >> the task force has worked together seamlessly around the clock and currently reviewing more than 100 clues. mapping out the sequence of the fires that occurr...

This morning after police stopped a suspicious van in the hollywood area. >> the van resembled a description provided by the arson task force as possibly being related to the recent fires and the driver resembled a person of interest seen in a videotape released by the multi-agency arson task force the previous evening. >> all right, lets show you that video. you are looking at it right now. as you can see, it shows a light-complexioned man, if you look closely, with a ponytail who police say wa...

Injuries. in los angeles the arrest of a man has apparently stopped a series of 52 arson fires since friday and here he is, charged with arson. and if hes proven guilty, the question is why did he do it? what exactly do we know? he has sort of an interesting back story. >> reporter: he sure does, kyra. i want to start out by mentioning that los angeles police chief charlie beck in a news conference last night said its highly inappropriate and pri premature to speculate about a motive at this p...

In los angeles. accused of arson in dozens of fires that have been set in the city over the past four days. he was taken into custody early this morning after police stopped a suspicious van in the hollywood area. >> the van resembled a description provided by the arson task force as possibly being related to the recent fires and the driver resembled a person of interest seen in a videotape released by the multi-agency arson task force the previous evening. >> all right, lets show you that video...

>> reporter: sunday a task force of local and federal officials released this surveillance video of a man emerging from an underground parking garage in hollywood, announcing they wanted to speak with him. >> the task force has worked together seamlessly around the clock and currently reviewing more than 100 clues, mapping out the sequin of the fires that occurred, interviewing hundreds of witnesses and canvassing the 53 fire scenes as part of this active investigation. >> reporter: monday morni...

Tape was spotted by a sheriffs deputy. fire officials say the man was driving a van similar to one spotted near suspected arson sites. he was taken into custody for questioning, then the arson spree stopped. >> we have not had any additional fires within the last two to three hours. >> reporter: what inference can we draw from that? >> again, its too early. that would be purely speculative. >> reporter: as he sat smiling in the back of a patrol car, investigators examined the van and eventually ...

christine romans will show you why iowa voters may not be asking the same questions as you. lets go ahead and begin with jim in west des moines. youve been with rick santorum almost 24/7. you do let the guy sleep. whats that been like? >> reporter: it has been amazing to watch, kyra. who would have thought when all of this got start that had we would be chasing rick santorum around in the final 24 hours before the iowa caucuses that the international press, he had the japanese, the ger...

caucuses it starts counting. republicans will start choosing candidates in a campaign after everyone you see here and a few you dont, have been the front-runner or the front-runner -- or may soon become the front-runner. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politicos roger simon said iowa caucuses dont pick winners, they eliminate losers. a lot of people could continue on from here even if they dont place well. a loser here may take new hampshire. someone else could win south carolin...

front." well, good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. out front tonight from cnns election center. an episode of survivor how republican presidential candidate, rick santorum described the iowa caucuses. here is the thing about iowa, no offense, iowa, you are really important. you are also small. only 2 million registered voters. 640,000 republicans. if the 2008 caucuses were an in caution of what is a head for tomorrow, only about 100 tough those republicans will actually go out on...

hampshire. someone else could win south carolina and yet another may win florida. its just been that kind of a campaign. the polls here reflect it. take a look. the latest from the "des moines register," mitt romney and ron paul in a statistical tie. rick santorum close behind. newt gingrich fourth and fading. rick perry fifth and climbing slowly. michele bachmann in single digits. that poll came out over the weekend. arg showed romney in front. paul, santorum and gingrich essentially ...