2241stamford avenue, it s the house next door. reporter: the firefighters tried to go back in and get the grandparents and children. four firefighters were injured in that fire. and the mayor of stamford says the family should not have been in the house because they did not have a permit to occupy the house during remodeling stage. megyn: that s deeply disturbing. you look at these things and try to find something to come out of them. maybe it s just a warning and lesson to other folks not to do that with the embers. the smoke detectors being disconnected. maybe they would have had a few moments s notice. trace, thank you. all eyes are on capitol hill as democrats cling to power after another democratic senator calls it quits. paving way for the gop to reclaim the majority. we ll have the latest on the likelihood of that. california once the land of opportunity now more bleak news
it could save thousands of lives. lindsay davis, abc news, stamford, connecticut. remarkable that 1/3 of homes don t have the smoke detectors and fire extinguishers and emergency plan, so, very, very important. apparently on this on the emergency plan. apparently the two little girls were on the third floor of the house. they were led down to the second floor by the mother s friend. and at that point they had panicked, what fire investigators are piecing together, and went back into the fire. the grandfather was trying to get one out, he succumbed just outside the window. such a tragedy. people were trying to save their lives. only thing you can take is check smoke detectors. now to politics and a veteran lawmaker s decision to retire could impact the democrat hold on the u.s. senate. nebraska s ben nelson says he will not seek a third term. there are no democrats waiting
francisco with what happened, adam. reporter: we had two tense situations actually in a 12-hour timeframe. the first one you talked about was the flight last night taking off from sacramento headed towards seattle. as the front part of the plane came up the nose came up two left tires blew. we are told there has been no debris found on the runway. the investigation goes into why did the tires blow, nothing on the runway caused the tires to blow. the pilot did come on the radio overhead, told the passengers to remain calm, brought the nose back down, brought the plane to a stop. the emergency personnel then arrived on scene to get the passengers off. they put foam on the tires to make sure no fire got up into the plane. you can imagine people were shaking from what happened. take a listen. right as we took off we went right back down and we were bouncing all over the ground. we were about halfway down the runway and you heard a loud pop and shaking, the plane started shaking, they
they were going pretty fast. there was a popping sound. reporter: another incident happened on another southwest flight on the same runway taking off it hit a bird. no major damage and the passengers were dephra eupbd and put odeplaned. two major incidents back-to-back. no injuries. megyn: the doj says no. will south carolina night back in court? i ll ask the attorney general of that state when he joins me live. new details of a horrific christmas day fire in connecticut that killed five family members. the heroic action one person attempted to make before meeting his own death. stay with us. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief?
the brand-new details today on that deadly christmas day fire in connecticut. the fire chief in stanford held a news conference detailing the mistakes that may have led to this tragedy and talking about the 911 tapes just released. reporter: we are getting a much better idea of what happened in those horrifying seconds after the fire started. the fire chief said around 3:00 in the morning somebody put burning embers outside of the mud room and those embers caught a wall on fire and that spread to the rest of the house. the home was being remodeled so the smoke detectors were not hoorkd up at the time. but everyone inside the house actually woke up. three young girls on the third floor. the mom, the boyfriend. the boyfriend at one time was with the twin 7-year-old girls trying to get them out of the house, but the heat separated them and tragically the two