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"the new york times" says it is the worst los angeles has seen the 1992 riots in arson fires. police are releasing surveillance video showing what they call a person of interest. seeing it there on your screen, 39 fires are said to be linked to a serial arsonist. casey wian is following all the developments for us live in hollywood this morning. we understand police executed a search warrant. is that true? >> reporter: thats whats been reported, zoraida. we have new developments to report on the...

Structure as you mentioned. someone police wanted to speak with. let me back up a little bit. we arrived here at the command center about 1:00 in the morning local time. so a little more than five hours ago. and we spoke to an arson investigator who said all was quiet overnight. it was just trying to get a lot of work done. then over the next two hours, there were reports of a dozen different fires in vehicles throughout the hollywood area and throughout the san fernando valley. bringing the tot...

Police say they may have detained a person of interest in that california arson story that weve been following. cnns casey wian is in california for us. this is a big deal, casey. we are talking about dozens of fires at this point. right? >> reporter: absolutely. and there have been about a dozen more so far tonight, just in the last couple of hours, and weve been hearing traffic over the radio scanner, the los angeles fire department uses, and they mentioned they had a person in custody, and my...

Snas possible break in the case of the arsons in the l.a. area. there have been 50 fires in the last three days. cnns casey wian has the latest for us. >> when we arrived at the command center just before 1:00 in the morning an arson investigators told us everything was quiet. that quickly changed. just after 1 a.m. monday, los angeles fire crews and arson investigators responded to nearly a dozen car fires in the san fernando valley hollywood and west hollywood. on day four of l.a.s arson spree...

>> thats right. one of the big questions in this day before the iowa caucuses is whether the man in the sweater vest can make mitt romney sweat. rick santorum is in the enviable position of being the final surging non-romney conservative to do well. before these iowa caucuses so we are chasing him from stop to stop to stop today. he is chasing the undecided caucus goers. and you get the sense looking at the poll that came out over the weekend that showed rick santorum in third place. i...

than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. were counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now its a sprint. as they dash across t...

>> also, weve got something very unusual thats happening in mt. rainier. theres been a murder of a park ranger and theyre looking for this person. they feel like hes escaped on foot at this point and have had to actually rescue some of the people that have been camping. well tell you more details about that. >> the fat weather service says blizzard condition in the great lakes could make the travel youre trying to execute impossible. >> isnt this like one of the busiest days of the yea...

iowa. that happened earlier today. both focused on their attacks on president obama. >> remember when he said if we let him borrow $787 billion, almost a trillion dollars, that he would hold unemployment below 8%. >> the obama cookbook is the exact opposite. higher taxes, more regulations, anti-american energy and class warfare to attack the people who create jobs. its as though the obama cookbook says to get a hard egg you put it in the freezer. its true if you put it there long enoug...

eve bash in the world on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. so glad you could join us. it is friday, december 30th. im deb feyerick along with alina cho on this "american morning." >> thanks for joining us, everybody. up first this morning, mitt romney trying to steal the deal in iowa. former massachusetts governor is the front-runner now, a few points ahead of ron paul. with four days to go before the caucuses, romney is tweaking h...

north korea. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the showdown over the payroll tax cut lasted for weeks, but the stalemate ended in a matter of minutes today after house republican leaders bowed to overwhelming pressure and gave into the democrats. today, the house approved the bill that got almost 90% of support in the senate. president obama signed it into law and the threat of a new years day tax hire for 160 working americans is over. lets go straight to dana bash whos ...