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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 occurred, interviewing hundreds of witnesses and canvassing the 53 fire scenes as part of this active inve...

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, let's 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 was caught on camera at several arson sites. now a total of 53 fires were set in the los angeles area...

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 he's 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 it's highly inappropriate and pri premature to speculate about a motive at this point. but what has been reported and what it is clear investigators are looking into is the fact t...

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, let's show you that video. you are looking at it right now. as you can see, it shows a light-complexioned man, if you look c...

>> 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 morning a man resembling the one in the tape was spotted by a sheriff's deputy. fire officials say the ma...