we got this story from wpxi in pittsburgh. the woman you are seeing is being helped away by friends and family is linda. she was at easter dinner with some friends and home and when she came home her home was a burned mess. had it completely burned to the ground. but the story of how it happened is what becomes incredibly terrifying. firefighters did arrive on the scene to try to fight this fire but when they arrived, the woman's ex-boyfriend from ohio was there with a gun and would not allow the firefighters to put the fire out. >> do they think he started the fire and burned her house down on purpose? >> the fire is still under investigation. they are trying to figure out if it was an act of arson and if covert did in fact start the fire. now it gets even stranger after this. once he wouldn't allow o firefighters to come and help on the scene, police arrived to the scene as state police got there. covert turned the gun on himself, commuted suicide right in front of everyone. >> the individual's weapon was drawn. ordered him

. >>> well, if you're watching us on wpxi tv in pittsburgh pennsylvania, hop on over to the green tree public library, meet the easter bunny at story time. that's your "early today" event of the day. >> does that include chocolate? bill, thank you very much. and now here's an "early today" at entertainment headlines. could another era be ending on "saturday night live." sources tell "us weekly." christian and jason sue take kiss plan to leave at the end of the season. bill is upset about that. entertainment weekly provides "the '70s show" will include ashton kutcher enand meal last kunis. >>> gary sinise canceled appearances of his lieutenant dan band after a scar accident. >>> nicolas cage took a big step toward squaring his tax bill with uncle sam. payment just over $6 million. cage blames a business manager for tax problems over the last decade and still owes around 7 million bucks. >> he must have made a lot of money. >>> that's got to hurt. his idaho mansion is on the market and so is his local bar and nightclub. now bruce willis is saying he's willing to give away his 1100-acre s

you see him showing wpxi, channel 11 in pittsburgh rocks, bricks, stones. >> this was the first one threeyears ago. this came through the window next to the phone with a message. >> bob says that he guesses that the damages total something $7,000 in his car and his home. bob shares the house with a friend named john bukar. john even got hit by one of these rocks that came crashing through the window. so finally, bob said you know what, forget t i'm setting up a surveillance video. and in the surveillance video, we see the culprit. he turned this video into penn township police, and they were able to figure out that this person is, in fact, 21-year-old charles predanovich, charged with criminal mischief, loitering and prowling. and there are similar instances of vandalism in the area. >> we've been looking to find out who has been doing the recent vandalism in the area and they said the video did help a lot. >> they don't know if it's all charles, but they are investigating. >> do they think that this guy just targeted these people? >> bob says he doesn't recognize the guy's name, he doesn

the surveillance video we got from our friends at wpxi. the driver of this tow trck, anho nic said he parked his truck right next to a police officer. they both went into the store, later in the video you see the front of truck drop. when anthony came back, he thought it was the officer parked next to him that had done this. but here in this part of the surveillance video, we see the police officer walking back to his car. >> so he wasn't even out there when this happened. he was in the store. >> he was walking back to his car when this happened. on a different angle, surveillance video, you actually see someone standing in front of this truck as a police officer is getting into his car. >> i wonder why he thought it was the police officer that would do that? what would be his motivation? >> anthony asked to see the surveillance video, but he doesn't have forensic perspective because he thought even after looking at the surveillance video, that it was the cop that had done this. but a closer, more analytical look of this video proved it wa