interstate 780 and started around 7:00 in vallejo. this is near glenn cove road. for a time it burned towards the freeway and group of homes nearby. firefighters for two hours, the flames burned two acres and so far there's no word on how this all started. >> verying right now, authorities are looking at potential links to other unsolved murderses after the death of a cold case murder. steve crawford took his life in his san jose home yesterday morning. authorities were about to serve a search warrant in connection with a case dating back 44 years. this is 19-year-old arloss perry, raped and murdered in a stanford church in 1974. crawford worked as a stanford security guard. his neighbors are stunned. >> first thing i thought of, how did he make it so long? >> detectives continue to piece together additional information to this tragic puzzle. and we were able recently to