last school year for several months, the victim aliahna lemmon attended elementary school in hagerstown. she became very good friends with a classmate named kimberly. >> we made the games. we played down the parade ground. >> she was expecting a call from fort wayne indiana on christmas from her best friend. >> she was going to come downstairs and open her presence. she was going to tell me what it was. i was going to tell her what i got. >> the girls mad at winter street elementary school last year. despite the distance, they corresponded. that call never came. instead, the family heard aliahna lemmon had been murdered by mike plumadore a neighbor that was babysitting while her mother recovered from the flu. according to authorities he beat her to death with a brick and then dismembered her body. she was reported missing the next day. the next day, mike plumadore confessed and told them where to find the girl's remains. >> she has spent the last couple of days consoling her daughter. one of the ways that kimberly is coping, she is going out every day and buying a belligerent and writin

babysitter police say beat to aliahna lemmon debt with a caught up body into small pieces officers popped body parts throughout trailer michael plumadore has confessed to the crime. >> not the conclusion we hope for kept the the hope she was alive people need to hug their children one mother and father did not have a child and you need to appreciate what you have prosecutors and fort wayne still preparing official chargers high school student from murder rolling meadows while visiting a family in mexico the bodies of two other men along with alexis marron burned truck of a cart near guadalajara live with more from mount prospect >> friends and a few relatives gathered tonight for a vigil on the 80 year-old alexis marron killed over the weekend in mexico horrific crime those who knew him keep asking the question why? >> what was it that way? there was no point for him to die like that that but a group of young people in mount prospect tonight form a circle around a makeshift altar sharing prayers hawks it tears and memories. 18 year-old alexis marron a senior at rolling meadows high school

aliahna lemmon disappeared on friday. last night investigators found her body.ted mike and charged him with murder. they said he had been babysitting the girl when she disappeared. new developments in the search for a girl who disappeared from her home in maine. the police chief says authorities believed she was taken from her home rather than wandered off. a $30,000 reward is being offered for information on her whereabouts. that is the largest ever in the state to find a missing person. >> investigators believed the death of four young women in detroit may be connected. police say bodies were found sunday morning. more bodies were found a few blocks away on december 19. three promoted themselves as escorts from the same website. >>> the iowa caucuses are a week away. >> net -- new information about new talking rich and his first wife. the campaign says she wanted to divorce him but cnn has uncovered records she did not want to get divorced. they cite court documents accusing him of failing to provide enough money for her and her daughters to live on during the

aliahna lemmon was not the type to wander off. she was missing from the mobile home in fort wayne, indiana. last night authorities found her body. >> unfortunately, tonight the search came to a conclusion. >> reporter: they arrested 39-year-old mike plumadore. he had been babysitting. police say he beat her to death with a brick, put her body in a freezer and dismembered her with a hacksaw, hiding some parts in a trailer. >> this is the individual she had been living with over of the past week. >> reporter: the fib joined the -- fbi joined the search. the mobile home is home to 15 registered sex offender, but mike plumadore was not on the list. >> this is not conclusion we hoped for. >> reporter: he is being held without bail. >> closer to home now, take a look at this picture. baltimore county police say this is a quilt stolen from the museum last monday. officers found the glass pane had been broken. the quilt was hanging from the ceiling. it is bordered with gold colored feathers and has images of chains, and two hands on one s

indiana girl will be in court today. 39-year-old mike plumadore has been charged with killing aliahna lemmon. she had been missing since last friday and her body was found yesterday. police say plumadore was a family friend. >> after three different interviews with one of the individuals involved, he was taken into custody tonight about 9:00 p.m. and charged with murder. aliahna's remains have been located. >> according to court records plumadore has been convicted of forgery and auto theft. >>> investigators are trying to determine the cause of a connecticut fire that killed five people. the house has been torn down after the christmas morning fire that killed three children and their grandparents. the home was being renovated by advertising executive madonna badger who escaped but could not save her family. >>> some charity groups will have to return some improper donations. the group calling itself anonymous gave money to the groups after stealing credit card information in a cyber attack on a security company. anna werner reports. >> reporter: visitors to the stratfor intelligence websit

the man watching aliahna lemmon confessed.r-old michael plumadore has been ordered held without bond. >>> investigators in connecticut confirm the fire that killed five family members was in fact the result of a tragic accident. embers from the fireplace and lack of working smoke detectors led to the tragedy. abc's linsey davis reports now from stamford. >> reporter: investigators say it was the ember of the christmas eve yule log which started what fire fighters are calling the most horrific fire in recent memory and it's left an entire town in mourning for three little girls and their grandparents. >> after 37 1/2 years, 38 years on the job, you are never prepared for anything like this. >> reporter: the only two survivors -- madonna badger, a former ad executive, and her friend michael borsina. badger says they were wrapping gifts by the fireplace until some time after 3:00 in the morning when borsina collected embers put them in a bag and in a trash enclosure. a spark apparently reached the home which fire officials say di

washington county school officials say aliahna lemmon attended winter street elementary this year. police in indiana say a neighbor confessed to killing her december 22nd while baby- sitting her and her sisters. federal prosecutors reportedly preparing to file the first criminal charges against bp in connection to the massive gulf oil spill. according to the wall street journal, prosecutors are considering whether bp engineers lied to federal regulators about the risks of drilling at the well. a conviction in this case could mean five years in prison. a separate federal trial to determine bp's liability for the spill is set to begin in february. >>> the national september 11th memorial just reached a major milestone. 1million people have visited the memorial since it opened to the general public september 12th this year. thousands head to the site each day. bronze plates surround the fountains and bear the names of the people killed in the 2011 attacks. >>> construction on a museum near the memorial site has come to a halt due to a money dispute. the museum was scheduled to open ne

aliahna lemmon was beaten with a brick then dismembered and stored in her babysitter's freezer.olice say 39-year-old michael child whhle he was taking care of her. police found the body parts in his trailer yesterday. plumadore is being held without bail, police haven't said why he killed the little girl. 3 fights were breaking out everywhere yesterday at the "mall of america" in minnesota. the dramatic scenn was all caught on camera. one shopper posted this video of someone even hurling a chair.police came in... guns drawn.. to some people areerunning, some are staying, people ae confronting each other in the middle of walking...nobody was even around, they were just going at it. //butt to//all of a sudden, stores stared closing down, gates were going up, we didn't know what's going on on at least 10 fights were reported... 9 people were arrested. 3 and a happy ending for a texas family that was buried in a huge snow drift on a trip to new mexico. the family had food...and water..but they were entombed in an suv..and unable to dig out..they were able to make some cell phone con

police say aliahna lemmon was killed by the man in fort wayne. washington county school officials say she went to winter street elementary school from january through june. grief counselors were brought in for the students there. the suspect told police he repeatedly hit the girl in the head with the brick and then dismembered her body and put her remains in the freezer. >>> the woman really needed rescuing in california after becoming pinned by her own car. police say they got a call about a vehicle into a building at a mobile home park and when they got there they found a woman between her car and a mobile home. witnesses say she got out of the car while it was still in drive at the top of the hill. it started to roll and she was dragged and then eventually pinned. the woman was taken to the hospital and subsequently charged with dui. >>> an attorney from reston is taking it upon himself to get newt gingrich on the ballot for virginia's republican primary in march. gingrich didn't get the 10,000 signatures needed to get on the list of republica

michael plumadore admits he killed aliahna lemmon last thursday. he allegedly told police he beat the child to death and hit her body in trash bags and the freezer. their mother had been sick with the flu. >>> a suspect accused of shooting and paralyzing a u.s. soldier has turned himself into police. the 19-year-old surrendered to authorities yesterday. he shot christopher sullivan at a party in sullivans honor on friday. sullivan stepped in to stop a fight. the afghanistan veteran remains on life-support. >>> the ntsb is investigating a deadly crash from a helicopter from the mayo clinic. a surgeon, a medical technician, and pilot per all killed. they were picking up transplanted organs at the university of florida. >>> nine people had been arrested after a series of fights at the mall of america. 50 teenagers work caught in the food court yesterday. police say there were earlier reports of gunfire and video shows several officers responding with their guns drawn. police tried pushing shoppers out of the mall during the chaos. >>> time now for a c

aliahna lemmon was beaten with a brick then dismembered and stored in her babysitter's freezer.y 39-year-old michael plumadore admits he killed the child while he was taking care of her. police found the body parts in his trailer yesterday. 3 janice cook: parents need to hug their children tonight because there's one mother and father who don't have their child...and we need to apppeciate what you have. plumadore is being held without bail, police haven't said why he killed the little girl. two irls are alive tonight because one neighbor put his own life on the line. the girls were playing on this frozee kansas pond when phey fell through the ice. bud brown saw it happen through his kitchen window. he instantly ran out and dove into the freezing waters. he got both girls back on solid ground and then into his house to warm up. they were all taken to the hospital and are all going to be just fine. with christmas over, all eyes turn to the first- in- the- nation caucus just a week away in iowa.emily schmidt shows you the last minute sprint the candidates are making with this first

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police found the body of aliahna lemmon last night, four days after she was last seen.rding to court papers the man charged with her murder admits to beating the little girl to death, then dismembering her. neighbors say the man is a close family friend and was babysitting the 9-year-old and her two sisters while their mother was sick. police are not yet releasing a motive for the gifrl's killing. >>> a california toddler somehow survived after a fall from a two-story window. san jose police say the boy's mother tossed the 22-month-old child from the window and then jumped out herself. the boy suffered bumps and bruises. his mother was treated for broken bones in her feet. she faces attempted murder and child abuse charges. police say the woman has a history of mental illness. >> according to the family she had recently undergone some type of emotional disstress and i believe she also sought medical attention because of that. >>> another challenge arises to the democrat's control of the senate. a democratic source is telling cnn nebraska's ben nelson is about to announc

that's the last the 9-year-old aliahna lemmon was seen. at the trailer park in ft.ice are not discussing the cause of death or the possible motive. >>> and in connecticut this morning, embers from a fireplace are being blamed for a fire in maine, killing three little girls and their grandparents. their mother, a new york ad executive and her friend were the only ones to survive that fire. >>> prince philip is back home this morning. the 90-year-old spent four nights in the hospital after being treated for a blocked artery. he returned this morning to the family country estate. >>> and a remarkable feat of engineering, allowing thousands of people to take a new step forward in one of the largest cities in south america. the city is medellin, colombia. they just unveiled this massive escalator, scaling the hillside, to that city's poorest neighborhood. before this was built, people had to climb stairs equivalent of a 30-story building to reach their homes from downtown. an incredible feat of technology. >>> one last story. hell hath no fury like a female packers fan s

this morning police say that mike plumadore told them yesterday where to find the body of aliahna lemmonear-old suspect ruben ray jurado is under arrest in the shooting of a soldier at his homecoming party. friday night christopher sullivan who served in afghanistan was shot during an argument at that party. sullivan is in critical condition and may be paralyzed from the neck down. >>> a historic discovery in the water off jupiter, florida. a world war ii plane was found lying on the bottom. look at that. almost 200 feat under the water. the plane is upside-down but the wings and tail are still attached. >>> and a shantytown in columbia got a huge upgrade. take a look at this. instead of hiking 35 minutes up the side of an incredibly steep hill, residents of the poorest district can take a six-minute escalator ride in six different sections. it covers the height of a 2 28-story building. it took more than $6 million to build, was built by the government, and it is free for >>> if you're not into staying in cookie cutter rooms and chain hotels when you travel, there are many other options

a 9-year-old indiana girl, a memorial of stuffed animals was placed outside the home of al a aliahna lemmonwanted in florida for violating probation in 2000. he admitted striking the girl repeated in the head with a brick on the front steps of his mobile room and storing her dismembered body in a freezer. the girl's gand mother says aliahna and her two sisters were staying with plumador while her mother recovered from the flu. >>> the autopsies are complete on five family members killed in a house fire on christmas day in stamford, connecticut. three little girls and their grandparents died in the blaze. the grandfather died of blunt head and neck trauma plus smoke inhalation. he had fallen through the rafters at the home. the little girls and grandmother died of smoke inhalation. embers from the fireplace are being blamed for the fire. the hot ashes discarded in an outdoor bin near the house. deborah feyerick has the details. >> stamford, 911, what's the address? >> there's a huge fire right next to us. >> what is the address, ma'am. >> we're at 2241 shippan avenue. it's the house next doo

aliahna lemmon was found three days after she vanished from the mobile home park in ft. wayne, indiana, where she lived. the family friend, mike plumadore was baby sitting while their mom had the flu. police releasing few details, only to saying the body was found less than a mile away. >>> in florida this morning, investigators trying to figure out what caused a medical helicopter to crash, killing a cardiac surgeon, a medical technician and a pilot. they were flying to pick up a heart for a transplant patient. crashes involving medical helicopters are on the rise, with more pilots flying in dangerous conditions. >>> we have word out of london, that queen elizabeth's husband, prince philip, has been released from the hospital. let's get right to kelly cobiella on the story this morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. prince philip was itching to get out of the hospital and rejoin his family, according to buckingham palace. and doctors gave the okay this morning. he appeared to be in great shape. he rolled down the window and waved to cameras as he was going to sandring

police found the body of aliahna lemmon last night, four days after she was last seen.d with her murder admits to beating the little girl to death, then dismembering her. neighbors say the man is a close family friend and was babysitting the 9-year-old and her two sisters while their mother was sick. >> these officers did an excellent job. this is not the conclusion we hoped for. we kept that hope that we would find her alive. also knowing in the back of our mind as time went on, it was going to be more and more difficult. hope begins to wane. they did an excellent job. >> police are not yet releasing a motive for the girl's killing. the suspect is being held without bond. >>> the company that owns sears and kmart stores are shutting doors for good at more than 100 locations. corporate officials blame luke warm holiday sales on top of an another difficult retail climate. no announcement yet on which stores will close or how soon. >>> there's a lost and found story that drips holiday spirit. mitch gilbert of colorado finds two unmarked envelopes at the las vegas airport.

this morning police say that mike plumadore told them yesterday where to find the body of aliahna lemmonr-old suspect ruben ray jurado is under arrest in the shooting of a soldier at his homecoming party. friday night christopher sullivan who served in afghanistan was shot during an argument at that party. sullivan is in critical condition and may be paralyzed from the neck down. >>> a historic discovery in the water off jupiter, florida. a world war ii plane was found lying on the bottom. look at that. >>> if you're not into staying in cookie cutter rooms and chain hotels when you travel, there are many other options. and some of them are cutting edge. some of them are even on the edge. travel editor peter greenburgh is here to show us some of the most unusual alternatives to the average hotel. i'm interested in this one, party. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is this jumbo stay concept? >> if you're going to stock holm there is actually a hotel room that's a convert ed 747. >> really? >> yes. now the bad news is it's only 25 dormitory rooms. they're not very expensive, $52 a nig

aliahna lemmon was found dead monday. >>> and breaking an nfl record is a breeze if you're drew brees that is, the quarterback for the new orleans saints set a new record for passing yards in a single season, a record held by dan marie know for the past 27 years. breeze threw for 307 yards, four touchdowns, setting the record with one mifinal nine-yard stri. no surprise the saints beat the falcons 45-16, taking home the nfc south title. dan marie know tweeted after the game "great job by a special player." that's class. >> they're both special players. by the way carl thank you for doing a good job the last couple of days. >> you're welcome. >> al is off this morning. we have stephanie abrams from the weather channel in. >> good to see you. airport delays are going to extend from the south all the way into the northeast. atlanta, charlotte, charleston, detroit, new york and boston. why, you ask? because of this whopper of a mess, rain and snow falling from the gulf coast, all the way into the great lakes and the northeast. there is the threat for severe weather stretching from virgini

police found the body of 9-year-old aliahna lemmon. ft. wayne investigators have taken her neighbor, a 39-year-old into custody. he was babysitting the girl friday before she disappeared. police are not saying where they found the remains or many other details. we know the possible cause of that christmas day fire that took the lives of three children and their grandparents. investigators believe it's possible that embers from the fireplace ashes likely started the fire at the million dollar mansion in connecticut. the children were daughters of calvin klein art director madonna badger. badger and one other person were inside at the time of the fire but managed to escape. reports just in from iran that an american c.i.a. agent is being put on trial today for alleged spying. arizona native amir hekmadi, a former marine has been accused of infiltrating iran's intelligence service. this is a photo of his passport provided by the iranian government. according to government, he was arrested last august. his family denies those claims saying he

michael plumador said he killed aliahna lemmon with a brick and then dismembered her.e than a dozen convicted sex offenders including the girl's own grandfather. >>> a lawsuit brought by the parents of phoebe prince has been settled for $225,000. she took her life after bullying in massachusetts. on tuesday civil rights activists forced the details of the year-old settlement to be released. >>> juliana rancik isn't letting her battle with breast cancer slow her down. she was back at the news desk two weeks after undergoing a successful double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. we'll talk to juliana live on friday. >>> a quick roundup of what has you talking online. an online privacy advocacy group is warning social media users what might be the wrong things to say. a watchdog says homeland security trolls facebook and twitter for terms including "collapse, infection and outbreak." if you use the words the dhs might monitor online activity and share its information with governments and law enforcement so be careful what you tweet. >>> sinead o'connor ended her 16-da