catherine heenan is here with the story.catherine? egypt seems to be unraveling as the world watches. more than 6-thousand people have been killed -- and thousands wounded. a real question now -- is the u.s. on the verge of allies in the middle east? the death toll is staggering. hundreds of bodies lined up in buildings.wrapped in sheets. wednesday's violence began when police tried to clear two protest camps in cairo. housing islamist protestors who want mohammed morsi reinstated as president. in the clashes that followed.government buildings, like this one, were torched. cameras caught the moment a van packed with security officers went off a bridge. most or all of them were killed. among those killed in recent fighting. a young journalist named habiba ahmed. and a british photographer - mick deane. after being briefed by his security advisers. in his martha's vineyard

and catherine heenan has more information? >> catherine: if you are just joining us this grass fire began on near marigold drive, around 3:40 and it spread, quickly! the ground crews are working quickly you speaking about two, now, five homes have been burned. the police have said that other structures are threatened. again, a densely packed neighborhood and they are saying that many homes are impacted with these flames. they are watching the hot embers, and being blown by the strong winds. >> this started as a grass fire and the speed that has started from these home to home is significant it is a densely populated area. with a shopping center, and fearful high-school is not for. fairfield-high school is not far. again, this is just east of interstate-80. it seems that the fire spread quickly from one house, to the other. note, these temperatures are very warmer. and this is going to be a historic the pad fire season. we can see this right in front of our eyes with a historic fire bad fire season. just a small grass fire. >> f

but first, catherine heenan >> catherine: is here. to show us how the big rig fire played out this morning. >> catherine: let's look at the scene. this is the view from down below the big rig.as it was still burning. this is westbound 80 - right before the 5th street off- ramp.in downtown san >> catherine: this was such a mess.it might have been 'worse' than a bart strike.in terms of traffic on the bay bridge. >> pam: >> pam: because of a flat tire about 5:45 a-m. he pulled over to the right shoulder and got out -- and spotted smoke coming from the engine. fortunately - he ran away from the truck - because only a short time later -- it was engulfed in flames. he was not injured - and the c-h-p calls him 'very the truck had been hauling sushi, rice, vinegar and destroyed. two and three lanes of westbound 80 were closed for hours. let's give you a look at the aftermath. >> catherine: the shell of the truck. it was so badly burned.there's not much left.and the c-h-p says it may never be known why that engine caught fire. pam? >> pam: a l

catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: the white house says there's no doubt that president bashar assad'snt used chemical weapons outside damascus august 21st. killing and injuring hundreds of people.including children. now a senior defense dept. official tells cnn a strike could be carried out 'within several days.' britain's prime minister is on board and considering options. france's president is promising punishment. syria's foreign minister meantime held a news conference denying everything today. saying syria will defend itself. warships carrying cruise missiles have already moved into the region. the u.s. says there will be no boots on the ground in syria. and insists the military action is not about getting rid of president assad. the use of chemical weapons. >> pam: stay with us. [ male announcer ] at sizzler... it's back for a limited time! fire grilled steak and golden all-you-can-eat shrimp for an incredible $9.99! only at sizzler! >> miley cyrus isn't a bit sorry. even in the face of a massive blow back from her raunchy performance at the mtv video music awards. critics. this

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. >> good evening, i'm catherine heenan. tonight, snake scammers using a very unusual burglary tactic. kron 4's justine waldman has the details. >> reporter: here is the sketch of who police are calling the snake scammer. a hispanic woman, 5' 6'', with blond or light brown hair and a lip piercing. police tell kron 4 she wears a uniform of khaki clothes and work boots. on her shirt is a patch that says animal control and the name al. but she is not at your house to get rid of snakes. police tell kron 4 she is there to steal your jewelry and money. >> it is like the scam with utility workers. there is an urgency because the snakes are supposedly loose in the neighborhood and people have a natural fear of snakes. >> reporter: the suspect says snakes are on the loose and she needs to set traps in your backyard to catch them. she then, police say, distracts the victims outside for about 30 minutes an then the other suspects come in and steal your stuff. >> in either case, the violation they feel for having their house entered, yo

kron 4's catherine heenan reports. >> michelle seemed to need a lot of hugs to get through the day.ut experts have said all along that if she 'coul would help her on the road to recovery. the other two victims had relatives speak for them at the hearing. for the first time. we're seeing chilling images from inside ariel castro's home. these were shown in court today. some of them.very graphic. i i'll ahoy this here is a dirty mattress.with rusty chains on it. it was in the room that gina shared. perhaps the most disturbing image is from the basement. this white pole is where castro chained the girls when he raped them. and castro apparently made them wear this motorcycle helmet while he raped them in various ways. a wig was shown today in court.used as a disguise during the rare times the girls saw sunlight. doors in the homes were locked from the outside.and rigged with a make-shift alarm system. and a reminder that amanda berry raised a child in that home. kid's pictures adorning one wall of a bedroom. and then a letter that castro wrote.saying.the bottom line is, i am a sexual pr

. >> pam: catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: experts are already debating whether this was a healthy outlet for hannah anderson. or just plain strange. goingshe posted several photos of herself. including photos with her cat. the manicure she just got. and the note she says she wrote to her mother and younger brother - killed by abductor james dimaggio. >> catherine: it says."in the clouds i'll meet you again." >> catherine: and in general.the 16-year-old does not seem upset. some question the wisdom of the online posts. >> "this is a 16-year-old who's totally traumatized, she's in a state of trauma and so she's not thinking. sometimes in a numb state you do things that you don't really consider the consequences." >> catherine: hannah also answered questions from strangers. including - did you want to go with dimaggio? no - not at all. why didn't you run? he would have killed me. >> catherine: why didn't you tell your parents he creeped you out? in part, he was my dad's best friend and i didn't want to ruin anything between them. >> catherine: she shed new light on the night she was

catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: chris lane had just come back from a visit to his native australiahis american girlfriend. the 22-year-old - a promising athlete - was jogging in the small oklahoma town of duncan friday. when he was shot in the back - and left to die these are the suspects' mug shots. two of them have been charged as adults with first-degree murder. >> catherine: 15-year-old james edwards. and 16-year-old chancey luna. 17-year-old michael jones faces lesser charges, including being an accessory after the fact. >> catherine: one report says the teenagers were bored -- and 'tired of practicing on animals' -- when they decided to kill someone. police say the boys were keeping a log of their crimes on facebook pages. the suspects posing with guns.and stacks of cash. one posting by james edwards referred to it being 'time to take lives.' this - just a couple of days before chris lane was killed. people in australia are outraged. one former political leader suggesting that australians boycott the u.s. until congress gets the message about gun control. >> catherine: chris'

. >> pam: catherine heenan explains why the decision did not come as much of a surprise. >> catherineent chose the tonight show to express his telling host jay leno. "there have been times where they slip back into cold war thinking and a cold war continually say to them and what i say to president putin, that's the past." >> catherine: this morning white house press secretary jay carney issued an official official statement, saying, "we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda." >> catherine: the u=s is not happy with record, violations of arms treaties, for barring and for its anti-homosexuality laws. >> catherine: and the white house statement said russian's disappointing decision to grant temporary asylum to edward snowden was also a factor. president obama will attend a g20 conference in saint petersburg next month. but instead of flying on to moscow to meet with president putin afterwards, he will go to sweden instead. >> jacqueline: we do see the upper 70's and livermore to that. 74 in sunnyvale and san jose.

plus -- why some bay area guests are going to have to >> catherine: i'm catherine heenan. right now. >>snakes in the grass taking human form in the bay area. what you need to know about your property of snakes. but secretly planning to sink their fangs into your >> catherine: the so-called snake scammers are targeting unsuspecting and south bay. using an unusual tactic.. >> catherine: >> catherine: kron 4's justine waldman is live in belmont. with believed to be behind the burglaries. justine? >> reporter:the latest snake scam burglaries may have beenbut these suspects are believed to have struck several other bay area communities. police say the susects also victimized residents in union city, burlingame, san mateo, hillsborough, milbrae and fremont. investigators say the burglaries styles are similar in all these incidents. thieves preying on people's fear of snakes. police >> reporter: tell kron 4 news the she is there to steal your money and jury. >> is like a big expansion where it involves utility workers there's an urgency because the snakes are loose in the neighbor

catherine heenan reports. the death toll is staggering. hundreds of bodies lined up in buildings.wrapped in sheets. wednesday's violence began when police tried to clear two protest camps in cairo. housing islamist protestors who want mohammed morsi reinstated as president. in the clashes that followed.government buildings, like this one, were torched. cameras caught the moment a van packed with security officers went off a bridge. most or all of them were killed. among those killed in recent fighting. a young journalist named and a british photographer - mick deane. after being briefed by his security advisers. president obama took a break in his martha's vineyard vacation. to comment. >> president obama states that the u.s. strongly condemns violence against civilians appeared >> in a move seen as a safe, middle-ground reaction - the president announced that the u.s. has cancelled a joint military exercise with egypt. what he hasn't addressed yet -- whether billions of dollars in aid will continue as scheduled. as for why the u.s. should

kron 4's catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: sources say there's evidence of a terror threat that's so signigicant. a rare global alert is out for all american travelers. with the fear that something could happen in the next few days. the bulletin from the state department came less than a day after the dept. announced that it was closing many american diplomatic missions through at least sunday. 21 consulates and embassies in all. most of them here in the middle east, including yemen, where the plot may be coming from. also included - egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, iraq and libya. >> it is my understanding that it is linked to the al queda and the threat is in the middle east and central asia. >> pelosi: now that it is in the public domain that travel will be discouraged. >> catherine: there are few details - but sources say there is credible information that al qaida might be plotting an attack soon. security at u-s embassies worldwide has been increased since the attack in libya. and it's getting even tighter. the state dept. bulletin does not advise against travel to any particula

. >> pam: tonight catherine heenan takes us through the strange new twist. in a tragic story. crackle crackle >> catherine: a burning building with the bodies of ethan anderson and his mother >> catherine: dimaggio left that behind as well as a life insurance policy worth more than 100=thousand dollars. the beneficiary: the paternal grandmother of his kidnap victim, hannah anderson. >> catherine: now dimaggio's sister lori is requesting *dna samples from both hannah. and from ethan's remains. a family friend says she wants to know if jim was actually the children's biological father. >>"there has been a lot of rumors that jim might be the father of either or both children. we find it very strange that he has left all this money without any explanation. it states specifically that he didn't want to give it to either parent cause he didn't trust them." >> catherine: in a cnn interview while hannah was still missing. anderson's father brett, said dimaggion was a platonic friend to the anderson family, who called him "uncle jim" >>"he basically became part of our family. we were ju

. >> pam: catherine heenan tells us what happened at the start of his court martial today. sudden we just hear 'allah hu akbar' somewhere and just, bow! bow! shooting everywhere." former soldier mick engnell >> catherine: was in this processing center when nidal began shooting. >> catherine: floor. >>"then all of a i saw a laser come across my eyes, and i looked over and saw him pointing a gun at me.and right at that time i tried shifting over. and it just felt like a baseball bat hit me right on the side of my neck and then blood went everywhere." >> catherine: for other victims the physical scars are fading, unseen injuries linger. >>"since the shooting, i don't know what happened, but my short term memory is just non-existent." >> catherine: 42-year-old hasan is himself paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by army civilian police. >> catherine: he is representing himself and can cross-examine his alleged victims. >> catherine: in his opening statement, he said quote. "the evidence will clearly show that i am the shooter." >> catherine: then he added, "we are imp

as catherine heenan reports. the public may never know exactly what happened. >> catherine: monday night's game between the braves and the phillies had just started after a 2-hour rain delay. 30-year-old ronald homer jr. had been on the phone with his mother. telling her about the rain delay.ending the call by telling her he loved her. and he was going to go find his seat. but somehow.before that happened. homer fell from a fourth- level smoking area into a parking lot for braves players. it happened in this area.there were no cameras. >> he fell from the upper level platform to secure a level below the approximately about 65 ft.. >> pam: he had been at the game with a friend. >> catherine: but no one seems to have seen how the fall happened. police don't suspect foul play. and witnesses hadn't seen anyone else standing near homer. he was unconscious and wasn't breathing when paramedics arrived.he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. this is a photo of homer with his girlfriend. friends and family say the la

kron4's catherine heenan reports. >> sources say there is if there carob threat so significant that thereg to all american travelers appeared >> the state department announced that it was closing many american diplomatic missions through sunday appeared >> 21 consulates and all will be closed and to the one in yemen where the plot and brett may be coming from pierre >> it is my understanding that this is an out qaeda linked tariff threat state's one state department official appeared >> now that it is in the public domain the embassies will be closed with a travel alert for americans traveling abroad. >> there are as few details but forces say there is credible information that out paid the is splicing a news terrorist threat appeared >> that out caifa tuesdaal qaeda new terror for rent. >> i qaeda is planning a new terror for rent for americans traveling around the world. >> will be back after the break on we're new to town.ells. welcome to monroe. so you can move more effortlessly... we want to open a new account: checking and savings. well we can help with that. we tend to do a lot of

catherine heenan is here to interview since she was rescued in idaho 12 days ago.e of her at a fundraiser and read her answers to online questioners. now hannah anderson is talking about how she has changed since her ordeal. >>in the beginning i was a victim, but now knowing everyone out there is helping me, i consider myself a survivor instead on august fourth hannah was kidnapped by family friend james dimaggio. police would later find the bodies of her mother and brother at dimaggio's burned home. hannah explained why she exchanged as many as 13 text messages with dimaggio on the day of the kidnapping they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn't know the address or what -- like where i was, so i had to tell him the address and tell him that i was going to be in the gym and not in she also explained why her at dimaggio's cabin. the letters were from like a year ago when me and my mom weren't getting along. he would tell me how to deal with it. he'd help me through it. they weren't anything bad, they were just to help me through tough

catherine heenan reports.xperts are already debating whether this was a healthy outlet for hannah anderson. or just plain strange. going on the site ask-fm. she posted several photos of herself. including photos with her cat. the manicure she just got. and the note she says she wrote to her mother and younger brother - killed by abductor james dimaggio. it says."in the clouds i'll meet you again." hmm and in general.the 16-year- old does not seem upset. some question the wisdom of the online posts. caught hamas"this is a 16- year-old who's totally traumatized, she's in a state of trauma and so she's not thinking. sometimes in a numb state you do things that you don't really consider the consequences." hannah also answered questions from strangers. including - did you want to go with dimaggio? no - not at all. why didn't you run? he would have killed me. why didn't you tell your parents he creeped you out? in part, he was my dad's best friend and i didn't want to ruin anything between them. she shed new light o

catherine heenan tells us what happened at the start of his trial today. >> catherine: the fort hoodgs happened nearly four years ago at fort hood, texas. 13 people died. 32 others were injured -- after an army major due to deploy to afghanistan suddenly opened fire on his >>"all of a sudden we just somewhere and just, bow! bow! shooting everywhere." >> catherine: former soldier mick engnell was in this processing center when nidal began shooting. >> catherine: floor. >>"then all of a i saw a laser come across my eyes, and i looked over and saw him pointing a gun at me.and right at that time i tried shifting over. and it just felt like a baseball bat hit me right on the side of my neck and then blood went everywhere." >> catherine: for other victims the physical scars are fading, unseen injuries linger. >>"since the shooting, i don't know what happened, but my short term memory is just non-existent." >> catherine: 42-year-old hasan is himself paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by army civilian police. >> catherine: he is representing himself and can cross-examine his alle

. >> pam: catherine heenan is here with that story. catherine?>> catherine: asked for privacy this week.so hannah can heal in peace. so some are surprised that the teenager who was kidnapped by a family friend who murdered her family -- is talking and answering questions --- on social media. experts are already debating >> catherine: whether this was a healthy outlet for hannah anderson. or just plain strange. going on the site ask-fm. she posted several photos of herself. including photos with her cat. the manicure she just got. and the note she says she wrote to her mother and younger brother - killed by abductor james dimaggio. it says."in the clouds i'll meet you again." >> catherine: and in general.the 16-year-old does not seem upset. >> catherine: the online posts. "this is a 16-year-old who's totally traumatized, she's in a state of trauma and so she's not thinking. sometimes in a numb state you do things that you don't really consider the consequences." >> catherine: hannah also answered questions from strangers. including - did you want

catherine heenan is here with the reason behind the rare political snub. >> catherine: the problem isn'trd snowden. russia's decision to grant asylum to the rogue nsa analyst is just the latest in a range of disputes between moscow and washington. >> catherine: the president chose the tonight show to express his displeasure with russia, >>"there have been times where they slip back into cold war thinking and a cold war mentality. and what i continually say to them and what i say to president putin, that's the past." >> pam: >> catherine: this morning white house press secretary jay carney issued an official official statement, saying, "we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda." >> catherine: the u=s is not happy with russia's support for syria's president, its human rights record, violations of arms treaties, for barring american couples from adopting russian children and for its anti- homosexuality laws. >> catherine: and the white house statement said russian's disappointing decision to grant temporary asylum to e

kron four's catherine heenan tells us about the first interview. a victim, but now knowing everyone out there is helping me, i consider myself a survivor instead >> on august fourth hannah was kidnapped by family friend james dimaggio. police would later find the bodies of her mother and brother at dimaggio's burned home. hannah explained why she exchanged as many as 13 text messages with dimaggio on the day of the kidnapping >> they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn't know the address or what -- like where i was, so i had to tell him the address and tell him that i was going to be in the gym and not in >> she also explained why police ffound letters from her at dimaggio's cabin. >> the letters were from like a year ago when me and my mom weren't getting along. he would tell me how to deal with it. he'd help me through it. they weren't anything bad, they were just to help me through tough times. >> nearly a week after the alleged kidnapping -- horseback riders spotted hannah and dimaggio in the idaho wilderness. di