jeff hager has more on the damage it caused. >> well, the cause of the fire is under investigation. it appear that is the estimated damages to the home and the contents could be as much as $800,000. >> it looks like it was a lightning strike. they can't find anything else. >> reporter: fortunately, the homeowners and the three children were on vacation when the fire ravaged the home. the neighbor gave the victim's relatives their only clue as to how it started. >> he heard a bang and when he got up and looked, he saw a flame near the bedroom. he called 911 >> reporter: the fire spread quickly and it took the firefighters from several counties an hour and a half before they brought it under control. >> we've had them where they strike a chimney and it blows the chimney away from the house itself. this hit the roof. it looks like, well, once it's there, it's an open space in the attic. it just continues. it's an open space from one end to the other end of the dwelling. >> in a community where the neighbors help out neighbors, four young girls knocked on doors making sure no one was in

jeff hager spoke with her today and raising concerns about what happened this weekend. jeff. >> this was the first time michelle allowed her children to go to the beach without her and she wants this to be the last time any child drowns there. thousands of marylanders headed for the beaches on the fourth of july and when michelle's children were invited to go along with family as she worked that day, she finally gave her consent. >> kept begging, mom, please, please. i said okay, you can go. keep an eye on all of my babies. >> the family arrived early at sandy point state park and caution the children not to enter the water as they set up to spend the day there. when the young boy tossed one of their balls in the water, her six-year-old relatives ignored their pleas to wait for an adult to retrieve it. >> that's when he couldn't swim back. >> the children watched as he disappeared beneath the water's surface. by the time the other people arrived entered the water, forming a human chain to find him, it was too late. >> how long was he in the water before they found him? >

. >> reporter: in carroll county, jeff hager. >> pay cording to neighbors, the suspect dropped the boy off at the lorraine nursing center with a sheet of paper with the mom's number scrawled on it. he is unharmed. he was last seen driving a oldsmobile sedan. >>> a suspect is taunting police from his hideout. police said jorge landeros had a relationship with sue marcum, a prof professor -- professor. landeros was the sole beneficiary of her life insurance policy. evidence likes dna points to landeros who has refused to return to the united states. landeros sent emails to police inviting them to a brunch in mexico. landeros even corrects detective's dram mar in the. mails. >> i don't know if i characterize it as a game. i think he's a confident person, confident when he's talking to me. professor marcum's friends said he's confident. >> landeros said he wasn't in the u.s. when the professor was murdered. >>> the jury of your peers have fond you not guilty as to the charge contained in count one of the indictment, murder in the first degree. >> a verdict that has shocked many. a florida

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