. >> a defection was about to shake jonestown to its core. deborah leyton blakey, 25-year-old member of the temple's innermost circle, had escaped from guyana and she was going public. >> it took me six weeks to plan it. i told nobody, not even the embassy, until the day i knew i was to leave. you can't trust anybody at that point. >> he said she's going to spread lies. the next thing you know, the fbi, cia, all of them will be here on us. and my god, they will treat us worse than they did the jews in the concentration camps. >> jim had a pathological obsession with anybody being taken away from his fold. it made him completely crazy. so when debbie defected she brought jim to a new place of complete and total paranoia. >> blakey had sworn out a stunning 11-page affidavit testifying to temple abuses. and she took it to the press. >> she was alleging very serious things about conditions in jonestown, about guns being in jonestown and about mass suicide rehearsals. and that was taking the story to another level. >> everyone stood in a line, wen

and that is a lie, pure and simple. >> the massacre went beyond the jonestown gate. seven miles away, on a dirt airstrip, five more people, including a u.s. congressman and three newsmen, lay dead. murdered by gunmen from the temple. >> all of a sudden i heard pop, pop, pop, pop, and they were coming at us, and they were shooting people. >> never been before, and never since, a member of congress assassinated in the line of duty. he's the first and only one. >> three decades later, the madness of those few hours, the mayhem of mass murder and suicide, still defies comprehension. >> this wasn't some group of zombies who followed a man down to the jungles of guyana and killed themselves. >> i've met people that have said, not me, i would never have been in a situation like that. i always say to them, and it's true, you know what? they were people just like you. same position in society. looked like you. that were there. ♪ we're a happy family yes we are ♪ >> 913 people died there. you know, and for every one of them there was a story. >> when i walked out of jonestown

and back in jonestown, jim jones is calling for a revolutionary suicide, where we are all going to killstatement to the world. >> i first flew into jonestown last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence. nothing living was around. jonestown last evening was a city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide poison. it had been mixed with kool-aid. it killed quickly, within five minutes. >> we will never know how many people voluntarily drank the poison. but other people were either coerced, brainwashed or took it against their will. they were murdered. >> i was lifted into this medevac plane, and i was so grateful. >> good evening. the searching american soldiers have finished counting the bodies in jonestown, guyana. 910 died in the poison ritual of the people's temple last week. >> this was americans killing other americans and themselves. in its own interest for its own well-being. this nation will have to find out why. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adul

involved in the crash and got towed or you know somebody who was in this crash, you want to contact the jonestown barracks to get the tow location. again, that's according to state police. >>> in philadelphia firefighters are dealing with ice as they are trying to get control of the house fire in north philly. nbc 10 on the street early this morning firefighters had ice on their coats, equipment. they had to pour ice on the ground to make sure they didn't slip. one person inside the house at the time of this fire made it safely. >>> cool temperatures making it difficult for firefighters trying to put out hot spots at the scene of the six-alarm blaze in frankford. skyforce 10 over this auto body shop a few hours ago. you can see it's so cold ice frozen to the building and even the lad are on the fire truck. this is what the fire looked like yesterday right around this time at 11:00 in the morning. investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the blaze that injured people including a firefighter. nbc 10 on griscom street as crews spent several hours battling the flames. the fire started at 1

the american red cross set up warming shelters at the jonestown fire hall for some uninjured motorists who were stranded. they were able to get food and transportation to hotels. a man is dead after being hit by a train in pittsylvania county. after nine saturday morning. gretna police say 70 year old walter davis was crossing the train tracks when he was hit by a norfolk southern train. investigation. a virginia man saves a life following a car crash in henrico county. 65 year old meredith conyers senior says he was on his to work around four saturday morning when he noticed a car engulfed in smoke. conyers says his first instinct was to get out and see if anyone was in the car ... and was surprised a man was inside screaming for help. crews extinguished the blaze and transported the driver to the hospital. after speaking with police... conyers continued on to work for the day. it's been four years since the prison system called rashad younger not by name .. but as inmate number 1438116. this is the only mugshot .. he has to show for years behind wsls ten's lindsey ward tell's the sto

this is near jonestown. a driver did stop. they're trying to find out if there were other drivers who >>> the dangers of drinking and driver. this woman, athina munoz, is facing charges of dui. she hit and killed two people on a motorcycle while driving drunk. the victims are identified as 58-year-old and his 56-year-old wife, bryan and jacquie lehner. >>> overnight one person was injured while being hit by a `ight rain trail. it happened at the station on colorado avenue. the person will recover but it's still not clear exactly how they were hit. >>> scary moments at subway when a car slammed into the restaurant yesterday afternoon. police say one person ran from the crash scene. fortunately no one was hurt and there isn't much structural damage to that building. >>> it is now 7:35. in park county the community is from the shooting last week that killed a sheriff's deputy. corporal nate carrigan was shot %- and killed while serving an eviction notice. community members say the flags represent the sacrifice corporal carrigan m

that there may be another jonestown or another waco. >> reporter: ron rohbock, who says he lost a golden opportunity to rescue his daughter from a grim future, still takes an optimistic view of the changes he sees taking place here. an influx of non-flds members, the reopening of the local public school, even a fast food restaurant. so, where is this situation heading? >> as far as i am concerned, given ten years, it's going to normalize to some degree. >> reporter: charlene jeffs, now divorced from lyle, is simply grateful for the chance to bring her children to the outside, even though their transition, too, has been bumpy. on the first day of her daughter's freedom, charlene sent us this home video. that's her daughter suzie, no longer in danger of being subjected to the alleged seed bearer ceremony, but avoiding the camera and closing the door on her mom. still love you anyway. >> reporter: at sabrina's home, there are bold, new beginnings. like the first day of school -- ever. for all of her children. and after three months together, the prairie dresses and judgemental scowls have v