abc's josh haskell is following the investigation and has the latest. >> reporter: john ladue sits in a juvenile detention center after police recovered explosives, guns, and ammunition they say belonged to him, to be used in an attack in the next few weeks. >> during his interview with officers, ladue revealed his plan was to kill his family members, start a diversionary fire in rural waseca to distract first responders, and travel to the waseca junior high school. >> reporter: there, authorities say ladue planned to detonate the prepared bombs, allegedly manufactured in a storage locker at this facility, where the teen was taken into custody tuesday night after a citizen saw him walk inside the unit and close the door. >> officers observed materials in the storage locker which were consistent with bombmaking, including a pressure cooker, pyrotechnic chemicals, steel ball bearings and gun powder. >> reporter: and at his home, police found that 180-page notebook. motive unclear, but plot laid out. an attack, police say, john ladue didn't expect to survive. >> the members of the waseca

abc's josh haskell has the story. >> getting up is optional. samuel frappier had to spend tuesday night here in 30 degree temperatures without the proper clothing or shoes, too steep to move. >> i was stuck. i can't go up. i can't go down. i'm stuck here. i don't know what to do. >> reporter: a 28-member rescue team was sent to the 13,000 foot park of longs peak early wednesday, but the snow-covered peaks and melting ice proved difficult. communicating with frappier by cell phone, the rescuers brought in helicopters to assist. >> it was just turning around and never come back and 30 minutes later he came back but never got too close. so i wasn't sure if they wanted to help me. >> reporter: frappier, who's from quebec, canada, was taken to a local hospital and is in good condition. he was hiking with a friend when they were split up in a place the national park service says is meant for experienced mountaineers. >> he is lucky to be alive. he came down through the notch in an extremely -- it's so hard in pictures and even in my words to describe

josh haskell, abc news, brentwood, new hampshire. >> so disturbing, right? >> really is.n active situation going on, do you put it on live television for all to see? you never know what will happen and this is a perfect example of a nightmare situation. >> sure is. >> man. >> all right. the investigation continuing this morning in that hot air balloon accident in virginia that left three people dead. the balloon hit a power line on friday and burst in to flames. it killed the pilot and two women's basketball coaches from the university of richmond. the governor of virginia said the pilot may not have had any way of knowing the power line was there. >> they didn't give me anything more than it was flying low and hit a power line. apparently wasn't on the map that the pilot was looking at or not looking at, but we don't know for sure. >> the ntsb is calling for strict regulations, but the hot air balloon industry is calling the recommendations unnecessary federal oversight. >>> "american idol" star clay aiken is suspending all campaign activities in the wake of his opponent

josh haskell, abc news, new york. >>> all right.e upside down for san diego county. at least nine separate fires erupted on tuesday raising suspicions that at least some may have been set on purpose. firefighters wrestled several of those in to submission and in the smoky embers of one fire they found a badly burned body. the fire in san marcos that roared back yesterday sending flames over the dry hillsides devouring just about everything in the path. it reduced visibility on the roads and highways. schools and parks across the county have been shut down and the flare-up triggered 18,000 new evacuations. >> scared to see it come over the mountain right there. we were here in 2007. feel really sad for all of the people who lost their houses. it's really sad. >> reporter: the fires destroyed at least eight homes and one apartment complex, but others are still at risk. >>> the fierce winds that fueled the fires also created a striking phenomena inside the flames. the swirls tons of fires are called firenados or fire swirls and can str

josh haskell, abc news, new york. >> he's such an impressive guy, right? >> wow!jected. >> here they are. he passed over, harvard, princeton, brown, cornell, dartmouth, columbia and the university of pennsylvania. >> passed them over. >> sorry. not going to come. when i was accepted in to all eight ivy leagues, i passed over all of them. >> community college. >> i went to hofstra university. a couple of steps over community college. it's a great school. >> my sister went to hofstra. >> there you go. how about you? >> i went to nyu. i wanted to live in new york city. >> only reason. >> and they gave me a lot of money too, for real. >>> all things mysterious on this "throwback thursday." >> what happened on this week in 1993 that sparked a frenzy to find a monster? you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our >>> all right. we are venturing into the spooky side for "throwback thursday." >> it was this week 81 years ago the first modern sighting of the loch ness monster took place. the news broke in the local newspape

abc's josh haskell is following the investigation. >> reporter: john la due sits in a juvenile detentioniew with officers, ladue revealed his plan was to kill his family members, start a diversionary fire to detract first responders and travel to the waseca junior high school. >> reporter: there authorities say he planned to detonate prepared bombs allegedly manufactured in a storage locker at this facility where the teen was taken into custody on tuesday night after a citizen saw him walk inside the unit and close the door. >> officers observed materials in the storage locker, which were consistent with bomb making, including a pressure cooker, pyrotechnic chemicals, steel ball bearings and gunpowder. >> reporter: at his home, police found that 180-page notebook. motive unclear but plot laid out. an attack, police say, john ladue didn't expect to survive. >> the members of the waseca public schools community are deeply saddened and disturbed at the arrest of one of our students. the information has been revealed in the case is that we have escaped what could have been a horrific experie