. >> thomas leper jr. will be brought here. he's already been charged for setting fires near his neighborhood near mcclintock and chandler. chandler investigators swarmed this neighborhood. >> you know fact is stranger than fiction. >> reporter: larry wolf lives across the street. says everybody feel in danger. leper spoke out about the fires to abc15. >> really scared to be told be prepared to wake your children up out of bed. in the middle of the night because of a fire. >> reporter: from playing the victim to suspect number one. police say leper allegedly set fire to a fence lying next door to his home the very next night. >> the type of behavior that unusual when it comes to arsonists. >> leper is known as the mayor of the street. they even pitched in to help him when his property burned. >> he was telling me everything that happened. me and wife went to buy him a gift card so he could fence. >> reporter: police say they put surveillance on lepr. he admitted to leaving a note behind at one of the scenes. we knocked on his d

leper allegedly has uncontrollable urges to set fires. he admitted to setting an abandoned home on fire and his own fence on fire. >> you would hope that was not true, but real life is stranger than fiction. >>> what could possibly be so wrong about a bottle of hair spray? well a lot if you use it to set your exboyfriend's clothes on fire. they also said she cut up her ex's coach. texted that he would never see his kids again. thankfully those kids were found safe. >>> things are picking up along florida's coast as h -- hurricane matthew gets closer. >> we have completely lost power in this area. 123,000 just in this immediate area. above us. we're in a sheltered area and these palm trees are already leaning toward us. we're beginning to see the height of hurricane matthew. and what kind of punch it's really going to pack. here in vero beach this was expected to be ground zero. if there was going to be a direct hit it was going to be shifted back to the east. that's going to move that these people living in this area may not see the 130-m

leper jr. telling police he was coming from the pharmacy when start a fire. he pulled together twigs and leaves, put it next to a wood fence and lit it on fire. >> him crying on the tv saying oh my kids and, you know, reacting to like the fire like he was a victim of it. but he's causing victims to feel this way. i'm surprised he didn't care. >> reporter: leper told police that he came back to the scene of the fire to watch firefighters put out this blaze. he says it's going to take months to get everything back >>> an unsolved and violent attack in the middle of the day. there's been no arrests and we are now hoping for surveillance tape or maybe a suspect sketch. we hope that will be released soon. the parking lot of crackers cafe in tepl -- tempe is where a woman was robbed of her purse. >>> all of this happening southed earn. the owners said the horse let itself out of the pen and then tried to jump over the canal. un unfortunately that horse fell and spent the next 2-1/2 hours fighting for his life. it took a lot of volunteers to keep this horse alive. >

but now everyone is breathing a sigh of relief since 31-year- old thomas leper jr. allegedly confessed. >> some ways you feel a little bad for them. but those are things you need to you can't damage other people's property. >> reporter: leper told police he was coming home from the store when he was overcome with an urge to start a fire. he allegedly piled leaves together along a wooden fence in an alley and used the lighter to set the fire back in august. he also confessed to setting a series of other blazes one including a house. >> the rest of the community is at risk. everyone wondering if they're the ones. >> reporter: leper was arrested for setting fires when he was just 16 years old. >>> also in tempe police tell us they're close to putting together a sketch of the man who robbed and beat up a woman outside a crackers cafe near elliot and priest. they have also been outlooking for surveillance video from near by businesses. >>> two more arrests in our state tonight and this is the letter parents got after a school. pinol county sheriff's making the bust. poli

just one of the series of fires police say thomas leper jr. confessed to setting. the victims glad that he's behind bars. >> you know him crying on the tv saying, oh my kids. and felt you know, reacting to like the fire like he was a victim of it. but he's causing victims to feel this and i'm surprised he just didn't care. >>> we treed to get an interview with leper but are told he's still being processed in jail. >>> abc15 confirming the city council will vote on monday to ban ecigs inside city buildings and prohibit them outside city hall. >>> it's a problem we see too aufrb. cases of animal hoarding. it's estimated 2,000 new cases pop up every year across the to make it illegal to have 10 or more animals. a committee is going to consider the change next wednesday. >>> it's the video of the day in the valley and tonight, a woman is thankful after volunteers and first responders safely rescued a horse that slipped and fell into a canal and was unable to get out. >> this neighborhood, my neighbors are the best in the world. they're just wonderful caring people. >>

that's what thomas leper jr. blames it on. he left a note that said find me after one of the fires burned dangerously close to a home with a family the last fire was caddy corner to my home, sorry. >> reporter: during an interrogation, leper admitted he's struggled with his fire feelings for years. police say he watched firefighters work after the fires were set. investigators combed through the home searching for more clues and evidence he's facing more charges. beautiful afternoon here across the valley. we made it back up to 90 today. all afternoon long. they haven't produced any rain and they won't. take a look outside the sunset. just a little bit of daylight left. looking back to the west there at our queen creek cam. it's 87 in phoenix. 13percent humidity. mostly clear skies, low winds overnight tonight. it'll be late tomorrow night though before that happens so first we warm up. we're up to 96 tomorrow. keeping these clouds in the forecast mid-90s expected in tepl pee then we'll be w atching -- in tempe. then we'll be

but do we need a stronger leper -- upper lip when jobs come our way? >> it's over. cleveland is the city of champions once again. >> part of being a champion as accepting the hate and learning to take a punch. so with the cheap shot of the tired burning river clichi they exposed a lady tv crew and an outdated view of the city that by almost any measure had the best 2016 in america. and we are not done yet. as the champagne dries there and we went for friday night, come back with me 18 months. 2015 quest dropping confetti and boston globe columnist jan shaughnessy, took direct aim at what he thought was premature exasperation. in april he wrote "there open -- important because the team is dying and there hasn't been a team to make the city feel good about itself since want -- johnson was in the white house. a new white house occupant is imminent. and a new tone from shaughnessy. and introspective one after his this was a bad ending for a good team he wrote. the 2016 red sox underperformed madly in the post season. the same post season this dying city is living every

tom leper cried for the cameras talking about a fire at his neighbor's house. >> it was pretty scary. sorry. >> reporter: he had out of the house. >> it is really scary to be told that you need to be prepared to wake your children up out of bed in the middle of the night bus of a fire. >> reporter: it was everything a good story needed. one problem, the p.d. say his set that fire. investigators say he set at least half of the fires they're investigating in his neighborhood. he is the one who called 12 news to let us know about a community meeting with the police. arsonist. he was in the second row feats from the cops. even then they thought he might be their guy. >> at the very least, he is an investigative lead on the other fires. >> reporter: he set fire to another neighbor's house. the court papers show he confessed to the fire and says he used a is a vining filled with gasoline -- syringe filled with gasoline. channel leer p.d. says arsonists usually want the attention, but even they have never seen this before. >> they do tend to want they want to traditionally try to barner the

i will not have this leper enter my home. this is a guy who's going to absolutely destroy them. and they're going to ride the death train all the way down. >> and liz, when you look at that poll in texas, that tells you just how shaky republican campaigns are down ballot throughout the country. any of these battleground states. the senate campaigns in states like new hampshire, you look at that texas poll and you say this must mean there's even more strength in some other states than we realize. >> there hasn't, a democrat hasn't won statewide in texas since 1994. barack obama won nevada in 2008. he won in 2012, and now we're defending the senate seat there. so it's very smart of hillary clinton to be playing hard there, that's a seat we have to hold. but i do think it pour tends well for democrats. we need to fight hard, tooth and nail for every seat down the ticket. >> if she gets elected with a republican senate, she's just handcuffed. i don't know what she gets to accomplish at that point. thank you for joining us, really appreciate it. >>> coming up, for donald trump, nothi

he was slung out of favor when he wrote an photograph these people and the leper settlement on molokai. from a scientific point of view, and a sympathetic point of view. they were there for the fourth of july rodeo. onto the marquesas island, and here is the famous phonograph that when aboard the snark. in tahiti, they met a man named ernest allen called nature men. ofwas an early proportionate vegetarianism, socialism, and eventually runoff by the french, who got tired of his red loincloth and his red flag. you can see the tenderness of some of these photographs. and a samoanince princess. , and we was called bob can talk about him a little bit later. he is the model for the story. this photograph caused great consternation at mcmillan. can you guess why? it is not the naked savage. it is the fact that a white woman is in the same frame as a naked savage. we can talk about that in a bit. this was another photograph that mcmillan wish to exercise from the book. this young man is martin johnson, in all his glory -- an 18-year-old boy who managed to join the snark crew, and later became

liz: i think you referred to yourself as a leper child.ntolerance, you can't talk to them? >> the hypocrisy. everything is accepted in the art world. and it's accepted. but my beautiful flag artwork is not accepted because i am a traditionalist. liz: there was something involving a mural. can you tell us about that? >> recently. i'm promoting this envelope -- promote be this nfl blackout sunday. liz: what happened? >> somebody pray painted kaepernick across one of my beautiful flag murals. that's in rhode island on a vfw post. liz: will you come back with one your stories? >> yes. ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what me

"being an unknown femaleic is akin to being a leper. i mean, nobody wants you around." "i had a little bungalow on sunset boulevard. the club was there and i had bombed so badly in front of real people that the next day, i sat on the floor, cut all my material apart, the lines all apart and i sat in the middle of them, laid them all around me on the rug i realized the material was lousy. it wasn't the right material but i had to live with it because it was all i had." "and you have to go through the terrible part of being unknown. where people look at you really with almost hate in there eyest's like until you are important and in this case, known and important and rich, they don't want any part of you. they want something to look up want a leader. you have to be the leader. they don't think you've earned it until you're really known. you see once you're known, you walk out and get automatic applause and acceptance." "phyliss! straight ahead phyliss. phyliss do the same thing! phyliss!" "i did it with the magic of believing in myself. believe in yourself. in fact, one o

. >> from that situation, we've lepered what to do to prevent future fires from occurring. >> reporter: since the fire, berkeley and oakland built new firehouses in the hills. hydrant attachments were standardized, along with communication systems. but coffman says thick woods of non-native eucalyptus and pine trees still pose a hazard. >> those embers would catch on fire and be blown in the wind, which is happened 25 years ago. >> reporter: fema granted $5.6 million to east bay agencies to remove the eucalyptus trees, but last month the agency withdrew the funds after some homeowners filed a lawsuit. >> it's a question of when. the fuel is here, the winds come every fall, and all we need is a match to light it. >> all these houses are gone. >> reporter: among those fighting to keep the trees from being cut down is scott. >> there's this misconception that the trees started the fire and spread the fire. neither is true. >> reporter: at the base of the hills, there's a garden honoring those who lost their lives, including scott's mother. and though it has been 25 years since the flames,

well, the same jesus that walked down the streets of capernaum, healed the sick, cleansed the lepers, raised the dead, told peter where the fish was that had money in his mouth, is still working today in the lives of people. these testimonies attest to that fact! now, while i was walking down the streets, while we were walking down the i could feel the presence and the power of jesus in such an unusual way and i felt directed by the holy spirit to bring part of these streets back to you. and i call this the revelation stone. these are the stones that jesus passed everyday. he walked on the floor, not once but time and time again across this stone. and liz, i felt such power, i felt the presence of jesus all around me as i was walking. and i believe god gave me some of the most amazing instructions, how to use this revelation stone to get you to the right place at the right time to see miracles. you see, jacob slept on a stone and that's when god gave him the dream, the vision and that's exactly what god is going to do for you you're going to see doors begin to open up, miracle money,

problems that are plaguing syria and we are working urgently to end the violence in syria and in a leper between diplomatic procedures. there is an important role for them to play in terms of leading a counter kiesel account kiesel coalition and those efforts have moved aggressively to rollback territory that they previously controlled. to provide pressure center operating inside of syria. the department of defense announced earlier this week that al qaeda leader in syria was the target of a military strike. .. >> just briefly, 44 afghan troops were in the united states for military training -- [inaudible] were talk into the white house about questions of the training and security given that they were training with the doj. >> i cannot think of any individual cases but i would refer you to the department of defense for more information. >> i just want to redo something from the fbi sources. the fbi has been illegally taking information for years. when they rated the property they found thousands of pages of classified documents, hundreds of thumb drives, hard drives, dozens of computers