lisa baker was charged for obstruction of justice.ke ransom note. >>> federal prosecutors say the shut down the largest fraud ring. 73 people were arrested in new york and l.a. and in new mexico, georgia, and ohio. prosecutors say they were part of a vast armenian gang that cost medicare $164 million by stealing identities of patients and doctors and by setting up phantom clinics in 25 states. >>> lenders seized more u.s. homes this summer than in any three month stretch since the housing market begin to bust back in 2006. that is according to figures released overnight. >> but some of the foreclosures may be challenged in court because of faulty paperwork. t.j. winick is joining us. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning. for thousands of homeowners who lost their homes during the recession the pain was bad enough. now word that many of the properties may have been foreclosed on illegally. with the help of a locksmith, the balanos family reentered their former california home. the house was foreclosed on two months ago when the

. >> this morning police obtained a warrant for lisa baker, for felon obstruction of justice. family, we cannot confirm that anyone has seen her within the last month. >> search dogs reportedly detected the smell of human remains on two cars at the baker home. police are asking witnesses who may have seen her within the last month to step forward. >>> in washington state, police are trying to figure out what led to a number of students, mostly women, to become violently ill and unconscious. nine students were hospitalized. a female student who attended the party came forward to give her account of the night. >> it was the scariest thing. like having a girl fall limp in my arms. at that point i looked up and there was seriously ten girls laying down. >> kristin welker is in washington with more details. >> reporter: tamron, local police will have a heavy presence on this quiet campus as they try to get to the bottom of what happened. school officials will launch their own investigation. they say even though the party took place off campus, students who attended could be punishe

. >>> while the search continues for a missing 10-year-old girl, lisa baker is accused of obstructing justice with a fake ransom note. no one outside of her household has seen the girl in a month. the girl's father hasn't been ruled out as a suspect. police are now focusing on. >>> she disappeared on her way to meet her lover at a concert. the heated phone calls between her and her husband who now stands accused. >> turmoil over the affair was on display in court as played phone calls. >> you know what, you need a make a decision. >> about what? >> about us, that's what you need to do. >> oh, i think i have. >> have you? >> you just don't want to listen to it. >> denis is accused of murdering tracy when she was on her way to meet her lover at a concert. her body was never found but police did see her car on surveillance video at a molts. tracy was angry her husband tried to get a restraining order against her lover. >> i hate your guts for that. this is why i don't feel a need to try to mend this because i don't think there is any mending of it. >> tracy accused dennis of being too co

her step-mother, lisa baker. she faces felony obstruction of justice charges in relation to this case. but that is only one of many complications facing north carolina authorities. tonight, yunji de nies has our report. >> reporter: it began the way these stories sadly so often do. a missing little girl, her smiling face sent in amber alerts and a father's desperate plea for help. >> i just hope i can get my dau daughter back. i miss her so much. >> reporter: but from the beginning, something different add up. and this husband seemed to implicate his wife. do you think your wife was any way involved in your daughter's disappearance? >> i'm not sure. i'd like to think no. because that's my wife. but -- until they've completed their invest game, i can't honestly say. >> reporter: the couple told police they last saw their daughter asleep in the early hours of saturday morning. the next day at 2:00, baker says his wife panicked. >> i came back to do some work in the yard with one of our pieces of equipment and her m

. >> reporter: in court, lisa baker, zohra's stepmom, appeared before a judge with two attorneys at heris charged with obstruction of justice after police say she admitted to writing a ransom note the day the girl was reported missing. the judge appointed scott riley to represent her. he says lisa baker feels she is being railroaded by police. >> she says she is not a killer had nothing to do with this whatsoever, that she has tried to cooperate with the police. that she loves her daughter. >> reporter: police released very little information. but we could see them at several locations back in burke county north of morganton. running down possible leads. like a call from this woman who smelled something outside her home. >> yes, i want them to find it. i am very concerned about her. we have smelled it since sunday. it was real bad last night. >> reporter: police say they didn't find anything around the home. the area is less than a mile from where officers conducted a massive search for zohra. a property where police say her father had access to a wood chipper. just down the road from w

her father says it is possible that lisa baker could have been involved with the appearance. she has been arrested and charged with a dozen of and related crimes. -- of on related crimes. >> the scandal at the opera winfrey's will happen soon after opening the school. prosecutors accused the defendant tried to kiss and fondles six girls at the school in 2007. >> a man landed in a tree more than 50 feet in the air and was stuck there for about two hours before he was rescued. it was not his first jump, either, although, it appears he was ok. that is not a good day. >> that is why do not get too far off the ground. are serving to fall already. >> they are starting to change color. maybe we will get a brighter, more vibrant fall here. but if they fall off, they will not change color anymore. it definitely felt like summer today. this one area of showers, we will keep an eye on that. then across toward new jersey, we will keep an eye on that. in the meantime, let's go to weatherbug and talk about what is happening there. this is a shot of what is happening in frederick. a pretty

lisa baker showed no emotion as the judge instructed she could be sentenced 30 months.tep daughter survived bone cancer but lost a leg. she was reported missing this weekend. no one is charged as a suspect in the disappearance. police did arrest the stepmother for trying to throw off investigators with a fake ransom note. analyst clint van zant is a former fbi profiler. the authorities believe zahra was murdered and they have a lot of evidence to go on. is charging her with obstruction of justice just part of what they do to keep her under pressure and in custody? >> yeah. i think that's what they're trying to do right now is just keep her locked up while this investigation goes on. of course, the big thing, contessa, number one, to try to find the little girl alive but the police believe it's a homicide. we know that, for example, search dogs, cadaver dogs hit on two vehicles used by her biological father and her stepmother and, contessa, it gets far worse. there's a report that cadaver dogs hit on a mulch pile and on a woodchiper. i mean, that's taken a terrible page

. >> lisa baker is in police custody charged in half a dozen unrelated crimes. >>> in washington state are trying to figure out what got dozens of central washington university students sick at an off campus party. as many as 50 underaged people were found sick or unconscious at the party friday night. in fact, 12 had to be treated at the hospital. authorities are waiting for toxicology results. police think someone spiked drinks with a date rape drug. >>> the faa is investigating why a pilot landed a small aircraft in a portland, oregon, school field last night. the pilot wasn't hurt. fire officials say he ran out of gas and looked for a safe place to land. and the schoolyard was it. he was the only person onboard. >>> light at the end of the tunnel for the 33 chilean miners who may be just days away from freedom, fame and perhaps fortune. this morning engineers finished reinforcing an escape shaft more than 2,000 feet long. and now the difficult ascent stands in the way possibly as early as wednesday. the miner who is have been trapped more than two months will be hoisted to the surf

reporter: a sad story appears to be a homicide investigation with the focus on the step-mother, lisa baker was a fire at the baker house. they put the fire out quickly. then they found a ransom note on adam baker's windshield. it wasn't for him. it was concern his boss saying his boss' daughter had been abducted. the cops checked it out, the boss and daughter were both fine. then a few hours later zahra baker was reported missing and now cops have learned this, listen. >> during that interview alisa baker admitted to writing the ransom note left on the vehicle at the fire scene at zahra's home on saturday morning. after admitting to writing the note alisa baker requested an attorney. >> reporter: dogs have detected human remains on the baker's car but police say the timeline is in question because nobody has seen zahra bakers, no teachers, no doctors, no neighbors. the neighbors do report that the step-mother has a fierce temper and was known to have hit zahra. the father has even come out and said that he believes that maybe his wife was involved in this. as you mentioned zahr suffered fr

on saturday, they arrested her stepmother, alu lisa baker on a number of charges.ruled her out as a person of interest. now, all but one of the charges against her are misdemeanors, charges like bad checks and driving with bad tires. >> joining me from hickory, north carolina, is zahra's father, adam baker, and chief of police tom adams. mr. baker, i can only imagine what you're going through right now. your daughter is missing. your wife is in custody. do you think your wife could have had something to do with zahra's disappearance? >> i wouldn't like to think so. it could be possible. >> it could be possible? >> well, what have you heard? >> -- >> that's probably something that we just want to remain an investigation. >> you want it to remain an investigation. but you haven't ruled out that aliza baker is a person of interest in the case? >> we haven't ruled anything out. we've done the amber alert to make sure at that information got out there to see her in the public. we just haven't ruled anything out yet. all possibilities are there. >> when you say you haven