reporter: and elle says she was 3 when her family dropped out of the mormon church. 12450 when i was littler, i was very confused. the first three years of my life i was raised at mormon and they didn't want to go to church anymore. and so we became atheist. >> reporter: but elle said she thought a lot about why people believe in god. >> think they are scared of the unknown. what if something very, very terrible happens and they don't have someone to come in and help things out and make things better. and i think they are scared of not having that. >> reporter: elle, for one, is still working on our secular philosophy. u. >> what is your plan b? what do you hold on to if something bad happened? >> really, i don't know. >> reporter: you are still trying to figure that out? >> yeah. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm lindsay davis, in washington. >>> the lates on tonight's breaking news as cycling champion lance armstrong giving up on fighting for his legacy, destroying doping charges. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with a simple idea. think. drink coffee. hatch a design. kill the design. design so

the church held sunday churches earl littler in the day.but it appears no one was here when the blaze erupted. they were startled to find the first hydrant they found dead. no water. >> it does not happen very often. we have very good hydrant system here in san francisco so that's something i'm concerned about and looking into. >> reporter: at its peak flames rose fall enough to scorch the highest porch on this three story house. the owner relieved to return and find just superficial damage. >> see it came up right there where your foot is. >> reporter: she escaped as best she could but disabled and on a cane managing 32 stairs fast wasn't easy. >> i was thinking all these years of working on this building trying to restore it, could be lost in a second. >> reporter: but the bungalo was lost though. church members did return here for a while tonight talking to investigators the fires cause still undetermined. as for that dead hydrant it turns out the water department had turned it off at the street for repairs. we're live in the mission dis

did you think that you should be playing peewee football with kid much littler than you? of the kids on my team are my friends, and that's the first reason i wanted to play for them. >> and how did it feel, elijah, to be told that you were too big to play with your friends? >> i was kind of sad because i president bushed for this for three weeks and then told me at weigh in i couldn't play. >> alisyn: in fact, we had up there a quote of yours a moment ago, that said i was humiliated. why did you feel humiliated. >> because he pointed me out of line and one of the coaches said, coach, he's not going to make weigh-in, so send him out. >> dave: being big as you know and i certainly know, being big is an asset in football, something that normally makes you the best kid on the field and rarely kept from the field and cindy, from what i read in the rule book, says if the player exceeds the stated weight limits, the player must display the league approved symbol and approved location, only be allowed to play in the following positions, offensive and defensive line. elijah wants

. >> if they need an littler nat on the team, do you think i'm ready? . you're ready. go for the gold. >> i came, i punched, kicked, blocked and got the belt. but we have one more surprise for you. you're going to regret sending me to do this now. >> oh, wow. >> oh, i know. >> i better watch out. i'm kind of scared right now. >> with these comments that you make making fun of me. >> what comments? i don't know what you're talking about. >> we do want to say congratulations to terence jennings who is from alexandria. he took home the bronze in tae kwon do. arlene lemus who won in gold in '98 said that he trained down in stafford. >> i like your warm-up, too. i like how you run. you're a funny runner. get your knees up. >> we could barely get through that because you guys were laughing so hard. but it was a lot of fun. you can see the men's final in tae kwon do today on nbc sports at 5:30. >> because we are about equal opportunity embarrassment, in case you missed it, i tried out some gymnastics moves last week. gymnastics one of the more popular events at the summer eve

now, the reason i get a littler irritated with that is because, you know, what plays into this conventional washington consensus view that we need more foreign direct investment when, in fact, the problem with infrastructure and especially power in india is simply a governance problem. i mean, let me make it very, very simple. you know, people don't pay for power in india. that's the bottom line. and if people could be persuaded to pay more, private investment, domestic and foreign, would come rushing in. and at the moment, you know, when foreign direct investment comes in, they need guarantees because people don't pay, and our state boards are badly run. we had the whole enron problem where the whole thing blew up because of all the problems. so i think it's, basically, a domestic governance and a political problem where, you know, the whole -- the notion that every politician of any stripe routinely the first thing he will promise when he gets elected is free or subsidized power. and the conundrum is this, that why is it that people buy this? because the history of this promise of free an