rupa, welcome. what can you tell me about admissions whether intentionally or unintentionally made that mommy is not afraid of a joint. she is not afraid of a big fat doobie. >> reporter: nancy, it's all very unclear. i'm out here in the neighborhood where this family resides, and i've been knocking on doors, speaking with neighbors. they're being very quiet. however, what i can tell you is that there's been very little activity in front of the home. nancy, the car, the truck owned by daniel schuler has been parked here. my understanding is that this little boy is doing better and he may or may not very shortly be released from the hospital. >> to michael amon. michael, thank you for being with us. reporter with news day. he's joining us from melville, new york. a pleasure to have you with us. michael, what can you tell me about statements made that the mother did use pot socially, that she did smoke pot. >> well, new york state police have told me that when they interviewed daniel schuler about his

out to rupa joining us from the scene of the crash. what happened? >> nancy, there are -- there was a terrible crash, a collision that occurred july 26th at 1:30 p.m. mommy diane schuler, along with her three nieces and two children, 5-year-old son, who did survive the crash, and 2-year-old daughter were killed tragically. this is a head-on collision on the highway right behind me. i'm actually very close to the crash site. just a half mile up the street here. she drove the wrong way northbound on a southbound highway behind me. >> rupa, what do we know? who all was in the car with her in the minivan? >> reporter: the red minivan, it was her three nieces. these were the children of her brother, and her own children, nancy, her own 2-year-old daughter and her 5-year-old son. >> how many are dead that were in the car with her? >> reporter: actually, she is dead as well as all the children except for her son, her 5-year-old son. four people. >> what about the toxicology reports? what do they show? what was in her system? >> toxicology reports show that

was she pregnant, rupa? >> she was not. >> continue. >> the diabetes, she also suffered from some type of unidentified lump on her leg. and also a tooth abscess. those are the theories put forth by her lawyer, or by her husband's lawyer. >> please. throw me a bone. okay? a lump on your leg, an abcessed tooth? then later one of the statements i believe given by the family attorney is, something happened in her brain? >> the autopsy from the medical examiner was very specific. it looked for stroke, heart attack and dissecting aneurysm, and it was negative on all those counts. the only thing that would have put her out would have been a stroke. didn't happen. >> out to the lines. chris in california. hi, chris. >> caller: hi, nancy. watch your show all the time and i have twins who are going to be 18 and just bless you. >> you know, i could use all the advice you can send me in an e-mail. my mind is open. okay? what's your question, dear? >> caller: my question is, if everybody's so sure that this woman didn't

i think they are. >>> back to rupa, joining us there from the scene. didn't you leave something out of your rendition of the facts? something like an empty bottle of absolut found in the wreckage, absolut vodka? >> that's right, nancy. 1.75 liters, broken bottle, that was found in the passenger's seat of the floor. the police are not able to determine if she had consumed the alcohol from that particular bottle. now, it's also interesting to note they believe she stopped at several places along the way. the crash site is 90 miles from that camp site where she left at 9:30 in the morning. that's a four-hour drive? ann in louisiana, hi, ann. >> caller: you kind of touched on my question before the break. i was wondering if they could have maybe switched the toxicology report, but with this information you just said about the bottle, i did not know that. is there any way that they would give them a second? >> yeah, what about that, to tom. how often do you see a second analysis done for blood/alcohol, quickly? >> i imagine that in this case, they may very

out to rupa, our producer on story. what about it? >> that's right. the family was camping 90 miles north of where the crash site happened, and they were together, but it was just daniel schuler, diane schuler, her -- their two children and the three nieces. so in other words, the uncle and aunt were not there. >> got it. let's go to brad lamb, board registered interventionist at bradlamb.com. all of these excuses amount to either a concerted effort to avoid cops looking at him. or more denial. that's why people don't have interventions. they're in denial. they don't want to admit there's a problem. now, this problem has cost eight lives. >> if i was the family right now, i would he look at trying to not just for right now with the boy -- the surviving child gets out of the hospital, but really talk about who is going to take best care of the child. when you have both parents in denial, i find it's best to get the kids out of the situation so we can really address the issues requesting on there, nancy. >> what about it doctor bethany? >> not only is i