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Speaker 1: Crime alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm a c Grace and Alaska doctor previously named to

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Speaker 2: the state's medical board found dead in his burned down

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Speaker 2: home just days after his arrest.

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Speaker 1: On child sex abuse materials.

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Speaker 2: Authorities first believe Ryan McDonald, forty six, is missing after

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Speaker 2: discovering other residents escape the fire.

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Speaker 1: Upon further investigation, his remains found in the home. Straight

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Speaker 1: out to Drew Nelson for more Nancy.

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Speaker 3: The fire destroyed the family home of Ryan McDonough on

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Speaker 3: West Discovery Loop in Wasilla, just one day after he

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Speaker 3: was released from jail on a fifty thousand dollars cash

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Speaker 3: bond posted by his wife. Alaska State troopers now say

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Speaker 3: preliminary identification confirms the charred body found in the house

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Speaker 3: is McDonough's. The state medical Examiner is still working to

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Speaker 3: determine his cause of death. Investigators say the origin and

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Speaker 3: cause of the fire also remain under investigation. Fire crews

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Speaker 3: arrived to find the home fully engulfed. Authorities confirmed McDonough

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Speaker 3: was the only person inside at the time, as the

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Speaker 3: other residents escaped unharmed. The discovery comes just days after

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Speaker 3: McDonough pleaded not guilty to the child sex abuse material

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Speaker 3: charges during an initial court appearance. He had been arrested

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Speaker 3: as part of a joint local, state, and federal investigation.

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Speaker 3: Court records show the alleged material was uncovered after tips

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Speaker 3: were sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 3: Neighbors described the shock rippling through the Wassilla community, some

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Speaker 3: of them declining to speak to reporters. Others say they

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Speaker 3: were disturbed by the allegations tied to a man they

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Speaker 3: believed lived a quiet life in the neighborhood. Was Silla

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Speaker 3: resident Damon Blankenship speaking to Ktuu.

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Speaker 4: Angry seems so predominant in our world today, so many

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Speaker 4: of them. Well, I don't think we have even scratched

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Speaker 4: the surface.

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Speaker 3: Blankenship says the case makes him angry and rather unsettled.

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Speaker 4: It's been an issue for a long long time. We

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Speaker 4: need to spend a lot more money putting these people

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Speaker 4: in jail as far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 3: McDonough worked as an interventional cardiologist at Matsu Regional Medical

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Speaker 3: Center and Matsu Medical Group. Hospital officials say he was

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Speaker 3: terminated the same day the charges became public. A spokesperson

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Speaker 3: called the situation shocking and said the decision was immediate

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Speaker 3: to fire him. In August, McDonough had been appointed to

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Speaker 3: the Alaska State Medical Board by Governor Mike Dunlevy. He

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Speaker 3: resigned from the board in November. A spokesperson for the

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Speaker 3: governor said the administration was unaware of any criminal investigation

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Speaker 3: at the time he was appointed. He learned of the

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Speaker 3: charges when they were made public.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Drew more crime and Justice news after this.

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Speaker 3: A Long Island, New York seventh grader is being praised

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Speaker 3: for his quick thinking after escaping a burglary in progress

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Speaker 3: and calling police while a stranger was inside his home.

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Speaker 3: The break in happened midday Tuesday in Medford. Twelve year

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Speaker 3: old Tristan Taylor was home alone inside his family's house

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Speaker 3: on Eagle Avenue when he heard a sudden crash from

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Speaker 3: the kitchen. Moments later, he realized someone was inside and

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Speaker 3: moving through the house. Here he is speaking with WCBS

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Speaker 3: reporter Carolyn Gussoff Eric glassbreakings.

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Speaker 1: Myself about to get out of the house the quickest

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Speaker 1: way possible, and that was how the window.

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Speaker 3: Tristan climbed out of a ground floor window and ran

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Speaker 3: to safety. He hid behind the garage and called nine

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Speaker 3: to one one while the intruder continued rummaging through the house.

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Speaker 3: He stayed on the line as officers rushed to the scene.

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Speaker 5: He's had to be braving and called them that I

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Speaker 5: was on the phone with them waiting for them to

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Speaker 5: get here.

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Speaker 3: So the county police arrived in less than three minutes.

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Speaker 3: Officers caught the suspect inside the house and took him

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Speaker 3: into custody without incident. Family members said Tristan state calm

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Speaker 3: throughout the whole ordeal. His grandmother praised his instincts and

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Speaker 3: composure as our little hero. But we were very proud

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Speaker 3: that he was able to keep his composure and you know,

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Speaker 3: call the police as quickly as he did, you know,

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Speaker 3: basically without really you know, thinking about it. He just

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Speaker 3: automatically called nine to one one. Neighbors like Mike Campanella

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Speaker 3: say the boy did exactly what he was taught. I

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Speaker 3: would hope that, you know, my son would have done

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Speaker 3: the same thing.

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Speaker 4: When someone's breaking.

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Speaker 3: then call the police. Police identified the suspect as a

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Speaker 3: fifty three year old Christian Garcia. He pleaded not guilty

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Speaker 3: to charges of burglary and possession of burglar tools. Our

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Speaker 3: partners at the New York Post likened quick thinking Tristan

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Speaker 3: to Kevin McAllister from home alone, though unlike the movie,

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Speaker 3: no one was injured. A holiday drive through the Sierra

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Speaker 3: nearly turns deadly when an SUV spins out on icy

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Speaker 3: Highway fifty and dangles over a steep drop. That is

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Speaker 3: until a heroic US Air Force staff Stargan steps in.

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Speaker 3: The crash happened on Christmas morning along historic Highway fifty

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Speaker 3: as a major winter storm moved through northern California. Cal

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Speaker 3: trens reported multiple spinouts in the area as drivers faced snow,

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Speaker 3: ice and nearly no t One of those spinouts left

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Speaker 3: an suv teetering hundreds of feet above a slope held

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Speaker 3: in place by a single tree. Staff Sergeant Ruben Tala's

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Speaker 3: stationed at Travis Air Force Base, was driving through the

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Speaker 3: area when his family saw the vehicle loose control. He

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Speaker 3: tells CACRA he pulled over and ran toward the suv

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Speaker 3: without hesitation.

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Speaker 5: And I saw the car spin out, like I thought

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Speaker 5: about my wife and my daughter. But if there's a

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Speaker 5: family on that car, somebody has to help.

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Speaker 3: Dash and cell phone videos shows Tala gripping the vehicle

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Speaker 3: as it hangs over the edge. Other drivers stopped to help.

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Speaker 3: As the situation grows more perilous.

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Speaker 5: I yelled at them, hey, do you have any rope?

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Speaker 5: I need some rope, And one guy ran back on

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Speaker 5: this track and give me a rope. Then the other

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Speaker 5: three guys they were holding my hands try to keep

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Speaker 5: the car not moving.

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Speaker 3: The driver and passenger remain trapped inside the suv as

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Speaker 3: it swayed.

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Speaker 5: So the driver is really thankful, he's really thankful on me,

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Speaker 5: and I think his wife is still in the state

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Speaker 5: of shock that time. She was holding her.

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Speaker 3: To Once the rope was secured and the vehicle stabilized,

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Speaker 3: the couple was pulled to safety one by one. Miraculously,

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Speaker 3: nobody was hurt. One thing stuck with Sergeant Tala after

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Speaker 3: the rescue. One of the dogs in the vehicle was

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Speaker 3: named Luna, which is the same name as his young daughter.

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Speaker 3: Cacra reports. First responders arrived shortly after the rescue was complete.

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Speaker 3: Despite the praise, Tala brushes off the title of hero.

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Speaker 5: I'm just doing my part without somebody else. That's how

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Speaker 5: we're training our coors.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Drew for the latest crime in justice. To use,

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Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides.

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Eezy, Grace,