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in your apartment.

Not like the last time!

Son.

I'll tell you what.

I have the van crash

on Moorpark tonight.

It was a couple of

stringers, actually.

That could lead by itself

on an average night.

I'd be willing to

throw that in for free.

So what do you say,

do we have a deal'?

Lisa Mays,

Ben Waterman, Lou Bloom.

Hi.

Hello. How are you, Lisa?

You remember Lou from

the Benedict Canyon crash.

Oh, yeah.

Amazing stuff.

That was my company,

Video Production News.

I would just like to say

that I think that what the two of

you do is incredibly valuable.

Thank you. That's

nice of you to say.

We appreciate it.

I don't know how long

this tape runs,

we might dump out.

Twenty seconds to back. Ben

and Lisa, 20 seconds to back.

Set up a sting dig,

Camera Two on a two-shot.

Where's the banner?

Did we decide on one?

Horror House.

What did we talk about?

Can you build that?

Put it on CG-one.

Back in 10 seconds.

Nine, eight, seven, six,

five, four, three,

two, one. Sting it.

Mics. Dissolve. Cue.

Hello, everybody. This is

KWLA with breaking news.

Over the last

half-hour or so,

we've now received word m' an apparent

home invasion triple homicide

in the Granada Hills area of the

San Fernando Valley.

Now, at present,

the number of those dead...

Preset Camera Two.

...have not been confirmed

yet by the police

but KWLA has obtained

exclusive footage

from inside the crime scene

in which at least three

bodies can be observed.

Now, we're going to show you

segments of that footage

throughout the

rest of this broadcast,

but also

throughout the day.

Ben, Lisa, I have a tape. When

you're ready, throw to it.

I'll follow you.

Again, we're about to show

you exclusive K WLA video

from inside

the actual crime scene.

It's graphic. Repeat it.

And before broadcasting

this video,

we want to warn our viewers that

these are extremely graphic images.

And I'm hearing from our control

room that we have that video,

and we're going

to show it now.

This is footage that we have

obtained exclusively by K WLA

from Video Production News.

This is a professional

news-gathering service.

This is what appears

to be a shotgun,

something you might use

for home defense.

You can see

the pistol grips

on the front

and the back there.

Quite possibly

the murder weapon.

And now, Lisa, as we move inside,

this is a beautiful home.

A beautiful home in a

very safe neighborhood.

Or, what most people think

is a safe neighborhood.

It appears that

that is the first body.

A young woman, I'm

guessing, from this angle.

A young woman

on a sofa, there.

All of the faces, though,

have been blurred out.

They've escaped.

They're on the loose.

Thai is the first

of what we understand

are three bodies in the

home in Granada Hills.

And this was committed by

a suspect, or suspects

who are still out there.

They're believed

to have escaped.

And if you think about that, that

is a very frightening thought.

Repeat that.

Yes, scary,

and very concerning,

particularly given what

we're looking at here.

The savagery of what

these pictures show.

And now, look,

there on the floor.

Lisa, what is that? A

bloodied article of clothing?

R looks like

a silk shirt.

Maybe a woman's

silk blouse.

It's just so sad.

Stand by

to dissolve, Two.

And, obviously,

there is the second body.

They've escaped. Repeat

it' BEN:
The person or people

who committed all of this

brutal home invasion robbery,

they're presently unidentified and

at large, still on the streets.

Hit it again. Harder.

This has got to be

a huge worry

not only to the residents

in this neighborhood,

the Granada Hills

area as well.

All of Los Angeles,

if you think about it.

Yeah, the entire South/and, really.

Tonight, absolutely.

An apparent family

attacked, savagely killed.

We believe this is

their own home.

In what is one of

the quieter,

I think a frankly more upscale

and affluent neighborhoods

in the whole Valley.

In all of Los Angeles.

And now, as we're

moving, this is a nursery.

And you hope to God...

Build it.

... that there's no!

a baby in that crib.

Yeah, you're just praying

that that crib is empty.

Because this is

definitely a child's room.

And, now, as we look, thank goodness.

Absolutely great.

In fact, our

understanding right now

is that there was no

baby found in the house.

Or any baby that

was seen at ail

by the people

who filmed this for us.

Thank goodness.

BEN". That's Video News,

this is a professional

news-gathering service that we use.

Apparently, what we're hearing

from their photographer

is that they arrived

even before the police did.

And then entered

this home to help,

or at least offer

some son' of assistance

and then came upon what

you're hacking at here.

They came upon

three bodies.

And that, right there is the

third body on the oor.

This is a man, gray hair. What would

you think, Lisa? Maybe 40s, 50s'?

Yeah, 50s Maybe even 60s.

"Vicious attack)'

We've been looking

at all this graphic footage

and just the viciousness,

the severity of violence.

Master control, we're

going to come to a break.

We're going to commercial, then cutting

to Joel and a police statement.

I'm getting

word right now that police

are getting ready

to issue a statement

from the scene and Joel

Beatty is there for that.

Right now, we're going

in take a quick break.

Ready to break

in five, four...

Sneak in your music.

Three, two, one.

Fade to black.

Roll your break.

That's a 10-share.

I want theme music

on the return,

the cut we used for

the Simi rail crash.

Audio, cut 32, please.

Cut 32 when we come back.

Hello?

Rolling

with your banner.

Thank you.

Actually,

he'd like to meet you.

Come back,

One, and key on Ben.

Hey, heads up, you guys.

The police spokesman

is making an announcement in 60 seconds.

I gotta go.

Nina, we are getting

a ion o? heat

from the police out here

about that video.

Tell them to

call the station.

Fifteen seconds.

They want to talk to the

person who shot it. I shot it.

Joel,

it's Video Production News.

Tell them to call me.

Lou, they can't hear you.

Coming back in five,

four, three, two, one.

Fade up.

We have more information

coming in from the Granada Hills area

and the scene of

an apparent home invasion

that has left

a husband and wife

and their housekeeper.

What we know at

the moment is that

at some time around

5:
00 this morning,

gunmen broke into

this upscale...

Residents are disturbed and concerned

by the brutal triple murder...

The way we got it, though,

is a video production crew

that we work with

from time to time.

They, apparently,

arrived on the scene

in Granada Hills before

the police got there.

Before anybody.

The photographer

who took those pictures

told us earlier that

he walked up to the door,

he saw what we all saw

in his videotape.

And men he started to look

inside, so that he could help

or render assistance

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