ktvu's debora villalon is live in san francisco with new information about where the two were living. >> reporter: ocean beach now figures into this, heather. and yes, at about noon today, four detectives from virginia arrived here in the city, two of them to question the suspect who is jailed here at the hall of justice and the two others to deal with the girl, who is in protective care. this campsite is part of the puzzle, it's where a missing 12- year-old girl from virginia mason and the 32-year-old man she was traveling with spect at least some of their time in san francisco before they were recognized from national news report outside of a nearby store and picked up. >> presently mr. easley has three charges against him. >> reporter: virginia investigators say jeffrey scott easley faces felonies for credit card fraud and abducting the girl, but may in fact, be involved in a far more serious crime, the murder of the girl's mother. the three of them shared a home in roanoke county, where the mother was found dead, december 6th. the last time anyone saw the boyfriend and daughter in

ktvu's debora villalon on what you can do to protect yourself. >> reporter: ken, this home behind me has an unwelcome guest, a tree that crashed through the living room. fortunately knope was injured, but every winter people are hurt or killed by falling frees and it's often avoidable, if you know what to look for. when a tree falls in our urban forest it usually makes a sound. >> if you hear that big crack in the middle of the night, you know it's a limb or trunk. >> reporter: and it can cause some damage. tonight crews worked to plant a new utility pole on the street in hillsboro. unforeseeable? probably not. it turn out that the tree had ivy growing through it, which play have wackenned it and made it vulnerable. >> a lot of times they will just break off, like here. >> reporter: bill gardner is ann arborist, certified in tree safety and he says often thinning branches will keep the trees standing because a thick tree is like a sail catching the wind. dead branches, a tree that leans or has cracks around the trunk, all susceptible. and people do more harm than good, adding soil to