Interview with the mother, who is still in Atlanta with her sister, who was in a bad car accident.
This poor mother is just absolutely devastated. Despite what was printed in earlier articles that sounded like she was making excuses for Asa North, in this interview it's clear she isn't. She made a couple comments "I don't care about him right now", she said she still doesn't know why their father had them in the car, or where he needed to take them.
Article says North didn't remember the girls were in the car "until 6:30 in the evening after baking in the car all day" (but no mention of how long they were in there.) Mother Breal Ellis says "he has to pay for his mistake. He's living, and my girls aren't."
Last time Breal Ellis saw her girls was "that morning". So it appears Asa North wasn't responsible for them overnight. The car that is shown in the video clip is a red Nissan Rogue-- looks very new, less than 3 years old, I'd estimate.
I may be wrong, but from the way Breal Ellis talked about Asa North, I got the sense that he doesn't live in the same home with her and the girls.
The reporter also may have made some errors-- initially he refers to one "baby", and he says she left the girls in the care of "her father" (referring to Breal Ellis).
Anyway, my sense is she called AN and asked him to come and watch the girls while she went to Atlanta Grady Hospital to visit her sister, and he arrived in the morning. The girls were discovered in the car at 6:30 pm. (and were almost certainly dead at the time of discovery).
So the question is, did AN actually go anywhere with the girls in that Nissan Rogue? Or did he or someone else put the girls in the car in the parking lot?
I think Cubby's idea that maybe North and his cousin made a liquor store run for alcohol, is a likely scenario. If they did do that, there will be a sale record and a video security camera that will document that. From the looks of the apartment complex in the video, with a shared parking lot, I'd be very surprised if there isn't video surveillance that can be reviewed there, too, to see when that car arrived and departed, when the girls were put in, etc.
http://www.wtvm.com/clip/12645594/m...n-hot-car-they-didnt-deserve-to-die-like-that
http://www.wtvm.com/story/32702787/carroll-county-twins-hot-car-death-mother