>> THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION TONIGHT, NO INJURIES REPORTED. >> FORMER ANGEL GREAT HALL OF FAMER ROD CAREW BECAME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN TODAY AT AGE 78 THE 18 TIME MLB ALL-STAR HAS LIVED IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD AND SAYS BECOMING A U.S. CITIZEN HAS BEEN HIS DREAM FOR DECADES AND CAREW PLANS TO PUT HIS NEWFOUND CITIZENSHIP INTO ACTION DURING THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION KTLA. SAMANTHA CORTESE JOINING US LIVE HERE IN HOLLYWOOD WITH MORE ON HOW THIS BASEBALL GREAT FEELS ABOUT BECOMING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN STANCE. >> SANDRA IN MICAH HE'S BEEN IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1962 THAT 62 YEARS AGO AND NOW HE'S ONE OF AMERICA'S NEWEST CITIZENS. >> A LARGEST POP WIND JUST CAME OUT SUNDAY. YOU SEE ROD CAREW REACH FROM THE 400 HITTING VARIANT. >> ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 18 TIME ALL-STAR MLB MVP AND HALL OF FAMER FIRST TIME I FLEW INTO NEW YORK. >> I WAS A NERVOUS. EXCITED. 15 YEAR-OLD HIT. >> NOW A 78 YEAR-OLD MLB HITTING EDGE SAYS HE'S ADDING ANOTHER ACCOMPLISHMENT TO HIS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS, AMERICAN CITIZEN. >> I WILL BEAR ARMS. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME TOO. >> THE CALIFORNIA ANGEL AND MINNESOTA TWIN WAS BORN PANAMA IN 1945. HE CAME TO AMERICA AS A TEENAGER AND EVEN MISSED BIG LEAGUE GAMES TO SERVE IN THE U.S. MARINE RESERVES. >> ONCE A MARINE ALWAYS A MARINE. >> BUT NEVER BECAME A CITIZEN THEN EFFORT TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG PANAMANIANS. >> TRYING TO CHANGE CHILDREN. WE'RE GETTING GETTING THEMSELVES IN TROUBLE. SO HIS WAY WAS LOOK AT ROD CAREW. THE POOR KID. COMING FROM HERE JUST THIS. YOUR CURRENT DONE AND THEN BECAUSE BASEBALL THEM OUT OF >> TO HE STOOD BEFORE FAMILY FRIENDS AND FORMER TEAMMATES AND TOOK AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE FRIDAY AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN SANTA HE AND HIS WIFE SAID THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EASE OF TRAVELING WITH THE U.S. PASSPORT GIVES US A CHANCE TO. >> DO THINGS THAT WE WON DO DURING MY RETIREMENT AND ALONE AS >> BUT WHY NOW I WANT TO BE A PART. >> OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS GIVEN US. AND SO ANY WAY THAT I CAN HELP. >> I WOULD BE WILLING TO HELP WHEN ASKED IF HE'S EXCITED TO VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> IN 1977 CAREW WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE PRESTIGIOUS ROBERTO CLEMENTE AWARD FOR HIS WORK WITH COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND HE'S STILL INVOLVED IN PHILANTHROPY HE LIVES NOW IN IRVINE, NOT FAR FROM ANGEL STADIUM, BUT THAT'S ALSO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION CREWS INVOLVED WITH THAT FOUNDATION FOR OVER 30 YEARS NOW AFTER HIS DAUGHTER, MICHELLE PASSED AWAY FROM LEUKEMIA AT THE AGE OF 18. STILL INVOLVED IN PHILANTHROPY