to shield himself apparently and his victims from the others. you can see the gray wood in the windows. the guy who took these says that castro removed his windows and we saw, in fact, a bunch of photos of those windows, the glass windows, scattered in the yard but he replaced them with this wood paneling that was all over the house. this is a shot from the backyard area. nobody of course could see what or who was in that house. finally, last photo we will show you tonight, take a look at this. okay, now, that s the garage in the distance, but to the left you can see the blue tarp. apparently ariel castro had tarped over the whole backyard. he used blue, green, gray tarp according to our photographer. there was tons of piping in the yard and rolls of tarp on the ground. certainly wasn t in short supply. he may have been planning to tarp over more areas, according to the photographer. apparently wanted to make sure that nobody could see what was going on in the yard or anywhere else, an
the child that was born there never saw a doctor. in fact, the women never saw a doctor during the ten years or so that they were in the house. they were confined to a basement area. there were chains and ropes. at some point they were allowed to live in the upper story of the house, it is a two story house with four bedrooms. they were allowed outside into a backyard area and the way they describe it, they were forced to wear wigs, keep their heads down, to duck out and to hide essentially and there were multiple time when beaten when they disobeyed. the big question, how did they get out? there seems to be an indication that at some point ariel castro allegedly left an interior door open. there were doors through the house that were pad locked. but he apparently left one interior door open and amanda berry saw that and seized the moment, went through that door which got her to the front door of the house, the screen porch where she was able to put her hand through and yell and scream
enforcement officials have confirmed to her they have verified the identity. it is the younger brother, suspect number two, in custody. it is now they say federal officials verified the identity and have no doubt. as i said earlier, a federal official i communicated with said in custody, unspecified medical needs and they are now sweeping that scene to make sure there are no additional risks. brian todd is standing by. brian, what are you seeing, what did you see go down? anderson, we just observed the scene from a rooftop probably 500 yards away from the backyard area. it had calmed down but we did see police activity in the backyard. flashlights moving around, a police chopper had returned to the scene. it visibly calmed down. they were not floodlighting the boat anymore but they did have a dimmer light on it and police and possibly vehicles had come to the back area. there seems to be some kind of alleyway or something behind that house. so we did see that activity from a roofto
explosives on the site. he was taken out of the boat without incident. they are having everything in the area, including the s.w.a.t. team, the bomb teams, the sniffer teams, to make sure they don t have a volatile, dangerous crime scene environment. this suspect is alive, has unspecified medical needs and according to that federal official, an aggressive sweep of that scene under way. i can tell you the police officers standing a little bit further down from the block certainly seem a lot more happy right now at this moment. the least tense that we ve seen them all day long. no doubt, the city of boston, watertown, all surrounding areas, a lot of people breathing a big sigh of relief. the hope of course now that the suspect is in custody, is that authorities have actually the right people. jeff toobin is standing by, senior legal analyst. jeffrey, from a legal standpoint, assuming this person needs medical attention, what happens now? as the wheels of justice begin to move? the fi
family dynamics at this point. again, susan candiotti was just telling us, again, susan, i m sorry. i was reading that e-mail. i know you said it was in a triangular area but can you give a sense in blocks about how far away, what i m trying to establish is how far he may have gone after that shootout early morning to the location where he is believed to be now. do we know about how far? i think it s around a mile or less than that. but i m not absolutely sure about that. but that s what i keep directing you to. drew might know the answer. i just wanted to add with the questioning of other people, remember, late this afternoon we were also told that so far, they had no evidence of any accomplices, no evidence of it so far. but obviously as part of the investigation, they certainly want to talk to whoever knows him, who hung out with him, friends of his, to see what information they could gather. obviously they are also trying to track down where he was. susan, also, it was reported