agents. here is how it all went down. authorities found james lee dimaggio s san diego house on fire. and a body inside. turned out to be hannah s mother. an amber alert was issued for hannah and her 8-year-old brother ethan. friday they found the blue nissan near a trailhead covered in brush. that same day a man on horse back reported seeing two people matching dimaggio and hannah s descriptions inside the no return wilderness area. authorities also confirmed the 8-year-old child ethan. here is his picture ethan anderson. he was killed in that fire at dimaggio s home. yesterday, a campsite spotted from the air tips off law enforcement to their location. agents, about 250 of them reportedly, moved in and gunned down difficult imaginey after a confrontation. it and to be uninjured, taken to an idaho hospital, undergoing evaluations and said to be well.
getting ready to be reunited with his daughter, brett anderson. he joins us live on the phone. brett, we can only imagine what you ve been through. thanks for talking to us early morning on this sunday. thank you, brett. not a problem. it appears hannah was uninjured in the firefight. have you been able to confirm that talking to authorities? how is she doing this morning? she seems to be in pretty good shape. i have not got to talk with her yet. they are still doing their prelims and stuff like that they need to do. right now i m just trying to get ready. i m going to be leaving here soon. mr. anderson, what was your relationship with james dimaggio? what was your connection to his family? he was around us for 16 years, since before hannah was born. he was just our very good friend of the family. was there any indication before this of mental instability on his part? no, not at all.
welcome back to fox & friends on this sunday morning, if you re just waking up, we had a chance to speak with brett anderson now being reunited with his daughter hannah anderson after the shoot-out last night with james dimaggio. the fbi swooping in on him. we don t know the details. we ve had experts on what unfolded when the fbi descended on that guy, a sniper shoot-out took this guy out. you can imagine brett getting no sleep, up early with us. just remarkable and horrifying story. apparently a friend of the family, james dimaggio abducted brett anderson s daughter and apparently murdered his wife and 8-year-old son. all of this unfolding piecemeal over the last week in our interview. brett anderson said he was not contacted by authorities.
focused because i m trying to get ready to go here. the last thing you need to do is apologize to us this morning. i can t even imagine what you h. you, know, when you re on the phone, the authorities, over 250 agents went to converge on this guy. were you being kept abreast of this at the time in how aware of this operation were you when this was all happening? i did not have any clue what was going on, even though i had detectives right here with me. the only call i got when the detective handed me the phone and i was told that they got her and she s fine. so that must have been quite a moment. what s the first thing you re google to do when you see hannah. let her know that i love her and her country was looking for her. how did the events unfold for you? when did you find out that all
this morning an exclusive interview with her father. dominic live with the very latest. good morning. what can you tell us? good morning. 16-year-old hannah has not only been rescued by the fbi who saved her said she had no apparent injuries. that s very good news instead. that s what the assessment after the manhunt for hannah came to a deadly conclusion in the idaho wilderness. an fbi tactical team shot james dimaggio dead after the pair was spotted at a campsite. 40 miles east of town. dimaggio abducted hannah last sunday after police say he killed her mother and young brother in his home outside san diego. that led to an unusual amber alert, authorities sending out a text message to the public in the middle of the night alerting them to this kidnapping and issuing a safety warning to the public where it was saying her