Speaking about the unthinkable tragedy and asked you to help us find her. For 88 days, you called in tips, brought us food, searched arm in arm with us, wrote us notes and never gave up hope. As the days and weeks wore on you still continued to call. Law enforcement locally and across the country continued to comb through over 3,500 tips and the family never gave up hope. Last night our collective promise was fulfilled with her safe recovery. Thank you to all. Joining me today, fbi special agent justin talmeo. Brian okeefe, baron County District attorney brian wright. Douglas county sheriff tom dolbek. Jayme is safe and the family is asking you respect their privacy at this extremely emotional time. Also in a few minutes youll hear from the superintendent on a message from the school. Please respect no media on School Property today, please. This case remains a team effort from the beginning, ill never be able to thank all the agencies and businesses, individuals that helped on this ca
found and the man they believe killed her parents and kidnapped her and kept her hostage for the past three months is behind bars. we re covering this developing story from every angle. ron mott is in wisconsin. nancy grace is a legal commentator and the founder of crimeonline.com. cliff van zant is a former fbi agent who was also kidnapped when he was young. alicia kosokovic was raped and kidnapped as a child. after four days she was rescued by the fbi and she s now a child safety advocate. alicia, i want to start with you because you were also 13 years old when you were kidnapped. when you heard the news about jayme and you watch this press conference, what goes through your mind? it was amazing to sit here and to watch that. you could feel the joy in that room. you could field how much of a miracle that this was. but you could also feel that the
hand in hand with our paramedic ambulance units to care for patients, transport patients, et cetera. ray shoufler of the douglas county fire department reporting from on campus and sadly confirming, best information we have, our local station there reporting upwards of 7 to 10 fatalities and a gunman who has been neutralized, thankfully. we don t know more about his status. obviously, the portrait emerging is one of bedlam on this community college campus with a lot of first responders doing what they do. our veteran former fbi profiler cliff van zant is with us once again. clint, what do you make of the first reports we re hearing. brian, unfortunately, i m
that they had been behind them a step behind them for the past almost three weeks now. but that they were closing the gap. they were closing in they were getting closer. and now they were able to get pretty close, close enough within literal shooting distance to shoot richard matt and to kill him this afternoon. but there is i think, a great deal of optimism that they believe david sweat can t be far behind. i want you to stay with us. cliff van zant as well. one prisoner has been shot and killed. one other is still on the run. what could be going on in the mind of the remaining fugitive. stay with us. when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections. connections you almost miss. and ones you never thought you d make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you d go. this, is why we travel.
yea! they got one guy? they got the guy? they shot one guy? high-five. dad, they got one prisoner! sources tell nbc news they believe matt and the other escapee, david sweat, were traveling close together when officers came across matt. the search for sweat continues at this very moment. today s shooting comes after weeks of pursuit helped by dna tests that confirmed the convict s presence in multiple cabins after 2,000 leads and 21 days one man appears to be dead another is still running. let me bring in nbc s john yang who is at the state police barracks in malone new york. john what can you tell us about what the scene is at this moment? right now, i can tell you that this area where they killed richard matt is being flooded with manpower right now. police state police new york federal officials, border customs and border patrol state forestry officers are flooding into that area right now. we ve just been told by law enforcement officials there s been a seco